Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-26
AFTER THE LAND GRABBERS.
Fraudulent Practices of OGlcials in
Oklahoma.
TO BE SEVERELY PUNISHED.
The Charges Will BE Considered by
the Cabinet-Tanncr's Scheme
For Protecting the
Pensioners.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEE.
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET

WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEE. !
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., April 25 J
There is no doubt that the investigation
into the alleged fraudulent practices of
Marshal Tom Needles and United States Of
ficals in Oklahoma, in securing for them
selves the choicest town lots in Guthrie, will
be pushed to the extent Of ferrettiug out
out every wrong doer. Both Secretary
Noble and the president are determined to
visit summary punishment upon every official
who can be proved guilty of the charges
which have been so frequently made against
them during the past few days. The in
spector's report which was ordered, to-day
by telegraph, will probably not be here for
some little time. When it comes it will be
carefully considered in cabinet meeting
and If the charges, made by the newspapers
are sustained, every man in any way mixed
up in the land stealing, will not only be sum.
marily dismissed, but will in all probabil-
ity be prosecuted criminaly. The president
and Secretary Noble are greatly worried
over the reports and will allow no guilty
man to escape.
PROTECTING PENSIONERS.
Commissioner Tanner has adopted new
scheme in the publication of the names of
applicants to whom pensions are granted
each day. He still furnishes the complete
list to the press, but instead of following the
old plan of giving the postoffice address of
each pensoner he gives the name and the
state in which the individual lives. This has
been found necessary owing to the pension
agents printing the pension list in the daily
papers and using this list of pensioners as
directories in order that they may extend
their business by inducing the pensioner to
apply for still more. This scheme of the
pension agents has caused the depart
ment great deal of extra labor, and
it frequently costs the pensioner great
deal OF unnecessary anxiety and the outlay
of money which he can i'll afford to waste. A
pension agent will write to him that his claim
has been allowed and that he (the pension
agent) can secure an increase, he thinks, if
he has all the facts placed before him. OF
course, the applicant is asked for another
fee, and, in the hope of securing more money,
will besege the pension office through his
attorney for a reopenng of his case.
STONES APPOINTMENT.
Ex-Governor Stone, of Iowa. was, to-day,
appointed deputy commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office Senator Allison called on
the president this morning, and urged him
once more to hand the commissonership to
Governor Stone, but Secretary Noble, it Is
understood, has another candidate for the
place, and, therefore, the ex-governor did
not get it, but was put into q minor position.
missioner has not yet been announced, it is
understood that the change will be made
within very few days, although it is poss-
BILE the president may not name any one for
the place until after his return from the feS-
tvities in New York.
ADEADLoCK.
There is very decided hitch IN the ap-
pointment of the first and second deputy
commissioners of pensions. The salary is
$500 ayear and the offices have been eagerly
sought The two principal candidates now
in the field for the two positions are General
Hiram Smith, of Cameron, Mo-, and General
e. w. E. Ross, of Baltimore. Twelve days
ago Secretary Noble sent General Smiths
name to the president for appointment as
first deputy, and Commissioner Tanner is
exceedingly anxious to see General Ross
obtain the second deputyship Secretary
Noble is also very favorably disposed toward
ator Hiscock, of New York, stands in the
way The second deputy is General Joseph
]. Bartlett of New York. Mr.. Bartlett
is a democrat of the most advanced
stripe and one who has never made any CON
cealment of his active partlsanship, but he is
warm personal friend Of Senator Hiscock.
and the senator has said that no influence
shall be powerful enough to remove General
Bartlett. 1t is understood that he has gained
Senator Evart'S influence, besides number
of other strong political friends, and between
them they are confident that General Bart
lett will remain in his office. Mr.. Tanner,
eager as he is for General Bartletts removal,
finds himself helpless, and the result is that
there is a deadlock in the appointment of the
deputy commissioner of pensions.
NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason
will very shortly have twenty special agents
of internal revenue to appoint. These offices
are very much sought after by congressman
for active working friends. Itappears, how
ever, that of the twenty there are only nine
to be distributed among the forty senators
and 1855 republican representatives. Mr..
Mason states that there are four republican
hold-overs, who will be reappointed, four
who were dismissed by Mr.. Miller, but who
will be reinstated, and that three have al
ready been promised to high official person
ages, so that there remains only nine for the
rest of the world. There is an equally active
scramble for the twenty-eight positions OF
special agents of the treasury, which are To
be divided among the forty.two states. IL is
understood that the New York delegation
| has demanded and been promised at least six
| If not eight of the special treasury agents.
MRS. HARRISON WORRYING.
A friend of the family of the president says
| that Mrs Harrison is greatly worried oven
| the condition of her husband, 1t is asserted
that the constant demands of office-seekers
| and the worry which follows the daily hear
| ings of plants and complaints of his visitors
| has worn upon the president to such an eX
tent that it has produced insomnia, and his
| family are urging him to take vacation OF c
| Week, dU lehob IL Is pTODdUlc tndJ Llis
| course will be adopted soon after the return
| of the presidential party from the centcnnia
| celebration. At present the president take:
| his constitutional every day, and is debarreC
only by rain from walking several mile.
| every evening.
"BUCKn TAYLOR.
'Buck' Taylor will leave with the horses
| buffaloes and seven cowboys for the WHO
West show tomorrow. The stock has beer
wintering at General Beale's farm, north o
| the city. The animals are corraled at the
| Union stock yards. The entire party Will
leave on the steamship Persian Monarch
and will go to Paris, where they will remain
! until fall, when they go TO London.
APPEALS AND DECISIONS.
The first assistant secretary Of the interlo
| haf rendered decision in the case of the ap
| peal of Melissa j. Cunningham from the de
cision of the commissioner of the genera
land office of January 9, 1883, holding 70
cancellation her presumption cash entry o
| April 10, 1855, for lots | and in the sOutl
half of the northwest quarter Of section 4
township 80 range % west, Valentine Ian
district, Nebraska, the commissioner basin
his action on the ground that the claimant
having been married woman at the date o
the final proof, was Lot a qualified pre-
emptor. This case involved au irregularit
in the claimants declaratory statement, and
being married shortly after the settlemen
on her pro-emption, that fact was urged as
bar TO her submitting her corrected declare
tory statement The first assistant secretar
reversed the decision Of the commissioner
and permits the claimunt to submit lin;