Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-05-19
WICKERSHAM
HAS OPEN MIND
Attorney General Consents to Have
Friendly Suit on Bleached
Flour Ruling.
SENATOR BROWN INTERMEDIARY
Shipment Will Be Made to Omaha and
Seized by Officials.
OMAHA, ATTORNEYS CALLED IN
Smith & Smyth to Have Conference
with Wickersham.
NEBRASKA MILLERs GET A SHOW
Latest Development Concerning secre-
tary wilson's Ruling on Bleached
Flour Considered Feather
in Browns Cap.
Shipment Will Be Made to Omaha and
Seized by Officials.
dAHA ATTORNEYS CALLED IN
Smith & Smyth to Have Conference
with Wickersham.
NEBRASKA MILLERs GET A SHOW
tFrom a staff correrponaeni. !,

(From a STAFF Correspondent)
WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Norris
Brown, who with his colleague has taken
great interest In the order OF the secretary
Of agriculture prohibiting bleaching OF
flour by the electrical process. which order,
II carried to conclusion. means serious
loss to the millers OF Nebraska had a lang
conference today with Attorney General
Wickersham looking to a genuine suit to
try out this very much debated question
whether the government has power to
make the order II did forbidding the ship
ment of beacheG flour, and whether II
amounts to an adulteration, as held by Dr.
Wiley, chief of the chemistry division of the
Agricultural department. to bleach IT,
After the conference Il was decided on
the part of the government that test cases
should be made of Secretary wilson's
bleached flour order, and to this end an
interstate shipment Of flour will be made,
consigned to Omaha parties, where the
government will seize the same and a case
in equity be begun in the Eighth circuit
before Judge Munger
Upon the first question. which is one of
law, whether the government has power
to make the order 1t did, forbiddlng ship
ments, the attorneys for the mlllers. Smith
Smith of Omaha, have been called to
Washington by telegraph to have a confer
ence with the Department of Justice On
the second question. whether bleaching
flour amounts to adulteratlun, experts will
be called to testify in order that the entire
question may be put in tangible shape for
review by higher court.
The agreement reachad ~ a. ,,,a,, - -
called, between Attorney General wicker
sham and Senator Brown, is a distinctive
triumph for the Junior senator from Me-
braska. While it decides no question what
soever, the fact that the attorney general
is open to conviction will bring encourage
ment to hundreds of millers, not only of
Nebraska, but of Iowa and Kansas as
well, VINO have been bleachins winter wheat
flour for many years and whose output
| has been accepted by millions OF consumers
as being equal to the output OF northern
mills using spring wheat
Omaha Indian Troubles.
John H. Commons. agent at the Omaha
Indian agency will have to answer some
very pertinent questions, which NAV
| amount to charges, IL Thomas @. Sloane
of the Omaha tribe OF Indians and a we'll
known lawyer In Thurston county can
get hearing before the commissioner Of
Indian affairs. Sloane is in Washington
and today saw Assistant Commissioner OF
| Indian Affairs Ballantyne with relation to
the Issuance of patents to Omaha Indians
entitled to same, some 1900 In number.
and involving approximately 10000 acres
of land in Thurston county.
| Between Sloane and some of the oIder
men of the Omaha tribe and the Indian
office there is a decided difference as to
when these patents to omaha Indians
| should issue. Patents were granted the
| Omahas to run for period of twenty-five
years, the law providing that: Patents
shall be in legal effect ana declare that
| the United States does and will hold land
thus allotted in trust for a period Of twen-
ty-five years for the sole use and benefit
of allottee, or, in case of his decease, of
his heirs, according to the laws OF Ne
| braska."
Under a decision OF the Indian office
probably these patents in fee are to be is
sued on July 10 being the date OF ap-
proval Of alotments by the secretary OF
the interior, but Sloane and others OF the
Omaha tribe insist that patents should
not issue until December 20, which Ia the
date OF the patents themselves In view OF
his discrepancy It is understood in Wash
ington that SPECTATORS are abroad at this
Omaha agency. negotiating with Indians
who will receive their patents in fee for
lease purposes or for purchase Of the lands
outright. and II has become so notorious
that something must be done TO protec,
the Indians against the rapacity OF the
white men in that section.
Tax, Rolls 10 he Fattened.
Probably the biggest thing that ever hal
happened to Thurston county will be tho
issuance of fee patents covering 5000
acres TO Indian allottees. for the moment
the patents are issued II will mean thai
that number of acres will become taxabls
for both county and state purposes. and
therefore increase the exchequer Of Thurs
ton county vsry considerably. heretofore
the Indians have been exempt OF taxes
They have enjoyed all the advantages o
district schools, Improvement Of roads and
bridges and good county government with
out paying a cent for these Advantages
but under the new condition OF things thei
lands. like the lands OF everv other citizen
will be taxed rroportionately to bear th'
burdens Of county and state government.
Mr. Sloane came TO Washington prlnaril,
20 secure the enrolment Of number o
children of Julia Grandsinger and Johi
Didier Of Pender Myrtle Last OF Richard
son county and Mary Deroin OF Brown
county Kansas, as members OF the Rose
bud Sioux tribe. Under a recent order o
Secretary Ballenger the persons name,
above were enrolled as members OF IN
Rosebud reservation. but their children
were denied enrolment and allotm IN
under construction Of number Of previ3u
acts.
NebraEkans I'm Washington.
Waldo r. Whitcomb OF Winnebago is Il
Washington protesting against the granting
of an application for a traders store &
WinnehaFo
General Solicitor Loomis and Robert ]
Clancy Of the Union aPcific are IN Wash
ingtton on matters connected with irrigate
lands In Union Pacific territory.