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Advocates
of Ship Bill
Win Round
-/
foFce INigbt Session in Effort
to Obtain Early Action—
Proposal to Table Milk
Bill Pending.
Argue Over Filibuster
Washington, Feb. 19.—IVP)—Con
fronted with an effort to displace
their measure, senate proponents of
the administration shipping bill
forced a night session in waging the
final stage of the fight to obtain en
actment of the legislation before ad
journment of congress.
Opponents of the- bill attempted to
bring about an adjournment at the
usual hour, but were voted down. 4T.
to .13. Earlier In the day thev united
with supporters of the flUed-ntilk hiif
1n an endeavor to take up that meas
tire and lay aside the shipping legis
lation.
Senator—Jones, republican. Wash
ington, in charge of the ship bill,
met the move with a motion to lay
on the table the proposal to take up
the filled-tuilk bill, which was made
by Senator Dadd, republican. North
Dakota. The motion was defeated, 44
to 4J, and the Dadd proposal was left
pending before the senate.
Consider Note Prwise.
Leaders among the forces support- 1
ing the shipping bill conceded that
the vote to table the motion was pre
cise and pointed out that several re- j
publicans who are considered favor- !
able to the shipping bill, such ns j
Senators McCormick. Illinois; Nichol-I
son. Colorado; Sterling. South Da
kota; Sutherland, West Virginia; Me
Nary, Oregon; Cameron, Arizona; |
Oooding. Idaho, and Stanfield, Ore ]
gon, voted agamst tabling the Ladd ;
motion.
The vote on the motion to table was
follow ed by extended debate Vdurinc
which the shipping bill was attacked
nnd the filled milk bill was both at
tacked and defended. The feature of
this debate, however, was a lengthy
interchange between ft«-nator Under
wood. the retiring democratic leader,
and several democrats on the question
of the propriety Of a filibuster against
the shipping legislation. During this
debate, Senators Underwood and
Hitchcock, democrat. Nebraska, eon
(eded th$t there w as a filibuster
."gainst the shipping bib, huL Senator
Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, later
denied there was any real "filibuster"
and sc d thar any statement to the ,
contrary "must have been a slip of the
tongue.” j
Principle at Stake.
Declaration by Senator Underwood '
that he was opposed to defeat of the
shipping bill by a filibuster caused i
Hitchcock to inquire how the demo |
( ratio leader squared his opposition to 1
a filibuster now with his action in
Darling the filibuster at the beginning
of the present session, during the fili- j
buster against the anti-lynching bill,
that such a course was justified in
that that Mil violated a funda
mental principle nnd added:
"A great governmental principle is
now at stake. This congress is not
going to vote ‘Yes' or 'No' on the ship
subsidy bill, but on the question of
whether there shall be fastened on
the country a contract which was re
pudiated at the last election.”
iaofhisb-vmph *
The additional statement was made
by Senator Hitchcock that he could
speak "with freedom” as he was a
"lame duck” and that “never was n
fdibuster more Justifiable,” than
against the pending legislation.
The democratic leader proposed
that the Madden amendment making
government aid to ship operators con
tingent on annual appropriations by
congress be voted on first, adding
that if that were adopted, although
he still would oppose the bill, its
passage would be fraught with no
danger to the country
In the midst of the debate Senator
McKellar democrat Tennessee asked
unanimous consent for a resolution
inquiring into the liquor sates on
government ships before the order
1 prohibiting such sales hut Senator
C'alder. republican. New York, blocked
ns consideration The resolution
isKed for detailed Information from
ihe shipping board regarding liquor
(ales during the "wet" period
Blood Hounds on Trail
of Strangler of Woman
Osawatomie, Kan. Feb. !9.—Blood
hounds from Kansas City, Kan., were
brought here today in an attempt to
locate the slayer of Mrs. Flora Ree-ly.
' elephone operator, whose body was
found late last night. The dogs fol
lowed a trail from the seen" of the
crime to a house here in which lived
a man now’ under suspicion, the au
thorities said. In investigating the
»rider,c, of what they declared was
a desperate struggle by Mrs. Reedy
against her assailant. Her body was
dragged 100 fee, from the street and
hairpins arid hits of clothing were
found along the wav. She had been
strangled to death. Her husband is in
Spokane. Wash.
