Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-10
TO FINISH THE BUILDING
House Provides Money for the New Omaha
Postoffice.
WILL CAREY FORWARD PRESENT PLANS
Amount Necessary TO Get the Portion
Erected Ready for Service Is
Made Available - South
Omaha Gets some.

Erected Henuy TOT serNtce -
Made Available - South
omaha Gets some.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Especial Tele-
gram THE house committee on appropria-
tions has reported favorably $125,00O to COM
plete the Omaha postofiice and has made
available in the general deficiency bill S7S,-
000 for the South Omaha building. The
amount appropriated for the Omaha public
building is not to be regarded as deter
mination on the part of congress to limit
the building to its present size, but Speaker
Reeds well known antagonism to any new
legislation for public buildings Is responsible
for the present appropriation. So persistent
has Mr.. Reed been in his refusal to allow any
public buildings measures to become laws
this session that many members OF the house
are in open rebellion and there is wen
authenticated rumor tonight that both the
sundry civil and general deficiency bills VIII
contain appropriations for public buildings'
notwithstanding the speakers objections
Some fear Is entertained that III these appro-
priations are persisted in 1t may mean the
veto OF one or both bills by the president
Be that as 1t may advocates OF these meas
ures are pressing the committee to such an
extent that the house will undoubtedly pass
the bill with the hope that in conference the
Objectionable features may be STRICKEN out
by the senate conterees.
DONALD MAY COME HOME.
There Is a story current today that Sec
retarv Morton has nice little scheme on
hand for the perpetuation of his own methods
and his own people in the Department OIL
Agriculture The secretary has recently IS
sued an order to chiefs of bureaus IN MS
-, Ft., thnu
their reports, not to him in person, but TO
Donald MacCuaig. chief clerk of the depart
ment the object being to keep Mr.. MacCuaig
in office, and make him virtually secretary OF
agriculture, or at least the official VINO would
pass upon all of the actions OF subordinate
chiefs of the various bureaus. which compr se5
the department. To carry this plan out, MI
Morton sent cordial invitation to Hon.
James Wilson of Iowa, who is to be ms sue
cessor to spend a couple of weeks with MN
but Mr. Wilson, who is something
of canny Scot himself, is said to have teie-
| graphed to an Iowa friend here to see what
| this meant. This gentleman went to sen
ator Gear. who made an investi-
cation and came to the conclusion
after number of inquiries that there was
| deep laid plot in it somewhere, by which
Mr.. Wilson might get the worst OF 1t. He
consequently advised the incoming secretary
! of his discoveries and that gentleman mas
politely declined the invitation to accept the
| Cuaig is democrat from Nebraskasswho wae
| appointed to his present place by SECRETARY
Morton, and he, like Morton's successor, Is
| a Scotchnan. OF course he would ike to
retain his place. but the chances are that
owing to intimate relations necessarily eA.
! isting between the secretary and his ch1ei
clerk the whole scheme will be nipped IN
| the bud. and MacCuaig will make way for Q
Irqpublican.
! | GETS THE BILL BACK.
Pettigrew's bill allowing settlers on the
| great Sioux reservation to commute theiI
| entries without payment of $l.2b per acre
| as required under the present holding o1
the Interior department, by the pas
| sage of concurrent resolution recalled from
| President Cleveland Gamble of South
Dakota engineering the resolution through
the house The bill was recalled because ol
the fear that the amendment insisted upon
by Congressman Loud would limit the righ,
| to commute timber culture entries outside
| of the great Sioux reservation, which is in
cluded in the two Dakotas and Nebraska
Congressman Andrews has nominated fol
West Point Phillip S. Smith of Juniata ant
as alternate Lemonte j. Belknap of Hast
ings, Neb., to the vacancy created b!
the declination of Clarendon E. Adams, jr.
of Superior, Neb. These two boys stood
third and fourth respectively in the com
petitive examination held at Hastings, Neb.
| Nav g. 1895. They are ordered to report a
Senator Thurston has introduced bill L
pension George w. Field of Omaha at tn
rate OF $72 a month.
Representative Strobe of the First distric
presented resolutions OF the Brotherhood o
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen brotherhood OF Rallwa
Trainmen, Order OF Railway Conductor
and Order of Railway Telegraphers in favo
of the anti-scalping bill The anti -scalpin
bill is by no means dead, as has been an
nounced in some sections, the intention o
both the senate and house committees bein
to give congress an opportunity to learn tn
extent of the ticket scalping business and 1t
effect upon the making of rates.
W. ]. Stokes and wife of Omaha are a
tho Cochran.
S. H. Burnham of Lincoln Is at the Eb
bitt.
Mr.. and Mrs c. N. Detz have gone t
Florida after several days spent in the city
The name of the postoIice at Bratton
Nemaha county, Neb., has been changed I
Eden with David j. Wood as postmaster.
Fourth class postmasters commissioned
Nebrceka-James c. Miller, Springfield
Iowa-Edward W. Teale, Davis City; May
nard A. Martin, Brusby.