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I The Omaha , Daily Bee i 1 vol. XXX VIII XO. 191. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, .JANUARY 23, 1900. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. St 1 1 , 1 . REPUBLIC GOES DOWN Latest Bulletin Says Disabled Ship Has Finally Foundered. NO ONE ON BOARD AT TIME Previous Reports Were it Was Being Towed to New York. PASSENGERS ON BOARD BALTIC That Ship Also Carries the Passengers of the Florida. FOUR KILLED IN COLLISION l-tt Reports from Disaster to that Effect Bodies of Three Are Alto Bear 4 the Liner Baltic. Bl'LLETIW. N.Vv YORK, Jan. M.-Th. Republic ha unk, according to a wireless dispatch re ceived from Slasconset tonight. The dls pltch reads: "Republlo gone down. No on aboard. All crew aaf . on revenue cutter Gresham." NEW YORK, Jan. 14. The .drama of the sea, which for more than twenty four hours has held the attention of the world and which has not been without tragic features, ran through Its last sensational scenes with the coming of Hundsy'a dawn and tonight la neartng a fortunate, If not happy, ending. The ramming of the White Star liner Re publlo early Saturday morning by the Italian liner Florida off Nantucket Mass., has been followed by a series of events constituting one of the most re markable mishaps on record. No less than seven ocean liners, the Baltic, New York, Furnessla, Lorraine and I.ucanla and the two crippled ships. Florida and Republic, are figuring In the stirring story. The 442 passenger and some members of the crew of the Republic have undergone two transfers on the open sea. first to the crippled Florlad on Saturday "End again early to day to the more commodious Baltic, which Is bringing also the 00 and more passengers from the disabled Florida. With this great human, cargo of res cued persons, besides ft own list of BSO passengers, the Baltic Is expected to ar rive off Sandy Hook about 11 o'clock tonight' The Republic, which at one time was believed to be sinking, has been kept afloat and with a volunteer crew la limping back to New York towed by the revenue cutter Oresham and ateered by the Anchor liner Furnessla. Ths Florida, Its bow bent from the terrific Impact with the Republic, Is also slowly steering, but under Its own steam, for t't port. - convoyed ' by . the American liner 'w York. , i ' Some K! Ileal 1st Calllsltoa. ' . fntlt-aa rly ,houf today ;li was ..a-,. lleved, the crashing of the two big ships bad" (lot ireatllted In- death or Injury to a single paeeogeT,- ' member of the revi, Shortly after : midnight,- however, the wireless telegraph, that mysterious, force, which had. apprised' the .world of the , Republic's dlstresa and quickly brought other ships to Its aid, flashed tho news that two passengers on the Re public had been killed and two others Injured. Late In the day another wire less message told of four deaths on board the Florida, either of members of the crew or of steerage passengers. The Identity of these was not made clear. Tie message from Csptaln Ransom of the Baltic to the White Star company In this city gave the names of the dead passengers' as Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Boston and W. J. Mooney, a banker, of Laugdon.. N. Tj. The injured are Mrs. M. M Murphy, wife of the financial agent of the Union Life Insurance com pany of Grand Forks, N. D., and Eugene Lynch of Boston. How the unfortunate passengers of the Republic were killed or the nature of the injuries to Mrs. Murphy and Mr. Liynch la not known by officials of the White Star l ine company, who have communicated with relatives of the dead and Injured. Mr. Mnpney and his wife were bound, wl.li Mr. ami Mrs. Murphy, on a pleasure trip from tho west for the Mediterranean and oivL'i'trd staterooms on the port side. Mr. and Mrs. Lynch occupied an adjoin ing sUit.'ro.Mm The company cannot under str.nd how the passengers were killed or Injured In th.it part of the Republic, which. It Is understood, was struck amidships. Anxious friends' and relatives besieged the White Star offices with Inquiries as to passengers on the Republic. Other than the brief wireless messsges from Csptaln Ransom of the Baltic, whloh were made public, no news was received. Good News ss Bad. 11. e feeling of elation among the steam ship officials early today when Captain Rarsom wired that the Republic was In good floating condition and there waa an excellent chance to save It gave way to rrgrrj when the news came that there had been loss f life lit the