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NEWS SECTION. The Omaha UNDAY Bee. PAGES 1 TO 12. EHTAHLLSIIED PRELATE TAKES HAXD Archbishop of Algiers Issues Letter Deal log with Religion in France. ASKS CATHOLICS TO SUPPORT REPUBLIC Aiti-Eepublican Church Members Acensed of Being Respoisible for Trouble. PRUDENT SUFFER FOR THE RECKLESS Prelate Advises Frenchmen to Be Guided by Christian Charity. DELANESSAN DISCUSSES THE QUESTION DUDLEY TLKS0F t"0DBLE IS BAIKASS OMAHA. SUNDAY MOIIN1M1, APRIL 2, 1905 Till KTY-S IX PAGES. " SHOULD PAY FOR PROTECTION SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Lord Meatman Tell. What Think. Necessary for Pros perity of Island. Mr Bays that Catholic (horrh Will Be Stronger If More WI.ely Dl reeled After Separation la Accomplished. ARI8, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Ic ) The archbishop of Algiers, Mgr, Oury, publishes In the local Bemalne Re llgleuse a. pastoral letter on the present situation of the Catholic church In France. From thin letter It appears that the arch bishop, however concerned he may be as to the futrre of religion In this country, Is chiefly preoccupied by his righteous wrath at those militant and antl-repulillcan Catholics who, having diverted upon the church the anger of the powers that be, are the persons largely responsible for the present crisis. This crisis, he said, is by no means ac cidental Certain recent Incidents may have brought It to a head, but what, In Archbishop Oury's opinion, is certain, is that the "blind and fratricidal struggle" In the French dioceses themselves, of which ((the real faithful had been the victims, Is Vne of the great causes of the present state of things. "Let us discuss," he says textually, "those who heedlessly adopt a religious standard In. order to rush Into sorry politi cal strife, for the politician Is the born enemy of religion. Those of us who are prudent and self-controlled are made re sponsible for the outrageous and virulent prose of certain sycophants without In telligence, without talent, or authority other than that which in their vanity they arrogate to themselves. Among these spokesmen of Catholicism there are some violent people who are as harsh to their brothers In arms as to their enemies." Church'. Future Stataa. Mgr. Oury urges Catholics to "disarm suHplcion and hatred by their pacifla de votion to social order." He says ex pressly that to bring back from Rome "the wish to see you (the French Catholics) gentle, courageous and humble,'" a state ment whleh mnv h reflmrfled as n faith ful expression of the personal thought and policy of the pope, and as such has Its significance. The archbishop gives a test case of what he means by Christian char ity In the following striking passage: "Far be it from us to accuse those who have hitherto been entrusted with the destinies of our country of propagating such errors as materialism one of the statesmen who had the greatest Influence upon democracy, glorifying not so long ago In being a spiritualist philosopher." It Is pertinent to quote In this connec tion the following passage from a recent article M. de Lanessan In Steele: "The Catholic church," he says, "will shortly be separated from the state, as will the other churches. By the loss of Its official Character, Its preponderant situation, and the prestige accruing to It from Its public relations with the government,! it will cease to be what It has always been namely, a redoubtable and dreaded power. It will henceforth be merely the representatlre or ganism of a respected religion, which, however, confined within the limits of Its public worship, will have only such moral authority as It will secure by Its con duct. Upon this conduct will depend not merely its prestige as a church, but also Its very existence as a religion." i n I A I r nil iiv inAe mrmmj ULtrilUALd WAN I LAnuC AnMT Party In German Reich, tag Offers Slight Amendment to the Government's Bill. BERLIN, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The clerical party In the Reich , sing has given notice of a motion In amend ment of the new army bill with rraurd to fc.w . ... .... I me I "l"ecij luiirum; ill iiict BlirilBHI UI me cavalry which was rejected at the first reading of the, bill In committee. The cler ical amendment proposes that the number of squadrons may be Increased from COO to 610, provided that the Increase be effected during the period from April 1, 1910, to the end of the financial year 1912, Instead of during the course of the next five financial years beginning from April 1, 1906, as con templated by the bill. The clerical party Is willing to agree to the proposed Increase In the other arms of the service by the end of the financial year 190D. ' Doubtless under the Influence of the ap prehensions recently expressed by the sec retary of state for the Imperial treasury to the effect that the year 1H would Inevitably Inaugurate a period of economio depression, the clericals have, moreover, decided to In corporate a declaration to the effect that It will not be possible to gauge the financial consequences of the new army bill until the estimates for the financial year 1907 have been drawn up. DUBLIN, April l.