Former H**afl of Frisco
Road Dies in Sanitarium
St. Louis, Feh. 19.-W. H. Biddle,
former president of the fit. Louis A
San Francisco railroad, died at a
asnltarlum today, lie Is survived by
a widow, KUs F. Biddle, and three
sons. Robert of Chicago. Wheldon
•>f Medford,' Ore,, and Walter of To
ledo, O. Mr. Biddle w-ns director of
traffic of th" southwestern region
during the war and at the end of the
war he retired from railroad aerr
Ice to develop a fruit ranch near
Medford, Ore. He was horn in Be
loit, Wla., In 1*M and alarled rail
road work as ». brakeman on the
Santa Fe System. Funeral services
will he held hart Tuesday
Former Omaha Pilot
Flangs Up a Record I
C. B. C'oUyer.
C. B. Collyer, former Omaha air
mail pilot, set a new record for the
air mail service recently by covering
the distance between Cleveland and
New York, 435 miles, in two hours
and 37 minutes, an average speed of
more than 166 miles an hour.
The plane was loaded with more1
than 5.000 pounds of mail.
Farm Bloc Plans
to Force Issue on
Rural Credit Bills
Supporters of Legislation Cir
culate Petition Calling for
\etion by Republican
Caucus.
H> GEORGE F. At TIIIER.
IVRililnilsn < nrrespcndrnt The Omaha Be#.
Washington, Feb. 10.—(Special.!—
Rural credit legislation in the house
became a football of contending fac
tions today, resulting In the circu- j
lation of a round robin J>y supporters '
of the legislation. calHPST for a repub
lican causus next Wednesday night to
consider ways and means of dyna
miting rural credit bills out of the
committee on banking and currency.
This was met with a veiled threat
from Chairman McFadden of the
banking committee that calling a cau
cus might, destroy any hope of pass
ing legislation of any character.
The insurgents led by Representa
tives Anderson, republican, .Minnesota;
Dickinson, republican, Iona, and Dow
ell, republican. Florida, went ah“ad
with their preparations for a caucus.
Representative Dowell who circulated
the petition claimed today to have
enough signer* to call the caucus and
refused to be moved by threats of re
prisal.
Filibuster Delayed.
The promised filibuster, which was
to be stagr 1 today in order to blast
the bills out of the committee, was de
layed, owing to the necessity of pass
lng personal bills on the unanimous
consent calender and because the pro
posed amendment to the federal farm
land bank had no* been taken up.
The filibuster will be postponed
luntil after the action of the republi
can caucus on Wednesday. The in
surgents scored to the extent of ex
tracting a. promise from the rules
committee to report a «i>ecial ruje on
rural credit‘legislation as soon as any
thing bearing on trie subject Is re
ported from the lianking committee.
That body held hearings on the Tap
per ami the J^enroot-Anderson rural
credit bills today, listening to argu
ments from Gray Silver, representing
the farm bureau federation, and
others favoring the 1.enroot-Anderson
hill.
To Keport Only l upper Hill.
In spite of the evident preference of
the farm bloc for the latter measure.
It Is the apparent intention of the
committee on banking and currency
committee to report only the Capper
bill, which the farm bid members
ray is only an apology for real rural
credit legislation. Members of the
hanking committee point out that the
I,enroot-Anderson bill would make a
demand upon the treasury for $120.
000,000 and would put the govern
ment into the hanking business
While this committee was wrestling
with the rural credit bills, with the
evident intention of throttling them,
the house committee on agriculture
reported three Dills which call for ap
proximately $030,000,000 from the pub
lic treasury.
fine of these is the Christophemon
stabilization bill, which provides for
government purchase of wheat in or
der to keep the price up to approxl
lialeiy $1.7.3 a bushel. .Still another
was the Norris Sinclair bill providing
for the organization of a government
corporation for the purchase and sale
of wheat. None of them are expected
to make any headway in the present
congre««. «
Belgian Minns Strik*-.
ihussels, Fel>. 19.—UP)—Twenty -
f*\e thousand Belgian miners of the
•*!£>,000 employes in the Mons basin
have gone on strike over the question
of v ages.
