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Ir THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1'JU. SERENO E. PAYNE DIESSODDEHLY New York Republican Congressmar MeeU Death in Apartment House in Washington. ON HOUSE IXOOR DURING DAY Oae f Most Foremost Tariff o (horltlea a ad .otaltle I'taare la Ilia Party- for tireat Many Year. INDIAN SOLDIERS ARE LIMITED IN DIET BY THEIR RELIGION Here are some of them In camp near Ypres carefully weighing out their daily ration of food. WASHINGTON'. Hw. 11-Funer.il cer vices for the late Ropresentntivr Sereno B. Payne will be he!.l Sundny at 10:SO a. m. In the. hall of the hotisv of representa tives. No such prrvlcen have been held there slnre the death o' Repre'etitailve Nelson W. Wnglcy. Plana for the funeral mere mnde at a conference between Speaker t'laik and Representatives I'nderwood. Mnnn and Fitzgerald. Revolutlonii adopted Inviting the smote and a senate comniltt?e, the rre.ii.lont arid his cabinet, the vice "resident, justices of the supreme court, members of th dlpln matlc corps, the admlrnl of the navy and the chief of staff of ilic army to attend the ceremonies. The body will be tsk.-n to Auburn. N. V., In the custody of the aertfi'.mt at arms and a committee of the house, which In addition to the entire New Yr-: state delegation will Include Representatives Underwood. Mann, Jones, Tolbott, Cooper, Oillette. Rartholdt. Hartlctt. Hutler, 'Greene of Massachusetts; Hamilton, Mon dell, Fonlney. Murdock, Gardner, Moore, Kltchln, Ralney, Plxin. Huil and Hammond. WASHR1NGTON. Pec. 11. FVprer-nta-tlve Sercno E. Payne of New York died suddenly of heart failure at his apartment here at 11:15 o'clock last night. Mr. Payne had retired tu his room ap parently In robust health. He telephoned to the apartment house clerk about 11 o'clock asking that a physician be sent for. When the clerk reached tho iooni the congressman was dying and life was cktinct before the doctor arrived. Mr. Payne, who was 71 years old, lived alone and at midnight his body lay wait ing for the coroner, without frlond or rel ative near. His wife died three years ago and no one could bo found tonight who knew the address of his only soi.. Cheerfully Active on Floor. .Members of congress, who had seen Mr. Payne on the floor of the house this afternoon cheerfully active as usual, knew nothing of his death for more than an hour. A representative from New York In tvery congress since 1883, Mr. Payne was chairman of the ways and :ne?.ns commit tee and republican floor leader In WjS-IO, and directed the draftliiK ot the Puyne Aldrich tariff bill. He was born at Hamil ton. N. Y., June 2tf, 1S43, and educated at Rochester, N. Y., and Colgate. He prac ticed law and was district attorney of Cayuga county, and in 1SS3 was elected a member of congress from the Twenty sixth district Later his district was the Thirty-first, and finally he represented the Thirty sixth. He was a delegate to many re publican natl6nal conventions and in 1898 he was appointed a member of a Joint high commission to negotiate a treaty with Canada. He had made his home at Auburn, N. Y., t for years, though most of his time was spent in Washington. Notable Flsjore of Party ' ' As one of the most foremost tariff au thorities In congress, Mr. Payne was a notable figure among the republicans of the house long before he became chair man of the ways and means committee and framed the original of the republican tariff doctrine which stood until repealed by the Underwood law. When the democrats gained control of tha houso four years ago, Mr. Payne was succeeded as republican leader by Repre sentative Mann of Illinois, who had been one of his lieutenants during the tariff flKhts. . The New Tork representative, however, did not give up his activities as a party chief. Puring the Underwood tariff de bate he made one of the notable speeches of the session and he was heard on the Panama toll exemption repeat bill and many of the important issues in the pres ent congress. His age was beginning to tell, however, and of late he had not in frequently dosed quietly In his chair for a few moments at a time during a day's session. He had an office assigned to him just across the corridor from the house. Respected by Political Foes. Though always at odds politically with Speaker Clark and Democratic Leader Underwood both of them had for him a very high opinion and personal regard. Tha congressman leaves a son. Will Payne, who had been associated with hi in In the ways and means committee work from time to time for years. He was the ranking minority member of the ways and means committee, and last met wijh that committee when It was called to gether by Chairman Underwood In Octo ber to be photographed In moving pic ture. The body will be taken to New York state to the home city, which at the last election returned him to congress with a comfortable