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The Omaha Daily Bee WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Partly cloudy. For Iowa Fair. For weather report aoe paee 2. TIIE OMAIIA DEE la the moat powerful business getter lo the west, beratm it goee to the home of poor and rich. OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1909 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. VOL. XXXLX-NO. 30. Stay Away from Turkey is Word PAYNE QUARRELS WITH CONFEREES House Leader, Who Stands By Presi dent Taft, Waxes Angry at Sena tor Aldrich. FRENCH CAR1NET IS FORCED OUT to Dr. John Baptist Clemenceau Government Falls Amid Uproar and Riot in Chamber. Parent Warn Him that if He Came There He Would Be Killed. LEAVES ROOM IN HIS WRATH PREMIER DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE TAKE COUNSEL ON PLAN FORFUTUltE line of "Truity Ten" and Borah Talk Oyer Future Action On Tariff. FIRM FOR REVISION DOWNWARD Ho Fixed Program Adopted By the We item Senaton. BROWN CONTINUES HIS ACTIVITY j Income Further Stepi to T Tax Aroem-f.' Si WESTERN MATTERS VPITOL lenator Da-krll Oete Be, '" tlon nad Senator Gam. V a w Joe for on la Seats. Dakota. vj. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. July .-Speclsl Tel (tram.) Th ten republican senators who recorded themselves In the negative when the tariff bill tu before the senate, with the exception of LaFollette, who la absent from the city, today held a conference In the room of the committee on public lands, of which committee Knute Nelson la chairman. The ranks of the ten were swelled by the addition of Borah of Idaho. The conference lasted somewhat over an hour, but no definite future program to force revision downward was adopted, so fsr as could be learned. Those present were Senators Burkett and brown. Ne braHka; Nelson and Clapp, Minnesota; Iiolllver and Cummins. Iowa; Beverldge, Indiana; Crawford, South Dakota; Brls tow, Kansas and Borah of Idaho. It nan (he consensus of opinion that President Taft Is sincere In his efforts to bring alio ut downward revision and his recent emphatic expressions on the sub ject of the redemption of party pledgee, met with hearty approval, and the ex pression of a determination to aid In bringing- about such a result. Free raw material- waa the slogan of the assembled ten apostles, and while no particular cam palgn of action could be safely mapped out until the conference committee brings In Its report, all pledged themselves to stand for downward revision until the last bridge Is crossed. rrann Pushes Ills Amendment. That Senator Brown does not Intend to permit his amendment to the constitution relative to a tax on Incomes to slumber or that there shall be the slightest chance that It will be forgotten, was In evidence at the brief session of the senate today. At the opening of the session the senator submitted a concurrent resolution request ing the president to transmit to the gov ernors of" the several states copies of all matters pertaining to the proposed consti tutional amendment, so (hat the exeoutlves of the state may have In Uielr possession full and thorough official Information as to the action of congress and be completely Informed upon the subject, to enable them to advise the state legislatures In their an nual messages. He asked for Immediate consideration, but because of objection by Senator Kean of New Jersey It went over until next Thursday. Senator Brown said today that he did not expect Immediate conslderstlon of this con current resolution, but waa advised there would be no objection whatever to Its adopr tlon, the delay being merely a formality. Coel Land Public Domain.' The general land office has Just com pleted the classification as coal land and reslored to public domnln unappropriated lands In township 21 no-th. range 102 west, Etanalon land dl-irlit. Wyoming, fixing the price for dlpos I f the tracts therein In some casrs a i.lgs .is .'00 per acre. Til price was made on recommendation of the h'eoloffli al sui V' ., . The Rev. Dr. Hovvhaannees Mugurrdeetch Cheeneegaoryaan (John Baptist), the Ar menian educator and lecturer who stopped In Omaha on his way back to his home in Turkey when he was warned that it would not be safe for him to go on, has re ceived a letter from his parents advising hlra to reme-in here and to make arrange ment! for them to leave Turkey If possible. "A letter came last night." said 'John Baptist,' as he has been known In this country, "which informed