Mr. Moody is forty-nine years old, a lawyer by profession, and has been a member of Congress for the past seven years. He will take up the duties of his office on May 1.
The New States
Bills are now before the House of Representatives for the admission to Statehood of our remaining Territories—New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory.
This movement was favored as far back as 1896.
The chief objection raised at present is, that most of the inhabitants are of Mexican and Indian descent and are unfit for the responsibility of citizenship.
The Irrigation Bill
In the bill on irrigation recently passed in the Senate, provisions were made for what is known as a Reclamation Fund. This is to be formed from the proceeds of the sales of public lands and will be devoted to the irrigation of the arid districts in the United States.
By means of such a movement it is proposed to reclaim and utilize a great area of land which has heretofore been worthless to agriculture.
Methuen’s Defeat.
By a night attack made on March 7, 1902, General Delarey, with a force of fifteen hundred Boers, captured, near Vryburg, several hundred British soldiers, all their supplies and four guns. Among the prisoners was General Methuen, the commander of the British.