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The Omaha Daily Bee Cultivate the habit of nows- Ipr riding In yor chlMron, but take rare that the ptpnr educates Dd does not dernor- lit ft. WEATHER FORECAST: Fm Nchrafkn-Fair lYr low - I'Bi tU cloudy. For weather nirt s.'c I'nce S. VOL. XXXVIII NO. 304. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JTNE 5. 1 HOD TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. WATERWAYS REPORT READY Rumor That Board of Army Engineers Are Against Deep Channel to Gnlf. Woman Admirer ROOSEVELT ON MISSION WORK Former President Visits American In land Station at Kijabe, and Makes Address. CHOWD IX SENATE . GALLERIES Senator La Follette Replies to Criti cisms by Senators Aldrich and Penrose. 'ft-''. of Cleminson Visits His Cell Accused Doctor Much Agitated and - hi L'i 'i n. j , '. f Angrily Tells Her to Keep Her Mouth Shut. CHICAGO. June 4. There was a dramatic GOES TO CONGRESS NEXT WEEK CONTINUES ANALYSIS OF BILL OPENING UP NEW REGION Expense is Not Justified toy Com mercial Conditions. DEBATE EXPEDITES ACTION Completed Report is Now in Hands of General Marshall. FOURTEEN FEET CHANNEL BASIS Bnurd rnri on Data Collected hy nrclnl Board Create by serial Art of Con WASHINGTON, June 4. From the at titude of inmt prominent army official", the 1m prmelon has been gained that the unanimous report of the army board of engineers on the proposed Mississippi deep waterway project from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico, which probably will be before congress before the end of next week, takes the general (round that com mercial Interests do not warrant the ex penditure of the vast mimi required to construct and maintain the proposed water way. No Intimation, however, of the con clusion of the engineers could be obtained today. Conclusions of the board have been awaited wtth a great deal of Impatience, especially In congress, where two weeks ago there was an extended debate over the question of calling on the secretary of war to transmit forthwith the report on the subject. The debute evidently haa had the effect of expedition consideration of the question by the board of engineers, for It was an nounced today that they had completed thoil report, which Is now In the hands of the chief of engineers of the array, General William L. Marshall. According to law, the board was author I ted to pass on the data colleoted by a special board created by congress to ex mine the Mississippi river below St. Louis to collect data to enable army engineers to reach a conclusion, wtlh a view of recom mending action thereon. The report of the board will not be made public until after It has gone to congress. General Marshall will take palna to have the report placed In the hands of congress so soon as possible In view of criticisms that were made of the engineers. The proposed deep waterway from St, Louis to the gulf Is a part of the great project to connect the Great Lakes with the gulf by a channel sufficient to ac commodate large oraft throughout the year. Engineers were to collect data on the construction of a channel fourteen feet deep. STOCK MARKET AGAIN ACTIVE Speculative Condt(aa Held, ta Be Dae to Operations of Import ant Klaaaetal Iatereste. NEW YORK, June 4. Speculative ac tivity was again strongly In evidence at the opening of trading on the Stock ex change today. Opinion In Wall street to day waa that the present outburst of spec ulative enthusiasm la not due so much to buying of the general public aa It Is to the operations of Important financial Interest and a group of heavy operators, some of whom were until recently on the bear side of the market. The continued eaaa of money Is, of course, a large factor in the present spec ulative movement, as areJ also the most uniform reports of Improved Industrial conditions and a general belief In the ex cellence of crop prospects. Another Im portant factor la the Introduction of Amer ican securities on the Paris Bourse. Trading In the first half hour today was probably well in excess of 200,000 sharea, wtth the Harriman and Hill Issues, Atchi son and the steel stocks the most con spicuous features." Heavy realisation for profits in the steel stocks was reported and this selling was reflected In the pres sure upon these particular Issues on the block exchange. H was rumored that a private settlement of some 70.000 shares of United States Steel common waa effected for a large short interest at a price higher than the stock has yet sold in the open market. MASONS REPLY TO TAFT Lodge In London Campos of Amer icans Sends Measure to the rresldeat. WASHINGTON, June 4 President Taft who yesterday cabled greetings to the first Muronlc lodge