Show = = ff BOOM FOR COLa TORREY i fl New York Paper Announces the Wyoming I iI Veteran as a Possible Running v J 1 Mate with McKinley Journal Suggesting His Candidacy Gives Him Credit for Suggesting the Rough Rider Idea and in View of Roosevelts Determination Deter-mination Not to Accept Second Place on Ticket Urges the Nomination of the Colonel k Nominaton TRIBUNE BUREAU l C01 Fourteenth street S Washington D C May 11 HI 0 I The Danville N y Advertiser today I announced Col Jay L Torrcy of Wy for the I i I omlnc 3 n possible candidate VicePresidential nomination of the Re I I 1 national ticket Col Torrcy I publican natonal tckel II 18 given by the Advertised the creditor credit-or originating tho Rough Rider Idea I and securing tho necessary legislation I of at the commencement for adoption ri the SpanishAmerican war The paper I contains a history of Col Torrey and his regiment the Second Volunteer car airy and In view of Roosevelts determination 4 de-termination not to accept the second i placo on the ticket urges Torreys nomination c4 nom-ination SALT LAKE PUBLIC BUILDING Congressman King has called on the architect of theTreasury department and examined the plans which have been prepared for the building to be erected at Salt Lake City He says that if J the buildings are erected according ac-cording to the plans they will prove commodious and handsome and will be s credit to the city and state OGDEN FEDERAL BUILDING Mr King has ha several meetings I with various members of the House I Committee on Public Buildings in behalf 1 be-half of the Ogden Federal building He appeared before the t committee today and asked I for an opportunity to present tho merits of the case before the full committee and it was arranged tat lie should do so next week INVITED TO SPEAK Mr King received a number of Invitations Invi-tations to speak In Tennessee Ohio and other places but has declined In every Instance feeling thathe oughtnpt Jo leave Washington before l the end of the session Today ho appeared before the r House Pension committee and secured favorable action on his bill to pension Col Fern of Park City The bill has been placed on the calendar and will i soon ho reached and passed BILLS INTRODUCED Rcpresentalivo Klnc has introduced tho following bllln To grant a pen I ion of 20 per month to J W Haley to correct the military record of T Short and to repeal the revenue art ar-t on proprietary medicines on checks and other similar instruments FORT HALL BILL Idaho papers received during the past few days contain statements to tho effect that the lou e some lime ago passed Mr Wilsons Fort Hall Indian In-dian reservation bill and it Is added I that while the bill Is pending between I t the two Houses the Senate could I readily I put iho matter In conference and dispose of it If the desire to do so existed The Inference to be drawn from these publications Is j llrst that Representative Represent-ative Wilson was resnonslble for the publication second that t SiMiator Shoup Sholt had nothing to do with the Fort Hal bill aa it passed the House and third that ho Is negligent In ncglrent that lie has I failed thus far to secure a conference upon the radical differences between the two House I I I STATUS OF THE MEASURE I I The status of the Fort Hal bill Is r Peculiar The Senate originally passed Senator Shoups bill which was known c as Senate No 253 It sent f5 I was over to < 1 the House referred to the Indian com < mittee in that body and there it I was substituted for the bill Introduced by Air Wilson This action rl was taken not with any idea of discrediting the member from Idaho but that the pa sago s-ago of tho measure might be facil itated Unfortunately it was deemed advisable by i the House to add the bill to ratify the cession of lands of the Jvlowa Comanche and Apache tribes of Indians in Oklahoma I INVITED A VETO A bill of this character had passed the House before and it was thought by this means it could be forced through I the Senate In spite b the fact that I t FOHIP of the clauses had never beon I agreed to by tho Indians and that In 2 the opinion of those best posted some r of the rights of the Indians would bo 1 Jeopardized In the meantime a bill of a meuntme IJI hike import affecting the Indians of Ari zona has been vetoed by the President Plc811 nt u became evident therefore that tho S FOr Url bill had been so amended In J th llou e as to Invite the tt lou IlvJe veto of the > fi8ItleTIt > ud for some weeks