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gteJ3ifco3ftjg5SMBatj3E2g, ?2SSSM -- i.,ib ABOUT THE CANAL SENATORS NOT SATISFIED AS MATTERS STAND. ARE SPENDIHGTOO MUCH MONEY On Salaries and Things Not Needed .None, However, Are in Favor of Stopping Work on the Great Pro ject. WASHINGTON The senate spent four hours Thursday in discussing the Panama canal emergency appropria tion bill and when it adjourned the bill was still under consideration. There were set speeches by Messrs. Teller, Scott and Morgan and they were fol lowed by a gennral debate in which all phases of the controversy were ex ploited, including the question of sal ary, the control of the Panama rail road and the necessity for general leg islation on the canal subject. Mr. Allison, chairman of the com mittee on appropriations, expressed the opinion that congress should take up the question of salaries in connection with other canal legislation. He also said that the status of the Panama railroad should be made the slubject of legislation Messrs. Teller, Scott and Morgan expressed dissatisfaction with the conditions in Panama, but all indi cated a dtermination to support the supply measures necessary to secure the work on the canal as undertaken. Mr. Teller advocated a sea level; Mr. Scott spoke in favor of the San Bias route as preferable to all others, and Mr. Morgan expressed the opinion that before the Panama canal is com pleted another canal will be necessary to do the business required. A separate bill regulating the issu ance of bonds for the canal and plac ing them on the same basis as other go-ernment bonds was passed without debate. During the day Mr. Elkins made a tjitement from the committee on in terstate commerce expressing the opinion that the committee would present a report within a reasonable time. Wyoming Land for Settlers. Representative Mondell of Wyoming introduced two bills. One provides "that the public land laws be extended to embrace lands within the ten miles square ceded to the United States by the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians by agreement ratified by act of con gress of June 7. 1897." This trart of land lies adjacent or surrounding Thermopolis hot springs. He also in troduced a bill that the general provi sions of the homestead laws be ex tended to and over the surveyed land in townships 49 and 50. ranges 105 and 108, within the Yellowstone forest reserve. There are quite a number of settlers in this portion of this reserve and the bill is designed to give them the opportunity to obtain title to their holdings. These "squatters," so termed are occupying some 12,000 acres, all under cultivation, and it is. as said, the purpose of the Mondell bill to give them the opportunity to perfect their title to the lands upon which they have settled and created homes. CANT HAVE A RECOUNT. Request of Would-Be Mayor Hearst Not Granted. ALBANY, N. Y. The court of ap peals in a decision handed down in the New York City ballot box case sustains the contention of counsel for Mayor George B. McClellan and de nies that of attorneys for William R. Hearst and his colleagues on the mu nicipal ownership league ticket. The court holds, as was argued by Former Chief Justice Parker and his associates, that the courts have no power under the election law to order by mandamus the opening of the bal lot boxes, and a recount and recanvass of ballots. GERMAN CHANCELLOR DEFENDS EMPEROR BERLIN In the raichstag Prince von Beulow, the imperial chancellor, replying to the criticism of the social ists, that Germany's foreign policy was calculated to disturb the peace of, the world, repelled emphatically the asser tion that the German emperor, who for eighteen years had given so many proofs of his honest love for peace was in any way a disturber of that peace. Bold Theft of Diamonds. PASADENA. Cal. Diamonds and other jewels valued at $15,000, were stolen, probably by a sneak thief from the rooms of Mrs. James Morgan at a hotel here Friday evening. Mrs. Morgan, who is a wealthy widow from Chicago, left for dinner at G:15 o'clock, and returned to her apartments just an hour later, to find the jewels she had left in their case In a top drawer, stolen. The door leading to her rooms was not locked, but the hall was patrolled by a watchman. Grain Rate War at an End. CHICAGO Executive officials of western railroads settled the grain rate war at a conference when the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul agreed to cancel its through corn tariff frcm the Mis souri river to Liverpool and all roads assented to a test 4-cent differential in favor of the gulf ports and against the Atlantic ports for six months. The St. Paul and some.other lines held out for a 3-cent differential, but the gulf roads would concede only half a cent under the figure in force previous to the rate war. Tawney- Holds the Purse. WASHINGTON The addition of a republican members to all the import ant committees of the house has en abled Speaker Cannon to solve the problem of committee assignments in a manner most satisfactory to both parties in the house. Only two impor tant chairmanships were vacant, ap propriations and public buildings