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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. XXXVIII NO. 201. OMAHA,. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1909 TEN PAGES, SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ALBERT DRAWS PLUM INDIANS ARE BUSY SUMMARY OF TOE BEE ICHT ON FOREST SERVICE Tmf, rehnsrr g, IMS. Monde.ll, Smith and Cook Male Columbus Attornej to Fasi on ths Show Department Official! Sample of Genuine Western Hoitle. FUNDS ARE TO BE AFPITIONED Attack on Its Administrfttian. Bank Guaranty Bill. k.. Tribe NO MORE LAND FOB , "SON Too Much Money Demandet'-r w of Treasury OonditioL' HEARING ON SIGNAL C0R1V SILL Vennte Inclined to Walt and See Vtil llonse Will Do with m. alalia BUI Chan la Indian Bill. (From a Staff Correspdent.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 4. (Special Telegram.) The delegation of the Omaha tribe of Indiana which arrived yesterday In charge of Thomas C. Sloan, consisting of Joel Tlndall. O. P. Myers, James Black bird, Cyrus Phillips, Theodore McCauley and Arthur Mitchell, began a systematic round of the departments today to land thing for their tribe. The "wards of the. nation ' began showing this section of the effete east how thing- are done west of the Missouri and by the time S o'clock tame today they had accomplished much for the tribe. After a conference between the delegates, the commissioner of Indian affalra and the chief of the finance division, it was de cided to approve the payment of Omaha trust funds upon the applications filed. Pome of them were held up pending the drainage bill for shortening the Logan river, whiuh bill provides for subjecting the funds to the drainage charges. As a result of the statements made the commissioner of Indian affairs approved the accounts of the Indians and referred the same to the auditor for the Interior department. Robert S. Person, who made an order to take up the application for payment at once. This order will give $X3 to each person. W. K. Andrews, auditor of the treasury department, knowing the nnnrilt inns, ml sted materially In having the payment of the trust funds expedited. lYebraskaa's Claim Favored. The committee on claims today made a favorable report on two bills Introduced by Representative Kinkald to pay an ag gregale aum of 1766 to Wlllard W. Alt of Hyannls, Neb., In full of his claim against the government for resurvey work of pub lic lands In Nebraska, which he made in 1901 and for which he was not paid. Laad Porehase Not Favored. In view of the growing deficit In the treasury the committee on appropriations , Is not Inclined to make the appropriation I of 1149.000 asked for by the secretary of war to purchase a elrip of lnd lying out side the boundary line of Fort Robinson. YentereT General Bell, chief of staff, and QuartermasuWjeneral Ayleshlre and Rep resentative KlnVald appeared before the '-temiDittis la- nd.-ocaey t the purchase, but as stated the ecmmlttee Is loath to v swH the appropriations at this seealon and it may go over till some future time. HMrlnar em Dismal Corns Bill. Senator Burkctt appeared before the com mittee on military affairs this morning In advocacy of bis ' bill to Increase the effi ciency of the signal corps of the army. In the course of his address before the com mittee be read a letter from General Allen chief of the signal corps, strongly favoring the bill. A duplicate of the Burkett bill has been Introduced in the house by Repre sentatlve Hepburn of Iowa. The senate committee concluded not to take action on the measure at today's meeting, thinking It advisable to wait a while to see what would be done by the house. The Hepburn bill has been favorably reported and Is on the cal endar. alt Creek Drainage Discussed, Charles O. Elliott, chief of the drainage Investigation division of the Agricultural department, had a conference with Senator Burkett this morning regarding he pro. Gives Each Member ow'-: Two Hundred FiftjVt posed survey of Salt creek valley with a view of draining the same. Cltisens of Lan caster and Saunders counties are greatly interested In this project and are said to txi willing to contribute their share toward carrying out the propoaitlon. Approval of Land Opening. The committee on Indian affalra today