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OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1907-TWELVE rAGES.
SINGLE COrY THREE CENTS.
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READY TO BE GOOD
Hallway Ifacnatei Aik for Conference
with the President.
WANT UNDERSTANDING WITH GOVERNMENT
j Ttj They Wiih tj Allay Anxiety Beard-
ri inc. Intmtnta.
I P. MORGAN VISITS WHITE HOUSE
Be ArrmeM for Four Railroad Presidents
tt Eee Chief Eieontive.
HARRIMAN MAY JOIN THE PARTY
Dther Arc McCrea of Penneylvnnla,
Hnghltt of northwestern, Kewsaan
f Hew Tork Central and
Mellon of New Haven.
WASHINGTON, March 1L-J. Plerpont
fclorgan of , Now York waa in conference
with President Roosevelt for two hours to
night. The financier came here at the re
quest of certain business men of New York
to discus the business situation, partic
ularly as affecting the railroads. lie asked
the president to grant an Interview to lour
railroad presidents, which request was
ranted.
1 ' The objoct of Mr. Morgan's visit wu to
1 Urge the president to take some action
to "allay the public anxiety now tlireaten
, lng to obstruct railroad investments and
construction." Mr. Morgan pointed out to
the president that the financial interests
' of the country are greatly alarmed as the
attitude of the administration toward cor
porations and particularly the reelroads.
At. Mr. Morgan's earnest request Pres
ident Roosevelt agreed to have a confer-
ence with four leading railroad presidents,
Messrs. MoCrea of the Pennsylvania, New
man of the New York Central, Mellen of
the New York, New Haven Ac Hartford, and
Hughltt of the Chicago tt Northwestern,
to determine if some agreement can be
reached as to the relations between the
railroads and the administration. It Is
probable that E. H. Haniman, head of the
Harrlman lines, may also participate in
the conference, which, it is understood,
will take place at the White House some
time the latter part of this week.
After boarding his train shortly after
midnight to return to New York, Mr. Mor
gan dictated to the Associated Presa the
following statement:
"At the request of many business men,
before leaving for Europe, I came to Wash
ington to see the president to discuss the
pre.ient business situation particularly aa
affecting the railroads. I suggested to the
president that it would be greatly in the
public Interest if he would see Mr. MoCrea,
Mr. Newman. Mr, Mellen and Mr. Hughltt
and confer with them as to what steps
might be taken to allay the publlo anxiety
Row threatening to obstruct railroad Invest
ments and construction so much needed and
especially to allay the publlo anxiety as to
5w .4hs relations between the railroads and
r' the ' government Th president said ha
, ' would be glad to see the gentlemen named
with this end in view."
SOME IRISH FEEL INSULTED
Postcards Bearing- tferieatsrre of th
Hu Cau't Pablle Meet
las; la Chleaa-o.
CHTCAOO, March 11. Postal cards dep
recating the Irish are to o tabooed by
members of the Celtic raoe and Postmaster
General Meyer is asked to bar from the
malls the objectionable pictures.
Resolutions to that effect were adopted
at a meeting of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians held here last. night.
John T. Keating, a former member of
the Board of Education and one of the
leading members of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, stirred those present to enr
thuslasm by his vigorous protest against
the cards, which he characterised aa aa
"insult to every Irishman and woman."
The meeting was attended by BOO mem-
bera of the order.
"I .want to voice a protest against the
caricaturing of the Irish raoe on the al
leged comic or souvenir post cards," said
Mr. Keating. "Never has a greater insult
been heaped upon any race or people than
these vile cards are doing to the men and
V omen of Irish blood.
"They are disgraceful and a libel on ths
Irish physiognomy.
"I claim that my ancestors and youra
were as comely aa any race of people under
the sun, and the Irish women of today are
noted for their facial charms. These post
cards that caricature the Irish as plug'
UgUea are libels of the grossest nature."
ADMIRAL TALKS OF PEACE
t-ora Charles Bereaford Says Battle
bias Are Iaanranee of People
Asalaat War.
BAN FRANCISCO. March llA-Lord
Charles Bereaford. admiral of the British
channel fleet, has arrived here on his re
turn from Texas, where he has been set
tllng ths estate of his brother, ths lata
Lord Delaval Bereaford.
The admiral still believes In battleships
In spits of the International project of
disarmament.
"Ths people have become the arbiters of
peace," he said in an interview yesterday.
They realise the horrors of war and that
battleships are cheaper than battles. War
Is ae longer determined by parliaments
and potentates and the people look upon
the coat of battleships as an .insurance
rate. That Is what I have always aald
and I believe It still. I have told your
people that."
LIVE STOCK LAW INVOKED
Lake shore Railroad Is Ckarced wttk
fifteen. Violations of Tweaty
Elabt-Hoar Statate.
BUFFALO. March 11. Vhltsd States
IHotrtct Attorney Bass has Died fiftevj
ccmplaint. brought by th. gov.rnm. nt Mtl.fled w,th It. first diplomats relations
against ths Lake Shore Michigan Boi.tli- wlth tn, Holy .,
ern Railway company for violating ks, , Buhop -Gorman replied that all th.
