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Show GOOD RECORD ' if BYC0NG8ESS 1 Republican Party Is j I Making History. 1 1 Senator Kearns Tells of What Has Been Ac- : complished, Jj; Talks of 'tha Panama Canal, the ' , Uintah Reservation and tho ; j , Smoot Case ' , jl; j III j-y S. SENATOR KEARNS arrived jt Jl home early yesterday morning T i 1,1 J q from Washington and put In a J ' very busy day looking after bus- 'I 'J j iness matters and receiving many con- fi t atituents. The Senator expects to put ; j ' jlj in considerable time in Utah during the i! '(( i inimmer and fall. He la naturally glad 'iij n that the session of Congress is at' an 3. i, I" end and is reasonably well .satisfied j Ji jj with the work accomplished. Speak- j v ing of this ho said: ' 1 y "The session which has just terminal- ' ed, while it will not go down. in history . as a record-breaker for things accom- : . ' llohed, must nevertheless be consid- j j, J ered one of the most Important sea- fa' li '' slons of Congress that has ever been i Jj ' held, and I base this statement largely. 1 ' if not entirely, upon that work which resulted In the consummation of the C I'l plans, and ratification of the- treaties r J I which insures tho building of the lsth- k mlan canal. This one thing alone will h 1 r always recall the first session of the 4J , , Fifty-eighth Congress. P 1 I What tho Party Has Done. . I , ' ' 1 "The country' lias reason to be proud n f f of thlo achievement, and tho Republl- fi ' I can party, which was directly rcspon- y. t Bible for It, is to be congratulated in jf1 if j adding to its- long list of public achieve- 1 ; ments the building of a canal, which r ' ' promises so much in the development 1 ( of the commore of the world, and It i ' J I is important at this llmo, on the eve Jj ' of a Presidential election, that it be jl f i emphasized and reiterated that it was j Ar a Republican President that met the j'i f issue, and a Republican Congress that J"1 I ' carried out his plane. There is another j, , ,", thing that will redound to the everlast- , lng glory of the Republican party, and V..' , j' that Is that during a Republican ad- l. H ministration a rule has been put into A 1 1, effect which secures to the veterans of i the army an increased pension, based J J ', upon an age limit. ,! 1 1 f'M "During the few months that we have Y,f 1 , lM been in session some thlngu of impor- o fi 'i ' l tance have been accomplished for Utah. j ' KM and a number of Important measure - 4 '1 ure pending, and will bo taken up Avith k l i 1 renewed vigor at the opening of Con- (T i gress after the recess. f ji "Perhaps the most important thing j j , accomplished was the favorable re- ! h ! port from the Senate Committee on V Pensions of a bill to pension the veter- f , ' ',!H ans of , the Indian wars of Utah. I have j L n') little doubt, after a proper understand- j ' i'M lng of the measure, both houses' of Jj Cfmgresa will agree that the men who H M fought for the subjugation of the great j,5l j Western territory, and who made it mm. ' possible for its settlement, are entitled i . to a pension. j 'j' Value of Irrigation Law. 2, ' j "No Government publication of recent j ' 1 times has has been of more direct In- y, 'H terest and benefit to the people of Utah i 1 'H than Agricultural Bulletin 225, which "J M," 1 deals extensively and with rare con- l, ' 1 j1 clsene-3 with the great subject of irri- 'I , gation in Utah. This document, as. soon as Its Importance became known, was ' li quickly exhausted, and in order to sup- 1 ply the demands of my constituency It j ! ' was my privilege to put through a Joint ' . 1 ' resolution authorizing the publication , I of four thousand (4000) copies of the j ; 1 work. It will soon bo ready for dlstri- I, I It' ill! button nnd, :ig far ns possible, copies ,' ' . will be placed In tlio lianas of thoso ,ijr " who have to do directly with the sub- r i i i ! i ject of Irrigation and who naturally are I '. j j ( the ones most Interested, 3 ' i Uintah Reservation Work. ij 'ijl ; "While It will not be possible to H i V ' throw open the Uintah reservation for 4i( settlement In accordance with the pro- J j ' H visions adopted at the! last session of , 1 1 1, ' Congress, the delny will not be as great jr ; as originally Intended. The Idea of .. ' postponing the opening of this great I body of land a year seemed extrava- !l I I I 1 I gant to me and, together with the other , M 1 niernbors of the Utah delegation, I had fj ! " .j j'j tlie time for the opening extended live ' 1' months .and. on March 1. 