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i i M m THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE IRA L. BARB, Publlshor TERMS, $1.25 IN ADVANCE). NORTH PLATTE, - . NEBRA8KA ER OF THE WEEK COWHBN8ATION8 OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Othor Matters In Brief Form for All Classe of Readers. Congress. Survey and estimato of a ship canal around Nlugara Kails was asked for Jn a bill Introduced by Representa tive Mott The commltteo on prlvlllgcs and cloctlonB adopted a report exonerating Senator Stophenson from charges of corruption. In tho senate tho 8herwood pension bill wan rejected by tho pensions' committee and a substitute of Senator Smoot adopted. James J. Hill testified regarding tho Hill lease of tho Lalco Superior oro fields before tho house Stanley steel committee. ' Tho llvc-yoar army enlistment, amendment to tho army appropriation bill was adopted in tho house by a vpto of 101 to 73. A delegation from tho American Rankers' association urged tho enact ment of legislation for better regula tion of bills of lading. A servlco pension bill similar to tho Bhorwood bill and prohibiting special pension legislation was introduced in Jio senato by Senator Works. Senator WllllamB of Mississippi ad ocatcd before tho senato Intorstato Commerce commltteo UIh bill for tho tcgulatlon of intorstato corporations. Tho Lewis fraud ordor caso devel oped controversy botwoon Georgo D. Cortelyou nnd E. C. Mnddon beforo tho house poBtofflco expenditures com mltteo. Tho bill to mako effective tho con vention between tho United States, Great Britain, Japan nnd Russia to Btop polnglc Bcnllng was passed by tho house. Roprcscntntivo Lamb of Virginia has Introduced n bill to llconso all lo comotive onginccrs and plnco them under tho Indirect supervision of tho Intorstnto commorco commission. It was charged beforo tho commlt teo on expenditures In tho War de partment that President Taft shield ed Major Ray, a paymaster, from court-martial because of Ray's politic al services In 1008. General. China has becomo a ropubllo by the abdication of tho Imperial Iioubo. A Now York sowing machine man mtya thoro i no need of a protective duty. For the timo being, at least, Mexi can troopB will not bo allowed on American territory. Senator Rood of Missouri Introduced Ills anti-third term amendment to tho constitution. Every ward In St. Louis elected Champ Clark delegates to tho demo cratic otato convention. Tho Western Retail Lumbermen's association at Seattle wont on record bb opposed to tho parcelB post. Tho old story of improper acquisi tion of tho Panama canal zone was retold to a houso committee. Tills Is not tho year for Roosovolt to mako tho raco for president, ac cording to Secrotnry MacVeagh. Tho Oklahoma republican stato com mltteo at Its meeting endorsed Presi dent Taft for ronominatlon. Headquarters for Speaker Champ Clark's campaign for the democratic presidential nomination wero opened at Washington. Stato Senator A. V. Proudfoot or Indinnola, la., authorized tho Htato ment that ho will seek tho republican nomination for governor. Tho stato department has concludod to decllno tho request of tho Mndoro government for permission for Mexi can troops to cross TexaB. Lawrcnco Y. Sherman of Spring field, 111., mado formal nnnouncomont of his candidacy for tho republican Domination for United States senator. Georgo G. Thompson of Dotrolt, Mloh., superintendent of rural mulls, was appointed chief clork of tho post office department at a salary of 14,000 a year. Tho tariff board's money is running eo low that it may not this year bo Ablo to Investigate tho iron and stool schedule, which is under investigation by congroBB, Tho twenty-flvo army posts which experts of tho war department advo cate abolishing will not bo provided for in tho army appropriation bill now before tho house. At tho Department of Justlco it was said that no ovldonco implicating officials of tho Amorlcnn Federation of Labor had been adduced in tho grand Jury Investigation at Indiana polls, No official statouiont was forthcoming. Albert Prlnco pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Doputy War den E. D, Davis at the Nebraska peni tentiary. Tho Illness of Representative Ueorgo R. Maltby of Now York, who now is convalescent, has delayed tho final re port of the house commltteo which investigated tho sugar trust. Colonol Roosevelt declined to dis close the contents of the letter ho re ceived from state governors. Tho houso paased tho anti-loan shnrk bill fixing 12 per cent ns tho maximum Intorcat rate in tho District of Columbia. Kansas City, Mo., will bo tho sceno of tho