re ported favorably Senator Gamble's bill to authorize the sale and disposition of a por tion of the surplus and unallotted lands In the' Pine Ridge Indian reservation. The committee amended the original bill In these pHrticulara: The government la to pay 13.30 per acre for school lands instead of II.. & as originally proposed, and S13S.OM is to be t appropriated Instead of S&4U) to pay for lands granted to the slats of South Dakota. Amendments Indian BUI. Senator Gamble today submitted two amendments to the Indian appropriation bill as follows: To authorise the secretary of the Interior to pay to the Flandrrau In dians in South Dakota the per capita bal ance remaining in the treasury to their credit, approximating 38.000; providing that the following described lsnds In Boremao county, South Dakota, a atrip of land tn chains wide on the west side of lot i In section 2v of township SO north, range 25 east f the HUck Hills principal meridian, be reserved for cemetery purposes for ths perpetual use of the Indians of Standing Rock reservation, and be exempt from tax ation. Minor Mailers at Capital. II. t.r- Uaprv tf.il. 'tirtat liflww .pptv.l t m m Cuba will proceed to Fort Omaha for duty. postmasters appointed: Nebraska For dyce. Cedar county, George C. Kuehn, vice C. J. Beck, resigned; Taylor, Loup county. Flora L. Moon, vice G. F. Scott, resigned. Iowa Malcolm. Poweshiek county, Elisa beth Wlnchell. vice A. C. Bllxiard. re signed. PAPER TRUST DISTORTS FACTS rnhlihers Association Declares It Misrepresented A meant of Wages lax Canadian Mills. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1-John Norrla of the American Newspaper Publishers' asso ciation sent today to the house ways and muii committee a letter wherein he charged that the International Paper com pany In preaentlng Its argument for the retention of the tariff on paper, had delib erately misrepresenting to the committee the amounts paid by the paper company as wages to paper makers. He stated that In making comparisons with Canadian mills te show the relative pay for labor the International Paper com pany had understated; gig JOTCurji jgaid. by Oni" muiav 909 FEBRUARY 1909 SUN HON TUE WED THU FRI SAT I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2324252627 28 FOR OMAHA, mrxni, BLUFFS AND VICINITY Fair Friday and cooler in aft ernoon. FOR NEBRASK A Generally fair Friday nd cooler In afternoon. FOR IOWA Parti v rlnudv Friday and cooler In northwest portion In the after noon. Temperature at Omaha yesterday: Hour. Deg. ... 41 6 a. a. m 7 a. m 8 a. m . 9 a. m 10 a. m 11 a. m 12 m 1 p. m 2 p. m 3 p. m.. 4 p. m 5 p. m ft p. m 7 p. m 8 p. m p. m ... 39 ... 3S ... S9 ... 41 ... 43 ... 47 ... 60 . M ...57 ... 58 ... n ... 55 ... M ... 53 ... 52 ... 60 X.XOXSX.ATXTB. Senator Howell has a bill to legalize the sale of beer on Sunday in the parks near Omaha. laga a Judge I. L. Albert of Columbus has been agreed on to draw up the bank guaranty bill. Fags 1 DOMXSTXC. California legislature kills the Japa nese residential segregation Dili ana passes a measure providing for separate schools. Fags 1 Senate committee Investigating the steel merger has found nothing to show that President Roosevelt could have In terfered to prevent the merger, rage 1 WASKUTOTOV. Delegation of Omaha Indians do some genuine western hustling and secure ap portionment of tribal funds amounting to $253 per capita. afe 1 Three western congressmen made a strong attack on the forest service yes. terday. but all attempts (u amend the bill In any important feat urn failed rare 1 Cummins of Iowa backs a movement to abolish all ad valorem duties because of fraud involved. rage 1 Federal court of appeals decides theater war in Kansas City In favor of the Shu berts and ousts O. D. Woodward from the Shubert theater. rage 1 XiOOAX.. Douglas county's representative to be given a chance to explain their position on charter revision before a mass meet ing. A. D. T. messenger boys used by eus' plclous wives and husbands to trail the movements of suspected ones. J" age 7 Actor In Tim Murphy's company has a fat roll stolen from under his pillow. rags 10 T)hlman says he will still win the fis-ht tor an appointive police board. .. -.. rsp o oomrzmoxazi An xstsvstbxax. Live stock markets. . ragwt Grain markets. rage a Stocks and bonds. rage a KOTEKTim Or OCHAJT ITS AMSatXF B. Port. Arrlwa. Salles. NKW YORK Breslsa.... .Adriatic. .Kroonlsnd. .Louisiana. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. ... IMutacsland ... Orowsr Kurrunt ... Lucsnts LIVERPOOL.. BOSTON. . Botasmisn SOl'TH A.MPTON.... K. P. Orslla. Ocsanle. SOITHAMPTON.. SHUBERTS GET THE THEATER O. 1). Woodward Loses Kansas City Fight In Conrt of Appeal. KANSAS CITY. Feb. 4. (Special Tele gram.) Kansas City's theater war of five months, which resulted In a loss of $6,000 to the Shuberts, Is over and the Shubert theater Is taken away from the control o O. D. Woodward. In Bt. Louis this morn Ing Judge Sanborn of the United States circuit court of appeals decided the case, which had been taken before him from Kansas City. According to the decision Woodward is ordered to restore the theater to Jacob J. and Lee Shubert and C. A. Bird, general manager for the BliuDerts. The Injunction obtained against the Shu berts by Woodward before Judge John C. Pollock in the federal court at the begin ning of the row was dissolved and an order waa Issued upon the United States circuit court In this city to direct Woodward to relinquish control of the theater. The decision also breaks the contract re garding the Willis Wood and the Shuberts' half Interest In the profits or lossea of that house. The Shuberta will have no Interest now In the Willis Wood. Jules C. Rosen berger, attorney for the Shuberts, received a long distance tele phone call from St. Louis this morning, telling him of the decision. 1 don't know upon Just what points the decision waa made." Mr Roaenbergor said, but I do know that It disposes of the theatrical war that has caused us so much trouble and annoyance for months. Wood ward cannot carry the case any higher. It simply means that he has been ousted and that the theater has reverted to the Shu berts. PUTS CHILD ON RED HOT STOVE Mob Seeking Illinois Miner Chnrged with Horrible Crime Foiled br Oflleer. STAUNTON, III.. Feb. 4.-Jullus Green wait, a coal miner, narrowly eacaped an enraged mob here laat night. Greenwalt placed the 4-year-old child of hia landlady on the top of a red-hot stove because the child annoyed him. He waa arrested later and a number of his fellow workers de termined to take ths law in their own handa. The village marshal, however, hid his prisoner In a restaurant near the Inter urban station and when a car arrived he was rushed aboard. The child is In a seri ous condition. RELIEF FROM C0AST FLOODS Heavy - Rains Have Ceased and Rrgnlar Train Servleo Will Bo Reenmed. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. -Ths heavy rains which caused a second rise of the rivers flowing through the Sacramento valley have ceased and the worst of ths storm is over. The Southern Pacific- an nounce that regular service on the coast division will be given after tomorrow. MANN AND SCOTT EI DEFENSE Charge that Principal Objections Come from Men Who Formerly Cot Timber and Pas la re Free. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 The forest serv ice got Its usual snnual drubbing today, the criticisms against It coming principally from Mr. Smith (Cal.), Mr. Cook (Colo.) and Mr. Mondell (Wyo.), all of whom charged ex travagance In administration and the ex tortion of money from miners, farmers snd even the owners of the beehives. Mr. Cook attributed to Mr. Plnchot. the chief forester. the ulterior motive of scheming for Secre tary -Wilson's seat In the. cabinet. Both Mr. . Plnchot and the forest service were vigorously defended by Mr. Mann (III.) and Mr. Weeks (Mass.). All attempts to amend the bill In any Im portant particular failed. Its consideration was about two-thirds completed when the house, at 6:20 p. m., adjourned. Mondell Opens Fight. The forest sen-Ice today In connection with the consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill came in for further crltl clam. Mr. Mondell (Wyo.) charged that the forestry bureau was administered with wan ton extravagance. His statements were controverted by Mr. Scott, who said the Keep commission had found that the forest service employes were paid less than those of other departments. Bitter denunciation was heaped on the serv ice by Mr. Smith (Cal.). . It