Omaha Daily Bee.
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OMAHA, MONDAY MolJNINC, AIMIIL In, 1!U1 -TKX I 'AUKS.
Vol,. NU.
GEN. STANLEY M
WILLIAMS HURT "-
Oil BATTLEFIELD
3ebel Leader May Die of Injury
Received in Daring Attack on
Force of Colonel Mayot.
; II Mm I i,'-ir j' u(in- 11 n i . ' . ' i
tT 'the omaha unon station. 1
HEAD IS TORN BY FLYING SHELL.! AM pf , i,omeseeker? dt'i not. of eourse. !
leom from Omaha. some ere Wonaiu j
j rn J J , frr.m Chicago ami Joined the spcch.is here i
Sixty Insurrectos Reported Killed ana (,, ni(,ny othprB took tlie .e.oiar "ainsi
B.mainrlrr Art Routed ; Info Omaha and went out from 1,-ir. ,
Remainder Are Kouiea. . ln,(lllrv ,,, thP homwPkr , i(
I what kind of farming thfy Intended to ;
FEDERALS SHOW THEM NO MERCY
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Bayonet Completes the Work of Riflei j
j T finn. I
and Machine Guns.
H0SPIIAL TENT IS FIRED UPON,
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SurgCOn Appeal! tO United States
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Authorities for Aid.
$4,000,000 VOTED FOR WAR FUND I
Itamtirr ! Ilepanea inr rroo'inii
for rarvhase nf ("applies and Other
Pnrposea I ader Direction of
flf llepartmrnt,
yiT9 Or OAT IN MEXICO.
t'hamhff of I lepiitles votes (4 .Ofai.000)
Hold for ir fund.
Oeneral Stanley Wllliama. deserter
from Vnlted ftatea army, probably
fntally wounded In IIrIH at Mexlca'll,
Mex.
ltelayed dl'patchea tell of heavy
death losa In battla at Velsrdena Tues
day. International trade continues to ln
crraa deaplte Inaurreotlon, accordinn to
official report.
Oeneral Francisco Madero starts to
waid Casaa (Irande region, giving up
prevloun plan of attack.
Force of ninety federals almost a
l'idlated In canon near Atltxco, Mex.
.MF.XICAU, Me.. April . Ueneial Stan
ley Williams hulled his little battalion ot
ebela against Colonel Hlguel ilayot 500
regulais on the mesa five miles south ot
Mexican today. Klghty Insurrectos went
Into (ha fight; twenty relumed from the
batUa fjld.
WUIIams was fatally wounded and Is now
in th custom house hers, with his head
lorn by a fragment from an exploding
mII .,..XVt'.li, htif 4 4tait fjigltHes of his
fleeing command ha was overtaken by a
federal shell that (ell in their midst and
snt up a geyser of flam and smoke arid
fragments ot human bodies. His wagon
trains were captured, with nearly all of
the stores and ll' stock which ,he took
tn his raid yesterday of several ranchea.
Survivors strangling into Mexican tonight
aay the federals took no prisoners. All
those net killed By the (Ira of the federal
rifles, machine guns and artillery were, It
Is said,' Slaughtered mercilessly by the
bayonet. The federals. It Is declared, fired
on the hospital tant and the ambulance
n hlch accompanied the rebels to tbe bat
tle field. Dr. W. B. Larkina, the surgeon
In charge, and his Assistants, who reached
Mexican with the survivors, appealed to
I'nlted States authorities to . aend Red
fioss aid to the scene of the battle and
save those they tould of the wounded.
Woaade-a Refcel Brlnars Tlalas.
New of the rebels' repulse was brought
by a mounted rebel, who, with one arm
nearly shot off, fell exhausted from hla
hurra lit Iiont of the Insurrecto commander-ln-'chlef,
tieneral Sal in a, and burst Into
tears.
lie brought Information of the wounding
of Oeneial . Williams. Williams waa still
knoan as "Stanley" to his men of the
"Independent division ot the liberal army,"
despite the revelation of his real name
and the fact that he was a deserter from
the Ninth Infantry of the United States
ai my.
Later Williams was brought in alive, but
pi enounced fatally wounded and taken to
the I'nlted states army hospital In the
custom house at Calexlco, across the line.
