MEYER TESTIFIES SAYS FREIGHT RATE REGULA TION IMPRACTICABLE. TRAHSPOBTATIOM OF LIVESTOCK Former Senator Harris of Kansas Tells the Senate Committee of the Views of Cattlemen Regarding Dis crimination. WASHINGTON—Prof. H. R. Meyer, assistant professor of economies at the University of Chicago, appeared before the senate committee on inter state commerce Thursday. He dealt chiefly with the railroad conditions in Prusia and Germany, in which coun tries railways are owned by the gov ernment. He said in part: “One of the leading objects of Prus sia's nationalization of the railways was the desire to abolish or minimize railway discriminations and there was the ultimate object of attaining cer tain social economic results. The evi dence now before us shows that Prus sia has succeeded on the whole in the first, but has failed completely in the second.’’ Speaking particularly of rate mak ing Prof. Meyer said: ‘To have the federal government or its agent, the Interstate Commerce commission exercise the power to make railway rates would in no way prevent secret rebates. Railways would find it no more difficult to de part secretly from rates made by the government than they have found’ it to depart secretly from rates made by themselves, and they often would be under greater pressure to depart from the rates made by* the government, for it is the verdict of all experience that the government will not and can not make railway rates that will meet the needs of expanding trade and in dustry. Effective effort by the govern ment to regulate railway rates in gen eral, he insisted, will arrest the de cline of railroad rates by producing a deadlock of conflicting sectional inter est. will prevent railways from de veloping a volume of taxation suffi ciently large to justify the mainten ance or building of railways of the highest attainable efficiency, will check the development of the re sources of the country and will de moralize the politics of the country. American railway rates are the result of arbitration and warfare and are about as nearly right as practical peo ple can make them. Federal regulation of rates, he maintained, would en gender a sectional struggle and re sult in mileage rates and provincial industries. Former Senator William H. Harris of Kansas, representing live stock in terests in the southwest, urged legis lation giving the Interstate Commerce commission power to fix rates. He spoke of the increasing cost of rais ing live stock in the west and of the increased price of meats to consumers, the prices to some people being almost prohibitive. The cattlemen had no de sire for government ownership, but wanted practical governmental super vision. He complained particularly of the rates from the west and southwest on young cattle shipped north to the feed ing grounds. He believed that impar tial officials appointed by the govern ment could arrive at a fair rate as well as interested parties. Cattle rates had been increased from 25 to 30 per cent and besides lower rates the cat tlemen needed rapid transportation for stock. NEW LAW IS TO BE TESTED Attorney General Says Plan to Deter mine Constitutionality of Law. LINCOLN—Governor Mickey an nounced that a suit would be insti tuted this week to test the constitu tionality of the biennial election law. Acting on his suggestion. Attorney General Norris Brown has made ar rangements to have a citizen offer a certificate of nomination as regent of the university to be filed with the sec retary of state, who will refuse to is sue certificate, and then be mandam used in the supreme court. The gov ernor stated that while the law m'ght save expense, it is clearly in. viola tion of the constitution, as its object can only be accomplished by an amendment. The suit was foreshadow ed by Attorney General Brown sever al weeks ago. The bill did not carry an emergency c’ause and cannot become a law un til July 1. but it is stated on the au thority of Attorney General Brown that the court can entertain the suit in order that if it should be held in valid the proper arrangements can be made for the fall election. Roosevelt Trying for Peace. LONDON—The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: “The u.plomatic representative of one of the great powers closely connected with the war states that it is undenia bly true that President Roosevelt is endeavoring to make peace as soon as possible.” Gold Standard In Mexico. MEXICO CITY—The gold standard went into operation Monday without the slightest jar or disturbance in financial circles. The finance depart ment had, by a series of new regula tions, smoothed the way for the adop tion of the gold standard. The present peso is worth 50 cents gold. The final completion of the monetary reform is hailed with general satisfaction, es- ! p^ciallv by great transportation lines I and importers who have in their man ufacturing industries to buy heavily of the raw materials abroad. Robs Senator Reed Smoot. SALT LAKE CITY—A verdict of guilty was returned by a jury in the federal courts here in the case of J. C. Peltier, charged with impersonating a postoffice inspector. Peltier, who was arested in Texas several weeks ago, obtained, sums of money from several prominent Utah politicians and officeholders, including United States Senator Smoot. He represented that he was a postoffice inspector and that he had been sent here at the re quest of Senator J. C. Burrows to in vestigate the charges against Smoot. ASK FOR MILITIA The Chicago Situation Is Growing Serious. CHICAGO—Rioting in the streets Wednesday was so prolonged and of so fierce a character that many of the leading business men have concluded that there will be neither