was,, he said, the greatest outrage, that had been perpe trated upon any people. "The effort of the forest bureau," he de clared, "Is to grind every dollar It can get out of the people of the west." There was he declared, no kind of an activity carried on in any part of the national forest "that the people were not compelled to yield money, money, money," sll the time to the federal government. He charged that the forest service had illegally extorted fees from miners, stockmen, farmers and- oth ers. He spoke particularly of a case in which a fee of 10 cents each had been levied on beehives. "There was," he vehemently asserted, " "neither sense nor Justification for filching these pennies from the pocket of the poor bee man." Unless a halt was called "In this grinding of the people." he said, a reaction would occur and the forest system would be destroyed. If the forest service, he said, would confine Itself to Us proper functions It would rank as one of the great Institutions of the government Cook Attacks Plnchot. Mr. Cook (Colo.) expressed his approval of all Mr. Smith had uttered, and said that Mr. Plnchot's sole purpose was to "get Secretary Wilson's position In the cabinet." Mr. Weeks (Mass.) defended the forest service. He said the difficulty with Mr. Plnchot's critics wss that their constitu ents In the past bad been In the habit of going upon forest reaervatlons and remov ing timber without paying anything for It, and that waa true of ralaing herds on pub lic graaing lands. He denied that anybody had been milked." " - Declaring that he would not be under stood as making a harsh statement, Mr. Mann (111.) said that for many years It had "so become the custom to loot the public domain that when the government endeavored to come Into Its own It looks like a robber" to the people of the west. Applause and exclamations of "Hear! Hear!" followed this utterance. He said when he first came to the house the com plaint was that the forest service would not be administered along business lines, but that now the complaint waa that here was too much of a business administration. U was not necessary. Mr. Mann declared, to defend Mr. Plnchot against the assaults which had been made upon him. "His work," he said, "will stand for all time." Both Messrs. Smith and Mondell declared the people of the west were not opposed to the forest service itaelf, but said their ob. Jectlons were based on the policies of that service. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE Day Is "pent in Consideration District of Colombia Bill. of WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-The monoton- pus tones of the reading clerk of the senate as he-labored through the bill of over 100 pages making appropriations for the Dis trict of Columbia, constituted the chief fea lure in the proceedings of that body to day. There was an evident Intention on the part of the minority to lengthen the time necessary to dispose of the measure. It be. Ing the only obstacle to an executive ses slon for the further consideration of the nomination of William D. Crura to be col lector of customs of Charleston, 8. C. On the democratic side there was a per sistent demand for the most careful read ing of the hill and occasionally members of the minority became Involved In a spirited debate on It. It Is usually left to the Judgment of the committee reporting the measure. When the senate adjourned at 6:18 o'clock the reading of only half of the bill had been completed. LABOR LEADERS ARE ROUSED Statement of Miss Gordon ( alls Forth Letter from President Saninrl , , Gompcrs. NEW ORLEANS. La., Feb. 4 A recent speecli of Miss Jean Gordon of this city before the Child Labor conference In Chicago has apparently aroused labor leaders all over the country. Miss Gor don declared that she was a unionist, but that she had lost all hope of any as sistance from the American Federation of Labor, as It had, she said, thwarted the plans for bettering child labor con ditions in New Orleana. In taking this declaration up. President 8amuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has written to former Secretary George Bunch of the Louisiana State Federation of Labor asking for the particulars as to the action of local labor leaders at the time of