n. If ha p. The bodies of the dead and the Injured passengers are on the steamship Baltic. Tbe steamer Pvtnam has been chartered by the com pany and will go alongside the Baltic wheu It reaches quarantine Monday morning, as It la not expected up the bay tonight. The Pull am will carry, officials of the company and those who may Ueslre to go d un the bay to meet returning puss?ngeis from the Republic. Details of the collision came fitfully by wireless todny from ir.any receiving sta tions along the New England roast line. The story, though in brief but potent mes sages, told ho the lassengers of the Re publlo end Florida nt many anxious and uncomfortable hours following the wreck ind not unttl S o'cloek this morning, when ull were safe and sound on the Balttc, did tley have a feeling of security. After the transfer of the passengers from tho Republic to the Florida, which bad no accommodations for the 400 and more add! tiui.e 'to Its already heavy list. Captain Vollolln of the Italian ship gave orders to . tii ltd by until turtrer help arrived. An txamtnatiun of the Florida showed that Its cut-wstrr ard bow had been crumpled as If It had crashed Into a atone wall and Its two forward compartmsnu were filled with water. The Florida, however, showed no signs of sinking, though It was slightly t'nwn by the head. It was deemed beat. U treforc, at a late hour to transfer not only the Republic's passengers, but all thiss cn board the Florida as well. Cap tain Voltolln believed his progress to New York would be slow and there were In- (Continued on Second ) SUITS TO RECOVER LANDS Large 5tmkr ef Defendants la Cases Brought by tho Govern neat. PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 24 The Vnlted Ststes government yesterday filed thlrty flve suits against the Oregon A Cali fornia Railroad company, the Southern Pacific company, the present owners of the Oregon California railroad, and more than 100 other Individuals and pri vate corporations. These suits are to recover from the railroads and their grantees, who comprise the other de fendants, an aggregate of S5S.28S acres of land within the "old Oregon and Cal Ifornit land grant" In this state. The lands are valued at over 116,000,000. The suits, which are filed by B. D. Towrsend, special assistant to the at torney general, and are corollary to, but entirely separate from the suit recently filed by the government sgalnst the Ore gon it California and the Southern Pa cific, to cancel the patent to the grant on the alleged ground that the com panlea had failed to dispose of the lands contained In them to bonaflde settlers at the rate of 12.25 per acre. The pres ent suit Is for the purpose of recovering from the grantees of the railroads 861, 2SS acres which, the government alleges, It has sold to timber companies, lumber speculators and others. The grounds alleged In these actions are the same as In the first rase, that Is, that the railroad companies failed to live up to the provisions of the patent. TOM ALLEN GETS INTO CASE Artist l.eavltt Tells of Letters frosa Wife aad from the Lawyer. CHICAGO, Jsn. 24. A speclsl cablegrsm from Paris to the Exsmlner says: "Well, 1 never denied her anything," said William Homer Leavitt, the artlat husband of Ruth Bryan Leavitt yesterdsy, "and If she wants a divorce she can have that, too." Leavitt, who Is a young-looking man of 40 and a portrait painter of high standing In Paris, wss reluctant to discuss the ac tion of his wife. "She Is hardly responsible," he said. "Why, only three days ago she wrote me the usual affectionate letter, only she said, as she has often said before: "'If you don't love me, why don't you get a divorce? "Long ago I decided I would not take any action on account of the children, so I paid no attention. Then yesterday the American mall brought me sn extraordi nary typewritten letter, evidently dictated by her, but algned by Tom Allen, Bryan's law partner. This letter said: " 'There hss been so much newspaper gossip that Ruth must get a divorce.' " Mr. Leavitt wrote last night asking what the charges were. All he knows he learned from Allen's letter. His friends here say when she obtains a divorce she may marry a western man of wealth. QUAKE WAS IN TURKESTAN That Fact Apparently Settled, bat " No Details Hare Been . . ST. PETERSBURG,' Jan. SH.