T '"""V0 tn.portattor. ct Phlllpplna Que.Uon. brought before him
u .. .CmP r U6"Mat U ,n ".en settled to th. satl.fao-
. iTl 1 th m"lmun Polity lm. tl0 of partlMi wltn th. ,xceptl(,n
Ti'oe mttnt r'"tl"" ! of th Plu tru,u C- Wh,cU he ald
, . was on the way to a settlement. Cardinal
Ths federal law Provide, that eattl. Rampolla took advantage of this occasion
.hall nt be kept confined in a railroad MalB t0 prlU th. hUn of pomicM,
car for a period of more than twenty. faJrneea displayed tn 10 by President
eight consecutive hours unl..s an rxten- Rooaavelt and Secretary Taft and be eva
sion of time is grant.d by the owner of treated th. two great republic., th.
the cattle upon request of the transport i- I United Statea and France, In their lo
tion coinpenlea. when th. Ume luay be . spectlv. atiitudea la the management of
toadod to UUrty-slx hours. eoclealaatioai affairs.
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' X.KQXB1VATXVS.
Effort led by McMullen to have primary
bill recommitted to committee of the
whole for amendment making party decla
ration at primary necessary. Action is
deferred until today. Senate postpones
for a day the terminal taxation bllL Child
labor bill recommended for passage in
the senate after being amended to exempt
from Its provisions farm labor. Page 1
Railroads bring In all their force of
lobbyists In combined effort to defeat
pending legislation. General Manager
Holdrege of the Burlington in command.
rage 1
Committee decides to report bill cutting
oft board graft at Douglas county Jail,
but law not in operation during present
term. rags I
Claims committee hears further testi
mony on Fisher claim. Money not passed
for deed to land until last Saturday.
Page 1
BOMXSTIC.
Structural iron workers and shipbuilders
go out at Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit and
Superior. rage a
High water cornea to Vermilion, B. D.,
and government engineer not certain dyna
mite will remove the gorge. Page 3
Dosen persons injured in riots attend
ing attempts to run street cars In Louis
vllle, Ky., and service Is abandoned for
the day. rags a
District Attorney Jerome is blocked in
his attempt to discredit testimony of Mrs.
Harry K. Thaw, but gets much of his evi
dence before jury by his speeches. Page 1
romxzov. "
Russian Duma, passing on credentials cf
members, has much work. Page S
Premier of Bulgaria la assassinated and
other members of cabinet Injured, Page 1
Speaker Cannon visits the Porto Rico
House of Delegates and makes an address,
Page a
VZBKA8XA.
Railway commission finds demand for
cars in Nebraska more than double the
aupply and says the condition is due to
the slow arrival of cars from eastern con
nections. . Page a
X.OGAX
Scottish Rite Masons hold reunion. -
Page
Coal dealers testify In ."Coal trust" case
regarding action of association. Page 4
John Rasgorshek, Injured by unidentified
parties six weeks ago, dies as result. '
Page T
E. II. Harrlman has hard task to carry
out plans in face of sentiment. Page 12
Martin Kaatle, man who caused Dowie
to become excited In New York, visits
Omaha. Page 4
SPOUTS.
Jake Schaefer wins world's champion
ship at 18-1 billiards from Oeorge Sutton.
Pa-e a
Morris O'Nell announces backera of St.
Joseph club in Western league and gives
assurance town will have a good team.
Declares the Western association an out
law which will be fought to the finish.
Page a
SUGAR REBATE TRIAL BEGINS
Lackawanna Railroad Charged with
Making- Unlawful Allowances
to Haveneeyer Combine.
NEW YORK. March 11. The trial of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad,
charged with granting rebates en sugar
shipments from Brooklyn to Buffalo and
points west, began today before Judge
Hough In the federal court.
Assistant United States District Attorney
Wise in his opening statement said be
would show that the augar company got
an advantage of one per cent per 100 pounds
during 1902, 1!8 and 1904 over lta competi
tors on all sugar shipments to Buffalo and
two cents per hundred pounds on shipments
beyond that city and that tbe contract had
been made with the knowledge of Presi
dent Trueadaie and other officers of the
road.
Augustus P. Thompson, freight claim
agent of the road, testified that he paid
all freight claims made upon the company
and produced a memorandum handed him
by P. J. Flynn, the general freight trafflo
manager of the Lackawanna road, stating
that an extra allowance on all sugars
shipped over the Delaware. Lackawanna
A Western railroad should be paid to
Lowell M. Palmer, consisting of 1 cent per
100 on all shipments to Buffalo and I cents
per hundred to all points west of that city.
BISHOP 0'GORMAN IN ROME
Sooth Dakota Prelate DUcaaaea
Affairs of Philippine Brotherhood
with Cardinal Rampolla.
ROME. March 11. The Right Rev.
