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Show 55 Senate Confirms I. B. Evans as United States Dis-- Dis-- trict Attorney. Spvi:il to The Trilniiie. .SrnNUTO.", Dec. is. -Senator W. II. Kin.; was assured today by the treasury treas-ury department that in accordance with his recommendation, X. V. Jonus i.s to he appointed federal prohibition director for Utah within the next few days. The! treasury department lias just beun to1 announce tl.so appointments, and Mr.1 Jones will be anions the early appointees, j He will bo expected to have Ids office organized and ready for bu.-:incs by Jan- uary 30, when national prohibition bey j comes effective, unless the supreme court j rules otherwise. I The senate. In executive session tonight, confirmed the nomination of Isaac Blair ! Kvans as district attorney for Utah'. ! The senate military affairs committee tomorrow will order a favorable report on Senator Kind's bill pcrmlttlm,' the city 1 of Salt Lako t- run Us w;itrr pip.rs across the Fort' pmmliis military reservation, pendia-,' passage of that bill. The secre-. secre-. tary of war lias au'ioed to issue a temporary tem-porary permit so that the work may not be retarded. George U. faker of Silver City has been named by Senator Kinx as tirst alternate for West I'oint military academy and will he admitted If the principal, heretofore appointed, should fail to qualify. Apprehensive t hat Die Monde 11 soldier land reclamation bill may fail to become a law tice.-iuso of strong eastern opposition, opposi-tion, western senators have decided to push it, and the senate irrigation commit com-mit tec has fa vurably reported the bill of Senator .Tom s of Washington, authorix-iu;,' authorix-iu;,' appn pr in tin ns aujrreya r i nr ,-".,"',f)01"1,-oiio to enable the snT-'Cuy of the iu-Lr-rlor to rush to completion existing irrigation irri-gation proj.H'ts and to lake up a.nd build suih other new projects, as may ho found by him to be feasible aa.1 desirable. Tho bill does not make a lump sum appropriation, but paves the way for annual an-nual appropriations by congress, as r-s:i-maces are submit!. -1, up to the av.u'repate named. U is expeeted that these-"appropriations will be siruiiLT alon'for a series of ei;.,'ht or ten vears. Many easrern senators sena-tors and representatives who are hostile to the. Mondell bill, laria-iy V.ecause it nro-po.s,-s to buy up and r.-rlaim vast areas of pout fn-rn swrunp Ui.nds, ,'iave deciar'l tb.-Mi- v.iiini,-.-.osJ to auj-port the Junes bill. Just at present, representa! Ives of the American T..--rion are in Washington and will be -jviTi !-,.-arim,'s ty s. natC and house members before any a.erjon s taken on either thf Jones o- the M.'nd-!1 f'res-rn; f'res-rn; pr.-i e- ;a t----r. . favor tho. Jones p.rin over th.i otacr, but no b-L-I.-latlon of i )h! f.-rt -an be r-:t through until after! t.le hoijfJay rc-'.ss. |