-Although all reports from the various observatories In Russia locate the earthquake, ' the shocks of which were recorded 'yesterday, ' some where on the 'Russian side of Pamirs, Turkestan, no direct news has been re ceived fixing the disturbance In any definite place. ' A dlapatch from Borxhom, in Trans caucasia, reports the registering there by the selsmographlc Instruments of a dlstsnt esrthquake. Russian Turkestan Is sparsely settled and details of an earthquake there would be slow In reaching St. Petersburg. The first direct reports from the scene of the great earthquake at Karatagh, Russian Turke stan, In October, 1907, were not received here until three weeks after Its occurrence. In that earthquake about 15,000 persons ware killed. YEKATERINBURG, 'Russia, Jan. 24. -Ths magneto-meteorological observatory at this place recorded violent seismic disturbances st T o'clock this morning. SMYRNA, Jan. 24. -.V slight earthquake ahock was felt here this morning. INVITATIONS IN ALL TONGUES Tnraers Forward to Nations of Earth Each lit Its Native Tonga. CINCINNATI. O., Jan. 24 Many lan guages are to be uaed In the invitation! to the national turnfest here next June, the Japanese being the only forelgnera to whom lnvltatlona will be aent In other than their native languages. Eight Invitations, two to Germany and the others to the French, Italian. Belgian, Swls. Holland and Japanese Turner so cieties were forwarded during the last week to the government at Washing ton, from whence they will be officially f orw arded. SOCIALISTS ARE DISPERSED Attempt to Parade aad Preseat a Petition for VnlTeraal SanTrage to tho Emperor. BERLIN, Jan. !4. The socialists held numerous public meeting throughout Berlin todsy to discuss universal suf frage At the end of the meetings they attempted to form processions In the vartcuv streets, with the Intention of marching to the palace to make a dem onstration before the emperor. Police, mounted and on foot, who arrived In force.' prevented the progress of the pro cessions without much trouble and dis persed the crowds, many of the socialists cheering for universal suffrage. LINCOLN'S OLD COUNTY DRY Bis- Deaaoaatratlaas an Eleetloa Day aad Resalt Is Over whelming. HCLGENVILLE. Ky.. Jan. 24 An overwhelming vote against the saloon waa cast yesterday by Larue, Abraham Lincoln's native county. The dry ma jority waa 1.008, the vote being 4 to 1 against license. Church bells were rung at Intervals during the day, children marched and brass banda furnished muslo Prayer meetings were also held and coffee was served by the women at the voting places. BfOYCaUaTTS Or OOBaJg TXAatSXI. Port. Arrlxe. JCEW TOSH Uvkrpool.ui... crane LIVERPOOL. OLAsGOW HAvag.-.jjj. soi'THAktrroN LONDON M ANCHESTgR. ANTWERP fORINNA rXIMOlTIi railaialaaia., Stllea. ...Mutaahaaa. .. . bnaanlaa. . ., Mawrataola. ...Onunii. . - Ls Uaavoene. ...Si. Lm.i. ...LanraatrUa. ...Boat as la a. ...XMlaaa. . -lalilurata. OMAHA BOY WHO MADE GOOD New Assistant Secretary of State Formerly Worked in This City. STENOGRAPHER ON THE BEE As Waaklaatoa Newspaper Maa Ha Was Noted for Namber of Friends Ho Had la the Diplomatic Corps. (From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Jan. J 4. (Special. ) About eighteen years ago boy Just graduated from the high shcools of the District of Columbia entered the office of The Omaha Bee as a stenographer and general utility man. At that tlma his knowledge of stenography conelsted of being able to write a few cat-tracks on a sheet of ruled paper, supposed to be phonetic characters representing the words which had been uttered, but he ex perienced great difficulty In transcrib ing his notes Into Intelligent English. But he was a hustler, willing and anx ious to learn snd quite satisfied to be called down for his Inaccuracies. He learned more In three months In a news paper office than he had acquired In three years in the high school, and wlthlni that period John Callan O'Lough lln had become a reporter of value to Iris employers. From that time on CaJ O'Loi'ghlln hss climbed the ladder rap idly. He left Newspaper Row for a po sltion on. one of the local papers snd afterwards entered the New York Her ald's Washington bureau. Here he was assigned to duty in the State, War and Navy departments and within a sort pe riod he had aucceeded In winning for himself the friendship of every member of the diplomatic corps, with the result that he waa soon able to secure more news from this exclusive organisation than any other man who ever was as signed to that particular branch of news paper work. Later O'Loughlln visited Venezuela and was right on tho ground when trouble broke out. He had an ex perience In the British West Indies. He