Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
KEEPS LAND OFFICE
Dallas Puts Up a Good Fight, but
Unable to Secure a Change.
PATRONAGE GOES TO SENATORS
Resentment Against New England
for I'M in which IL Absorbs
Good Places on senate
Committed.
(From a staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, March A~.-(special Tele-
gram.)-Secretary Ballinger of the Interior
department has decided that the land office
at Gregory. S. D., shall not be removed to
Dallas as desired by some Of the leading
citizens of the latter place. Senators
Gamble and Crawford ascertaining that a
quiet. but determined effort was being
made to bring about a change of location
saw Secretary Ballinger today and went
over with that official all the facts rela-
tive to the location of the new land office
In South Dakota at Gregory. They showed
that not only Former Secretary of the
Interior Garfield, but the commissioner of
the general land office and ex-President
Roosevelt had been consulted with az to
the location of the land office and Gregory
and that they had all concurred in the
opinion that It was the most advantageous
place to locate the new land office, in view
Of It's close proximity to the lands re-
Gently opened for settlement in Gregory
county.
The delegation of South Dakotans, in
Guiding Mr.. ackler of Dallas, which has
been In Washington for the last two or
three days endeavoring to bring about the
change, has gone home, As pretty a cam
paign as could be imagined was put up by
the Dallas people to create sentiment In
favor of the change. The Iowa and Ne
braska senator's were flooded with tele-
grams and letters asking them to support
the change. Senator Cummlns alone having
received nearly fifty kilograms urging this
action. and the propaganda even extended
so far as to take In Senator Warner OF
Missouri.
It was urged among other things that
the office building at Gregory had not
been ereCted and that the Gregory people
had forfeited their right to retain the Of
flee. It was urged that there was no
national depository at Gregory. Senator's
Gamble and Crawford showed that the
reason the office building was not COM
pleted was because the weather made II
impossible to do any outside work for
weeks past and that so far as a national
depository was concerned, application was
now on file with the comptroller of the
currency fer the creation OF a national
bank at Gregory, with $4,000 capital.
Yates for Nebrassra University.
The "Old Boys and young boys of the
University OF Nebraska are moving upon
the senators to have Captain Halsey f
Yates of the Twenty-ninth infantry APP
pointed as military Instructor there. Cap
tain Yates is a Lincoln boy and a gradu-
ate at West Point having been an instruc-
tor there for four years. Senator Brown
put this matter up to the military authori-
ties and he received a letter today from
the secretary of war stating that IL the
chancellor of the University would make
a request for Captain Yates assignment
as military instructor the request would
in all probability be granted.
Good News for Senators.
There is great Joy around the senate
wing Of the capitol because of the informa-
tion that has reached there that President
Taft will respect the wishes Of senator's
IN the matter Of making appointments.
Not only does Mr.. Taft propose TO let the
senators exercise their constitutional func-
lions Of giving their advice and consent in
the filling OF offices. but he is said TO
intend to go farther than that and TO re-
store the ancient order OF things by per-
hitting the republican senators TO control
the important patronage in their own
states.
II will restore to the senator's the poll
teal prestige which they had before the
advent OF Roosevelt.
Resentment Against New England.
II one will walk about the corridors OF
the senate end OF the capitol or about the
senate office building and listen carefully,
he will hear some such expressions as this