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OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1POJ.
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STOCK MAKKET
AWAITS TARIFF
Teiting Operations of Professionals
- Fail to Uncover Any Demand or
Induce Ar Liquidation.
VOLUME 01 A VESS IS SMALL
v
Pullness Alraos'-"V that of Pre
Convention st Year.
General Strike
May Tie Up Paris
Wire Service
Telegraph and Telephone Employes
of Postoffice Hold Meetings and
Discuss Suspension of Work.
CONGRESS MEETS
AT XOOX TODAY
NEBRASKA HOUSE
ISLlKErilUTJS
First Act in Special Session Will Be
the Reorganization of the
House.
Members in Control of Body Refuse to
Take Work of Lawmaking
Seriously.
RULES FIGHT STILL IN DOUBT
TYPICAL DAY ON THE FLOOR
WILL WELCOME : V TT ACTION
Little Belief that tT-l Delays Can
Be Avoided.
TWO DECREES WITHOUT EFFECT
Acquittal of .Standard OH Company
of Indiana and truing A.lrfe
Missouri Rate I.anr Do Not
niatnrtt Price.
NKW YORK, March 11. -The stock mar
kft th last week composed Itself Into an
attitude of waiting upoji the more definite
shaping of iuture events, and was dis
tinguished chiefly hy Its unimpressionable
chaiacter. The testing operations of the
1 rofrsslonal element, which made tip ncurly
life whole of the dealings, proved unavail
ing to uncover any extended order, either
In th way of liquidation or of covering
outstanding short accoimts. Professional
operations themselves dwindled under these
discouraging circumstances and brought
iho fate of activity In the market down
to a level comparable with I he dullness of
last summer in the, period before the na
t'Onul conventions had aeted. On July 3
Usfc year, before the democratic convention
met In Denver, the decreasing dealings In
I'tocks ran down to a totul of only Tu.ntiO
lures dealt In at the stork exchange, a
record for dullness not equaled In the an
, na's of the stock exchange In modern
Hire.. Thursday's dealings last week
barely turned the 300.ti0 share, figure, thus
lei.irdltiR a smuller day's business than for
.my day since before tiie national dec
: Ions.
Wnltlna. for New la riff.
The period of t lie Inauguration of the
new president having passed without the
hoped-for revival In Interest, stock market
interests, apparently, resigned themsilvcs
to a,valt the dertnlte shaping ot the tariff
revision now In progress at Washington.
The outcome of the tariff revision seems
to be unusually uncertain, and the check
on business activity Is expected to be cor
tespondingly great. It Is an Influence on
general trud activity that speculative sen
timent H moat concerned with the tariff
, (juration. Satisfaction is felt with the ef
forts making 6 expedite the determina
tion of the matter, but confidence In the
slock market circles Is not very great-thitt
the usual delays will be prevented. The
luaslblc term of lac .uncertainty perhaps
I as much to do with the suppression of
eU'culiittvo nctlvlty. us have prospective
(hangca hi the duties on Imposts.
Tvo Judicial Decrees.
Judicial d( creed on acveral subjects of
far reaching Importance to corporations
were handed down luring the week. That
to which greatest public interest attached
wa the acquittal of tho Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana In the retrial of the ca.se
In t hlcii i as fined Sl9,uuO.ViO on the
lirsi trial, hut the final (Imposition of the
ensu In favor of the corporation caused
scarcely a ripple on the stock market.' Of
nlmost as little c.fcct was the Injunction
lHU(d by the United States district court
sgHliist tire Missouri law insulating freight
md passenger rates of railroads. There
;m a JlsiKSition to infer from the out
come of the Siatidnrd Oil caseNan aban
donment by the government of similar
arj st, II pcndi.i. The Missouri late
cm$ also niBsested a widespread move
ment to contest Kimil.'r laws In other
states ami ts "d hop. s of success by the
i jilio.nli vi ic assumed.
i;c xm l.nbor Outtotik.
Ti-e lutj.'f outlook is kept in view hy
tin cu'.e In Wiges hi x'.itious departments
o' tlie steel trade and by the oonfer
cice between anthracite operators and
nicer for a lew agreement to take the
place of the tine expiring on April first.
