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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



April, 



and report were referred to the Com- 

 mittee of the Whole House on the state 

 of the Union. 



March 8. 



Mr. Mondell, from the Committee on 

 Irrigation of Arid Lands, to which was 

 referred the bill of the House (H. R. 

 9676) appropriating the receipts from 

 the sale and disposal of public lands in 

 certain states and territories to the con- 

 struction of irrigation works for the 

 reclamation of arid lands, reported the 

 same with amendment, accompanied b}^ 

 a report (No. 793); which said bill and 

 report were referred to the Committee 

 of the Whole House on the state of the 

 Union. 



March 10. 



Mr. Ray, of New York, asked leave 

 to file the views of the minority of the 

 Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. 



March 11. 



Mr. Moody, of Oregon (by request), 

 from the Committee on the Public Lands, 

 to which was referred the bill of the 

 House (H. R. 4393) reserving from the 

 public lands in the State of Oregon, as 

 a public park for the benefit of the 

 people of the United States and for the 

 protection and preservation of the game, 

 fish, and timber and all other natural 

 objects therein, a tract of land herein 

 described, etc., reported the same with 

 amendment, accompanied by a report 

 (No. 872); which said bill and report 

 were referred to the House Calendar. 



Mr. Mondell introduced a resolution 

 (H. Res. 161) that there be printed 

 3,500 copies of the list of books on irri- 

 gation (with reference to periodicals) 

 compiled under direction of A. P. C. 

 Griffin , Chief of Division of Bibliography , 

 for use of Congress. To the Committee 

 on Printing. 



March 13. 



Mr. Warren, in the Senate, presented 

 a petition of the Interstate Irrigation 

 Congress of Colorado and Nebraska, of 

 Sterling, Colo., praying for the enact- 

 ment of legislation providing for the 

 reclamation and irrigation of the arid 

 lands of the West ; which was ordered 

 to lie on the table. 



March J 7. 



The bill (S. 270) to prevent tres- 

 passers or intruders from entering the 

 Mount Rainier National Park, in the 

 State of Washington, was considered as 

 in Committee of the Whole. It directs 

 the Secretary of War, upon the request 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, to 

 make the necessary detail of troops to 

 prevent trespassers or intruders from 

 entering the Mount Rainier National 

 Park, in Washington, for the purpose 

 of destroying the game or objects of 

 curiosity therein, or for any other pur- 

 pose prohibited by law or regulation for 

 the government of the reserv^ation , and 

 to remove such persons from the park 

 if found therein. 



The bill was reported to the Senate 

 without amendment, ordered to be en- 

 grossed for a third reading, read the 

 third time, and passed. 



March 19. 



The President pro tempore laid be- 

 fore the Senate a communication from 

 the vSecretary of the Interior transmit- 

 ting a draft of a bill providing for 

 the extension of the limits of the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park, and for the 

 protection of the game therein, together 

 with papers from the files of the De- 

 partment, indicating the necessity for 

 such legislation; which, with the accom- 

 pan3'ing papers, was referred to the 

 Committee on Forest Reservations and 

 the Protection of Game and ordered to 

 be printed. 



March 20. 



Mr. Kittredge, from the Committee 

 on Forest Reservations and the Protec- 

 tion of Game, to whom was referred 

 the bill for the improvement of the 

 Mount Rainier National Park, in the 

 State of Washington, reported it with- 

 out amendment and submitted a report 

 thereon. 



March 21. 



Mr. Perkins presented to the Senate 

 a petition of the Chamber of Commerce 

 of Stockton, Cal., praying that an ap- 

 propriation be made for the construction 

 of a diverting canal to carry the flood 

 waters of Mormon Channel into the 



