silver, copper or lead, and none of these lands are agricultural, or such lands as they are entitled to under their grant, and,

WHEREAS: Under the present decisions of the Courts, if the patents to these two million acres of selected lands should be issued to this Railroad Company, it would wrest from their rightful owners, these thousands of mining properties, and all the undiscovered mines in this vast area of mineral lands would become the property of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and,

WHEREAS: We believe that Congresssional action can alone save these mines to the people, to whom belong the heritage of untold millions.

NOW, THEREFORE, The Legislative Assembly of Montana, in Senate and House of Representatives assembled, do earnestly request of your honorable bodies in Congress assembled, that you will pass such an act or acts, as will forever preserve to the people, not only the discovered, but all the undiscovered mines of Montana, bearing gold, silver, copper and lead, and all other valuable minerals, except coal and iron.

And your Memorialists will ever pray.
Approved, February 20, 1891.

SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL, No. 6.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled:

Your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives, composing the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, would request Congress to enquire of the Honorable Secretary of the Interior by what authority of law the Commissioner of the General Land Office directs the Registers and Receivers of local land offices to order hearings in all cases to determine as to the mineral or non-mineral character of lands before claimants can file their applications for patent for either placer or

lode claims in said local offices, a protest or adverse claim not having been filed, should said application be for mineral lands upon an odd section and within the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. And your Memorialists will ever pray. APPROVED February 20, 1891.

SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL, No. 7.

WHEREAS, The Conger Lard Bill, so called, now pending in the Senate of the United States, is, should it become a law, an injury to the great and growing cattle industry of the State of Montana and of the whole of the country, and imposes an indirect tax and places under the supervision of the Revenue Department the manufacture and sale of what is known and sold as compound lard, made of Beef fat, cotton seed and hog lard; and WHEREAS, This bill is in the sole interest and for the exclusive benefit of pork packers and lard trusts, and to foster and build up one industry at the expense of another, and arrays the farmers of the north and northwestern States against the cattle raisers of the west and the cotton planters of the south, and is otherwise vicious and class legislation, therefore

Resolved: That our Senators in Congress, be and they are hereby requested to vote against the passage of said Conger Lard Bill, and to use all honorable means to the end that it may rot become a law.

Resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate forward to our Senators in Congress a copy of this resolution.

APPROVED March 3, 1891.

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL, NO. I.

House Foint Memorial to Congress Praying for the Passage of a Bill Permitting the Construction of a Railroad by the Montana Mineral Railway Company.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled:

Your Memorialists, the Second Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, would most respectfully state the following facts:

First-One of the largest and most promising mining districts in the State of Montana lies very near to the northeastern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park (but without the limits of the same.) This district is rich in silver, lead and gold, and is known as the "New World Mining District," and the town which has sprung up at that point is called "Cooke" or "Cooke City."

Second-Because of the large amount of lead in this district railroad transportation is a vital necessity to its practical development and must be had before the large number of property owners of the section can realize on their holdings, or its wealth be added to that of Montana, and the world. More than nine hundred bona fide mining claims are opened in this district, and some of them have had many thousands of dollars expended on their development, with the most gratifying results, in so far as the amount of ore thereby exposed is concerned.

Third-In a mountainous country, such as that under consideration, it is obvious that when possible a railroad should follow the depressions of the country made by the water drainage, and that any other location of a railroad will, in comparison, be extremely costly and difficult to construct.

Fourth-Cooke City is drained by Soda Butte Creek, which empties into the East Fork of the Yellowstone River, and which in turn empties into the Yellowstone River itself, and the only practicable route for a railroad (without the expenditure of enormous amounts of money in its construction) is from Cooke down along the streams mentioned to connect with the National Park branch railroad at Cinnabar on the Yellowstone River, a distance from Cooke to Cinnabar along the route mentioned of about sixty-two miles.

Fifth-Almost the entire length of the proposed railroad route (which is also the route of the present wagon road) outlined above, lies within the geographical limits of the Yellowstone National Park, but it is very near the northern boundary thereof, and is far removed from any object of interest to tourists and consequently never visited by them.

Sixth-There is now pending in the House of Representaitives, Senate Bill 491, which Bill has been favorably reported by the House Committee on Public Lands, together with an : amendment granting a right of way to the Montana Mineral Railway Company, which right of way is along the route herein specified, viz: From Cinnabar up either bank of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries, directly to the New World (sometimes called Clark's Fork) Mining District.

Therefore, your Memorialists pray that your Honorable Bodies will speedily cause the above referred to amendment to Senate Bill 491, as reported by the House Committee on Public Lands, to be speedily enacted into a law and thereby remove an obstacle which prevents the advancement of an important Section of our State. And your Memoralists will, as in duty bound, ever pray.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION, No. 5. .

Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate Concurring:

That the Secretary of State shall, and he is hereby directed to furnish and deliver to each Senator and Member of the Second Legislative Assembly, one copy each of the Journals of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and of the laws enacted by the Second Legislative Assembly, as soon as the same shall have been printed.

APPROVED March 7th, 1891.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION, No. 6.

Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the sum of forty-five dollars be appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the following named attaches of the House,

to wit:

Miss L. T. Nichols..

Mrs. Florence Kyes..

Miss Minnie Bowers..

S. H. West....

APPROVED March 7, 1891.

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