composed entirely of Americana to be Instituted In England, to day received from London the following response: Tour cablegram. Instinct with national feeling and Masonic brotherly love Just read and much appreciated at the first banquet of American lodge, attended by a representative gathering of the grand officers of the grand lodge of England, with most worshipful pro-grand Master Lord Ampthlll at the'r head, who re-echo your kind and cordial greetings." ROW REPORTED IN HONDURAS Wireless Dispatches State Revolution ary Troubles Have Taken Place la Celba. WASHINGTON. June 4 -Wireless tele grams from American consular representa tives In Honduras Informed the State de partment today of reported revolutionary troubles In Ceiba. The American gunboat Paducuh at Porto Cortes sailed yesterday for Ceiba In response to a request for pro tection to foreign life and property. Con sul Htickwood at Porto Cortes telegraphed that Celba and Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, seems to be cut off. The State department has not been aware that revolutionary troubles threatened Hon duraa. Ti e department's reports were that the disturbance In the Interior had been overcome. Home-taming; farad at A nrden. A P-KRDKEN. S. D., June 4 (Special. )- A feature of the Dakota homecoming cele bration which pmmisea to attract consider able attention is the industrial parade. )rr 100 Aberdeen firms have already arv tounred their Intention of participating In the parade and Included In the spectacle will be six bands, 6C Indiana from the roe ervatlons west of the Missouri rlvar and , many other special feet urns. scene In the Sheffield avenue police station today, when Miss Anna Kolb was taken to the cell occupied by Dr. Haldane Clemin son, alleged by the police to have slain his wife. It was from Miss Kolb that ihe police obtained the names of a number of women with whom lr. Cleminson Is al leged to have been on friendly terms. Miss Kolb admitted she had been a patient un der Cleminson at the Chicago I'nlon hos pital and that he had paid considerable at tention to her. Upon being taken to the physirian'a cell Miss Kolb screamed hysterically. She was left there for ten minutes, with a detective near by. What the conversation between the two was about the police refuse to make public, but It was learned that their talk terminated with a second series of screams by Miss Kolb and she was led away. Captain Kane stated that Miss Kolb. while of value In the Investigation of the case, was not the woman most wanted. Later fragments of the conversation be tween the prisoner and Miss Kolb were learned by reporters. 'Doctor," said Miss Kolh In a low but agitated voice, "tell the police here the names of the women tell them of all of them." Dr. Cleminson, staggering slightly. clutched the bars of his cell and replied angrily: "The closer you keep your mouth shut, young woman, the better it will be for both you and me." It was at this reply that the visitor screamed a second time and was led away. Mexican Lottery Operates Here Newspaper Reporter Ferrets Out St. Louis Agent, Who Offers to Buy a Ticket. ST. LOUIS, June 4 Information about the operations in St. Louis of the "Mexican National lottery," uncovered by arrests in New York last night, was obtained today from Jack Llntner, 1K!0 South ' Twelfth street. Under the name "John Smith" Llntner received mall at 1019 (Rutger street, the home of his sister. A newspaper reporter who asked for "Smith" at the Rutger street address was directed to the South Twelfth street num ber. There he was met by Llntner, who agreed to get the reporter numbers for the next drawing, although he said that ha had quit handling the tickets about six months ago. The local postal authorities said that they had not been notified of the ease. TOWN HELPS PAY EXPENSES OF BOOKER WASHINGTON Council Sanctions Address 4r Nesjr Edaeater and Appropriates Money to Help. NORFOLK, Va.. June 4. The town coun cil of Suffolk, Va., last night gave Its official sanction to the appearance of Booker T. Washington, the negro educator, on the lecture platform there June 21 and appropriated $25 for his entertainment. The council also appointed a committee of three from Its membership to co-operate In the success of Prof. Washington's appearance there. A. H. Crocker, a negro, appeared and urged co-operation in the efforts of the negroes "to entertain the biggest man of their race. PERUVIAN CABINET RESIGNS Liberal Parry Taken Steps to Free the (Inspected Leaders of Oat break. LIMA, Peru, June 4 The Peruvian cab inet today tendered its resignation. It has been proved that the revolutionary outbreak of last week was engineered en tirely by the followers of