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unday Bee wtLCOMi at sic orr ice Ak-Gar-Dcn Visitors OFlN OAT AND NIOHT TVSLCOMg AT t(K OPPICI Ak-Gar-Dcn Visitors OPtN DAT AND NIOHT VOL. XXXVI II NO. 15. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 27, 1908-EIGHT SECTIONS SIXTY-EIGHT TAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. CONDITION 0FTHE WEATHER Tor Omsha. Council Bluff nd Vicinity Sunday fiilr and continued cool. Knr Nebraska Sunday fair, W'ltn rising temperature. For Iowa Sunday fair and cool. TAFT IN TWIN CITIES floods;;;land o Creat DamajJone in North Country by Storms. GRAND RUSH TO KING Judge Addresses Two Great Audiences in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Pilgrimage on low Rate Begint Tomorrow in All Quivera. GIVEN MAGNIFICENT WELCOME The Omaha k.T ' 1 """"I lour. Dtg. -V,--;! S a. m 5 a. m 60 "--1. 7 a. m 54 PI a. in 3 a, m II 10 a. m ' M 11 am 61 l - 12 m 6n A. 1 p. m , NWln. 1 p. m 4s Afv y " 3 P- m 4 sVi 4 p. m 48 S ?: SS:::::::::::::: S 7 p. m 49 FLOURISHING CROPS SWEPT OFF Heaviest Financial Loss Entailed at Berry. RED TAPE BANE OF GOVERNMENT Newspaper Rooms in Public Libraries Forced to Close. IMPERIAL CITY WILL BE MECCA Guaranty of Deposits and Savings Banks Discussed. To Visit Ak-Sar-Ben XIV, Faithful Subject! Wend Their Way. BRYAN'S SCHEME IS ANALYZED Plausible and Sophistical Method that ' Will Fail to Secure Results. GOOD IMPRESSION EVERYWHERE Ainu Side of lleiinbllean Nominee la Proving Tower of Strength Half Million People He aa Hcnr Hint. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Sept. 28. (Spe cial Telegram.) With wide-open rmi tin- Twin titles tonight gave welcome to William it. Taft and brought to a fitting clime his first week as a campaigner among the people of the middle west. Before two magnificent audiences aggre gating more than 25,000 people the re publican presidential candidate made speeches that captured the hearts of the people of St. Paul and Minneapolis. His princ ipal speech was made tonight in the Minneapolis auditorium, where he dis cussed the guaranty of hank deposits and declared Mr. Bryan's plan to be "a plausible hut sophistical method that will not accomplish the purpose, but ultimately will Incrcuae . the losses from bank fail ures." In the four day since the special left Cincinnati - Ihe republican nominee has been greeted by nearly 600,000 people. Ills Hue ef march through Indiana, Illinois, W isconsin, -Iowa and . Minnesota has stirred the people-of those atates to an enthusiasm far beyond the expectations ef the republican managers. Taft has put lira into the campaign and has become the popular hero of the hour In the Mississippi valley. But, more than this,! he has poured oil on the troubled waters of factionalism everywhere he has gone and has left the best of feeling for the national ticket In every state where there Is disagreement on local Issues. par ticular success In this repect will be realised by Mr. Taft in Iowa and Wis consin, which' leads Inevitably to the con clusion that neither of the states can now i classed as doubtful. Twenty or thirty leading republicans, who occupied the Taft special through Minne sota today, united In a statement that this state's plurality for the national ticket will not fall below 50.000. Mr. Taft's voice failed him before he had been out of Cincinnati twenty-four hours, but notwithstanding his hoarseness, he managed to make from ten to eighteen speeches dally. . Mr, Taft Enlot-s Trio, - -Aside from his throat trouble, which la not so bad tonight. Mr. Taft Is In (ine shape and Is enjoying every minute of bis trip. . Ha was ready for breakfast this morning before most of his fellow travelers were out of bed, and he looked aa hs said he fell, "As fresh aa a daisy." No matt In the Taft party Is more confi dent of republican success than th candi date himself. A dosen times sine leaving Cincinnati he has informed his audiences of his absolute faith in the certainty of his election to the presidency. Till announce ment. 1ms . never, failed to bring cheers. I'roballly .the most striking feature of the trip, niixt to the sixe and enthusiasm of the crowdf. Is the knack shown by Judge Taft In UUtlriK back to his audiences. The humsrV side of the republican nominee Is a tower (of strength, for he haa a Jest for every Jelly joker who comments about his disc. (lis voice or his smile. His hsnpy rejoin nflers puts him on terms of Intimacy with taste (every audience and leaves a good In the mouth. , He seems to Inspire good hature In every audience before which he appear, and It Is a remarkable fact that from HI fiot a mean-spirited remark has come any audience since the trip began. seeches to the working