me that the Ar menian Christians In Turkey live In dally fear of their lives and expect death with every wjnd that blows. My sister, who Is the wife of a professor In a Constanti nople college, has not been heard of since a massacre which occurred eleven weeks ago. The letter from my parents was mailed July 11. and It Is the first one of many which the Turks, who examine all the malls, have let go through. "Since 1 have been educated as a doctor and know something of Kuropean science, many of my friends wonder why I do not so Immediately to help my people. My reason Is given In the letter from my par ents. They say that If I ever want to see. them aataln I will have to get them out of Turkey, aa I could never reach them In safety and they may die at any mo ment." Pr. Baptist was at one time court pho tographer to the sultan, and fled to this country during the time of the first of the recent persecutions. He has been act ing as president of a San Francisco college. His Attitude of Defiance Causes Dead lock in Conference. INSURGENTS HOLD SESSION "Raw Material" Representatives So licit Aid of Democrats. TO DEFEAT ADMINISTRATION Strangle Over ctaea'alee la In Choatlc State, and Air of Conference Is Charged With Electricity. Ingham Man Kills Himself Sam Larue, Who Was Enroute Home from South Omaha, Commits Sui cide at Holdredge. 1IOLDREOE. Neb., July JO. (Special Telegram.) A prosperous farmer namea Sam Larue, living at or near Ingham, committed suicide early this morning by shooting himself with a 44 calibre revolver, a few yards east of the Burlington depot. He went through Holdre.ge last Saturday with two cars of cattle for the South Omaha market, and reached this city on his return home Monday night. He re mained in and around the depot all night. the train for his home town not leaving until 8 o'clock In the morning. He killed himself about an hour before time for his train to start. A number of people In Holdrege knew him. and their opinion Is that he was mentally unbalanced. There Is Insanity In the family, his mother hav ing been In the asylum. He had only about $9 on his person, and If he received anything for hla cattle It was either mailed to his homo town or he lost It In some way. The body will he shipped to Ingham tomorrow morning. Victor Said to Have Confessed Report That Prisoner at Aberdeen Admits Riling Members of Christie Family. ABERDEEN", S. D.. July 20. (Special Telegram.) Emll Victor, charged with murder of the Christie family and Michael Konayne on the morning of July S, today signed a written statement confessing to having committed the deeds, according to rumor circulated here, which the state's ecu I field U one of attorney and sheriff refuse either to con- , firm or deny. Victor has been sweated ti e finest In i lie w, s . tl(h veins in si pmces a much ns thirty feet thick. The I d11 b' officials since his arrest, on the ,,. .u, .. i. .i ,. . I i .t., evening the murders were committed. It was known as Hois Thief canyon cases. Some months ago it a. discovered that the title to much of the most valuable coal lands In ths 1 art of Wyoming had been secured from t.ie government through a system of fraudulent operations, and suit was Instituted against the patentees to recover lands. After suit was filed the defendants ie-convtj e,l the lands to tho government and paid 140.000 for the coal they had extracted In opening the mines. The lands thus recovered have been with held from sale until their value could be ascertained. About forty per cent of the land In this township are now public do main and will be sold under coal land laws at prices designated for each legal subdivision. The other lands have gone Into private ownership through the grant by congress to the I'nion Pacific Railway company, and by valid patents heretofore Usued. Under the former method of disposing of coal, lands, these lands were subject to sale at 110 to $20 per acre, or a total price for the township of about Slfia.OUO. If sold at maximum price. At the prices now fixed, based upon leas than three cents a ton for estimated coal, the lands In this township are worth St.lM.000 or an Increase of over I7,&00,00t above the former price. Drainage Work In Nebraska. A few daya ago Senator Burkett received a letter from Oeorge H. Helncke of Ne braska City, suggesting that it would bt highly pleasing to hla oonstltutenla In that vicinity If a government drainage expert could be sent out to Investigate the ad visability of certain