and grounds. In filling the former the speaker followed precedent and looked to the whole house for the available material. Tawney of. Minnesota was chosea chairman of appropriations THE COMMITTEES. Nebraska Fares Well in the Assign ment WASHINGTON Nebraska faros well in committee assignments of th first or important class, as committees have now come to be classed in con trast to those of less or least import ance. Western Committee Places. Following are the committee assign ments for Nebraska: Hinshaw Indian affairs, merchant marine and fisheries, pateats. Kennedy Irrigation of arid lands, war claims. . Kinkaid Insular affairs. Pacific rail roads. McCarthy Public lands, expendi ture Department of Justice. Norris Public buildings and grounds, labor, election of president, vice president and members of con gress. Pollard Industrial arts; expendi tures and accounts. For South Dakota: Burke Interstate and foreign com merce. Indian affairs. Martin Public lands, public build ings and grounds, expenditure in De partment of Justice. For Iowa: Connor Library, labor, public build ings and grounds. Cousins Expenditure in Treasury department, chairman; foreign affairs, naval affairs. Dawson Pacific railroads, naval af fairs. Birdsall Judiciary, merchant ma rine and fisheries. Hedge Coinage weights and meas ures, postoffice and post roads, levees and improvement of Mississippi river. Hepburn Interstate and foreign commerce, chairman. Hull Military affairs, chairman; militia. Hubbard Insular affairs. Lacoy Public lands, chairman; In dian affairs, reform in civil service. Haugen Agriculture, war claims. Walter I. Smith Appropriations. , For Wvoming: Mondell Irrigation of arid lands, chairman; military affairs. Nebraskans Satisfied. Most generally the Nebraska mem bers are quite satisfied with the judg ment of Speaker Cannon. There are a few little heart-burnings in the dele gation, but "by and large the delega tion has come off the committee field with honor. Two extremely in teresting fights were made for major committees Hinshaw for appropria tions and Pollard for agriculture. Pollard lost out because the president had a candidate in the person of Will iam H. Cooke, who comes from the president's own district on Long Is land. Pollard put up a game fight and would probably have won, but Mr. Cocks had a letter of recommendation from the White House on file and Pollard lost. In some particulars Pol lard is better situated than older mem bers. He gets accounts and industrial arts and expositions. PRESIDENT CORDON RESIGNS HIS PLACE WASHINGTON President Gordon, of Howard university, has tendered his resignation to the board of trus tees. This action is the culmination of the recent revolt of students at the institution who objected to cer tain views entertained by President jordon on the subject of the negro and which led to differences of opin on between him and certain members af the faculty. Action upon the resig nation will be had at an early day. THE BABY OF THE SENATE Burkett of Nebraska is Its Youngest Member. WASHINGTON The Washington Post, which has always been an admir ing friend of Senator Elmer J. Bur kett, recently published the following story on the remarkale rise in public life of Nebraska's junior senator. Ed sar C. Snyder, a well-known newspa per man. is the author. A plowboy at ten. A student of an Iowa college at sev enteen. A graduate at twenty. A school teacher, a lawyer, and a member of the house at thirty. A United States senator at thirty seven. This is the remarkable record of El mer Jacob Burkett. who in January of this year was elected for a six-year term, commencing March 4, 1905, to the upper branch of the nation's legis lature. To be a United States senator is a distinction, worthy the ambition of any American citizen. To be the "baby" member of that great legislative body is a rarer distinction. Queen Lil's Perennial Claim. WASHINGTON A petition from ex Queen I iliuokalani asking for the pay ment of $10,000,000 to her was pre sented to the senate by Vice President Fairbanks. New Petroleum Company. BERLIN A new petroleum com pany with a capital of $1,325,000 has been formed with the object of work ing 10,000 acres of oil lands in Han over and 6.000 acres in Galicia. Biiarrist Hoch Must Hang. SPRINGFIELD, 111. The supreme court handed down its decision in the case of Jobann Hoch, convicted of murdering his wife. The judgment of the Cook county criminal court is af firmed and Hoch will hand February A Whipping Post. WASHINGTON A whipping post for the District of Columbia will be es tablished if congress should enact a measure which Representative Adams of Pennsylvania has introduced. Lord Lieutenant a Second Time. DUBLIN After an interval ot twenty years, the earl of Aberdeen was sworn in as lord lieutenant of Ire land for the second time. James Hryce was also sworn in as chief secretary' for Ireland. NOT MUCH WORK CONGRESS TO DO BUT LITTLE BUSINESS THIS WEEK. WILL ADJCURNJN THURSDAY In the Meantime, However, Commit tee Work Will Go On Hearings on Philippine Tariff Bill Will Be Re sumed Monday. WASHINGTON The four days be fore the holiday adjournment will be dedicated in the house to further