Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-08
HALE SUCCEEDS PHILLIPS
Son Of Senator Will Be Named Third
Assistant Secretary Of State.
PHILLIPS WILL GO TO LONDON
MT. Phillips Succeeds John n. Carter
~ Secretary of the Embassy
More suits TO GOV
Lands.

WASHINGTON, oct. L~-Chandlar Hale
OF Maine. son Of Senator Hale, has been
selected as third assistant secretary Of
state. TO succeed William Phirips Of
Boston, who will become secretary Of the
American embassy at London, succeeding
John r. Carter. Mr.. Carter will be APP
pointed minister to Roumania.
Mr.. Hale Is SO years of age. He served
as assistant secretary Of the American
delegation to the Intei national bi-metaIlic
conference held at Brussels in 1882: as
secretary of the American embassy at
Rome in 1897; as secretary Of legation at
Vienna in 1901 and 1902; as secretary of en-
bassy at Vienna from 1902 until 1906. and
as secretary of the American delegation to
the second peace conference at The Hague
in 1907.
Mr.. Phillip is 30 years Of age: graduated
from Harvard in 1900. and attended the
Harvard law school for two and : half
years. He served as private secretary to
the American ambassador to Great Britain
for two years and was appointed second
secretary OF the legation at Picking in
March, 1906; was transferred to the Depart
ment Of State as assistant to the third as
sisant secretary on far eastern affairs in
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secretary Of state in January, 1909.
Suits to Lands.
1t is probable that additional suits will
be brought by the Department of Justice
against these persons, who by various
means secured from members of the five
civilized tribes, Indian lands that under
the federal governments contention could
not be alienated.
The suits already brought involve large
areas of valuable lands, which the govern
ment proposes to recover to the Indians
and establish a clear title. These cases
have been advanced for a hearing In the
United States circuit court OF appeals on
December 8, and 1t is now likely that suits
will be instituted along the same lines, but
covering further transactions and embrac.
ing 1900 additional tracts varying from ten
to 1900 acres each. These cases are to be
fought along the same lines as those to be
heard in December.
In the cases already brought the United
States court in Oklahoma recently decided
that any right Of suit rested in the Indian
allottee instead of in the United States, as
the Indians had been made citizens and
were no longer the wards of the nation
The government, through Assistant At
torney General Russell, appealed, and the
brief in support of that appeal, which will
shortly be filed, win contend that guardian
ship is not Incompatible with citizenship.
Aid for Stranded Party.
The 100 men and women taken to Nome,
Alaska, by the Alaskan Development and
Investment company to work in its plant,
and now left stranded with their seasons
wages unpaid, will be brought home on the
revenue cutter Bear.
This was assured in a message received
at the Treasury department today from
Captain william v. f. Jacobs OF the reve-
nue. cutter service at Nome, saying he had
located the Bear at sea and had delivered
the governments message to transport the
destitute Americans to Seattle from Nome.
Captain Berthold of the Bear also notified
the Treasury department that he would
leave Nome for Seattle tomorrow.
The Bear has been cruising around the
Pribilof stands in the Behring Sea watch
ing particularly for seal poachers.
80 p Spier Appointed Secretary.
L. NJ. Spier of Boston was today APP
pointed executive secretary of the new
tariff board. Mr.. Spier came here with
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Rey-
nolds four and one half years ago and has
been intimately associated with the Off
clal duties of Mr.. Reynolds office ever
since.