Thomaa O" Gorman, bishop of Sioux Falls,
6. D., had a long conference tonight with
Cardinal Rampolla, formerly papal secre
tary of state. While filling this post the
cardinal had taken part In the negotia
tions with the United. States in the matter
of tbe religious brothsrhodds in the Philip
pine islands and he was anxious to be In
formed concerning present conditions in
the Islands, lie asked Bishop OOorman
wnetner tne American government waa
MORE TALK THAN EVIDENCE
ArciaenU Between Lawyers Oocupiet Al
Day in Thaw Trial.
JIROME STRIKES A SOLID WALL
Hot Allowed to Attack Mrs. Thaw
Bad All Attempts to Discredit
Her Story Are Eacladed
by tbe Coart.
NEW YORK, March ll.-On the first day
of the state's case in rebuttal at the Thaw
trial District Attorney Jerome today came
to a temporary standstill against the prac
tically solid wall the rules of evidence have
built around the story of Evelyn Nesblt
Thaw. Mr. Jerome began to attack the
story aa soon as court opened this ittorn-
lng. There ensued a well nlsh ceaseless
battle between the prosecutor and Delphln
M. Delmaa. leading counsel for the defense.
at the end of which Justice Fltsgerald up
held the rule laid down at the beginning
of the trial that young- Mrs. Thaw's story
was admissible only aa tending to show the
effect it might have had in unbalancing the
defendant's mind and that lta truth or
falsity is not material.
Mr. Jerome tried to avoid this rule by
declaring he was endeavoring merely to
show by Inference by circumstantial evi
dence as to facts and details In the story
that Mrs. Thaw could not possibly have
told the story .to her husband. Although be
will doubtless be blocked by the same rule
when the time comes. It is said the district
attorney may attempt in the same way to
prove an alibi for Stanford White on the
night he Is alleged to have maltreated Miss
Nesblt.
Day Spent In Ara-nment.
Nine-tenths of today's session was spent
In argument, and In nearly every Instance
Mr. Delmas won bis point as to the law,
while Mr. Jerome in the very argument
ltaelf had got before the jury a perfect
knowledge as to what his witnesses would
have testified to lisd they been permitted.
The district attorney called ten witnesses
during the day, but aside from drawing
from the state's eye witnesses to the
tragedy the opinion that Thaw seemed ra
tional the night he shot and klllad Stan
ford White, little real headway was made.
Lining up all his forces in rebuttal, Mr.
Jerome decided to open his light by at
tacking Evelyn Thaw's story. He called
Frederick W. Longfellow, formerly an at
torney for Thaw, and asked him first con
cerning the cose that Ethel Thomas Is al
leged to have sued Thaw for damages be
cause of cruel treatment. Mr. Delmas ob
jected, but before Justice Fitzgerald sus
tained ths objection and ruled out the ev
idence, Mr. Jerome declared: "The story
of the girl tied to the bedpost and whipped
by Thaw Is the story of Ethel Thomas.
This poor girl is now dead." Here Mr. Del
mas objected to the district attorney's re
marks and the latter began an attack along
a different line. He showed Mr. Longfel
low the photographic covy of the affidavit
Evelyn Nesblt is said to have signed In the
office of Abraham Hummel, alleging that
Thaw treated her cruelly -while abroad In
1908, because she "would not tell lies
against Stanford White." 1
' Mr. Jerome followed thls-ap by asking the
witness If Mm. Thaw had- not turned over
to Mm certain papers' to which she had
subscribed. Mr. Longfellaw said she had.
There was a long argument between Mr.
Jerome and Mr. Delmas, at the conclusion
of which Mr. Longfellow turned his entire
examination to naught by declaring that
Mrs. Thaw had nsrer shown him a paper
similar to the Hummel affidavit in any
way. He thereupon was excused without
cross-examination.
Police Officers Testify.
' Police officers who saw Thaw ths night
of the tragedy declared he acted ration
ally. Captain Hodglns of the Tenderloin
precinct, however, qualified his answer te
the question by saying once that "for a
man who had Just committed murder, Thaw
acted rationally." This- waa stricken out
and he aald: "Well, his eyes had a stare
and a gase auch as they show as I now
look at them." This answer also was
stricken Out and finally the captain de
clared: "Well, he seemed more rational than ir
rational and that's the best answer I can
give."
Many, of the witnesses called by the state
during the presentation of tbe case in chief
were recalled today. All ' declared Thaw
aeemed rational.
Mr. Jerome called Dr. Rudolph Wltthaua,
a chemist and expert In poisons. The dis
trict attorney framed a hypothetical ques
tion covering Evelyn Nesblt Thaw's de
scription of her night with Stanford White
in the Twenty-fourth street studio house
and asked if there was any known poison
which would oause insensibility in two
minutes and permit of the quick recovery
testified to by Thaw's wife.
Around this vital point, opening up as
it did a path through which- the prosecutor
could march his forces In attack upon the
truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's story, the
storm of argument raged for an hour or
more. Mr. Jerome pleaded with Justice
Fltsgerald at great length. Mr. Delmaa In
reply cited Mr. Jerome's own words at the
beginning of the trial. At that time ths
district attorney had the court Instruct the
jury that young Mrs. Thaw's testimony was
permissible only as tending to show what
effect its relation to Thaw may have had
In unseating his mind. The prosecutor said
that under the rules of evidence he would
not be permitted to attack the truth of
the story.
