Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-06-09
MATHEWSON CASE is NEXT
Iudian Office to Decide Soon Whether He is
Named Bonded Superintendent.
PRESENT POSITION ENDS JULY FIRST
william j. Carroll, Formerly Oi
Omaha, ia Buried at Washington
--ROutine Matters in the
Department.
From a Stan Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, June S.--(Special Tele-
Kram.)-W. A. Jones, commissioner of In
dian affairs, after nearly two months
absence from the department, superintend-
ing the opening Of bids for annual supplies
for the Indian service in Chicago and New
York, is again at his desk. During the
absence of Mr.. Jones there has been some
matters which have been held in allegiance
until his return, among them being the
question as to what disposition shall be
made of Agent Mathewson Of the Omaha
and Winnebago reservation. The last con-
gress failed to appropriate money for the
purpose of continuing this Indian agency,
and on July l Mr.. Mathewson will be out
OF job. unless Commissioner Jones and
Secretary Hitchcock should decide TO ap-
point him bonded superintendent Of Indian
schools at the Omaha and Winnebago
agency, a course which is, by the way, now
being seriously considered. Indian agents
who have been legislated out of their posi-
tions by failure of congress to appropriate
money to pay their salaries have in many
other instances been appointed bonded"
school superintendents at salaries almost
as good as that which they formerly re-
ceived. Commissioner Jones said today that
he would take up the Mathewson case with
the secretary of the interior this week, and
1t is expected that almost any day con-
clusion may be announced.
Former Nebrnskan Buried.
Funeral services over the remains of
William ]. Carroll, formerly of Omaha
were held this afternoon in the chapel Of
the undertaking establishment of William
j. Lee, and interment was at Rock Creek
cemetery. A number of Nebraska friends
of the deceased were present at the inter-
ment, ex-senator Thurston, with whom
Mr.. Carroll had been associated during
former years. being among the number.
Frank H. Broadheld of Omaha has been
visiting the capital for several days upon
pleasure bent. and left tonight for Phila-
delphia, and goes thence to New York upon
business prior to his return to Omaha
Boom for Taft.
There is a quiet movement on foot to
make Governor Taft governor of the Phil
ipplne islands, the vice presidential eandi-
date with Theodore Roosevelt. Just how
far this movement has progressed cannot
be determined but his name was upon the
lips of men in Washington today who
make candidates for presidential offices
It now transpires that the opposition to
endorsing President Roosevelt at the time
on the part of the senior senator from
Ohio was only a ruse to hold the Ohio
convention unbound to any candidate until
after Governor Tafts name had been pre-
sented formally as vice presidential can
didate. The activity, however, Of Mr.
Roosevelt's partisans In Ohio in insisting
upon an endorsement of his adminlstra-
ton and further insisting upon endorsing
him for the presidential nomination of 1904
brought about a change in the program
Governor Taft. however, lis being seriously
groomed for the vice presidency and it IL
understood he has back of him many OF
the astute politicians OF the Buckeyt
state
To those who know Judge Taft there
will be much wonderment that he would
accept the vice presidency, in view of his
ability and his comparative youth. But
more and more are the great parties look
ing to a vice president who will have al
the qualifications for president should oc
casion arise that the vice president would
be called upon to 1ll the highest office II
| the government. Whether Judge Taft ha!
any aspirations for the vice presidential
Office is not known In Washington. Hi
| nomination, however, would be but re
versai of conditions which obtained in 1900
| The president at that time came from
| Ohio the vice president from New York