| Show 1 r UTAH WILL BE HEARD No Haste in Fixing Limits Forest Reserve i NO SUCH JUDGEMENT TAKEN J Farmers and Stockmen of tho Stato f will Be Allowed Present Their Views to Representative of the Interior Department President f Hooscvelt Pays Senator Kearns an Unusually High Compliment Administration Ad-ministration Has Absolute Confidence Confi-dence in the Senator f I TRIBUNE BUREAU I 1MB K Street r Washington D C March 22 190 0 A recent dispatch conveyed the Infor matlon that the Department of the Interior In-terior would soon take action in the matter of defining the boundaries of the forest reserves in Utah Only preliminary pre-liminary work Is J contemplated however how-ever and it may be months before any ordPr can be made by the Secretary of the Interior or by the President fixing fix-ing permanent limits of forest reserves in Utah Letters havo been received In Washington the last few days denoting alarm in certain portions of Utah lest tho Government shall take snap Judgment Judg-ment In this mailer Such is not the purpose bUt on thc conlrary the greatest great-est deliberation will be exercised Congressman Sutherland had a long Interview with Director Charles D Wolcott of the geological survey wherein the latter said that an experienced experi-enced man would If desired be detailed to visit Utah and go to any locality in company with Mr Sutherland should thft latter so wish on a grand tour of Inspection In order thai the suggestions sugges-tions of the farmers and stockmen maybe may-be hoard Should this he done the recommendation of the special repro Fentatlvc ilhe department would have added weight In the final determination of the permanent boundaries to be established es-tablished for tho Utah forest reserves It was Mr Sutherland who first suggested sug-gested this plan to the department Director Wolcolt ban been advised by Mr Sutherland that the latter may go over the State In company with the expert next summer and do Ills utmost to bring about an amlcablo solution of the problem Meantime Senator Kearns Is taking the matter up directly wlththe President Presi-dent as Indicated In recent dispatches Certainly the people of Utah will have an opportunity to bo heard In the prom kJsc8 i and there Is no occasion for alarm jupon the part of any class of citizens contemplated l action bo so radical as to paralyze any industry in the State of Utah PRESIDENT PRAISES KEARNS President I Roosevelt paid Senator Kearns a high compliment this mornIng morn-Ing It happened at a reception given Senator Kearns and some friends at the WhltoHousc Senator Kearns accompanied accom-panied John Henry Smith and Elder Ben EL Rich with Mr L Cohn the wellknown merchant of Salt Lake City and wife with their two daughters daugh-ters who < are at school at New York city After greeting the ladles of the party tha President called them together to-gether and said 11 want the people of Utah to know we have absolute confidence 2n Senator Kcarns down here lie will look after the interests of his part his Slate and his people In every respect and If they want anything for the State or the people peo-ple their recommendations placed In his hands will be taken care of You may safely trust him to represent the people Turning1 to John Henry Smith and Eider Rich who accompanied the party par-ty he said I do not think you need have anything to fear from those who are Intrusted with your affaIrs here in r Washington I want to Impress upon you however the Importance of making mak-ing your recommendations and statements state-ments no clCAr that they will bear the scrutiny of careful investigation PROTEST UTAH BUSINESS MEN Sennlor Rawlins called upon Internal RpvonUo Commissioner Yerkes today and submitted a protest of prominent business men of Salt Lake City against the levy of a brokers tax upon officers and directors of any corporation or company which may sell or Issue car llllcates of stock The Senator Is ad lsed that Cnpt Wheelock a special agent of the revenue ofllcc recently Investigated In-vestigated the transfer of stock of a large sugar company of Utah whose officers were notified that they as well aa the directors of the company may be liable to an assessment of WO each ns brokers in the transfer of the stock of the corporation NO SNAP JUDGMENT Senator Rawlins filed the protest promptly and today received a reply from Commissioner Yorkcs who stated that he had not yet received the report of Cipt Wheelock In 1 tho case and therefore was not in position to pass upon It and upon receipt of the report the commissioner would take up the casci promptly for consideration He stated that the parties In Interest may rest assured that no snap Judgment will be taken After both sides have been fully heard a ruling will bo 1 made which If not satisfactory will be subject sub-ject to revision or abatement on appeal ap-peal DESERTION CHARGE REMOVED E Senator Kearns has secured the re moval I of the charge of desertion against Temple Short 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