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The Omaha Daily Bee WEATHER FORECAST. For Nehraskn Cloudy: warmer. For Iowa Fair ar.il warmer. For weather report hoo pas 3. NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO a. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 33. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1900-SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. DEATH LIST IS TWENTY-FIVE Reports of Fatalities in Texas and Gulf Hurricane! Coming in Slowly. qALVESTON STARTS TO REBUILD New York Mayor Vetoes Proposed Building Code He Refuses to Approve Ordinance that Would Give Tammany Build ing Contractors a Monopoly. NEW CABINET IS MADE M BRIAND French Ministry Formed by Premier IIARD STRUGGLE IS CONFERENCE Various Interests Are Making Last After Conference Lasting Ditch Fight Against Any Reduction. All Day. ...V IT IS A REP, -oDY FREE OEC, PRACTICALLY SURE Braphio Storiei Told by Tarpon Pier Survivors. WRECKAGE SAVES THEIR LIVES One Man Float for Awhile on an Old Mattresi. BETTISON BODIES ARE FOUND Contain Mid III Wife, with Life Extinct, DliroTttfd Twenty Mil" from Their Polat of Starting. HOUSTON. Tex., July 28 The number of persons dead a the result of Wednes day's hurricane Is tonight conservatively estimated at twenty-five; those more or less seriously Injured number twice as many, and the property loss Is conserva tively estimated at $1,000,000. Except to Isolated points, all communication has been restored. Late dispatches add the 'towns of Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer to those which suffered to any extent from the sweep of the wind.' At Rock- Island nine of the largest buildings were either rased or partially wrecked, the damage being estimated at 175,000. . Fifty . bouses were blown down at Weimer and the property loss will approximate $100,000. Wharton suffered more than from the storm of 1900. From Qulntlna comes the report that the sloop Columbus with all on board had been blown out to sea. Ritrndi Far Into Interior. Advices show that damage was done by the storm throughout a section In Texas extending on an average of 100 miles to the interior. In many counties some re ports Indicate that very few householders escaned losses of at least a minor sort. While the property destruction has been great, the loss of life and the proportion of Injuries is almost Inexplicably small. This Is atributed largely to the fact that the storm warnings gave the Inhabitants an opportunity to prepare. In many places crops have been hurt, but the hot sun following the hurricane Is doing much to restore normal conditions In the fields. Following are the towns from which re ports of the greatest damage have come: Galveston, Bay City, Velasco, Angelon, Wharton, Columbia, Columbus, Palloas, Eagle Lake. Weimer. New Ulm. Bchuken burg, Allenton, Beastry. Kendleton, Sub lime. Glidden, Markham, Lagrade, Bostrop, Klcampo, Yoakum,. Garwood. Matthews, Bonus, Waldor, Flatonaa and Austin. Mat of the Dead. With six known dead on Tarpon fishing pier at Galveston, the list of supposed dead of eleven Wednesday Is out down. Five of the supposed victims were rescued from the bay alive, the sixth was dead when taken from the water. The Identified dead are: INFANT OF M. CALLOWAY, Bay City. CAPTAIN MATTHKWS, swept from the schooner Ellen In the gulf. E. C. HAFFNKU, at Eagle Lake, formerly of Waterloo. Ia. HAYSIL DAIGLE AND TOM MITRRAT, Cameron parish, Louisiana. DR. CLOUD, Richmond, Tex. Galveston today began the rebuilding of the structures rased in Wednesday s storm. Wires are down, but later reports from the Interior show greater damage and loss of life than were sustained at Galveston. Graphic tales are told by those who were swept from the Tarpon fishing pier, off Galveston, Into the gulf and rescued cling ing to bits of wreckage along the beach near Morgan's Point. Survivor Tells Graphic Story. Ray G. Teetshorn of Houston says it was Bhortly after midnight of Wednesday that the first real alarm for the safety of Rottlson's pier mas felt. Ten hours later the pier gave way and the party of ten wus cast Into the water. "Korilv before the building sank we went to the roof." said Mr. Teetshorn. "The building Went down easy In fact simply (.'tumbled Into the water. Everybody scrambled for himself. I think all of us started off on some wreckage and the wind and tide carried us through the water, while the tilth sea beat us and the roller broke over and