Tlie extension jif this movement over a
wide field Is looked for and mixed conse
quences Hie looked upon as Inevitable. It
- t considered a promising feature of the
, u itlook that Immlg-alion statistic show
u pronounced shift in tlie current again
Xilth un increase in arrivals since the
tlral of Iho year, of T'.oco, and a decrease
lu Urpirturts of 9;.li0, compared with last
year, when there was a homeward rush of
foreigners.
The inauguration of gold exports to Ixm
don was wholly ignored aa a stock market
Influence In view of the abundance of
loanable funds In the mor.cy market.
Ships Collide
Off Rotterdam
Margaretha Is Sunk by the Mayboot
and Twenty Members of Its
Crew Drowned.
noTTEItUAM. March M.-TI.e Norweg
ian steamer. May foot, for Sunderland col
lieded today with the trm.in ship, Mar-gi-elha
lqlo,ue for Hamburg, about twenty
iniUs west of llus lightililp. The Marg
tetha saik alniort Immediately, twentv of
ih crew being drowned. Tlie six remaining
member of the crew were saved. The
Mn.vfoot returned here with a biir hok- in
It bow. The Margcetha was commanded
by Captain Wolulere. It was of ;.on) tons
burden.
Beatrice Man
for Brandeis Bank
C. 3. Claassen, Formerly Nebraska
Banker, Comes to Omaha from
Winnipeg.
C J. CUskti.il. formerly cashier wf the
Janaen time bank and originally from
Beatrice. lll this morning take charge
of tlie detail of the brandeis bank. r
plerits Paul B. Burleigh. Mr. Claassen
baa nio.-e recently beeu connected with
th Uas'uix hewn Elevator company at
Usui i n
PAKI9. March It. Paris Is now threat
ened with a general strike of the tel-graph
and telephone operators employed In the
bureaus of the postoffice. A sa result of
the nergetlc, measures of the authorities in
suppressing ' the strike of the telegraph
operators, which Isolated Paris for four
hours yesterday, forty of the rlng-ieaders.
Including the railway mall clrks. who re
fused to board their trains, have been sus
pended pending their dismissal from the
service, flight of those who took part In
the riot In the central, telegraphic bureau
of the postoffice on Friday night are unjer
airest. The president of the general asso
ciation of postal and ' telegraph employes.
M. Subia, is among those under suspen-
Throughout Sunday the associations of
th varlojs branches of the service held
secret meetings. The preliminary meet
ing of the general association will he held
tomorrow when final action will be taken.
The feeling seems against an amicable set
tlement of the trouble. Many of the em
ployes have voted for a strike, while tli
railway mail clerks have voted to hold
solidly together In whatever action is de
cided upon.
President Taft
Attends Church
Executive Goes to Morning Service at
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Instead of His Own Church.
WASHINGTON-, March 14s-Forsaking Ms
own church for the day. President Taft
attended services this morning at the New
York Avenuo Presbyterian church, where
President Lincoln and other famous states
men once worshipped.
Mr. Taft left the White House with Mrs.
Nicholas L. Anderson of this city, who ac
companied him to church. Together they
walked the four blocks to the church and
several times the president was compelled
to doff his hat In recognition of the greet
ing of the many who spoke to him along
the way. Two frock-coated and sllk-hat-ted
secret service men walked behind tflid
sat near them during services. Dr. Wal
lace Radcllffe, pastor of the church, re
ferred directly to the president In his open
ing prayer, saying, "Bless William Howard
Taft and all his cabinet; bless the legis
lators and the officers of the arm,y and
the navy; bless the administration and
make It a power for good In the world."
After the services the congregation stood
while the president and Mrs. Anderson
walked out. Mr. Taft returned to the
White House on foot. Mrs. Anderson leav
ing hlni when they arrived near her home
on K street.
Double Murder
in Cheyenne
Posey Ryan, a Ranchman of Laramie,
Kills Wife and Daughter in
Restaurant.
