Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-24
fONTANELLES NOT PLEASED
Notify Millsrd aud Kennedy Appointment
Of GOss is Not Satisfactory,
BLACKBURN ONLY ONE TO THEIR LIKING
VI. A. Brown, Editor of f<earney Hub,
Lands the Postomce After n Long
and Bitter Fight-Two Job.
for Bullock.
From a Stan Correspondent.

(From Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-CSpecial Tcle
gram. THE Fontanelle club is not satisfied
with the nomination of Charles A. Goss to
be United States district attorney. Senator
Millard and Representative Kennedy are
In receipt of letters from members of that
organization voicng their opposition to Mr..
Goss selection They do not hesitate to say
I'm these letters that Mr.. Blackburn was
the choice of the Fontanelle club for Bag
ters succession. and that any selection out
side of the clubs recommendation would be
regarded as in opposition to the clubs poll
ICY or words to that effect. While the
gentlemen above mentioned regret that they
could not see their way clear to the selec-
tion of the person who received the endorse
ment Of that organization they still insist
that the nomination was the best that could
have been made in view of all the circum-
stances.
The nomination OF Mr.. Goss will not ne
! taken up by the Judiciary committee Of the
senate until next Monday. that being the
regular meeting day of the committee.
The committee on foreign affairs OF the
senate will consider the nomination of n.
r. Thompson of Lincoln to he ambassador
to Mexico at its weekly meeting tomorrow
and IL is expected that favorable report
on the nomination will be made To the sem
ate when it meets at noon. so that conhrlna-
/ ton may occur whenever the scnates goes
| into executive session.
| Brown Gets PostoHice.
| The selection Of NJ. A. Brown. editor of
the Kearney Huh. to be postmaster Of that
| city terminates an exceedingly bitter fight
which has been In progress for months
| past. NJ. A. Brown was candidate for
| the Kearney postoffice when Senator Thurs
| ton was senior senator from Nebraska and
Thurston wanted to appoint him, but
stronger and more potent influences were
at work and K O. Holmes present post
master and cousin Of the late Senator
| Mark Hanna. appointed Mr.. Brown.
| although somewhat crestfalen over his de-
feat, did not sulk in his tent. but kept up
his work for the republican party in the
Sixth district until he demonstrated that
while he was entitled to the place before
| he was entitled to the place now.
| While IT is not definit,iy known 1t is
| believed that Judge Kinkaid was for Brown
and prevailed upon the senators TO EN-
| dorse the editor of the Kearney Hub
On January 70 Mr.. Holmes commission ex-
pired and January % Mr.. Browns nomina-
tion to succeed Mr.. Holmes was sent to
the senate,
Bullock Retnins Old job.
| Captain Seth Bullock, formerly forest su-
pervsor OF the Black Hills forest reserve
and custodian of Wind Cave National park
I'm South Dakota, win on February be-
come United States marshal for South Da-
kota, Yesterday Secretary Hitchcock re-
quested Attorney General Moody TO per-
init Mr.. Bullock to continue as custodian
of Wind Cave National park and the at
| tOrneX general his
the request
Pension for Lincoln Man
Congressman Pollard was elated today
over securing a pension for 'Anson Rising
of Lincoln, who has had an applicati ton
for pension pending for six or eight
YEARS. When Mr.. Burkett was in the
lower house he saw the justice of securing
a pension for Mr., Rising and labored hard
to bring 1t about. Ex-Congressman Gil
bert g. Hitchcock also took up the matter
but with no result. When Mr.. Pollard
came TO congress one of the first claims
to impress itself upon him was that of
Mr.. Rising, and he began a systematic
inquiry into the reason why the application
had been turned down. Rising was mus
tering officer during the civil war; serving
in that capacity for some time. Then his
record stopped. No trace could be had
n.
Mr.. Pollard contended that until the War
department could substantiate what had
become of Rising during the war that to
all intents and purposes he was still on
the rolls of the department. With this
suggestion the pay vouchers of the army
were Investigated and It was ascertained
that Rising had been mustered into the
service and was member of the Six
teenth Kansas regiment; that after his
term as mastering officer he had been
: transferred to the secret service. on duty
in Nebraska under General Mitchell with
his record thus established it was easy &c
give him a pension of sl2 per month under
the law of 1880.
Proposal 10 Sell Lands.
Representative Kinkaid today introduced z
bill making II lawful for the commissioner
OF the general land office to order into tbs
market and sell for not less than 30 cent.
an acre any isolated tract of public do
main containing less than 800 acres which
, is or has been subject to entry as a home.
. stead under provisions OF an act to amend
the homestead law as TO certain unappro
, prlated and unreserved lands in Nebraska
, which in his judgment would be proper tC
) expose for sale" II is provided that moi
more than one tract Of $50 acres shall b,
: acquired by any one person
S Tax on Corporations.
2 Representative Pollard believes corpora
tions should pay a tax. Toda y he intro
E duced a bill the title of which is ITO re
/. quire all corporations engaged in commerc,
( with the several states. with the territories
I and With foreign nations. to secure ;
I license from the government and also I,
pay a license fee for the privilege of doin,
r business" This would yield revenue whicl
I. is much needed. II also provided in tn,
I bill, which is very long, that books OF sucl
3 corporations shall be open 10 inspection a
any time by accredited agents OF the gov
ernment, mainly TO ascertain the prope
amount to assess them. The license fe
| proposed to be imposed is set at bne-tentl
Of Of "a