next lntorcolleglato balloon race. An nppcal for votes for women waB mado to the senate woman suffrngo committee. Former Governor Myron T. Herrlck of Ohio was confirmed as ambassa dor to Franco. Hrlgadlcr General Charles II. Whip ple, pnymastor general of tho army, was retired. James .1, Hill nays competition, In steel, as In everything else, Is des tined to continue, American soldiers by getting Into Juarez, Mexico, by mlstako caused a great commotion. Tho United States has given assur nnco to Moxlco that there is no thought of Intervention. A Bteel magnato said labor unions should bo under government control tho samo as corporation!). Congressman William Kent, of tho Second California district announced his retirement from congress. A forost lands oxecutivo order by Theodoro Roosevelt will probably be rescinded by President Taft. Sovoral hundred billiard hall pro prietors from all partB of Iowa met and formed n stato association. Arthur W. Brewster of Kansas City filed his declaration as candidate on tho democratic tlckot for governor. The Now York democratic state convention to Bolcct delegates to tho national convention at Dnltlmore will bo held April 12. B. H. Meyer at a hearing urged wider powers for tho commission, in cluding physlcul valuation of railroads and supervision of bonds. W. Morgnn Shuster, ox-treasurer general of Porsln, was a passenger on tho steamship Georgo Washington, which Bulled from Southampton for Now York. Tho docks nnd waro houses of the Campagnlo do 1'nOconn burned at Ani Btordam, The loss on goods stored in tho ward houses Is estimated at over $400,000. The British steamer Cuban, which arrived in London from Now Orleans, brought Into port nlno of tho crew of tho British ,hlp Brno, which was wrecked In a heavy storm. Intorstato Commorco Commissioner Lnno told tho Interstate Commorco commltteo Investigation showed nu merous dovlatlonu by express com panies from published rates. CharleB Hnzen Hyde, former Now York city chnmborlaln, lost his appeal to tho appellato division of tho su premo court for a change of venuo, and therefore must stand trial. Mrs. S. II. Schermorhorn, wifo of a Chicago broker, was seriously burned when an alcohol stovo overturned in a compartment of a car on tho Santa Fo California limited train near Em poria, Kan. William MoVoy, arrested In Now Orloans for Inrcony, Is tho former Ne vada convict for whom a roward was offored aftor tho murder of William A, Sandorson at Garflclud, Utah, No vombor 11. President Tnft'a urgont appoal for development In Alaska bore fruit in a bill Introduced by Chairman Flood, of tho territories commltteo, to create an Alaska railroad commission of threo mombers. Comptroller of tho Currency Mur ray announced that ho would strictly enforco tho law which holds directors of natural banks llablo for losses sus tained through, loans In excess of le gal amounts, Postmasters af postal saving doposl-1 torles may accopt deposits from any body, tho regulation restricting dopos Iters to tho patrons of a particular or flco being rescinded In an ordor issued by Postmaster General Hitchcock. Representative Mott of New York Introduced In tho houso a bill appro priating $250,000 for tho survoy ana estimate of cost of a ship canal to con nect tho navigable waters of the Niagara river, making a continuous water routo botweon the flvo great lakes. Senator Raynor askod tho Bcnato to adopt a resolution instructing Uio Judiciary commltteo to roport if tho anti-trust law could bo so strength ened us to deflno clearly tho nets con stituting n violation of tho law and to insure the protection of fair com petition in interstate trado. Personal. LaFolletto says ho is not out of the presidential race. Tho national commission of China has elected Yuan Shi Knl presidont. Former Gov. Folk of Missouri has dropped out of tho presidential raco. Norman E. Mack has roslgnod us democratic stuto chairman of Now Yorlc Adjutant Gonoral Alnsworth was placed on the rotlred list at hlB own rouqost Attorney Gonoral WickcrBham says it will take RooBovolt's word to sat isfy him ho is a candidate. Tho trial of tho alleged dynamlt ore has been tentatively flxod for Muy. Adjutant General Alnsworth has boon relloved of duty and is to face a court martial, Leo Mulgrow of Dubuque was re elected president of the Iowa ntate bakers' association, Governor Aldrlch of Nebraska said that talk of himself as u vice presi dential candidato waB premature. Common scnBo and honest methods, Is tho panacea recommended by ex Senator Boverldgo for government ills. HELP FOB SETTLERS IRRIGATION ENGINEER VISITS THE STATE CAPITAL. HAS A PB08LEM TO SOLVE Water