C'HKVKNNK, Wyo.. March H.-Posey
'Hyan, a ranchman of Fort Laramie, today
shot and killed his wife and daughter while
the women were eating dinner in a res
taurant. Mrs. Ryan brought her daughter
to Cheyenne last week and commenced ault
i for divorce from Ryan. Ryan mad-i no
resistance to arrest and told the police he
expected to hang.
PAT CROWE GOES TO DRINK
CURE ESTABLISHMENT
I Kx-Kldnaper and Hvanarrltst Kent to
j Hospital " for Inebriates by '
i. Kiantton W. C. T. V.
j CHICAGO. March 14.-Pat Crowe, re
j formed CHdahy kidnaper, who recently was
I restored to grace after a tumble due to
I liquor, has been taken to a drink euro
establishment at Pontlac, III. He was sent
there Friday nlgkt by direction of the
Kvnnston Woman's Christian Temperance
union, for which organization he labored
as an evangelist for several weeks.
Crowe will be given treatment for twenty
eight days according to the program.
"Our patient now weighs 190 pounds," aaid
Head Attendant Joseph O'Nell yesterday,
"but in a few weeks we will have him in
the pink of condition for h!s evangelistic
i campaign."
I t'rowe'a formal restoration to grace oc
curred lat Tuesday at a Wlllard hall noon
day meeting held under tlie direction of
;the Rex-, t:. I.. Kator piistor of the First
Methodist Kplseopal church of Evanaton,
'of which Crowe 's a probationary member.
Voting Partisan
Injures Cities,
"The responsibility of government rests
not alone on the officials, but largely upon
the voting public, and many evlla are due
l,i that body of citizens which gives no
Hlientio'i to political matters, but leaves
them to men leu interested in the public
welfare." kaid Fire and Police Commis
sioner K. C. Page in an address on "Mu
nicipal lieform" before the Philoaophlcal
society Sunday afternoon.
"In the ordinary city of IM.VO voters
but 5.(w or S.t)0 exercise their right of
suffrage In the trimary elections. I'nfor
tunately, the absent am made up of people
in favor of an bouent administration in
the public's Interest, and too large a per
rent of those always at the primaries have
nm sort of political axe to grind. As a
result It frequently happens that the voter
who looks toward the well-being of the
city has the choice of two candidate,
either of whom are about equally accent
able to the other class.
"Par'y politics have no place In city
governmt nt and are not necessary a in
national elections, where a man is en
abled by bis vote to exert sn Influence
over national affairs. The pror ques
tions In municipal elections si the char
acter and general fitness of candidates fur
positions Wiiat difference tan it make
wliat views a maviralty candidate ir
Program for Handling Tariff Measure
Depends on Outcome.
BILL READY FOR INTRODUCTION
If Standpatters Win Cannon Will
Reappoint Old Committee.
SENATE ALREADY ORGANIZED
Committee Will Discos Rill ml
Arrangements Hate Been Made
for r.eneral Debate While
Waiting for Ilonse.
WASHINGTON, March 14 Both houses
of congress will meet in extraordinary ses
sion at noon tomorrow, with Vice President
Hherman presiding in the senate, and for
the time. Clerk McDowell offielatlig in the '
house. This will be the beginning of the
Sixty-first congress and tho first act of
Importance in the house will be the or
ganization of that body for business. The
senate Is already organized, so that outside !
of the mere routine, tho business of the
first day will be confined to the presenta
tion of the credentials of Senator Stephen
son of Wisconsin. The certificates of tlie
governor of Wisconsin will be handed in by
Senator Burrows, chairman ot the senate
committee on privileges and elections. It
has been suggested that Mr. Stephenson's
colleague, Sonntor 1m Follette, would op
pose the sealing of Mr. Stephenson, but if
there was ever such intention on hla part
it apparently has been abandoned, and there
Is little doubt that Mr. Stephenson will be
permitted to resume hla seat. Later In the
week the senate will begin the reorganiza
tion ot its standing committees and until
this work is accomplished little business
will be undertaken.