When Salinas beard of his subordinated
fate, b malntalnwl hla atolcal calm.
"I told him he was a fool when he said
be waa going out to fight them," he re
marked philosophical!). "It he had re
mained here, the federals would have bean
farced to attack us In a position of our
own chousing. I consented to his going
out, bu only when he demanded It."
Kvery detail of Williams' sortie from the
entrenched position of the rebels her In
(Continued on Second Pag.)
THE WEATHER
V'oiecajt of th weather:
Km Nh'rs)a and Kansas Fair; slowly
rung temperature.
For Iowa Fair and warmer.
For North and south lakota-Fair and
v a rsrtar. . . - ,
For Missouri-Fair and slowly lining tem
pera! m e.
1 rmprrat are at Omaha iraterdar.
Hour. Lg.
, " ni 31
(;if , rViSlT ti m St
T WW a 7 m 39
Lfa,, Y,-t " 32
v M
j ' ltf a. m 41
fOy-? " '
vWy . i: m
VJ..v-iV 1 p, m f'l
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, " m M
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'T'J " i I 7 p m . '. ail
tomparattio Local Hrrars,
ri i. ifio. ist. rw.
I!. best today , 5; 7 44 U
j,er lnda ml ( I ;4
Mean temperature 44 Ni M 44
I' I eel pi i a turn .M .i .) .no
lnnirini and pre-ipitailon depart
e fiom the mo mal.
Nermal teoioeratuie .' 44
Kefiilency for the day 4
l ota) exres a4m e Maich 1 19
Normal precipitation IW inch
Oefn ! m-v for the day 10 Inch
mat 1.. i" (ml mio-k Mmrh I I s inches
I (! Ienc Hire Mann 1 II Inch
lrfi leu. y for cor. pet lod in li ! II Inches
I-f (i. len.y (or cor. period tn l4) .1.'." tn. I.ea
I
' Colonist Trains 1
Arc Loaded with
Seekers for Homes
. .
Tiousund People Put Ihrouf h .
.4 Gateuay in Four -Days to
Settle in the West.
7", , i.. , m. ,
'1 he last of the special colonist lining to
th west via the fulon f'acif c. will leave
this afternoon wiih more thnn ."o settle rs
' for the fm ms of the west aboard. Today s i
; tmln Is the lat of the great four day-.il
i',"n:?:r.,"r.,,hLw:i!! TllTi
lake up. shoved that few of them were
poor Tolk going out to better their rundi- I
tion. hut that many were substantial cltiz-
en, Cf tm. middle went. who had f it the ;
il sire either to go hark to the farm, or;
wpn ttr)lt0(l0 farnrs of , rmm ;
try who wished to no to (Mliornia and
other western states. '""""V "
them who left Friday, sturda and Min-
day ha.1 monev with which to hoy land or
had th land waiting for them at their
1... ln
I destination.
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brniiKht out a few, ready to start In and
, minikin "in
try nteir fortun;, m new and. he
I trains held several newly wedded collides
I who were aoinit out west and to srow tin
,lh ,h Brr,aii communities heinfj ntartea
there.
Five of the right tourist sleepers making
tip the special of Monday, will start from
Omaha, the others from Chicago. The In
fluence If land ahows In bringing the iHnd
proposition to the ntlnds of those Interested
la plainly shown in the personnel of the
traoln. as those aboard are all from tht
sections of the middle west where the
great land exhibitions weer held during
the last winter.
The special' train movement closing today
Is the second one this spring and the last.
Three special trains were run the early
part of March. Momeseekera will be
crowding the tourist trains through Omaha
all summer and many of the trains will
carry two and three extra cars for a great
part of the coming warm weather to ac
comodate the colonist travel.
Miss Anne Morgan
Annoyed by Cranks
Father of the Girl Talks with His
Lawyers, but Refuses to Giv the x
Facts to the Reporters.-
NKW YORK, "April S.-(8peclal Tele
gram.) It waa learned today that J. P.
Morgan had communicated to a firm of
lawyers tha Intelligence that his daughter,
Miss Anna Morgan, waa being followed
and annoyed dally by a crank. Mr. Morgan
expressed great anxlnt; reraising the v.el-
far ot hla daughter, but ao far as eeuld
be ascertained the police have not yet
keon notified of the financier's worry.