Rates So High That the Out look la Discouraging Miscella neous Capital Mattero. Hnrteon A. Mark, an Irrigation en gineer from Morrill, Neb., was at the capital to see if thoro was not some way by which tho state railway com mission could help out tho Bottlers on the interstate ditch In his section. When tho reclamation service engi neers mado an estlmato of what wa ter rights were to cost they placed it at $35 per acre, with a maintenance charge of forty cents per aero per year. On the Btrongth of thlB a largo number took up lands under tho gov ernment project. Payments wero to date from tho time water waB turned on, which tho engineers fixed at Juno, 1908, but aB a matter of fact only a small portion of tho dlBtrlct, obtained water on that dato, with tho result of uo crops. Tho engineers allego this was duo to tho farmers not knowing how to handle their dltchcB, but the settlers and engineers employed by them as sort It wob duo to faulty construction of ditches. This, howover, Is not ull of their troubles. Instead of $35 por aero tho price has been raised to $45 for all who had not paid up on their con tracts. In one section only one mnn was able to do thlB und ns a result nil othorB aro held for tho greater rate. The maintenance charge, Instead of being forty cents per aero is $2. This maintenance charge 1b remitted for two years to ull who sign the now con tract. Many of those sottlerB, Mr. Mark says, have Invested everything thoy have nnd duo to lack of water for their lands have neither money nor tho credit to get it to enable thorn to mako their payments and unless Bomo rellof Is afforded by means of extensions will lose their investment. Even with tho extension they aB Bert the rate Is bo high that no one but a capitalist can swing tho propo sition. Tho ditch being an interstate proposition tho railway commission 1b doubtful of its authority to do any thing in the matter of regulating rates, which aro llxod by tho Water Users' association, composed entirely of owners of deeded lands. Rotation on the Ballot. F. M. Currle, secretary, and C. A. Adams, presidont of tho Taft league, called on Secretary of Stato Walt in regard to how tho namoB of candi dates for delegates wero to go on tho ballot. Both tho La Follotto and Taft organizations are understood to favor Bomo method by which tho respective delegations can bo designated by the name of the candidate they stand for, nnd that each sot bo grouped and tho groups rotated Instead of rotating tho Individual names. Mr. Walt holds that In tho nbsenco of any speclllc provis ion ho will follow tho Intent of tho law, which clearly Is to make tho bal lot Intelligible to tho votorB. Nearlng Century Mark. Last Thursday was the ninety-sixth birthday of the Rov. Harrison Pres Bon.'Ho received callB from many old. soldiers nnd womon of tho relief corps at hla homo In Lincoln. Tho Rov. Mr. PresBon in 1850 preached tho first Bormon dollvored In Omnhn. He 1b in good health and his faculties aro bright and keen. Ho sorvod In the civil war and bo did his son. Condition of Treasury. With only four counties yet to ro port their collections up to January tho Btato treasury Iiub received $701, 404.9G since January 1. Of tills amount $418,272.13 wob received in January and $283,132.83 in February. Whilo DouglaB county has not mado dual Bottlemont it has remitted tho major portion of tho amount duo tho Btnte. Tho other counties ScottB bluff, Gardon und Custer by ronson of having a largo amount of school land, will hnvo heavy payments, largo ly for tho school fund. Prince Before Court. Albert Prlnco, colored convict, who killed Doputy Warden DavjB at tho penitentiary, wub arraigned in county court on tho charge of murder in tho llr8t degree Ho ploadod not guilty, waived preliminary hearing nnd was remanded for trial. , Deserter Arrested. J. F. Guthrlo, a deserter from tho torpedo boat destroyer Preston, who gnvo himself up at tho recruiting sta tion, will bo court murtinled. Kearney Hospital Contract. Tho Board of Public Lands and Buildings awarded tho general con tract for the erection of tho now tu berculosis hospital at Kearney. It wont to W. S. Crossloy of Kearney, who la Just finishing up n contract on tho Kearney Normal. Tho general contract calls for $10,180, plumbing and heating,' $2,700; wiring, $325; total of $13,105 for tho building. ThlB price was reached by changing the plana somewhat. "This will loave a conslderublo sum for tHtlngs and put ting tho building in shape. PRIMARIE8APRIL 19. Governor of 8tate Prepares Hie Proclamation. Governor Aldrlch has proparcd it proclamation calling a primary elec tion to be held April 