dis cussions of federal court of insurance and to completing the enactment of the Panama emergency appropriation. There are many members with desire to talk about insurance. Speaker Can non has concurred in the general view in the bouse that the president's message furnishes as good a basis as anything else for this debate. Many members will not wait until Thursday to return to their homes for the hol idays. Committee work will progress dur ing the debate. The ways and means committee will continue its hearings of the Philippines tariffs and the ap propriations committee will begin the preparation of the District of Colum bia appropriation bill. The statehood bill is to be perfected, but will not under the present plan be brought into the house until January 4, when it is expected to constitute the first busi ness,. The senate will meet the wishes of the house for an adjournment for the Christmas holidays on Thursday next. Meantime the senate will probably content itself with comparatively little work unless there should be difficulty in agreeing with the house on the terms of the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill. That measure will go to a conference committee early in the week and there will be a united effort to reach a conclusion before the holiday adjournment. The action of the senate in attempting to eliminate the bond provision and make a sep arate law of it will probably be the principal bone of contention in the conference committee. Senator Gallinger will make an effort during the week to have the merchant marine bill made the unfinished busi ness, not with a view of securing con sideration of it before Christmas, but with the end in view of having it In position to be pressed when congress reconvenes. PROPOSES TO FICHT "PRIVILEGES" TRADE CHICAGO John J. Hill. Jr., who has led the fight of the Chicago board of trade against bucket shops for the past ten years, resigned his position with the announcement that he would de vote his time hereafter to fighting the practice of trading in "privileges," which now goes on daily in the smok ing room of the exchange after the close of the regular session, under the sanction of the directory- When trad ng in privileges was resumed here ast October, under cover of a favor able decision by Judge Gary, Mr. Hill apposed it, but so much pressure -was brought to bear on him by the market eport committee that his activity in the matter was curbed. Mr. Hill now. proposes, however, to give up the pos tion which has paid him f 500 a month, in order to have a free hand in sup pressing the trade in privileges. WHERE THE SUGAR COMES FROM One-Third of It From Hawwaii, Porto Rico and Philippines. WASHINGTON A report of the bu reau of statistics on the sugar brought into the United States during the year 1905 shows that of the $150,000,000 worth of sugar brought in during that period. $50,000,000 worth came from Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philip oines. This shows a decided increase above previous years. The value of sugar imported from Cuba this year is also far higher than the value of the amount imported last year, though the quantity was about 300,000 pounds less. Pat Crowe Must Stay. LINCOLN Pat Crowe will have to -emain in Nebraska to stand trial on a charge in connection with the most sensational kidnaping that ever oc curred in this country. At least Gov arnor Mickey is not ready to turn him over to the Iowa officers until the ends of justice in Neraska are satisfied. Thirty Japs in Car Which Burns. KEARNEY About thirty Japanese railroad laborers narrowly escaped cremation at Amherst at an early hour in the morning. All escaped without serious injury, however, except three one of whom was badly burned and taken to the hospital at Grand Island. Senator Millard Draws Big Card. WASHINGTON All question of Senator Millard's drawing the chair manship of the senate committee on Panama canal was ended Friday when it was announced that he would be given this position. It was further stated that he would be dropped from the committee of interstate commerce largely because the duties of the two committees will be so heavy at this session as to make it almost impossible for a man to serve on both. Senator Drane will be chairman cf the com merce committee. May Get $50,000 Barracks. WASHINGTON The secretary of war, at the request of the management )f the Western brancn of the National Soldiers' Home located at Leaven worth, Kas., transmitted to congress n additional estimate of $50,000 for the construction of a combination bar racks. This building is desired to re lieve the cramped and crowded condi tion of the home, where It has become accessary to utilize the basement of the present building for sleeping quarters. SHUDDER WITH HORROR Russian Populace Believe the Whits Terror Has Returned. ST. PETERSBURG A shudder of horror has convulsed Russia. The government clai ,s is has given battle only to the "i J" revolutionists, but the populace generally believes that the 'white terror" has returned. Al ready the leaders of the proletariat or ganization who escaped capture Satur day night at the Economic society, and even men of the rank of