Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-01
KlNRAID FILES COMPLAINT
Insists Interior Department is Too Rigid in
CONSUMING Homestead Law,
ALSO OBJECTS TO RULING ON DITCH
Indications He VIII Secure what He
Asks for In behalf of settlers
President Dimes with
Senator warren.
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From a stan Correspondent
! WARRINGTON. June sO.-(speciai Tele-
gram )-Congressman Kinkaid, prior TO his
departure for home, had a conference with
the president and the acting secretary OF
the Interior in relation to the administra-
ton OF the so-called Kinkaid land act in
Nebraska, urging more liberal construc-
ton Of its provisions. There had been many
complaints made by entrymen Of demands
on the part Of special officers Of the gov
eminent concerning Improvements and con-
slant residence on the property. etc TIE
special land ONCE agents have even gone
SO far as to threaten entrymen that II more
| improvements are not made and more rigid
residence observed that their entries would
be cancelled, and they have been led to
believe that the law has been modified
or changed, making these demands lawful
Against the course of the special agents
Mr.. kinkaid has entered a most emphatic
remonstrance. man by the name Of
Devries, connected with the land ONCE
made himself exceedingly obnoxious to the
people of the Sixth district so that his
removal became absolutely necessary. Now
that Mr. Kinkaid has entered his protest
and Devriesl has been removed there are
hopes for better treatment.
Object TO Reducing Claims.
Another subject which Congressman Kin
kaid has taken up with Secretary Hitch
cock and the officers of the reclamation
service is the intention Of the reclamation
service to reduce homestead entries from
$50 acres to 80 acres on the Pathfinder
ditch in SCOTS Bluff county The policy
of the reclamation ONCE to make this re-
duction was announced some time ago.
Judge Kinkaid. however. has dissented
most vigorously to this policy on the ground
that entrymen have an equitable right
TO their holdings held intact because the
Alliance land officials accepted their filings
on 100 acres. The settlers FAY they will quit
II their holdings are reduced and 1t would
SEEM, therefore, that the reclama ton peo-
pie are up against hard proposition.
President Dimes with Warren.
President Roosevelt took luncheon this
afternoon in the senate committee room on
military affairs. II occurred during recess,
when the senate was waiting for the con-
ference report on the public buildings bill,
1t was an informal affair rendered by
Senator Warren. who summoned his guests
by messenger The president, prior to the
recess, was in the presidents room. The
function. while highly pleasing. was simple
and informal to a degree. There were light
refreshments brought from the senate res
taurant. The president sat at the end OF
the table. Senator Warren on his left,
Senator Blackburn on the right, Secretary
Root. Senator Millard Attorney General
Moody, Mr.. Bennett, secretary of the
senate, on the other side of the table
Next to Senator Warren, sat Senator Gull
lum, Senator Clapp. Mr.. Bacon assistant
of afa
Private Secretary William Loeb.
One OF the guests said that the president
was in a most tovlal mood, expressing the
keenest satisfaction upon the great work
accomplished by the closing session and
congratulating himself upon the fact that
he would be permitted soon to depart for
Oyster Bay. .-a
Bill to Protect Tobacco Users.
Congressman Kennedy OF Nebraska intro
duced a bill today to re-establish the
weights in which manufactured tobacco
and snuff shall be put up in packages for
sale. 1t provides in detail for the size Of
packages of snuff and all kinds OF chew
ing and smoking tobacco and requires them
70 be put up according to the provisions of
the bill. The supposition is that when the
Spanish war tax was levied the manu-
facturers OF tobacco and snuff reduced the
size OF the packages TO consumers to meet
the burden Of taxation, and when the war
tax was repealed the size Of packages was
not increased to the old standard.
Willard Starts for Home.
Senator Willard left Washington tonight
for Omaha. Tomorrow morning Senator
Burkett will start west. Senator Burkett
has accepted an invitation to deliver an
address to the citizens of Appleton, Wis,
July 4, and will fulnn that date before
reaching Lincoln.
Minor Matters at Capital.
George Toby, private secretary to SEN
ator Burkett and wife leave with the Sen
ator tomorrow and will proceed direct to
Lincoln.
Senator Gamble during the last hours OF
congress secured the passage through the
senate Of a bill appropriating 100000 for
a site and the erection thereon of public
building at Huron, s. d. This is merely an
entering wedge. as the bill will have TO be
called up in the house next session and
passed to become a law.
Senator Gamble, his son Ralph, a student
at Princeton; Coe I. Crawford, J. D. Ell
lott, Colonel Parker and W. c. Cook leave
Washington tomorrow at noon for their re-
speetive homes In South Dakota.
Senator Kittredge expects TO clear UP his
business here in a few days and start for
home.
The following have been appointed rail-
way clerks George A. Johnson, Central
City, L. NJ. swartE. Harvard: A. c.
Doland, Long Pine; c. T. Leigh, Nebraska
City; II. f. Hooper Clarks.