"Now," said Mr. Delmas In conclusion,
"he Is attempting to do that very thing."
Attempt to Discredit Mrs. Thaw.
Mr. Jerome said he was not attacking the
truth of the story- Hs waa calling for an
expert opinion to the effect that no known
drug would produce the effect testified to
by Mrs. Thaw.
"My question indicates th. answer I ex
pect to get to this question," aald Mr. Je
rome, "and if I can show there is no such
poison In th. world, If I can ahow in ahort
that there was no such occurrences in the
Twenty-fourth street house as testified to,
then it is for the jury to Infer 'whether or
not Evelyn Nesblt told her story to Thaw
in Paris in 1."
Justice Fltsgerald sustained Mr. Delmail
objection.
When lata in the afternoon Mr. Jerome
called Jamea Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law
of Stanford White, to the stand another
long argument ensued. Mr. Smith waa on
Madison Square root garden the night of
t,h tragedy. Hs kn.w Thaw and smoked
with him that ivtnlnf. lta uM Thiw
In the aisle for a moment after raachlna-
his seat, looking over the audience Intently.
Mr. Delmas objected and thla was stricken
out of th. record. The attorney for the de
fease also objected to Mr. Smith's testify
ing at all. saying he should have been pro
duced during the presentation ef th. case
In chief. Mr. Jerome aald Smith waa Id
Europe when tha state a caaa Brat was
presented. H. threw himself upon th. dla
cretlon of th. court and Ui. matter was
pending whan adjournment until tomorrow
was ordered.
CALIFCRNIANS GO SLOWER
Artloa on Anti-Japanese Laws Post
poned at Reojaeat of President
Roosevelt.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., March 11. Presi
dent Roosevelt has again appealed to the
legislature of California to stop all Jsp
anese legislation. The president, has sent a
telegram to Governor Gillette urging that
the legislature suspend all Japanese leg
islation and expressing the fear that the
action of the senate Saturday In passing
the two Japanese bills and a resolution
may render Ineffective his efforts to secure
exclusion of Japanese laborers by friendly
agreement with Japan.
The governor transmitted ths president's
telegram to the assembly this morning
where action was to have been taken today
on the two bills and the resolution adopted
by ths senate, with a message recommend
ing and urging that the president's re
quest be acceded to.
On Btanton's motion the assembly by a
viva voce vote decided to take no action on
the btlls on file.
The message Is as follows:
Action of legislature reported In this
morning's papers most unfortunate In ef
fect upon my efforts to secure exclusion
of Japanese laborers by friendly agree
ment, and if Continued will probably render
recent legislation of congress for thst pur
pose Ineffective. Please secure suspension
of further action until receipt of letter
from me. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The action referred to by the president
was the passage of the bill limiting the
age of children when first entering primary
schools to 10 years; the measure prepared
by the Japanese-Corean Exclusion league
submitting the question of Astatlo exclu
sion to a vote of the people and a resolu
tion protesting against Japanese naturali
sation. '
The message created something of a sen
sation in the lower house.
Orove L. Johnson arose, expressed his
confidence In the governor and president,
believed the matter should be left to them,
and moved It be the sense of the assembly
that no action be taken on the Japanese
question at this session.
WASHINGTON, March 11. Further than
an admission that the president had com
municated with Governor Gillette regard
ing the action of the California legisla
ture in regard to the Japanese school
question, no statement on the subject was
obtainable at the White House today. The
letter following the president's telegram
to the governor on the subject may be
given on t at the White House when it
is received by the governor.
NEW PLAINTIFFS IN EDDY SUIT
Second Conaln and Adopted Son Join
In BUI of Eqalty as Next
friends.
CONCORD, N. H., March 11. Fred D.
Baker of Epsom, N. H., a second cousin
of Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy, and Dr. E. J.
Foster Eddy of Waterbury, Vt., Mrs.
Eddy's adopted son, have become parties
plaintiff as ' "next friends" of Mrs. Eddy
to the bill In equity brought to secure an
accounting of her property against leaders
of the Christian Science church
In joining In the bill In equity Dr. Foster
Eddy says in bis petition that he has e
tome "convinced that Mrs.- Eddy is' ahd
for a long time has been Incapable of in
telligently conducting or receiving an ac
count of her business and property and
j that the same Is being managed wholly by
the defendants without- giving a proper
accounting thereof."
Fred W. Baker in his petition says that
he is a second cousin of Mrs. Eddy and
that in September, 1R96, he was sent by
his employers to examine and repair and
alter certain carriages of Mrs. Eddy's.
He made known to Mrs. Eddy his rela
tionship to her and she treated him cor
dially. Inviting him to remain In her house,
which he did one night. She Invited him to
visit her wdth his wife and children at
any time. Mr. Frye, however, told him
that he ought not to make that visit.