Mr. Morgan la said to have cautioned r"laenl lau 1188 recommended the en
the lawyers about making any statement i of legislation to carry out provl-
to the newspapers, demanding the utmost'
secrecy.
Miss Morgan has been identified with
various industrial affairs for several years.
She la on of the leaders In the woman's
department of the Civic federation, a
member of th Colonial club and a moving
spirit In benevolent organisations.
Miss Morgan, on her return from Europe ,
last October, denied th report that she
was engaged to marry Don d Bourbon,
pretender to th thron of Portugal. i
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Postmaster Thomas
is Off to Washington
Accused Official Hastens to Capital
Quizzes Witnesses Who Testi
fied at Inquiry.
News of the arrival In Washington of the
report of Inspector Moss of the Civil Serv- i
ice commission on the charges preferred
by Dan Tillotson against Postmaster
Thomas at Omaha has been the signal for
th poatmasUr to hlk to Washington. He
departed last cvenlnr. It is said tlu he
received soma kind of a communication
from official headquarters of the Civil
Service commission which made him de-',
clde that his presence was more necessary
In Washington than In Omaha. Tostmaster
Thomas has been putting in considerable
time th last week Interviewing postal em
ployes to get from them the substance of
their testimony before th investigators,
and explaining to them that he wanted to
know Just what was In the record In order
to b abl. to tram up hi defense.
AGED HEAD OF CHURCH STIRS
FEELINGS OF BIG AUDIENCE
President Joseph Smith Says Book of
Mormon Is Fnlflllaarat of
Prophecy.
l.AMONI, la., April . (Special Tele- :
gram.) Poaaibly the moat Interesting meet- :
Ing of the conference of the Latter Pay
Saints was held this morning when Presl- i
dent Joseph Smith spoke at the main audi- I
torlum. President Smith, now in his soih j
year, his hearing- Impaired.- and his.;
eye-sight gone, though his intellect Is as I
bright as ever, spoke to a vtry large con- j
gregation. He spoke to some extent upon I
the Bible and Its teachings, and then asked
his son. Hale W. Smith, who waa In charge 1
of the meeting for another book, called the
two records. As he held up the book he
ald he believed he held before him the
two records which Is the new testament
conjoined under one cover, with the book
of Mormon.
This hook, he told his listener as a
fulfillment of a prophecy In the Bible and
he challenged anyone to contradict lilm
when he said that no other sect or peopli
iiad fulfilled that prophecy. He then
testified In strongeH terms to his unfal
tering belief In the divinity of the book of
Mormon and told of a time when the voter j
of the l-ord spoke to him In the presence
of other men, who aept like children, tell-!
Ing him in clarion tones that the book j
of Mormon is of divine authority. lie
told the congregation how glad he felt (hat
God had permitted him thus to make the
trip to th conference one more. He spoke
cheertngly of hi bltndne and the uncer
tainty of th time he would be allowed to
remain with th people.
Most of th audi, nee wne In fears at I
the close of his sermon. F.en th choh ,
waited for a few minute hefure the closing )
anthem waa aung. 1
CONG I! ESS FACES
STOHMY SESSION!
Virtually Four Parties. Each with
. R,,enl.tion. Working it
I ' CT
Odds on Proposed Legislation.
(BRYAN DIVIDES THE DEMOCRATS
Sharp Line Drawn Between Conserva-
tivCS and FrOgTeSsivCS.
uncertainty is the keynote
Uneasiness Equally Distributed Be-
tween Two Major Parties.
rnwvrTTTTnw mp ksitf
Ul tUJN Vi,JN UUiN Bib IbbUE
Interview .len Ont h Brjan
lleplorlna Fleetlnn nf Mnrtln
Make nreaeh In Ranks
More Prononneeil.
WASHINCTON". .prll
-It is dally be-
, cominK n,anfe!t (Mat congress Is facing
L Ktormy ,eHBion alld th,r, h, m(u)p
j"" '"recast of the probable legislative re-
.suits. The fact th.U both of the great po-
Itittf'al liorilfla f ,1L,I.-1A,1 I- I..
litlral parties are divided Is no lonper
urinr,i nnu iiir iraut appear IO nave
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i little? hol.e of restortnir nntth tin nmrA fhan
awta
There are virtually four parties, em-h
with a large representation, working at
odds In the present session. The repullcan
minority of th house la divided between
regulars and Iiibui gents as whs evidenced
by the vote ;n the speakership content. The
breach between these two factions is even
wider In the republican majority of the
senate.