1005, th,e set- ,,' i , tiers of Utnh will have an opportunity H I . !. to take up certnin lands within the K I f ,,' ' confines of the reservation. When this , J time comes and the reservation is dot- l 1 1 '.l ted with homes of honest settlers, I jj , " shall feel repaid for my early efforts to ' fc , open this reservation to settlement. The j time has come, I believe, when large I , , i bodies of land can no longer be held ' 1 by a few Indians, too Indolent to work, ! ;, and surrounded by a protection which i .i ! the law affords, which gives no oppor- ' ! f , tunity to the people to settle it. Our 1 ; f country's prosperity depends largely , , upon Its homes, and every advantage I should be offered the settler to take up 1 ,' Government land and develop it. It M V might be interesting to kndw in con- ; !' nectlon with the delay In opening the I reservation, that it was found absolute- I Jy Impossible, bath by the Surveyor- I General of Utah and the Interior de- I partment at Washington, to complete I J i j veys and other details in time to com- 1 ; ! ply with the original Intent of the t I law. , The Interior department now has I j ben given an additional appropriation i ; of $5000. with which to hurry this work, Rnd I have every confidence that every- i thing will he In readiness- on the flrot , of March, 1905, to allot the land. "At this time I cannot tell exactly , what method will be adopted by the de- I partment to dispose of this land. You ttnow there arc several ways, but I feel almost persuaded that the system t ' which Insures the greatest fairness and recognized as entirely equitable Is that .1 1 known as 'Drawing.' . Work for Salt Lake. "Yes, the making of Salt Lake City i i a. port of entry was a glimpse Into the k future. Aelde from the fact that we i had no port of delivery closer than ; eight hundred miles, the time Is not far ; distant when Salt Lake City will be a (great railroad centef, and a customs I i- office will be a-necessary adjunct. When I . that time comes, the oince, of course, ' will take Its Importance from the ln- I 1 f i, creased business, and will become a ' , j ' port of entry with a large customs ii - i j i "Perhaps I take greater pride In the things I have accomplished, for the i: ' old soldiers during the session than ; anything else. Three or four private j pension bills have been passed and a J number of claims allowed at the Pcn- fion office, some of which had been t pending for a long time, and carried j with them considerable back pension, j and I am glad of the opportunity af- forded to help the people of Utah gen- ' orally In other matters before the de partments and elsewhere. ' What Smoot Case Means. t "Of course, the matter of greatest Importance to Utahns during the year 1 1 has 'been the progress of the lnVestiga-. ' v lion "of the cliargea against Senator ' Smoot. There is little I can say in con- ( , nection with this subject, except I deprecate de-precate the notoriety which It has brought our State and the paralysis of Ita financial development, which i , must necessarily follow an exposition i cif the charade" this case has assumed, 1 8&ve ample, warning of what was ' ti, coming, and cannot be charged with a J disposition to neglect my constituency, j ' "The investigation has taken a wide I ,. range., Its ramifications are extending i M to all parts of the State and Including ' ; i perianal friends. Long, long, ago it got ' 1 i J beyond any power of mine to stay it, I ( but I have every confidence In the committee com-mittee and Congress, and we must I await its final determination. I have 'i l 1 ( never believed and do not believe now '! , ' i that the people of Utah generally I j ' shpuld be held responsible for the con- i ditions which the Senate Committee on i ( 5 Privileges and Elections has laid bare. ' ? to the world." ' U I |