Prof. Milukoff, are in hiding from the police who are hunting them down. The government evidently anticipates a battle royal and has made its disposi tions accordingly. It fully under stands that the proletariat will give blow for blow in answer to the whole sale arrests. The workmen's council and the League of Leagues Saturday night Is sued a declaration of a general strike to begin immediately and consequently by an imperial ukase published this morning all governors general, gover nors and prefects throughout the em pire who are cut off by telegraph are clothed with most dictatorial powers, being authorized without consulting St. Petersburg to declare a state of siege, and if necessary, even martial law. FREE DELIVERY LESSONS POSTOFFICES WASHINGTON The annual report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Peter V. Degraw says there has been a decrease of 757 in the number of new postmasters commissioneed as compared with previous year. The actual number of postoffices in the United States at the close of the fiscal year was: First class, 275; second class, 1,258; third ciass, 4,120; fourth class, 62,478. Total, 68,131. This, the report says, was a reduction in the to tal number of offices of 3,492 fourth ciass postoffices during the year by reason of the establishment of rural free delivery. MAY HOLD UP NOMINATION. Meny Senators Opposed to New Com merce Commissioner. WASHINGTON The senate com mittee on interstate commerce consid ered the nomination of Franklin Lane of California to be a member of the interstate commerce commission. It was known to members or the com mission that there was opposition to the confirmation of Mr. Lane, and therefore it was referred to a subcom mittee which will hear all objections and report to the full committee. No formal protest against the nomination has been made, although it has been declared by certain Pacific coast sena tors that they believe the appointment should have been given to a republi can. The same view is held by many eastern senators, and it is predicted that the nomination may be held up for some time. It was stated that Senator Cullom desired that no action be taken until he could consider the case. The nom ination of Lane is to succeed Commis sioner Fifer, who announced that he would resign on account of ill health. His health has bpen better recPTtly and it is rumored that an effort will be made to have him withdraw his res ignation and continue to serve. TURKEY HAS KNUCKLED DOWN Yields to the Powers and Fleet Will Be Withdrawn. CONSTANTINOPLE Turkey last night formally surrendered to the de mands of th powers and accepted the scheme providing for financial control of Macedonia. A communication to this effect was banded by the porte to the Austro-Hungarian ambassador. Baron von Calice, and the question which has been the subject of dispute for eleven months was closed. The in ternational fleet will promptly be with drawn. TO BUILD RAILROACS INJHE PHILIPPINES WASHINGTON Bids were opened at the insular bureau of the war de partment for concessionary grants to be made by the Philippine government Tor the construction, maintenance and aeration of railroads in the Philippine islands, as provided by act of congress. It is estimated that the railway lines which are to be constructed in the Philippines will have an aggregate mileage of about 1,233 miles. Lines are to be constructed on the islands of Iuzon. Panay, Negros, Cebu, Leyte and Samar. Hs Lost H:s Roll. NEW YORK Louis Popkin, who said he is a jewelry salesman of Kan sas City, Mo., reported to the police that he had been robbed of about $1,100 in cash. Popkin said the money was taken from under his pillow at his 'od?ing house in Clinton street the other niht. Mulford Gts Six Years. MANILA H. B. Mulford of Omaha, formerly a major in the Thirty-ninth regiment, United States volunteers, who was charged with falsification of commercial documents and embezzle ment while manager of the American bnk here, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Omnibus Building Bill. WASHINGTON The house commit tee on public buildings and grounds decided to press an omnibus building bill at the present session. Would Lease Land to Settlers. WASHINGTON Representative Lacey of Iowa, introduced a bill per mitting grazing privileges on public lands to homestead settlers and hold ers of small farms in semi-arid and arid regions. To Re-Establish Canteen. WASHINGTON Representative Morrell, Pa., chairman of the house committee on militia, introduced a res olution to re-establish the army can- 4 teen. TO HAVE HEARINC A SHOW FOR MATHEWS THE DE POSED U. S. MARSHAL. A PROTEST FROM CATTLEMEN House Members Planning Against Re duction of the Philippine Tariff Du ties Other Matters of Interest From the National Capitol. WASHINGTON T. L. Mathews, who was recently dismissed from the position of United States marshal for Nebraska, will have a hearing at the hands of the attorney general on Mon day. The decision reached by the president that Mr. Mathews should be given a hearing was accomplished by R. B. Schneider. Cattlemen Protest. The cattle interests of the country and particularly from the transmis touri section are out in mighty pro test against the contemplated action of the secretary of agriculture and Cnief Forester Fifford Pinchot in levy ing a h ;. tax on cattle grazing on forest reserves. A delegation of Colo rado cattlci, tn is in Washinw.n tnd had an interview with Secretary Wil son today protesting against what seems to them an outrageous tax, namely 10 cents on all cattle below 100, 20 cen ts en all cattle ab.vc l'.to. It it, stated that if this tax is levied it will take out of Colorado alone $100. 