peace in the city or safety for its business interests until the state militia has been called out to restore order. A committee of members of the Employers’ associa tion left for Springfield to confer with Governor Deneen and to request him to give orders to the state troops. The labor unions have an extensive lobby at the state capital and it is likely that they will also be heard before any action is taken by the governor. Chief of Police O’Neil says he is con fident that he has control of the situa tion and can keep peace. Mayor Dunne supports him in this view and has de clared that in his opinion the emer gency has not arisen requiring the presence of troops. On the other hand, the business men point to the long list of injured which marked the riot in of Tuesday, and the greater number of those tvho were hurt Wednesday, and declare that this alone is sufficient proof that the police are not, unaided, sufficiently strong to cope with the sit uation. No complaint is made against the police department, for the officers have dispersed every mob with which they have come in contact and have guarded wagons night and day. Rut despite their utmost the fighting con tinues in the streets and is. if possible, more vicious on each succeeding day. While the police have been able to disperse mobs and guard wagons they have not. been able to prevent the many attacks that are made on non union men in the business portion of the city alone. The situation, the busi ness men claim, will be ten-fold worse when express wagons and retail de livery wagons are sent to remote parts of the city. Mayor Dunne was emphatic in his declaration that he will not acquiesce in any call for outside assistance in preserving order, and intimated that he will strongly oppose any attempt to secure armed protection. He takes the position that Chicago must first exhaust every possible resource before it can stand before the world and ad mit that peace and order cannot be preserved in the city streets. The mayor said: “We have by no means reached the limit of reserve. 1 am empowered to call on every able-bodied citizen over the age of IS years. Of course. I could not call in the striker or the strike breaker, or their sympathizers, but I would have to draw upon the citizens of good character from the general public. If necesary, I could call in the hundreds of employes of the water pipe extension department, who are employes of the city, and have them sworn in to protect its interests. This would give a large additional force. Then I could shut the water collection office for a time and draw' upon the employes there. There are also a large number of ex-militia in Chicago to whom I could call. In fact, I could find plenty of men of good character who would be willing to respond to a call to preserve peace. If I should reach the time that I find that we could not convoy wagons and that all of our resources have reached their limit, then only will I call for outside help. JAPAN IS HIGHLY INFLAMED Thinks France Has Not Given Her a Fair Deal. LONDON—A special dispatch from Tokio to the Ixmdon morning newspa pers represent that the Japanese feel ing is becoming highly inflamed at France's alleged failure to prevent ostentatious disregard for the princi ples of neutrality by the Russian Pa cific squadron. The Tokio Ashai bluntly describes the French assur ances that they would preserve neu trality as falsehoods and declares that Japan would be justified in bombard ing French territory and calls upon the government, to take vigorous ac tion. Among Japanese officials in London it is assured that France put off Japan by fair promises In order to give Rojestvensky time to effect a junction of his forces and that the Russians are now given every privil ege, provided they keep just outside tho three-mile limit. The Times’ correspondent at Tokio reports that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce is considering measures to cease all commercial transactions with French citizens. Mother of Mrs. Maybrick. NEW YORK—The Baroness Caro line von Roques, mother of Mrs. Flor ence Maybrick, arrived on the steam ship La Touraine on Saturday night and left for Washington to give her testimony in her suit against D. W. Armctrong and others to recover pos session of certain lands. Bigness don't count for a cent's wo-th when you git to tirslin’ with one of them fellers that knows Jiu Jitsu. Germans Honor Poet Schiller. VIENNA—Festivities incid°nt to the centennial of the poet Schiller are in progress here and elsewhere throueh out Austria, where the Ger man Isneuage i»w rwe*f"rred stock was heard at the meeting, nor was any ex planation offered of the purpose of the proposed issue. One of the repre sentatives of the local stock asked how the proceeds of the new’ issuance were to be expended. His query was entered on the minutes, but.no reply was given. With this one exception there was no reference to the purpose of the management in providing for this fund of $100,000,000. NIXON BUILDS BOATS FOR RUSSIA Those Under Construction Nearing Completion. SEBASTOPOL—The torpedo boats which are being built at the govern ment yard here under the general su pervision of Lewis Nixon of New York are nearing completion and their trials in the Black sea will begin in a few days. In order to overcome the diffi culty always encountered in work in a foreign country, Mr. Nixon provided his own organization, with which he has pushed the construction of these boats to a successful completion. Much is expected of those torpedo boats. The Russian admiralty already has had practical evidence of the sea worthiness of the Nixon boats in the performance of the Gregory, which crossed the Atlantic in th& face of heavy weather. But the future pres tige of the designer of the American battleship Oregon will depend in Rus sia upon the result of the coming tri als, which will be much more severe than usual, to test certain advantages claimed for them by their American constructor. Storm Hard On Live Stock. STURGIS, S. D.