—-—
Runaway I.ml Lives 10
Days in Sand Pits If Uli
U eather Below /fro
Denver, Feb. )».—oA a beii of
straw W’ith a thread Imm overcoat ns
his only covering. Ernest Adams 12,
runaway from Kansas City. Mo., slept
through the recent below xero weath
er that prevailed here and lives to tell
the tale. For JO days and nights he.
i lived jn the sand pits w«st of Denver.
He told his story to the pojl^e to
;dn>. after lie was seen by a motor
ist sleeping in a crevice in the sand
j Phs late this morning. He ex
| plained that he had “overslept.”
Ernest, who also was picked up by
the police here about a year ago while
j in quest he said, of “the Indian siw
I vivo in of the Custer massacre,” will
i he returned to his homo fropi which
| he fled two weeks ago. He lived as
he could, he asserted, "from the back
door# of hi# neighbors.'*
Lithuania
Mobilizing
More Me
_ a\>0? *'
4,^ ' V* -Vi*
Fresh Attacks A|r v ^‘v .1
Neutral Ztr.^P '»* —
' Heavy G Re
sult Frt. iash.
Appeal Made to League
Warsaw, Keb. 1#.—(A)—Fresh at
tacks by the Lithuanians on the Pol
ish forces in the neutral zone iillottcj
to Poland are reported here today.
It is also said that the class of 1923
has been mobilized in Lithuania.
Dispatches last night from both
Polish and Lithuanian sources re
ported collisions between forces of
the two countries. The Lithuanian le
gation in Taris made public a dis
patch from Kovno asserting that Po
lish forces had invaded Lithuania,
after occupying the neutral zone near
Orany and attacked the Lithuanian
troops with heavy casualties. The dis
patch added that the Lithuanian gov
ernment had reported the facts to
the league of nations, requesting that
Rtrps be taken to prevent an exten
sion of the conflict.
Action on Both Sides.
Paris, Feb. 19.—(A1—Meager details
of the occupation of the neutral zone
between Poland and Lithuania, re
ceived in official circles in Paris, in
dicate there has been action on both
sides. Dispatches from Polish sources
to the foreign office say that the
Poles completed the occupation of
that part of the zone given them by
the council of the league of nations
the Lithuanians began firing with
artillery upon the points occupied.
Tarry Out Threat.
At the Lithuanian legation here it
was declared the Poles had not only
occupied their own part of the neu
Ira I zone hut had crowded over into
ihe part assigned to the Lithuanians
by the league. It also was advocated
that the Polish frontier guards and
officials needed for the administra
tion of the region were accompanied
by troops of all arms contrary to
the decision of the league council.
The im-pres-sion voiced In French i
official circles is that the Lithuan
ians are carrying out the threat they i
made in the league council to resist
the occupation of any part of the
zone by the Poles. Lithuania has an
army of 50,000 rnen.
Member* of the farm bloc in tbe
house launched a drive for action on
rural credits legislation.
Another resolution proposing an in
ternational economic conference was
introduced by Senator Owen, demo
crat, Oklahoma.
On the reconvening of the supreme
court after a three-week recess. I-Jd
v.ard T. Sin ford of Tennessee was
sworn in as associate Justice.
Shipping legislation received a set
back, the senate voting. 44 to 4J, nof
to tahle a motion to lay it aside and
take up the filled milk bill.
The house rules committee, by a
ti to S vote, refused to report a reso
lution giving Henry Fords offer for
Muscle Shoals light of wav In the
house
A unanimous decision w«« reached
bv the house way* and means com
mittee to recommend that the house
accept senate changes in the British
debt funding bill.
Favorable report of a resolution
providing for submission to the states
of a child labor t onstitutlona!
amendment was ordered by the senate
Judiciary committee.
Itouht was expressed at the State
department as to whether Secretary
Hughes would find it poslbte to at
tend the pan American conference at
Santiago, Chile, next Month.
The nomination of Senator Poidex
ter. republic*. Washington. to lie am
bassador to Peru was sent by Presi
; 'lent Harding to the senate, which
j quickly confirmed it by unanimous
■ ote in open session
An adverse report on Min. John B.
Henderson's offer of a $300,000 resi
dence to hr* used «m a home for the
vice president was made by the sen
ate public buildings committee, which
said It could not recommend an out
lay of $15,000 annually for mainten
a nee.