000, and a very considerable amount also out of Nebraska and Wyoming. Senator Patterson, who is great'y op posed to tne measure, sail iouy that the tax is a species of patetnalism ol the most Mcious kind and that the payment of IC cent3 per hevl f r cat tle grazing on forest reserves, which up to this time have been open to the general public, is higher than the taxes paid by citizens of Colorado by many per cent Gilford Pinchot insists that the tax is just and it is thought the secretary of agriculture will take the same position. Oppose Reduction of Tariff. Twenty-five members of the house met in Congressman Mondell's com mittee room fof the purpose of plan ning a fight against any reduction of the Philippine tariff duties on beet sugar and tobacco. Nearly the whole of the Michigan delegation was pres ent, as were Hogg, Bonynge and Brooks of the Colorado delegation, Mondell of Wyoming and Kinkaid of Nebraska.- These twenty-five members by no means represent the opposition to the bill reducing the tariff duties between the Philippines and the United States. The conference was hastily called and while nothing definite in the way of a program of opposition was mapped out, those who were pres ent were emphatically against the proposed reduction. It can be said of Judge Kinkaid that he did not seek to represent the Nebraska delegation. Ex pecting, as be does, to have a big fac tory erected in his district, he stated that he only spoke as a member of the Nebraska delegation and was op posed to the contemplated reduction in sugar and tobacco schedules, but he refused to say as to what length he would go in his opposition to the bill, as he thought the delegation would take the matter up and discuss the same as a delegation matter. HEARST IS BOUND TO HAVE RECOUNT SANTA BARBARA W. R. Hearst, who arrived here, when asked aout the decision of the court of appeals of New York refusing to order the opening of tbe ballot boxes, said that was only one or many avenues along which his counsel was working. "The contesils by no means over," said Mr. Hearst. DOWN AND OUT. Vice President Perkins of New York Life Resigns. NEW YORK Two indictments af fecting the life insurance situation in New York Wednesday overshadowed the legislative committee investiga tion. While the committee was in quiring into" the conduct of the Pru dential Life Insurance company and the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany, George W. Perkins resigned as first vice president and chairman of the finance committee of the New York Life Insurance company. He was succeeded as vice president by Alexander E. Orr. president of the New York City Rapid Transit com mission, and as chairman of the finance committee by John Claflin, head of the H. B. Claflin company. South Dakota Bills. WASHINGTON Representative Martin introduced the following bills: To -increase the limit of the cost of the Deadwcod public building from 52CO.OOO to $207,000; to set apart cer tain lands in South Dakota as a pub He park, to be known as Battle Moun tain Sanitarium park; to establish mining experiment station to aid in the development of the mineral re sources of the United States. Rate Legislation Slumbers. Y'ASHINGTON Railrcad rate legis lation will be allowed to rest until after the holidays. Members of the house committee on interstate and for eign commerce have agreed to take up and dispose of less important measures than those affecting rates before the recess. In the senate also there is a disposition to let rate legislation slum ber for the time being. The members of the interstate commerce committee in that body have decided to hold but one meeting a week before Christmas. Nebraska Wheat is Good. WASHINGTON The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture finds from the reports of correspondents and agents of the bureau as follows: The newly seeded area of winter wheat is estimated at 31,341,000 acres an increase of 6 per cent over the area sown In the fall of 1904. The condition of winter wheat on Decem ber 1 was 94.1. as compared with 82.9 in 1904, 86.6 in 1903 and a ten-year average of 91.5. INDICT CHICAGO AND ALTON Charge -of Ten Counts for Paying Re bates. CHICAGO The federal grand jury returned an indictment against the Chicago &. Alton Railroad company, John N. Fa-thorn and F. A. Wann. formerly vice-president and .general freight agent, respectively of the railroad company. The railroad company and the two ex-officers are included in on indict ment, in which there are ten counts, against the company, and against each of the two men. The general charge is that the railroad company, with the sanction of the two offices paid ille gal rebates