men have been IpaTtlcnlarly effective. When The re- fers I h "Eugene V. Debs, the man against whon "my that I am running for president," or to rlend, Samuel Gompers. who admits e carles the labor vote In his vest ." he never falls to brtfig a smile to ccs of his hearers. loeke the f "I feel like a performing bear," ssld Mr. Taft 1st Cedsr Rapids today, when the chalrrfian of the meeting walked him i round the platform so that everybody fc,'d see him 11 give you the blue ribbon." railed It king man In the audience. "Thanks. man whnt I want," replied Taft, and the cheered. "You're going to get what ant. ell right." b,real men her. If her who relai that ft en Ranks and BaaklnsT. Taft, In his speech here tonight, isn to call your attention today to a In the republican platform and to a in the democratic platform which In womi imnortant though not controlling is rapid, this csiupalgn. Fct WheJ for first to tiie plank In the rt-pub- Litfotm that recommends the sdop ' postal savings banks. The rrpub nvenilon doubtless had in mil tl the no a over com !rh hsd been Introduced In t'n en i reported by the senate eofiimlt- p.iasttge, authorising and directing muster general to receive savings at every money order office, and other offices ss he may designate, such Wl Is no Worn Uon refill U of 11 or more, snd multiples of W man WOIIIM fter the first dollar." After nar- make t lie provisions of the bill, Mr. Taft Thai breal the. objection has been made that this I nullum and socialism snd is Intro the government into the banking taken I cruet. The objection la without weight. Sluijx were ssvlnga btnks In all the tremef aa numerous and ss easy of ac and J they are In Maasachusetts. In the all foinalarid states snd In New ToVk. it said that the postal savings bank nvasion of territory properly occu- ' private enterprises, although even ould be' pointed out that the func- Itormed by the postsl savings banks more comprehensive than that of iiiy savings banks. But when It Is I 1 iliet In only eleven of the thirty- are there asving bank facilities. Is known thst In the middle west. the Rocky mountains, the average from any poatofflce to a bank of la thirty-three miles, and west of kles Is fifty-five miles. It can be Understood that the private anter- L-s not supply the need of savings, tilth, in order to furnish a motive Irtvuilty for thrift 4 savings, 4MM H MM4 ftVC ' should be easy of sccess to the clsss whose welfare It Is sought thereby to Improve. Of the S3.SOO.nOO.O0O deposits In ssvlngs bsnks S3 per cent is In New England. 38 per cent In New York. 21 per cent In Pennsylvania. Ohio. Illinois. Iowa and California, leaving wit per cent of the total In other ststes. "We should not deny to our people throughout the country opportunity to make the small deposits with the security of the government promise to pay princi pal and Interest. Such a system will add greatly to the money savings of the coun try. Fear of Banks I'nfonnded. "The fear by any class of banks that this would Interfere with their business the experience In other countries hss shown to be utterly unfounded. Where savings banks are established, thry pay a higher rate of interest than the government will pay for deposits In the postal savings banks, snd confer privileges on their depositors which it would be impossible to grant under a government system. "A slgnlflcent fact In connection with the postal savings banks of those countries where they have been most successful is that one-third of the depositors uf the posts) savings bsnks abroad are miners and two thirds of them are worklngmcn. "The postal savings bank would perform a most useful function In case of psnlcs. because they are government Institutions with the whole credit of the government behind them, snd would attract the depos its of those small depositors whose runs In panic times upon the banks produce such disastrous consequences. The deposit or this money In government offices and the power of the government who redeposlt that money in the National banks In the neighborhood, would furnish a mesns of meeting an exigency that no other system proposed has thus far been offered. "This postal savings bank system, how ever, does not meet the unqualified ap proval of the democratic party. It has not the vote catching quality and Involves only the old-fashioned gradual movsment toward better things by means of Industry and thrift and saving. "The party under its present leadership must have something which offers a short cut to reform at the cost of the honest and the industrious. The democrstic plat form pledgee the party to the support of a system by which all the national banks of the country are required to guarantee the dapoata to the