drainage projects under contemplation thereabouts. Sena tor Burkett took the matter up at once -with C. Q. Elliott, chief of drainage In vesttgatlona, and today received a letter from Mr. Elliott politely calling the at tentton of Senator Burkett to the fact that lis division Is now doing a great deal of work In Nebraska, on Salt Creek and Wahoo projects, and also soon expects to considerable to aid In draining the Ne maha valley and therefore he could not l this time see his way clear to assign a man to new Investigations In the vicin ity of Nebraska City. Fred H. Abbott of Nebraska, recently 'appointed assistant commissioner of In dian affairs, will during the neat thirty days have full control of the bureau, ow ing to the fact that Indian Commissioner Valentine left today upon hla annual va cation. Prior to leaving, Mr. Valentine called In the various chiefs of hla bureau, and Informed them that he leavea the as sistant commissioner In entire control and ' that he had perfect confidence In hie good judgment and solicited their hearty Is believed the special term of the circuit court will he held and the prisoner given a speedy trial. WOMEN ARE ALL STARVING Suffragettes Adopt New Rase to Get Ont of London Jail. LONDON. July 20 The suocess of sev eral f suffragettes In obtaining their release from prison yesterday by carrying out a "hunger strike," has caused all of the auffragettes In Holloway Jail to adopt this method for gaining their freedom. Miss Elsie MacKenxle was discharged from prison today In a critical condition, having gone 11 hours without food. B. 0LDFIELD HIT BY MOTOR Famoaa Anto Driver Is Down on Chicago Street. Knocked (Continued so aeoond Page.) CHICAGO, July 20 Barney Oldfleld, the well known automobile driver, waa knocked down here today by a motor car. Hie In juries, consisting of bruises and alight con tusions, were dressed at St. Luke's hospital, after which he was taken to the home of frlenda. Oldfleld was crosalng the street with Lewis Strang, another well known driver when the accident- occurred. WASHINGTON, July tO.The tariff bltl was today transferred bodily from the canltol to the White house. Deadlocked because of the attitude of Representative Payne, who apparently has become con vlnced that he Is In the minority, the con ferees abandoned the usual afternoon ses sion. Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon repaired to the White house post haste to consult with President Taft, literally tak ing the tariff bill with them. What happened at the White house be tween the president and the aenate and house leaders Is a sealed book. When Messrs. Aldrich and Cannon returned to the capltol they minimised differences that had arouned bitterness In the conference room, and insisted that nothing unusual had occurred. Senator Aldrich said that toworrow Would find the conference com mittee again at work and he expected that by night, when all of the conferees were to be entertained by the president at din ner, most oMhe problems apart from those receiving the personal attention of the president would have been solved. Trouble In Committee Room. Nevertheless, there has been trouble be hind those closed and guarded doors that shut the public from the room where the tariff bill Is being constructed. Borne say that the differences between Senator Aid rich and Reprenestatlve Payne was taken such form that progress Is Impossible un less the president has lnfluenoe enough to compell harmony. This story Is denied by both of the princi pals. It Is noe denied, however, that ther was a clash yesterday between Representa tive Payne and Representative Fordney of Michigan. From a creditable source tt was learned that a crisis was reached when an effort waa made late yesterday to vote on lum ber. Mr. Payne protested and argued that such a move would be unfair to the pres ident, as this was one of the subjects practically submitted to him for adjust ment, provided he could get votes enough In the two houses to adopt- compromise rates. Aldrich Barks Fordney.' "If we cannot Vgree, lets settle the ques tion by voting on the question," Mr. Ford ney Is reported to have suggested. It Is reported also that Mr. Aldrich acquiesced In the proposal. That Mr. Payne had little part in se lecting the conferees to represent the house In the conference la well known. Mr. Payne made recommendations that were Ignored and the speaker made his own selections. Mr. I'ayne la aald to have com plained to some sf his