spent some time In London, Paris and St. Petersburg, and wherever he went he made good. Now It is announced that John Callan O'Loughlln has been appointed assistant secretary of state to succeed Mr. Bacon when that gentleman succeeds Mr. Root this week, and thus once more President Roosevelt has demonstrated that he has a fondness for selecting newspaper writers for Important government posi tions. The list Is a long one. It In clude ambaassdors, ministers, commis sioners of the District of Columbia, as sistant secretaries In several of the de partments, chiefs of Important bureaus and now an assistant secretary of state. Ban Francisco Grateful. ' San Francisco comes to the front In aid of the public health and marine hospital service and the people of that enterprising city of the Pacific coast are urging every one they know who has any Influence in Washington to do everything In his power to aid the passage of tho bill which pro vides small ..increase -et.aalarx for ,tlyt physicians of th - marine hospital serflce and also proposes to put them on the same bssls as similar officers of the army and navy. When San Francisco was threatened with bubonic plague and the city was . In a woeful sanitary condition 8urgeon Gen eral Wyman directed Dr. Blue and a corps of his assistants to proceed to the Pacific coast to help the stricken people. These federal physicians went to work with a vim. They cleaned up the city and showed the people Just how to take care of them selves. By public subscription $300,000 was raised and turned over to the doctors to use In any manner wrtch they saw fit. The re sults obta'ned placed the whole community under lasting oMIgatlone to Drs. Blue and Rucker. who not only cleaned up the city, ttmped out the contagion, killed off the rats, but established sanitary regulations which will make for the permanent better ment of the people. They spent the vast fund economically and well. The local health officers were given the benefit of expert advice and the whole city, offlclala j nnd cltisens. have united In one great pain I of praise In their references to the services i rendered by the rrarine hospital aervlce end in urging that the n.embers of that bor'y be given oeccnt salaries. Problem of Committees. When Speaker Carron comes to prepare his committees for the Sixty-first congress, whether It will be at the extraordinary session to be convened In March or whether It shall be at the long session beginning on the first Monday In Decem ber of this year, he will be confronted with mere changes In committeeships than he has met with during his career as speaker of the house of representatives. He will be face to face in some particulars with conditions that have not' heretofore ob tained during the years ho haa been speaker and he will In all probability Jump over the heads of some people who are expect Irg chairmanships, not because he has the right to do so. but because geographical conditions will demand changes In commit tee chairmanships. James Breck Perkins of New York will, in all probability, succeed to the chairman ship of foreign affairs, now held by Rob ert G. Cousins of Iowa. Mr. Cousins not having been a candidate for re-election and Mr. Charlea B. I .and Is of Indiana hav ing been defeated at the polls are the rank ing members on the committee. On Indian affairs Charles I Knapp of New York will undoubtedly succeed his colleague, James 8. 8herman. of the same state, who goes over to the north sids of the capltol as vice president of the United States. This change will leave Congressman Hlnshaw of Nebraska the ranking member on that very Important committee. On the committee of interstate and for eign commerce, of which W. P. Hepburn of Iowa has been the distinguished head for a number of yesrs, Congressman Wan ger of Pennsylvania Is the ranking mem ber, but James R. Mann, "the great ob jector" of the house. Is second and it Is understood there Is a good natured, but extremely strenuous fight btween these two gentlemen for the chairmanship of that committee. Mr. Mann enjoys the confidence of the speaker to a great degree and It Is thought he will win out. But here are In fluences at work from tho old Keystone state which may land Wanger In the chair manship which of rights he Is entitled to by seniority. Then there Is the Judiciary to which Parker of New Jersey holds first title by reason of the defeat of the preaent chair man, John J. Jenkins of Wisconsin. Parker, however, Is a reactionary and may not suit Speaker Cannon to preside over "the morgue of the house," as the Judiciary com- (.Continued on Seoond Page.) Tim-' Jr.. ,trgSS? xaAa.a o-w Dr. Biggar Says ATTITUDE OF THE JAPANESE Minister Loomis Confident of Faith of the Orientals. Oood SEEK TO DIVERT EMIGRANTS Own Plans Demand that "-orpins JLabor Go to Corca, Formosa, and r-eV7-Titfr--Mrfsi., l?IWVVt.