-(SpeC .ram to The Bee) The preslden . rtoyal Col lege of Physicians In In . entertained a large company at dinner In the principal hall of the college this week. The guests Included the lord lieutenant end the lord chancellor. The president. Dr. W. J. Bmyly, proposed the toast of "His Excel lency, the Lord Lieutenant." He referred to the personal popularity In Ireland of Lord and Lady Dudley and said that the people of Ireland were deeply grateful to his excellency for having twice at least entertained royalty amongst them. He was perfectly certain that the king went from Ireland with a greater appreciation of his Irlah subjects, and he also was per fectly certain that they In Ireland, from knowing more of the king, had become more devoted to him. The lord lieutenant, in acknowledging the toast, said that he did not propose to dwell on the personal aspect of It. It would be Impossible for him at the present time to speak of his position In Ireland without re ferring to matters which had been made the subject of much discussion within the last few weeks. No doubt the time would come, cither sooner or later, when he would have an opportunity of speaking at length on these matters. He assured them that he looked forward to that time with no trepi dation whatever, but that time was not yet. He would pass, therefore, to the question of the prosperity of Ireland. So far as the material prosperity of the country gen erlly was concerned, he believed that they had no great cause for uneasiness. During the last year crops had been generally plentiful and the harvests good. Unfor tunately, however, those parts of the west of Ireland where the potato crops had largely failed were far trom being In a satisfactory condition. Although they might feel assured that In the present in stance, as In the past, relief In some form or another would be found for these dis tricts, yet ' with every recurrence of ex periences of this kind the truth was brought home more forcibly to their minds that the conditions of life In certain areas of Ireland were rudically wrong and that unless some great change took place the population of these areas would be always liable to hunger and want. They had In many districts a great number of people living on farms of very small extent and composed principally of very bad land. In good years, aided by certain subsidiary sources of Income, like fishing nnd weav ing and the proceeds of migratory labor. It was Just possible for the western peasant to maintain himself and his family and to pay the fixed charges on land. But the struggle was always a severe one, and the result was that the standard of riving was necessarily very low lower, indeed, than with any similar body of householders In western Europe. When a bad year came these people had no reserve to fall back upon, and were driven at once Into a posi tion of helplessness and dependence. It was obvious that such a state of things could not be allowed to go on, and no gov ernment worthy of the name could shirk Its responsibility In this matter. Tem porary relief was not sufficient; something mure drastic, was required. If the condition of the western peasant was to be per manently benefited. The suggestion that wholesale emigration was the only cure need not be considered seriously. Fishing and cottage Industry were valuable as auxiliaries, but he did not believe that they could ever be made the central means of subsistence for any more than a mere handful of the population. The great majority of the people, in his opinion, must always live upon the land and by the lands. Their whole tendency and leanings were toward agricultural life. The land to these people was a fetish almost Incom prehensible to many, and the- would never. In his opinion, succeed In directing a popu lation animated by these feelings from tha object of their affections. Any remedy, therefore, which was to be permanent and effective must have agriculture as Its base, and this Involved inevitably a redistribu tion of the existing holdings. In other words, they must seek to cure the chronic poverty of the west by enlarging the hold ings In the congested districts to an extent which would return a profit In good years over and above the ordinary necessities of existence. They 'must obtain the 'space necessary for the operation by migrating numbers of families from the existing hold ings In these districts to lands which wers at present untenanted. He was quite aware that this plan Involved considerable difficulties, not only of a legislative and administrative kind, but concerned also the Idiosyncrasies of the people themselves. Tact, patience and determination were great weapons with which to overcome difficulties In Ireland, and If these qualities were con stantly applied to a solution of this most Important problem, he saw no reason why in a few years those responsible for the government of Ireland should not be able to effect a very marked Improvement. Sue- cess would depend largely on the extent to which all parties concerned In the question were prepared to co-operate. nt;lish Speaker Talks of Conditions in Realm of the Saltan. TURKISH OFFICIALS ARE TO BLAME Lack Both Will and Fower to Carry 0u jYany .Reforms. BULGARIANS SAID 10 BE UP IN ARMS Practical Civil Var Eaid to Ixist in the Mountains, GREEKS ACCUSED OF BEING AGGRESSORS Macedonian Committee Stands In Way of Any Permanent Suppression of Hostile Demonstiattona by Turkish Government. LONDON, April 1. -(Special Cablegram to The Bee.) H. N. Brailsford, who Is a personal friend of Lord Lansdowne, said this week: Lord Percy wss right In ascribing the slow progress of the Muiaaieg reform scheme to the action of tne Macedonian