A sharp line has been drawn between the
conservative democrats of the Semite, who
are opposed to any attempt at dictation
by William Jennings liryan and the pro
gressive democrats. Including practically
all of the new members and several veter
ans, like Senator Stone of Missouri, who
are Bryan adherents. The house democratic
majority seems to have escaped a break,
but the leaders fear the party contest in
the senate may at any time spread to the
other branch. The situation has interfered
ith the selection of committees and the
beginning of legislative work.
Mncb tncrrtaittty Kxlsta.
nuuauiy mere never has Deen a congress
where so much uncertainty existed and '
where the uneasiness has been so equally '
uic.Muicu ucmren inr iwo major political
parties. Of course, this Is due, in part to
the fact that in the present congress the
democrats are in power in the house and
the republicans are in control of the senate.
The real cause of the ansfety Is bolieved
to be due to the proximity of the party con
tentions which will select the standard
bearers for 1912 and the knowledge that a
slip by either tn the extraordinary session
or the regular session to follow may very
ei).v determine tbe.rjsiill of tj next na
tional campaigi.
So far as the administration program Is
; concerned there Is no room for speculation.
" icuiprociiy agree-
hivmi, mu ii is no secret he- would be
glad to have congress atop at that and
defer the question of further revision until
the regular aeslon assembles next winter.
His reason for this Is that the tariff board
will be able to report several schedules by
that lime.
Clark's Intentions Knom,
Neither is there any obscurity about the
Program or speaker t lark. Representative
I'nderwood. chairman of the new ways
and means committee, and other democrats
who are directing the policy of the house.
Their plan for progressive lenislatlon on
several subjects with which the country
has been familiar in the last year or so.
has been given out.
The division In' the democratic ranks
probably would not have been so pro
nounced If it hud not been for the inter
view given by Mr. Bryan yesterday deplor
ing the election of Mr. Martin. It thrown
the issue In bold relief arid It ia freely pre.
dieted It will crop out frequently In de-
bate.
if there Is ant disposition on the part
of the conservatives In both parties to
work together to prevent any radical re
vision of the tani'ff it Is conceded that they
will be able to ca-ry out their plans. The
progressles of both parties, actuated by
the spirit of crusaders, will not hesitate
widen the gulf between the factions in
,nelr Parlies for they have announced that
they are plavihg for future stakes, and su
preme stakes at that
Broken Bow Arson C'nae) I'oat ponrd,
BROKEN BOW, Ntb., April 9. (Special.)
Judge Hcstletler p district court today
granted a continuance in the case of Willis
Moore, who is charged with burning the I
t'uuster county court house. The case
will come up at the next Jury term In Pep
tember .
Mother's Long
Missing
Twenty yeais uno Mis. Joseph
Latterly of Council Bluffs was
Uken to a hospital alck unto death.
She recovered, only to find her
huhband gone and her two little
children, a boy and a girl missing.
1-aler It was learned that the father
bad placed the children, the boy
aged 2. and the girl aged 3, In a
"home " Here all trace of them waa
lost. But the mother never gave
over the sean h for her lost chil
dren. She secured a divorce and an
order from the court gl ing her th
custody of th little ones, but the
father disappeared without making
good on hla piomlse to turn the chil
dren over to their inolher. Mis.
I.afferty married again, and is now
the wile of N. J. i'alton ot Council
Bluffs. Sim found her son a few
ear ago In South Omaha, and he
la now making headway as a law atu
dent, ll was through his search of th
record of the "home" In which he
and hla sister was placed that trace
'of the missing girl was found. Shu
had been adopted by a family named
Mullen, and look their name. When
dlcoeied she was wot king as a
stenographer In the law office of C. a Bah, o. k at Sheldon, la. Here her
mother vlslied her during the week, and the reunion is to he followed by the
permanent reunion of the family In Coiimil Bluffs alter May 1. w lien Miss Cen
rv le w III give vrr her empio inent and o in Ire wuh her luuihir and Mep-
tatht-r.