The railroad labor board can fUg
g«M*t to carriers and their employes
to select representatives for confer
ences on rules and working condi
tions. the supreme court, decided
Upholding the validity of the Inter
state Commerce commissioh* order
increasing by 15 per cent, the >ftw
England lailioads' share of through
freight rates, the supreme court held
that the commission, under tha trans
portation act of 1920. can make
division of joint rates by groups.
Overdone of Drupn f atal
to Kl Pago Sorirty (,irl
Kl Kami, Tex- Feb. 19.— Ml** Mar
lorle 1>*II Owen*. 17, norjety girl of
Kl Pago. dl**l liHlay from overdo***
of narcotic* anil liquor, according to
the attending phyalcinn fcilie had re
< ently returned from I,on Angcl-*.
where aim vlgited friend* and went to
.Tuareg Monday night on a party, ac
cording to her brother. John R
( .reene,
"Hhe took a few drink* ami may
have aartrd u*ing drug*," her broth
er told t!i* coroner. ^
A. R. Summer*, traveling galegnuOr
of Dalla*. waa In the i>arty, h* told
th* coroner. lie »ald Ml** Greene
kfl the laid* where the parly wan
ntttlng in a fliinr,' hall, returned *
, few jnirurteg later and cuUgpeed
Senator Appointed
Ambassador to Peru
Washington, Fob. 19.—The nomina
tion of Senator Poindexter of Wash
ington, to be ambassador to Peru was
confirmed by the senate late today in
open session. Action was taken soon
after the nomination had been re
trod from President Harding.
Senator Bodge o? Massachusetts,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mlttee. asked that the senate take up
the nomination Immediately. He then
moved that the nomination he con
firmed, and the vote for confirma
tion was unamimous.
Senator Poindexter, who has been a
member of the senate since 1911, was
uefented last fall when he came up
for re-election. Before entering the
senate he served three years as a mem
ber of the house, having been elected
as a progressive republican from the
Spokane district. Previous to coming
to Washington, he was a district judge
of the superior court. He was born fn
Memphis, Tenn., in 1808.
The Washington senator is chair
man of the mines and mining commit
tee. a member of the interstate com
merce. naval and public lands com
mittee.
House Committee
Approves Funding
Pact With British
Chairman Fortlnry Instructed
to M ovc for Acceptance
of Changes in House
Today,
Washington, Feb. 19.—The agi ce
ment between the American and
British governments under which
Great Britain will have «2 years for
the payment of ttR $4 890.non.niio war
debt to this country will become ef
feotive before the end of this month.
This was made certain today with the
action of the house ways and means
committee in instructing Chairman
Fordney to move Tuesday in the
house to accept the senate change*
to the amendment to the debt fund
ing act. giving congressional ap
proval of the agreement. The com
mlttee vote was unanimous and the
public vote is expected to be prac
tically fO.
Direct action by the house will
make a conference with the senate
unnecessary and will save consider
able time. Immediately after the
house vote the hill will be made ready
for President Harding, who is * :<
ported to sign it in a few days
Several republican r^embere of the
committee were not wholly satisfied
with either of the senate Amendments
but they voted to accept them be
cause they though It would be un
wise to throw* the hill Into conference
and thus make it subject to uncer
tainties which ilirround all important
legislation in the closing days of con
gress.
Chief objection w.is to the Robin
son amendment requiring congres
sional approval of the settlements
with the other debtor nations, the
argument being advanced that this
might operate to slow up negotiations
with those nations because congres.s
will not be in session again until next
December. The Harris amendment re
quiring the appointment of three
democrats to the commission also was
not entirely satisfactory to some of
the majority.
Representative Burton, republican.
Ohio, a member of the American debt
commission, was understood to have
told the committee that It would be
!*tt*r to have the commission divided,
five republicans and two democrats.
• He urged acceptance of the p ite
changes by the house, however.
