Show INDIAN LAND LEASES Rawlins Amendment Changed By Conference Committee UTAH LAND SELECTIONS CANNONS BILL PASSED THE SENATE SENAT Secretary Bliss Gives A Informal Opinion On the Expenditure Required Re-quired Upon Ming Claims Requirements Re-quirements As to Groups of Claims Patents and Pensions For Utah Washington Office of The Herd 1 1415 G Street N W J Washington June 21The conference committees of the two houses have again altered the language of the Indian appropriation ap-propriation bill relative to the leasing of Indian reservation lands The amendment of Senator Rawlins providing that no leasing should be permitted has been changed so as to provide that such leases are permissible by the joint consent con-sent of the tribe and the secretary of the interior The conference report will be opposed in both houses but can hardly be defeated The provisions of the amendment apply to the Uintah but not to the Uncompahsre lands because the latter have ceased to be reservation lands UTAH LAND SELECTIONS Senator Cannon this afternoon secured ifernoon the passage of his bill to permit the state of Utah to select lands granted under un-der the enabling I act In quantities of not less than onesixteenth section EXPENDITURES ON MINING CLAIMS Secretary Bliss has addressed a letter to Senator Volcott giving an informal opinion as to the S500 expenditure required re-quired upon mining claims He says that while an expenditure of J200 in labor or improvements permits the claimant to occupancy cupancy for one year 500 expenditure is required for continued occupancy and enjoyment While several claims in common com-mon may be embraced in the same application ap-plication for patent survey and notice a single expenditure of JoOO will suffice for but a single claim Whatever constitutes con-stitutes a proper annual expenditure under un-der section 2324 may unquestionably be treated as part of the greater expenditure expendi-ture exacted by section 2325 and since the former is deemed to have been made upon each of several claims held in common when i is made on any one of them for the benefit of all so under section 2325 the expenditure will be deemed to have been made upon each of several claims held in common and included In one application for patent when it is made upon any one of them for the benefit of all but the expenditure of money or labor must equal in value that which would be required on all of claims if they were separate or independent UTAH AND IDAHO MATTERS Representative King called at the White House this afternoon and urged the president to commission Major Tat lock and Harold Pitt officers in the volunteer volun-teer army He also again pressed the candidacy of Dr Prentiss for a chap laincy Congressman James Gunn has returned form his visit to the Omaha conference with his known opinion > of middleofthe road Populists emphasized Captain Thomas Rhodes of Salt Lake and his brother J E Rhodes of Denver are here seeking permission to aid In organizing a immune regiment In the land case of John L McDowell vs Grant L Woodward from the Couer dAlene district Idaho the secretary of the interior affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the general land office awarding the land in controversy to McDowell Mc-Dowell PENSIONS AND PATENTS Pensions granted today Utah widows Nellie A Belden Salt Lake city 1 Idaho Original Hyrum Beach Pocatello G Additional Francis Moore Cold water SO IncreasedJohn Hanson Grangevillc 8 to 12 Patents issued today Utah William M Tillman Salt Lake city blowpipe Idaho Otis J Merritt seneaeouteen animal destroyer Hans Peterson was today appointed postmaster at Demsey Bannock county Ida vice John Hall removed FRANK H HOSFORD |