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Show REPORT ASKED OF DUCHESNE SUITS King Resolution Passed Calling on Lane for Facts of Water Controversy. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. With a view to brin(jin; about a settlement of suits instituted by the Indian office against white sottl'era on the Duchesne and other Indian reservations of Utah, Senator W. 11. King. of Utah today introduced, in-troduced, and had passed by the senate, a resolution calling on the secretary of the interior for the facts on which these suits were based. These suits were brought to restrain white settlers from using water on lands said to be covered hy prior Jndian filings, but as the facts have been presented to the senator, much more water has been appropriated by the Indians In-dians than they can use, and to deprive de-prive white settlers of this water would work a hardship on many and drive some out of the country. The resolution adopted today asks the secretary of the interior to report as to the effect of the pending suits on white settlers, if the Indian contention con-tention should be upheld; the amounts of land which the Indians actually own, and the acreage of Indian lands being actually irrigated and cultivated, and for a full statement as to what the Indian service proposes doing with the water in controversy if its contention should be upheld. The full showing of facts, Senator King believes, will demonstrate the unsoundness un-soundness of the contention raised bv the Indian bureau, and will pave the way to an amicable adjustment of the controversy, giving to the Indians such water as they can beneficially use, but permitting white settlers to utilize water- for which the Indians have no legitimate use. Senator King will go to New York tomorrow to writer with Julius Barney head of the United States flovernment (irain corporation, to see if arrangements arrange-ments can be made to rc-egn i.e (Jgden as a wheat terminal, for handling grain grown in northern Utah and southeastern southeast-ern Jdalio, The matter has been the subject of some correspondence, but no decision has been, reached. |