Show 1 B AlT END ENDi I i I Washington Newspaper Men Mell Honor HonDr Democratic Leader Lemler 1 GRID UtON ON GLUE CLUB 1 DINNER R I II IT I HEXT T f P P I i PATES Ik IN THE TEE FUN FUNI I I Bryan Is 15 Popular With the Corre orre Contest Over the th Dam Dem Democratic Dame e o Convention Cincinnati Milwaukee and Kansas City In Chicago Will Probably Win WinI Winal J I Special al Correspondence 1 Washington Wn ton D C Jan 16 lt William WilliamJ I IJ J Bryan Bryn has accepted an invitation to I Ia attend a the fifteenth annual dinner d tn t at atthe tile the Gridiron club which takes taken plain I here he the th last Jut st Saturday of the present month This Thle club is lean an organization of ot c J I newspaper men for dining purposes I which h hao e established hed a wIde reputation by reason n of the unique character of its entertainment The next I will undoubtedly edly have a very enjoyable enjo ble time at t this dinner disner tine ana in n accordance I with the time practice of the club nay may be called upon to afford some senne of the merri mm t and in h ways wass he had bed not note expected e The club te is wholly nonpar no par then In e and therefore what Mr Bryan may say will vill not be along I j partisan n lines JInes I Under another rule of the thab nothing that he says will be This wl be father er a novelty for Colonel Colonal Bryan whose every every public utterance for four years ha h been print printed printed printed ed throughput throughout ut the th country even by b the then neWspapers n which are hostile to his candidacy fur for president nt The newspaper n s aper men man of Washington have been exceedingly friendly to toMe Mr Bryan They Thy liked him from his hisa a appearance In fr congress now new ten years yeara ago O He was then but 90 10 0 years old old but buthe buthe buthe he soon made himself f a leading man in inthe inthe inthe the house hou During all Its bis service here he ms very popular with the frater fraternity fraternity sup and nJ a majority of the representatives tives tivee of f the th press here are hie hi active I supporter So while there Is no po political significance in his coming here as the of Washington n newspaper newspapermen newspaperman omen men man it Iq f nevertheless certain that while hn here hera he will be In the hands bands of his friends Prior to coming to tp Washington Mr Bryan will attend a Democratic ban banquet banquet banquet at Lexington Ky and another in InN Nw N o York YOlk City While here he be will nil confer with Senator r Jones and other members of the national committee He will probably sit wIsh the tile committee on ona ona ona a proxy as ae he has done on previous occasions Undoubtedly any wish that I he would d express as aa to the thern location of the th convention co tion would prevail prevell but It te is exceedingly improbable that he will ex cx express press Dress any preference I Cincinnati a Candidate The roost in the contest con for tor the convention is Ie the entry I of or Cincinnati This ci ty has hg the formidable formidable able support of John R R It McLean ean and Blackburn and might be pre pro I f y Y of t the dele delegates gates from the Atlantic seaboard state She has hu not had a Democratic convention n since the one that nomi nominated nominated Hancock anc I ck in 1380 30 Prior to that time the Ohio me lD had bad no con eon convention that of 1866 which W nomi nominated J ns Buchanan and Breckenridge It Itis I III is II admitted d that tt Cincinnati ia la not an ideal idear convention ch even by her ar ardent ardaM I dent deBt But the e advant advent lo ton a 1 ed in her favor Cincinnati is oom t of or access from I aH aU parts Pf of tile the and her loca location tion te IS Inear near ne r the three t pivotal states Kentucky Ken ticky and and this te is thought to present pr ent strong reasons for fur furher hEr selection j I I I 1 Advantages Cincinnati I h hit fiN i entered eme red the race ce none too won if she Me d eires Ires success for forI Kansas City has ha tons long Ion been in the field as a candidate and Milwaukee ha se selected selected a large arge committee headed ht by ex en Senator Mitchell J Peck Peek and Major David DavJd B RO Rose Race e which will pta pre present P re resen sent aunt time claims o t at city with great grest I force foree Roger M Andrews a represent representative ent I of the thc Milwaukee committee is already here hors and is putting in some strong work for his city He makes I the point that pg boI the convention i at Milwaukee rould be of great ad advantage advantage advantage I vantage in obtaining the German vote Pete j j for the Democratic D party The for tor foren en elg vote holds Isolde the tile balance of political j pw p power r The Irish h vote broadly speak j i ing I g is always awA s Democratic while bile the theN thet I t N Norwegians can be found on the Re Republican I publican PUb Jt n side These Th eee last are strong in Wisconsin and Minnesota But the German vote voto can never be counted on I until after arter election The German lead leaders leaders ers era and anti newspapers exercise great in influence fluence ff enoe over their tb r constituents and it itIs itis I Is safe to tc soy say that as the leading news A go SO so gods the entire German I vote Ote This Tik has IMS been demonstrated often otten to this the surprise s p of both parties in years I pat past t the ft are great greatly greatlY ly l t Pl by the issue houe of imperial I I teEn Inn to them te is synonymous to large standing army j Of t tim the 1 advantages of Milwaukee as the location on of he convention he says The climate W is in incomparable Peo Pm People I pl pie nae from Kansas City Chicago Cl Philadelphia and New York I Ito to summer s r in Milwaukee The hotel I h are equal to any city I I of tWice US Jis size Milwaukee is already I II looked I upon upen as the convention city elty of I the west We give J e an tn annual carnival there then In the spring and accommodate I l 1 at U with comfort and 0 3 mie ee 6 O of j luxury The city as you yeas has baS a reputation for wide hc ThIS h Is movement for tor the is joined in by I representative business men of both parties and In all lines Unes of trade because W fe 1 that it will give the delegates from all parts parte ham of at the country an op op PO to get et an n n idea of what it Is isto I to be n Jn In Milwaukee fashion tall hail will mat I bly Wy i peppI 6 The Th dimensions dimension are e e is one ot of tilt the meal Ik Itt live tiie in the west ln the decided energy i With th which the three rival cities dues are p pressing g their claims it still looks very C That city has thus far re ted