-;. " Hated ,'hr 'Japan. '.Y ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Marquls Kat aura, prime minister of Japan, and Count Komura, minister of foreign affairs, re cently explained In TokJo to Francis B. Loomis, commissioner general to the Jap anese exposition. In a series of Interviews of uncommon Interest and of present Inter est, the attitude of Japan In respect to the main questions at Issue between Jnpan and the Vnlted States government. "I wss deeply and agreeably Impressed." said Mr. Loomis tonight, "with the direct, explicit and what seemed to me satisfac tory statements of Count Komura, min ister of foreign affairs, respecting the Vnlted States. His utterances were frank, clear and cordial. Count Komura said that Japan's aspirations were for peace, and that, so far as the Vnlted States was con cerned, his government most heartily de sired to preserve, unimpaired and un broken, the historic friendship between Japan and the Vnlted States. He said the people of Japan had long felt that the Vnlted States had been, not only a kindly friend to Japan, but a very dependable and helpful one, end that his government earn estly desired this amicable relationship to continue and would loyally endeavor to do Its utmost to maintain It. He declared the actions of his government had borne out its words and promises. "In the matter of the emigration of Jap anese laborers, said Komura, we are doing our utmoat to work In harmony with the government of the Vnlted 8tates and meet Ita wishes. We are energetically discour aging emigration to the Vnlted States and elsewhere, except to Corea, Formosa and parts of Manchuria. It Is now the definite policy of the government of Japan to con centrate Its surplus population that part which la disposed to emigrate In these parts of the orient which I have mentioned. There Is opportunity for a large number of our people In Cores. They can be of great assistance In modernizing and developing that country and can add vastly to Its pro ductivity, snd st the same time better their own circumstances. We desire to concen trate our people In the orient and to con solidate our Interests In this part of tire world. We are doing our best to carry out this policy, but a governmental policy can not always be made fully operative In a day or a year. We must have sufficient time to study the whole question and to work out satisfactorily the solution of the prob lem. I think thfj will he little complaint concerning the emigration of Japanese la borers In the future on the part of any government In America. Deplores Adverse Sentiment. "Count Komura then made It plain that while his government would not fall effec tively to restrain emigration, and while it would spare no Just and proper efforts to make the most cordial and friendly rela tions with this country, he hoped that on our part no discrimination would be made againat Japanese subjects, and that In due time the public sentiment In this country msy bo ss favorable to hla countrymen as to other foreigners residing la the Vnlted 8tstes. "Ths Japanese' government has declared a new policy In the matter of directing, su far as It is possible, the movement of Its emigrating labor classes. It wants time to work the policy out and expects that a reasonable degree Vf patience will be tendered by the people of the Vnlted States. "Prime Minister Katsura waa at the head of the cabinet during the war with Russia. Ha Is versatile, highly Intelligent, forceful, and of great Influence. He talked In a most engaging manner about Japan, Ita fu ture and Its relations with the Vnlted States. He lost no opportunity to explain that his government desired peace, not only with ths Vnlted 8tates, but with the whole (Ckotloued on Seoond Page.) f.o Complete the Fence John D. Rockefeller Will Live to LIVE STOCK MEN AT MITCHELL Annual Convention and Shoir Will Begin in tbat City Tuesday ' Evening. MITCHELL, S. D., Jan. 24.-(Speclal.)