19. In accordance with the law IiIh proclamation calls for tho selection of candidates for tho following offices: Preferential candidato for president. Preferential candidate for vice president. One United States Ecnator. Four delegnte3 at large and two from each congressional district to nt tend national conventions of the vari ous political parties. One national committeeman lor each political party. Ono congressman from each of tho six congressional districts. Governor. Lieutenant governor. Secretary of state. Auditor of public accounts. State treasurer. Superintendent of public Instruc tion. Attorney general. Commissioner of public lands ana buildings. Ono railway commissioner. Eight presidential electors. Stato senators nnd representatives. And five constltutlonul nmendments for adoption as party measures by tho various political parties, as follows: No. 1. Reserving to tho people tne right of direct legislation through tne Initiative nnd referendum. No. 2. Fixing tho term of ofllce ana Increasing tho snlarles of members of tho legislature. No. 3. Creating a board of commis sioners for state Institutions. No. 4 Providing for general elec tion onco in two years. No. 5. Allowing cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants in this state to frame their own city charters. Merchants Are Pleased. Nebraska merchants are feeling much plensed over tho action of tho lnterstato commerce commission In suspending tho proposed freight schedules of tho western railroads, No. 51, which was to have been effect ive February 15. The schedule pro vides for Increases in some rates and for a reclassification in part of exist ing schedules. In order that time might bo glvon for a thorough exami nation of conditions and of the effect of tho new rateo, tho commission or dered them Ineffective until June 14, In the meantime it haB promised a searching investigation. Major Penn to Manila. It is understood at the state house that Major J. A. Penn, the regular army officer detailed as Inspector and Instructor to the Nebraska National Guard, will bo ordered about, April 1 to rejoin his regiment. As his regi ment is now in the Philippines this means another trip to tho orient for tho major. Major Penn has been on detached duty as long as tho military regulations permit and this Is the rea son assigned for the transfer. Two Regiments May Go. Adjutant General Phelps has noti fied the War department that Nebras ka will send two regiments to tne army maneuvers at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., In case the railroads will grant a suitable rate, such as Is In etTect to Denver, but In case no rate Is maae only ono regiment will attend. Prince Expects to Be Hung. Albert Prince, tho "Omaha negro who on Sunday murdered Deputy Warden E. D. Davis at tho state penitentiary Just ns chapel exorcises wero drawing to' a close, Is confined in the dungeon roslgned to tho fate which he knows nwnlts him. He expects u death sen tence for his crlmo and ho declares that ho Is ready to pay the price or tho blood of tho man ho slow because of some slight reprimand which that official had given him. Violation of Law. Labor Commissioner Louis V. Guye hns mailed a notice to a company playing at tho Amorlcan theator in Omaha that they wore violating the law when they permitted 7-yenr-old Gladys Ponlca to appear on tho stage. Tho company has now left the state. More Bonds Bought. Tho Board of Education Lands ana Funds has invested $C0,800 of perma nent school funds, as follows: Bonds of tho city of Sutton, $28,o00; bonds. of tho city of Rushvlle, $15,000; bonds ol tho cty of Gordon, $4,000, and bonds of tho city of Wilcox, $13,000. Declare Law Invalid. Tho county board of Boyd county and County Attorney D. A. Hurting ton hnvo set usldo nn enactment of tho Inst session of tho stato legisla ture. Tho luw referred to 1b tho act extending tho ofllce of county assess ors ono year and tho board of tho north Nebraska county has declared that tho law is invalid. Old Legislators Meet. "Auld Lang Syno" In Nebraska legis lative history was inlltated In Lincoln when membors paBt und present of tho stato legislature sat around tho festlvo board and broko bread togeth er in tho first reunion of Its kind ever held in tho stato. Ono hundred and eighty legislators wero In attendance. The Plans Approved. Plans for tho $100,000 medical build. Ing at the Omaha campus of the Uni versity of Nobraskn wero approved by tho board of regents. " A PLAGE ON BENCH CHANCELLOR OF NEW JERSEY the PRESIDENT'S CHOICE. APPOINTMENT ALMOST SURE Thirty Years As a Jurist, Six Year Under the Age Fixed for Po sition by the