the enactment of the present child labor law. HORNER BACK AT OSCEOLA Ne'nraakaa Charged with Abdaetloa Arrested at White Pine, Tennessee. KNOXV1LLB. Tenru, Feb. 1 Deputy Sheriff James M. FarrU of Polk county, Nebraska, Is en route from Dandrtdge, Tenn., to Osceola. Neb., with David L Homer In custody. Homer is charged with having abducted a lt-year-old girl from Nebraska last August. Ths arrest of Horner was made laat Friday at White pins, Jefferson counts. Tanju. THr WAV Why Not From the Minneapolis Journal. PROTEST FROM PRESIDENT Executive Has Strong: Objections to Anti-Japanese School Bill. MEASURE PASSED YESTERDAY Two Other Bills Peadlngr In Call, fornla Legislator Aimed at abject ef the Mikado ' Were IvfAed. - ' t ' BULLETIN. - SACRAMENTO, Cel., Feb. 4.-Govemor Gillett this afternoon received the follow ing telegram from President Roosevelt: "WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -J. N. Gillett, Governor cf California: Tour kind letter Juet received. What Is uhe rumor- that the California legislature has passed a bill ex cluding the Japanese children from the public schools? This Is the most offensive bill of all, and In my Judgment is clearly unconstitutional and we should at once have to test It in the courts. Can It be stopped In the legislature or by veto? "TH0ODORE ROOSEVELT." Governor Gillett Immediately wired re ply to the president and asked for an answer at once. He refused to discuss the nature of ihe message to Washington, but will make all correspondence by wire pub lic upon the receipt of the president's next telegram if possible. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Feb, 4.-Grove L. Johnson's bill compelling Japanese to at tend separate public schools pasaed the as sembly today by a vote of 48 to 2S. Mr. Johnaon's other bills prohibiting aliens from being members of boards of directors and restricting them In residence districts at the option of boards of supervisors, were defeated, the former by a vote of 64 to 15. The latter measure failed of passage be cause of a tie vote, the friends of the bill being unable to muster the required forty one votes. Roll call finally stood 87 to 37 sfter a call of the house and several changes from aye to no and vice versa. Johnson changed hia vole from aye to no auid moved to reconsider tomorrow. Walter Leeds, of Los Angeles, changed his vote from no to aye on the school bill a-nd moved to reconsider that also. There was little support for the corpora tion measure, the votes for the bill falling thirteen short of the number cast for the Drew bill. Debate on Segregation Bill. The principal debate was upon the resi dential segregation bill. Many who voted against the land and corporation meaa- ures announced that they favored aegre gation of undesirable aliens because that was effective anti-Japanese legislation. Beardslee. of Stockton. Transue Hanlon, Recti and Cattell of Ia .Vngeles spoke against It, taking the ground that It was unconstitutional and would interfere with the friendly negotiations of the federal government with Ja;.an to stop Immigra tion. Shortly after the disposal of the Johnson bills Mr. Drew moved that the vote by which his land bill was defeated yesterday be reconsidered. He offered to amend the measure by striking out a sec tion, which, it had been declared, violated the treaty rights of several nations. He declared that as the school bill had Just been psssed and that was the one against which the prealdent objected most stren uously two years ago, the sssembly should go a step further and pass the land bill also. The motion was lost, the vote being at ayes and 38 noes. This showed a gain of ten votes for the proponents of uhe bill. Defeat of Drew BI1L . One of the remarkatHe features of the defeat of the Drew bUI yesterday was that it was accomplished in the face of an audi ence of tOQO people, who wildly applauded every anti-Japanese sentiment uttered by the proponents of the measure. Both sides made dramatle appeals to the packed gal leries, and in one of these Nathan C Coghlan, a Ban Francisco assemblyman, who was an opponent of the bill, made a bitter attack upon the Japs n see. Km has aCMiinnodJ ita Second. Fajra.) IT WILL B-OVER 1 THE GOOD Do in One Day What Now Requires JUDGE CLOSES THE DOORS