During the next three years he wrote
to Mrs. Eddy twice, offering to avail him
self of hrr invitation to visit her, but he
received no reply, and he believes that she
was not permitted to see either of the
letters.
In September, 1905, he said, he decided to
make an effort to see Mrs. Eddy. He went
to Concord and to her house, and Mr.
Frye refused him the privilege of seeing
her.
He believes, he said in his petition, that
Mrs. Eddy la virtually a prisoner In her
own house, that she Is kept secluded by
the defendants, Frye and others, and that
she is not capable of managing her own
business.
Mrs. Eddy sent her carriage today for her
counsel, former Congressman Henry M.
Baker, who made a long call at Pleaaant
vlew, and on his return he said he had dis
cussed with Mrs. Eddy both personal and
legal matters. He said that she waa In her
usual health and spirits and that while aha
was concerned about the pending pro
ceedings, he did not think they would have
any injurious effect on her.
MINERS FORM OWN UNION
Nevada Oold Diggers Withdraw from
Indastrlal Worker of the
World.
TONOPAH, Nev., March 1L The miners
here have decided to sever their connection
with the Industrial Workers of the World
and form a union of their own.
At Goldfleld great excitement has been
cauaed by the labor troubles. Nearly half
i ot th" population Is patrolling the streets.
i Jhn Sl,v waa '"ed laat night and Joe
Smith of the Industrial Workers, is under
arrest. A big parade Is planned for to
morrow as a demonstration against th. In
dustrial Workers.
Yesterday the first shift of miners of the
Consolidated companies at Goldfleld was
called off by th. Industrial Workers of the
World as the carpenters would not join
their order. The I o'clock shift went on
as usual, declaring that they would no
longer be dictated to by th. agitators.
SAGER BEFORE COURT-MARTIAL
Eighteenth Infantry Officer Charged
with Intoxication aad Abseneo
Without Leave.
LEAVENWORTH. Kan., March 11. A
court martial to try Lieutenant O. W.
i Baer of the fantonth gantry, charged
with violation of th. sixty-second article
of war tn failing while Intoxicated to prop
erly attend to hla duties, convened at Fort
Leavenworth today.
Lieutenant Sag.r pleaded guilty to th.
charge of being intoxicated and falling to
answer official correspondence, but pleaded
nut guilty to the charge of being absent
without leave.
Lieutenant Sager served through ths
Spanish-American war la th first Illinois
volunteer Infantry.
RAILROAD LOMYISTS BUSY
Brincisc ia All Their Torcet in Effort to
Defeat Ltciilatios,
OLD GUARD AND SOME NEW ONES PRESENT
Committee Give Hearlna- on Dooa-tas
Connty Jail Graft aad Decides
to Report Bill Cattlaa;
It Off.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
' LINCOLN, March fx (Special Telegram.)
That the railroads are bending every en
ergy to block the railway legislation de
manded by the people is clearly evidenced
by tbe Influx of railway lobbyists, high and
low, who are now gathered here so thick
that no one can move without running into
one of them. The list of railroad manipu
lators tonight Includes for the Burlington
Ganeral Manager Holdrpge, Tax Commis
sioner Pollard, W. A. Dllworth, Lee SpraU
len, Frank Young , Superintendent Br ram
for the Union Pacific, Attorney Edson Rich,
Tax Commissioner Scrlbner, Charlie Lane
and the redoubtable Bob Clancy for the
Northwestern, Ben White and Bob Mc
Glnnls. General Manager Holdrege came
down In his private car, arriving about t
o'clock, and brought with him the bulk of
this delegation to join the retinue regularly
retained here.
The attitude of the fuslonlsts on the
terminal tax Mil has not yet been fully
disclosed, although It Is known that quite
a few of them will support the measure
Fries of Howard Is one member of the
minority who was In the legislature four
years ago and cf that time voted for the
proposition as an amendment to the rev
enue bill then pending. At that time the
fuslonlsts were almost all lined up for
terminal taxation under the lead of Eoomls
of Dodge and fourteen of the house mem
bers of fusion persusslon reeored them
selves for terminal taxation. Under all
these circumstances It is not to be expected
that the minority membera will volunteeer
to pull railroad chestnuts out of the fire.
Cnttlna- Off Jail Graft.
All the members of the (Douglas county
board of county commissioners were in
conference tonight wlth the house com
mittee on fees and salaries over the bill,
to put an end to the jail feeding graft
After threshing the subject out, with
Sheriff McDonald present, the consensus
of opinion was that the bill should be put
through for a contract to supply meals to
the prisoners, and that the sheriffs salary
should be fixed at $4,000 without any per
quisites, both propositions to go into effect
January 1, next. This would leave the
present aherlff to serve his term out under
existing law and make the change simul
taneous with the advent of the next sheriff.
The Pullman lobby, consisting of Tomas
Benton and Frank Ranson, bumped up
against a stone wall today when it tried
to head off a bill by Harrison of Otoe, to
reduce Pullman charges In this state. The
hearing waa before the house railroad com
mittee, and the Pullman spokesmen waxed
eloquent in pleading the poverty act.
