Show WASHINGTON WORDS A Yesterdays Events in the National Capital THOSE FRAUDULENT ENTRIES Nominations Three Enabling Acts Land Forfeitures How Delegates Dele-gates Arc to be Chosen Wired from the Notional Capital CON FIn A TION WASHINGTON March 12 Charles S Gary New York was confirmed as Solicitor of the Treasury S NOMINATIONS Albert L New register of the and office at Evanston Wyoming Wy-oming David J Wilcox as receiver of public moneys at Valla Walla W T Michael C CJanfly of Kentucky as Associate Justice oi the Supreme Court of Wyoming p THESE ENABLING Acrs The Senate committee on Territories instructed Beuator Platt to report favorably an enabling act for the admission admis-sion of North Dakota It also instructed Stewart to report favorably an enabling act for the admission of Washington Territory and North Idaho as a single State providing no part of Idaho shall be included without the consent of the majority of the electors residing in the part in question There will be a minority mi-nority adverse report on the first mentioned men-tioned bill LARD FOKFEITUBKS The House committee on public lands decided by a party vote to formulate a bill providing for the forfeiture of all unearned land grants The Republican Republi-can members ottered two distinct bills the first to declare the forfeiture of that portion of the land grant over which the road was not built within tho time specified speci-fied by the granting act the second bill to declare tne forfeiture of the remainder remain-der of the land grant or that part over which the road was completed during the specified time This plan they thought would insure the passage by the Senate of the bill of the first clause at least without jeopardizing any and all of tile forieitsd bills 1 JRAUDULEMT ESTBIES The Secretary of the Interior has requested re-quested the Att3rney General to cause a snit to bo instituted to secure the cancellation can-cellation of patents issued on the timber culture entries in tile Huinboldt California Cali-fornia land district It is alleged thai the entries to these lands were procured I througu fraud for the purpose of obtaining I ob-taining patents in 151 entries in the same section in 1879 These latter cases have since been known as the California timber land frauds 4 |