Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-21
HITCHCOCK HAS THOMAS CASE
Postmaster General VIII Make Final
Decision on Testimony
Introduced.
tFrom a staff Correspondent

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WASHINGTON, June 9.-(Special Tele-
gram )-President Taft has not been APP
pealed to in the case Of Postmaster B.
F. Thomas. The papers in the investga-
ton are in the possession of Postmaster
General Hitchcock. who viii make final de-
cision in the matter when he has read Nthe
voluminous testimony which, judging from
the size of the package. amounts to 200 or
800 typewriter pages. There are certain
discrepancies betw cen the testimony taken
before the civil service representative and
the inspector for the Postoffice depart
4 ment. These discrepancies Mr.. Hitchcock
is looking into and the best trained men
| in his department have been at work to
get the truth of the entire affair.
Hitchcock has not hestated to discipline
and in some cases has separated from the
| service officials who have been derelict
In their duty and those who are watching
| the case say he will not hesitate in the
Thomas case should the evidence submitted
against the Omaha postmaster be con-
| elusive.
Rate Complaints.
The Nebraska State Railway commission
has filed a complaint with the Interstate
Commerce commission against the Bur
lington, Colorado & Southern and Denver
Rio Grande Railroad companies alleging
unjust and discriminatory rates on coal
from points In Colorado over the defendant
lines to points in Nebraska. The rates
complained OF are on coal from the Wal
senburg district In Colorado to various
points in Nebraska
The walrath & Sherwood Lumber COM
pany OF Nebraska filed complaint with
| the Interstate Commerce commission
az ainst the Rock Island. Missouri Pacific,
] Prescott & Northwestern, st. Louis, Iron
Mountain Southern and Union Pacific
Railway companies alleging unjust and I'M
reasonable charges on lumber shipped To
the complainant from points in Arkansas
and Louisiana and demanding reparation
in the total amount OF SAG
! a. d. Hoag Of Omaha accompanied by
Mrs. Hoag and daughter have arrived In
Washington, Mr.. Hoag and family are
making tour of eastern cities and will
visit New York, Boston and several other
points including Niagara Falls before re-
turning TO Omaha.
Mrs. Eben Martin, wife OF Representative
! Martin OF Deadwood, S. D.. with her
daughter, will leave Washington tomorrow
! for Buffalo, where she will meet her sons
George and Paul, students at Harvard and
Yale respectively, and the family party
will proceed via the Great Lakes TO Chi
cago and thence home.
Representative Burke has recommended
that John d. Lehnberg be reappointed post
master at Colon. S. D.
Senator'S Engagement Announced
Mrs. John lands Morgan OF New York.
announces the engagement OF her daughter
Miss Clara lie Baron Morgan. to Francis
E. Warren, United States senator from
| Wyoming
! Miss Morgan is a daughter of the late
John l. Morgan OF Groton. Conn. During
recent years she has lived with her mother
In New York. and has spent part of each
year In Washington making her home with
her uncle Justice Brown OF the United
States supreme court retired), and Mrs
Brown at their Sixteenth street residence
The marriage is expected to take place
soon and will be quiet one, owing to a
recent death in Miss Morgan's family.