committee, i spent the winter of 1K03-4 in Macedonia, but my experience suggested another conclusion. Tne reform scheme has failed partly because It gave tne European ohicials no executive authority, partly because the Turumn bureaucracy lacks both the will and the ability o gov ern In accordance with civilized lduaK and partly because some of tne powers or thtir agents are lukewarm. L'p until November, lor example, and possibly later, the Italian gendarmerie officer at uchrlda had not even engaged an interpreter, wn.ch means that he has not begun his work. No doubt the Bulgarians by conducting a. sort ot civil war with the Greeks are partly to blame tor the present anarchy. Hut Bulgarians and Greens are after all Turkish subjects, and if the Turks are unable to keep the peace between them, they are incupuble 01 tne hrst duty of a government, in point of fact their policy is to prevent such leuda by sucn provoca tive uevlses as the handing over ot Bul garian churches to the Greek party. This teud, no douot, dates from the middle ages, but the particularly violent reoru ueocence of It uurlng last year has been peculiarly the work of the Greens. They cliose the very moment ot the ar rival of the European gendarmerie onlcers to enlist tor the nrst time a number of guerilla bands, whose wiiule duty It was 10 harry the Bulgarians. Plan of (snipuliia. I happened to meet the organizer of this campuign and he explalnea his progress thus: Where the Bulgarians nave mur oered one Greek in tne pant, we will Kill ten Bulgarians now." The iiUigariana nave no choice but to detend tlieinselves against this Greek com mittee. As to the lerrcrism of tne Bul garian committee, one has to remember mat It Is a democratic organization, gov erned by an elected congress and elected leaders. Tne Macedonian peasants, as a whole, are willing to pay a price for their further treeuom. Liie is cneap and liberty noneximunt in European Turkey, ana little additional violence Is readily endured tor tne sane of so great an issue. 1 was surprised, alter an insurrection that nad fallen, to hear In tne devastated Bul garian villages so little recrimination, against their leader. the men in Oy ngnting line, wno numbered haroly move loan ,u00, were volunuers. It Is true th.it the mass of the peasants were compelled by the committee to auanuou ineir villages when tne rising broke out. It was tne In tne circumstances a wise decision, tor It prevented wholesale massacres. There vrlll be no peace until tne committee cease. to exist. But the Turke are quite incapable of Hupprejklng It. v nen a genuine Euro pean control 18 esiannsneu, mere win be no need to suppress it. It will dis bandfor the real European control is precisely the thing In demand.- ; Position Taken by Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 1. tSpeclal Cablegram to The Bee.) The scheme for the reform of the nances of the three vlllayets which the Turks had brought for ward as the alternative to the Austro Russlan proposals has now no longer any chance of being adopted. The Idea was to Increase the customs duties and earmark the money thus provided for the regular payment ot official salaries and other ad ministrative expense,. Most of the pow ers have already consented to tne principle of an increase In the duties, but on conditions which the Porte Is not likely to accept, and It Is now known that the British government demand as the price of their consent, among other things, a thorough reform of the customs admin istration. In order to put an end to the abuses which now prevail. Sooner than consent to this condition and other condi tions made by the powers the Turks, It Is believed, will let their plan drop. Then Is, however, no likelihood that they will accept the Austro-Russlan scheme in its present shade, which Is distasteful to several other governments as well as to the porte. It is stated on excellent au thority that at least one of the great powers, while willing to admit European control, strongly objects to Austro-Rus-sian control of the finances of the three vlllayets as a violation of the Btatus quo, which the two powers pledged themselves not to disturb. FURTHER PLANS OF LIBERALS Mr. Aekwltb. Charges Conservatives with a Lack of Political Straight forwardness. LONDON, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee) Outlining some points of the liberal program this week, Mr. Asqulth said: It la the greatest delusion to Imagine that the liberal policy consists only of negation and defense. We are not satisfied with a policy of folded arms. We want to dual wl'h live question, as they arrive. Tha education act of li2 cannot he re garded as a settlement. in ere can be no final settlement of this question which does nut give the people absolute, undisputed Slid unequivocal control of every school which Is maintained at the public expense and which des not purge our educational system of any form of religious or de nominational test for .teachers. The licensing set must In- revised. There must be a time limit. Liberals must ex ert themselves to .xcure from th. trude an adequate contribution to the state In re turn for the privilege which the state has conferred upon It. Then, too, the relation of land to taxation, the housing of the working clause, and the proper way of doling with locomotion must all lw con sidered. The dominant vice of the present govern ment I. its lack of political straightfor ward n... l nii