Keeps Carious Spectators Away from Sensational Stirling; Di vorce Case. EDENBURGH. Feb. 4. Tired of having his court turned Into a theater filled with curious men and women who have seemed to regard the Stirling cross divorce cases as a lurid melodrama produced for their benefit. Judge Guthrie today closed the doors on all except those directly identified with the sulls. ... Lord TCorthlartd was on the sand all the morning. His evidence consisted largely of flat denials to the statements made by Mrs. Stirling and Mrs. Athcrton. Mrs. Atherton, he asserted, carried on a con spiracy to keep Mr. Stirling and his wife apart. She even pressed him to Join Mrs. Stirling in America in furtherance of her objects, but he refused to do so. He at tributed much of his attention to Mrs. Stirling to his efforts to cheer her up, par ticularly as she had purchased a revolver and on half a doxen occasions had threat ened to kill herself. In the course of his cross-examination Lord Northland admitted that he waa at tached to Mrs. Stirling, but he said he did not love her. He had not determined whether or not he would marry her If she became free. NO MORE FIGHT FOR MINER9 Convention Voles to Clamp Lid on Fnctlonal Strife Here after. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Feb. 4.-The dis pute between Thomas L, Lewis, president of the United Mine workers and John H Walker, president of the Illinois district. was thrown out of the convention today, after having divided the delegates Into camps striving against each other, giving rise to charges of corruption and betrayal of the organization Into hands of mine owners, and dragging the convention into a third week, at an extra expense of nearly IJO.OOO to the national union. W. W. White, president of the Iowa dis trict, made a motion to forbid all future discussion on charges and counter-charges "to throw them all out of the window and clamp down the lid on the convention." The motion was adopted with applause. The tellers' report of the first ballot for vice president and secretary showed a failure to provide sufficient majorities to elect. Edwin Perry of Oskaloosa, Is., and John Faley. Pottavlllf, Pa., led In the secretary treasurer contest. Perry got l.Otl votes and Faley 1,071. A second ballot was or dered. HOPKINS IS FALLING BACK Illinois Senntor Receives Only Sev enty-One Voles on Joint Ballot Today. SPRINGFIELD. III., Feb. 4 -On the twen ty-seventh ballot the total vote In Joint ses sion was: Hopkins, 71: Foss, 18: Stringer, 73: Shurt- teff, lt; Maaon, 3; McKinley, 1: Lowden, 1; Calhoun, 1: Sherman, 2. No choice. Constitutional majority of Joint session 103. Majority of members present and vot ing. 94. At the conclusion of the twenty-seventh ballot the Joint session arose. The balloting will be resumed next Tues day noon. MADISON, Wis., Feb. 4 Senator Ste phenson larked four votes of election today when the sixth Joint ballot was taken. Hs received 62 out of 130 votea Necessary to choice, 66. There were eight absentees. LIQUOR BILL TO BECOME LAW Ttsasswe Legrlslatare Passes Mann. factoring Meaanro Ovec Gov ernor's Veto. JfABFTVTLLE, Tenn.. Feb. 4,-The bill prohibiting the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors in this state came up in the house for passage ever the governor's veto. The bill was passed over tne governor's veto by a vote of M to 17. The law goes lota affect jaouarx I,im .ROADS of the fUTURE. Three! NO FAULT IN STEEL MERGER Senate Committee Finds President Could Not Have Interfered. MAY NOT yAfTTF. A FINAL REPORT Legal Complications So Namerous Committee May Not Be Able to Get Together on Kec ' ," ' ommondatlon. ' WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. The special com- mittee of the committee on Judiciary, which Is investigating the Tennessee Coal and "There are so many legal questions in Iron absorption by the United States Steel volved in th bill," said Kuhl of Cedar, corporation expects to meet great dlffl- "that It is our opinion it will suve the cullies in prepsrlng a reply to the senate state money In the long run to hire ooun resolution providing for the inquiry. set to pass upon the bill. The subcom. Although a number of bankers who wero supposed to know all about the details of the Tennessee purchase by