friends at the time that the conference committee had been "packed" with high protectionists, and that Senator Aldrich had been able to wield more Influence with the speaker than had he as chairman of the committee which prepared the house bill. When Mr. Fordney, who had been placed on the conferenoe committee regardless of the fact that he La the junior republican member, said "Lets vote" Mr. Payne pro tested with a vehemence that startled his associates. Some one said that the major ity should rule. The remark, it Is de clared, came from one of the senate mem bers of the conference, and it Incensed Mr. Payne still more. Reada Riot Act to Aldrich. Mr. Payne told Mr. Aldrich that he oould rote the senate members of the conference If he chose, but that he could not votte the house members ao easily. Full of wrath, he told his house colleagues that it waa their duty to stand up for the house bill, and to yield only after every possible ef fort had been made to win. He Intimated that some of the house conferees had been too ready to agree to increases made by the senate. unless the house members Intend to stand by the house bill, there Is no use In trying to vote on these matters." he said Aa a parting ahot, Mr. Payne is reported to have aald that he would not sign a conference report merely because a ma jority of the house republican confereea had agreed to it. With hla coat tails furled about him, Mr. Payne stalked an grily from the room. After Mr. Payne had departed the other confereea predicted that ruffled feelinga would be Ironed out over night. So it appeared when today's sesalon opened, No reference waa made to the disturbance, Taunts Delcasse Inopportunely About Affair in Algiers. HIS MAJORITY DESERT HIM Veteran Politician Loses His Head Under Galling; Fire.. CRISIS WAS NOT EXPECTED Chamber Wna on Err of Adjournment How Cornea Orer Discussion of Naval Scandals No Suc cessor Mentioned. From the Mlnneapo' GLIDDENITES A Tourists Come to Glief When They Governor is Journal. GIVING MR. BRYAN A RIDE. Johnson All right, Bill, get up behind. D A CIRCUS Reach Fort podge. TOWN GIVEN OVER No Supplies and No da (Ions on Arrival! Had to WaU for Honrs. TO BIG SHOW flotel Accommo. and Many Report to Hughes Bears First Fruit .Reform Committee of New York Metal Exchange Would Follow Recommendation. FORT DODOEIa., July 20. (Special Telegram.) On other days GUddon tour ists have found unlimited supplies await ing them on their arrival at their stops. Today the tour officials overestimated the time It would take the cars to make the run from MankHto here. As a con sequence when the first cars, the Pierce Arrow and Marmon teams, came to the finishing point not a drop of oil or gaso line waa to be had. In ordinary times this would have ere ated confusion enough, but today is one of the big days of the year for Fort Dodge, circus day, and the streets were crowded with people from neighboring towns and from the country and they could give no answers to the wildly shouted queries of the tourists as t where supplies could be had. Only a pro cess of elimination solved the problem. The streets were congested by the thou sands of visitors and the dozens of motor cars on the tour. The latter would hunt in bevies and by lnqulrlrg from store to store, weeded out the places that did not sell gasoline and oil and in that way suc ceeded In finding what they wanted. As It was the cars that had made an hour of their running time had barely a few minutes' leeway in which to cross the line, owing to their wild hunt for supplies. No riace to I. ay Their Heads. To add to the confusion, every room in every hotel had been taken In advance by those here for the circus and a-s the special Pullman train which la to be the home of the tourists for the next two days had not arrived, the men were com pelled to walk the streets, grimy as coal miners, tired and hungry for hours. Store proprleters and owners of homes took pity on a number and allowed them to clean up and cnange tneir ciomes in moir places. The train, due at 6 o'clock, did not arrive until 7 and th men were forced to fall back for something to eat In the restaurants and fruit stands, already raided by the circus crowds. The train waa to have been the official headquarters for the tour, and because of lta nonarrtval bulletins were posted In in conspicuous places In hotel lobbies. Drivers NEW TORK. July . Following the recommendation of tho White committee to Governor Hughes, the reform committee of