beneath us. The first piece of wreckage I got onto crumbled and broke and I flsheo around and finally got onto a mattresi, which soon became water soaked and nana. Then I finally crawled onto a piece of lumber about twelve feat long and 1 stuck to this until picked up. "Captain Bettlson, wno owned the pier, . was a cool fellow and went about deliber ately giving Instructions when the storm came up. With our life preservers on, we went to the roof of the pavilion to be prepared for the worst, netttson, the poor unfortunate, discarded nis cork legs early In the day. I don't know what became of him." Bettlson Bodle Found. NEW ORLEANS, La.. July IS. -All doubt as to the fate of Captain R. L. Bettlson and his wife, who were reported drowned when the Tarpon pier was washed away near Galveston, was removed today when their bodies were found in the water near LaPorte, Tex., twenty milvs away. Beaaoiaat Family Safe. BEAUMONT, Tex.. July 2J. The Aber pathy family of thirteen prisons, reported lost In the storm of Wednesday, has ar rived at Stowell uninjured. - Heavy Halns ia Texas. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. July 2S.-AccorMog to reports received by the weather bureau, excessive rainfall has occurred In several parts of Texas following Wednesday's hurrlcan. Keirvllle reports 8.30 Inches; Del lil-v 112. and Quanah, S.02. ) lagar Mill Demolished. SVKW ORLEANS, July 23. Reports from Braiorta, Tex., state that a large sugar mill at the Clemens penal farm was demolished In Wednesday's storm. Loss. $776,000. One of the prisons was wrecked, but no one was Injured. The sloop Colum bus, with (our men aboard, waa blown out to sea and has not yet been heard from. Body round la Claim Shanty. PIERRE. 8. V., July 23. (Special Tele l nam.) The body of Neil Soranson was ind In a claim shanty about five miles Fort Pierre today. He bad evidently there several days and, while an in ,IU being held. It Is thought the deal 0 u (rem natural mum NEW YORK, July 23. Mayor McClelland Jilted Tammany Hall by vetoing the revised building code, recently pushed through the Board of Aldermen by Tammany. Its almost prohibitory clause concerning fl re proofing material,, which practically gave a monopoly to the hollow tiling and barred cinders and concrete, kicked up a rumpus which reached the mass met-ting and bill board stage. To pass the code over the veto would require a two-thirds vote sixty members and the complete strength of Its advocates was only forty. Cinders and concrete have been used satisfactorily, argued the mayor, who does not agree with the makers of the code that these materials are so dangerous as depicted. The views of John S. Wise, Jr., as cabled from Paris today, on the possibility of former President Roosevelt entering the New York mayoralty campaign this fail, are In line with a report circulated here last spring and again within the last few weeks. Colonel Roosevelt's friends In the local republican ranks have long had him In mind as a candidate, provided he can be Induced to leud the fight against Tam many, They believe he possesses sufficient strength among the Independent voters and even In the ranks of Tammany Hall Itself to make him the most formidable nominee that could be put in the field. The opinion was expressed In Influential circles In the ranks of the opposition to the present city administration today that If Colonel Roose velt wanted to run for mayor It would be difficult to keep the nomination away from him. With the announced object of converting 3,000 alien Italians Into full-fledged ballot wielding citizens, the Citizens' union opened an Italian naturalization bureau, and for the next few weeks will expend energy In an attempt to whip Tammany at its own game obtaining the "alien" vote. Hereto fore the democratic organization has been looking after the Interests of the aliens. escorting them to the federal building and aiding them to obtain citizenship. Omaha Woman Escapes Death Miss Emily J. Robinson Almost Drowned in Cloudburst Which Kills Two. BOULDER, Colo.. July 23.