Show t V 1JLi L1J PRAISE FOR TIIOMAS Postoffice Authorities CompI11 His Conduct Con-duct of Salt Lake Office Report That tHe Would Succeed Himself Postmaster Is Confirmed bythe Postmaster neral and by the Utah Contingent at the I r Capital TRIBUNE SPECIAL Waslilngton Dec Assurances were given Congressman Sutherland today by the PostmasterGeneral that former Gov A L Thomas would succeed suc-ceed himself postmaster at Salt Lake CI rs told in these dispatches on Saturday night This Information was given The Tribune representative by Mr Sutherland hiniHclf and confirmed con-firmed by National Comnvittecman O Ji Salisbury and by Postmaster Thomas Thom-as Mr Salisbury was heartily con gratulatcd by the Utah contingent hereupon here-upon the outcome of the fight lie had made for Gov Thomas Several protests pro-tests were filed In the department and I Mr Nash made a fight for the position f Ho f led however to secure the in dorsement of Representative Sutherland Suther-land which according to the unwritten unwrit-ten law Is prerequisite for the Congressman Con-gressman at his own town to name the postmaster therein Senator Kearns indorsed rSull erlands action after an appointment had been agreed upon Mr Sutherland says the Fostofl3ce department heads are profuse In their compliments of Gov Thomas for Ms 1ls faultless conduct of the postofllce He has done more to facilitate the free ruralmalldelivery system than another an-other postmaster In Utah PAYNE NOT INTERESTED These dispatches contained the statement state-ment that Henry C Payne of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin was Interested In securing the Uln tah mineral lease which Indian Com misslonecr Jones seems to favor but which Secretary Hitchcock has not yet ratified Mr Payne who is In the city today disclaims any connection with the lease and says he Is not Interested Several years ago he held some stock in the Florence Mining company but has none now The men who connected con-nected his name with the deal may have done so to strengthen their case but the truth Is now known and Mr Paynes name will not figure Inth transaction tlallclon SENATOR RAWLINS AT WORK Senator HawIns today Introduced in the Senate memorials from the Utah Legislative in favor of woman suffrage suf-frage to adopt a metric system ot weights and measures and for nbl for the purchase of a Temple farm and the Moore house at Yorktown Va UTAHNS AT CAPITAL A party of prominent men from Utah are here Patrick H Lannan C Gov Thomas National Committeeman Salisbury and Attorney Thompson of Salt Lake City Thomas D Dee and David Eccles of Ogden will be here tomorrow to-morrow to attend n meeting oC beet sugar raisers of the country LAND FOR INDUSTRIAL PLANTS Senator Warren of Wyoming has in trdduped abl for the acquisition oC lands for Industrial plants Among other things It will permit railways to acquire depot sites without restraint of existing homestead laws |