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Vol. 18. No. 930.
TREATY IS AGREED UPON
Conference Over Moroccan Affairs
Concludes Its Labors Com
promise Effected.
Algeoiras After a plenary session
ih rmference on Moroccan reforms
registered a complete accord and ap
pointed a committee to eniDoay mis
in a fnrmnl motocol. The
ntwiu . , ,
nf - the worK in tne
conference was announced in the foi
, ffiini rwvmmimication:
., 1,0 c to n ntpfl its
ine coxiiereuuc iuio i-v.'"-
labors and accord it" established upon
all points. It has aaopieu uci
text oi tne remaining wuwvo v...
cerning the state bank and customs
lilt! UlXiXl a-i utti ' a " , , ,
, p nniifo nt norts. was
adopted from tne kum" "i4""
it France will police four ports Moga
dor Sam, Magazan and Rabat, and
Snain two, Teteuan and Larache.
France and' Spain together, will police
.Tangier and Casa Blanca;-subjwt to
an inspection of police. . The Dutch
delegate announced that his govern
mlnf decfinM no appoint an officer
The conference - has appointed
special committee to revise the texts
of the agreement. . This .committee
Will meet Monday to consider the
final formalities of the protocol .
Mr White, the American delegate,
is of the opinion that the result is
a satisfactory one, not only because
the immediate future of Morocco is
secured, but because the manner of
tie set lemer is satisfactory to both
Fi ance and Germany and removes the
EeT frifon iraer
national relations to normal, ine
ndnciples for which Germany insisted
integrity of Morocco and equal
c5mme?c5 and economic rights there,
Mr White thought were recognized
wWle the special position claimed by
France was also acuiu-,
TALK OF COMPROMISE
Anthracite Coalers May Modify
t . Their Demands
r,rvtPworth features
m th Vbor tables t.
aShractte coal regions. Nearly all
?, I mSratitms ta the fields remain
ffid up andttere are no indications
St wU wiU soon ,,
rriners cohuuhicc -
Son in New York considering
plans, and at the conclus of the
meeting it was reponeu
c-tafivM had decided to
A-,fv their demands. President
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tr malce any com
nr, thA situation and refused to
confirm or deny the report of conces
sions. The Sub-committee of opera
tors and miners will hold another
meeting inursutijr uiciuuuu,
hUiiiYiinnns fipld 'there were
111 .ll-
more mines in operation than on the
previous day ana muuy uiure aie iu
resume within a day or two. The
Unr nf man at wnrlf in thp Pitfa-
burg district, however, was not as
large as was expecieu. 1111s was aue,
it is said to the. factional troubles
within , the miners' union in that ter
. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO
POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME
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Lincoln, Nebraska, April 5, 1906
ritory. Negotiations are under way
between the miners and f operators m
several districts outside ' of the cen
tral and i southwestern territories and
while, no! agreements have yet been
reached no serious trouble is antici
pated. ' The piineworkers' leaders
were much pleased when they learned
that President Roosevelt had decided
not to take a hand in the soft coal
strike so long as the situation re
mains as at present.
Slight disturbances were reported
from several points in the anthracite
and bituminous" regions, but as a
whole the strike affected territory re
mains quiet.
CARNEGIE ON RATE BILL.
He Urges An Appeal Limit on Rate
Rulings
Andrew. Carnegie has taken a hand
in the discussion of the railroad rate
bill. He would limit the right of a
railroad to appeal from the decision
of the interstate commerce commis
sion to cases in which the rate would
affect the earnings of the railroads to
the extent of $100,000 or $200,000 a
year. In a' letter rfr,celygtft,jiere by John
R. McLean Mr. Carnegie says: ine
trouble with appeals to the courts lies
in the fact that railroad companies
have their permanent legal staff. It
matters little ' if appeals be freely
handed over to it, which will always
retard and sometimes may defeat jus
tice., " : ' .j
"The great shippers who could af
ford to fight appeals are those who
benefit by secret rates or rebates. They
are quiet and wish no change.
"The small shippers must suffer,
especially if appeals, can always be
taken. They can spare neither the
time nor the money it would require
to obtain justice."
JAPAN PREPARING FOR WAR
Is Said to Have Designs Upon thj
Philippine Islands
Moscow. General Von Mack, the
Russian representative of the Red
Cross, has just returned here from
Japan. He declares that the Japan
ese are actively engaged in war prep
arations, and he adds that it is evi
dent that the enemy in view is Amer
ica, and that operations are being
planned against the Philippine Isl
ands. : ' " '
DEPEW IS SERIOUSLY SICK
Family of Senator Takes Great Pains
' - to Conceal His Condition.
New York Promises that Senator
Depew would return to his place by
this time have not been fulfilled, for
the reason that hopes . by his family
for a . complete restoration of his
health have been disappointed. He
is still in retirement on the Elliott F.
Shepard place, back of Scarborough-
on-Hudson, on which he has been in
seclusion for a month.