the Pierola party. A' committee of the liberal party today visited President Leguia and, declaring that neither Dr. Durand nor Jose Ollva had taken part In the movement, requested that these men be set at liberty. The country Is quiet. Poet Laureate Writes for Kansas has ,lts William Allen Whites, Nebraska haa Its Doc Blxbys, but Missouri haa Its J. E. Stringer-Just one. Mr. Stringer Is a poet he say a. For eighteen years ha has been wielding his facile pen In the Interest of pure liter ature. He haa attained some heights of literary excellence. He la an ambitious man, ta Mr. Stringer and the measure of ordinary success that would sails fy the common run of poets only serves to stimu late the aspirations of Missouri's poet laureate and drive him on and up to higher goals, to nobler missions. He was not content to linger long In the valley of mediocrity, his place was on the mountain tope of excellenoe; up there where the air Is pure, associates few, but select, where genius dwells and muses muse. And so J. Edwaraldo Stringer kept stringing his harp a little tighter and drawing his bow a little faster across the emotions and passions of nature until, after eighteen years of patient toll, he lias come to the acme of his efforts, has wrought his crowning achievement In the dulcet melody of these few lines: A STRANGER IN OMAHA. I am a stranger In Omaha. But I like it the very best kind, Because acme of the best of folks Within this city I find. The ladles of Omaha I will not soon forget; My favorite in the city Is cashier at the C C I am a great admirer of the ladles; They most all look alike to me, Because I am a bachelor. And married I don't wish to be. I thought Td leave the city Upon the aight-forty-flve today. East Africa, He Says, Will Be Whit Man's Country. ASKS JUSTICE FOR NATIVES Settlers Should Join Hands With the Missionaries. STARTS SOON FOR S0TIK COUNTRY Tnle Reqalres n Jonrney Two Days Without Merlins; WaterLittle Danger In the Trip. KIJABE. British East Africa, June 4 The members of the Roosevelt party who arrived here yesterday afternoon on a spe cial train from Nairobi, and spent the night In camp near the railroad station, started out this morning to visit the local station of the Africa Inland mission, an American organization. The party took luncheon with the missionaries. This morning Mr. Roosevelt spent some time shooting mon keys, particularly the colobus. R. J. Cunlnghame, the manager of the expedition, and L. A. Tarlton of Nairobi will stay at camp today, completing the preparations to start on the trip Into the Sotlk country. To reach this territory the paj-ty will have to travel two days with out meeting water. On arriving at the mission Mr. Roosevelt made a thorough Inspection of the Institu tion and afterward had luncheon with forty missionaries and their wives and set tlers. The Rev. Mr. Murlburt welcomed Mr. Roosevelt to the mission. Speech of Mr. Roosevelt. In replying the former president ex pressed his pleasure at being able to see the African Inland mission, and recalled the fact that his visit of today was the fulfillment of a promise made to Mr. Hurl burt at Washington some time ago, when the missionary was introducing to Mr. Roosevelt at the White House delegates of a Christian organization. "I am glad to have seen the work per sonally." Mr. Roosevelt concluded. "I am pleased to see the settlers and to find you working together, as ll would be no credit to the missionary, the settler or the official to do otherwise. I have a peculiar feeling for the settlers working in this new country, "as they remind roe of my own people working In the western stales, where they know no difference be twen easterner, westerner, northerner or southerner and pay no heed to creed or birthplace. . v. "There la ample work to W 'done and all had best work shoulder to shoulder. I believe with all my heart that large parts of Kaat Africa will form the white man's country- Make every effort to build up a prosperous and numerous pop ulation. Hence I am asking the settlers to co-operate with the missionaries and treat the native Justly and bring him to a higher level. "I particularly appreciate the way your interdenominational industrial mission 1h striving to teach the African to help him self by industrial education, which is a prerequisite to his permanent elevation. It seems to me that you are doing your work In a spirit of disinterested devotion of an ideal." Little Danger la Trip. NEW YORK, June 4 Dr. Louis L. Sea man of this city, who returned today on the Lusltania from a hunting trip In Africa, In the same region that Mr. Roosevelt will traverse, has little patience with the talk that some travelers have Indulged