Show HAS NEW NE BILL fOR ARm ARID LANDS LANDSI I Representative e Op 11 ses l u 1 4 OUTLOOK DUBIOUS FOR FOE SALT LAKE BUILDING Congressman King ICing Goes to At Attend Attend tend Columbus Banquet Special to The Herald Washington Feb Fab 11 Representative Barham of cf Colorado a member of the public lands committee is very much oPI opposed ed to Newlands N S bill for the re reclamation reola ola of arid lands hinds and says that if Jt tt is rei reported as now mOw seems probable probable able ble he will bring foring in a minority re Ile report report port This report will embody three propositions propositions sl First Fh tTo To appropriate outright a sum from frem r the treasury trea ury to accomplish pUSh the great plan ian of reclaiming the arid add lands land of the country Second To keep each e eh states stages funds from the sales of arid add lands separate and devote the same to each state uS as they may may accrue Third To sell arid Inns lantis proceeds from such sales to be e devoted solely to the reclamation of jl I 1 arid add lands land Dubious for Building Bill Dill Representative King today inter interviewed interviewed viewed every r of the house bouse corn com committee on rules including Speaker Hen Henderson derson delSOn with ith a view to securing a a time for the Uhe consideration of the Mercer public building omnibus bill btu His ef I torts lorts fo ts were in the interest of the pro proposed posed appropriation for a new federal building at Salt Lake LakeIt I It is highly possible that the omnibus kill bill may tail fall of passage this session I Judge King ICing secured little if it Any con conso so from the speaker or Ms ilis asso associates I elates on un the rules committee today however that he had bad not yet y t II given up hope for the success of the bill Hits timis session King Goes to Banquet Representative King left Washington tonight for lor Columbus 0 O having ac accepted an invitation in extended by b the th club to at attend attend t tI tend the annual banquet to commemorate I ate the birthday of President Lincoln I lOwne of Ol Minnesota and andI I Representatives Clayton of Arkansas Arkansan I Carmack of Tennessee and Lentz Lenta of Ohio will ill also journey to Columbus to attend this banquet I Representative e Wilson today laid be before beI before I fore the house the joint memorial adopted by the Idaho legislature lature ur urgently gently requesting congress to pass pa the Dill bill of Senator McBride which has bbs passed pa ed the senate to pension Indian I war veterans of the north Pacific coast There Th re are it is asserted many soldiers I residing in Utah and Idaho who are entitled to lu the relief r lief asked River Rive and Harbor Bill Dill in Danger The opinion still prevails among pub public lie lic men in Washington today that the pending riv rivers ers and rs bill bU 1 will not I become a la law at the present session of congress When the bill was sent nt from fromI I the tl house to the senate it carried c an I appropriation of about It ItI I was stated in Washington dispatches to The Herald Herad that unless a reduction of nearly was made by the senate or by f s on the part of both houses President Pre i ent McKinley had his followers in congress that he veto this measure It now ap appears appears appears pears that the senate commerce commeree com corn committee commIttee instead d f F paring down this big appropriation has added more than to the sum turn um total If the meas mess measure measure ure is pushed any further which seems unlikely today the president in all probability will decline to approve it Postmasters PO masters appointed today Utah Robinson e E W Gose vice G W V Finley resigned Idaho Alpine Washington Va county J I Jc c G York vice M lI it D C utts resigned r ned has I The secretary of the interior I modified the tha decision d of the general eral land office Jn the jhee of f the Alice claim involving mineral lands in He reverses the time land commissioner loner in inI the letters holding that a lode claim j I I can conflict with the lines of a home stead entry and affirms tha th lower Jer o oI om official I cial dat in n fl requiring lode claimants da i to file filea a new application forth t L e ee eert exact ert e t location Uon of thur claim Maho blaho pensions granted William Payne Oreana 10 O Rene w Harden Sheff Weiser Welser 8 o |