to the packing house firm of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, forth purpose of procuring shipments from the concern, and also with the same object, gave free transportation to the employes of the concern. The indictment which was returned Is based on testimony given to the grand jury by B. S. Cusey. traffic manager for Schwarzchild & Sulzber ger who has appeared before the jury on two separate occasions. Cusey was one of four employes of the packing house firm who were indicted some time ago for soliciting rebates. All of them plead guilty.. Cusey. with two others was fined $5,00 each, and Sam uel Weil, one of the vice-presidents of the company, was fined $10,000 by Judge Humphrey. Three specific violations of the lw against the granting of rebates are mentioned in the indictment. The rail road company is charged with having refunded $1 per car on forty-four cars of dressed beef shipped from Kansas City to various eastern points. in De cember, 1903. tA similar rebate is al leged to have been paid on twenty three cars of dressed beef shipped from Kansas City in January. 1904. MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT SOON TO MARRY WASHINGTON Formal announce ment was made by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, of the engagement of their daughter, Alice Leo Roosevelt, to Nicholas Longworth, representative in congress from the first district of Ohio, one of the Cincinati districts. Coupled with the announcement of the engagement Is the additional an nouncement that the wedding will take place about the middle of next February. WRITES LETTER TO MICKEY Iowa County Attorney Fears Pat Crowe May Get Away. COUNCIL BLUFFS In reply to the letter from Governor Mickey of Neb raska, stating that he would not honor a requisition for Pat Crowe until the Omaha officers are through with the alleged kidnaper. County Attorney Hess has written a second time to the executive at Lincoln. Mr. Hess re quests the governor to forward the warrant from Council Bluffs to a judge of the criminal court at Omaha, or the sheriff of Douglas county, with in structions for turning Crowe over to Sheriff Canning or this city whenever it becomes apparent that the prisoner will be discharged from his confine ment across the river. Governor Mickey's assurance that he will grant the desired requisition pa pers whenever the Nebraska proceed ings against Crowe are concluded dees not entirely satisfy Hess. He thinks the warrant should be at Omaha ready to be served at the moment Crowe is released, as it is believed here he will be after the scond baring. ROOT FAVORS CHANGE? Comments on Defects of Present Dip lomatic Conditions. WASHINGTON Secretary Root be fore the senate committee on foreign relations said consuls should be as signed to stations where they could do the most good just as the officers of the army and navy. To reward goxl work appointments should be made for only the lower grades, leaving th higher places to be filled by promotion of the best con suls. One of the chief evils of the present system was that elderly men who had failed in life were continually being showed by the influential friends into the most important consular posi tions over the heads of the men who had being doing good work, but who were away from home, and being out of sight, were out of mind. Neck Broken by a Fall. NEBRASKA CITY As Fred Bade, a retired farmer who lives at one of the hotels in this city, was on his way home he fell into an open cellarway and broke his neck, dying instantly. Nebraska Elopers Are Married. CINCINNATI, O. Carl C. Ayers and Miss Athea Stratton, elopers from Fairbury, Neb., were married here. Both are 21 years of age, according to the affidavit made to the marriage li cense clerk. Cutting Down Southern States. WASHINGTON Representative Bennett, New York, introduced a bill to cut down the representation of southern states in congress because of the disfranchisment of the negro vote. The bill reduces the number of repre sentatives from 386 to 351. Exporting Mexican Pesos. MEXICO CITY Owing to the high price offered for silver pesos their ex portation begins again, a million dol lars going out, and a million dollars ordered for London account. Order Against Rebates. HARRISBURG. Pa. Insurance Com missioner Martin notified all life in surance companies doing business in Pennsylvania that they must file writ ten agreements abolishing giving of rebates, dismissing agents who do so and refusing to employ such agents for three years after dismissal. Wisconsin Refuses. MADISON. Wis. The state senate by a vote-of 18 to 15 killed a resolu tion for investigation of insurance and public service corporations. HARD TO PHOTOGRAPH- DEAF Their Infirmity Gives Them a HarsV Fixed Expression. "That Isn't a good picture," said the' photographer, with .to air of apology. "The man was deaf." "How can that infirmity affect the picture?" asked a visitor. "It gives his face a tense, strained look," said the photographer. "All deaf persons have that expression when placed before a camera. They sit with their heads tilted forward and eyebrows uplifted, as if waiting for the command to look pleasant. Generally, I