designate the number, dimensions, location, and manner of application of the appliances provided for by section two of this act and section four of the act of March second, eighteer hundred and ninety-three, and shall give notice of such designation to all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act by such means as the commission may deem proper, and thereafter said number, location, dimensions, and manner of application as designated by said commission shall remain as the standard of equipment to be used on all cars subject to the provisions of this act, unless changed by an order of said Interstate Commerce Commission, to be made after full hearing and for good cause shown; and failure to comply with any such requirement of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be subject to a like penalty as failure to comply with any requirement of this act: Provided, That the Interstate Commerce Commission may, upon full hearing and for good cause, extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this section with respect to the equipment of cars actually in service upon the date of the passage of this act. Said commission is hereby given authority, after hearing, to modify or change, and to prescribe the standard height of draw bars and to fix the time within which such modification or change shall become effective and obligatory, and prior to the time so fixed it shall be unlawful to use any car or vehicle in interstate or foreign traffic which does not comply with the standard now fixed or the standard so prescribed, and after the time so fixed it shall be unlawful to use any car or vehicle in interstate or foreign traffic which does not comply with the standard so prescribed by the commission.

SEC. 4. That any common carrier subject to this act, using, hauling, or permitting to be used or hauled on its line, any car subject to the requirements of this act not equipped as provided in this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation to be recovered as provided in section six of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six: Provided, That where any car shall have been properly equipped, as provided in this act and the other acts mentioned herein, and such equipment shall have become defective or insecure while such car was being used by such carrier upon its line of railroad, such car may be hauled from the place where such equipment was first discovered to be defective or insecure to the nearest available point where such car can be repaired, without liability for the penalties imposed by section four of this act or section six of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended by the act of April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, if such movement is necessary to make such repairs and such repairs can not be made except at such repair point; and such movement or hauling of such car shall be at the sole risk of the carrier, and nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve such carrier from liability in any remedial action for the death or injury of any railroad employee caused to such employee by reason of or in connection with the movement or hauling of such car with equipment which is defective or insecure, or which is not maintained in accordance with the requirements of this act and the other acts herein referred to; and nothing in this proviso shall be construed to permit the hauling of defective cars by means of chains instead of drawbars, in revenue trains or in association with other cars that are commercially used, unless such defective cars contain live stock or "perishable" freight.

SEC. 5. That except that, within the limits specified in the preceding section of this act, the movement of a car with defective or insecure equipment may be made without incurring the penalty provided by the statutes, but shall in all other respects be unlawful, nothing in this act shall be held or construed to relieve any common carrier, the Interstate Commerce Commission, or any United States attorney

SEC. 6. That it shall be the duty of the merce Commission to enforce the provisions all powers heretofore granted to said commi extended to it for the purpose of the enforcem Approved, April 14, 1910.

BUREAU OF MINES ACT.

An Act to establish in the Department of the Interior Be it enacted by the Senate and House of of the United States of America in Congress there is hereby established in the Department a bureau, to be called the Bureau of Mine tor of said bureau, who shall be thoroughl the duties of said office by technical educati ence and who shall be appointed by the Pre with the advice and consent of the Senate, receive a salary of six thousand dollars pe there shall also be in the said bureau such exp employees as may from time to time be auth gress.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the province and du reau and its director, under the direction of of the Interior, to make diligent investigation of mining, especially in relation to the saf and the appliances best adapted to prevent possible improvement of conditions under whi erations are carried on, the treatment of ores a eral substances, the use of explosives and elect vention of accidents, and other inquiries and t vestigations pertinent to said industries, and time make such public reports of the work, and information obtained as the Secretary of sa may direct, with the recommendations of such b

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior sha said bureau with furnished offices in the city of with such books, records, stationery, and ap such assistants, clerks, stenographers, typewrite employees as may be necessary for the proper the duties imposed by this act upon such bure compensation of such clerks and employees with tions made for that purpose.

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior i thorized to transfer to the Bureau of Mines fro States Geological Society the supervision of gations of structural materials and the analyzing of coals, lignites, and other mineral fuel substa investigation as to the causes of mine explosio appropriations made for such investigations may under the supervision of the Director of the Bur in manner as if the same were so directed in th tions Acts; and such investigations shall hereaft the province of the Bureau of Mines, and sha

RECLAMATION ACT.