Steps Taken to Cope Witli
High Prices in Berlin
rt»rlii! Feb, li) ■>*»>—Stringent of
Trial steps are being taken to rop<g
with the situation arising through the
continued high price of commodities,
the price of which has not decreased
with the improvement in the exchange
status of the marl .
the federal minister of food and
Agriculture has dire* ted that a special
control commission shall be appoint
ed oensisting «<f one Mvoswk dealer,
one butcher and on** consumer for
each livestock market to regulate
sales. 4
The reduced demand had already
brought some sharp reductions in
prices in the wholesale market, pork
dropping from rt.300 marks a pound to
| -.500; mutton as much as too marks
a pound, and ox meat from 10 to T,
!>er cent.
Retail Gasoline Price*
Reduced in Kansas City
ks ileus City Mo.. Feb. 19 ,\ i
Auction «*f 1 « cut n gallon on gasoline
old in Greater Kan*a* City and an
advance of 1 cent n gallon In *»!1
! other place* in Missouri ami Kansas,
effective Tuesday, wna announced 1>\
the Standard Oil company of Indiana
Th© new filling alatton prices are
[19 1-3 cent* here ami 2\ 1 2 cent* at
[other points in the two etat**
House Gommittee Shelves
Ford Muscle Shoals Offer
Washington. Feb. 19.--fir a vote <.f
* l" 1 ths house rules committee i«
fused today to report out a resolution
giving llenry Ford * offt i f. i Mu- ie
Shoals right of wsy lln tile house. This
preclude* consideration if Muscle
Sin-sis legislation at tills sessi-.n un
less s maiorlty of the house rotes to
override t tie rules romtuittee.
First Panel of Four Jurors
Accepted in Herrin Trial
Marion. Ill FVb. IT ((4>h I lie
ftrM pnnrl of four Juror* in the arc«»nd
Herrin min© lint* trial waa mm
pMfd late today when the «U*f» un* .
with littl© dlacuaaion. accepted a panel
Iplidtifd hy th© ©tat©. Th© land in
< ompoaed of two farmer*, « palntct
tnd a chauffeur*
“Come In, John!”
House Committee
Approves Bonus
l rfirji I hat Hill He Referred
to \ otrr* at N«'\t (>rn
cral hlection.
Lincoln. Feb. 19.—^Spt * Tho
house nrsecllamous committee voted.
*» to ♦. tonight to favorably recom
mend tho $10,000,000 bonu* bill in
troduced by a number of American
1/Cgitii? im ft who are mem tiers of the
j legislature.
The bonus plan is similar to that
, put into effect in Kansas and Iowa.
I Fnder terms uf the bill the propoai
| tion must be referred to the voters at
i the next general election.
While the miscellaneous committee
rtf the house was giving the soldier
l*oy encouragement, the house coni
mittc*«* on* revenue and taxation voted
to indefinitely postpone a bill intro
duced at the behest of the state ad
' ministration which would cut tha
i automobile tax in half.
Kvclyn No-bit in Cafe Rm*;
W arrant baited for \rr«M
Atlantic Ci y, N .t 1-VW 19.—\
warrant was issued for the arrest rf
Kvelyn Nesbit by City Itecorder
<*orio today when she failed to appear
in his c ourt to nns" »r n « barge of
disorderly Conduct. She is alleged to
1 have created it disturbance Hi a cafe
Saturday night. Keieascd in *10 bail
after her arrest, she declared she was
the victim of a ’■frameup.”
The j Mil ice say the arrest was or
dered by the cafe manager after an
encounter between Miss Nesbit and
' a physician at *>m- of the cafe tables
Just In-fore she was to go on with her
dance act. Miss Nesbit. according
to the jMiliee. suddenly brought the
diners to thru feet by crying’ that the
physician had approached her tab’e
and struck her in the face
The physician said Miss Nesbit ad
dressed a remark to him w hile he was
dancing with another woman and
then slapped him. He said he merely
gently pushed her toward a chair. No
charge was preferred against him.
Harding Not to Name
Now for Caliinet Post
Washington. Krti ]«.— ITrsuIrnt
Harding was said by'his friendn^ to
day tn htt\ ** virtually decide*) not to
appoint Senator Harry S New of
Indiana tn a plate in the cjuhnct
For a time the Indiana senator,
| who failed of retiomlnation and
[redress from the senate on March 4,
Mas under consideration a* a sue
cessor to Postmaster (iniM.il Work
when the latter iM transferred to the
y interior portfolio it was Indicated
today, however, that Mr. New prob
ably would l*o given some other place.
