Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-09
MILLARD HERE ON BUSINESS
Senator Says His Present Visit Has No
Political Significance
N HANDS OF HIS FRIENDS ON sENAToRsHI
VIII Not say Now n He is q
Candidate for a second Term,
but Talks of the work
of Congress.

Senator Mnlard returned Sunday morning
from Washington to remain until THURSDAY
in Omaha. He was called from busy
congressional session 10 attend to some
pressing personal business here. Ho IS
I'm excellent health and apparently has en-
joysd his winter at the capital This will
be his last trip home until along I'm May.
when he thinks congress will adjourn. The
senator was asked II he had come TO a de-
cision whether he would be a candidate for
second senatorial term.
Il can't say that ] have" no responded.
II am in the hands OF my friends. I have
had little time to think of politics during
the last few months and there is no politics
connected with this visit home. I observe
that there is no scarcity Of senatorial can
didates, however. Apparently the state is
going to have a large field to pick from.
l will not have any definite announcement
to make regarding my own course while
here
Two Reports on the Canal.
the committee on interoceanic canals
has been having it's hands full. We expect
to make report within three weeks con-
cerning recommendations as between a sea
level and a lock canal. l think the COM
mittee will be divided and that a report
favoring each plan will be presented, but
l am inclined to believe that a majority
will favor the sea-level canal which is in
consonance with the ideas of the president
the secretary of war and the canal COM
mission. Personally prefer the sea-level
canal as l believe the large expenditure
necessary to build any kind of a waterway
across the isthmus is so great that the
best job possible should be made Of it II
1t is to be dug at all. We should have a
passage capable of admitting the very
largest ships il will be called upon TO
serve. The committee probably WIN re-
port as TO the canal zone government legis-
lation week from Monday May 1 the
present status there will cease to exist in
a large part owing to the expiration Of
prior legislation. The general plan will be
along the lines already adopted, with ad-
ditions and some changes in detail.
Some Sort of Rate Bill.
Undoubtedly the senate will pass some
kind of railway rate regulation bill before
1t adtourns II is by no means certain that
court review amendment will be tackled
on, either Still this may be a feature in
order to insure the legality of the meas
ure In the opinion of senators. We are to
have rate bill, however, that is certain.
Senator Elkins, who was opposed to rate
legislation. now seems to be out t-Heroding
Herod in favor of It.
There is little possibility of the leasing
bill passing. The people who want It in
different sections seem unable to agree
upon the provisions Of the proposed law.
For this reason doubt that anything OF
the kind will succeed.
---- BIal 81. BeneHt 0naha
Congressman Kennedy and myself are
using our best endeavors to get a military
warehouse located at Omaha in connection
with the Indian supply depot. There are
seven in the United States and this would
be the eighth. There is almost enough
room at the Indian warehouse site for 1t,
hut some additional ground is needed and
the owner has been holding It at a price
so high that I have hesitated in asking
the government to buy 1t. The bill intro
duced asks for total appropriation OF
100000. look to see it passed by next
winter at the latest.
1T appears TO me as though there were
plenty of politics in Omaha and the state
right now. Locally l can't see any rea-
son why Mr.. Benson should not be elected
mayor. The other fellows had a chance
and were beaten and II seems to me as
though the defeated factions should lay
down their arms and present a united front
on election day."