the New Tork Metal exchange. It waa learned today, proposes In the report which It has submitted to the board of managers that the committee of quotations be aban doned. The reform committee believes quo tations should be established by actual transactions and, therefore, urges discon tinuance of the present dally quotations made by the committee of five of the metal exchange, which were criticised by the '. special committee appointed by Governor Hughes. It will be possible to make deliveries on contract by varying grades of metal, the seller rtoelvlng a premium or deducting a penalty on his contract. It Is believed by the members of the committee that under this system there could be no corner In metal until the entire supply of "standard" had been bought up. a contingency which Is thought to be out of the question. CLARRSON PUZZLED LAWYERS Bar Association Memorial Expunged from Court Record. ASTERISKS REPLACE HIS NAME Eleqsent Rhetoric and Verbal Tears Went for Naught When Former Judge Turned Up Alive Last Time. Six Men Killed Digging Dynamite Substance Explodes and Buries Eight Men in Debris Two Are Rescued. EASTON, Pa., July 20. Six men em ployed on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad were killed, several miles from Blalratown. N. J., today. A gang of men was at work digging up dynamite that had failed to explode. when tiie substance waa aet off. A large quantity of stone and earth was torn loose and eight men who were at work at the bottom of a deep cut were burled. Two were taken out alive, but their in juries are so serious that they may not recover. (Continued on Second Page.) Registrar of High School Springboard to Marriage Is this a conspiracy? Have Dan Cupid and the Board of Edu cation entered into a secret agreement to work a certain trick with the office of registrar of the high school as the charm T Somathlng't doing, that's aure. Five young women have resigned as registrar of the high school to get married. That's the plain, almple fact of the case that Is bothering certain minds at present And the next moat remarkable feature of this case Is that all but one of these for tunate young women were daughters of members of the Board of Education. , Here are the young women who have graduated from this position to matrimony: Misses Mable Chrlatle Bertha Phllllpl Cynthia MoCague Mary Stearns Mae alaynard atlas Stearns, the last registrar to re tire, the one whose resignation has just been acted upon, U a yoang woman whose papa has not been a member of the board. Now, the successor to Miss Stearns is MUs Margaret Kennedy. Miss Kennedy's lather is a member of the Board of Edu cation. There is a rumor that such members of the board as Mr. Edgar Balrd have some crlticlslms to offer agalnat this practice of nepotlam. Mr. Balrd Is said to protest on the ground of discrimination. He has no daughter, in fact, ha has no wife. Neither has he a great amount of sym pathy in his predicament from fellow mem bers. At least sis members of the Board of Education have requested The Bee not to publish this story for the reason thst they fear an avalanche of applications for this position when it shall be vacant again. The young women, so the trustees fear, will come to regard it aa a sprmgbowd into the sea of matrimony. (Continued on Fifth Page.) If there is one en terprise on earth that a "quitter" should leave sever ly alone, it is adver tising. To make a success of advertising, one must be prepared to stick like a barnacle on a boat's bottom. He should know before he begins it that be must spend money lots of It. Somebody must tell him that he cannot hope to reap results com mensurate with his expenditure early In the game. Advertising does not jerk; it pulls. It begins very gently at first, but the pull is steady. It increases day by day and year by year until it exerts an irresistible power. John Waiinnmpkar. 'FRISCO TRAIN IS DERAILED Limited Runs Off Track at Pomona Rnarlneer and Fireman Are Injured. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jury 20. Frisco passenger train No. 105, known as the Southeastern limited, which left Kansas City at 6:15 o'clock last night, was de railed at Pomona, twenty-five miles south east today. No passengers were hurt. Engineer M. D. Bookout, and his fireman, both of Springfield, were Injured. The cause of the accident is unknown. The mysterious disappearance of Judge Joseph It. Clarkson from Kenoshu, Wis., Is so similar to his disappearance from Omaha in the summer of Wi thut it recalls the peculiar dilemma In which the court record of the Douglas county district court was placed at thut time through the ful some eulogy being expunged from the record, or at leant that part of the eulogy of the Douglas County Bar association which mentions him by name. Judge Clarkson waa born in 1S53 in Chi cago, lie was graduated from Yale In 1878 and came to Omaha In 1K30 and en tered the law firm of Congdon, Clarkson & Hunt. He was married In Omaha In 1&3 to Mian Esther Wells. He was elected Judge of the district court In 18S, but solved only a part of his term, resigning to resume the practice of the law with his old firm. During the latter part of July, 1892, Judge Clarkson returned from a short vacation visit to Hot Springs, S. D., and two daya after his return he left home for a little trip Into Iowa. He did not return that nlKht and his family and frlenda became auxioua and Instituted a search for htm. Next day, his clothes, watch and money were found on the shore of Honey Creek lake, about twelve miles north of Council muris, ana tne conclusion was at once reached that he had accidentally drowned while bathing. The lake was dragged without result. Several weeks elapsed, his friends gave him up as dead and steps were at once taken to recover several thousand dollars Insurance on his life. Insurance Men Wanted to lie shown The Insurance companies stoutly resisted the payment of the Insurance on the ground that had he actually been drowned In the shallow water of Honey Creek lake there was no reason why the body could not be recovered. The Insurance companies were sharply clrlticlsed and the several associations to which Judge Clarkson be longed adopted appropriate resolutions In his memory and deplored his death. He was a nephew of Major J. S. Clarkson and the late Bishop Clarkson of Omaha and his supposed untimely taking off was widely lamented. The Insurance companies were persistent In their refusal to pay the policies on Judge Clarkson's life and kept up the hunt for PARIS, July . The Clemenoes.il cabi net fell suddenly tonight under drama tk circumstances at the conclusion of a vio lent debate over the naval scandals, ex tending over several days. Delrasses, chairman of the Investigation committee, led the attack upon the naval administration, especially during the In cumbency of M. I'elletan and M. Thomson, former ministers of marine. Hut M. Pi card, who succeeded M. Thomson, had promised In the name of the government to complete a series of reforms, both In the administration of the and In tho methods of construction, and the chamber was ready to vote confidence In the gov ernment, when an Incident occurred which changed a majority into a minority. I'rem'er Clemenenceau, who always hat been an adversary of M. Delcasse, smart ing under critlelsme, and doubtless over confident of a majority, which on July 15, upon the general policies of the govern ment was 182, taunted the ex-minister of foreign affairs, who was thrown over board by the Itouvler ministry at tho dictation of Germany during the crisis of 1905, with having led France to humiliation at Algiers, Hilt t'proar In Chamber, The spectre of that chapter of Franoe's foreign history In which Delcasse was Delcasse was sacrificed, was a fatal error. Instantly there was an uproar of dissent from both sides of the chamber. Del casse flung back the taunt in Clemen ceau's face with bitter words, declaring amid cheers, that France had gone to Algeclras In the Interest of peace. Hot words were bandied baok and forth. M. Delcasse Intimated that Clemenceau had inspired articles In the foreign press dur ing the crisis, but the latter emphatically denied this imputation. The premier seemed for the first time In his parliamen tary career to lose his head. Finally M. Delcasse, aa he was entering upon an ex planation of the situation of IMS, drew himself up proudly and said: "I shall say nothing further on that subject. I have nothing to fear. Nothing in the past; nothing In our common mem ories of twenty-flVe years embarrasses me. If I look back I see I have left something besides ruins." Then, turning directly to Clemenceau, he said: 'You were presldentt of the naval In- estlgatiug commission of 1904. Your un- parlng attacks upon every government uring twenty-five years seemed sufficient guarantee that you would find the root of the evil. What were the resultsT I aak." (Continued on Socond Page.) Army Surgeons to Wage War on Southern