Tomaa Benton had figures to show that
the Pullman company ought to be In the
alms house because It waa losing money
all tha time on lta Nebraska business. Ran
som insisted, as of old. that the Pullman
company la not a common carrier at all,
but Simuly a hotel keeper on wheels, and
suggested that people would like it better
any way to have the prices up high so as
to keep the common herd out. The com
mittee decided on a twenty per cent re
duction, Instead of a thirty per cent re
duction In the bill aa originally Introduced,
would give relief for the present and will
ao report.
The same committee, after listening to J.
II. Butler of Omaha representing the co
ordinated expresa companies, concluded to
report favorably on a bill to reduce express
company charges twenty per cent as well,
except so far as they might show the
railway commission that auch reductions
are unwarranted.
MORE LIGHT 0NFISHER CLAIM
Mosey Paid by Fisher for Deed TleJH
Vp by Government Until Laat
Saturday.
(From a Staff Correapondent.)
LINCOLN, March 11. Special Tolegram.)
The house committee on claims spent an
other session tonight Investigating th.
Goedde claim against the state for escheated
land In Sioux county for which Captain Al
len G. Fisher filed a claim for tAOJO in 1901
and 111.600 in 1908 and 1906 and for which Her
man Kaup of West Point now . asks $1,500
for the belrs. It turned out at the fanner
hearing that Captain Fisher ha. a deed for
the property signed by th. helra in Ger
many. B. L. Scoville of the First National bank
at Chadron waa the principal witness be
fore the committee tonight. It was through
his bank the deed was transferred to Mr.
Fisher. Mr. Scoville said Fisher had paid
$960 for the deed Sunday, January 20, and
the following day had tied tha money up
by garnishment asserting Kaup was threat
ening to make him trouble. The money
remained tied op until last Saturday when
the garnishment was released and the
money sent to Germany.
John H. Llndal. of West Point, who rep
resented Kaup, testified, he had an agree
ment with Fisher to get one-third of all
Fisher got from the legislature above $1,000,
which was to go to th. helra H. said h
did not know anything about the deed until
b. read about It in the newspapers. Let
ters from Fisher to Lindale were Intro
duced, in one of which, dated In 1901.
1 Fisher says h. has hired a "well known
lobbyist" to help get the claim through the
legislature. The lobbyist is not named. In
another Fisher tells of the rejection of the
claim and says he will have to wait for
a more liberal legislature. In 1901 Fisher
wrote htm another letter refusing to go
ahead with the claim because his com-
pensatlon In hla power of attorney Is lim
ited to XI. Uk.
The committee took no action.
Andrew Rosawater, C. O. Lobeck and
City Attorney Burn am appeared before the
municipal affalra committee ot the senate
tod-vy on the bill to give the city engineer
control over th. expenditures for publlo
works in Omaha. Mr. Rosewater defended
the bill and Lobeck and Burnam oppostd
it, declaring it would give the city engineer
too much power.
1 KANSAS TWO-CENT FARE LAW
Hewae Passes least Meaanvo for BOO
Mil Interchangeable Mlleaa-o
Book.
TOPEKA, Kan , March 11. Th house this
afternoon adopted the senate two-cent fare
bill It provides for 600, LOCO and lOuO-mlle
mlloage books, lbs lOOv-inU books t ba
Interchangeable.
SENATE RESUMES INQUIRY
Committee Takes Mere Testimony Re-arardlsa-
Dliwharga of Colored
Tronp at Brownsville.
WASHINGTON, March ll.-The Inquiry
by the senate committee on military af
fairs. Into the affray at Brownsville, Texas,
which resulted In the discharge without
honor of a battalion of the Twenty-flf th In
fantry, Was resumed today after a ten days
recess. The members of the committee
present were Senatora Warren, Scott, For-
aker, Lodge, Hemenway, Bulkeley, Warner,
Foster, Pettus and Overman. Walker Mo-
Curdy, former quartermaster sergeant of
company B, testified that no soldiers had
left the barracks and Jumped over the wall
on the night of the trouble.
Joseph H. Howard, formerly of Company
D, testified that he waa one of the twelve
men arrested for complicity In the shoot
ing and that when the balance ot the troop
prepared to leave Brownsville, Major Pen.
rose called at the guard house and said:
"If you men had told what you krow about
this affair, you would not be In here. It
you know anything about the shooting
you want to tell It."
Mr. Foraker asked the witness If he had
been given an opportunity to plead the
charge against htm. "No sir." waa the
reply. "Then I give you the chance now,"
what do you plead?"
"Not guilty," answered the witness em
phatically. "I suppose, of course, you would tell us
If you were guilty," sarcastically com
mented Mr. Overman.
"Yes, air. I would teH," said the wit
ness. Alexander Ash, formerly a private of
company D, testified that he was on guard
on the night of August IS. He heard two
shots from the county road and then
horses running toward Allison's saloon
from which direction he heard several
mors shots.
OIL WITNESSES RETICENT
Employes of Rockefeller Combine
Provoke Rebnko from Jnde
Landts.