He may he made governor of Porto
lih'o. succeeding I! Mold. Reily.
The president's reported intention
to make Mr. New post in.liter general
i developed opposition Among some In
diana repuhlirit ns.
R.'tiirn of Pro|M*rt\ Scir.nl
During W i.rld War Urged
Washington. KpIi i fi Upturn lo
' Jp. nniii rltizpns of $4.'>.inul.O09 of Uip
$847,000.(100 trust* li»M |.y Hip iilfpn
propprty iusto«1ian ns i. rmult of war
(Imp siirui.H was urgr<l In n glut.
m< nt Is.-uml by .Mii'u Property Ott*
Indlnn MiUpi. Stir li u riiinburzztnrnt,
Iip soul. would 'contribute vastly to |
a relief of tho srnutunlf hUuntlon In
tlsrmnny." tha Ho pitarm tlmr
l.PK.Hlniion authorizing tho $43,000.
ono paymrnt. Mi Millet s.ii.i. |* p*nt|.
Ing in muiii i' « rttul iif (luu'tniPnt Is1
fit' oi piI hy President lliiilum. He ip. ,
I'll) Hughes nmt Alibrin > (omtul
1'nughnrty Tht rtniaiad. > of (hr
funds, nlxml *;io:'.mi0.oml .nuhl up is
tallied ht, ths govri nment K was
[Mid. 4
Girl Killed as
Auto Overturns
at Svottsbluff
Machine I- Ditched ^ lien
Driter Loses Lonlrol ^ liilr
Racing iili Roys on
Horseback.
S- ' tlablufT. Neb . Feb. 21.—'>j'fcla 1:.
— Mildred Pittman. 11. daughter of
Mr and Mrs. William Pittman of
Minatare, Neb, vn klll.-d instantly
at 4:30 Sunday afternoon when a Ford
tar in which sh" and three other
persona were riding overturned on a
country road near Soottabluff. She
w a* pinned beneath the car and suf
fered a broken ne, k\ dying Inatantly.
The car was driven by Hex Leon
sid, 15. Other passenger* were Har
old Reynold* ami Maym# Ruff,
l^onard was racing with two I vs
< n horseback, Theodore and Jacob
Lskam. when the accident occurred.
I-eonard lost control of the car and
it tan into a ditch by tbe side of the
r* ad *nd then out again, overturn
ing and pinning the Pittman girj. who
was.riding In the front seat, under
neath.
None of the others was injured
except for bruise*
Thete w-fll be no inquest nor any
criminal a, tion. County Attorney
Ileiss and offer an Investigation.
Hospital In Be Fnlarpctl
a- Ki 'iili of Decieioit
Folumbus Neb, Feb. 1?.—(Special)
—The decision given by District
I udge A M. Post in the r ise af R R.
Karlin against the Franciscan Sister
ho«wi has )♦•«• affirmed by the mi
prame court acvording to notice ^re
reived by attorneys. The «ate is the
outcome of protest against the elec
tion of the proposed <20<»,0(»f) addition
to St Mary hospital.
The city cuncil had voted to vacate
Sixteenth street from Fourteenth to
Sixteenth avenue and sold the strip
of ground to the Sisterhood. Owners
of property close by objected to
the truisa* Ron and b ough- suit
against it.
Stejm are now being taken by the
Sisterhodd to complete the arrange
ment for beginning wort The plans
have lw*en approved hj the mother
superior of the order. The new
building x\ill have a ground dlinen
• lot « of 14»> 14y 40 feet with a chapel
In the rear 40 by 00 feet.
Fair ami W anner \\ eallior
Promised in Near Future
Washington. l'Vti i?—While tho
void witvp was xppr.jln* ll«plf in IhP
aouthenstrrn aoi'tlon i>f ihp country
I««i it tic lit. bringing * temperature of
40 degi op» to Jg< kaonviUp, Kill . a.rord
ii'K to report* to Ihe weather bureau,
ihp northwest w i> upltlrwt n touch «f
nioi" moderate weather. Ravld City,
S 11 . i i'lx.rlinj; n temperature of 54
dearer*. ‘.'i iIphi pps ithovp normal.
