Show TO CHANGE ITS NAME Bill Providing for Renaming the Indian Country I p TERRITORY OF JEFFERSON Scheme Provides for Giving the People I Peo-ple of the Territory Home Rule and to Honor Thomas Jefferson by Giving I Giv-ing His Name to the Only Unorganized Unor-ganized Territory Within tho Grand Domain Secured for the United StatesThrough His Wisdom and Statesmanship TRIBUNE BUREAU 1 501 Fourteenth street Washington D C May 2 1000 Congressman Moon of Tennessee today to-day Introduced a bill providing a Territorial Ter-ritorial form cf government for the Indian Terrilory under the name of Jefferson Terrilory The object of the bill Is twofold Its first purpose Is to Rive the people of the Indian Territory home rule and the second Is to do honor hon-or to Thoman Jefferson by giving his name to the only unorganbcd Territory Terri-tory embraced within the grand domain do-main secured for the United States through hs wisdom and statesman sjhlp The Idea of renaming the Indian Ter illory Jefferson Territory originated with Judge EG Tollett who Is now In Washington as it delegate appoInted by the South MeAl ester convention called to take steps for the redress oC I the wrongs now suffered by the 300000 white citizens of the Indian Territory Judge Tollett In speaking tonight of the bill said he considered It most fit ling that the new Territory should bear the name of that great statesman who made It a part of the United I Slates and it was equally appropriate that the only unorganized portion of the United States should be prepared for admission to the Union in time to T become a factor and participant In the Louisiana purchase worlds fair to beheld be-held In St Louis In 1903 WHAT BILL PROVIDES 4 The bill provides for a Governor and a Secretary who shall be citizens oCt S oC-t h Territory and who are to be appointed ap-pointed by the President A Treasurer an Auditor and a Superintendent of Public Instruction arc to be elected by I Joint vote of two houses of the Legislature Legis-lature until otherwise provided for by the Legislature A Delegate to repre I bent the Territory In Congress Is to be elected by the voters of the Territory I The Legislature Is to consist of a Senate Sen-ate and House of Representatives the I Senate to be composed of fifteen Senators Sena-tors and the House of thlrtythreo Representatives RESERVOIR SYSTEMS Senator Warren will make another fight at this session of Congress for a trial of the reservoir plan for conveying convey-ing the water supply and preventing floods In the arid and semiarid regions of the great West With a view of a trial of the plan he today Introduced an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation ap-propriation bill for the appropriation M 100000 for the establishment of a reservoir system along Piney creek In Wyoming in accordance with the plans of Cnpl ChIttenden of the engineer engi-neer corps which have already been called to the attention of Congress Mr Warren will make the same fight this session as he did last when the river and harbor bill was under consld onUlon TO REPAIR MILITARY ROAD Senator Warren also presented an amendment to the sundry civil bill i appropriating 20000 for the r ° palr and completion of the military road from I Fort Washakle to near Jacksons lake In Uinta county Wyo F W Noble was today appointed postmaster at Norths ranch Hum boldt county Ncvf vice Orlando North dead The sundry civil appropriation bill I which was reported Ui the House today to-day contained an Item of 5GOOOO for i the preservation of Yellowstone National Na-tional park with a provision that S 20 000 Is to be expended for a road In Wyoming RURAL FREE DELIVERY Rural free delivery service has been ordered established at Boise Ida May 1 34th with C J Hale as carrier and William Boycr as substitute The i length l of the routo Is twentythree miles area covering twentyseven square miles population served 018 TRAVEL PAY TO SOLDIERS When that section of the army appropriation appro-priation bill which relates to soldiers I of the SpanishAmerican war was I ached during Its discussion In the Sfnalc today an amendment Introduced iJ Intro-duced proposing to give travel pay to all soldiers who have not yet received same 1 Mr Hawley In charge of the bill raised a point 6f order against tho amendment on the ground that It E changed existing law I RAWLINS PROTESTS J At this Juncture Scnalor Rawllns I took occasion lo cuter his protest 51 J against the unfair dealing which has I been accorded the volunteers of Utah j I 1Jf said that while the Aslor batlery of i 1 tW York had returned home when i1 thrIr term nf service In the Philippines f expired the volunteers of Utah von1 not only refused their discharge tl hut were not allowed one cent for mlle i o nq when they WIre discharged lie concluded by saying he could see no I I rrnpnu why the United Slates Government Govern-ment should ao take advantage of Its g own wrongs ¼ NO KICK TO MAKE c lie ww followed by Mr Nelson oC Mlimfsnia who after telling a story of i his service In he Civil war said that I1 v hcn he wan called on to serve longer m limn his IcrniOf cnllHtmunt he did so It and having been paid for the time he had served he had no kick to make Mr Rawllns asked him If he could point out a single Instance where during I dur-ing lnr > IMvll ivnr a soldier was forced iv to serve longer limn his term of enlistment J enlist-ment against his will Ii To thin the Senator from Minnesota lCI responded with another eulogy of his trmtces In the Civil Avar but failed to answer Senator Rawllnss question 1S1 l TIm pnFldcnt pro tem sustained the J point of order and the amendment was M defeated i RELIEF FOR LAND HOLDERS S A bill for iho relief of the occupants of the land ijicludcd In tHe boundaries of what Is known as Algodoncs grant i Yuma count > Ariz was today Intro cd dcied in the House WANT A POSTOFFICE I irUor hemp lion received a petition fT th < > KinbllshmenPof a postolllr ins > in-s Pcrccs county Ida to be namd Fumnilt arid the appointment of rEm pc r-Em MrCollum as postmasler on which i j 11 has recommended that favorable h tln be taken 1 I j S > mtnr Shnup has recommended the tivlriini of Walter E Williams ItI mniiMer at Coolln Kootcnal county I coun-ty Ida lu llfl a vacancy Ln liSTOrK ENUMERATORS T II faiiiHtrr Silt Lake Jains A Wilson Welser Ida and E P Snow and A C McGregor of Cheyenne were today designated as special agents In their respecllvc States to collect livestock live-stock statistics for the twelfth census |