Show 4SHINGTOX Jobs Morton to be Confirmed Washington 271n the House today to-day Caidwell of Kentucky from the committee on private land claims asked leave repot resolution instructing tho secretary of the interior and hu eubordi nates to cease and desist from hearing or in any way considering an application for a patent to any portion of the land known as the Rancho Pancho Grande in California until the bill relative to that land now before Congress shall b di pocd of Psgo objected I The favorable action of the finance committee today on John H Mortons ominaticn as collector of internal revenue wat a great surprise to the Call ornia senators for out of eight members of the committee now in Washington no less than six have expressed themselves M being in accord with the petition taken by the California delegation on this subject Careful inquiry develops the fact however that the changed atti tude of some members of the omm 1teo is moro apparent than the real vote Today on the question of authrizing the nomination to be reported back to the Senate favorably the vole was ayes Voorhees Morrill Ferry and Allison bun naysBayard Kernan and Wallace Wal-lace three Jone of Nevada was absent ab-sent Beck who opposed Mortons confirmation irmation yielded to Voorhce urgent solicitations sufficient to withhold his voto which would otherwise havo been cast in the negative and thus made thee the-e ult a tie Allison will it is laid on positive authority vote against the con Urination when the question comes up in be Senate but was nit willing to take the responsibility of easting the deciding vote in the committee against tho son of his old colleague Ferry who is also from a state near enough to Indiana to make a vote oa his pnrt against SonntorMorton on an embarrassment desirable to avoid followed Allison in voting for a iworable report on tho grounds of sympathetic interest but it was evident ho was almost as strongly inclined to vole the other way and there is no probability pro-bability of his giving the nomination active upport in the benalo The committee com-mittee and action therefore cannot be considered by any means as significant of tho ultimate fate of the nomination as it would be under ordinary circumstances circum-stances and although Mr Mortons friends have Unquestionably obtained a great advantage by it the final result may very possibly disappoint the expectations thus raised and be in fact very slightly affected by the committees nominal judgment The nomination was reported to the Senate in executive session this afternoon by Voorhees and placed on the calendar for future consideration It will probably not be taken up for acticn before next week The Senate during todays executive session finally disposed of tho long standing stand-ing subject of the contest by confirming Norman Bucks nomination as one of the United States judges for Idaho to succeed suc-ceed Associate Justice Clark who was nominated his own successor nearly two years ago and then confirmed by the Senate but whose commission was withhold with-hold by the President by reason of certain cer-tain charges brought to light immedi atoy a tor the date confirmation The case was before tho Senate in the last Congress and dismIssed several times but went over from one cause or another until today when it was finally settled The secretary of the treaiury ha been invited by tho Senate finance committee to give his views on the subject of fund legChicago Chicago 27 Journals Washington The action of the Senate finance committee commit-tee today in agreeing to report favorably favor-ably the nomination of John M Morton to be collector of internal revenue at San Francisco is a great surprise to the California Cali-fornia delegation which confidently expected ex-pected an adverse report The confirm tion of Morton is tow assured |