majority after a vigorous campaign. Committees will be appointed by both houses ot congress to attend the funeral. The coroner announced tonight that Mr. Payne died from heart failure, supertax ilucfcd Ly arterio-scleros's and a compli cation of organic troubles. Washington Affairs The Navy department announced that the damage to the bite electric collier Jupiter. Injured in the gain off the New England coast, was very slight and that the vessel was proceeding to New York under Its own stcuin. Democrats of the -senate will meet in caccua Saturday p.fternocn to frame a legislative program for the twiston of con gress, with a view to assuring couiple tiun of necessary lejjiflatii. by March in order to av-rt the nncessiiy tor an ex tra session to unher in the hixty-'ourth congress. President Wilson was asked by a com mittee of I 'JO Indians representing the .Society of American Indians, to appoint a1 mmiiii.n to iuvesticate the condition of American Indians and recommend the )aasage of a code of Indian law, "whi.h shall open the door of hooe and "progress to aur people." Tha bill to restrict uses of Iialilt-forming (truss was finally passed in tha house and goes to the president. It compels . registry with the Internal revenue bureau of ail physicians, manufacturers and dvalers who harnile opium or its deriva tives, and similar drugs, and prescribes forma for written orders for certain drugs. Rapid progress was made. In the sen ate today with the Immigration bill, manv amendments proposed by the senate com mittee to the measure ss it passed the house being agreed to. one amendment to extend the proposed exclusion of per sons convicted or charged with crimes Involving mo r i.l turpitude to persons ''le gally charged" with such offenses wus defeated. i'AK -v -' .. V''t!I 'ricVK. . li fir.- - , r r!i -,') ,. -n i "Cx t - 1. SUBMARINES RAID HARBORAT DOYER Half Dozen OermftH Destroym At tempt to Enter Under Cover of Darkness and Rain. THREE ARE REPORTED SUNK Shore Batteries Keen a Furious Faallad for Half, aa )lr, FIMnc at . Least Tj Haaarea Shata. SHELLS BURST ON THE AMERICAN SIDE General Maytoreria Takes New Po sition Near Naco and Opens Fire on Hill. UNCLE SAM'S ARTILLERY COMES LONDON. Dc. It. Half -a dortsn German submarine Made an at tempt at 6:40 o'clock Thuradar morning to enter the admiralty har bor, according to 'a Dover diflpatch 'o the Kxchange Telegraph company, and for half an hour tha batteries kept up a furtoua fusillade, firing at least. 200 shots. It Is reported that two or three of the submarine were sunk, but no confirmation ot this can be obtained. Tha attempt was made under cover of early morning darkness and during heavy rainstorm. The first alarm, says tha dlapatth, was given by tha firing ot a naval gun. and soon all. tlx batteries were in action. The admiralty, to whom this dispatch was submitted, says that It had no con firmation of tha reported attack,, v " Dover Is opposite the French town of Calais and Is one of tha chief ports of communication between England and tha oont'nent. The admiralty, harbor, com prising an area of 10 acres, IS the finest harbor of ref.xe In tha channel. Its construction was begun In ISM and completed In 1909 at a cos of t1T.EOO.000. Rirltrmrit at tKe. DOVBR. England. Dee. 11. The city of Dover was thrown Into excitement today by the announcement that the Germans, early this morning, attempted a sub marine attack on tha harbor Works and the fleet at anchor In the harbor. Tha night was very dark and a heavy rain and hale mate searchlight' work dlftlctilt. FsHtinately the trls.'wern pi i on the alert about 4 o'clock llilf rnornln by the eppe ranee off the harbor entrance of an .Unidentified steamer, which re fused tc stop Until a shot was fire. I err s Its bow. The vessel then retired. It Is believed to have been the- tender of the submarines, TTslf an hour later. It la said, a lrtr. submarine was alghted and one of the heavy guns In the harbor fired at It. This submarine, which evidently was the advance scout, disappesred, but at 6:34 the observers sighted what they believed to be a fleet of about six' submarines several miles out In the channel. The channel forts commenced firing In the direction of the supposed submarines and kept It up for almost half an hour At the same time a torpedo boat des troyer flotilla put to "sea where It rr mslned all day. targe crowds gathered on tha water front In the early morning hours and watched the searchlights and the artil lery fire. When they saw no results of the shelling msny persons expressed thi opinion that It was a false alarm. Czar Nicholas Given Warm Welcome on Arrival at Tiflis PKTROtJRAD. Dec. 10. (V'.a. London. Dec. 11.) Tha arrival of the Russian em peror at Tiflis and the enthusiastic re ception he has been given In the Cau casus relieves considerable apprehension which hss prevailed regarding that sec tion of