-(Special Tele gram.) Two are dead and two seriously injured as the result of a cloudburst that deluged Two-Mile canyon, north of Boulder, today. Miss Emily .1. Robinson of Omaha, who was In the pare, escaped unhurt. The dead: VERN CARLISLE, aged 18, Robinson, 111. ARTHUR DICKERMAN, aged 25, Gree ley, Colo. The seriously injured: Mrs. Abbott, Garden City, Kan. Zera Carlisle, Robinson, 111. The victims were members of a picnic party. When tho rain began to fall the party sought shelter under a huge boulder. Presently a torrent swept down the canyon to a depth of two feet. The people mado a, wild scramble for safety. Tho walls of the canyon were precipitous and it was with great difficulty that they found places of safety. Six were able to gain shelter, but In ldlng their companions Dlckerman and Carlisle were swept down with the torrent. Among those who escaped was Mrs. Ross of Robinson, III. Miss Emily J. Robinson Is principal of the Saratuga school In Omaha and lives at 2517 Parker street, the is spending; hor vacation at Boulder. NO SOLUTION OF MURDER CASE KIUInr of Mrs. Amos P. Dorranee at Hot Springs, Ark., Shrouded In Mystery, HOT SPRINGS. Ark., July 23. Although twenty suspects have been arrested and aie held by the police, the mystery which sur rounds the murder of Mrs. Amos P. Dor ranee, wife of a wealthy coal dealer of Helena, Mont., Is apparently becoming deeper. Mrs. Dorranee was shot and killed In her room In the Parker hotel Thursday while her lnvarild husband lay helpless on the bed. He Is still prostrated and Is not able to throw any light on the crime. Last night the police found a coat and straw hat, which they believe belong to the murderer, on the doorsteDs of the house adjoining the hotel. A New York man Identified the coat and hat as his own, stating to the police that they were stolen from him the night of the murder. He was detained by the authorities for a short time and then released. Daughter Says Hatred is Cause of Mother's Charge CHICAGO. July 23. Mrs. Gertrude A. Hlgley, who was found wounded In her home yesterday, and whose daughter, Mrs. R. Neton Mayfleld, wife of a physician and Mexican mine promoter, Is being held by the police, reiterates that her daughter tried to murder her. "I had given her love, but declined to give her more money," continued Mrs. Hlgley. "I shall prosecute Jier on the charge that she shot in an attempt to kill me." Mrs. Mayfleld, when told of her mother's Intention, asserted she would charge that her mother is mentally unbalanced and has been irresponsible since the death of her second husband three years ago. Mrs. Mayfleld added that she had been warned by relatives to avoid her mother's com panionship because of an Imagined hatred. Mrs. Mayfleld was today formally charged with an attempt tg kill her mother. Dr. Sheldon Peck, her brother-in-law, signed the complaint The hearing was continued ten days because of the Inability of Mrs. Hlgley to appear. "My mother's whole story is ridiculous," the prisoner today. "I came to Chi Briand Announces He Will Stand by - Clemenceau Policies. HE PLACATES THE RADICALS Will Make Effort to End War Be tween Labor and Capital. WANTS SUPPORT OF WORKERS Income Tax Measnre, Jion Pending;, Will Be Modified Bat Hot Abandoned by New Ministry. FARIS, July 24 After a day of confer ences, Arlstlde Briand succeeded In form ing a new French ministry and officially announced the success of his endeavor to President Fallleres at 1 o'clock this morn ing. The new cabinet Is made up as fol lows: Premier, minister of the Interior and min ister of public worship, M. Briand; minister of Justice, M. Barthou; minister of foreign affairs, M. Plchon; minister of finance, Georges Cochery; minister of education, M. Douberguc; minister of public works, posts and telegraphs, M. Mlllerand; minister of commerce, Jean Dupuy; minister of agri culture, M. Ruau; minister of the colonies, M. Troulllot; minister of labor, M. VlvUr.l. The portfolios of war and the navy will be filled tomorrow morning. These have been offered, respectively, to General Brun and Admiral Bonne De La Payrere, and both are expected to accept. One Office Abolished. The post of undersecretary of posts and telegraphs, which was held by M. Slmyan, whose resignation was demanded during the recent strike of postmen and telegra phers by the socialists, will be suppressed. An undersecretaryshlp of finance will be created and the office given to Rene Re noult. M. Dujardln-Beaumetx will remain as undersecretary of public Instruction and beaux arts. M. Briand had considerable difficulty In appeasing the appetites aroused by the fal len cabinet, and only satisfied the radicals who charged him with being a socialist by the statement: "I intend to complete the work of the Clemenceau cabinet and carry out the wishes of the president and form a repub lican cabinet