Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-10
Conventions Yet to Be Held Will Add
Materially to His Strength.
NO OTHER CANDIDATE HAS SHOW
Senate After Debate Votes Down
Mothers Day Observance.
DEBATE IS WARM AT TIMES
House Committee on Monday to Take
Up the Pollard and other Forest
Reserve BIIIs--Aurora BOY
fer Annapolis.
From a staff Correspondent1

From a staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. May Especial Tele-
gram Representatives Of Secretary Taft's
interests for the presidency today issued
! the following bulletin:
| with California. Georgia. Louisiana,
Michigan, Montana North Dakota, Oregon
! Texas and Washington, as we'll as score
or more OF scattered districts, nearly ell
Of which will be instructed for Secretary
! Taft yet to hear from. the Ohio man is al.
| ready as good nominated. II none OF
| the conventions scheduled for next week
which entail the election of an additional
l2S delegates, should be held. yet Secretary
| Taft would have enough strength to nom
mate him on the first ballot at Chicago.
| There will be $50 delegates in that conven.
! tion; necessary to a choice. 4sl. The de-
veopments of this week swelled Taft's in
structed following TO a total of 454 dele
| gates The number OF INSTRUCTED dele
gates is III, and three-fourths of them IA
vor the nomination OF the secretary OF war.
| Although some seventy contestants have
! informally announced their intention of
! laying claim to seats to which Taft dele
gates have been elected, thus far only a
| dozen of them have formally submitted
! their claims to the republican national COM
mittee.
'Of the 124 delegates elected this week,
70 were Instructed for Taft and . for For-
aker, the others being unlnstructed. Among
the unistructsd are delegates from two New
York districts, as well the New Jersey
and Utah delegations, the latter. however
virtually pledging it's allegiance to Secre-
tary Taft Kentucky spoke decisively In
! Secretary Taft's favor, "a of the states Is
delegates being instructed for him, not
wthstandng bitter contests waged against
] him by Senator-elect Bradley. a contest
which resulted in defeating the aspirations
| OF the senator to represent his state as one
of the delegates -at-large. Connecticut and
/ Wyoming also fell in line for Secretary
! Taft, as well as scattering districts in
J North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Miehi-
: gan. Tennessee. Louisiana, South Carolina,
| Missouri and Arkansas
"This brings the total number Of dele
gates elected 10 So, with 12s yet to elect.
almost entirely In Taft strongholds. Pledged
to Taft. 454; unnstructed, III. Instructed
for other candidates 227, as follows: Can
non IS; Fairbanks. 80; La Toilette, Is,
Hughes. "a: Knox. So; Foraker, 2, Contests
Informally threatened a."
No Mothers Day for senate.
! Senator Burkett was frustrated In the
effort he made today to pass his resolution
introduced yesterday recognizing Sunday,
May 10. as Mothers day. The Nebraska
man ran afoul of Senator Gallinger, Senator
Teller and Senator Fulton. who hammered
the resolution until hardly anything re-
NAMED the senate, by vote OF % to IA.
sending the resolution to the judiciary COM
mittee, which practically means its death.
In explaining the resolution, Senator
/ Burkett said that 1t was introduced as a
J l..
by the Young Mems Christian association,
and he thought 1t mighty good thing to
| set apart day to recall the minds Of the
/ boys of this country to their mothers.
Senator Teller thought the resolution alb
surd and puerile. while Senator Fulton
thought It just as essential to have a
mother-in-laws' days and a day for sour
/ Uncles Cousins and Aunts.''
! Senator Teller, after a vote had been
taken. said that the serate had wasted
nearly an hour in consideration of resou-
! tlon (which should never have been brought
up"
I This led the senior senator from Nebraska
! to make a vigorous reply In which he de-
/ cared the senate might much better spend
| a few minutes in considering the subject of
/ Mothers day than TO spend day after day
! i'm wrangling over forest reserves and other
| features OF the agricultural bill Of little
| consequence to the country at large. II
! was his opinion that senators will see time
when they viii regret their action.
Aurora Boy for Annapolis.
Congressman Pollard today introduced
! a bin I'm behalf of Hudson and Graham OF
! Lincoln, reinstating a cash patent to one
| half section OF land on an Indian reserva-
tion in Wisconsin. which had been allotted
] ~
! daughter. the mother later marrying a
white man Alvin Muck commenced pro-
! ceedings against the white man. the secre-
/ tary OF the interior Withdrawing the land
! from settlement pending the investigation.
/ Later Muck seeured-title to the land under
| the timber and stone act, turning over the
! patent to Hudson and Graham for valu-
! able consideration. Some time after the
/ department held that the mother and
( daughter were entitled 10 the land be-
: cause they had one-eighth Indian blood in
( their veins Pollard's bill seeks to cancel
/ the allotment to Indians and relnstate the
+ cash patent for Hudson and Graham The
/ subcommittee Of the Indians affairs COM
mittee has agreed to report the measure.
! which will probably be taken care Of in
the omnibus Indian bill.
Consideration for Forest Bills.
r. a. Hail of Aurora. Neb., who was
! nominated by Senator Brown as midship-
man at Annapolis. has passed both his phy-
sical and mental examinations, and leaves
! for Nebraska today for a months leave
/ prior 10 beginning his studies at the Naval
! academy. Mr.. Hall took occasion today 10
| express his thanks to Senator Brown for
! his appointment.
The house committee on agriculture on
Monday viii take mp for consideration
bills introduced by Representatives Pol
lard. Weeks and LeveR all having tho
common purpose Of permitting the crea-
! tion Of forest reserves outside Of existing
| forests I'm order 10 conserve the waters
! OF navigab.e streams Representative
| Pollard today introduced an amended bill
upon this subject which will permit a
person whose property is endangered