CHICAGO. March 11. Several former
employee of the Alton railroad testified in
the Standard Oil case today and Identified
papers showing' that the company snipped
oil from Whiting, Ind., to St. Louis during
the tlmo covered by the Indictments. The
shipping orders showed the consignee to
be either th. Waters-Pierce or th. Repub
llo OH company in St. Louts.
Considerable difficulty Was experienced
in obtaining evidence from employes of
the Standard Oil company. Judge Landls
finally Interfered In th. case with on.
wltneia, whose answers he considered un
necessarily brief, and said If the wUness
was able to answer tho questions h. must
do so, but if h. did not know he must
say so.
The attorneys for the prosecution
brought into court during the afternoon
a. large quantity of way bills of the Chi
cago St Alton Railway company, which
Indicated a charge of 18 cents per 100
poifnds upon oil shipments from Chappcll,
III., to East Pt. Louis. The way bills
covered the shipments routed in the ship
ping orders identified by clerks of the
oil company and which directed that som
ef the shipments were to be sent over
the Chicago & Alton railroad and the
Wiggins ferry, aorae having tho Eadi
bridge at St. Louts as a destination.
The greater portion of the afternoon
waa taken up with identifying these
orders. Several of the employes of the
OH company were called to the stand to
testify regarding the details of prepara
tion of routing and shipping cards.
DISASTROUS DAY FOR RUEF
State Supreme and Federal District
Conrts Rule Against His'
Appeals.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11. This was
the most eventful, and for the defense the
most disastrous day, thus far In th. prose
cution of alleged municipal graft in San
Francisco.
Among the many fast following inci
dents of a day full of strenuous and di
rect results, the following were :hlef:
The supreme court of California denied
Ruef s application for a writ of prohibi
tion -to restral.i Judge Dunne from pro
ceeding to try him on the grand jury
extortion Indictments in the superior
courts.
Th. decision of the court follows:
We are satisfied that If the writ of
error, if It was properly granted, does not
operate aa a stay of proceedings In the
court having Jurisdiction over tho Indict
ment. Th. petition is denied.
Judge Do Hahen in the' United Status
district court refused Ruefs petition for
a writ of habeas corpus having In view
practically the same end, and denied Ruof
the night to appeal from this decision.
Mayor Bchmlts demanded a separate
trial and his case waa set for hearing to
morrow, but to follow the trial of Itutf.
Ruefs counsel filed an affidavit of bias
against Judge Dunce and announced that
tomorrow they will ask for a change cf
trial judges.
FRANK ROCKEFELLER IN SUIT
Brother of Oil Magrnata Alleges He
Was Deceived When II
Bought Mine.
8T. LOUIS, March J4- Frank Rockefeller,
brother of John D. Rockefeller, who ar
rived from Cleveland yesterday, J her to
attend the trial of a suit In th circuit
court ' which he bad instituted agalnat
Henry Goes to recover fc',Ouo. whloh h
claims was left in a mining deal.
In his petition Mr. Rockefeller sets forth
that on October 1, 1900, h. entered Into a
deal with Goes to pure has. a lead mine,
paying $3X.0OO for th mines and $06,000 for
Improvement. H charge that th. mln.
did not com up to th. representations. In
bis answer Goss denies that any misrepre
sentations war mad. Th cas was called
for trial today.
BULGARIAN PREMIER KILLED
M. Petkoff, Mlalster of tho laterlor
1 Assaaslnatad at
ofta.
SOFIA. March U.-M. Petkoff. th pre
mlsr and minister of tha interior, waa as
sassinated today.
M. Petkoff, with other ministers, was
walking in th Boris garden when attacked
by an ur.know man who fired at him with a
revolver. Th premier was wounded by
three bullets and died Instantly.
M. Geumadiaff, th minister of commerce
and agriculture, who was one of tbe mln-
Iisters accompanying M. Petkoff. was in
jured la th aruf
DEBATE ON PRIMARY
Effort to Hare Bill Recommitted to Etrike
Out Open Primary ProTiaton.
M'MULLEN OF GAGE LEADS THE FI6HT
IngiiU There Wat lo Oooailoa for Tleop
with the FniieukW
MOTION FINALLY GOES OYER FOR DAY
Discuuion oa Terminal Taxation Foit
toned Until .Tuesday.
FAVORABLE REPORT ON CHLD LABOR BILL
Secured Only After 8 peel do "Aaaend
anent Exception; front Its Pre
visions All Labor on Farms
Except In Beet Fields.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, March H. Special. The
house spent the entire afternoon In a dis
cussion of a motion by McMullen of Gaga
to recommit the primary bill for th speclflo
amendment which would leave the bill aa
It was originally drawn by the Joint com
mittee and while the matter was finally put
ever until Tuesday morning on a motion
by Clarke of Douglas, a motion to table
the McMullen motion was lost by a vote of
$6 to SS. This vots was a followa:
Yeas
Artama,
Illr4.
Bolen,
Hrown, B. W.
Brown, B.
( rllu,
rlarka,
Con.
Dodo,
rttinraa.
Slier.
Mays-.
