Show UTAH TAX REFUNDED Senate Votes to Return An Illegal l Assessment I IT AGGREGATES 15000 IMPORTANT LAND CASE DECIDED DE-CIDED AGAINST THE STAT Secretary of the Interior Decides That Mel lands Are Excepted From the School Grant Apportionments I of Troops to Be Announced Fight Over Fort Hall Treaty Washington Office of The Herald 1 Washgon 1415 G Street N W j Washington June 9The Teller claims bill which passed the senate this afternoon carried with it the claims of Utah corporations firms and individuals individ-uals for assessments illegally made against them by the commissioner of internal revenue in 1S7S and 1879 This was a 10 per cent tax on notes used for circulation This tax was afterwards held illegal by the United States supreme su-preme court There are 56 of these claimants in Utah and the claims allowed Uta a lowed aggregate something like 15000 in round numbers The bill to pay these claims was introduced r in-troduced by Senator Rawlins and it is due t his efforts that the paragraph was inserted in the general claims bill It is probable that the bill will passthe house at the second session of this congress OPPOSED BY KING Representative King opposes the bill permitting soldiers at the front to vote I Sentimentally it may seem all right he said but it is unconstitutional and establishes a dangerous precedent I APPORTIONMENT OF TROOPS The secretary of war stated this afternoon I af-ternoon that contrary to general expectations ex-pectations the apportionment of troops by states under the second call will be announced by Saturday It is stated I however that at least twothirds of the total number of troops summoned under un-der the second call will be exhausted in filling state quotas The senate this afternoon passed the Ferguson bill granting New Mexico public lands to the territory and also the bill confirming title of lands in old SpanishMexican grants which have been in the possession of the present occupant or his family 20 years STATE LAND DECISION The secretary of the interior today I decided the contest between the Cleopatra Cleo-patra Lode claim and the state of Utah The Cleopatra is located in one of the 16 sections granted to the state for school lands under the act of admis sion The land in question was known I to be mineral in character at the date of the states admission The mineral claimants contended that all lands known to be mineral when the state came into the Union were excepted from the school grant and reserved exclusively ex-clusively for disposal under the mining laws while the state contended that its gran included all public lands whether known to be habitable for miners min-ers or otherwise The secretarys opinion after citing various decisions by the supreme court of the United States and the interior I department holds that all public nds known to be valuable for their minerals I at the date of the admission of the I state into the Union are not subject to I selection under the fiiool grant but are reserved for disposition under thE mining laws This is a case in which Utah people in Washington are taking considerable interest j FORT HALL LAND TREATY The Idaho senators are making every effort to secure the defeat of the house conferees on the Fort Hall Indian reservation res-ervation bill This bill has been extensively exten-sively amended by the house Senator Heitfeld says if it were to pass as has been amended it would necessitate an entirely new treaty with the Indians James H Wallis editor of the Paris Ida Post is here for a few days Authority has been given the postmaster post-master at Blackfoot Ida to remove the postoffice to llr5 W C Johnsons I building FRANK HOSFORD I |