depositors In every bank, and this guaranty Is to bo performed by a tax unon each bank In DrODortlon to Its depos its, the proceeds ef the tax to constitute V fund from which the depositor of any falling bank are t be paid; and If tha amount .of the tax Is not sunfflclent to raise the fund required, then It Is to be raised by subsequent assessment on all the banks of the country, and state banks are to be allowed to come In and get the benefit of the same guaranty under condi tions to be Imposed by law. While the democratic platform does not elsborate the system. It is to be Inferred from the fact that Ihe precedent In Oklahoma is relied upon, that the provisions are to be like the Oklahoma law, and these are as above fated. V Safety of Vital Import. "No one can dispute the Importance of making the deposits In every national bank as aecure as possible, provided the remedy adopted Is not Itself worse thst the evil to be cured. The government has imposed certain limitations upon national banks which have already tended to reduce the losses of depositors. "The result has been to Introduce Into national banks, a class of men of high character and great business and banking ability, and the losses In the last forty years to depositors In national banks have bean reduced to an average annual loss of one-twenty-sixth of one per cent of total deposits. If the losses, even though small, could be avoided. It would be of great benefit and should be brought about for while the percentage Is small, the Individ uals upon whom the loss falls may be heavy sufferers. The question Is whether we are to bring about an avoidance of this loss by the proposed democratic remedy, or In a more conservative and gradual way by perfecting the examination of banks and by rigid prosecution of all who violate the banking laws. "The remedy proposed by Mr. Bryan will make the conservative banker pay for the negligence, carelessness, lack of confluence, or dishonesty of the falling banker. It takes from one man without fault on his part, money to pay for the default of an other. That Is socialistic In the extreme, snd so violates all equitable principles that the remedy should be condemned for this rea son. "To say. aa Mr. Bryan does, that the postal savings-banks system Is more so cialistic than this Is to give a curious defi nition to socialism. Postal savings banks Take no man's money to mske up for the default Of another. It merely uses an arm of the government which Is not and cannot be discharged by private . enterprises. heress the enforced guaranty plan takes out of one man's plan engaged In the busi ness of banking money to pay for another man's default. This is pure socialism. Method of Examination. "Mr. Bryan suggests the expenses conr nected with the examination of banka Im poses a burden on one man for the default of anther. There is no analogy whatever between the reasonable requirements for the examination of all bauks and the tak ing out of one man's pockets money Jo pay for the fault of another. It Is a rea sonable imposition upon all banks that their accounts should be examined, and that their methods of doing business should be constantly under public supervision, and It la reasoning, erroneous as it is refined to make the pro rsta coat of a general bank examination a precedent for taking money out of one man's pocket for another man'a default. "It has been shown that In the state of Connecticut that if this system had been in force during the last ten years, and the tax had been rtily one-eighth of 1 per cent more than $4,000,000 would have been paid out and hut 131.0") would have been received. This Illustrates the unjust. Inequitable and socialistic character of a compulsory sys tem most completely. . "New 1st us fa is tha scclsltstl and In- CoUau4 0teoa4 BELFAST COUNCILLORS TO PAY Fed Troops Oaring? Last Year's Biota When They , Were Starring Wlthoat Absolnte Ai , thorltr. Dl'BUK, Sept. 26.-(SpecIal.)-What promised to be one of the best harvest that Irish farmers have enjoyed for many yesrs has been ruined by tha disastrous storms and floods which have prevailed throughout the north and west of tha coun try during the last week or two. Grain that had been cut and stacked In the fields has been swept awsy, and even large quan tities of oats and hay In stacks have bean blown away by tha wind. Cattle and sheep have been drowned In large numbers and a great many farmers have been mined. The damage Is worst In Deny. Tyrone, Donegal. Carlow, Roscommon and Galway. There was a waterspout a few days ago near lrry which filled one of the reser voirs that supplies the town with water and qnuscd it to burst. Fortunately the millions of gallons of water which It con