Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-07
DID NOT CALL on THE PRESIDENT
Prcscntntfon of Lew Mays Name De
fcrrcd by the Duck ShontiMG Trip.

ierrcu bS thc DUCK SHOOTING Trip.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Especial Tee.
gram.)-owing to the sudden determine ior
Of President Cleveland to retire canvasbacks
instead of greenbacks along the North Caro-.
lima sound, the Nebraska delegation has beer
| compelled to postpone its visit TO the white
house in the interest Of Hon. w. l.. May
candidate for United States fish commits
sioner. The delegates will call immediatel,
upon the presidents return from his shooting
expedition.
In the house today Congressman Andrews
introduced bills ceding the public lands
within tho s,ats of Nebraska to the state
for irrigation, reclamation and other pur-
poses. This is regarded as a most important
bill by the delegation here, and will meet
with hearty support. Mr.. Andrews also in
tsoduced bill appropriatlng 100000 for a
public building at Hastings. This amount
covers the cost Of the site.
Congressman Msiklejohn introduced a bill
TO have the pavement about the public build
ingn at Fremont paved from the unexpended
balance of the appropriation; also an amend
ment to his Indian anti-ntoXicant bill, sug-
gested by Commissioners of Indian Affairs
Browning, changing the penalty from two
years to sixty days Imprisonment.
The Nebraska delegation held meeting
today and decided to recommend Major w.
II. Michaels of Grand Island for an assistant
postmaster in the law library, under Lii
brarian Spofford. Mr.. Spofford when the
delegation watsd upon him, stated that un-
til further Legislation providing for o'her po-
sitions under the librarian be enacted, his
hands were tied as to giving places.
Congressman KEN will shortly introduce a
bill ceding the old Sidney military reserva-
ton to the city Of Sidney for school purposes.
Resolutions rassed by the Elgin Ull) Boa d
Of Trade. highly euogsic of Hon. e. j.
Hainer, and pressing his claims for the
craftsmanship of the committee on agrcu-
ture, have been received by Speaker Reed,
but it is now :hought they will not avail
much, as the speaker has about decided to
give the charmanship to either MassaChu-
sets or Indiana. He is said to have remarked
that the west made too many changes in
the personnel of its congressional delega-
tions to secure many importan. committees
Congressman Gamble of South Dakota in
tloduced a number of bills today affecting
his state. One, directing the secretary of
agriculture to make experiments as to the
water supply of western South Dakota with
reference to irrigation is as vital to Ne
braska as South Dakota Another asks an
appropriation of 100000 to enlarge the mil
itGry reservation at Fort Meade, near
Sturgis. This is undoubtedly done to secure
the permanent location of the fort. He also
introduced bills appropriat!ng $4,000 each
for building industrial schools at Chamber
lain and Rapid City. for construction of a
public building at Deadwood, and the same
at Yankton, and several bills looking to the
payment to South Dakota by the genelNl
government of certain percentage of all
moneys received from sale of mineral lands
in the state for the support of the School of
Mines at Rapid City.
Leave of absence is granted Second Lieu
tenant John K Miller, Eighth infantry, for
one month. Leave for three months is
granted Captain Oskalosa NJ Smith, COM
missary of subsistence. Second Lieutenant
Herbert b. Crosby, Eighth cavalry, is
ant tod Qyfan ancin nf trp
Mr. Edward Rosewater, editor of The Bee
is at the Ebbitt.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Summers and Miss
Summers are in Washington for the winter