The house may be expected to more than
make up for the senate deficiencies in ac
tivities. With a fight on the rules in pros
pect, in addition to the election of speaker
and other officers, to say nothing of the
usual biennial lottery for seats, Monday
bids fair to be a much crowded day at
the southern end of the capltol.
Cannon Will He He-elected.
The action of the republican caucus makes
certain the re-election of Speaker Cannon
and of the other house officer, but there
is still doubt in the minds of soma as to
Just what may be done with reference to
the rules. If the "insurgents" and their
democratic allies should win, the program
for the Introduction and committee con
sideration of the tariff bill may be different
from what it would be If the "stand pat
ters" should prevail. If Speaker Cannon's
friends ' are victorious in the matter of
rules, the president's message on the tariff
will be received Tuesday and Immediately
following Its reading the republican mem
bers of the committee on way and mean
will introduce their bill for the revision of
tho tariff schedules. The speaker will then
appoint a committee on ways and meana
and the bill will be referred to that com
mittee. It ia understood that If the selection of
the committee is left to the speaker he will
designate all the old members of the com
mittee who were re-elected to congress.
This would leave but one vacancy, that
caused by tho retirement of Mr. Ronynge
or Colorado, and it is Intimated that Rep
resentative Mondell of Wyoming will be
chosen for that position. The democratic
members of the committee would be ap
pointed at the same time and the present
purpose Is to have the committee report the
bill back to the house after one or two sit
tings. As soon as practicable, within a day or
two after it Is reported, the tariff bill will
be taken up for consideration, and the de
bate, which will last anywhere from tuo
to four weeks, will be launched.
General Debate la Senate.
While the senate cannot formally begin
Its consideration of the tariff until after
tho house bill has been officially trans
ferred to tlie senate, the committee on
finance will proceed with the general dia
ojjsslon of the subject and will be well
prepared aa possible to rcouirt soon after
the official receipt of tli bid from the
house. Every effort will be made in both
houses to restrict legislation of the exfra
session to the subject of tariff, but un
questionably many bills will be introduced,
and It is possible that consideration may
be given to the bill providing for the next
census and to a resolution changing the
date of the Inauguration of tlie president
from March 4 to some later date. So much
suffering and inconvenience were caused
by the weather attending the recent In-
(Continued on Second Page.
Tickets
Says E. C. Page
have on the tariff, finance or Philippine
occupation in determining whether he Is
a fit man to administer the government
of the city?
"Voting straight party tickets hy the
majority part of the voters means that
thousands of voters do not count on the
Issue pertinent to the flection, but that
they neutralize those cast by the opposite
pqrty. Thla leaves the city election to be
determined by a few hundred independent
votes and it will be found upon observa
tion in our own city that the larger por
tion of these votes cast for specific can
didates, rather than along party lines, are
cast by voter generally credited with ob
jects not strictly confined to the city's
general well being."
Mr. Page alao contended that more re
forms would be accomplished If the re
formers were more temperate and did not
disgust people by trying to hoist on them
uhiinrlous personal theories. Flattery of
public officials is about aa bad for a man
entering office with good Intention a I
the offer of a bribe or graft, waa another
theory of the apeaker.
"Th conduct of city affairs is largely
a bukiness proposition." said Mr. Page,
"and the only legitimate course for a pub
l.c officer to puraue Is to diaeharge his
duty to the public In a dtalnterested and
Impartial manner."
t
HIS
From the New fork Herald.
NEBRASKA RIVALS KEY WEST
4
Revenue Collector! Says 178 Factories
Made 28,521,422 Cigars in 1908.
MANY TONS OF TOBACCO REQUIRED j
At Twenty Poond for One Thousand
Cigars, Nebraska I a RIbt Cus
tomer of growers, and
f
Someone panoke Vp.
I
The annual report ot the collector of In
ternal revenue for the Nebraska district,
covering the operations of all cigar fac
tories in the state, has Just been completed
for the year 1908.