in con cerning dangers the former president will run. "A Hon stands no chance at all." said Dr. Seaman. "Before the hunters get a shot at him. he has been chased by the beaters until he la so winded that there is little harm left In him. For the most part African hunting is about aa thrilling aa In English park. The one real danger Is the tsetse fly in the lowlands." Dr. 6eaman Is a friend of the former president and was at the dinner given In honor of Mr. Roosevelt at Mombasa on April 1L ?dwEdllo"Edtl... rll uqc. jH,KAbof Rd of Missouri Omaha People But I have now changed my mind, And a little longer I will stay. And get more acquainted. And go not so soon away, And, perhapa, I will like it better The longer I shall stay. I will close my poem now. And bid you all adieu. I give you my best withes As I say goodby to you. This man, modest like aU poets, made this foot note on his manuscript: "The above poem waa dashed off while sitting in the corridor of the court house. J. E. Stringer." Thomas Gray, It will be recalled, con sumed seven years In writing his elegy. But Thomas Gray belonged to another school, another age, and he didn't live in Gait, Mo. That is where Poet Stringer Uvea down In dear old Gait, there where the apple blossoms and the onion tops sway In the same gentle spring breese and mingle their redolent fragrance. Mr. Stringer admits that he was en dowed by nature with a talent for poetry, and so he does not claim all the credit for his perseverance. Again, speaalng of poets, Mr. Stringer has that same Innocent Indifference to the baser things of lite, money, for Instance, that has made so many men of hla calling great He eschews commerce and craves not wealth. . "I have never sold any of my poetry," he said. Mr. Stringer conserves the elements of true poetical greatness In his manner of drees and method of speech. His attire la so simple that It borders on severity and when he smiles that big, frank smile at you and gets up close and says in '.hat nice old-fashioned drawl, "Tea, sir, I'm from Gait, Ma," you know that ha is. "YOU, OEOKOE, DON'T From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. SMITH ON BUSINESS TYPES United States Commissioner of Cor porations Talks at Hastings. DENOUNCES SINISTER SCHEMERS Governor Shalleaherger, In an Ad dress at York, Compliments Town That No Llqnor License Money la In School Fond. HASTINGS, Neb., June 4. -(Special.) In the concluding ceremony of the commence ment season diplomas were given tonlghl to the forty-one seniors of the Hastings High school, who compose one f the larg est classes ever graduated from that In stitution, i'he commen Jiment adding wn delivered by Herbert Ktox Smith f Wash ington, D. C, Unlte'l States commissioner of corporations, ofore an auUWnce that completely filll the opera house. "Never haa the world seen such powers aa serve this generation," declared Mr. Smith. "It will be the work of this generation to see that these forces ore direct ad for the common good. We have built our ma chinery; we have acquired poer; we are wealthy and prosperous. Now we must Bee that this wealth and power are righteously and Justly used. Tlio federal g jvernment has seen that this Is to be the great work' of this country. It. Is not hostile to busi ness, or to corpo.iiilons. It la the enemy only of unfairness and oppression. Cor porations are a necessity for cariylng on our great modern businesses. . "There are two types of business men or of corporations. The one buys carefully, locates his factories well. Improves his ma chinery, trains his men, develops new mar keta, makes his goods at less cost you get them cheaper, you share his success. That man Isusing properly our machinery of in dustry. He has a right to all the support and protection that the government can give htm. i The Sinister Type. "The other type of man succeeds by get ting railway rebates, by bribing his com petitors' men, by oppressing competition, by evading the law. He tries to cripple his competitors, not to improve himself. He attacks our whole Industrial machinery. His auccess is built on the dlster of others. "In this crisis the federal government has taken sides in the struggle. It has taken the side of the fair' user of business ma chinery. It proposes to protect him from the pirates of business who live on unfair methods and unfair advantages. We have fought our way up for the last three cen turies In this country, from poverty to wealth, from feeblenesa to a great nation. We are coming to learn and we are going to enforce, the proposition .hat men are more than money, "hat .harac:er Is above material success, that there must be equal opportunity for nil and that while wealth and