Show FORT HALL RESERVE BILL CONFEREES MEET TO CONSIDER THE MEASURE S Senators Talk Very Plainly to Members Mem-bers Regarding Action of House in t Attaching Treaty to I r TRIBUNE BUREAU TRIBUE BUEAU t I C01 Fourteenth street 1 I Washington D C May 3 1900 The conferees of the Fort Hall Indian reservation bill In which Senator Shoup is vitally Interested met this afternoon In the Senate Committee on Military Affairs Senator Platt chairman of the I Joint conferees did not mince matters in announcing to the House conferees that the action of the House in attach ataeh ing the Kiowa and Comanche treaty to the Fort Hall bill was an act of Ingrat itude and flagrant Injustice and that only his devotion to the interests of his friend Senator Shoup would warrant his meeting the conferees at all upon so flagrant a breach of legislative comity Senator Jones also said that he did not believe In that sort of procedure and coincided with his brother Senator Sena-tor In warm criticisms upon the action of the House Another conference will be held tomorrow to-morrow when It Is thought a compromise com-promise will be reached although the Ii Senate conferees today were in an ugly mood and expressed their willingness I only to agree on the House receding from its position and knock off the I I Kiowa and Comanche treaty I is believed be-lieved that the closeness to the sessions ses-sions end will result In some sort oran or-an agreement within a few days TO PAY INDIAN SCOUTS Senator Shoup has secured the adoption I adop-tion of his amendment to the general deficiency bill providing for the payment pay-ment of 4752 to the Indian of the Nez forces tribe who served as scouts and couriers under the direction of the War department during the Nez Perces war I In 1S77 1S7 1S77BEN BEN RICll AT CAPITAL RICH Benjamin Rich who has charge of the Mormon interests In the southeastern southeast-ern part of the United States and whose headquarters are at Chattanooga Chattanoo-ga Tenn is in this city AS TO PUBLIC LANDS 111 Newlans bill authorizing the entry en-try and patenting of land containing salt on the public lands was today reported re-ported favorably to the House The Senate bill granting homesteaders homestead-ers on the abandoned Fort Fetterman military reservation in Wyoming the right to enter one quarter section of public land on said reservation as pasture pas-ture was today reported favorably to the House RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH RESERVES RE-SERVES Mr Devrlcss bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the use of rights of way through the public pub-lic lands forest and other reservations of the United States for electrical plants telephone and telegraph purposes pur-poses etc was today reported favora bly to the House S S Mr Joness bill providing that new forest i reserves shall be created and additions ad-ditions to existing reserves shall be made only by acts of Congress was today to-day reported favorably to the House PENSION FOR JENNIE STOVER Senator Rawllnss bill l granting a pension of 520 per month to Jennie P Stover of Logan was today passed by the House k SUICIDE OF IDAHOAN About two years ago Henry Wendt who was a private in the First Idaho volunteers during the Spanish war was committed to the St Elizabeth asylum as an Insane patient Yesterday three colored boys found the body of Yen tIn t-In the woods near the asylum His throat was cut and a rusty razor laying lay-Ing at wu hit side indicated suicide He has been missed since last Friday I |