This report show thot during the whole
or part of 1908 that 222 accounts were
handled by the revenue office. There were
never that many factories in the stale at
any one Lime,
During the year 190S tlie number ot ac
counts closed wa forty-four, and sixty-one
new onea were opened, and there remained
In operation on January 1. 1909, 178 factories,
over thirty of which were in Omaha.
The total number of cigars manufactured
in the state during, the year 1908 was 28.
o.i.42, or Just about 500, 000 more than i In
1907.
In making this number of cigars 663.343
pounds of leaf tobacco Fr used. This
weight include the lem, which are, af
course, eliminated Of1 discarded in the fac
tories. 'The atama. probably comprised about
two-flftha of the weight of the leaf, which
j represented Just so much loss, as they are
(lurirea. -
The average number of pounds of raw
material, the unstrlpped leaf, used In
making cigars, is a trifle under twenty
pounds per 1,000 cigars.
Small, bat Bony.
There are not many large cigar factories
in this state, only thirty-four making up
wards of 200.000 each per year. Of these
thirty-four factories six make l.OOO.POO and
: 3.000.000 cigars each. Seven make between
500,000 to 1,000,000 each, eight make between
300.000 and M0.000 each and thirteen make
between 300,000 and 300.000 each.
The great majority of the 178 Nebraska
factories turn out les than 100.000 cigars
per year each. The cities producing the
largest number of cigar are Omaha, Hast
ings, Fremont, Grand Island, Superior. I,ln
coln. Plattsmouth. Kearney, Falls City,
Aurora, Hebron. Beatrice, West Toint,
Seward and South Omaha.
ISn Nebraska Clararrttrs.
No cigarettes are manufactured in Ne
braska, nor the smaller cigars so classified,
as to be taxable at only 4 cents per l.OuO.
The regulation cigar, weighing from ten
to fifteen pounds per 1.0C0, is taxable at
3 per 1,000, and It la tlie cigars of this
latter character that 28,600,000 were produced
In Nebraska during the year 1908.
Of course several mllllop additional cigars
of eastern manufacture, not to mention Im
ported cigar, were consumed in the slate.
w I'alted State Commfaaloner.
8IOCX FALLS, S. D.. March lt.-(Spe-clal.)
W. L. Merrick of Le Beau has been
appointed by Judge Carland of the federal
court in this city to the position of United
States commissioner, with headquarters at
Le Beau. The appointment will prove of
great convenience to residents of that part
of the atate, who will be enabled to tran
aact their I'nlted States land office business
j through the new commissioner and thus
j save them journey to the district land
, office. The appointment alao will prove a
I convenience in other ways.
Knowing what
you can buy and
where to buy is
something in which
every woman is in
terested. The ads
under the heading
4Everything for
Women," on the
want ad page are a
great help.,
There are a great many lit
tle things that you "may not
know about, or you may not
know just where to get thein.
You will find many of them
advertised under this heading.
Have you read the want ads, yet,
today?
SIR) CI
;ldek to the wajh...
Girl Sets Fire
to Her Clothing
Miss Etta Williams of Missouri Val
ley Makes Probably Successful
Attempt at Suicide.
MISSOCni VAI.LEV, la., March 11.
tSpeclal Telegram.) Ktta Williams, aged 21
years, made good her threat to make an
attempt on hef own life at 4 o'clock Sun
day afternoon, and is now l.lng unconscious
while two surgeons work to dress her burns
received when she applied the match to
her clothing In ler room oxer a drug store.
For more than a week the girl has de
clared she was tired of life and would kill
herself at tlie first opportunity. Members
of the family have watched her cloudy and
their vigilance saved the store from burn
ing Sunday, and the girl's life may yet
be saved. r
Mrs. Frank Millard and Mrs. H'. P. Han
sen, sisters of Miss Williams, together with
her father, were in tlie front of the second
story when they heard Etta come up the
back stairs and go Into her room. They
went nt once to tho room and found the
door locked. They broke In and heard a
scream as flames shot up from the clothing
of their sister, who had Just applied the
match. Before the fire could be extin
guished with blankets, the girl was terribly
burned and was unconscious.
About five year ago Miss Williams'
mother died and. the girl had had. periods
of melancholy.
