Show IT TIA Y PASS P A Favorable Report t on the Measue to t Open Fort Hal Reserve WHAT Bill PROVIDES Carries Appropriation to Make First Cash Payment PROVISIONS FOR SURVEYING It Also Provides for Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians Before Be-fore Any of them Shall bo Opened t Settlement Has Excellent Chances of Passage in Senate at Least and it is Thought i will Go Through the House Before Session is Over Senate Committee on Indian In-dian Affairs Also Orders Favorable Report on Bill for tho Belief of Richard King of Rawlins It Proposes poses to Compensate King who vas Shot by a Soldier withSSOOO TRIBUNE BUREAU 501 Fourteenth street Washington D C Jan 1 1000 The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Af-fairs this morning ordered n favorable favor-able report upon Senator Shoups bill to open Fort Hal reservation In Idaho by ratifying the agreement made with the Indians February 1S93 The bill has been heretofore commented upon In these dispatches I carries In the first place an appropriation ap-propriation of 175000 for the purpose of making the first cash payment Qnc thousand dollars is provided for surveying sur-veying establishing and properly marking the boundaries of the tract ceded Provision is also made for the allotment of lands in severally to the Indians before any of them shall bo opened to settlement Tho fact that the bill has the support sup-port of the Indian committee as well as the Indian Commissioner and the Secretary the Interior indicates that It luiij a very excellent chance of passage sage In the Senate at lest and it is thought also that it will go through tho House before the session is over RELIEF FOR RICHARD Kl NG KJG The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Af-fairs directed a favorable report upon Senator Clarks Wyo bill for the relief re-lief of Richard King King was shot by a soldier of troop F o the Ninth cavalry while that troop was en route from Rawlins Wjo to Fort Duchesne in ISO I The bill proposes to compensate compen-sate him by 1 presenting him with 5000 ANOTHER FAVORABLE REPORT Senator Shoup was also directed to report his own bill from the Military Affairs committee to provide for placing the survivors of the Lady Franklin bay expedition on the noncommissioned noncommis-sioned retired list of the army SPIRITED CONTENTION A spirited contention took place today to-day before the House Committee on Coinage between Representatives Shaf roth of Colorado and Hill of Connecticut Connecti-cut over a proposition 1 of the latter to have the Government discontinue the praotlce of paying mint prices for gold bullion at assay otllces MI Hill contended con-tended that offers of bullion should pay transportation charges on the same to the mint which usually means to Philadelphia and advocated the abolishment of assay offices OPPOSED BY SHAFROT1I This proposition was opposed with vigor by Mr Shafroth who contended that the purpose of the assay offices Is 1 to get into the Treasury department all the gold bullion possible so that the Government may put Its stamp on the same and thus hinder Its export to other oth-er countries The loss by abrasion in shipping gold coin is so great that a premium Is I paid on bars and consequently conse-quently getting bullion Into the Coy ernments possession and coining It Into In-to eagles prevents to a certain extent its export CHEAP MODE The Governments practice of paying mint price for gold bullion at the assay offices is the cheapest modo of acquiring 1 acquir-ing gold and If abandoned the Coy ornmont would be required to go into 1 the open market and buy bullion or Issue bonds for gold and past experience experi-ence has shown that the loss to the Government In lasylug 1 bonds for gold has been enormous and In comparison the paymentof transportation charges on bullion makes the cost of getting the gold production of the country into the treasury merely nominal FAVORABLE REPORT EXPECTED The contention on the practice arose over a bill providing for an assay office at Portland Or It Is believed the committee will report favorably on the bill and that Mr Hills proposition to have the Government discontinue payIng pay-Ing transportation charges will be defeated de-feated FREE HOMES FOR SETTLERS A favorable report was made In the Senate today on Pctllgrewfl bill providing pro-viding for free homes for settlers on Indian reservations This bill will benefit i bene-fit settlers on all Indian reservations recently opened It has been under consideration In the Jast two Con greftses and hal passed the Senate both times I fulled of passage in thtf IToiist owing to Speaker Heeds opposition oppo-sition but the prospect are favorable at this lime as Speaker Henderson will probably not oppose It POSTAL CHANGES PostoQlcea established Idaho Map I 4 4 i 01 noun Nez Forces county George Green postmaster 1 Wyoming Dorado TJInta county Edwin V Kerr postmaster |