here by no com corn committees I and nd has baa no advance agents stinging singing liar her b praises rat She als ale starts in wIth wilh Ii the t he of being die dis distinctly unpopular Uld with the Democratic national l committee And yet she Is ia vera vert likely to wie solely by reason of or her location la Jn this hia respect I to in likely to her most moat dangerous rival Buffalo l Bills Indians I Cot Colonel John Juhn G 0 Burke long advance I agent and press representative of ButI talc fak Bills Wild West reat show ow has been here this week visiting his friends Captain and nd Mrs Allison Nay Naylor lor br He has h as been exerting all the in influence fluence possible po to get the secretary of th thus the interior and anti Indian commissioner to altar their theft ruling with ith reference to ar arrangements arra ra for the participation of If f In InHam Indars Ham dars in Bills show through he Indian agents as heretofore He Heis bas baa is been b n unsuccessful In securing any ny change Ch In the position pos of or the depart department ment officials He lie says however that the Wild West W show will go on next year as usual u This means that the I contracts will be he made with Individual Indians who abandon a andon tribal relations for far the purpose of jf going with the show The major waves Vav s his troubles aside breezily by ily saying There Is no trou trott trouble ble lile sp pu O far ag as R we are concerned The he Wild West will keep on delighting the people as it hay hat done for lo these many man years Colonel Cody is in splendid health h h and 3 nd will turn up here her e In im the th e st t n fule ule time tinie I riP j Pe relative r l Uve to fA fAi i homesteads on Indian lands was favor favorably favorably favorably ably reported from the th Indian affairs tins this week with but one dis dla dissenting dissenting seating vote v The indications are arc that it will nill pass pan the th s senate ate at the present session In this report on the bill Sen San Senator senator Sanator ator Petti Pettigrew ere w said The measure In Involves Involve volve no DO new principle of legislation atlon but is sustained by numerous prece precedents precedents precedents dents in the statute books boks It alms merely to bring newly acquired public domain under the th provisions of time the homestead law Jaw an an enactment which has in yews yer y palt extended west westward westward westWard ward from congested population pop cen can centers centers cantees tees those these th energetic millions mill tons of our own and other Tac race ho required only room and a place to tell teU that th fruits of their lobor might fall into the lap lapof lapof ap of the world The contention of the Ute committee Is that in tho the application of the th home homestead homestead stead law there th should be hO nd nO n dl that it should be b applied to every overy portion of the time p to all the t people who go gI out to subdue the wilderness The lTha argument that these lands were bought for a price from the India KaA that it was WitS provided providE that the th ultimate white own era ern of the land should compensate the general ge ral government nt for f r it Its outlay has been given due consideration c says the report The oily ealy possible con conclusion conclusion conclusion within lines U of f equity is that the provision was waa an an erroneous one and that its js t elimination from rom the statutes has been already too long de delayed delayed delayed Our entire national domain was originally purchased from the Indians either for tor a cash or Os commodity price or through the coat cost of vf conquest and much of it has h been twice bought be because because cause of its ito ancient occupancy by foreign nations Yet In the parceling of the domain under the operation of the homestead acI act the proposition that the government shoud should exact the cost of land from Its former occupants never found the form ionn of law until it came to be applied appU to those recently acquired infinitesimal remnants of a governmental area that once reached westward w from the Mississippi Ml to the Pacific i The secretary of Q the Interior some sometime sometime time ago submitted a report that the enactment of a bill similar to the present Pettigrew bill hilt would deprive I Ithe the government of some Of this the t Pettigrew report said sait This statement of th thc r pecuniary benefit to come to the nation can ann never be ful itt fulfilled filled under condition now existing xi and which haye exIsted since the land was thrown upon the market Much of the area ales to be disposed of 01 lies within the semiarid region rIon of the far west I It is not worth to the settler the tIme price asked for it real real estate should not Dot be figured in as prospective pr cash assets And the land not taken is practically There are ceded ced d reservation lands in Idaho Washington and Montana that will not be affected affe ted by the meas mean measure measure ure recommended a by your committee because of ot their mineral character They will remain under the operation of the mineral land laws and will be become become become come readily salable as such Their value must therefore ther fore be deducted from the loan loaf estimate of the Interior de do department department Of the worthless desert land there th is an area sufficient within the ceded fractions of Indi n reserva reservations reservations enumerated rated in the report of the secretary of the interior materially to reduce the aggregate of his estimate Land Laud of this character ch n can never be bB besold besold sold Bold to farmers or stock growers or orto orto orto to any other class of producers S and for fo so 80 much of of It as the government has purchased from Indians it can not nat expect to be compensated It ls Is the conclusion of ot your committee that tha the alleged loss l estimate under the provisions of Pf this bill should be reduced at least leest l t or to about OO But your committee can not admit that this money total should be considered as lost revenue It an e not before fore imposed upon agricultural producers who through toil toll and the t privations of extreme poverty upon the frontier plant the foundation stones of wealth teeming commonwealths so 00 firmly that they will endure as an long as a the rain rainfalls rainfalls rainfalls falls and the sun endows life lire with the energy of ot its rays The secretary of the interior In his h estimate figures the lose of the Untied States If settlers released from payment p to be on th the Crow reservation re on the Nez Perces Farces and on the Coeur I dAlene d Alene re lIr iii |