Protest from
Boston Labor
Mass Meeting in Faneuil Hall Con
demns Sentence of Gompers
and Mitchell.
BOSTON. Mass.. March H.-A s dmon
trntlon against the ientcnee; of Imprison-'
ment upon Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell
find Frank Morrison by Judge Wrleht In
the superior court of the District of Colum
bia, more than 5,'0 members of labor
rnlona paraded through the streets of this
rlty today.
A FaneuM audience heard Judge, Wrlelrt
attached for his decision In the ense and a
reolntlon was drown up lu which It was
stated that the courts wore blared and tho
laws directed nt one clas cnly. Jiidr'
Wright was accused of using "Intemperate
and bitter language to representatives of
organlied labor." and it xx'fs ald that "he
was not a fit person to handle the case."
Copies of the resolution were Fdit to Presi
dent Taft, Vice Prfsident Sherman and
Fpeaker Cannon.
Roll Watch Instead ol Ka.
LAKE C1TT, la.. March l.-(Special.)-Pon
Ablln of Jackson township, deciding
that he would boll aome eggs, set a pan of
! h 1 1 1 1 , o- atai. mi lh, iIava anil vr.l a 1 1 o or
.. .-' .... - ' - ... -OB.
Ill a few minutes he thought the egg had
cooked long enough, so be walked over to
the atove where the water In tho pan was
simmering away, and was Just on the point
of reselling for a spoon with which to take
the egg (mm th? water when he noticed
the ogg still in his hanfl. Ablln started to
drop the egg into the water when he saw
something glitter in the bottom of the pan.
With a few warm words and a stare the
absent-minded man became as one glued to
the floor and the egg dropped and smashed.
Ablin s gold watch had beeni simmering in
the water Just four minute..
Forecast of Features of
News Events of the Week
WASHINGTON. March 11. Congress will
assemble on Monday and if a fight over
tlie rulea can be deferred until the follow
ing scsi-lon early action by the house on
tho tariff bill presented to the ways and
means committee may be expected. It Is
also possible that through the introduction
of a resolution permitting tariff speeches,
the senate may get under way in its dis
cussion before the house measure proper
Is received. President Taft, when lie has
seen the special session under way, will
slip away for a brief visit to hla alma
mater, having promiued to be present at
th meeting of the Yale corporation at New
Haven on Friday.
Formal negotiations between the anthra
cite miners and the operators have been
suspended pending action by the tri-district
convention of miner at ttcranton. March
23. Th miners will begin thla week the
election of delegates to the tri-district con
tention. Beth having broken the peace pact en
tered Into by the five central American
republics, and which the United States and
Mexico undertook to guarantee. It Is quite
MAKING UP THE TARIFF B11--
Major Lord, Who Has Been in Charge
of Data, Talks of Work.
MANY CHANGES IN PHRASEOLOGY
Word in a Bevlsed to Meet Decision
of I nnrti and Boards of Appraisers
Information (alhered from
Over World.
WASHINGTON. March 14. -One of tlie
most Important features of tho Payne tariff
bill Is the numerous changes In phraseol
ogy of the present law which it contains.
These changes, upon which there prob
ably will be coiinlderable discussion in both
houses, were made as a result of sugges
tions connected In the vast preliminary
work of tlie clerical forap of the commit
tee and the special assistants engaged for
the tariff revision work. They have been
made with a view to clearing up any am
biguity which exists in the various para
graphs of tlie Dingley bill, and to make
the new measure conform with the decis
ions of the courts and the board of ap
praisers. How Itlll Was Made.
Maor K. It. lxrd. United Stales army,
who lias been detailed with the committee
on ways and means In charge of Informa
tion durin.g; the present revision, was clerk
of the committee during the Dingley re
vision. Speaking of the work perfored hy
tlie committee and Its experts in the prepar
ation of the Payne bill. Major Lord' today
said that the most persistent argument ad
vanced In favor of the creation of a tariff
commission was that the congressional com
mittee having the tariff leginlatlon in
charge had neither the Information nor the
time nor means to secure the information
necessary properly to draft a revenue bill,
lie declared this argument was evidently
made without knowledge of the preliminary
work done or the mass of information gath
ered through months of labor. lie said that
tho work of gathering information began
months in advaneo of the adoption of tho
resolution by the house last May, which
authorized the expenditure necessary for
the work preliminary to the framing of
the tariff bill.
