Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-15
Distribution Of Money to Winnebagt
Indians is Another.
CONFEREEs CANNOT BE MOVED
Hearing on Railroad Case in Supreme
Court on Monday.
EXPERIMENTS IN IRRIGATION
This state 90 Get Its share OF Hum
dred aud Fifty Thousand Dollars
Appropriated for the
Purpose.
frror a staff Correspondent.)

WASHINGTON, March 14.-(Special
Telegram. I'm the agreement reached BY
the conferees on the Indian appropria'
tion bill, Omaha and Nebraska suffered
severely, the house conferees, or at least
a majority Of them, failing to stand By
the senate amendments as they hao
promised the members Of the Nebraska
delegation. In other words. they stood
by their chairman and voted with him on
all matters Of difference between the tive
houses In the report made yesterday
! to the two bodies the senate receded
from its amendment appropriating $780,
0O0 for the Indian supply depot building
at Omaha, while the house recedes from
its objection to the word hereafter In
the general appropriation for Indian sup
ply depots at Omaha. Chicago. New York,
! St Louis and San Francisco. With this
word included in the present appropria~
tion bill there will be no necessity or
the part Of the Nebraska delegation. ane
particularly on the part of the member
from the Second district. to tear around
and expend much gray matter on secur.
ing the annual appropriation for the
Omaha depot because the little WORD
hereafter" inserted in the Indian appro'
priation bill makes the appropriation OF
$4,000 continuing.
/ Nebraska lost out in it's effort TO cap
itallze the Winnebago fund, or, in othei
words to have nearly 100000 now IL
| the United States treasury TO the credit
of the winnebago tribe of Indians dis
tributed per capita to those entitled to
it. which the Burkett amendment in the
senate contemplated. The house con-
ferees stood like a stonewall against the
acceptance of the amendment and as 9
result the senate receded. notwithstand.
| -
has gone on record in favor OF the cap.
italization of the wlnnebago fund.
Railroad Case Monday.
Attorney w. p Thompson and his deputy.
w. B. Rose. arrived in Washington today.
On Monday the case of the state OF Me-
braska against the railroads on mandamus
proceedings will be argued by agreement
OF counsel The case is the first on the
call and viii be taken up Immediately after
| the handing down OF opinions. Attorney
General Thompson will on Monday morn
ing file an official brief in the case upon
which it is hoped TO secure an order upon
the judges of the federal court OF Ne
braska to remand the suit Of the state OF
Nebraska against the Burlington and other
railroads to the supreme court OF the state
for argument Mr.. Thompson and Mr..
Rose are guests at the Raleigh.
! south Dakota for Taft.
Senator Gamble told the president this
morning that when the republican state
convention of South Dakota meets April
Z every delegate from the state will be
instructed for Taft. I'VE elect all our del
egates-at-large." he said. Both factions
in the state convention will be for Taft
county caucuses for delegates having
shown that there is no opposition to him
Experiments I'm IrriEat tiOn.
The agricultural appropriation bill re
ported to the house on March II containl
an item for sl5o.OOO for irrigation ano
drainage work to be carried on by the
office OF experiment stations. This is .
continuation os work along the same line
which has been carried on for the last
ten years in fhe western states. During
most Of this time part of the appropriation
has bsen expended in Nebraska, the work
Of the last season being a study OF irriga-
tion In the North Platte valley and an ex.
pertinent in the use of tile drains in CON
nection with irrigation at Lexington. This
work has been under the direct charge OF
Prof o. V. P. Stout OF the State 1niver-
sity. and the present bill. II it becomes
law, will allow a continuation OF thess
studies. A large part OF the work for thS
present year throughout the west Will be
the cOllecllOn ana puDlCdAlOn OF pFactical
Information for beginners in irrigation.
This will be of special interest 10 Ne
braska on account Of the largo areas be-
ing brought under irrigation in the North
Platte valley and elsewhere.
Minor Matters at Capital.
Congressman Kinkaid has recommended
the appointment OF Effie Forbes as posi-
mistress at Andrews and c. c. Lee at
I1ecla.
Arthur II. Gehrke OF Omaha. Jesse l.
Jackson OF South Omaha. Randolph +.
sprsgue OF Lincoln. II NJ Zahn Of Peru
and Albert r May Of York. Neb. have
been appointed railway mail clerks.
Rural free delivery carriers appointed:
Nebraska-Lyons. route l. Wilbur s. Stauf-
fer. carrier; Miles stauffer. substitute
Iowa -Eldon, route ?. 'Justus c. Pearson.
carrier; Harry c. Pearson, substitute
FWoodstock. route ?. Ell Baker. carrier;
Robert Morgan. substitute. South Dakota
Gregory, route 1! Charles T. Dunkelberger.
"a rrfer- Iohn II Lester subsffftffa