suppose, that is what they are wait ing for. But even after I have given the order to brace, their muscles re fuse to relax. "What's that?" says the deaf man when he sees my lips move. "'Look pleasant!' I shout again. "Oh. says he. "He takes his band from behind his ear and tries to assume a beaming countenance, but he only compromises on a fixed glare. None of the devices known to the photographic trade can dispel that. In fact, the more 'busi ness' I introduce to charm my sub ject into a joyful state the more rigid his facial muscles become. He is . listening always for further instruc tions. Whether they come or not. the look of expectancy is there. For that reason the deaf are the hardest people in the world to photograph. If an ar tist's reputation depended upon tho pictures he makes of them he would soon be obliged to go out of business." ADMIRATION WAS NOT FOR HER. Fair Pianist Mistaken as to Intended Compliment. A young lady in a large Texas town who has quite a local reputation as a pianist, consented to give a selection at a church social. However, on tho eventful evening when the time came for her number, the chattering and hubbub which is usual on such occa sions did not cease even after sho had seated herself at the piano. She was a trifle embarrassed, but deter mined to play, believing that the talk ing would subside- after the first few notes. But such was not the case, and she was nearing the end of her piece when three ladies came over and stood by the piano. "Isn't that beautiful?" exclaimed one of them. "Perfectly lovely!" was tho re-, sponse. "And just think of the work!" came from the third lady. The girl was flattered at having at last gained the attention of three of her audience, but imagine her cha grin when the first lady picked up the edge of the Battenburg piano cover, remarking: . "It must have taken two months just to make this border!" Ministers Late Risers. "Ministers Is the latest risers. Doc tors comes next." said the cook. She was entertaining the maids from next door. As she bustled about get ting the tea and cake ready she talked incessantly, like a machine. The maids listened, their eyes fixed- on the colla tion that each moment grew more tempting under her hand. 'Some ministers don't rise till 10." she said. "There's hardly one of them that you'll find up by 8. Nine or half past is their average hour. "You see, they don't have no office to go to at a certain time. They have no early appointments that must be kept. They have no clerks that they must look after. Consequence is. they become the latest risin' class of men on earth. "I've worked around considerable in my time. I've had forty-seven places, all told. Some has been with doctors, some with business men and eleven with ministers. The ministers is the best to live with. They are so con siderate and generous and they have such perfect dispositions. If they would only get quit of this lazy habit of loafin away the morning in bed they'd be a class without a fault." Bird Was Removed. A woman rushed into a fashionable millinery establishment which she bad left only an hour before with a new hat that cost her $75. She had re turned to discard the elaborate bead gear. "Why, madam, what is the trouble with this hat?" the milliner asked. "What is the matter?" gasped the purchaser. "There is much the mat ter. Why, I would not wear that again until that bird with the big wing is removed or set in a different posi tion." "But that Is the style," said the mil liner. "Style or no style it has got to go." said the purchaser. "I will never wear that hat until I can go about without the wings of birds sticking in the eyes of men, and especially horrid men like the horrid one that told me that 'one bird in the bush Is worth "two in a hat.' " The bird In the hat was removed. One Smith to Be Remembered. John S. Wise of Virginia said of Fitzhugh Lee when the latter was run ning for governor of that state that he never would have been heard of had he been named Smith instead of Lee. The general "in his campaign speeches combated that idea and pointed out that a great many noted men had borne the name of Smith. One day he was addressing a large crowd and as usual spoke of great citizens who had worn the despised cognomen. An inebriated citizen waited until the orator had finished his list. Then he rose and said with tipsy gravity: "Say (hie), gen'l, don't forget old man Smith that (hie) kyied Pocahontas." Seedtime and Harvest. As o'er his furrowed fields, which He Heneath a coldly dropping sky. Wt chill with "Winter's melted snow. The husbandman goes forth to sow; Thus. Freedom, on the bitter blast The ventures of thy seed we cast. And trust to warmer sun and rain To swell the germ, and fill the grain. Who calls thy glorious service hard Who deems It not its own reward Who. for its trials, counts It less A cause of praise and thankfulness?. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves The reaper's song among the sheaves; Yet where our duty's task Is wrought In unison with God's great thought. The near and future blend in one. And whatso'er is willed is done! John Greenleax Whlttier. r 7 a i I 1 r vi ., ? u r fT v vjggygrc