Following the adjournment of the first
session of the Sixtieth congress, under the
rroxisions of the resolution committee,
hcndtpiai tcrs were established In Auburn,
N. Y., the home of Chairman Payne.
t onrt Decisions Considered.
"The exceedingly Important feature of thx
work was the consideration of the court de
cisions that have affected the revenue,"
said Major Lord, "and the recommendation
of phraseology that would meet these de
cisions. The committee In thl work had Ihe
assistance of Thomas H. Dougherty, as
sistant counsel. United States treasury,
from the office of general appraisers, New
York city.
"Another branch of the work consisted
of collecting in formation relative to the
various concrete articles treated of In the
tariff, which was secured from published
works, from the various depsrtments of
the government and from public sourrca in
thl and other countries. At the request of
the committee the State department sent
outa circular letter to Its representative
in foreign countries-calling for reports of
Industrial conditions. The subjects of for
eign labor end enst of production were cov
ered in detail, end the committee was able
to coiroborate or disprove fro Ita files,
(Continued on Second Page.)
possible the United States will take a hand
in the situation that lias resulted In hos
tilities between Nicaragua and Salvador.
The naval strength of the United States
Is being quietly strengthened In the vicinity
of the trouble and interesting developments
this week may be anticipated.
The assassination of Petroslno, tlie New
York detective, by member of the Plack
Hand society at Palermo, Italy, take on
added Interest because of the fact that
the Italian officer, supposed to have been
on a trip of International Importance, at
tracted to hia o)erations the malice of an
element to be found In eveiy large city In
the United titatea. It is pretty generally
believed Petroslno'a death waa ploUed in
New York and the effort of the police gen
erally to run down the men who formed
tiie conspiracy ao luccesafjlly execute.'! will
be watched with interest.
A rnasa meeting In memory of the late
President Grover Cleveland will be held at
Carnegie hall, New York. Thursday after
noon. The spcakera will Include Chief
Justice Fuller, Covernor Hughe of New
Y'ork arid Mayor McClelUn of New Vork
City.
Orators Are Interrupted with Catcalls.
Yells and Cheers.
SPEAKER SEEMS POWERLESS
Attempts to Preserve Order Are
Usually Without Result.
OPPOSITION TO D0N0H0E BILL
Measure for Nonpartisan Jndlelary
Rraiarded nllh Snsnlrlon hy Man)
Mem hern-I arnrale Bill May
Come I p A aaln.
(From a Staff Correspoiid-nt.i
LINCOLN, March 11. (Special. )-ShouM
the taxpeyers of Nebraska lake a dy ofT
and visit their democratic .leglslalnre, par
ticularly the house, they xvotild "view Willi
alarm" tho antics of their representatives,
even though they laughed and cheered and
applauded tho exhibition. A typlcnl rise
in the house is as entertaining as one or
tho best comic operas on tlie road were
.mt the thought constantly present that en
acting legislation is a serious business.
The house has no lender. Those who
have the ability to le.nl and who were In
spired to work for tlie passage of good
bills, have become discouraged and seem
to have lost hope. W. J. Taylor, one of
the ablest men on the floor, who started
out to work for wholesale legislation, now
wears the expression of a m m who would
like to see the finish, and the quicker the
better.
Hut the house has developed Into a circus
and a whole string of r.ide shovxs. Speaker
Pool has tried to make tho members con
sider their business as serious, but he might
just as well try to make water run up
hill. When Boelts in Merrick county practices
elocution before the house -a regiment of
soldiers could not stop the "Hear!" "Hear;"
and the constant applause and yells which
perforate and punctuate every few winds.
Tlie louder the cheers the more vigorous
goes the mind-mill gestures and the Boelts
oratory.
sloFrkrr'i Favorite Phrase.