past the iir t llouscs have left the matter I Banging mater J SHOUP WILL PUSH IT I is understood however that Dele atc Flint the sponsor for tho Klowa and Comanche addition to the bill la MM bi lllliig to sacrifice his measure In order lint the Fort Hal agreement may be ratified Senator Shoup will there w1 fore bring tho matter up In the In fHan 0ninilttce of the v1 commltec Senate tomorrow mal there Is every reason to he lu < c lint thu result will be that a bIll wi be sent to the President next Jbsllntlally that which Sen i ft 01 atar Shoup Put through the Senate orlg I iiiaiiyaml It that the President will sign GIVES SENATOR SHOUP CREDIT It 18 l duo to Mr Wilson Wl on to say that hi t ht disclaims all responsibility for pub t cations In the Idaho press and that 1 admits that Senator Shoup not only liz d lie orhinal Fort Hall bill ti tlirour i Hal bi L VlrOUh 1 the Senate but that he ren T fn rfd yjiluablp assistance in securing iaorablf Iorb action In the House DETI H NTX1NG WATER SUPPLY t arii Onul Carter rnday Introduced an ort1IWnt Idl to t1ir sundry rlvll bill fiiV If mlopliMj vi1i nppruprlutu h I > r wIl lrfPrlul < fur ilPtiriJilning tho water sup i i T fl I tho I iiit1 KtatcH t Including the I IIIiofl M underground currents J I nT1 Artesian wells In the arid and t t J arid sections Instead of 50000 a provided pro-vided for the bill as It now stands AFFIDAVIT IN LAND CASES Representative Mondells bill providing provid-ing that all aflldavlts proofs and oaths I that may be required of applicants and enlryiiKMi under the homestead acts I shall be made before the United State I I Commissioner or a Judge or clerk of a I I court of record of the county where the < desired lands are situated providing I for a charge of 25 cants for all affidavits I 51 for depositions when prepared by an officer and 25 cents not prepared by I un olllcer ng today reported favorably to the House JAPANESE IMMIGRATION ReJsentatvl Mondell today introduced Intro-duced a resolution which recites the fact that It Is reported that a large number of Japanese have landed within the last few months at the Pacific ports of the Uniled States and British Columbia Co-lumbia with the Intention of entering the United States and directs the Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury to transmit to thc IIoupo Information whl < h may he In the possession of the Commissioner of Immigration regarding the number of Japanese that have entered this country In each of the last Jive years the number of these who have he I come American citizens or have declared J de-clared their Intention to become such the character of employment secured and followed by such immigrants and tho rate of wages paid to such Immigrants Immi-grants as compared with the wages paid lo American citizens for the name class of employment PENSION EXAMINING BOARD I Senator Clark of Wyoming has secured se-cured tho appointment of a board of pension examining surgeons for Evanston Evans-ton Wyo to consist of Drs C II Souller T H Hardison and T T Levers Tills board will examine ap nllcants in the vicinity of Evanston and will relieve the Utah doctors of tho necessity of performing this work for Wyoming veterans POSTAL CHANGES Sehator Shoup has recommended the appointment of Mrs Frances Crlswell as postmistress at Kanoka Ida to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation resig-nation of John M Ilortklns Upon tho recommendation of Mr King a sevenday mall service has been established between Rlchlleld and Loa Wayne county Utah A poslotllce has been established at Dover Albany county Wyoming with Arthur Dover as postmaster I MONEY FOR PUBLIC BUILDING The Secretary of the Treasury today sent to the Senate a letter from the supervising architect calling attention to the urgent need for additional ursn addltonul appropriations ap-propriations for certain public build ings now under construction Among the buildings named were those at Boise Ida for which 100000 more has been asked and Cheyenne Wyo here 75000 is needed The supervising architect arch-itect says that unless these appropriations appropria-tions are made the buildings will have to remain unfinished when rCmaln unfnl8hed lhe money now applicable is spent PENSIONS GRANTED Idaho Original Michael Lctnan Vance SG Woymlng Spanish war Fannie Fan-nie Woods mother Cheyenne 12 POSTMASTER APPOINTED Olaf Olsen was today appointed postmaster post-master at Troy Latah county Idano vice T H Christie resigned |