their sttltud on the fiscal qut.tlon. The only safe position for an elector at the general election I. to re member that ever vote recorded for a sup porter of the proent govtunui.nl Is a vols tfaluM ( trade. WORKING ON AN ARMY BILL Anticipating Return to Power Brltl.h Liberal. Are Maklug Plana for Change. IX5NDON, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) A scheme for the reorganisation of the army la being devised by a section of the front opposition bench. The activity Is due to the supposed approach of a liberal administration. There is no doubt that the opposition lead ers have given much attention to military affair, and various processes have been re viewed for replacing Mr. Arnold-Forster's scheme by one of their own. It Is felt to be the obvious duty of those who have criti cised the failure of the War office and the Salisbury-Balfour regiments to be ready with a sheaf of reforms when they come Into office. After a careful consideration of various plans a decision has been arrived' at In favor of a return to the Cardwell scheme. The two main principles or this scheme. It will be remembered, are short service and linked battalions. But more remains and the proposal la to draw up a plan which will meet modern requirements, as well as deal with the prejudices against the Brcd-rlck-Forster reforms. Of the occupants of the front opposition bench Sir Henry is the only one possessing front rank knowledge of the War office. He Is the only ex-secretary of state for war left to the liberal party, and there Is a strong desire to secure his ro-operatlon In the scheme for the return of Cardwelllsm. U may be assumed, therefore, that he has been consulted by his colleagues with re gard to army reform under a liberal ad ministration An Interesting feature of the proposals Is the private support with which they have met from members of the army eounoll. Tha ad heat on of on of its member. In particular, if his name mere asad public, would exeats a sensation. BRITISH TRADE IS IN DANGER Australian Newspaper Bays Other European Powers Are Dis tancing the Mother Country. SYDNEY, April L (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The Herald says: It Is con stantly a matter of wonder to Australians that England falls to realise the extent to which European powers are aggrandizing themselves In the south Pacific. This is not only bad for British trade, but means that when the Panama canal Is opened these powers, notably France and Germany, will have control of a great trade route, and will also possess naval bases in the mag nificent harbors of the Islands. Australian shipping men declare that through the Norddeutscher Lloyd line Ger many Is systematically strengthening Its position in the Northern Pacific In the neighborhood of Hong Kong and Singapore in the same manner as in the southern islands. The result is that much misgiving is felt In Australia, and this feeling is by no means diminished by tha apparent apathy ot th imperial government. .Member of Parliament Assigns Rea son for Removal of Troops from Canada, LONDON, April 1. (Special CablegTnm to The Bee.) Mr. John C. R. Colomb. M. P.. in an Interview this week said: "Judge Bole, writing to a London paper from Brit ish Columbia, calls attention to the result to be apprehended from the action of the imperial authorities In closing and practi cally abandoning the forts of Esqulmault and Halifax, coupled with the withdrawal of the royal navy from Canadian waters. These results he shortly describes as 'an other bucket of cold water soused upon Canadian loyalty.' "The distribution of our sea and land forces and our expenditure upon them must be determined by the strategical necessities of our rmpire as a whole and the taxable capacity of that portion of It, the Mother country, on which the whole burden now falls, and to which the Canadian people, and all other colonial peoples, are so pas sionately attached. As Judge Bole opens his case with a declaration that with the 'strategical aspect of the matter' he Is not seriously concerned," he seems to me to put himself out of that court to which, through his letter, he appeals, namely, common sense. "By the same post which brought Judge Bole's letter from Canada I received a newspaper from Tasmania the Examiner, and In It the leading article deals with the proceedings at the deputation to the prl-5 minister under the auspices of the imperial federation defense committee. The article Is headed The Colonies and the Navy,' andj strongly supports the views of the deputa tion; after observing that 'the British navy Is as essential to Australia, to South Africa and to Canada as It is to the United King dom,' it concludes Its review of the Situa tion and the colonies in relation to the de fense of the empire In these words: We are content meanly content to let our kinsmen pay the cost of defending our commerce. The situation Is humiliating. It Is destructive of that manly spirit which has beijt a characteristic of the race, and the weak, selfish manner In which we lean on the good offices of our kinsmen Is neither creditable nor honorable. "Tasmania does contribute to the cost of the royal navy, while Canada does not give a brass farthing." IRISH USE DILATORY TACTICS Try to Make Dublin Postmaster Sorry He Will Not Recognise Gallic Language. DUBLIN, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Since the Dublin general post office refused to accept a large number of