the country. The fact that th emperor had" left io visit the hendtjuarters In the Caucasus was not announced, hut his arrUal at Tiflis la chronicled today. The apprehension regarding the Cau casus was due to the fact that emissaries of the Turks and the Germans had started a . propaganda In that region promising the Georgians a re-establishment of the old Oeorgian kingdom and enlisting Mo hammedan sympathy for Turkey. Nobody doubted the sentiment of the Armenians and the cultured Mohamme dans and Georgians, but many doubted tha Illiterate Georgians and . Mohamme dans, who constituted three-quarters of tha population ot tha Caucasus. The emperor's trip and reception have now dispell, all' feara, , . " .,. '." ' li... ' 'h -i aa "Bmrt Smif Mm' Again We Prove Our . .eaoeirsm Four Special Trains Bring; Men and Ciaaa from El I'aao to Iteln force Garrison Ballets Aleo Fall Across Line. NACO, Aris.. Dec. 11. A train In four sections, bearing United States artillery ordered here from El Paso to reinforce the border troops, arrived today. The guns were unloaded at Osborne, three miles east of here. The soldiers of -General Hill and Gov ernor Maytorenft, J the Mexican leaders fighting about Naco, Sonora, were un usually active all last night. Maytorena's artillery took a new posit lb n southeast of Naco and opened fire before daylight on 11,11's trenches. Several shells burst this side ot the boundary line. A large number of bullets from both Mexican factions fell on the American side. WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. Provisional President Gutierrei haa ordered Governor Maytorena, commanding his forces at Naco, to avoid operations altogether it he cannot confine his fire within Mexico's borders. Counsel SUliman at Mexico City reported the provisional president's action today, which undoubtedly was In response to yesterday's urgent representations from Washington. Two Spaniards Ksecnted. WASHINGTON, Dec. II. Two Spanish subjects,- Vincente Vldal and Eduardo Rosugal, have been executed at Tampico by General Caballero, the Carranza com mander. The cause of their execution Is not known. Caballero himself disclaims that he knew why he had been Instructed to put them to death, according to a re port to tiie State department today from Thomas H. Devan, the American vice consul A third Spanish subject Is re ported In prison on a charge similar to that which led to the execution of tha other two. The Spanish ambassador, Mr. Rlano, visited Secretary Bryan and was told that efforts would be made to save the life of the man In prison and that further Inquiries already had been made to as certain what were the grounds on which the others were executed. Roumanian Minister Advises His Country to Get Into the War PARIS, Dec. 11. "Any nations keeping out of the . present struggle commits moral, political and economic suicide. Take Joneacu, Roumanian minister of the Interior, is thus quoted In a dispatch pub lished by the Matin. The quotation con tinues: . . "The Roumanian nation, democrutlo and lib ral in Its culture, must not commit such a crime. Tho present war offers a unique opportunity for It to realise Its program without cndannerlng the Inde pendence of its liberties or the klngJm." DENVER SENDS 20 CARS OF FLOUR TO BELGIANS Of Superior Makes, Superior Qualities and Superior Values The Best of the World s Best Makers We Place Before You at a Wonderful Price Concession SUITS and OVERCOATS DENVER. Colo., Dec. 11. Twenty cars, carrying more than . l,0f,000 pqunds of Colorado-milled flour,' the gift of the people of the state to the war sufferers In Belgium, will start from Denver late today for New York. Free traisiportatlon has been furnished by the railroad ovr whioli the flour will be shipped. A sec ond similar train Is being collected and will be sent east In a few days. ENTER OLD ACQUAINTANCE. THE CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 10. Six chil dren and two teachers wera painfully burned today when a short circuit of electric wires set fire to a school Christ mas entertainment tree aol decorations. A flash from the wires spread to the tinsel on the children's dresses and tree. Tha women In the audience rushed to the aid of the teachers, smothering the flames and preventing a panic. Read the "For Sale" ads If yoa want bargains of tha minute. I Jif . fro:.i li .' V . '.I The House of Kuppenheimer AND Hart, Schaffner & Marx i IN TWO GREAT LOTS ATvTWO SPECIAL PRICES ensveiaMT Id TM HOUtl OP CUFNrlIMS:l Great Coats, Plush Lined Coats, Over coats, Ulsters, Bal macaans,Klavicles, Raglans, Chester fields, Fur Coats, Fur Collar Coats Today this store of fere bet ter coatB than at any time during its history. The fa brics are the best, the tail oring more finished, guaran teed silk and satin lining. S18, $20, $25, $30 $35, $40, $45, $50 L-J ;.. 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