An act to authorize advances to the "reclamation fund," and for th issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefo and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rperesentative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tha to enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete govern ment reclamation projects heretofore begun, the Secretar of the Treasury is authorized, upon request of the Secretar of the Interior, to transfer from time to time to the credi of the reclamation fund created by the act entitled "An Ac appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal o public lands in certain States and Territories to the con struction of irrigation works for the reclamation of ari lands," approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred an two, such sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregat twenty million dollars, as the Secretary of the Interior ma deem necessary to complete the said reclamation projects and such extensions thereof as he may deem proper an necessary to the successful and profitable operation and main tenance thereof or to protect water rights pertaining theret claimed by the United States, provided the same shall be ap proved by the President of the United States; and such sun or gums as may be required to comply with the foregoin authority are hereby appropriated out of any money in th Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That th sums hereby authorized to be transferred to the reclama tion fund shall be so transferred only as such sums shall b actually needed to meet payments for work performed unde existing law: And provided further, That all sums so trans ferred shall be reimbursed to the Treasury from the recla mation fund, as hereinafter provided: And provided further That no part of this appropriation shall be expended upor any existing project until it shall have been examined and reported upon by a board of engineer officers of the Army designated by the President of the United States, and unti it shall be approved by the President as feasible and practi cable and worthy of such expenditure; nor shall any portion of this appropriation be expended upon any new project.

SEC. 2. That for the purpose of providing the Treasury with funds for such advances to the reclamation fund, the Secre tary of the Treasury is authorized to issue certificates o indebtedness of the United States in such form as he may prescribe and in denominations of fifty dollars, or multiples of that sum; said certificates to be redeemable at the option of the United States at any time after three years from the date of their issue and to be payable five years after such date, and to bear interest, payable semiannually, at not ex ceeding three per centum per annum; the principal and inter est to be payable in gold coin of the United States. The certificates of indebtedness herein authorized may be dis posed of by the Secretary of the Treasury at not less than par, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe giving all citizens of the United States an equal opportunity to subscribe therefor, but no commission shall be allowed

and issuing the same.

SEC. 3. That beginning five years after t first advance to the reclamation fund under th centum of the annual receipts of the reclama be paid into the general fund of the Treasury States until payment so made shall equal the ag of advances made by the Treasury to said re together with interest paid on the certificate ness issued under this act and any expense i paring, advertising, and issuing the same.

SEC. 4. That all money placed to the credit tion fund in pursuance of this act shall be sively to the completion of work on reclamation tofore begun as herein before provided, and t be included with all other expenses in future construction, operation, or maintenance, and irrigation project contemplated by said act o teenth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be beg until the same shall have been recommended tary of the Interior and approved by the direct President of the United States.

SEC. 5. That no entry shall be hereafter entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the have established the unit of acreage and fixe charges and the date when the water can be made public announcement of the same.

SEC. 6. That section nine of said act of Congr June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, Act appropriating the receipts from the sale an public lands in certain States and Territories to tion of irrigation works for the reclamation of a hereby repealed.

Approved, June 25, 1910.

PUBLIC LANDS WITHDRAWAL ACT

An Act to authorize the President of the United States drawals of public lands in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep of the United States of America in Congress asse the President may, at any time in his discretion, withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry public lands of the United States including the Alaska and reserve the same for water-power sites classification of lands, or other public purposes t fied in the orders of withdrawals, and such with reservations shall remain in force until revoked by an Act of Congress.

SEC. 2. That all lands withdrawn under the pr this act shall at all times be open to exploration, occupation, and purchase, under the mining laws of States, so far as the same apply to minerals other

any valid settlement has been made and is at said date being maintained and perfected pursuant to law; but the terms of this proviso shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman or settler shall continue to comply with the law under which the entry or settlement was made: And provided further, That hereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created within the limits of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming, except by Act of Congress.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall report all such withdrawals to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session after the date of the withdrawals.

Approved, June 25, 1910.

The Republican Party was dedicated to freedom. It has been the party of liberty and emancipation from that hour; not of profession, but of performance.—William McKinley.

Let us all consider the history and declarations of the great parties, and thoughtfully conclude which is the more likely to promote the general interests of our people.-Benjamin Harrison.

It is better to trust those who are tried than those who pretend.-John A. Logan.

There is left on the statute book no trace of any Democratic legislation during this whole period of thirty-two years except the repeal of the laws intended to secure honest elections. The two administrations of President Cleveland are remembered by the business men and the laboring men of the country only as terrible nightmares. Whatever has been accomplished in this period, which seems to me the most brilliant period in legislative history of any country in the world, has been accomplished by the Republican party over Democratic opposition.-U. S. Senator George F. Hoar.

Whether we live East or West, North or South, we are all citizens of one country and will enjoy prosperity as a whole or suffer adversity as a whole. Let us then stand up for our own country, and for policies that will maintain it as the best country in the world for the laborer, the manufacturer, the merchant, and the farmer, and the best country in the world for every man and child living in it.—Representative Campbell,

Kansas