parcels addressed In the Irish language, the Gaelic league has retaliated with a vigorous policy of obstruction. On Wednes day evening this week, during the last hour before the departure of the mails for England, about 800 persons presented par cels addressed In Irish. The parcels were accepted as fast as they could be handled by a special translator, but as a receipt had to ba given In every case, thers was great delay and confusion. The general public suffered severely and parcer.s from the. commercial houses, in flu clt1 were completely blocked. Thursday night the postolflce refused to accept the Gaelic par cels at the parcel office, and directed that they could only be accepted if posted as letters. This did not improve matters, as every one of the 200 or 300 persons went through the form of tendering a parcel. When these were declined the propagan dists flocked to the stamp counter, demand ing penny stamps In the Irish language, and sometimes tendering sovereigns in pay ment. Meanwhile the ordinary business of both offices was seriously retarded. The Gaelic league declares that the fight will go on "until the authorities come to a sense of their duty." In the Interest of public business some sort of modus vlvendl Is highly desirable. Previous skirmishes of the same kind at country postoffices usually have ended in the unconditional surrender of the authorities. MAY CEDE SAKHALIN IRISH PRESS ON ROSEBERY Says Ills Repudiation of Horn Rale Comes at the Rlgbt Time. DUBLIN, April l.-(8peclal Cablegram to Th Bee.) The nationalist press declares Itself pleased at th clearness of Lord Rose bery's repudiation of home rule. It says that Lord Ro.ebery was never a genuine horn ruler, and that an open enemy la bat ter than a false friend. "Mr. Chamberlain himself," says the Dublin Telegraph, "has not been guilty of a more shameless be trayal than has th man to whom It was at ona time thought tha Gladstoulan heri tage of Justice for Ireland bad been worth ily transmitted." NEW LAW FOR DUTCH SCHOOLS Private lnlver.lt le. Are Granted Privilege. Now Enjoyed Only by State Institution. BRUSSELS, April 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The Dutch Second Chamber has voted the bill extending to private uni versities the same privileges as those ac corded o state institutions. It will be re membered that the liberals In the First Chamber opposed the measure on the ground that it fostered sectarian teaching In higher grade schools, and Dr. Kuyper met this resistance by dissolving the up per house, Where he now commands a majority. The bill will, therefore, become law. Baron von Lynden's resignation of the portfolio of foreign affairs was due partly to motives of health, but chiefly to differ ences with his colleague, M. von Weckher, formerly Dutch minister at Constantinople, who was recently charged with the direc tion of Dutch policy in the far east. It is probable that the minister of marine will continue to administer th foreign de partment till the June elections, which must decide whether the present ministry will remain In power. Latest Peaoe Report Indicates that Russia May Recede from First Position. TALK OF OTHER CONCESSIONS Csar Willing to Abandon Claims Upon Manohuria and Corea. RAILROAD IN LIEU OF INDEMNITY Japan to Be Offered Eastern Chinese Line or lis Cah Equivalent. REPORT FROM JAPAMtSE HEADQUARTERS Skirmishing Reported at Points Thirty to Forty Miles Abet Tie Pass Bandits Aid th . Russians. ST. PETERSBURG, April 1. (3:J5 p. m.) According to the peace reports circulated on th bourse today Russia will cede the south ern portion of the island of Sakhalin, In the north Pacific, off the east coast of Asia, used as a Russian convict settlement, to Japan and agree that Manchuria and Corea are permanently outside a Russian sphere of Influence and the Eastern Chinese rail road will be turned over to Japan for ces sion to China or to an internal syndicate upon a consideration of $126,0uO,0OO. which Japan will accept In lieu of Indemnity. Stock Market Improve. 1:30 p. m. Prices on the Bourse today developed great strength on peace reports, all stocks showing an Improvement. Im perial Russian 4s opened a point and a half higher and closed at 85, the highest quotation of the day. The new Internal loan, subscriptions for which were posted today, sold at a premium of to H point. Russian Shlpa Sighted ISLAND OF PERIM. Straits of Bab-El-Mandeb. April 1. The British steamer Promethls, which arrived here today from the north, reports having passed March 80 a Russian squadron of five warships, four transports and a hospital ship. The Russian hospital ship Kostroma, bound for Jlbutll, French Somaliland, ar rived here today and Is taking on coal and wa tr. Th vessels sighted by the Promethls were probably a division of the second Pacific squadron, commanded by Admiral Nebog atoff. From Japanese Headquarters. TOKIO, April 1. The following report has been received from the headquarters of the Japanese armies In the field: Our force In the direction of Slngklng (about eighty miles east of Mukden) re ports thut, according to information re ceived from natives, a force of Russians and mounted bandits under Colonel Mado II toff, which has been assembling at Hal lung, has retreated to the north. Accord ing to other natives Kirln seems to be the place selected by the enemy for assembling. Our force at Welhuanpomen (thirty-five miles northeast of Tie Pass) reports thHt there ha been