Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-31
KINKAID WILL HOLD The FORT
Sixth District Congressman Says Post
at Crawford Not in Danger.
THINKS TOWN WILL GET RELIEF
Timber Lake Likely to Get Land Of
flee After Aberdeen-COX IL POST
master mt HOwe--BrOwn
to Speak,
0From sad CorrespondentO


WASHINGTON, Jan. S0.-(Special Tele-
gram. )-Congressm Kinkaid said today
that some of the reports concerning the
action of the military committee on the
bills introduced by Senator Brown and
himself to appropriate $4,000 to the city
Of Crawford to help construct new water
works system I'm order to avoid pollution
Of the water by sewage from Fort Robinson
were much exaggerated. Judge Kinkald
said he had advocated the appropriation
before the committee and not at all to a
single member Of the committee outside of
the committee room; that he did not rush
to the committee room" on hearing of the
adverse decision and promise to desist
pressing the appropriation further to pre-
vent the abandonment OF the post, as al
legged I'm some of the accounts; that be
did not go to the committee room. and that
the committee had adjourned before he
learned of the decision.
As matter Of course the congressman
regarded the proposal Of the committee to
discontinue the post as facetiously made
as at almost every presentation he had
made Of the different bills he has had
passed affecting Fort Robinson and Fort
Niobrara some member of the committee
the garrison In question had better not
be abandoned, yet the committee has never
taken any such action as to any military
post in the United States during his entire
service He called attention to the fact
that under the Roosevelt administration il
had been settled that Fort Robinson should
be permanent post and that about S7OOOO
had been expended upon improvements OF
kInLaid Says Clear CRHe.
Congressman Kinkaid had no apology tC
make for advocating the appropriations; 4
is so clear a case against the government
that If II were private individual instead
of the government that had polluted tn,
water, redress would already have seen Sc
cured in the courts both by injunction anC
by recovery Of damages sustained. lie 4
satisfied justice will be secured eithe
through congress or by legal proceeding
and that he has been advised by the cit!
attorney OF Crawford, J. B. Porter, tina
legal proceedings will shortly be brough
to protect the city from the post sewage.
The bill for this appropriation was rec
commended by the army officers on IN
ground and later sanctioned by the secre
! tary OF war as an economic measure 70
the government, they recognizing the fac
that il would cost much more to eliminat
the nuisance by septic tanks or by exten
! sion of the sewerage system, which It is tn
duty OF the government to do than II vii
to extend the city water system above tn
fort sewerage. which is the purpose of thi
appropriation the government to pay one
| half and the city the other half.
Removal of Aberdeen.
The matter OF the removal OF the Unite
States land office from Aberdeen, S. d
which was heard before the department o
Wednesday OF last week, will be dispose
of by Thursday OF the present week an
action taken thereon. It cannot be learne
what the action Of the department ma
be, but It looks likely that the office wi
be located west Of the river at poin
adjacent to the lands at either Isabel O
Timber Lake. As Timber Lake is a GOV
ernment townsite and the points are nc
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