Lazy Bug WASHINGTON. July M. The hookworm, or "laxy bug" as it has been shown to xlst In the southern states, according to investigations of the physical condition of army recruits, will form an Interesting chapter in the forthcoming report of the surgeon general of the army. When the hook worm, referred to In the medical world as uncinariasis, was de clared to be prevalent in Porto Rico, result ing in a tendency to Indolence on the part of the patient, who otherwise appeared in usual health, there was no auggestlon that the parasite Infected people In the I'nlted States. Through the careful and thorough methods that have been adopted in the United States army, both in the selection of recruits and In the care of men after their enlistment, the disease has bees shown to exist to a large extent. These recruits passing through the arm aepot at ron pioeum, iv. T.. were ex a mined to the number of 140, 109 of them being Infected with the parasite. We. Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee all sup piled recruits that were Infected. After being treated, all of the Infected soldiers gained In weight and Improved In phyalca cqndltion generally. Following this invest! gallon of recruits it was discovered th uncinariasis was a common disease through out the southern states. It la estimate by many surgeons that 60 per cent of th recruits In the army today fro"m the rural districts of North Carolina. South Caro Una, Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana, will ahow hook worm Infection It has been estimated that the rampalg waged by the army agalnat the hook worm in Porto Rico resulted la saving; mure luaa t.uuu uvea annual"- Clemencean In a Race. M. Clemenceau, now evidently In a rage. tried to parry the thrust by returning to the charge. Your policy as foreign mlnleter," he shouted, "led us to the greatest humilia tion France has experienced In twenty years." Another storm of hostile cries arose, sev eral deputies exclaiming: "It Is an outrage to say that."' But the premier tried to assume bis old cynical air. "Oh, no false Indignation, I pray you," he exclaimed. "You brought us to the verge of a war without military preparation." Again the tumult was redoubled. "Yes." he shouted above the roar, "the whole world knew that the ministers of war and the navy when the question was put to them replied that France waa not ready. I have not humiliated France; Del casse has done that." Government Is Beaten. The scene when the premier tok hla seat was Indescribable. Amu the wuaeer ex citement the vote was taken, and when It was announced that the government had been beaten 211 to 176, Clemenoeewl dapped his hat on his head, pulling It far down over hla eyes and stalked out of the cham ber, followed by the other ministers, la token that he Intended to resign. M. Clemenoeau went Immediately to the Elyssee palace and told the story to Presi dent FalHeres, who seemed siupenea at the incident, but he accepted the resigna tion of the premier and his ministers. There Is but one opinion In Paris to- nlght aatonshmnnt that an old parlia mentary wai horse, ilk Clemenceau, should have committed political suicide by his awkwardness In recalling the Algeclras spectre on the eve of adjournment, when the government was assured of a majority on the naval question. The fall of thw cabinet was so unex pected that the political world was com pletely at sea aa to who will be at the head of the government. President Fai lle res will consult with the presidents of the chambers tomorrow, in accordance with the usual custom.' The name of Leon Bourgeois, former premier and minister of foreign affairs, Is most frequently men tioned, Jut his age and health are against him. M. Brland. minister of justice; M. Polncalre, minister of finance; M. Mllle rand, minister of commerce; M. Plohoo, minister of foreign affairs; M. Barthou. minlstar of public works, and M. Delcasse are also mentioned In the order named. CHANGE IN E CHINESE SERVIC Sir Robert Hart Will Retire ae Di rector General of Chinese Customs. LONION. July 20. Sir Robert Hart, who has spent a year's leave of absence in England, the first vacation he has taken In more than twenty years, has practically decided to retire from the petition of di rector general of Chinese customs on ac count of 111 health. Sir Robert planned to start for China last week, but hla phy sicians compelled him to abandon his plan. He has suffered from '"rrt a4 ether complaints tut ft loog Ume a