Show the house view of the beds KE OPENED AT ALI failed to curry efow gone to L conference washington D 0 april ir ionna special the house in committee of the whole today spent nearly tio hours in further consideration of the senate uncompahgre opening amendment to the indian bill which r hultad in tho committee non con the amendment representative cooper of wisconsin p bcd in favor of leading the lands for ii term 0 years for the purpose of it it Venue gong man SLa roth of co orado the making a ibrous ip rous in advocacy of opening tie ian ander the mineral land jwj lu he running which fol M esra of georgia nt tryxa maguire of california la of lowi bartholdt of 3 1 I kica f U ah participated h anstr 0 o the frequent repeated Q bv opponents of the opening ii a arnst haq crain to be created yh ch would control the entire output if the anda and the price of aspdal hiim in the country representative of st louis stated that he is authorized to say for the st louis hirai which had been denominated a grasp nj cor 0 aaion that they would dive a bond in any amount with bood security that they would not take up one single solitary ecra nor one foot of the lanao all that the people of st lou s desire to do he said is to build a laili oad are operating i mine in mhd neighborhood of the as phal um deposits but the output is not sufficient to justify an expense of 2 in tha construction of a railroad about iu length and for that reason their interest in the opening of these asphaltum lands is that the road can be immediately 1 I want to say in this connection doo linued mr Barthold fc that the one little mine which has bean opened on the boundary of the uncompahgre reservation er and has been operated now for a few years has had the effect of reducing the price of asphaltum to the american people by at least per cent the american people are now paying 45 a ton for asphaltum and I 1 venture to predict if we open the landa that within four weeks the price of asphaltum would be reduced to 10 a ton and the mines will be used in other manufactures and industries representative king closed the argument for his side of the question after various of time had been allowed bv consent he answered the statements made by the opposition and inythe short apace rt time allotted him demonstrated that the indians had no right nor title to the lando chairman dingley of the ways and means committee closed the debate for the other at the conclusion of mr Din glaye remarks the offered were disposed of one presented by mr fleming providing that the goy eminent should receive a royalty of 4 per ton was withdrawn upon the suggestion of mr dinghy the question then occurred upon the motion of representative bailey of texas to grant the lands to the beato of utah for educational purposes on this motion mr king demanded the yeas and nays and it was defeated by a vote of 40 to 72 mr kings motion to concur in the senate amendment wag then put and lost on a viva voce vot ethe jeaa and nays not being demanded A motion offered by mr lacy and supported by mr dingley was accepted directing the house to instruct the conferees to insist upon a provision for leasing the mineral lands with each limitations and restrictions as will prevent the control of the mineral by trusts or c of any hind such leases to be for limited terms later when the committee rose and reported to the house mr lacy moved that his instructions to the the conferees be adopted mr alne attempted to debate this motion but was informed that the motion was not debatable he then demanded the yeas and nays and made the point of no quorum it being evident that there was not a quorum present mr lacy withdrew his motion and ahe action of ahe house was ie ported without instruction to tha corn cittee the conferees appointed were sherman curtis and alien of |