goods perish Oio nation which abides must be founded on r higher Idea! and can live only by so controlling .vt machinery of Industry that shlll render Justice and equal opportunity for all men." The Graduates. Those who were given diplomas marking their graduation from the high school are: Mabel D. Alexander, Elsie Behrena, Luella Minnie Balfans, Paul Bamford, Ella Rose Batty, August E. II. Blomerkamp, Charles Calvert Benedict, Edward Lincoln Baugh, Lorene J. Barlass, Raymond L. W. Brown, Hazel Cattereon, Delevan Jason Cole, Frances Pearl Damron, Ethel E. Decker, Marie I. Pillow, Reuben C. Dunlap, Edgar (Continued on Second Page.) Have you a farm, house and lot,horse, piano, automobile, or equity in a piece of property thatyou desire to trade for something else? If you have, look over our "Barter and Exchange" col umn. You can nearly always get a trade for anything of which you wish to dispose, or you can advertise it yourself on the want ad pages and you will be surprised by the num ber of replies. The American people are natural ly traders and will make Rome kind of a "gwap." Have you read the vant ads, yet, today f 05M m" lSSS!!E-5 FORGET TO BE ON TIME FOR Attempt to Wreck Golden State Limited Supposed Robbers File Ties on Track, but Freight Strikes Them First. EL PASO, Tex., June 4. A daring at tempt was made yesterday to wreck and rob the westbound Golden State limited, the fast overland train on the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railway, near Duran, In central New Mexico. Tlea and rails we;-e plied upon the track at a curve, but a freight train, which evidently had been overlooked by the robbers, hit the obstruction first. The wreckers fired sev eral ahots at the train crew of the freight train, then mounted their horses and es caped Into the foothills. Ex-Auditor Searle Sued for Divorce Wife Says He Has Practically Aban doned Family and She De mands $20,000. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Neb., June 4. Special Tele gram. Former Auditor E. M. Searle, Jr., of Ogalalla Is defendant In a suit for divorce filed In district court here by Mrs. Alice Searle, who, with her children, has been living in Lincoln since Mr. Searle went out of office. In her petition Mrs. Searle charges un faithfulness and cruelty. She says her husband associated with other people and refused to go out with her. She also asserts he has practically abandoned her and their three children, leaving them In Lincoln on an allowance while he has been living at Ogalalla. She asks temporary alimony of 1160 a month and J 300 attorney fees. When the divorce is granted she asks that the court award her $20,000 ali mony. They have three children, the oldest be ing 17 years of age. Fear Massacres Are Renewed Turkish Soldiers Reported Firing Upon Villagers Who Refuse to Give Up Arms. ALEXANDRETTA, Asiatic Turkey, June 4. There was some firing by Turkish soldiers last night on the village of Deur tyul. No Information regarding the casual ties has been received. It appears that the commander of the troops two days ago demanded that the villagers deliver all their arms to him. The Turkish offlcere, who are greatly distrusted, have been act ing In a most arbitrary manner with the villagers, and there has been dread of a repetition of the Adana tragedy. FATALLY SHOT BY JOB SEEKER Manager of Keatarkr Railroad and Wonld-Be Assaasla Are Re ported Dying, BEATTYVILLE. Ky., June 4-Charles Eveleth, general manager of the Kentucky Northern railroad, was shot yesterday by f Edward niley, who was seeking employ ment. Eveleth. after he waa shot, shot Riley twice. Both men are reported to be dying. Six Balloons Will Start in National Race Saturday INDIANAPOLIS, June 4. Preparatlona are being made today for the national bal loon race which will be started here to morrow. Allen R. C. Hawley of New York, who arrived last night and who will have charge of the race, said the work of Inflating the balloons would start today in order that the great bags may be given a thorough test before the ascension at 4 O'clock tomorrow afternoon. Among the enthusiasts to arrive last night was Major H. B. Hersey of the United Stales weather bureau. He will prepare charts of air currents for the aero nauts. Six balloons will start In the contest of the national championship cup' offered by the Aero Club of America. AlrsulB Over Saltan (tea. LOS ANOELE8, Cel.. June 4 A special dinpalch to the times from El Cantro aayt: CHURCH!" "NOPE!" ROADS FINED FOR REBATING Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Plead Guilty at Little Rock. CONCESSION TO ELEVATORS Though Holding; Art Was Only Tech nical Violation, Attorney General Insisted on Prnarcutton of