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be used for rent. And the employes of passage of bill (H. R. 8460), providing 



the Bureau of Forestry, outside of the for the transfer of forest reserves to 



city of Washington, may, in the discre- the Department of Agriculture, 



tion of the Secretary of Agriculture, Resolutions of the National' Board of 



without additional expense to the Gov- Trade urging repeal of the timber and 



ernment, be granted leave of absence stone act, the desert-land act, and the 



not to exceed 15 days in any one year." commutation clause of the homestead 



February 8. act - 



In the Senate: Mr. Warren presented February 11. 



petitions of the National Live Stock In the House : Petitions of the Na- 



Association, praying : tional Board of Trade urging the repeal 



(1) For the enactment of legislation of the desert-land act were laid upon the 

 providing for the transfer of the ad- Clerk's desk by three members, 

 ministration of the forest reserves to ^ , t9 



the Department of Agriculture. rebruary \l. 



(2) Praying for an appropriation to In the Senate : A message from the 

 carrv forward the investigation of poi- House announced that, among others, it 

 sonous plants upon the ranges and the had P assed wlth amendment the bill 

 remedies or antidotes for such poisons. ( S - J 49o) to authorize the sale of a part 



(3) Praying that the Special Land of what ^ known as the Red Lake Res- 

 Commission be given time and oppor- ervation in the State of Minnesota, in 

 tunity to study the varied conditions of whlch amendment the concurrence of 

 different localities, that the people of the Senate was requested. The Senate 

 each locality be given opportunity to concurred in the amendment and the 

 be heard, and that no hasty action bill was P assed - 



be taken upon the commission's re- February 17. 



port until the people have had time to In the House, by Mr. McLachlen : 



consider any plan recommended, and, A bil i (H. R. 12510) providing for the 



finally, that if any portion of the public rights of way in and through public 



ranges is placed under government con- lands> reservations, and certain national 



trol, the administration of such may be parks _ Referred to the Committee on 



through the Department of Agricul- Public Lands 

 ture. 



(4) Praying for investigation of the 'February 18. 



' lieu-land laws ' and such modifica- In the House : A message from the 



tionsof the same as will prevent abuses. Senate announced that, among others, 



Mr. Proctor (for Mr. Dillingham) Senate bill 579, "An act to regulate the 



introduced a bill (S. 4166) to repeal use by the public of reservoir sites lo- 



"An act for the protection of game in cated upon the public lands of the 



Alaska, and for other purposes," ap- United States," had been passed, in 



proved June 7, 1902, and to protect which action the concurrence of the 



deer, moose, and caribou in Alaska. House was requested. 



Referred to the Committee on Territo- Mr. Fitzgerald laid on the Clerk's desk 



ries. a resolution of the National Board of 



Mr. Perkins introduced a bill (S. Trade favoring the transfer of forest 



4 J 93) providing for the appropriation reserves from the Department of the 



of water from the Colorado River for Interior to the Department of Agricul- 



irrigation purposes; which was referred ture. 



to the Committee on Irrigation and Mr. Hill, of Connecticut, and Mr. 



Reclamation of Arid Lands. Lilley also presented petitions from va- 



Februarv 10 - rious sources favoring a forest reserve in 



the White Mountains and the protection 



In the House . The following papers f th Calaveras Big Trees . 



were laid upon the Clerk's desk : 



^ Petitions from the National Board of February 19. 



Trade of Cleveland, Ohio, favoring the In the House : Mr. Lamar, of Mis- 