the steel cor- poratlon have explained to the committee their participation in the transaction, noth- Ing has been brought out which disputes President Roosevelt's contention that there was nothing proposed with which he found It Incumbent upon him to Interfere. The resolution calls upon the committee to report what was the president's author ity for permitting the merger. Nothing has j been found by the commfttee which seems j to warrant tho prealdent In giving consent to the absorption, nor anything which seems to demsnd that ha should have forbidden the merger. Some of the mernoera of the committee. In discussing the case lnfor- ally today suggested that It would have been wisdom for the president to advise Judge Gary and Mr. Frick to conault their lawyers instead of submitting their propo- sltion to him. In summing up the evidence presented a number of lawyers In the senate have said that It appears to them that the party of sixteen financiers who obtained control of the majority of the stock were systemat- tcallv "soueezed" durln the nanlrkv ri.v. of October and November. 1907. Senator Cul- berson has sought to show that the stocks were eaneeiaiiv nnimite,! in h. -.t ... bv tieoole interested in ih banks. It I. possible that no report whatever will be made to the senate In resnons. t .h- Culberson resolution. So msny legal ques tlons are involved that It Is predicted a long discussion would result from any attempt to determine whether the president had proceeded In wrongful manner. Ills com munication to the senate suggests that the only action taken by him was to say that he saw no reason why he should Interfere to prevent the merger. This Is construed variously by members of the committee some of the democrats going so far as to say that it amounted to an Instruction to the attorney general not to prosecute the merger even If It was found to be contrary to the provisions of the Sherman law. TAFT LAUDS WORK ON CANAL Presldeat-Rlect and Knglneer Im pressed with Progress Made In Zone. PANAMA. Feb. 4.-Wllllam H. Taft made an address today to a large gathering of canal employes and members of the lath- mian Red Cross society. He said that the present condition of the work ard the progress made were a source of great satisfaction to him. and that the engineers who accompanied him had been impressed with the organization and spirit of energy prevailing throughout the entire force. He spoke also favorably of the great amount of work done every day and ho then can. tloned his hearers against worrying about falae reports and criticisms in the Unltd States by irresponsible writers. The Ameri can people were going to build the canal, Mr. Taft said. Congress knew lhe tnmper of the people and the appropriations would be ample to complete the canal by 1316, if nnt before. Mr. Taft today viewed the nine ntiles of the Culebra cut from the hills at F.mplre, while the engineers of his party Inspected the canal leading tat9.UPciXtajrotrs.nce to Ilia capaU FEE THE EE HUNDRED DOLLARS House Convinced Majority ii Not Capable of Drawing- Measure, CONCESSION TO FARMER BANKS Stockholders Permitted to Borrow Eighty Per Cent of Deposits. BILL FOR TAXING MORTGAGES Opponents Make tresis Fight, fent It Passes the Hons by a Substantial Majority Jnst the Same. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 4.-(8pcclal. Recognis ing Its Inability to draft a banking law which would guarantee to the people their bank deposits as promised by Mr. Bryan and his fellow democratic candidates when they were hustling for votes in Nebraska, the house this afternoon gave permission to the banking committee to hire a lawyer to do the work. . There was a proviso in the permission which was that the lawyer should cost ths state not more than 8310 for doing the work of the legislature and Mr. Bryan. While many members believe It would take a "Philadelphia lawyer" to work Mr. Bryan's campaign promises Into practlcsl shape. Judge Albert of Columbus will do the work under the supervision of Dr. P. U Hall and others. The selection of Judge Albert was made upon the suggestion of Governor Shallenberger. Judge Albert cam to Lincoln tonight and held a consultation with the subcommittees of the house and senate and tomorrow they will hold another meeting and get to work on the measure. Kuhl of Cedar county Introduced the mo tion to provide for the' employment of the lawyer to do the work and the house voted for it because there was no other way out of the tangle. The house committee and the senate com. . mittee have both held meetings with Mr.' Bryan and the governor and have llatened to their suggestions, and have aven had Mr. Bryan write out his ideas, but no one has been satisfied with the results. 