tained were caught by another reservoir lower down, and the, city saved from what might have been a great disaster. As It was all the low-lying streets were flooded and there has been great distress among the poorer Inhabitants. A large part of Strabane, the chief town of County Tyrone, has been under water and relief has been carried to the poor In boats, which navi gate the main atreets. The farmers along the Finn and Mourns valleys have suf fered great loss. The floods were so bsd that traffic em the Donegal and Lough Swilly railway was entirely suspended for a whole day. In some places the track was five feet under water. Newspaper Rooms Closed. The newspaper rooms of the Dublin pub lic libraries have been closed and no more shining example of the absurdity of gov ernment red tape could be wished for than this. The money appropriated for the libraries fund has been exhausted, and al though there aro substantial surpluses In other funds, and although every member of the corporation Is anxloua to keep the news rooms open. It hss been found Im possible to do so. and there Is no prospect of relief even at the ooitmr"f the new fh.et.cval yr, aa the law llmlu-tHs amount to be spent on libraries to tha product of a tax at tha rats of 2 cents In the 15. If the corporation should vote to transfer some of the money lying Idle In other funds to the libraries fund the local government lioerd. which Is a bureau of the castle government, would step In and surchsrgc every member who voted for the resolution, with the result that they would have to pay the money out of their own pockets. Another example of the work of the local gAvernment board has been provided at Belfast, where the bosrd has actually surcharged three members of the corpora tion with J2."ii0 which was spent for feed ing the troops which were sent to quell the rlrts there lsst year. The corporation had nothing to do with sending the troops, ind. In fact, did not want them, but when they were there It was Impossible to see them starve. The three members who have been surcharged are the officials who actually signed the check given In payment for the supplies. Red Tape Keeps Boy la Prison. Red tape. In fact, seems to be the bane of all departments of Irish government, arid the viceroy haa Just been compelled to step In snd cut a bunch of It which might have held a boy In Imprisonment for life. The lad is Edward CaJlaghan. 13 years old, of Poyntxpaas. He is a little weak minded, but by no means imbecile' or In sane, and he has a taste for roaming. Ha hss run awsy from horns several times and has boon sent back each time by the police. On his last excursion he became hungry and helped himself to some turnips from a farmer's field, and was arrested. The magistrate cams to the conclusion that he was Insane ard sent him to the Armagh asylum, but when the doctors there saw him they sent him back, declaring that hs was saner than aoms of the magistrates who sent him there. He was then taksn to the workhouse, but ths authorities there would not have him, and from tho work house he was sent to aa Industrial school, but It was decided that ho waa not a suitable case for that Institution. The magistratea in despair sent him to prison on remand, while they considered his case, and kept remanding him from time to time aa they could not make up their minds what to do with hiin. The lord lieutenant heard of the case last week and Imme diately ordered that the boy should be released and turned over to Ms fsAher, who hsd been trying all the time to recover possession of him. Better Wages,. I.oss Porter. The most Rev. Dr. Browns, bishop of Cloyne. has started a crusade against the practice of the Irish farmers supplying drink to their harvesters, and incldentlally for better wages for the harvest workers. Speaking the other Jay at mass in Queens town cathedral the bishop declared that the scenes attending tha hsrvest in ths south and west of Ireland were a disgrace to the country, and that the cash of porter had become as necessary a part of ths harvest machinery as the threshing machine. In cldentlally he declared that if the farmers would stop buying drink for their laborers, they rould afford to pay them living wages, and ha appealed to the farmers of the diocese to try the experiment of tem perance harvesting and and thus set an example to the rest of Ireland. A Dublin man, Captain Beattte, has solved the problem of the automobile road hog. He has Invented an automatic gov ernor which can be attached to any car and which when the car reaches a speed of twelve miles an hour gives wsrnlng by ringing a bell. When ths speed exceeds thirteen miles an hour the governor auto matically ruts out tha engine until