Omaha daily bee., 1908-01-25
If Taken According to Program Edi.
tor Practically Assured of Place.
SUGGESTION OF POsTPoNEMENT
In that Event There is No Telling
What Might Be the Result
CHANCE FOR WIDOWS PENSIONS
Congressman Morris Believes Measure
WIN Pass This session Granting
One to All Regardless OF Any
other Conditions.
lFrom a sad correspondentl

CFrom Staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2L-(special Tele-
gram)-Unless there is a postponen,ent ct
the vote on the collectorship by the Ne
braska delegation, which meets tomorrow
at o'clock in Congressman Boyd's room,
Ross l.. Hammond OF Fremont will be Sc
lected to succeed Elmer II. Stephenson. The
change In temper of the delegation has been
largely brought, about by the presence OF
Mr.. Hammond in the city. Mr.. Hammond
has been making a personal canvass OF the
delegation and has really assumed charge
OF his campaign. Senator Burkett having
gone to New York yesterday and will not
return until tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Hammond. in talking over his candi-
daey. said that his labors for nearly thirty
years in behalf of the republican party Of
Nebraska ought to assure him his selection;
that he had taken occasion to ascertain the
wishes of leading republicans OF the state
regarding his candidacy and that 90 per
cent OF them were in favor OF his appoint
ment He said he came to Washington mote
for the purpose OF badgering the delegation,
but to see to It that the personal friendship
between the senators should not be broken
by reason OF his desire TO secure the in
ternal revenue collectorshp. As to the
outcome of the ballot tomorrow, Mr.. Ham
mond would not state, but the representa-
tive from the Third district, Judge Boyd.
stated the position for him when he auth
orized the prediction that Hammond would
receive q majority of the votes OF the dele
cation tomorrow,
view of One Congressman.
member of the Nebraska delegation
who has been regarded as against Ham
mond said today: ''If Hammond is selected
tomorrow 1t will be in spote of Burkett's
support of the Fremont editor" He depre
Gated that papers throughout the state had
taken the position that there was fight
between Brown and Burkett over the col
ectorship and that It ought to have been
considered a contest between two men,
Rose and HAMMOND, either OF whom were
entirely capable and well fitted for the
position. but that Hammond had been
longer IN the service Of the marty than Mr..
Rose. and that was the only cohSders-
ton which would guide the delegation IN
its deliberations tomorrow.
Tonight II looks like Hammond because
he has three votes certain and the fourth
vote in sight After an extremely careful
canvass The Bee correspondent has ascer-
tanned that Representative Hinshaw and
Norris will vote for the Fremont man to-
morrow in conjunction with Senator Bur
kett and Representative Boyd. which will
give him the necessary majority and the
endorsement of the delegation Brown,
Pollard and Kinkaid will vote for Rose.
This Is the situation tonight, but there
vs. some objection to giving Hammond the
endorsement while he is on the ground
upon the theory that It win look to the
public at large as IL he had whipped tho
men into line by his personal efforts and
adjournment may be taken for a week, or
as has been suggested. Dr. T.. ]: Marsh OF
Seward. may be brought out AS cand-
date. in which event Congressman Hin
shaw might find IT extremely embarrassing
to vote for Mr.. Hammond as now seems
more than likely he will do.
Senator Brown realizes the danger ot
Mr. Roses defeat and he will do every
thing he can to bring about the selection
Of his friend. but unless a postponcment
OF the vote can be had Hammonds e,ectioP
seems a forgone conclusion.
Mr. Hammond was guest today at lunch
con of Representatives Hnshaw and Boyd,
and later went to Fort Meyer TO witness
the riding Of squads of the Thirteenth
cavalry
PrOsneVt for widows Pensions.
Ccngr, IS an No ris. who 10 one Of
pensions 10 wiuuN.s ga goid-cis Of the WAY
with Mexico and the civil war said today
after Il conference with the commissioner
of pensions his deputies and tho law Off
Ger of the department that the prospects
for a general widows pension bill were en-
ceedlngly bright He did not say that mis-
bill would be takeh by the committee OF
invalid pensions for report, but he believed
such legislation would be enacted during
the present session of congress, ana II
necessary q committee bill would be re-
ported which would provide for the widows
of soldiers and that the law as now inter-
preted. namely that her husbands death
was the result Of his army service, would
be repealed. He said he had no pride Of
authorship regarding tho legislation de-
sired, his only aim being TO help put on
the statute books a measure which would
give the widow of a soldier the pension
which was her just due.
Minor Matters at Capital.
Paul Ewing Of Lincoln, Neb., has ben
appointed editorial clerk I'm the census Of
flee.
Rural free delivery routes ordered es-
tablished April Il Nebraska Stratton.
Hitchcock county, route !; population. iOO
families, ninety. Iowa. Gait Wright
county, route l. population, 900; families
sixty-four Oskaloosa. .Mahaska county,
route 4; population. 400 families, eighty
six. Wonstock Wright county, route 2;
population. 800; families, sixty -four,
Postmasters appointed: Iowa, Pioneer,
Humboldt county, Jens c. Jensen, vice II.
| NJ. Greiner. resigned. South Dakota. Hyde,
Jerald county, l.. w. Credlcr, vice II, j.
Scofield, resigned