Boelts speaks only, following Mr. Bloeckcr
of Douglas. Stoecker is another statesman
who ' nex'er fails to impress his audience
with humorous sensations.
"Mr. Speaker! As a personal favor! I
say a personal favor, Mr. Speaker, I ask
that this bill be permitted to go to the
general file," Is one of Stoecker' favorite
appeals to the house, and when being Inter
rupted with a few snorts and "Ha. lias"
ho persistently repeats, "Mr. Speaker, 1
ask -tills as a personal favor."
Then Iho house aits down on Mr. Btocckoi
and he turns to Kraus of Douglas arid
smiles, and Kraus moves silently ovd
toward Jerry Howard and bustles back
again when Jerry pokes out that under
Jaw and make a noise like a snarl.
Then Clark of Hlchurdson county lias n
word to say.
"Yes. he's rich. He gradjaled at Hal
yard," butts in Kelley of Furnas, which
makes Jerry Howard Flop wot king on
amendments to the Tanner charter bill loin?
enough to yell out encouragement to Kii
ley. Nino times out pf ten whatever Clark
advocates then gooa by tho boards.
Then Schcclc. of Seward ECts Into the
game:
"I am hero to build up every Instltutioi.
in the slate. 1 was over In tlie old countiv
lant summer and I shw tlie horrible condi
tions there. We wnul lo encourage In
dustry. We must kill this county option
bill "
Then the eloquent pentlemun from Sew
ard, who has the reputation of being abso
lutely sincere III what he advocates, la
stopped by the hurrahs of the multitude
and sits down pmiling iind linppy.
Of course, this harangue, uud cat callx
and yells and talking without recognition m
permisalon from the speaker, Is not per
mitted without a protect on the, part of
Mr. Pool. He keeps his gavel pounding all
the time and lie hollows to the members to
take their seats and on one accasloti even
the "leather lunged" Cone gave up in de
spair and stopped, bull this adds to the
gaiety of tiie occasion and has little other
effect.
All Aaalnsl Douglas ouuly.
't Is almost possible to tell In advance
wnat ia going to happen to a Dill. II Doug
las county favors It it ia ten to one the
bill Is dead. No matter how hot the tem
perature when Douglas county representa
tives speak, the effect Is like a cold blanket
on the whole room.
In the debate on the Carnegie foundation
fund, those who favored tho bill were inter
rupted so often that it waa almost Impos
sible for them to speak at nil. During the
Clark speech, Kelley of Furnas Interrupted
almost every sentence with a loud snort
of Indignation. Wilson was Interrupted the
same way and on all occasions he bus to
answer to the offense of being a man of
education. When Wilson bad finished his
i speech Leldlgh of Otoe county made a
lunge for him, clasped his chin and Jaw in
his strong hand, and Wilson and chair both
went over backward. Lrldtgh then went to
Ihe cloak room and the . Incident waa
I marked only as a pail of the routine pro
ceetllngs by those around.
McColl of Gage snorts out his disapproval
of men and measures as often as it suits
; him and the pounding of the givel fulls a
upon deaf cars. Holmes yell buck at Mc
Coll and usually the man speaking take
It for applause and laWxa louder.
In their scats sit the old-time members,
haggard looking and worn-Snyder of Har
lan, Taylor of Hitchcock. Kuhl. Schocttger,
Graff of Cuming and Tuylor of Custer.
They have written across their faces thu
expression, "We deplore." But they are
helpless.
A for Dan Netlleloii, Den Killen, Baker
of York. Raprr of Pawnee and Noyes of
Ciiks, republicans well, their faces 'are a
picture show during tlie performance. They
have been backed off li.e boards long ago,
UpiMiililoa t't llonoaoe Bill.
Tlie Donoliou bill, pi ovldlng for a non
partisan judiciary and nonpartisan board of
regent of the ritate university, has passed
the senate and in moving slung easily with
no one paying particular attention to It.
It is considered by aoir.e lo b a must
dangerous piece of legislation, and atten
tion will be called U 11 wbeu Ui , , ,