TIIOMAS A6AIN CHOSEN M Wtt iiM Will Succeed Himself as Postmaster at Salt Lake City E i Sutherland Recommends His Reappointment and > Representative Senator Kearns Adds His Indorsement So There Will Be No HitchName Will Be Sent to Senate Early Next Week r TRIBUNE SPECIAL Dec 7lIon A L sh1ngtOL E postmaster at Salt Lake City will be sent to the name his L here is the week to be h sown d X Senate early in jo Representative Suth successor Vtl erland own recommends his rcappolntmcn and Senator Kearns adds his indorse ment so there will be no hitch Ke Thomass record Is sldcs Postmaster most excellent I UINTAH MINERAL LAND 1L The Uintah mineral lease matter is l Secretary Hitchcock no in statu quo jtlflcd Senator Kearns and other members I mem-bers of the Utah delegation today that he would hour thc case on Thursday L P December 12th at 10 a m Indian Agent Myton the live Utc Indians representatives of thc Florence Mining company as well as Utahs delegates i in Congress will bo present Thc latter I lat-ter are prepared to make a strong ho lng as against ratification fi CALL ON SENATOR KEARNS JSI Senator Kearns this morning rc calved a delegation of young Mormon missionaries who came over from West Virginia to pay their respects Albert E Miller St George Ambrose Schultrc Escalante J B Harper Murray and J II Welling Riverside composed thC party They discussed PI Utah affairs at some length UTAH LAKE RESERVOIR Today Senator Kcarnc had another S hearing before the Commissioner ot iho General Land Office In relation to i f Utah lake reservoir Thc committee called this matter to the attention of the Senator several days ago and asked him to prevent if possible any private corporation from obtaining control of this land The Senator found jip upon Investigation that Salt Luke City made application for this land for reservoir res-ervoir purposes September last arid Imt the application was returned because be-cause of doubt upon thc part of the officials as to whether application by a municipality for such site could bo legally approved While the application applica-tion Is pending thc Senator was assured as-sured that no application for the same site will be taken up for consideration without notice to the first applicant After making stronger representations the Senator was assured that the department de-partment would suspend action in the reservoir case until Congress could have an opportunity to act In the matter ENLARGING FORT DOUGLAS Senator Kearns also appeared before the army board and made a strong argument in favor of Fort Douglas The Generals listened attentively to his presentation of the case and promised prom-ised that Fort Douglas would receive full and fair consideration FREE DELIVERY F OR PROVO In the matter of free delivery mail service for Provo the department today to-day notified Congressman Sutherland of a change of the date for the civil service examination of applicants for appointment of mall carriers there The date Is December 2ist The service will be started January 15th Thc case was advanced over 100 other very urgent ur-gent ones because thc service had been long deferred CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL Tuesday morning next the subcommittee subcom-mittee mimed by Pacific coast members mem-bers and Senators to draft a bill for Chinese exclusion as a substitute for the Geary law will meet to submit its report Senator HeitCeld of Idaho Is an active member of this committee The Treasury department has submitted sub-mitted a bill which Is designed to cure thedefects which cxpericnce disclosed on the Geary law but Is substantially a copy thereof The meeting Tuesday will bo conclusive it is predicted W A Nelden of Salt Lake ia hereon here-on business