From the -wahlniton
Herald
ENGLAND FACES NEW DANGER
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Rats Run Rampant, Spreading Terror
Over the British Isles
MODERN CAT NO LONGER WORKS
Seventy-Five Millions of Dollars An
nnallr the Valor of Property
Destroyed by Rodents, Says
Secretary Mnlthevra.
J-OXf JOy, - Arfi l! t"Bbt( gram I
Menaces to the t:.fty or England con
tinue to multiply. The German peril is
always present: the free trade threat
against the IntegHty of the empire is an
old friend; socialist spoliation often clouds
the future, and- recently the country has
heard much about the white bread danger.
The latest source of perturbation is the
discovery In England that "the balance
of nature has been upset." and that In
numerable evils are expected to flow from
this dislocation. So many of the natural
enemies of rata hate been destroyed that
the long-tailed terrors are rampant In
every direction and the AssnciuUd Cham
bers of Commerce are advancing In a solid
phalanx against the rodents.
"Incredible though It seems." says Secre
tary Matthews of this organization, "the
country suffers from rats to the extent oaJ
JT.vOOO .000 annually. .Nor is the plague oi
rats the only sign of the disturbed balance
of nature. The Board of Agriculture hui
ordered a general attack on the migrant
pigeons, which are descending by hundreds
and destroying whole cloverfields Ui va
rious parts of Kngland.
"Itooks, larks and Starlings, some work
ing in one place and some In another, have
more than decimated the wheat ffelds.
Finches have destroyed the buds in acres
of fruit trees in Kent and Buckinghamshire
from one end to the other, and the Isle of
Wight Is suffering from the bee disease.
"All these evils are due to mean med
dling with the course of nature. The fox,
the deadliest foe of rats. Is about the only
enemy of those pests that we have not
killed off. Hawks and stoats are nearly
all gone. Owls and hawks should, be
strictly preserved. The modern cat might
as well be killed. It does nothing more
than howl. Cats used to make themselves
valuable by catching rats and mice. Now
they scorn work so. vulvar and food so
coarse. Nothing M good enough for them
except canary.
"Only a national movement can do any
good. The county councils must act to-
Continued on Second Page.)
Quest for
Daughter Wins
fife?.
MISa ciL.NKV IKV K xl L 1.1. t. N
s
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And the Cat Came Back
t '' -"Hf 7"."U ,V. .v" I, A T - I H H-e H 1
Lsf' rMWM'
Six Months for Failing
to Destroy Revenue
Stamps on Cigar Boxes
Pool Hall Proprietor at Hurley, S. D.,
Must Also Pay Fine of Fifty
Dollars.
SIOl'X FALLS. S. !., April 9 (Special.)
After bring out only, about an hour a
jury in the I'nlted states court returned a
verdict ,.f a'.ittv l- the case, of thert'nUed
States against K. K. Benson, a pool hall
proprietor of Hurley, who was tried on
an indictment charging that he had failed
to deface the internal revenue stamps on
six empty cigar boxes from which he had
sold cigars In his place of business. Two
of the boxes were offered by the govern
ment as exhibits In the case. Soon after
the jury returned Its verdict. Judge Wlll
ard of Minnesota, who Is presiding at the
present term of federal court sentenced
Benson to a term of six months In the
Yankton county jail and Imposed In addi
tion a fine of $.V) and costs.
A verdict of not guilty was returned by
a Jury In the rase of the I'nlted States
against August Zolnowsky, a retail liquor
dealer of Tyndall, who was charged with
selling liquor to a mixed-blood Indian
named George I.amoreaux.
Winston Churchill
Puts Story at Rest
Secures Damages Against Spencer,
: Who Charges that During Boer
War He Broke His Parole.
I-ONTMJN, April 9. (Special Cablegram )
For several years Winston Churchill, the
home secretary, has been annoyed by a
persistent story that while he was a Boer
prisoner during the war in South Africa
he broke his parole and escaped. Today
he took measures to prevent any further
circulation, of the story, by bringing suit
for slander against one Spencer, a political
speaker, who. during the recent election
repeated the calumny.