C'aa. WASHINGTON, June 4 The Department of Justice was advised today that the Mis souri Pacific and the St. Louis, Iron Moun tain & Southern Railway companies had entered a plea of guilty before Judge Trie ber, at Little Rock, Ark., for making Il legal rebates to a grain merchant and were fined 115,000. This closes the rases at Little Rock, which Included indictments against these two roads, as well as the merchant who received the rebate, and the former traf fic official representing the companies who granted It. The latter two individuals had heretofore pleaded guilty and had been fined Slfi.OM and 12.500 respectively. The attorney general stated today that after a careful examination of all the cir cumstances under which the rate was given was fully convinced that the railway companies were not morally, but only tech nically, guilty of any offense against the Elkltis law. The payments were mode by a former traffic manager k 41rootxoJa tlon of orders given by C. S. fclark, vice president of the road. The Department of Justice, nevertheless, insisted that the railway companies were bound by the act of their agent. Pine for Rlevator Concessions. LITTLE ROCK, June 4.-The Missouri Pacific railroad and Its subsidiary line, the Iron Mountain, entered a plea of guilty in the federal court here today on the Indictments recently returned against them. Judge Trleber assessed a fine of 17,500 In each case. The railroads were Indicted on fifty-eight counts for making conces sions to the T. H. Bunch Elevator com pany of this city. Bunch and Wilbur C. Stlth, former traffic manager of the Iron Mountain, pleaded guilty several months ago and were fined. Thaw Loses in Higher Court Supreme Tribunal Decides White's Slayer Must Remain in State Asylum. NEW YORK, June 4.-Harry K. Thaw must remain In the State Asylum for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan under a de cision rendered today by the appellate di vision of the supreme court In Brooklyn. Thaw's application for a writ of habeas corpus was dismissed by the supreme court several months ago. He then appealed to the appellate division, which today sus tained the lower court and dismissed the writ. Thaw contended that Justice Dow ling's order committing him to the asylum after he was declared not guilty of the murder of Stanford White was illegal. EX-MAYOR BURTON IS DEAD Early Resident of Sloaz City Suc cumbs to Cancer After Long; Period of Ballerina;. 6IOUX CITY, la.. June 4.-(Speclal Tele gram.) Asah Burton, aged 48 years, for two years mayor and for four years city attorney of Sioux City, died this morning after a long period of suffering with cancer. Mr. Burton was a graduate of the law department of the state university. He spent his boyhood at Denmark, la., and did his first law practice at Elliott, Ia. He has lived In Sioux City since 1$6. All imperial valley Is excited over re ports of a mysterious airship which Is mak ing nightly flights over Salton sea. At first the ship appeared to be sta tionary at a point directly over Salton Sea near the Intake of the Alamo and New rivers. Then It began a rapid flight, swerv ing from a southerly course to one directly northwest and apparently passing directly across Salton sea at its widest point until it disappeared In the shadows of San Jacinto mountains. At Brawley, a party of twenty men wit nessed the flight across the sky. Securing field glaases they closely studied the ma chine, lis appearance was that of g basket fastened between two wide wings, and when the turn waa made It Is said the propeller rould be plainly seen. The ob servers were unable to distinguish a per son In the basks Wisconsin Man Argues That It In creases Present Rates. SAMPLES USED IN ILLUSTRATION Says Cost of Mercerteation is Less Here Than in England. DIXON POURS OIL ON WATERS Montana Senator Suggests That More Progress Will II Made If Debate Is Cnnrtncted In Mora Friendly Spirit. WASHINGTON. June 4.-N0 one was re quired to call for a quorum when the sen ate met today. The events of last night in respect to personal references to Sen ator La Kollctte had caused a feeling that a storm was brewing, and nearly every senator was in his place. Contrary to the general expectation, the opening scene when Mr. LaFollette took the floor was oulte pacific. Mr. LaFollette and Mr. RulllnRor had a friendly exchange of word relating to the refusal of the Wis consin senator to vleld to his New Hmn. shire colleague for a question yesterday. Mr. LaFollette then said he had not been sick yesterday but after holding the floor over five hours did not feel inclined to continue all night and had remained at home to rest. Turning toward Mr. Aldrich, Senator LaFollette remarked thnt