Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-16
MAY HAVE FREE HOMES YET
House Committee Report Will Substitute
for the Rosebud Bill.
OMAHA GELS MONEY FOR PoSTOFFIcE
Representatives Hull aud Cannon
Likely to Clash over AppropriR-
ton for improvements
of Army Posts.
From q star correspondent

lFrOm q stan correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 15.-(special)-The
house committee on Indian AFFAIRS today
decided to substitute the house bill ratliy-
Ing the treaty with the Rosebud INDIANS
in South Dakota, opening a portion OF the
reservation in Gregory county to settle
ment for the one which passed the senate.
The substitution Of the house measure
will raise a Hght over the question OF free
homes as was anticipated, but It Is thought
something satisfactory to Intending set
tiers will result when the bill gets Into
conference.
The omnibus public building bill will be
reported to the senate tomorrow. Accord
Ing to Senator Willard the bill Will
carry S45, 900 for completing the postofhce
at Omaha, according to the desires OF the
citizens, by making the Seventeenth street
side conform to the Sixteenth street eleva-
ton. There will be no other increases over
the house measure so far as Nebraska Is
concerned. Senator Dietrich has labored
earnestly to have York and Grand Island
included In the bill for purchase OF sites,
but the public building and grounds COM
mittee has decided to let these two growing
Nebraska cities wait until another year.
Congressman Stark has also interested
himself actively in securing a site and
building for York and placed on file with
the committee an exhaustive brief on be-
half OF that place, but the committee de-
cided TO hold additions to the house bill to
the closest possible point.
The secretary OF the interior transmitted
to congress today an estimate for payment
Of the Indebtedness incurred by the
Indian agent of the Sac and Fox Indians
Of Iowa for the purchase Of supplies and
employment Of labor.
Senator Willard introduced a bill today
TO reimburse ]. e. Turner for excess Inter-
est paid on purchase OF certain lands.
s. A.. Stacy, postmaster at Ord, Neb..
was today nominated for reappointnaent.
Hull Will Fight
Representative Hull of Iowa, chairman az
house committee on military affairs. said
today that IL Representative Cannon,
chairman Of the committee on appropria'
tons, insisted upon instructing the house
conferees on the military appropriation bill
to recede on the item in the bill appro'
priating "a, 900, 900 for construction and re-
pair Of such permanent or temporary build
ings at established posts as the secretary
Of war may deem necessary. that a strug-
gle would take place and that he would
resist the effort to instruct the conferees
with all the force at his command. While
II might DOt HdltEldllg ahOCh u DNo
Moines so far as getting money to carry
on the work of construction is concerned,
the fact remained that $500, 900 OF the
a. 900, 900 is understood by tho secretary
OF war to have been intended for Fort Des
Moines.
1t Is expected that the interior OF the
postofnce building at Omaha will be painted
this year, according to Senator Millard,
who stated today that the building needed
this repair very badly.
w. v. Morse and @. w. ,Wattles of
Omaha are in the city.
b., Contract Surgeon James X. Ashburn,
United States army. is relieved from duty
at Fort Grant. Ariz., and upon the expira-
tion OF his leave will proceed to Fort
Crook for duty.
Rural free delivery service will be estab-
lished on July l as follows: Nebraska
Humboldt, Richardson county, one addi-
tional route; area covered. thirty-three
square miles; population, 500. Waco, York
county, two additional routes; area, nifty
six square miles. population, $50. Iowa
South English, Keokuk county. one ad-
ditional route; area, twenty-seven square
miles; population, 4S2.
A summer postofice Will be opened June
2 at Beach, Dickinson county, Ia.
DR.. w. H. Emmons has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at DEBORAH, Ia.