Show BATTLE OF BIG HOLE SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION ASKING FOR REPORT Directs Secretary of War to Ascertain What i Any Action has been Taken Ta-ken to Mark Graves on the yield TRIBUNE BUREAU j 501 Fourteenth street 1 Washington D C Feb 9 1000 Tho Senate has passed the following resolution t That the Secretary of War be and Is I lierey directed to ascertain and report re-port jto the Senate the legal subdivisions I of land over which the battle of the I Big tHole in Montana was fought In 1877tand what If any action has been talcei or should be taken to properly mark the graves of those killed and buried on or near the battlefield and to preserve such marks from obliteration ton ADJUSTING OLD ACCOUNTS Senator Plot of Connecticut today introduced in-troduced a bill providing that United Slaijea Marshals and clerks of United States District courts in Utah prior to Us hdmlssion to the Union shall be heldjaccountable only for fees earned in UiiHed Suites cases In accordance with the decision of the AttorneyGeneral December l L 180L These omcials are relieved from making further reports and ahm from further liability on their bon and accounting oflicers of the Government are directed to bclllc these accounts accordingly I SHARKING SITE OF MASSACRE I Squalor Warrens bill to provide for marking the site of the Fort Phil Keiuny massacre passed the SenateS coCSj Senate-S v MODIFIED LAND DECISION Secretary Hitchcock today modified the Land office decision In the case of Albert 11 McLain against Tlllle Lawyer Law-yer a Nez Force Indian which was in favor of the defendant by ordering a hearing to determine the rights of the parties to the contest POSTAL CHANGES The postofllce at Lake Shore Utah county Utah has been discontinued Mall will go to Benjamin PENSIONS GRANTED Idaho Increase Robert Newby Emmett Em-mett G Nevada Original John Ellaln Virginia Vir-ginia City G Hamilton Wise Yearlng ton 6 6PERSONAL PERSONAL MENTION Senator Rawllns today recommended that Dr S W Tallaferro be apoplnted in the dental corps of the army J T McConnell of Salt Lake is reg istered at the Arlington reb Senator Warren today Introduced Yarcn I Smith bill to Increase the pension of Andrew |