-Beglnnlng Tuesday evening the sixth an nual convention of the South Dakota Live Stock association will be held In this city. An address of welcome will be given by Mayor Hitchcock, the response to be made byGeorge M. Dun mire of Scotland. JPres) flent ' Krlon- w?ll g'lve:'hls ' aimua address' 'and Dr. E. L. Moore of the Brookings col lege faculty will read a paper on "Vac cination for Hog Cholera." Wednesday afternoon takes place the an nual auction sale of swine, for which forty eight registered hogs have been entered In the sale list. The cattle sale takes place Thursday afternoon at 1:30 and sixty-eight head of thoroughbred cattle will be dis posed of. The cattle and hogs come from the breeding yards of forty-two breeders of the state, and they will be Inspected and passed upon by a committee before being accepted for the sale ring. Wednesday evening Dr. A. H. Keeler of Sioux Falls will deliver an address on "Tuberculosis, Human and Bovine." P. F. Wlckham of Alexandria will discuss "The South Dakota Farmer." Thursday morning James W. Wilson, secretary of the associa tion, will give an Illustrated lecture at the stock pavllllon on "Beef and Dairy Cattle." Thursday evening an address will be deliv ered by George A. Sllsby of Mitchell which will be followed by an address by J. W. Parmley of Ipswich on "Good Roads, Their Importance to the Farmer and Stockman." Prof. A. A. Brlgham of Brookings will speak on the "Advancement of Poultry." With the business meeting and the election of officers the convention will adjourn. The tenth annual convention and poultry show of the South Dakota Poultry and Pet Stock association will begin Monday evening In the city hall building, where the exhibit of at least 1,000 birds will be shown. Secretary Scallln stated that fully that many birds will be displayed. The accommodations are excellent for the dis play. President Losey of Huron lias offered a silver loving cup, valued at . for the best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet of any one variety, which Is known as the presi dent's trophy. JOINS THE FARMS AND CITIES Hun Traction Chain that Has Been Formed In the Empire State. NEW YORK. Jan. 24.-More than a mil lion residents of the three largest cities outside Greater New York' and eight of the greatest farming counties of this state have today been Joined together by the longest chain of Interurban railway In the traction history of the east. In a report on the growth of Interuiban enterprise under their BupervUion last year the members of the public service commission appointed . ty tlovernor Hughes have Just snnounced here the first operation of this 600-mile system between Buffalo, Rocheater, Syracuse and fifty of the agricultural centers of the lake regions. It has been made possible to forge more than 3JQ miles of the laat links In this extensive chain In this one year, they declare. Where railroads have been hardly reached throughout the tcrtlle sections of Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, Cayuga, Onondaga and Oswego counttrs. the Hughes supervisors report that through cars have at last be gun to connect farms and matkets. Over a stretch of 165 miles, which was pasture when they were first sppolnted, passen gers and produce are today being whirled from Buffalo to Rochester, they declare. From Rochester to ths city of Auburn, ISO miles away, the addition of a necessary twenty-mile link this year has st through cars In continuous motion. Seventy miles of rc. iote farm land to. the north of the great center of Syracuse Is also reported ss today opened by two tration highways Just developed. The sudden spread of these rural roads Is due, according to the com. mlasloners. to toe fact that the scattered communities can now encourage them and rely ?n the central control which a body Ilka toe governor's utility board Is able to exercise. Be 100 Years Old. From the Indianapolis News. MOTT DENIES TAE STORY Flatly Contradicts Statement of Gov ernor Haskell. MANY INDICTMENTS EXPECTED Federal Grand Jary Probing; Into .. Town Lot Fraads, It Is Cos. earth Sensations. MV8KOGEE, Okl., Jan. 84. Sensational developments, which will probably Involve some of the most prominent men In this state, are expected during the progress of the federsl grand Jury Investigation of al leged town lot frauds, which will begin here next Tuesday. M.' I. Mott, attorney for the Creek In dians, who brought the 20.000 suits In the federal court to reoover In behalf of the Creek Nation lands of Immense value al leged to have been secured by fraud by the persons now controlling tiiem, tonight dictated the following statement to the As sociated Press: "There Is not a word of truth In a state ment quoted by Governor Charles N. Has kell as having been made by Scott Mac Reynolds, attorney for W. R. Hearst, to the effect that I had said that I had not found evidence to connect Haskell with any criminal conduct In relation to the Musko gee lot matter, but that I might be able to force an Indictment which wtll answer our purpose. I never made such a state ment to MacReynolds or to anyone else." It Is believed that many Indictments will follow as a result of the Investigation. HOPKINS' FRIENDS HOPEFUL Deadlock Appears to Be as Tlabt as Ever So Far as Outsiders Can See. ; SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Jan. 4.