no changd In the enemy's positions In the vicinity of Menhtiaehloh. There are some Russian infantry and cav alry about thirty-two miles northeast of Kalyuun (twenty-five miles from Tie Pass). Our force at Changtu (forty miles above Tie Pass) reports that the enemy's cav alry outposts retreated' twenty-five miles north of Changtu after burning the railroad station at Souzaotzu. Our force at Fakoman (thirty miles north of Tie Pass) reports that cavalry outposts of the enemy have been observed thirty miles northeast of that place and that mixed forces of the enemy occupy Fenghau (flfty-flv miles northeast of Fakoman), Pamiencheng (about fifteen miles west of Fenghau) and their vicini ties. Japanese Cavalry Aetlve. OUNSHU PASS, April 1. All Is quiet. A heavy curtain of Japanese cavalry ef fectually conceals the Japanese move ments and strength from the Russian posi tions. Contradictory reports are being re ceived from Chinese fugitives, most f which Indicate that there is a constant movement of the Japanese northeast as though with the intention of effecting a turning movement at Kirln to cover the beginning of an attack on Vladivostok. Chinese report that the construction of a railroad from Slnmintin to Mukden has begun. Snow has fallen and the roads are soft ening Into mud and are in wretched con dition. Fear Turning Movement. HARBIN, April 1, Business is paralyzed and a general lack of confidence Is shown. A majority of the female population Is leaving Harbin. It Is believed that the Japanese are pre paring a bold turning movement, prob ably to the eastward, and the Russla.i cavalry Is operating widely In order to avoid a repetition of the surprise at Mukden. MAIL SERVICE IS NOW POOR Merchants of Sydney De.lre Inrreaae In Pay Offered by th Government. SYDNEY. April l.-(Speclal Cablegram to The Bee) Great Inconvenience has been caused through the curtailment of th English mails. A representative deputa tion of the mercantile community ot this city interviewed Mr. Reld, the federal pre mier, this week and urged that the weekly service should be restored at any price. They declared that apart from the loss of Australian prestige, the position was caus ing Incalculable loss financially. Mr. Reld suggested that In that case it would pay the mercantile community to make up tho difference between 100,000, the maximum the government was willing to pay for the conveyance of tho malls, and 4140,000, th urn asked by the Orient line. The premier sdded that even If the gov ernment wer inclined to pay th Orient company's price. Parliament would refus to ratify th agreement. THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska Showers Sua dnvi Colder lu F.a.t Portion. Mon day Fair In West, Shower In Ka.t Portion. N K W a SECTION 1 Prelnte Takes Hand In alra. Tronhle Brewing In Bnlknns. Russia Milling to Give Territory, t.eatslatlve Session Is Ended. 3 Sheep In.pertora May Be Retained. 3 Newa from All Tsirt. of Nebraska. Man Shoot. Wife While In Church. 4 View, of Biennial Election Bill. Affair, at South Omnhn. ft tfter the Sleeping Car Companies. Gladden Mnken neply to Rogers. 8 Eehoe. of the Ante-Room. Woman In Club rnil Charity. T Affairs at Snnth Omaha. ' After the Sleeping Car Companies. 8 Affairs of the F.iml table Alrexl. Bryan Talks to Iowa Democrats, ft White Sox Wallop the Ronrkes. Bomb Injures Russian Officials. 10 Pa.t Week In Omaha Society. 11 Council Bluffa and Iowa Newa. EDITORIAL SECTION 13 Down Town Bent. In Omnba. Implement, of Tiger to Be Burned. Coplea of New Charter Received. 14 Editorial. 15 Newa from the Army Posta. 19 Financial and Commercial. SO Soft Coal Ratea for the Summer. HALF-TONE SECTION 1 Portrait of Missouri's Senator. Progress In the Electrical Field. Stories Abont Prominent People. . New Assistant Federal Attorney. Discussion of Rare Sulelde. 3 Plays, Players and Playhou.e.. Mn.le and the Musicians. 3 "Return of Sherlork Holme.." 4 Specimens of Omaha's Fire Horses. Stories for the little People. B Carpenter on the Panama Canal. Plans for Irrigation In Nebraska. 6 In the Domain of Woman. 7 Sporting Gossip of the Week. COLOR SECTION 1 Bn.ter Brown at the Zoo. 3 Hans Christian Andersen.' From Near and Far. 8 Only Trn.t that la Not Afraid. 4 Wives aa Good Investments. Dahomey Amasons Play Base Ball. B Widows Have the Best of It. Prlneess Weds for Love Alone. O Married Actre.se. Shun Stage. 7 Top o' the Mornln'. 8 I.ney and Sophie Say Good-Bye. Maklnbrnke. In Trouble Again. 8 Ilnrraelaugh. A Crockett Story. Hlnta for Bn.y Housekeeper.. lO Bevy of Stage Beauty. Temperature at Omaha Yeaterdayi Hour. Deg. Hour. . Deg. B a. m 47 1 p. in 75 a. m 44 2 p. in 70 7 a. in BO 3 p. m 78 8 a. m r:i 4 p. m 78 ft m B3 B p. m 78 1 m Ofl l p. m 77 It a. m tilt 7 p. m .72 12 ni 73 RAIN AND SNOW IN COLORADO Telegraph and Telephone Wire. Art Down and Tralna Ar Delayed. DENVER, April l.-A severe rain and snowstorm prevailed throughout Colorado today and tonight. No serious washouts nre reported by the railroads, but all trains are behind time. The telegraph and telephone wires suffered most and com munication by wire is completely cut off with many towns tonight In Denver there was a steady rainfall all day and tonight snow, mixed with sleet, is falling. In the mountains the snowfall Is heavy. At Cripple Creek electric cars were Inter fered with and surface mining practically fctopped. At Castle Rock, forty miles south of Denver, sixteen inches of snow has fallen and It is feared cattle on the range will suffer. At Sllverton and Telluride snow slides are reported with $10,000 damage; no lives were lost. Canon City reports a fall of two feet of snow in the mountains and many other places report nearly as much. On the plains east of Denver a steady rainfall is reported, Insuring plenty of water for late Irrigation. PURAY, Colo., April ,1.