—The biggest storm in many years passed over this vicin ity. lasting four days and nights, 1 quitting Friday. Twenty inches of snow fell. Roads are in a horrible con dition. Everything is snowbound, all trains are late, telegraph and telephone wires are down. There is fear of a flood < in the upper Black Hills. The storm, ! it is thought, extends out to the ranges and great loss of cattle and sheep is feared. Fruit trees are badly dam aged. The moisture is good for the farminsr country. ’ | NEBRASKA STATE NEWS ■ NEBRASKA BRIEFS. The citizens of Osceola are circu lating petitions for better railroad ser vice. Geneva will have but two saloons this year, each paying a license of $1,750. Peter Berlett, before the court at Auburn for illegal voting, was ac quitted. The Burlington is preparing to make some extensive improveinei ts at Te cum sell. The farmers of Table Rock precinct are agitating the subject of a country telephone line, with every prospect of success. The new Christian church which has recently been erected in Peru, at a cost of $2,200, was dedicated re cently free from debt. The contract for reroofing certain sections of the buildings at the peni tentiary has been awarded to the Nichols Roofing company of Lincoln for *700. Mrs. Polly Anderson, an aged wid ow, was found dead in her house at York. Neighbors who called and found the house locked broke open the doors and discovered the body. Earl Terwillerger, a farmer, living one mile south of Bee, accidentally shot himself through the hand while handling a target rifle. The wound is not serious. Several residents of Beatrice left for Casper, \Vyo., to work for Kilpat rick Bros., who have the contract for constructing a large irrigating canal near that place. The Commercial club of McCooH has determined upon two matters of importance to the city, a Fourth of July celebration and a street fair and stock exhibit in September. The mortgage record for Polk coun ty for the month of April shows: Twenty-two farm mortgages filed, amounting to $54,622; released, twen ty-two, amounting to $34,936. A thousand feet of track was wash ed out between Mason City and Ans lev„ the milldams at Ansley and West erville were destroyed, and many cat tle killed by the recent storm. A prairie fire in McPherson county and northern Keith county burned over the pastures from Blue Creek to White Tail, forty miles east and west by thirty miles north and south. The body of a man who froze to death last winter was discovered in Omaha under a sidewalk platform of the Omaha Implement and Transfer company, Ninth and Jackson streets. 2—Neb briefs.ihich pleze ing their convention at Pawnee City from May 17 to June 7. The program committee met and arranged a very interesting program for that occasion. The contract for the construction of the Seward county court house was let to Rokahr & Marxen of Avoca, Iowa, for the sum of $81,350. The building is to be of light colored stone. Martha L., wife of Charles O. Dailey, living twelve miles south of Mason, committed suicide by taking arsenic. She had some trouble with a step-son. and it is thought this caused her to kill herself. William Ch^ftan made the mistake of killing four ducks after the open season and Deputy Game Warden John Stapleton had him arrested and taken before Judge Taylor, at York, who fined him $20 and costs. Gerhard Heyne, a fhrmer of Logan township. Dodge county, had two colts stolen from his premises. At present there is no clue to the thieves. One of the horses was a bay, 2 years old, branded L, and the other an iron gray ; yearling. Two representatives of the Railroad Trainmen’s unions of Omaha and South Omaha were in Nebraska City and completed arrangements for the holding of their annual picnic in River side park, north of that city, on Sun day. June 18. The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Roos of Nebraska City, while toddling over the floor fell and a large darning needle, which it had in its hand entered the abdomen and punctured the bowels. The injury is likely to prove fatal. Hilda, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Brown of Sterling, ran a stick into her eye while at play, which penetrated the ball near the pupil. She was taken to Lincoln to consult a specialist, and it was found necesary to remove the eyeball. The Southeastern Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic reunion will be held in Wymore in August, beginning on the morning of the 14th and contin uing through the week. Wymore citi zens are preparing an interesting pro gram for the occasion. Mrs. I. S. Wooster has returned to Plattsmouth from an Omaha hospital, where she underwent an operation for the removal of a pin from the thumb bone of her right hand. The pin got into her hand fourteen years ago while doing the family washing. Ninety-one persons from Nebraska City left for the western part of the state in special cars, via the Burling ton. to work in the beet fields. They have contracted to care for 2,500 acres of beets this summer. Concealed in a bunch of broom handles for several hours, William Holden was discovered by the peni tentiary guards and returned to his prison cell. Holden was sentenced several months ago to fourteen years in the penitentiary for bank robbery in Platte county. He hid himself in the broom handles hoping to