-The sena torial contest will be resumed tomorrow by the Illinois assembly, and every effort will be made to break the deadlock within the week. With the adjournment last Thursday the scene of battle .transferred Itself Immedi ately to Chicago. If anything haa been ac complished there looking to the election of a senator no one here Is advised of the change In the situation. From all outward appearances the contest will be resumed where It wss cut off when the members went home for the week. All sorts of deals have been attempted and many conferences held, but the leaders are so Impressed by the stubborn contest of lsst week that they will not presume to venture a predic tion on the outcome. The opposition to eSnator Hopkins seems as strong as ever. His supporters ssy. however, that they have brought influences to bear which will increase Mr. Hopkins' vote on the next ballot. The assembly will convene at 10 a. m. Tuesday. A Joint ses sion to attempt the election of a senator will be the first order of business. BENZOATE OF SODA ALL RIGHT Board of Consulting; Experts Kays It Is Not Daageroas to Health. WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.-That benxoate of soda used as a food preservative Is not Injurious to health Is the Judgment of the referee board of consulting experts, of which Dr. Ira Remsen. president of Johns Hopkins university. Is chairman. This con elusion, ss approved by Secretary Wilson, reverses finding of G. R. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry. The main general conclusions reached by the referee board are as follows: First Sodium benxoate In smsll doses (under OS grain per day mixed with the sodium without deleterious or polslnous ac tion, and is not injurious to health. Second Sodium bensoate In large dones (up to 4 grams per day) mixed with the food has not been found to exert any dell terious effect on the health, nor to ai t as a poison In the general acceptance of the term. In some directions 'here were slight modifications in certain ph siolngicsl proc esses, the asset significance of which Is not known. Third The admixture of sodium bensosta with food In small or large Coeas haa not been found Injuriously to affxrt or Impair the uuaiuy or nutritive value cf such food. THREE WEEKS CONE Legislature Has Nothing of Value to Show for the Time. LITTLE SHOW FOR THIS WEEK Committee Expected to Make Start oa Bill for Railroad Valuation. PROBABLE CLASH ON PAYROLL Intimation Auditor May Hold Up Bills of Senate Employes. H0LC0MB A DISAPPOINTMENT Will Neither Fight for Toslttoa on Supreme Reach or Ket Out of tho War for meoae Who Will. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Jan. :4.-(Speclal.)-The legl lature starts In on Its fourth week torn or row with the house two laps ahead of thr senate In point of days actually put In, anil both houses away behind the schedule In the point of service to the state. Tomorrow night the Joint committee se lected to draft a bill for the purpose of providing for the valuation or railroad property will hold Its first meeting, and during the week the committee selected to get up a road law will also get busy. Should the present tentative plans be car ried out, there will he reported back to ths house and senate a road bill which provldei for a central engineer, or state engineer, to supervise the road system of the entlr state. The argument In favor of this Is that It haa been the experience In the past that what one road overseer does one year Is usually undone the next by an overseer who has a different Idea about the system of road building. By providing that the state engineer shall have supervision over the road work the legislators believe they will get a uniform system of roads and se cure a plan which may ba followed for all time. . ' The present week may develop an Inter esting situation when the payroll of the senate Is filed with the