Show DECLINED TO SERVE why jolin john L I 1 aphter the ot of ask secretary of ivar V ar omaha Oni alia Il march areli 20 29 sufficient to say I 1 did not want it is the brief explanation made by john L webster of his refusal to accept tile the position of 0 assistant secretary of war which was offered to liim him through senator thurs ton on saturday the place is considered ered as next to a cabinet position and pays tsou 4 per YC year lr it was also offered by wire to general cowan but he was on his way to washington on legal business and deel declined inert it its as soon as he reached the capital and had bad a confer once ence with senator thurs thurston ton an effort all ort is now being made to get the place for ex con congressman ressman jo j jolin I 1 in but the president I 1 now that his hia personal friends in omalia omaha will not take it insists that it go 0 to some home one who has boon baen a soldier |