Bar,
Barnes,
Beat,
Blyatnna,
Buckler,
Hyram,
Culdlca,
Farley,
Fletcher,
Ollmao,
Glelm,
Green,
Frano,
rrlw.
Kunk,
Oreli,
Harrlioo,
Mnrphy,
NeB,
Pilser.
QitaclcenhQlh,
liedmona,
echneUfert
Bmlth,
Stale.
tint,
Weeme,
TVerthlm.
Mr. Bpeaker SS,
Korea.
Baper.
Benkel,
Helena,
Hnrr,
Howe.
Jenlana,
Kelfer,
Kohl. .
Marlalt,
Metis r,
Hamer,
Haneea,
Hill,
Johnsoa,
KHIen.
Knowlea,
liahnerm,
Leader,
Lee.
Line,
lxtredon,
MrCullnUSh,
McMullen.
Htohan
Rohrer,
Rhubert,
Eprtnser,
ThflleMO,
White,
Whlthem.
Will
Hasemelttar,
Absent and not voting
Alderaoa. Hart, Talbot,
trmalrona, Harrey, Tucker,
Barrett. HeOernan, Van Hmaw,
Brown, M. T. Howard. Vopatenaky,
DaTle, Junes, Whitney.
Doran, Meckay,
Oraa, Btelnauer,
MeMnllen tor Committee Bill.
In talking for hla motion McMullen told
the house he desired the bill to be recom
mitted solely for the purpose of striking out
the open primary section and leaving tho
bill practically as it had been originally
drawn by the joint commute. H as
sured the house he waa for the state wide
primary and he believed every republican
in th house would vote for it and there
fore there was no occasion for a tie up
with the fuslonlsts by a few ot the repub
licans. .He bad made publlo his position
on the primary questions h said at th
outset. He was for hip own bill, but when
h saw there was no chance tor that to bo
passed be waa heartily In favor of passing
a good stat wide primary bill. He quot4
that W. J. Bryan in th Commoner had
advocated that every peraon voting at a
primary should tell- his party affiliation.
The newspapera, be said, had not been
alow to point out the disastrous results ot
the adoption of such an amendment. Ho
advocated republicans getting together and '
not in a few breaking away and tying bp
with the fuslonlsts.
Jenlson accused McMullen of being unfair
In calling up the matter when- there were
ao many absent. When the roll waa called
a call of the house waa mad before th
vote was announced and while under th
caU of the house Quackenbush (fuslonlat)
spoke against the McMullen motion and ho
aald the objections urged to th open pri
mary by McMullen were th same objec
tions raised by those political manipula
tors who did not want to be released front
their power. '
Farley apok In favor of th motion to
recommit and aald ha would support a pri
mary law auch aa contemplated in th re
publican stat platform and such a one as
drafted by the joint committee.
Hamer of Buffalo waa for th McMullen
motion and ha advocated In a dramatis
apeech tbat the house, fix the bill In decent
shape befor sending it to the aanat. Ha
aasured the house the senate would knock
off the house amendment and then th re
publicans would have to paaa th bill,
and the time to fix it waa now before It
went to th senate. There was never any
reason to bellev th primary bill would
not pass without a tie-up with the fuslon
lsts. And to say th primary law waa not
a party measure be said was foolish, for
if it was a good thing th republicans
would be given credit and if bad ths repub
licans would b blamed for It. The repub
licans, he said, could not avoid th respon
sibility, but must meet It, II said h
did not bellev th amendment adopted waa
what a majority of the hous wanted, but
they had adopted it as an expediency
when th necessity was not real but fan
cied. Doda- for Bill as It Hands.
Cone spoke against th McMullen morion,
aa did Dodge, who was Interrupted by Ha
per, who asked him If the Douglas county
primary waa not closed. Dodge assured him
It was. but It did not prevent the demo
crats from voting aa republicans If they
registered as such. He said also that
while many business men and others ob
jected at first to telling their party affil
iation they were gradually getting over It,
Lee spoke for the McMullen motion and
be told the house it would bo much more
honorable to fix the bill now a It should
be than to have to tak the senate amend
ment when the bill came back. H waa
sura there had never been aay reason for
an alllanc with the democrats on this
measure or any other measure In ths re
publican stat platform.
Jackson waa opposed to having th btTl
recommitted and he aald th men who war
trying to get it recommitted had been th
one who bad fought th primary from th
first. Th bill as amended he said was
fair to all, and tt should go to th aenat
in that condition.
McMullen In closing his debats said ha
waa surprised at Dodgs, who for some
years made a special sturly of primary law
and who had advocated tha closed primary,
should be won over to th open primary in
five mlnutea. Clarke closed the discussion
by moving to postpone farther consider
ation until 11 o'clock tomorrow, which was
carried by a vote of 44 to W.
Many Bills Killed.
Th senate this afternoon used th cholo
roforra process on a number of measures
of more or lea general Interest, an un
usually larg number ot bills being; killed.
Among these were Jettison's anti-lobby- bill.
Patrick's bill to permit lb boglnnlnsj ef
civil suits by serving original hvtlo oa