Show MINING BUREAU p w omm m BILL WILL FAil At the Next Session of Con Congress Congress Congress gress However It Is Ex Expected Expected Expected to Go Through MR TELLERS OPPOSITION HAD GRIEVANCE AGAINST FOR FORESTRY FORESTRY FORESTRY ESTRY DEPARTMENT Special to The Herald Denver March arch 1 IThe The directors of the American Mining congress of this city are reluctantly y admitting the Im Improbability Improbability improbability probability of the passage pa ge of the min mining mm ing bureau bill at this session of the na congress at Washington The ponderous lawmaking body of or th the American people eople with appropriation bills numerous on its It calendars with many big and little to thresh out mit and consuming days In the lean task of reducing a senators salary in order that he might become secre tary taI of state finds apparently little time to consider tho the needs of an in dust that pours Its stream of metal which enables the govern government government government ment to meet its annually A year ago the lower lowe house of congress which by the way ought to be styled the up per house by a vote of to 21 passed a bill providing for the creation of a bureau of mines as a part in interior Interior tenor department but theiS th senate In deference to the W of just one member who strangely gely enough hails from the gr state of Colorado has Uy re to consider the tim bill ana mining men mel will doubtless witness its death together with that of the second ses sea session session sion don of the Sixtieth congress on March 4 next Better Luck Next Time But it Is believed thaw the death cf C the present bill will mean very little litHe delay In the ultimate passage of a mining bureau bill Already the mining congress is laying plans to have the matter taken up In the lower houst next winter Senator Teller Taller the grand old man from Colorado whose opposition opposition opposition tion to the present bill alone caused it Its defeat retires permanently from the senate on March 4 and succeeding him Is a man rated as one of Americas leading mining lawyers lawers who will al always alwa alWays ways wa s be found strongly In sympathy with any movement for the benefit of mining Charles J Hughes jr Thus the mining congress is about to realize the fruitage of twelve years of incessant labor for a fair measure ot of governmental cooperation for fol the min mining minIng mm ing industry for the recognition of the industry is no longer far away When the agitation for a department of mine ininee was first begun very few members of ot congress were in favor faor of it and practically practically none outside of those coming from the western mining r states But Butone Butone Butone one by one the members of 0 congress began to realize the thc importance of min nUn mining minIng ing big when its annual production began to play around the mark and moro more forcibly still when It was learned that our mines were kill killIng killIng killIng Ing ten men every ev ry day more In proper proportion proportion tion to the number employed also alee a ato aa to tonnage produced than any other mining country countr on the earth But still a department of mines could not carry and as a compromise for the present the bill bm for a bureau was vas in introduced Introduced traduced and urged by the mining con congress congress gress gross The persistent work of the min mining minIng mm ing congress reduced the number of or opponents to the bill bm in the tim house to and anel while the opposition In the senate would perhaps be proper proportionately proportionately as small If a vote were taKen by some strange maladjustment of pre prerogative the one man strongly opposed oppose to 10 the bill is able to prevent its con consideration consideration by the tile senate at least dur during durIng during ing the present term One man through senatorial courtesy able to thwart the desire of 00 DO O per cent of the members of that body on so FO important a mat matter matter matter ter as this which vitally affects the prosperity of the entire nation n Tellers Action Explained There is a belief which has gained wide credence that the opposition of Senator Teller to the bureau bill comes from his friction with the forestry de department department department in the matter of the administration adminis administration of the western public lands and his consequent desire to refuse to ex extend extend extend tend further power to the various de departments departments at Washington dealing with western interests In the face of oC this fact it is held by practically all west western western ern em mining men that a bureau of ot mines speaking with authority for the mining industry as separate from the tIle theother theother other interests of or the government goven could more easily and satisfactorily overcome the tho points 1 of friction now lIO existing be between tv tween een mining men and the forestry de department department Great Groat hopefulness is held by the min mining mm ing In congress that the time bill providing for lor fora loru a u bureau will be passed by b both hous houses ft early in the session which convenes convene next December |