I> -m • m|Hrature* w#rp predicted
Co III •' »’ III- ..ill Of Ihp Mtft*i**il)pi
wheii lii 'V.'ithei wa* null un*ea
x' H.iM vi I ’ Waxiern at ate* already
liivi [ill iffr.-i* of thp promised fair
and wnrnlri1 weather.
Fight Children Mnllirrl ('»S
in 1 liree (ilevelanil llonii's
i lev eland F ell 13 —i:i«hi rhlldran.
thp oldrai uf which I* 13 year* old.
made inotlieile**— (our of them
heraine orphan*, in fact—whan donlh
Invaded thror t'lpvolgnd home* within
IS hour. Tho four orphan*, ranging!
in a*p from 3 to 18. mw the around '
II a* nil of thoir live* ulwi their
mother. Mrs. Josephine Augustine. ■
Senate Body 0. ILs
Child J^abor Law
Advocates ^ in I iplit ^ hen
Committee Recommends
Resolution.
Washing*.on, Feb IS.— Advocates of
a child labo- constitutional amend
ment won the fist stage of the.r fight,
today when the senate Judiciary com
mittee ordered a favors!»te report on
a committee resolution providing for
submission of such an amendment to
the state*.
Uppoi ent* of th* resolution, how -
e'er, declared they would pre\ent It?
adoption by the senate
There was no record vote by the
committee in ordering the resolution
reported, which was a composite
draft embodying feature* of more
than a aeore of child labor resolution
which the committee has been fight
ing over four we k*
The committee s child laboi amend
ment would provide:
"That congress shall have power,
concurrent with the set era! states, to
limit or prohibit the labor of persons
under the age of IS years " *
Platte Count) Rank* to Test
Constitutionality of Law
Columbus N>b . Feb. 18.—(Special.)
Plate county banks will pay their
tases in full under protest and des
ignate one of their number to start
a fi :endly test case to determine!
whether their assets should be classi
fied .is tang,hie property under the
state law ThiJ was the program
agreed upon at a special meeting of
| the Platte County Rankers' associa
tion, attended by 20 members repre
senting ail but three of the national
and state hanks in the county.
Tlic plan was adopted on condition
that ihe bangs would pay their uks
in full under protest, providing the
county Word would agree that .f the
one tiank chosen to start the test
case should l>e granted a reduction by
the «x>urts. I ho board would make
proportionate teb»t<-a to the other
banks
A resolution trains the passage of
senate file No, H*r> was adopted
Death of S. Jackson
Pronounced Suicide
No in.i irst will be held into the
death of Stanley C Jacksons SIS
South Thirty third *: ’■ oe T. secretary
of the Central Labor union, who nyt
found lying in the street neat Forty
first and Center sreit* : ..e Saturday
afternoou. fatally won Coroner
Paul Steinwender declined Sunday
he believed there was no doubt that
the man had committed sue ale and
that he would make his report ac
cordingly
Mbs. Jackson ha* been stunned
since the r,ew« of her hui])»and's death
was broken to her. She said she lie
llcved her husband had been worried
o\-er the ill health of her children ami
her*.If during the past month and
that this fact had led to hit act.
Funeral services will be held to
day at i' at the Fir»t Pieshvterian
Church. Itri F.dwsrd A Jer.k* mil
ofhviate Interment will be in West
lawn cetnetety.
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High Court
Sustains
Rail Board
Decision Strengthening tech*
Cummins Act Rendered in
(iase Brought h> Penn
sylvania Road.
Injunction Is Nullified
Washington, Fell. IS.—Til a demsion
of far-reaching importance, strength
ening the F-ch-t'ornmins transporta
tion act provisions for government
adjustment of railway labor disputes,
the supreme court Sustained the raii<
way labor board and the enntentiori
of organized labor in the "oimparS
union"""case involving the Penneyl
van la railroad.
Declaring that congress «> med it
of Hi' highest public in’erc st to pr e
vent the interruption of intersia'*
commerce by labor disputes an-t
-trikes the opinio:.. delivered by chief
Justice Taft held that tire ' bor board
did not exceed its j>o« rs when z
i ondemned the methods adopt--! b-e
the Pennsylvania railroad to estab
lish employe representation in dea *
.ng with questions of wages and
working conditions.
injunction .Nullified.