-Three persons were burled by a snowsllde which carried away the boardlntr house nnri hnnv hnu. j of the Banker s National mine tonight. It j Is supposed they have perished. CHINESE! HONOR MINISTER CONGER Emperor Confers on Him tho Order of the Double Dragon. PEKING, April 1. Edwin Conger, Amer ican minister to China, who has been ap pointed ambassador to Mexico, and will be succeeded by W. W. Rockhlll, chief of the bureau of American republics, was re ceived In farewell audience today by the emperor and the dowager empress and was decorated with the flr.t grade of the third class of the Order of the Double Dragon and was the recipient of Imperial gifts. As Mr. Conger has for some time been the desa of the diplomatic corps and owing to the fact that h went through the siege of the legations here by the Boxers in 1900, his departure Is invested with peculiar interest. At a private dinner given at the German legation tonight there was a most cordial I exchange of expressions of personal esteem by Mr. Conger and Baron Mumm von Schwarcensteln, th German minister. CHICAGO CAMPAIGN CLOSES Supporters of Both Harlan and Dunne Confident of Victory at the Polls. SESSION SOW ENDED Last Hours of the Nebraska Legislature Are Feasefnl Ones. NIGHT BEFORE NOT SO COMMONPLACE Several Members Take Opportunity to Gi Fress Roast. MAJORITY OF MEMBERS NOT OF THAT MIND Total of Appropriations Greater Than tha Estimated Revenue. PASS ONLY FEW MEASURES OF IMPORTANCE Cady Commission, Junkln Antl-Trn. and 1 Mill Tax I .err for Stata Debt the Most NotabI ' Measures. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. April 1. (Special.) -The twenty-ninth session of the Nebraska legisla ture adjourned sine die today the sixty fifth for the house and sixty-fourth for th senate. Merely a handful of members wer present in each house to witness th finish. The house did Its last actual work during the forenoon, concurring In senate amend ments to the claims and deficiency bills, and the senate completed 1U deliberations about the same time by the passage of Its last bill, 11. R. 101, appropriating $11.0(0 for Nebraska's participation In the Port land Lewis and Clark exposition. Each house was compelled to delay Anal ad journment until all the bills were en rolled. The end came without ceremony or os tentation, as comes the close of a natural day when the sun winks out its sleepy ex istence and hides for the night behind tha horizon. The night previous the house ob served the customary period of felicity and fun, adding this time, however, a highly delectable feature in the form of a pre meditated castigatlon of ths press of th state which at times had dared comment unfavorably upon the deliberations ot th session. This program, however, did not please or represent the sentiments of th sanest and most conservative members. Representatives Perry, McMullen and Windham of whom took occasion to place themselves on record as opposed to such strictures. All. the speakers at this festive season voiced their assurances that "this has been the best session In my memory." They all felt that when viewed from the retrospec tive the record of this session would loom up with great credit upon the members and the state and serve as a denial of th criticisms that had been mode against It. Totnl of Appropriations. The aggregate appropriations, general and special fund, and the $200,000 authorised in bonds for the binding twin plant which this legislature mad, com to $3,887,841. This does not Include th temporary school fund distribution. The estimated receipts for this fund for the ensuing blennlura are $1,234,173.24. Of this total $3,463,341 la ap propriated against the general fund. This, of course, does not Include the bond prop osition. The total appropriations in 1903 wore $3,740,280.70, of which $2,866,348.70 was against the general fund. The special ap propriations are $170,000 for the Morrill agricultural, educational and university fund and $4,500 for the State Normal school library. Deducting the aggregate of temporary university and other special funds th lia bility for the blenntum may be obtained on an estimated basis and that less the esti mated gei.eral fund receipts, $2,819,244.71, I will give a net Increase In the state debt. whicn is now $2,2&o,ooo. Following are the nineteen general fund appropriation bills, some of which are not yet signed by the governor, but non of which. It Is thought, save possibly, tha anti-trust enforcement bill, he will fail to approve: No. 250 Salary bill $1,138,760.00 No. 347 General appropriation. .. 