Show RETURN OF VAN HORNE ALMOST SECURED COMMISSIONERSHIP COMMISSION-ERSHIP OF PENSIONS He Admits That He Was AiAiing I Bather High but Says He Was Not I Greatly Disappointed at Result Representative W G Van Home returned I re-turned home yoaterday from an extended extend-ed pilgrimage to tho East Mr Van Homo left Salt Lake on St Patricks clay and went direct to Washington his mission there being to secure appointment ap-pointment as Commissioner of PenS Pen-S I 0 fl5 Mr Van Home did not secure the V appointment but he says he came just ns close as he could to miss It He asked the President for the place and the President said ho If the reply had been yeshe V would havp secured It Mr Van Home had the Indoisement of Senator Kenrns the Justices of the Utah Supreme court a number of prominent Salt Lake attorneys R C Kerens Perry S Heath and a number of other leading Republicans of thc EastThe The office Is a good one said Mr Van Home yesterday and I wanted It but J realized that I was aimhlg pretty high In view of thc fact that 1 vas from a young State and I was not disappointed partlculary when thc place went to another man While absent Mr Van Horne visited his mother at Columbus 0 and also visited New York Providence Fall River and other Eastern points He was particularly struck with the big Increase In electric railway construction con-struction Cleveland and Columbus he says will soon be connected by electric lines and tho fever Is widely prevalent further east > Mr Van Home says that times are unusually good throughout the East and that employers and employees are alike well pleased with the Present conditions con-ditions |