Mr. Churchill's counsel declared to the
court that there whs not the slightest
foundation for the sloiy. Mr. Churchill
had hitherto Ignoied It. hut its repetition
for political purposes during the last two
elections had forced him to demand dam
ages as the most effective means of kill
ing the story.
The case ended by Spencer a poluKlziiiK.
The Jiidye then condemned hlin to pay
damages in a nominal sum.
! Grand Army Libel
Suit is Dismissed
Criminal Charge Against Former
Commander Morgan of Kansas
Stricken from Docket.
Tol'KlxA. Kan., April 9. The (irand
At my of (he Bepuhlir libel suit which has
been in I lie courts for sf v, ral years was
finally disposed of yesterday when the
(oiirt affirmed t lie dlsm sal of the suit.
The action as a criminal one In which
Captain P. SI Conev was the prosecuting
w,,nc-s W. A. Morgan, then department
roiiunaniler of the Crand Army of the Re
public, was the principal defend. int. and
(lire -iiii- six others. Tie charge a.f
thai ihey had circulated a fsl-e and Tan
ijeious si"ry about Captain ( 'oney lo de
feat him fnr natioiia' 1 ommatid r.
The fir.-l Hint risiiltiij lii a disaereeioent
o( the jury and the court ihsinl-sed the
case. The .-late appiabil and Hie supreio.
coun iiuw s'isiain-i the dismissal.
rrklK to I lull Mill loin of Hole.
1 1 1 : '-:!.! ." :. W ',"a April ! 'Special
Televiaio , - i'ri d .1. .1 I.-, a lisM earth
If'Hioi. .1 fi .-iiie npi red ,11 the ard of
Mr.-. Kri d A Uliu-as pi op. in 1.11 00 1
liett about noon lielav aii as Mrs Klrcg
ran 111'" tin' yanl she itepixd into ipilck
sand in the chasiii and sank i lur ihn.ai
hrfttn- sin- could be lal.i -i out A f.ftnu-
fieil po!tr thiut in in. -and sunk ovt of j
sight A geologist of tnf Weal Vliglllia:
State biiiersii., uiil he ci'etl in to aacer-
litit, fi.r tut- Mtitlf ,.f band i mil
- "It
I is ill tin center of the. rend. 'nee se, tioi
Y1EWS OF BAILEY ON BRYAN
Senator from Texas Declares the
Nebraskan Dominates House.
PURPOSE IS TO MAKE TROUBLE
Southerner Fixed In Hla Opinion that
Next Year the Man of Fair
view Will Be Candidate of
the Democracy.
WASHINGTON. April S.(Spcial. Tele
g.am.i By long odds the most Interesting
figure In Washington this w"k has been
W. J. Bryan of Nebraska. .Mr. Bryan has
been advising with the democratic leaders
In both branches of congress, and Is cred
ited with having taken an active -art in
the unsuccessful effort to prevent the
selection of Senator Martin of Virginia as
minority leader In the upper branch.
That Mr. Bryan's presence and. activity
is distasteful to some of the more con
servative democratic leade s Is evidenced
by a bitter Interview with Senator Bailey
of Texas, printed toi ay. Mr. Bnlley taid:
"Mr. Bryan now absolutely dominates the
house of representatives. He deliberately
came to Washington lo organize the rad
icals and make war on everybody else
Ho had no business here, except to make
trouble, and trying to drive his party
away from its sound anil historic position.
"These men pretend they are fighting me
personally, but they are not so much op
posed to me as they are opposed to my
views and the views of those who stand
wilh me In the senate.
I
Harmony Prior to Bryan's Advent.
"Before Bryan came down here there
was no trouble among the democrats In
the senate. They were harmonious and
acting together. There was no hint ot dis
sension. Mr. Bryan came on the ground
went about among the new members and
stirred up not merely a protest, but a
riot.
"Mr. Bryan and the radicals attack me
as a protectionist. Any man who says I
am a protectionist la a fool. They argue
that I am a protectionist because 1 have
voted for protective duties, but I want to
point out that whenever I have done so, 1
have voted for lower duties.
"What they call 'Balleyism' Is simply
the fundamental doctrines of the demo
cratic party. Mr. Bryan and Ids followers
first announced that they were opposed to
me as a minority leader In the senate. 1
could have had the leadership by a clear
majority, but I would not take it. because
I did not consider myaelf temperament
ally fitted for It.