80 in order to make good on their promises It has be come necessary to havs the taxpayers pay out $300 at the Jumpoff to do the work ol the legislature. The stats has provided a legal depart- r"ent 10 "vise with the state officials - . iva uvv a otjuobi, ine gal" torney general to help it out of the. hole. Thu ouM not have 00,1 nr additional ujiirjr mux netmer would it, nave given a democratic lawyer a Job. Several of the members laughed when the Kuhl motion was put and others looked as though they felt humiliated that out ot slxiy-nino democratic representatives there was none found In the tioase who la capa Die of drafting their campaign talk Intn a bill. Republicans' Time to I.aaah. mitte will first draft It and then It will be given to the lawyer to look pver from a legal standpoint. It would not do to pass a bill and then have it knocked, out by the courts." The republicans are enjoying the humllla. tion of the majority party to the utmost. And not pne democrat has been found but who failed to mention any legal com plications In drafting the measure before; the election. One of the provisions of the law to be drafted will be In the Interest of the banks in the western part of the state which are owned by farmers, each of whom has stock from 1100 up. Under the present law no stockholder can draw out more than SO per cent of the amount of his stock. This works a hsrdshlp on farmer owners of these bsnks which sre supported by the I atockholders, so the bill will provide that I atockholders may draw out 80 per cent of I tne depoalta of the stockholders I 1 nls concession on the part of the bank owners of ths east, who had to uk 11 or would have had the 60 per cenl provision cut out entirely and pre- v'nt'd them 'ro"i borrowing any money I from their own banks. At Merna ni ' Broken Bow and Other places ,nere ar bnks owned exclusively fners and patronlied to a great ex- l'nl thHr owners, sll of whom are de- I onuuiu ill capital SIOCK Do sis, Quo ,W'T'"' . ' . m'Y be ' ,W "- cuu,a ""' Mm under the preaent law. Under the section which will be Included in the proposed bill these stockholders will be permitted to borrow sn smount equal to 80 per cent of their deposits. Favor Taxation of Mortgages. The house recommended for passage the bl" by Tavlor at Tor" o mortgages estate, arter a hard fight against I tne bl" by Brown of Lancaster. Clark of Rk,nardn "! McColl of Gage. When Brown called for a roll call to kill the bl" a'ler it h been recommended for I PaBas be scared up seventeen votes for I hl" motion to seventy-eight sgalnst M. Brown argued that to pass the bill would bft to cr,PP' lhe Insurance companies of Nebraska, raise their rate of Interest and lower the value of real estate. Taylor of York argued that If the In- terest rates were Increased. It should please the money lenders, so all hsnds would be satisfied if the bill were recommended for passage. Clark argued that It would drive I out toregn money because the outside man I wo"'l have to pay taxea on the note he I neId- tn mortgage simply being a security, where he lived and then have to pay on the mortgage In Nebraska. This also ha said would make double taxation on the lender. Slocckcr In Ihe Limelight. The house had a discussion over the bill to appropriate SlA.0X for the support ot the state penitentiary for the remainder of the quarter. In this discussion Stoecker of Douglas again blossomed out as a real article. Clark of Rlchsrdssn ex plained the money was needed and that the deficiency was due to the fact that the estimstcs of the last blennlum had been upon a population of 840. when the Institution hss now over 400 Inmates. Tay lor of Custer said he did net object to the bill, but he thought It unnecessary, as the warden could file his vouchers and , tha warrant could be issued and paid Just