the senator "stood on this floor as any other senator." "He forgets It sometimes," he added. Then referring to the session of last eve ning as "sensutional" to such an extent as to obscure the debate of the day which he preceded he turned to Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, who sat In his place on the opposite chamber side of the chamber facing him. "As to the remarks of the senator from Pennsylvania," he said. "I would suggest that he would render a very Important service to the country and to his state If he would account for the way he spends his time when absent from this body than in any effort to make an account for my time." Threatened Scene With Penrose. Sitting upright and leaning forward. Mr. Penrose gave close attention to every word of the senator from Wisconsin. The gal leries were crowded and the Intense still ness seemed to presage a scene. "I might add," continued the senator from Wisconsin, "that no man could under take to account for the whereabout of the senator from Pennsylvania without trans gressing the rules of the senate, and I do not." Mr. Penrose, Interrupting, referred to an article In a magazln publlshr. by th senator irom Wisconsin as misrepresenting himself and Pennsylvania. Reading the article complained of, Mr. Penrose was promptly answere hy Mr. La Follette, who said the statements weer taken from a newspaper and when denied by that pub lication were promptly withdrawn by hia own magaxlne. " Mr. Penrose asked to be referred to the denial and was assured that he would be furnished wtlh the magazine containing it. Mr. La Follette then proceeded with hia analysis of the cotton schedules of the tariff bill. Illustrating his remarks with samples that he said had been procured through the chief examiner of the New York custom house, Mr. La Follette explained the dif ference in duties carried by the pending bill and those Imposed by the Dlngley law wtlh the purpose of showing increases. An opportunity to rest waa afforded Mr. La Follette when Mr. Nelson suggested the absence of a quorum and the roll was called. Although sixty-eight senators ans wered to their names there were only thirty present when Mr. La Follette had resumed. He discussed at length the cost of mercerized fabrics. Upon being ques tioned by Mr. Dixon. Mr. La Follette ad mitted that he had not taken into consid eration an amendment which was adopted to the paragraph on cotton thread and carded yarn and that he did not know how much of his estimate of seventy In creases had been reduced b ythat amend ment. Dixon Oils Water. Mr. Dixon assumed the role of peace maker between the two republican factions by suggesting that greater progress would be made with the bill if the debate were carried on In A more friendly spirit. Mr. Daniel presented a table prepared by the experts of the minority showing the duties of the Aldrich bill whleh are equivalent to ad valorem rates above 75 per cent. "When you arc asked to fix these values at the custom house according to the value of the goods In this country, as you will be when the administrative features of this bill are considered,"1 said Mr. LaFollette, "you will turn over the fixing of these rates from this body to the people who are directly Interested In the business if you adopt that provision." When Mr. La toilette concluded the ex hibition of hla samples, Mr. Dixon Inquired whether he would permit the senator from ( I'tah, Mr. Smoot, to attempt to explain ..... vii.i,t, ,11 uuurB 111 eacn case. Mr. La Folleti said he would furnish samples of all the goods he had exhibited to every senator and the senator from I'tah could give his views on them.. He, however, declined to permit an lnterruntlnn of his speech for that purpose. tost of Mercerlsatloa. That the cost of mercerizatlon was less In tills country than in England was as serted by Mr. LaFollette, who added that the hours of labor In England are gen erally less than In the United States. In the last fifteen years, he said, under im proved systems of manufacture in this country, the cost of production of cotton goods has so decreased that he contended there was no excuse for an Increase of duty. While Mr. LaFollette reverted to the uuestlon of Drofits of New Knaiand cuttnn mills, Mr. Tillman Interposed to aay ihat. although South Carolina was next to Mas sachusetts In the number of its splndlt., manufacturing MX) 0(10 of the 1,000,000 bales of cotton It raised, mill owners there de sired no increase in duty on cotton goods. Senator Galllnger added that New Hamp shire mills did not want the THngley datles Increased, and ha understood the chair man of the committee on fi napes weald how that thsy had net teao, -jAt 4 J4