So closely is the senator . guarded
that only a few persons livng in the
immediate neighborhood are. vable to
say f rom , their own .knowledge . that
he , is. in the "villa," as the house is
known. Every meams has been taken
to check the rapid decline into which
he seemed to be railing.
BIG FOUR TO CONFISCATE COAL
Railroads Prepare for 'Strike and
Mills May Be Affected.
Springfield, Ohio The Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
(Big Four) railroad issued a general
order today for the confiscation of aii
coal in transit on all its-lines passing
through this city. ' The ordr is said
to be general on the entire system.
Roads Must Reveal Secrets
The railroads ' involved in the coal
and oil investigation ordered by con
gress must give to ; the interstate
commerce commission lists of their
stockholders , and umoiu m ucvn
of proxies representing stockholders
at their annual meetings. The com
mission today directed the Pennsyl
vania' the Baltimore and Ohio, the
Chesapeake and Ohio, the Norfolk
and Western, the West Virginia Cen
..i rwi TMHduirsr the Buffalo, Jlo-
Chester and Pittsburg, and the New
York Centraband uuuson mvw.na.r
road companies to lurmsn me wip
ing information:
"A statement snowmg ane name
and location of all "coal mines upon
the said lines of road or upon the
lines1 of other roads in which tne
companies are interested, giving the
u oVi cnh mat mine for
car distribution, when car distribution
is made -upon a oasis mvoivms , -c
rating of mines. " , , , ,
"A list of names of stockholders
at a last date when stock books were
closed and including the postofllce
address of each stockholder, if that
will not occasion delay in complying
with this request, and is cases where
the last dividend was paid to persons
not stockholders of record, the names
and postofflce address of such .per-
S"A list of the names of stockholders
present in person at the last annual
meeting and a list of the1, names of
stockholders voting by proxy, together
with the names of persons acting as
proxy at , such meeting and a blank
form of the -proxy used.
"Maps of the lines of railway owned
nn,,tofi. nln man or maps of
any ljses of railway in which the
companies are interested. .t
1 frritnries served
iviaia jl ic v."".- i--
by the companies or by companies m
which they are interested, showing
the location of each coal'mine from
which coal is offered lor , snipmeni.
To Place Meats on Free List
To prevent the beef trust monopo-ui-ntr
hnnifi markets Representative
Byrd of Mississippi has introduced a
bill proposing that beef, pork, bacon,
hams, meat extracts and all products
manufactured from meat be piaceu
tho frpp list. In explaining his
bill, he says that, with open competi
tion, the meats of tne Argentine re
V4iillir anfl Australia, carried in re
frigerator ships, should force down
the prices to the consumer.
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ROOSEVELT SURRENDERS
Consents to Court Review Amendment
to Rate Bill, Granting Courts
Power to Suspend Rates
Washington, D. C, April 4. (Spe-
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citti.j lucuiKuiaiit! Buiuc uitti inu
minates the faces of Senators Aid
rich, Elkins and Keane this week
speaks volumes to the experienced
newspaper correspondent, who by long
experience is enabled to judge of the
mental condition of these legislative
warriors by their exterior in spite of
their efforts to conceal it. 1
Senators-Allison, Cullom, 'Dolliver,
Clapp and Long, Attorney General
Moody and interstate commerce com
missioners Knapp and Piouty were
called' to "the White , House by the
president Saturday aiternoon. as
soon as they- assembled the president;
submitted to them a court review .
amendment for the rate bill that met
the approval of all present. This
meetinc haLJontt. Jaeen . predicted by
those who know the president most
intimately, and knew otme pressure
that was heiner hroueht to bear unon
him "to avoid a split in the party. A
few of the president s ardent admir
ers have insisted all along that the
president would hold out to the ead
for railroad rate regulation that would
benefit the country, and that tne rail
roads would never be able to force
him to surrender. But those who
know the president best took a differ
ent view of the matter altogether.
They do not regard him as a strong
man in the sense that Cleveland was
strong, nor in the sense that Aldrich
and Elkins are strong. These latter
are men of iron will and resolution
ranahlft of withstanding any onslaught
that might be' made upon them by
adversaries. The president meas
ured by the characteristics named is
not in the same class with Cleveland,
Aldrich, Elkins and many others in
public life.
The amendment to the rate bill in
troduced by Senator Long on Mon
day representing the views of the pres
ident in the matter of court review
is a sore disappointment to his
friends, who regard it as a back down
and a surrender of the "most vital prin
ciple at stake between the railroad
and anti:railroad forces In the senate.
The democratic senators are heart
ily In favor of rate regulation, so
much so that they turned in heartily
and loyally to support the president
and to aid and assist him to the ut
most in perfecting the rate bill 'and
making it effective for the purposes
it was designed. This was shown by
the conference held at Senator New
land's residence where the Bailey
amendments were considered. Much
chagrin is felt by democratic senators
over the inexcusable blunder of the
president in ' yielding to the conten
tion of the railroad, senators, when it
was entirely unnecessary to do so.
One of them stated today that "sup
posing the Bailey, amendments should
carry and the bill pass, while the dem
ocratic senators and the democratic
