Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-19
Contest Waged, With District Attor.
neyship the Storm Center.
HARLAN CALLS ON PRESIDENT
Nebraskan Has Controversy on Tap
With Governor of Alaska.
INDIANS COMING HOME
Proposal to Take Portion Of trust
Funds of the Ute Indian Tribe to
Assist the RenegRdes Now
I'm sioux County,
(From a stan Correspondents

WASHINGTON, Dec, lS.-(special Tel
! gram EVERY appointment made during
| the present. session OF congress affecting
! South Dakota will go over until after the
holidays. Senator Gamble saw the presi-
| dent this morning, ostensibly for the pur-
pose Of presenting the compliments OF the
season to him, as he leaves for South Da-
kota Friday, but during his interview poll
ties were talked and a line OF procedure
relative to appointments now pending be-
| fore the committees OF the senate for con-
| frmation undoubtedly was agreed to. OF
this. however. Senator Gamble would not
speak, knowing that his friend, Mr.. weg-
ner. is held up by Senator Kttredge who
will not permit wagner's confirmation IL
/ he can prevent It.
In all the country there is no more In
! teresting fight between factions of the
same party than South Dakota presents
! and the result will be watched with in
tense interest, for it possibly means the
! undoing of Senator Kittredge should he
/ lose out in this contest and the possible
election of Governor Coe l. Crawford as
! his successor. Diplomacy has ceased to
be a factor in the solution of federal ap-
| pointments and open warfare has been de-
clared on both sides,
Harlan Has Fight ON Hands.
]
Ian of Nebraska United States attorney
for Alaska, to the president today. There
/ is a fight on between the governor of
! Alaska, W. b. Hoggatt, and Judge Har-
I Ian Harlan is a bitter enemy of Gov
! ernor Hoggatt and called at the White
House today to have his say first. The
governor, it is hnted. intends to file
| charges against Harlan, because the latter
| failed to break up gambling joints at Val
! dez.
All other towns have gone good" that
! is TO say. have shut up open gambling
houses. Valdez is still wide open. District
! Attorney Harlan is a candidate for the
vacant judgeshlp in Alaska. He probably
will not get It II Governor Hpggatt has
any Influence with the administration.
/ When asked IL he had told the pFsident
/ that rlrnors regarding his vice presidential
/ bee were wholly untrue Mr.. Burkett re-
/ piled by saying that politics was not even
talked OF and he certainly would not tell
the president about something which had
neither foundation or color.
Job for Newspaper Man.
Senator Brown has appointed Frank Ed
! gerton of the Lincoln star to position
with his new committee. Mr. Edgerton was
formerly principal Of the Frc mont High
| school and is a University of Nebraska
graduate.
once with Small Pay.
| CONGRESSMAN Hinshaw has recommended
the appointment Of Joseph w. Vrana as
postmaster at Edholn, Butler county. This
office pays I'm the nelghborhood Of sll5 per
year, but has been sought after with as
much enthusiasm as If 1t paid $500 1t Is
one of those offices where the postmaster
( gets tired Of doing the work in about sixty
days and another recommendation must
| be made
Indians Ready TO Come Home.
! Senator Burkett today introduced in the
senate a bill submitted 10 the house several
days ago by CONGRESSMAN Boyd, TO take
| the place of a bill introduced by him in
the early DAYS Of the present session,
authorizing the Omaha tribe Of Indians to
submit their claims for redress to tho
/ United States court Of claims. This action
/ grew out of a conference held with the
! delegation OF Omahas yesterday afternoon.
The commissioner OF Indian affairs has
| allowed the expenses OF the Omaha Indian
delegation and concluded negotiations with
I them today and they Will start for home
/ tomorrow.
Thomas Sloan, one Of the attorneys for
| the Omaha tribe Of Indians. in explaining
the bin introduced by Senator Burkett to-
day said the bill Of Congressman Boyd
was less objectionable than the bill intro
! duced last year, for the reason that the
! former bin recognized a contract that had
not been approved by the secretary of the
interior. This feature was stricken out
! by Congressman Boyd and after the con-
| ference held yesterday by the delegation OF
| Omaha Indians and their attorneys with
Senators Burkett and Brown and Congress
man Boyd It was thought best 10 free
the bill of all its Objectionable features
and offer a measure that would receive the
support of congress, hence the senator's
new bill conforming 10 one introduced by
Mr. Boyd
Mr. Sloan will go TO Hampton, Va, 10
visit the school from which he graduated
before returning TO Nebraska.
Congressman Boyd has introduced a pri-
vate pension bill for Henry Kennedy OF
Norfolk for $50 per month.
Funds TO Ala UteH.
Secretary Garfield of the Interior depart
ment sent to the senate today the draft
OF a bill TO authorize him to use trust
funds for the maintenance Of the Utes
who decamped from their reservation in
! Utah during. the winter OF 1906 and were
made captives by United States troops,
held at Fort Meade and afterward located
on the Cheyenne river agency in South
! Dakota.
| In order to relieve any possible distress
among these Ute Indians Secretary Gar
field suggests the following item be placed
in the urgent deficiency bill:
THE commissioner Of Indian affalrs is
hereby authorized and directed to eXpend
80 much Of the trust funds OF the Ute IN
dians now in the United States treasury
as I'm his judgment may be necessary 70
prevent want and suffering among the ab-
/ sentce Utes, and the amount 50 expended
! for each individual absentee shall be made
a matter OF record to be charged against
and deducted from the share said absentee
may he entitled 10 receive when the trust
funds Of the Utes are allotted and dis