state auditor. The senate has more employes than the law al lows, unless some of the "byes" have been sent back to Omaha, as threatened. Aud itor Barton, In all probability, will protect the taxpayers from the onslsughts of thrf democratic cohorts of the senate, and then will come the fireworks. With the pay of the employes to bother about and the disruption of the suprem court becoming a nightmare, there Is HttU chance for any legislation of any Import ance being enacted during the week. Holeomb a Disappointment. Judge Holcomb la a disappointment to the powers that be. because, though Ineligible himself to be supreme Judge., haa has failed to resign so Governor Shallenberger may appoint a dead-game fighter to bring the Ransom ouster ..-salt "against thg .prtaajlir-suprenfe- teart.. It- may be beoaaur in'.' order for Ransom to proceed with his plans, to file an ouster suit againat Holcomb and oust him, and then have the , Kolcomh '. ouster product file an ouster against tho present court. Of course this process would be a little tedloua. especially aa Judse Hol comb might fight pretty hard, but no bet ter suggestion has been offered to get the Ransom democrats out of their hole. The fact that Mr. Bryan haa come out against the university professors becoming eligible to psrticlpate In the Carnegie pen sion fund will give an opportunity to th legislature to show whether Mr. Bryan it the boss of the lawmaking power. He in formed the regents of the university thai he believed he had sufficient Influence with the legislature to get an appropriation for a building for his proposed school of citl renshlp or politics or Bryan dope factory, or whatever Its official name is to be. Bo the professors may be denied participation In the pension fund because the regents simply refused to stand for a school of politics with Mr. Bryan at Its head. The way the members have been getting Independent lately, however, indicates thst Mr. Bryan will be unable to head off the paasage of the bill allowing the teacher to participate In the pension fund, espe cially since It was the Bryan name that secured for Lincoln the Carnegld library. The university teachers might ask Mr. Bryan to declare himself on the question of county option If he gets too numerous around the legislature. w List of Professors. In the hotel lobbies today there developed considerable objection to the proposed faculty for the "Bryan Political Dope fac tory" because more local professors wero not mentioned. - It was the general opinion around the hotels that "Nebraska for Nebraakana" should be the alogan In the selection of this faculty and enough name were pro posed to eat up any appropriation the legis lature may see fit to make for th equip ment of the proposed college. Here are a few of the names suggested for Mr. Bryan' consideration: Dr. W. H. Thompson-Ready-to-weaf opinions, perpetual candidacy. Colonel John O. Maher-Department of military, ethics of court-martials, type-wrltlng-swlmmlng. Prof. Arthur Mullen Department of Jobs. Jiwi ,lmf'.r K- Thom-Department of political letter writing. Prof. E. Arthur Carr The use of proper Stationery to deceive the voters. Dr. Chris Gruenthep Department of taxa tion, organization of anti-tax leagues Prof. F. W. Tucker-Automoblllng during campaign. Prof. Thomas Tibbies-How to snare th pops, how to set when double-crossed. J. E. Miller-How to forget constituent when the party whipcracka. Dr. Fred Humphrey Department of pri mary laws, platforms. Prof. W. E. e.hwlnd Department of "Old Sleuth." Dr. Jeremiah Howard Department of Gaelic language, Klebt on Norses' Bill. One of the big fights of the session Is gcing to be over the bill to crest a board with power to examine and Issue licences to trained nurses. Bhould this bill Vn come a law as It hss been Intro duced It will cut off from employment thoso nurses who now work under a cer tificate granted after a three months' course In a medical college In Lincoln. Those who are sponsoring the bill In sist that Inasmuch as they have had to study for several years. In addition to the actual experience they have had, all professional nurses should be compellet to stand an examination before practic ing the profeaslon. Those who have qual ified themselves believe rney are en titled to Juat as much protection from Incompetents as are doctors gnd dentists, who are required to pas an examination befori beginning work as professional men. Th of th manstsro taariart tha ar rtfht t SJagnT ! aest aWty aiu ' i f r i ii.V I 4 ! t