Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-06
south Dakota Delegation Reaches Ru
Understanding on Number
of Contested Appoint
ments.
CFrom a STAFF Correspondent

Senator Mllard confirmed the statement
of his colleague as to the present situation
regarding the district attorneyship. you
may say for me-" said Senator Millard
that before l leave for the west, l shall
urge the president to reappolnt Mr.. Sum
mers. The only serious difference that has
occurred between Senator Dietrich and my
self, grows out of the district attorneyship
matter. l use word serious in the sense
of being set in our opinions. There could
not be any more pleasant relations exist
ing between two senators than exist be-
tween Senator Dietrich and myself. But
he is for Mr.. Lindsay and / am for Mr..
Summers. II the president should decide,
in view OF this division, to take the mat
ter in his own hands and make an appoint
ment, that is his right. He is the boss
and l don't propose to get into any quarrel
with the president My Impression is that
nothing will be done in the district attor-
neyship until fall and then It is just pos
sible that someone will be appointed at
present not even mentioned for the place.
or course you can hear all sorts of rumors,
but so far as an agreement between Sena-
tor Dietrich and myself having been reached
on the district attorneyship matter 1t Is
entirely outside Of the probabilities"
Urge Greene for Judge.
On MOuudy senators DleLrlCn ana MlildTu
will present to the president the Iame OF
Charles j. Greene of Omaha as a candidate
for a position on the bench of the Eighth
United States circuit, a position which is
shortly to be vacated by Judge Henry Clay
Caldwell, who is to retire on account Of
age. The two senators propose to urge
with all their power Mr.. Greene's appoint
ment In, addition to the active support of
the Nebraska senators, Mr.. Greene has the
strongest kind of endorsement, not only
from senators from other states, but from
lawyers and jurists throughout the country,
and an active and energetic campaign is TO
be made in his behalf.
Senator Millard left for New York to-
night, to return In time for the session
Of the senate on Monday.
Agree on Dakota Appointments.
The soutf Dakota delegation today set
| tied number OF very important contests
| for offices In that state. They decided to
recommend the appointment of John L.
Burke of Hot Springs for the receivership
at Rapid City, vice w. s. Warner, whose
| term expired on March 2. Mr.. Burke is at
present state senator from Fall River
| county. For assayer at Deadwood, the dele
| cation has agreed to recommend the ap-
| pointment of L. p. jenkins of Lead, at
| present state senator from Lawrence
county. Both Mr.. Jenkins and Mr.. Burke
| participated in the election of the present
senators from that state. The delegation
also settled an aggravating postof1ce fight
at Howard by agreeing to recommend Boyd
| Wales for that position. vice F. T. Hoard
I who was not an applicant for reappolnt-
ment. There were three applicants for the
| place-Boyd Wales, who has been agreed
| upon for appointment; Jacob Johnson and
| o. NJ. Osborn, the latter having been in
Washington a few days ago to personally
look after his candidacy. Mr.. Wales, the
successful candidate, was in the Philippines
with the First South Dskots.
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Greene, who have been
| in Washington to witness the closing ex>
| ercises of congress, will leave for Omaha
| tomorrow.
Golden Invitation.
| A solid gold invitation was presented to
| the president today to attend the national
mining congress to be held at Deadwood
and Lead next September Senators Kit
| tredge and Gamble and Representatives
Burke and Martin made the presentation
the latter being the representative of the
| Black Hills mining district. The invita-
tion was inscribed on an eighteen carat
gold plate three inches by ive and an eighth
I
ITO the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt
President OF the United States: The Black
Hills Mining Mems association beg to ex-
tend to you an invitation TO be its guest
during the session of the American mining
| congress- to be held in our twin cities of
Deadwood and Lead. South Dakota, Sep
| tember to H. 1903"
The gold plate was enclosed in a beau
tiful plush case, with a gold plate on
the outside inscribed;
Hon Theodore Roosevelt president Of
the United States"
Accompanying this invitation was one
from the American Mining congress itself.
| This was a written invitation, including
resolutions adopted by the congress. All
| was hand written In copper plate style on
parchment, with beautiful leather cover.
Representative Martin. who presented the
two invitations in a neat speech, recalled
that a similar invitation had once before
been presented to President Mckinley and
said: Gold is so abundant in our state
that we make many Of our own invitations
in this form"
The president expressed his pleasure at
the receipt of so beautiful an invitation and
at the honor done him by the Black Hills
Mining Mems association and by the Mining
congress. He did not know whether he
would be able to accept the invitation.
Routine of Departments.
Merrill c. Purvis OF West Liberty, Alvau
A. Hernback Of What Cheer, Charles Ream
OF Lamont, B. M. Skehl OF West Branch
Harvey J. Foster OF Knierm, Ia. were to-
day appointed railway mail clerks
E. f. Brooiser was appointed postmaster
at Pitzer. Madison county. Ia, vice Cor
nelius Vanstight. resigned.
Claude A. Patterson of Des Moines was
appointed stenographer and typewriter fl
the land once at Helena. Mont.
These Iowa rural free delivery letter car
riers we're appointed today Birmingham
John W. Hearn, Warren ID. Brown, reg
J ulars; Jay Deahl. Doeia II. Brown. substi,
tutes Carson, Lemuel H. Bolton, jerome
DoOlittle, regulars: Mrs Bolton. George
stephens substitutes. Corwith, James L
Oxley, regular; George II. Oxley substi
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