make his escape during the night. The grand jury recently in session in Tecumseh brought in an indictment against B. Conover of Sterling on the charge of embezzlement. Mr. Con over was in the implement business in Sterling for some time. He has given bond in the sum of $500 to ap pear for trial. In the vic’n'ty of Doniphan numer ous atte~*r'ts at horse stealing and frequ^t burglaries have been com mitted recently. The last attempt took place last week at the farm of W. M. Neal. Neal took a shot at the fleeing burgl&rs about midnight, but did not bit the fugitives. KEEPING OF MEMORIAL DAY. Department Commander Bross Issues Order No. 10. Attention is called to the law passed by the late legislature of the state to protect the day from encroachments of sports and amusements in which it is provided that any person or per sons who shall on the 30th day of May, commonly known as Decoration day, engage in horse racing, ball play ing, or in any game or sport, which may tend to disturb the public peace on the 30th day of May, shall be deem ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment lor not more than thirty days, or both, in the dis cretion of the court. Sunday, the 28th day of May, will be Memorial Sunday, and each post is urged to attend divine service in a body on that day, and to unite with the people of the state in giving thanks to the God of the nation for His keeping and His grace. Post commanders will see that flags are at half mast on Memorial day, and that arrangements are made for pa triotic exercises in public schools on Friday afternoon preceding. Atten tion is also called to the provision of me national encampment that Pres ident Lincoln’s Gettysburg address shall be read in connection with Me morial day observances, and a copy is inclosed with this general order. mst chaplains will make full report of Memorial day’s proceedings upon blanks provided for that purpose. In promulgating this order for Me morial day observance, it is remem bered that we have wdthin the bounds of this department a national ceme tery where sleep 6i»u of our soldier dead, whose graves should not be for gotten. The special attention of Stephen A. Douglas post No. G9, North Platte, as being the past nearest to McPherson National cemetery, and of the custodian of the cemetery, is di rected to this paragraph of this gen eral order, and he hope is expressed that suitable tribute will be paid to our patriot dead who sleep beneath the grossy mounds in McPherson Na tional cemetery. By command of HARMON BROSS, Department Commander. Attest: C. M. BARKER Assistant Adjutant General. Lincoln, Neb., April 22, 1905. STATE FAIR SPEED PROGRAM. Purses Amount to $6.000—Nebraska Circuit Dates. LINCOLN—Announcement has been made of the speed program for the state fair, and juuges, timekeepers and clerks of speed have been selected. Purse3 amounting to $6,000 have been hung up by the state board. The program is as follows: Monday, September 4—Pace, 2:27 class, $500; 2:40 trot, $500; half mile and repeat, $100. Tuesday, September 5—Pace, 2:17 class, $500; 2:30 trot, 3-year-olds and under, $400; one mile dash, all ages, vi25; three-fourths of a mile dash, all ages, $100. Wednesday, September 6—Pace, 2:35 class. $500; 2:18 trot, $500; five eighths of a mile dash, $100; three mile relay, first money, ,100; second money, $75; third money, $50; three to start entries on this race to close at 12 o’clock on the day of the race. Thursday. September 7—Pace, 2:22, $50u; 3-year-old pace, free for all, $400; 2:27 trot, $500; 2:23 trot, $500; half mile dash and repeat, $100. For Hunting Down Evil Doers. GRAND ISLAND—The farmers in the vicinity of Hansen, in the south ern part of the county, and in the northern part of Adams county, met it Hansen recently and perfected an. organization similar to that organized n South Platte township, this county, or hunting down the members of the ?sng which has been doing so much hieving in that section. At Doni phan a similar organization was per fected. Whipping Bee in Public School. PENDER—Thirty-seven boys were vhipped in the public school because hey witnessed a fight on the street jy two small school children. This mnishment was dealt out by a num oer of the women teachers at the* command of the principal, Prof. Shutt. Vs the result of this affair a com mo ion is raging among the parents and several members of the school board. Young Man Kicked to Death. YORK—Thomas Donahue, who worked for Mrs. Jane Clark in the south part of York county, was kick ea to death by a vicious horse. He only lived a few hours after the acci dent, his dead body being found in the barn yard. I - Reject Broom Company’s Bid. The state board of public lands" and buildings has rejected the offer of the Lee Broom and Duster company of 50 cents a day ior convict labor and ordered that the secretary advertise for new bids. The members of the board hope to secure competition with a resultant increase in the bid. Dur ing the pendency of the Ernst twine plant bill before the legislature a Minnesota trunk manufacturer made inquiries, but the prospect for the adoption of the bill seemed so immi nent that he failed to bid. Education for Convicts. LINCOLN—gecretary John Davis of the state board of charities announces that the penitentiary school is now in operation. For more than a year he has been endeavoring to secure oro vision for the eoucation of illiterate eonvicts. He with Chaplain Johnson has been conducting the classes after working hours. Davis says that some oi the men are criminals because of the lack of education, and he proposes t0 ♦vem 016 ^‘Pment which^m f?em to make honest liveli hoods after leaving the orison.