President. Washington. Mahlon Pitney, chan collor of tho stato of Now Jersey member of congresB for two terms a lawyer and jurist of thirty years practice, looms up as tho man whom President Tuft will uppolnt to the supremo court bench to succeed the late Associate Justlco John M. Han Ian. Among friends of tho president it wub reported as practically certain that Chancellor Pitney would bo ap pointed, and tho nomination, accord ing to excellent authority, will be Bent to the senate Monday or Tues day. So far tho president Is understood not to have discussed tho appoint ment, of Chancellor Pitney with all his cabinet No special meet ing of tho cabinet has been called .tonight, but it is possible that members of President Tart's official family will be told his choico tomorrow. The presidont 1b understood to be lieve that the appointment of Chan cellor Pitney would not be opposed in the Benate. Chancellor Pitney has been under consideration by the president for several weeks. Follow ing protests against Secretary Nagel, Mr. Taft turned his search from be yond tho Mississippi river, where hi ilrst looked for a candidate. Chan cellor Pitney nnd F. J. Swayze, jus tice for tho supreme court of New Jersey, wero two men who gradually became most prominent in the presi dent's mind. Chancellor Pitnoy meets many of tho president's requirements for a su premo court justice. He is just a little more than 54 years old, six years under Mr. Taft's age limit, and has been a practicing lawyer and a judge since 1882. He served as as sociate Justice of the New Jersey supremo court from 1901 to 1908 and became chancellor In the latter year. His term would expire in 1915. His home is in Morrlstown. PINCHOT QUITS LA FOLLETTE. Says Wisconsin Senator's Course Falls of Purpose. Washington. GIfford Plnchot in a signed statement made public Sunday announces ho has withdrawn his sup port from Senator La Follette's presi dential candidacy and that ho will horeafter advocate the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Plnchot says that tho events- of tho last month have mado it apparent that Senator La Follette's candidacy will enlther hold tho progressive republicans to gether as n fighting force nor prevent the nomination of 'a reactionary re publican." Mrs. Lucy D. Flsk Dies. Boston. Mrs. Lucy D. Fisk, widow of James Flsk, jr., who was shot more tQian forty years ago in Now York by Edward S. Stokes as tho climax of a bitter rivalry between the two men for tho smiles of the famous beauty, "Josle" Mansfield, died almost penni less Sunday In South Boston. She was 70 years of age. Five Cases of Yellow Fever. San Diego, Cal. With flvo cases of yellow fover among Its crew, tho Brit ish ship Akalls put Into Sallna Cruz for medical aid early last week, ac cording to advices just brought here by tho American-Hawaiian steamer Nobraskan. Clayton for Governor. St. Joseph, Mo. A special train, bearing delegates to the democratic convention at Joplln Tuesday, will carry nioro than 200 democrats from northwest Missouri, all of whom lined up to launch a boom for Mayor A. P. Clayton of St Joseph for governor. Many Injured in a Wreck. Baltimore, Md. In a head-on col lision between an oast-bound freight and westbound passenger train on tho R. & O. railroad near Rockwood, Pa., twenty-four aro reported injured. Called off Invasion. San Francisco, Cal Freddie Welsh, British contender for lightweight hon ors, announced from his bed in his training quarters at Coluia that lie had called off hla American invasion. Make a Demand for Money. Now York. Hundreds of excited depositors, mostly foreigners, stormed tho private bank of Adolph Mondell in Rlvington street, demanding tholr money. To Discuss Wage Demands. New York. A conferonco commit tee of twolve, roprosonting the forty eight eastern railroads concerned, will meot union representatives in the near futuro to discuss the recent de mand of the locomotive brotherhood for more pay. Former Baseball Manager Dead. Cincinnati, O. Edward Ashenbach, former manager of tho Syracuso, N. Y team for the New York stato base ball league, died at a detention hospi tal of paralysis. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. News Notas of Interest from 'Various Sections. Three hundred old Nebraska legis lators held n banquet in Lincoln. Citizens of DoWitt aro interesting themselves in an electric light planL The Y. M. C. A. of Fremont is mak ing an effort to clear up its indebted ness. Farmers' institutes throughout tho Btnte ure well attended and much In terest manifested. In Jefferson county six hundred men succeeded in killing four wolves in n round-up. Burwell is pushing for a public li brary and seems to have everybody Interested in the movement. Twenty-five students from six col leges wero graduated at the State uni versity mid-winter graduation exer cises. All efforts so far to apprehend the' murderer of tho llttlo girl at Grand Island have been unsuccessful. There is a good reward out. The Eustls board of education at a special meeting reelected Superin tendent John L. Zink for another year at a substantial IncrenBe in salary. Enos J. Stedman of Syracuse, a member of the legislature from Otoe county, dropped dead at tho home of IiIb son, two miles south of,Syracuse. shoes and n pair of his trousers. Marvin Maxwell, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Maxwell of Bloom field, died as tho result of an accident while coasting. Farmers of Nemaha county aro test ing their seed corn. Much of it shows a low vitality, and quite a largo per cent falls to germinate. More care will be exercised than is usunly taken. Rov. F. W. Cliff, who has been in charge of the Baptist church in York for the paBt five years, has handed hi6 resignation to the trustees, his resig nation to take effect March 10. After being given a bed for the night at the Friends' mission In Fre mont for 10 cents, Robert Swain, transient, walked out of the little church building wearing the minister's Somo valuable horses have been lost in the vicinity of Peru and in the neighborhood of Brownvllle, it is thought from eating cornstalks which had not matured when the hard frost came. The Dashler broom factory paid out $2,000.78 the first of February. They now have eighty-one persons em ployed. A number are boys that only work before and after school and Sat urdays. Henry Johnson, a young farmer liv ing near Roca, furnished a bond in tho sum of $500 in the court of Justice Stevens at Lincoln that he would sup port his wife and child. Johnson was charged with wife abandonment. Edward Williams of Grand Island, state deputy fire warden, has tendered his resignation, to take effect March 1. He was appointed when Stato Fire Warden Randall was chosen by Gov ernor Aldrlch In January, 1911. If the 8,000 live stock brands and marks registered with tho secretary of Btate 5,000 expire by limitation of law with tho current year and unless re newed aro subject to be claimed by others. A sad tragedy was enacted at the home of Ed Orris, a farmer residing six miles north of Bancroft, when tho lG-ycar-old Bister of Mr. Orris ended her life by taking carbolic acid. She had brooded over somo trouble in the household. At Pender, Judge Graves sentenced J. E. Dillon of Council Bluffs, la., to an Indeterminate sentence of from one to twenty years in the peniten tiary for mayhem. Ho bit off the ear of Ed Bellvillo of Herman nt Wait hlll recently whilo fighting. The board of public lands and build ings has formally awarded a contract to W. S. Crossloy of Kearney to erect a building at the state hospital for in digent consumptives at that place. Tho board made several changes in the original plans. Representative Flood introduced In the house a bill to create Alaska rail road commission. Chairman M. E. Costin of the county board of Dawson county has filed an application with Stato Engi neer D. D. Price asking state aid for the building of a bridge at Lexington across tho Platte river. Of the nineteen most Important Junction points in this state, fourteen transacted a larger volume of busi ness for the fiscal year of 1911 than for tho previous fiscal year, according to roportB on file with the state rall wny commission. J. F. Kotnn of Omaha haB been au thorized by the adjutant general to re cruit a company of tho National Guard to bo known aB Company F, First reg iment. There has been no Company F In this regiment for somo time, it hav ing been mustered out. A pathetic sceno occurred In Judge Boyle's office at Falrbury when the county authorities took charge of six children belonging to Mrs. Lillian Fivecoat and took them to tho Ne braska Children's Home society in Omaha. The family for months has beon living In dire destitution. State Treasurer Georgo has bought $6,000 of bonds of the school district of Long Pino and $10,000 of bonds is sued by tho town of Benedict, Washington dispatch: The entire Nebraska delegation voted against cutting off pensions to pensioners liv ing in foreign lands. It has been found that many pensioners have removed to Canada. Many widows of veterans are living In Europe .Tho Nebraska members felt that as long as a serv lco pension .bill had been passed that it was only consistent to base pen BionB on service claims rather than residence. w