1,816,547 00 No. 9 Substation and Farmers Institute 82,000.00 No. 20 Rebuilding west wing of Norfolk asylum 35.000 00 No. 63 Salary of members 80,000.00 No, 65 Legislative expenses 20,000.00 No. 62 state fair building lnoonm No. 101 Portland exposition 12.000.00 No. 102 State fisheries 3,000 00 No. 110 Enforcing of anti-trust bill mnmm no. lw irrigation woric No. l3o Library building at Peru. No. 2X9 Addition building for In stitute for Feeble Minded No. 3fi2 Deficiency bill No. 881 Claims bill No. 413 Sliver service, battleship Nebraska No. 2S6 Hospital for crippled chil dren 10.000.00 No. 197 State treasurer's bond....i 6,000.00 PILGRIMS TO HONOR EVANS American Consul General , to Be Guest of Society at a Dinner. LONDON. April 1 (Special Cablegram to The Bee The Pilgrims itje to give a fare well dinner to Hon. H. Clay Evans, Ameri can consul g.neral, before he leaves lx)n don. Th dinner will be held at the Savoy April 14. Mr. Evans, who has don everything to promote cordiality btwen th two na tions, has mad a host of friends over her. Japan Prlnc Goes to Germany. TOKIO, April 1. The Prince and Princess Arisugawa and suit departed for Ger many today, and the prlnc expresses the hop that their visit will increase ths growing feeling of confidence and respect betw.n tha two countries. American Attaches Change. TOKIO, April 1. Lieutenant Frank Mar ble, formerly secretary of the general board of th navy at Washington, has relieved Lieutenant Glllla ss American at tach at th American legation In this city. Russia to Make Iaternal Loan. LONDON, April 1. A dispatch to a news sgency from St. Petersburg says that an other Interns! loan of $100,000,000 will shortly be lssv.ud. President of Ecuador Married. GUAYAQUIL, April 1. President PUsa was married today to Miss Avrllna Lasso, daughter of the Siqlsh consul at Quito. lee Breaks In Neva. BT. PETERSBURG, April l.-Th lc is breaking up In th Neva. CHICAGO, April l.-Chicago's biennial mayorality and aldermanlc campaign closed tonight with many meetings in all wards of the city and a large democratic mass meeting In the Auditorium theater. John Maynard Harlan, son of Justice Harlan of the supreme court, republican candidate, and Judge Edward F. Dunne of the Cook county circuit court, democratic nominee, will receive most of the 300,000 or more votes to be cast on Tuesday for Mayor of Chicago, although It Is thought that social ists and prohibitionists will cast several thousand votes. Managers of the demo cratlc party assert that Judge Dunne will have from fjO.OoO to 75.0OO Dluralltv whii. publican leaders maintain that Harlan will be elected mayor by a margin of 20,000. SHERMAN M. BELL GOES OUT Captain Bulkeley Wells Appointed Adjutant General of Colorado by Governor McDonald. DENVER, Colo., April 1 Governor Mc Donald today appointed Captain Bulkeley Wells adjutant general of the Colorado National Guard to succeed General Sher man M. Bell. Captain Wells was military oommander In Telluride while martial law was In force under Governor Peabody's administration- Movements of Ocean Vessels April 1. At New York Arrived: Prlniesaln Vic torla Lulse, from Havana: Sicilian Prince, from Naples; St. Paul, from Southampton, Ballad: flttl Dl Rlggo, for Naples: Phlla delpMa, for Southampton; Krnoniand, fcr Antwerp; Etrurla, for Liverpool; Glulla, for Naples; Pretoria, for Hamburg; Wei mar, for Genoa. At Naples Arrived: Nord America, from New York; Neapolitan Prince, from New York At Uverpool Arrived: Cedrlc, from New York; 1. omnia, from New York. At Southampton Arrived: St. Louis, from New York. At Rotterdam Arrived: Noordam, from New York, via Boulogne. Sailed: Put. dam, for New York At f'herbourg-Sttlled; New York, ful New York. At Dover Sailed: Finland, for New York. At Breinen-B.-illed: Rheln, for New York. At (ilasgow Sailed : Astoria, for New York. AA Londuu-Sailed; Qeorglan, for Boston. 6.000.00 82,000.00 25,000.00 fl7.982.03 37,051.99 1,000.00 No. 849 Discovery of oil 26.0u0.00 Total $3,468,841.00 Number and Kind of Bills. Just 804 bills were Introduced within th forty days fcr the introduction of bills In house and senate. The governor sent up a couple in each house afterwards. Two years ago the total, exclusive of two or three sent up by the governor, was 893. In 1903 177 bills wer passed and signed by the novernor. Th number, It appears, will be quit that largs this year. Aside from the appropriation bills, th Cady railroad commlnton and th Junkln anti-trust bill and the Sheldon bill, provid ing for a 1-mlli tax levy for the liquida tion of the state debt, none of ths bills are of special state-wide Importance. No regular railroad rate legislation was ef fected outside of the Cady commission bill; no material changes we made In th revenue law the bulk of bills were of local character. Omaha cam in for it share. It got Its charter and companion bills, the voting machine bill and several correcting certain alleged defect.s In th present law governing Justice courts and a few others. It failed', aa It always has, to secure th passage or oven favorabl consideration of a law to tax railroad terminals for local purposes. MEMBERS TURN LOOSE ON PRESS Last Night of Session Given Over to th Roasters. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 1. (Special.) On of tha most notable events of this legislature one that should stand out In bold relief against th background of Its record wa the fusillade directed against th newspa pers of the stat Friday night In th houa. Business having been completed, the house, pursuing the common custom, gav Itself up to levity, and levity It was. Indeed, in the striote.t sense of that term. A ham mer and anvil chorus poured forth Its spleen upon the "venomous pre-" of th state, which in the fall of 190 ' will bs compelled to go to the rescue and try to defend and champion the. men and th record they havo left In Lincoln. True, ther wer tho.. present who falld to pr olv th Justice of the onslaughts, but