Show PASSES IT UP I ITO TO CONGRESS t I I President t Net Nat at Mixing in Fight on onLa I La LaRd Laed ad Laws I LEGISLATION IS 1 IMPROBABLE I XEA DAL 1 P FOR FOlt STATS J T t Special to The Her herald a Id Washington Roe 0 8 it may now DOW be safely predicted that there will be no n leg enacted at the coming oming session of e orese Ot rc for the tepee repeal of the arlon land lees lews 1 It was wa stated that the rom com commissioner missioner of the general land office in his annual report would strongly recommend the repeal o 0 ut th the timber Umber and stone atone act at and ard the commutation clause of car the home stem fit act It was stated also that Pres ident Ids nt RoOsevelt Roe would embody these roe rec recommendations rt in his message to congress But the commissioners 8 report which has been made public makes 1 ra o reference to the subject of or repeal but recommends the enlargement of the force for of special agents so that the general land office may more rigidly execute S ute and adminis ter the jaws ws wa governing the disposal of ot the tire 1 lands lank The president it is i I stat stated tate Is fa disposed dI tr rd the recent nt action of the National irrl nn congress at Ogden Open a as a correct indication of the sentiment of the western west rn people on the question of land l and he is Inclined incline to leave the whole whole matter to congress without giving it any specific advice on the subject Senator Hansbrough Hanabrough chair chairman chairman chairman man of ot the senate nate public lands committee announced a several veril weeks ago that be iko pro proposed proposed posed introducing a bill to repeal the timber and stone atone act set modify the desert land act but leave unchanged the com coa commutation I mutation act the latter being particular ly beneficial to 10 the people o of his own tate state It is now stated that Senator Hansbrough Hanabrough h ian ea concluded that rather than run the risk rl k of nf having ha the tation act repealed he will avoid a old change I in any an of the laws The members of congress from Colorado Colo Colorado Colorado rado Wyoming Wyo n Utah and Idaho the states most vitally in land hand legislation will wUl oppose repeal and in this not anticipate the administration or the Interior department will hamper them New Ne Great Seal Another new seal has hae been prepared for tor the use of the state department It would appear pp ar that great at seals are being worn out oat very rapidly during the past two administrations For the new seal eal congress B appropriated 1250 1230 It is Js s no small mall matter maUer this making of a new great seal meal for the tbt United States First Fleet a of all ails 11 there was a contest at the Philadelphia mint where the work is done to deter mine JI which of the engravers was most competent to cut the th die It is la sate safe to toWo say that t the man who won in the compe Wo Wot if tW rl nt Is the finest engraver in the t tI coun try Max Mu Settler Zettler who cut the die began I his il work in May under contract contrat to finish I it by June IS Ii After Atter two weeks of con cou i scant ant engraving his right 1 ind nd swelled to twice its size and applied to the government for tor an extension of time which was and nd he was obliged to togo togo go 0 on though tt the task tuk became beam one or of agony agon From the moment he began work until the die dh was wa delivered dUvered d d to the mint hE ht was wu under r constant secret service sur cur surveillance surveillance His honesty hone t wes was not doubted but every precaution Is taken against theft From the die two copper matrices were made but when n submitted to the officials at Washington they were de declared declared declared not sufficiently distinct New matrices wire were made a pressure of or 21 tons tone being beI exerted on the copper in the tIle second Instance I The result was wu satis factory and Is now in owe tise at tha th state I department The new great t seal 1 is 18 de dO declared stared to be a remarkable n piece of ot en engraving graving she the boat beat be af t of oC its lb kind that has bas come carpe under uDder the Inspection h of the officials Boot Root lend and Shoe Trade Tracie From statistics obtained d by the de department of commerce and ami labor it is shown that the growth of the American boot and aroi shoe trade m ba other countries i It a phenomenal The ex of boots an and d ad shoes to Germany slope aloe in the fiscal year 1903 1103 amounted to against in In 1902 1802 in 1899 16 in 1191 and an d less lees than 1 L 00 In hi the the years ears prior to To other countries the the growth in ex exports export ports port of boots poets and shoes has hall been base squall equally y rapid To the United Kingdom the tb num nus ber her increased from 1507 1601 pairs in UK 1812 to tooer oVer oYer 1 pairs pal In 1908 1905 and the value vale from a little over 2000 In lilt 1892 to over in lOOt 1908 It was a not until 1898 1818 that tha t the exportation of boots and shoes from m the United States reached as U much as 1010 pairs pa irs In likes they were weft pv over pairs pain valued at over The messengers at the White W Rouse House have finally findy donned their uniforms which are not gaudy raudy enough to t o attract attention except from those who fear that the White House is assuming the airs of royalty The uniforms are a n without h the distinctive appearance a of o uniforms in general except for nicks nickel buttons on the coat and waistcoat They The Theare are worn only by the tour four doorkeepers doorkeeper of o othe i I the executive offices and anel the executive e The widely heralded uniforms uniform a are simply sack suits cults of blue with no n 0 ornamentation but the plain lain nickel but I tons Refuge R c s Prom ma Finland Secretary Wilson of the department o of or i agriculture had as callers this week two tw o refugees refuge s from Finland who sought nought information Information Information mation concerning the west as a It place of o orefuge f refuge for themselves and other natives native s sr sey of their country forced for ed to leave lease by the th e se Russian Ru alan government Mr Axel Ax 1 ahern sr one of the visitors vt said Id Our Ou r departure tram from Finland was not volun voluntary voluntary tary tart Along with of my mv coon coun countrymen I got a notice of banishment from fro m General Genera the Russian governor governo r of Finland I was as given seven lIeVEn days in i n which to leave lEav the country count Taking m my wife and children I journeyed to Stock holm bolm and came from there to the United Unit States which whim I expect to make my per permanent pe r manent home A good part of o those ban Died hed at the same t time me will 1 I think eventually seek eek homes in America Th Thare They ey are art not ordinary men but advocates I bankers and farmers w who whore were re thus forced to forsake their homes home s because they were wert objectionable to the th e Russian government Mi Sirs h will wl It I visit New Mexico Vt h and an d the tbt COt and und endeavor to find a i i I suitable location for the establishment of ot I a colony of ut hi his people ptole i |