tha speed Is reduced. The guardians of the North rublin union have set a good example to tha poor law authorities of tha rest of Ireland and ons whlih will frohably bs widely fallowed. iCoaUnitaa (ecsat TtgAj Kfoni the .Philadelphia Public Ledger. BRYAN SILENT ON HASKELL I 1 ansanan-M Two Confer for Short Time, but No Announcement Follows. GOVERNOR HURRIES TO GUTHRIE He "Presumes" His nealanation ' Is Accepted Nothing; A boat Sao '; vessor, Which Is l"p to ' Mr. Mnek. CHICAGO. Sept. C. N. Haskell,- to all Intents and purposes, no longer treas urer of the democratic campaign fund, today Is on his way back to Guthrie, Okl., after a forty-flve-mlnute conversation with William J. Bryan. : ' At his desk In democratic headquarters sits J. B. Dooltn, the assistant treasurer, on whom the routine business of the office will fall until a successor to Mr- Haskell Is appointed. . ... , ', - Mr.- Haskell, still treasurer ; In ' name though not in fact, went to tha trsln alone. His hurrW departure. It .,4,' ,xa 'due' to"' tha necessity of his presence "at the sta'.s capital on Monday when the state Ux bosrd meets. Asked If h rvould prosecute those who had made charge against htm, ha wrote In answer: "Read the law. Tnu will then know the limit." He had asked, he said, that his resignation -take . effect Immediately. As to whether Mr. Dooltn would also resign, he referred Inquirers to the gentleman In question. The latter had nothing to say. William J. Bryan spent two hours In Chicago today apparently without chang ing in tha least tha situation brought abiut by tha resignation last night of Treasurer Haskell. However, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Haskell were closeted at the Auditorium Annex for three-quarters of an hour, and although no announcement was made at the conclusion of tho conference, It was taken for granted that the situation brought about by tha charges of Presi dent Roosovelt and W. R. Hearst were under discussion. When Mr. Haskell emerged . from the presidential suite and was besieged by re porters, he repeated his tactics of last night by requesting the Inquirers to write their questions. This . waa done, and the Oklahoman retired to his ' room with a series of interrogations whtch, .if frankly answered, would show whether his resig nation hsd been .accepted by Mr. Bryan, whether Mr. Bryan had suggest el a suc cessor, and a number of other matters in which public Interest had been aroused. It waa hot, and when Mr. Bryan came out In a hurry to catch his train beads of perspiration stood on his brow. Asked wether Mr. Haskell's reslgnstlon had been accepted so far as ha was con cerned, Mr. Bryan declined to answer. That It had been, however, was Inferred from Mr. Bryan' answer to the next question. , ' "Has a successor to Treasurer Haskell been selected?" ha waa asksd. "That Is up to Mr. Mack and , the fx-' ecutlve committee," cams ths hurried reply. - Although Mr. Bryan had a number of other callers. It msy be safely stated that so far aa Mr. Haskell's esse Is consid ered, ths conferees were Mr. Bryan, Mr. Haskell, Assistant Treasurer Doolln, Jamea W. Riley, who Is Mr. Mack s secre tary, and John E. Lamb. Mr. Lamb after the departure of Mr. Bryan called for a few minutes st Treasurer Haukell'a office. Ho was extremely uncommunicative re garding details of the morning's work. Hs wss not aware, he said, that Mr. Haskell was under discussion at all. Othera who talked with Mr. Bryan were John W. Tomllnson of the executive com mittee, Josephus Daniels, chairman of the press committee; Millard Dunlsp, a' banker and old-time friend of the candidate, and John I. Martin, sergeant-at-arms of ths national committee. Mr. Bryan was at ths hotel a little more than an hour. At 8:30 o'clock hs bade goodby to his callers and went to his train, which left half an hour later for Madison. Wis. Mr. Haskell left over the Santa Fe roal at o'clock for Guthrie, Okl. Asked whether his resignation had been accepted, he said, "I presume so." As to his successor h professed lgnot anoa. NEW YORK. Sept. JtL-August Belmont, former treasurer of ths democratic na tional committee, called ai state and na tional headquarters today to Inquire as to tha political outlook, h explained. Mr. Mack said that hs hoped to be abls to announce ths new treasurer on Monday. Resignation Not Seat Bryan. HARVARD JUNCTION, lit, Sept. St The actual preparation of his reply to the latter of President Rooaavelt regarding ths char gas against Governor Haskell wss be gun by William. J. Bryan today on tha Jourosr tram Chisago to Madtaoa. As yst VELVET CHAFF WHEAT GRADE Sooth Dakota Commissioners Adopt Neve Rearulatlonn, Besides Re. adopting; Old Ones. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Sept. 24.-(Speclal.) The State Board of Railroad Commisr sloners, which has Just held Its regular monthly meeting-. t the headquarters of the board In this city, has rcadopted the grades of grain and rules and regulations of last year to apply for the coming year, and In addition has adopted a grade for what is known as velvet chaff wheat, as follows: No. 1 shall be bright, sound and well cleaned and weigh not less than fifty-seven pounds to the measured bushel. No. 2 shall be sound, dry. reasonably clean. may be . slightly bleached or shrunken, but not good enough for No. 1, and weigh not less than fifty-six pounds to the measured bushel. No. 3 shall Include all wheat that Is bleached, smutty or for any other cause unfit for No. 2. snd weigh not less than fifty-four pounds to the measured bushel. No. 4 shsll Include all whest that Is very Smutty, badly bleached and grown, or for ny other cause unfit for No. 3. : - The board also Is endeavoring to secure S grade on spelts, which has become one of the great feed crops of South Dakota, especlslly In the northern and western parts of the state, t It la hoped by the board that some temporary provision may be made for the grading of spelt i pending the enactment of such legislation ss may be found necessary. In the matter of the construction of a side track on the Milwaukee railroad at a point between the towns of Reliance and Kennelec, In Lyman county, for which residents of the vicinity had petitioned, the railroad commissioners denied the applica tion. In the Wngner aide track case the board decided to make an order requiring the Milwaukee Railroad company to con struct the desired side track at a point about midway between tho towns of Wag ner and Avon-. The petitioners offered to do tho grading for the side track, and the petition was granted on that condition. Only one complaint, of a car shontage haa thus far been filed with the railroad com missioners. . It was announced during the meeting that D. II. Smith, chairman of the board, would represent the South Dakota Board of Rail road Commissioners nt the annual meeting of the National Uonrd of Railroad Com missioners, which will commence at Wash ington on October (. SECOND CAVALRY GOES NORTH Troops Leave St. Joseph Today to Take Part la. Ak-Sar-Baa Festivities. ST. J08EPH. Mo., Sept. 2 Ths 6.000 troops that have been participating in the United Ststes military tournament here this week ara preparing to desert Camp Peabody Sunday. The tournament will close tonight. Tho Seventh cavalry will not leave until Tuesday and will march overland to Fort Riley, Kan. Two troops of the Seventh will leave Monday and stop at Nortonvllls, Kan., where the other troops will Join them. A squadron of the Thirteenth cav lary will march to Fort Leavenworth, and Companies I and L of the Third battalion of engineers probably will hike to Fort Leavenworth also. The infantry regiments will return by rail to their posts. The Second cavalry will go by rail to Omaha, where they will stop two or three days to participate In the Ak-Sar-Ben fes tivities. Theq the regiment wljl proceed by rsll to Fort Des Moines. Troops I and F of the Second cavalry will go direct from Bt. 'Joseph to Des Moines to prepare for their trip to Louisville, Ky., where a mil itary tournament Is to be held. WHARTON TO HANDLE MONEY Chosen Chairman of National Repub lican ; Finance Committee for State of Nebraska. Hon., John C. Wharton of Omaha has been appointed by Chairman Hitchcock of the republican national committee to be an assistant to AssisUnt Treasurer Fred W. Upham, having In charge the funds for the western district of the United States. Mr. Wharton will bs the chairman of the Ne braska finance committee, and will have charge of the collection of tha funds for the national campaign In this slate. . Mr. Wharton has several times been treasurer of tha Nebraska state committee, and retired at 1.1s own request. He brings to his new work the acquaintance and ex perience that is necessary to the work. He has started on his undertaking, and during ths week will make the tour of the state on the Taft special. Gam Law Violators Fined. CASPER, Wyo., Sept. . -(Special. )-Tti thirty-one foreigners who were arrested recently charged with violating tha state gam law war flnsd S34.se each and have Uft thA state Thy had m tUagiturin ireuaa Mi t SaUasat NO EXTRAVAGANCE SHOWN Republicans Have Something to Show . for Every Dollar Expended. STATE DEBT BEING PAID OFF Income for Interest Increased and School Fond Investments Handled to Prod nee Best Results for Schools. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Sept. 26-(Spechil.) The re publicans are meeting the charge of ex travagance in appropriations for state in stitutions and the staite government by ad mitting that the last legislature appropri ated a total" of 3,3S1,467 for the blennlum and In turn are asserting that It will be difficult for anyone to point out wherein there isany extravagance. They also say that the Income of the state, which will b available to puy this amount will be $3,711, b.J. Thus the administration will keep well within Its income. . The following shows the appropriations of the last legislature for Btute irurtutlons: Hastings asylum t 3eu.90 Lincoln asylum 19.2"0 Norfolk asylum .Ml Soldiers Home, Orand island lba.l6o Soldiers' Home, Mllfotd 74.7o5 Blind asylum fpH, Deaf and Dub Institute 3.a75 Feeble Minded Institute ll,in) Industrial Home, Mllford 35.7l Hoys' Industrial Hume 133.i0 (litis' Industrial Home 3fe.bi0 Friendless and Orthopedic M.sOO Penitentiary 117.9x0 Peru Normal school 14.1.KJI) Kearney Normal school W.7H0 Appointees' department 3tt7.3i) Htste officers' department 249.020 Supreme court 8S,3ii) District court , 2:MHi0 Legislative expenses lim,fl(K) University, from general fund H7.500 Deficiency for Institutions, House Roll 535 fcj.ifis Miscellaneous claims, house Roll 531 28.4'-'0 Poultry association 2000 Horticultural fj'ni Agricultural 1 . 4,000 Dairymen's j.oio Purchases snd supplies l.V) Four hundred copies stautes 3,m Relief Thornton county 1.849 State entomologist 3 ftio Leaal advertislns s.ic Geological surveys . ; f,ou Trsnwrlblng abstracts i"(p0 Diseases of plants j'k) Fugitives from Justice 20 00 Revenue books ami blanks o'cuo Junior Nornml schools HVOm Kxpenses board. Peru and Kearney 1.9.H) John M. Thayer monument 1 ".V) Historical societv building 'Son) F.x'ermlnstiim of pests 7 5n0 Cattle barn. fHir grounds .'. Jo'ono F.mera-. Crippled Children's Home.. a' pro Aid of school districts RoVo Normal Training High schools go'ouo Total appropriations for blennium W.281,467 ineome of Stntr. The following Is the Income which will be available to defray this expense: 1907 valuation 0.0fl0,000, 8-mill levy tl 647 000 1908 valuation B91.0U,000, 4.X-mlll levy ,661 0;o Katiinstcd fees collected by depart ments ; 400,000 Total Income 3.711,0 bxceas of Income 1330.000 The state debt has been greatly de creased. It waa $1,917,000 January 4, 1907, and on August 28. 1908.' was only $635,986. The state treasurer by Increasing the Interest on state deposits has swelled the Interest fund. He has collected In eighteen months, from January 1, 1907. to January 1, 190g, 21.3r7.24 In Interest. During the previous twenty-four months the s mount collected was $1,700. The record of the republican, administra tion In the matter of school Investments Is onp of the strongest. There is now in vested $8,027.0(0 of state school funds hi state warrants, county bonds and bonds of other states. The Increased rate of Interest these' Investments now draw Is shown by the following: Bonds purchased twenty-five months pre vious to January 4. 1X7, $l.9.0; averag rate of Interest, .SS435 rr cent: bonds pur chased January 4. 1907. to date twenty months. $2.1i.3ii0: average rste. of Interest 03T85 rr cent:$:',18.ii0 at difference in per cent. llo.itKtt per year; difference In fifteen years, $!63,o. 4 ' Omclrl Itineraries. 'Chairman Kelfer of the republican state committee, has received the official Taft dates for Nebraska from the director of the speakers' bureau of the national com mute who says: "Answering your wire of September U, approximate arrival Taft train Xebraska at points, aa follow: Wednesday. Septem ber 30, Emerson. S a. m.; Wakefield, S:$o; Wayne, ; Norfolk. 10:06; Stanton, 10:30; West Point, 11:30; Scrlbner. 12; Fremont 1 p. m.; Wahoo. 1:45. Arrive at Lincoln, S. Thursday, October 1. leave Lincoln, T:30 a. m.. arrive Crete. g:C6; Wllber. $.$0; lx. Witt, S:50: Beatrice. ;30; Wymor. JO; Pawnee, U;05; Falls City, 12:10 p. m.; Au burn, 1:I0; Nebraska City. I; Plattsmoiith, $;4S. Arrive at Omaha, S:M p. m. licave Omaha at 10:18 p. m. Arrive at North Platte at : a. m.. Friday. October S. Tha Itinerary of Congressman Ernest M. Pollard 1 aa follows: October t. Green ttfomiBUtS aa Tatf TUESDAY HOLIDAY. SAYS MAYOR Proclamation Urges Toil to Cease foi Big Parade. HIGHWAY CROWDS ARE IMMENSE tp to Satanlar, When Timely and Welcome Rnln Falls, They Ar Doable Those of Last Vear, 1SOO. J0f. ISO). WsdneadaF Q.8B3 S.B-19 4.3T3 Thursday 6.318 ,e7 Y.Og rriaay soo ,ov sting's Highway opsa at It o'elook each day. s Madam Pranes and dlring horss, ti30 and I p. m. Bnllivan and Xllrala, 3 and t30 p. m. Balloon raoa and airship flight, 6 p. m. Country Clrons exhibitions hourly. Bay parade September a. Hlght parad September 30. Taft and firework Ootobsr 7U Coronation