Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-07
PRESIDENT is BIC HEARTED
Prayer of Dying Wife Stronger with Him
Than the LAWS Teohnioalities.
PRISONER ALLOWED TO GO TO BEDSIDE
Attorney General Could Find No Law
for IL, but the PrOmptinEs of
Warm Heart Sees a way and
Accepts Responsibility.
CFrom a stan Correspondent

From a Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. April G.-(Special Tele- |
m.)-That President Roosevelt showed /
himself today a man of most generous inn |
pulses is the opinion Of Representative Hin |
shaw but MS for the presidents secretary
Mr., Loeb, the congressman from tho Fourth /
Nebraska district is by no means as GER
tain Some weeks ago Rev Mr.. Ware was
convicted Of frauds in connection with /
western Nebraska lands He was tried in |
Omaha and sentenced to the penitentiary. |
Ware had a number of agents working for !
min in procuring old soldiers to make ap- |
plication for homestead entries. Among |
these agents was Harry welch of Daven- !
port, Neb. Welch pleaded guilty and was
/ sentenced to six months Imprisonment in /
the Douglas county Jail and fined $500. /
Welch has now served three months Of the !
sentence
| Believing that welch was really ignorant
Of the law large petition has been signed !
by citizens of Davenport and vicinity re-
questing the president to pardon Welch, |
which petition MIR. Hnshaw presented to
the president, but Mr.. Roosevelt refused
to act
| Last night Mr.. IIinshaw received teie- |
gram from Welch stating that his wife was
in dying condition in a hospital in st.
Joseph, Mo, and stating he had mado APP
plcation TO the district attorney to be per-
| mitted to go to st. Joseph under guard to
see his wife This prayer OF Welch's had
| been referred to Attorney General Moody, |
who refused the application on the ground
that there was no law to authorize it,
President Acts Promptly.
This morning Congressman Hinshaw re-
celved a telegram from District Attorney
Goss saying that at his instance the police
of st. Joseph had investigated the case and
had ascertained that welch's wife was IA
tally i'll and that she was asking in heart
rending tones for her husband and that the
doctor in attendance strongly advised his
coming
With these two kilograms in his pos
| session, Mr.. Hinshaw was at the White
House at o'clock to the president,
but Mr.. Loeb said MIR. Roosevelt could
not be seen before 0:SO. He told the pres
idents secretary of the extreme import
ance of the case, but Mr.. Loeb said it was
| impossible to forego the rule.
At 9:15 the president entered and. possl-
bly, having an inkling of the contents of
the kilograms. Mr.. Hinshaw at once.
He read them and then. in his impetuous
manner, wrote across the last telegram
to Attorney General Moody to have the
request of Welch granted Immediately,
and inside of thirty minutes from the time
Mr.. Hinshaw saw the president the fol-
lowing telegram was speeding From Mr..
4 Moody to Marshal Warner .--sAaii j
Under authority OF president you are di-
rected to send prisoner Welch Immediately
under proper guard to st. Joseph, Mo, to
| see his wife, now fatally Ill.
| / will take the consequences for my act"
was all the comment the president made
to Mr.. Hnshaw as the latter caught car
riage for the Department of Justice.
Grand Island Wants Building.
The Nebraska delegation in the house
today received resolutions from Grand
Island asking them to use all means to
expedite the passage OF the bill providing
for a public building at that place. That
! in view of the increase in postal business
and receipts, coupled with the fact that
in the city is located a United States
deputy internal revenue collector, United
States postoffice inspector, United States
commissioner, United States referee in
bankruptcy, United States recruiting sta
tion, United States sheep Inspector and
in the near future exigencies will COM
pei a session of the United States court
when a two-story building will be needed
N;HSs Matters at Capital.
Senator BurkeISSc bill providing for a
public building az P,attsmouth passed the
senate today.
Senators Mlllard and Burkett today rec
commended the reappointment of Patrick
NJ Mullen to be receiver of the land office
81 Juneau Alaska. Pat" Mullen, as his
irtimates speak OF him, was appointed re-
cefver OF the land Office at Juneau some
-four years ago and he likes il so we'll that
he importuned his Omaha friends to secure
n reappointment.
The Blair postoffice fight is settled, the
senate this afternoon confirming the nom-
nation Of Wesley ]. Cooke to fiji out an
other term as postmaster of that city.
Representative Norris has secured a
pension of S12 per month for James Giles
pie. Home, Neb.
Upon the recommendation of Congress-
man Smith DR.. c. L. Kennedy was ap-
Logan. Ia, vice Dr. Josiah Giddings, de-
ceased.
Senator Miuard left -sS.s evening for
A W. wOoaroash and wifS of Omaha
arrived in Washington today.
PestRI Mattera.
Rural carriers appointed Cor Nebraska
routes: Adavs. route 3, George f. Why
, man, carrier; Anna Whyman, substitute
Bennett. route, /, Daniel M. Hartley, car
rier; Samuel +. Chambers. substitute:
Burchard, route 3, Leslie c. Hochstedler,
carrier; Roy Hochstedler, substitute. Ce-
dar Rapids. route 3, Byron II. Smith, car
rier Radford II. Smith. substitute. Hamp-
ton route ., John II. Dixon, carrier; VIII
! Cattron, substitute. Nehawlxa route T.
. Charles d. Kain, carrier; John w. Kahn,
substitute. Schuyler, route 3, Blaine Woods
carrier; Fred Woods. substitute swanton.
route l. Charles l.. Murphy, carrier; Bert
| f. Roscoe substitute. Washington route
/, Colin ID. Sharpe, carrier; Andrew L. And
erson, substitute. Wayne, route 3 Roy n
Tharp carrier; Alexander Scott. substi-
tute Oak. route /. John w. Perce, carrier;
William s. Price, substitute.
WEIGH GOES TO WIFE's BEDSIDE