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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



against a reduction of the appropria- 

 tion for irrigation investigations, was 

 referred to the Committee on Irrigation 

 and the Reclamation of Arid Lands. 



February IS. 



Senator Clark, of Wyoming, from the 

 Committee on the Public Lands, to 

 whom was referred the bill (S. 7247) 

 for the relief of certain homestead set- 

 tlers in the State of Alabama, on lands 

 which have been recovered, or which 

 may hereafter be recovered, in the 

 courts by the grantees of certain rail- 

 road companies of that state, reported 

 it without amendment. 



Mr. Wilcox presented to the House 

 the petitions of 606 voters of Honolulu, 

 Hawaii, praying for the enactment of a 

 law to provide Hawaiian citizens with 

 homesteads from the public lands in 

 Hawaii. Referred to the Committee on 

 the Territories. 



February J9. 



A petition was presented to the Sen- 

 ate from the house of representatives 

 of the State of Missouri, praying for 

 the establishment of a national park in 

 the famous Ha-Ha-Tonka region, in 

 Camden county, Missouri. Referred to 

 the Committee on the Public Lands. 



Mr. Stephens, of Texas, introduced 

 in the House of Representatives a bill 

 (H. R. 17470) to open for settlement 

 505,000 acres in the Kiowa, Comanche, 

 and Apache Indian Reservations. Re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Indian 

 Affairs. 



Petitions in support of the bill (H. R. 

 17103) permitting the payment of the 

 value of public lands to persons entitled 

 to make entry upon such lands in cer- 

 tain cases were received from two G. A. 

 R. posts in Michigan. Referred to the 

 Committee on the Public Lands. 



February 20. 



The bill (S. 6968) granting the Cen- 

 tral Arizona Railway the right of way 

 through the San Francisco Mountains 

 Forest Reserve was presented to the 

 President for signature. The Speaker 

 of the House also signed the bill (S. 

 7288) extending the time for making 

 proof and payment for all lands taken 

 under the desert-land laws by the mem- 

 bers of the Colorado Cooperative Colony 



for a further period of three years, mak- 

 ing it ready for Executive action. 



Mr. Miller introduced a bill (H. R. 

 17483) providing for the better separa- 

 tion and utilization of public and private 

 lands within the limits of railroad land 

 grants in the arid and semi-arid regions 

 of the State of Kansas. Referred to the 

 Committee on the Public Lands. 



Mr. Hamilton presented a resolution 

 from Hill Post, No. 159, G. A. R., of 

 Middleville, Mich., in support of the 

 bill (H. R. 17103) permitting the pay- 

 ment of the value of public lands to per- 

 sons entitled to make entry upon such 

 lands in certain cases. 



STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. 



Agriculture. - - Messrs. Wadsworth, 

 Henry of Connecticut, Connell, Wright, 

 Haugen, Dahle, Scott, Haskins, Henry 

 C. Smith, Graff, Williams of Mississippi, 

 Lamb, Cooney, Gordon, Allen of Ken- 

 tuck}-, Neville, and Flynn. 



Public Lands. Messrs. Lacey, Eddy. 

 Mondell, Miller, Jones of Washington, 

 Esch, Moody of Oregon, Needham, ' 

 Martin, Tompkins of New York, Ford- 

 ney, Shafroth, Kleberg, Griffith, Brun- 

 didge, Lassiter, Burnett, and Flynn. 



Irrigation of Arid Lands. Messrs. 

 Reeder, Mondell, Sutherland, Tirrell, 

 Brandegee, Dwight, Newlands, Neville, 

 Underwood, and Bellamy. 



STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE 

 SENATE. 



Agriculture and Forestry. -- Messrs. 

 Proctor, Hansbrough, Warren, Foster 

 of Washington, Dolliver, Quarles, Quay, 

 Bate, Money, Heitfeld, and Simmons. 



Forest Reservations and the Protection 

 of Game. Messrs. Burton, Depew, Per- 

 kins, Clark of Wyoming, Pritchard, 

 Kearns, Kittredge, Morgan, Tillman, 

 Gibson, and Simmons. 



Irrigation and the Reclamation of Arid 

 Lands. Messrs. Simon, Warren, Stew- 

 art, Quarles, Bard, Qua)-, Kearns, Diet- 

 rich, Harris, Heitfeld, Bailey, Patter- 

 son, and Gibson. 



Public Lands. Messrs. Hansbrough, 

 Nelson, Clark of Wyoming, Bard, 

 Kearns, Gamble, Burton, Dietrich, 

 Berry, McEnery, Heitfeld, McLaurin of 

 Mississippi, and Gibson. 