hall October t. Cinderella hall, October S. PROCLAMATION Oa Tnesday afternoon, September 89, loe, Xing Ak-Sar-Ben will pass through our city sscortsd with mili tary honor. Za order that h may be properly received and that all loyal subjects may girs him a fit weloom,, It 1 saggsstsd that his sub J sots ultably decorat their homo and place of business and that anoh place of business bs closed at that time. Z therefor dsolar Tusday afternoon, September at, 1908, a publio holiday. X.. B. JOXVBOir, Acting Mayor. From the byways and the highways ol the kindom of Quivers Monday will begin the pilgrimage to the Imperial city. For four days the Home Guards have beru passing through the gates of the King's Highway and have hern Inspecting the King" Carnival, and the Judgment of the Home Guarda la the King's Carnival Is worthy of the mighty ruler. Double th number of home folks have Inspected ths King's Highway this year than passed through the gates during the Inspection period (it one year ago, and the verdict is unanimous that Samson hss kept his word: "Something for your money." The detailed verdict of the Home Guarda Is this: There has never been a cleaner carnival in honor of the king; there has never been better prder; there has never been better attractions. The Home Guards place particular streai upon the good order, for it is the women and children and young boys who delight most In the attractions on the carnival grounds, and their safety must be con served. For that reason forty special po licemen, under the most careful men on the police force, have been detailed to look to the protection of the king's visitors. For the least disorder, the least accident, Sam son holds responsible these special guard ians of the peace, and for the least mishap oft comes an official head, with dire pun ishment to follow. Thus has Samson taken steps to care for the people who come to do honor to his majesty. King Ak-Sar-Ben XIV. Mlahty Carriers Start la. The first influx of pilgrims begins Mon day morning, for that Is the day ths mighty j carriers bow to the orders of the king and j reduce to the minimum the rates the pil grims win nave to pay rrnui stations near and far. Over the Union Pacific, Mr. Har riman has said all subjects of the king may ride for 1 cent for each mile hs has to trsvel to reach the presence of the crowned head, while over the other roads cent a mile additional Is charged. " Tls well worth the price, to be blessed with the mighty enthusiasm of the gen erous ruler and to bo Inspired by his mighty works." say these' who hare pall their tribute of love and respect. But the king offer mart than a look st his glorious achievements to thoae who join in the pilgrimages. Willi no tost ti the visitor the king offers Mutlame Frances and her diving horse every acernoon and every nlght--a moil thrilling performance; a race between an airship and a balloon every afternoon dependent only upon the condition of the weather; a day parade, September 29; an electrical parade on th night of September 80. Great Rnler, Taft. And on the night of'October 1 a mighty ruler himself, one of the foremost men of thi! nation, comes to do honor to the ruler of Qulvera William Howard Taft. It, cornea to pledge fealty to the king of them f.U. and that night he will share tn the hunms with King Ak-gar-H"n. For them both there will be a most magnlficlent display of firewatks, such as never was witnessed In the kingdom or by any of th king s subjects. The Coronation ball, when Ak-Sar-Ben XIV will come unto his own, on ths night of October 2 and the Cinderella ball, Oc tober 3, will end the festivities. The Home Guards have made It poalble for the pilgrims to secure their board and lodging without trouble snt at little ex pense. Listed with the officials ef th Young Men's Christian , asoclstlon ara rooms in plenty and by applying there th visitor will secuitf what he is looking for nd the Information will be cheerfully given with m.nute Instruction for reach ing the place desired. No other king of the house of Ak-Sar-Ben haa ever been as thoughtful of his guests. And so Ak. Bur-Ben XIV Is getting in right. Ill Home Guard will even look after ths atuucli. If lliei be such in mi prosperous kingdom, and send him home a pleasure 8ros llates Cover. Monday rates will be effective on all th lire running Into Omaha from all paita of Nebraska and from various points in Iowa, the general limit being about lo mllta. The Union Pacific haa mad a rata of one fare for the round trip from all station In Nebraska reached by that road, and all tha other line have mad a rat ef, a cent and a half a mil. Most f th roa4i will run tKi4l trains Int Omaha, LlM l!l w'. CAVS nseiaj fttrviCS Ul ai