"it was then proposed that Sepator
Haron of Georgia, one of the most ex
perienced and Intelligent democrats In the
senate, should be the minority leader.
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AlMOUliNS TODAY
j House and Senate Agree to Changes
in General Maintenance Appro
I printion Bill.
i COMPROMISE AT LAST ARRANGED
! New Steel Grandstand Fund Cut to
Fifteen Thousand.
I PARTY PLEDGES FORGOTTEN?
Many Members ofRoth Houses Not
Proud of Record.
GOOD ROADS REFORMS FAIL
Democratic Majority Snciesstnl In
I oprliOlna nma ef Xhb')
Whl.h Uill Total f ar Mnrr
'I'lian Kxprrleit,
(From a Staff Correspondent )
T.INCol.N. April .-(Spci la! V.Th Thirty-second
Nebraska legislature w II Iremaln
In session until some time Monday. By
that time ail the hills which have been
going through the engrossing profess will
have been sinned In the presence nf the
houses and rcad to go lo the governor.
The big appropriation bill for general main
tenance which was the bone of contention
nil dav Saturday and most of the night,
was finally reported out of the conference
coiomlttw. Trrt house and senste agreed
to the changes In It this morning. The
compromise was between the agricultural
men who wanted money for the slate fair
and the university men who wanted tH.(K
fo rthe State university.
The J100.000 for the fair grounds, which
waa to have been expended for a new steel
grandstand, was rut to fri.oon, which will
be used fnr general repairs, and the uni
versity fund to S170.WO. The money for the
university will he divided equally between
the agricultural school and the city cam
pus. An Item of J4O.O00 for the Beatrice
Institute for Feeble Minded, which was pui
into the bill by the senate at the urging oT
Senator Jansen. was the only large amount
cut from the bill. As the bills were finally
passed the total appropriation for the
maintenance of all state institutions except
ing the university was $:'.W4,:',I0. a slightly
smaller amount than was expected when
the members were In the midst of adding
Items lo it ad libitum.
Party Pledge Forgotten f
Members of both houses assert the legis
lature w hich is just drawing to a cloae ha
not distinguished Itself by the closeness
with which It' has adhened to paily
pledges.
The nonpartisan board of control was
saved at the last moment by a surgkal
operation, which grafted upon a republican
bill which hud passed the aubslance of a
democratic bill by Matrau oni Madison.
Reapportionment after much protest from
rcjublli;ans was finally ' ' ompHshnl in a
fairly satisfactory rtarinr;A7 Judicial re- .,
apportionment bill awalfs th governor s
signature.
By the help and voles cf republicans and
over the protests of most of the regular
democrats a very conservative Initiative
and referendum law went through. The
author of it declares that It Is the most
unprogrrsslvs bill In existence as a slate
law anywhere In the country, but If the
republicans had tried to Insist on a hill
that really fulfilled the democratic plat
form pledges they would probably have
failed.
Good Hoada Reform Fall.
Good roads legislation started out with
a flourish, a special committee and fliit
chances of success and real accomplish
ment, but the fear of breaking up county
political machines or something els kept
legislators from passing bills which th
commit lees recommended. None of the
widespread and progressive reforms which
would have taken the hlghwajs out of
the control of small community politics
and put them on a sound business ba.ils
Were passed.
The democratic promise to th south
western part of the slate for a new agri
cultural school has been fulfilled.
Home rule for cities over 6,000 and
biennial elections have been arranged for.
The democratic majority has appropriated
sums of money which have not yet been
totalled, but which .will be enormously
larger than was expected. In the matter
of a nonpartisan Judiciary It passed a
bill which tha governor vetoed. Promi
nent democratic politicians admitted after
the thing was disposed of that the gov
ernor had done only what was reasonable.
Aged Man Lost on Pralrl.
PIKUKH, S. U., April a (Special. I A
small boy, herding i attic on the prairie
near Caps the last. week, found an old
man by the name of Welch wandering,
evidently lust on the prairie, clad only In
night rube and slippers. The day waa
damp ami cold, and the old man was al
most exhausted and thoroughly chilled,
and completely bewildered as to where be
was. He waa led to the home of Hi small
herder and cared for until his relatives
could be notified.
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