The company Igrored the federal
fhoperafts union and caused rs err •
plover to hold an election of repicse -
tatives which the labor hoard pro
nounced irregular ordering a re «
election, at whirii union a* veil %
nonunion rc-presetatlves c-oui-1 ! *
voted for. The corn pa y obtained a i
injunction of the board s decision,
which is nullified by the supreme
c-ourt decision upholding the lalx
boa rd.
Organize*! labor contended that ' e
Pennsylvania had set out to smash
the union and to organize its c^ri
Uion.
“Congress ' says the supreme cou t
opinion, “has frequently rercfnlnd
the legality of labor unions and *t
reason suggests its* f thAt such s i
association if its membership :* projt
erly Inclusive may not b*> -rgarded as
among the organizations of employes
referred to in this lec*latjon."
Not KnforeaMe by I-aw
The opinion point* That th* de
cisions of the labor board cannot te
enforced by process of law and can
orjy invoke public opinion by direct
ing "public criticism against the
party who, it Uimka, justly deserves
' The purpose of congress to p.-c
mote bai mouiou a ieiauc ns last wean,
the managers of railway* and thei
employe* h seen tn every section of
this act and the importance attached
by oongrea* to conference* between
them for this purpose is equally ob
vious." said Chief Justice Taft. "Con
gress must have ’.mended, therefore,
to include the procedure for determir
■ ng representatives of employe* as a
proper subject matter of dispute to i-a
considered,by the board under section
SOT. The act is to be liberally con
strued to effect the manifest effort of
congress to compose difference* be
tween railroad companies and their
employes, am! it would not help th:*
effort to exclude from the lawful con
sideration of the labor board a ques
tion whir'n has so often seriously af
fect ed the relations between the cor -
ranies gr.d their employes in the pa-*
and Is often encountered on th* ver -*
threshold of ' controversies between
them.
Board of Arbitration.
The .nlor board was created to d*
e.de hew- the parties ought to exe -
< i»e their legal rights so as to enable
them to • o-operate in running th*
railroad, tt was to re-ch a fair eon
promise between the parties without
regard to t.v lega! t.ghis upon *hK
ea h Side might «: * court of
law. The h ard :s to act'as hoard of
arhitartlon.
' The jurisdiction of the board to rt
lpct the partJe* to do what it deer s
they should do is not to he limned bv
their constitutional or legal right : .
refuse {., do it. Vnder the act there :*
no constraltjt upon them to do what
the board decides they should do ex
cept the moral constrain- already me: -
tinned. r.f publication of its deoisi m,
tiianiod
It is not {or this ©i any other
court to Has* upon the , rrectr.es* , f
the conclusion of the taler board if
it keeps within the jurisdiction the*
ssigned to it hy the statute T. »
staute dives not require the railway
company to ree*vgni*e or to deal with,
or confers with labor unions. It do, *
rot require employes to deal wittt
licit employes through their fellow
employes
Rut w. t! "i! doe* \*s; the lain r
board w -.th |vm, r to deci .e bow such
representative# ought to be ebiveer
With a view to securing a satisfsi to *
coovperation and leaves it to the two
sides o accept or • the dec.s n
Hum t >\«'r Kurnar? l.catls
to Murder and Suicidr
New York. Fab. IS. — Mr* Marla
Kelley died yestrrdav. 14 hour* after*
she had been shot twice hy bar hus
band. Policeman Janie* V Kelley wh *
killed himself Tlie murder and »u -
, de were witnessed h\ the Kellev-'
\ounc son* Jamew If. and IMwant.
4. I' resulted from a quarrel upo i
ei alley's return from h.s tour of
duty the upshot of ut argument as
to whether he would go immediately
and look after ihe furnace because of
tenants' complaint*, or eat hi* dinner
amt then alter,I to the fire Relative*
will take charge of the tw-o son*.
Llovd (iMrpa >av< Vmrrica
Muel Vet tut Kuhr Problem
lamdoii Feb It- F'_ Fenner
I rime Mlnivei 1-Jcyd tie,,,** m the
ne'oate m the h. -e of ' nir.cn* ta
day. ,',*araciertged the FYench actr, *
iii the Ruhr as a repetition of the
paychohqncal hlunder the Mermans
made i, It U M* corn c trued it era*
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