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Show IN SENATK AND lllfi. The President Returns Without Approval Ap-proval the Bill to Establish a Record Re-cord and Pension Office OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Idaho's Fourth Senator Presents His Credentials To Look into Indian Affairs. Washington, Feb. 27. A message from the president was presented returning re-turning without bis approval the bill to establish a record and pension olliee of the war department and referred to tho commissioner on military affairs. Tho president states his objection to the bill at some length, to the effect generally that it is competent for congress con-gress to nominate a particular person to till the office created by law. The house bill for the relief of llonryL. Morey was passed. Tapers were presented in support of the claim of W. II. Claggett to the seat in the senate from Idaho (for which the credentials of Dubois are on file) and they W6re referred to tho committee on privileges of elections. Tho Manderson resolution instruct ing the committee on Indian affairs to inquire into the condition of the Indian tribes of tho Dakotas, Montana and elsewhere and whether tho care aud control of the Indians living in tribal relations should be transferred from tho interior department to any other department was agreed to. The senate passed tho legislative, executive ex-ecutive and judicial appropriation bill, and agreed to take up the pure food bill. This it makes unfinished business, busi-ness, it will have to give way, however, to the appropriation bills, conferees on the bill for the repeal re-peal of the timber culture law and amendatory land laws genorally. Tno senate practically reached an agreement agree-ment on an entirely new bill which will bo brought forward at the lirst opportunity. The subject matter of the bill has for the past two congresses been iu dispute between the house and senate, aud for a long time conferees during this congress failed to come to any understanding. un-derstanding. 'The bill agreed upon will change tho general laud system of the government. The bill first repeals the timber culture act with the reservation in favor of the bona lido claims heretofore initiated. in-itiated. In computing the period of cultivation on the claims already accruing, accru-ing, it was provided that its time shall run from the date of the entire time necessary for acts of cultivation to be performed within the proper time of the preparation of the land, and tho planting of trees be coustrued as acts of cultivation. Persons who complied com-plied with the provisions of tbo timber culture act for four years may prove up their claims by pay-iug pay-iug t)t.2r per acre. The desert laud act was amended by requiring a filing map showing the proposed method of reclamation and no person shall receive patents for land under the act unless they have expended in the work of reclamation at least $3 per acre, $1 to be expended within each year. After four years title may be secured se-cured by the payment of $1 per acre. Section 2;'H!. revised statute, was amended so that any bona tide settler may have a right to transfer any portion por-tion of his claim for the right of way for irrigation purposes, as well as for church, cemetery, ceme-tery, railroad or school purposes. The pre-emption law was also repealed, except as to the claims heretofore initiated ini-tiated and except as to the preemptions by counties under the special law. Section Sec-tion 22!) was amended so that persons already holding 180 acres of land or who abandon their residence on their own land shall not have tho right to make homestead entry. IIOt'SE. Washington, Feb. 27. The senate bill was passed, amendatory of the laws providing for tho selection of school lands. The house then went into committee of the whole, resuming consideration of the shipping bill. The house substitute for the senate bill ws read by paragraphs for an amendment. Herbert, of Alabama, offered an amendment withdrawing the subsidy from all sailing vessels aud conlining it to steamships. |