committed to republican pol icies." M. Calllaux, minister of finance In the old cabinet laid down certain conditions relating to his again accepting the port folio, which M. Briand could not grant, and hMMM ths onoositloiY In the senate to Callaux's draft of the Income tax bill made it advisable to substitute M. Cochery, who wan, minister of finance In the Meline cabinet of 18M-98. It Is announced that M. Cochery's selection does not mean the abandonment of the Income tax measure, but Its modification on lines more accept able to the senato. To End Labor War. A minlstrlal declaration, which was form ulated and unanimously accepted by the members of the new cabinet, contains an Important statement Indicating that the cabinet Is committed to an attempt to end the war between labor and capital which has disturbed France for so many years. An official note says this declaration, after quoting the famous remark of M. Waldeck-Rousseau, "Capital must work and labor possess," Insists upon the neces sity of an alliance between labor and capi tal and the avoidance of every cause of conflict; that the members of the cabinet, regardless of the political affiliations, re solve with the aid of Parliament, to ameli orate the moral and material wellhelng of the workers as far as In their power lies, but that the accomplishment of this end will depend upon the support of the work ers themselves; that the latter must gtvs a security to capital or otherwise under takings will be abandoned and the eco nomic development of the country arrested. CLAIMS SIXTY YEARS OLD Soldiers la Caynse Indian War in 1847-8 in Oregon Are to Be Paid. WASHINGTON. July 23,-The claims for pay for services In the Cayuse Indian war of 1847 and H48, in Oregon, filed by nine claimants, will be allowed by the govern ment at the rate of $1.60 a day during their service period. The comptroller of the currency has ap proved the action of the auditor for the War department holding that the law directs as to these rare claims. The rolls or records of the war on file at Washington will -be used as evidence for the adjustment of the claims. cago from Mexico to give her stock In the mining company, not to sell it to her. My mother either accidentally shot herself while planning to shoot me, or tried to commit suicide." Mrs. Mayfleld intimated that It might be well to inquire Into her mother's mental condition and continued: "I have six letters from my aunt, (my mother s sister), Hrs. J. L. Hutchinson of Streator. ni.. which will help me. In each of these letters my aunt warned me to keep away from my mother. Mrs. May field quoted from one of the letters as follows: "Dear Agnes: If I were In your place I would avoid your mother, because I feel that she will do you mlsohlef If your bus band does not come to her terms." In a second letter Mrs. Hutchinson is quoted as saying: "You know how your mother is she will either rule or ruin. I fear for you if you refuse to turn over the HA acres of mining land In Mexico." Mrs. Mayfleld stated that her mother's hatred of her began a year egg when she married Dr. Mafield, From the Cleveland Leader. OPEN PRIMARY LAW VICIOUS Attorney Breen Denounces it at the Fontanelle Meeting. MAY MAKE TEST CASE VERY SOON CInb Favors Ignoring Liquor Ques tion In State Platform Because of Nature of Ticket to Be Named. A test in court of the open primary law may be made by the Fontenelle Repub lican club prior to the holding of the pri maries on August 17. This procedure was advocated by John P. Breen at last night's meeting of the club, but no definite action was taken. Mr. Breen, in pointing out some of the' "vic ious" features of the amended law, offered his services as a lawyer to take a case into court, but he resisted a motion to get some candidate to act as plaintiff and to employ him as attorney for the reason that the candidate might wish to employ some other lawyer. "The open primary law Is vicious, fool ish and contrary to decisions of the su preme court," said Mr. Breen. "Four years ago the supreme court recognized party lines In Judicial elections, even holding party lines to be a part of our scheme of government. It Is my opinion that the open primary law la vald f or. th rvason that tho constitution was not adh.urd to in passing It Two sections of the new law are In di rect conflict with other sections of the old law which were not repealed, and It can not possibly stand a test In the courts. Vicious Possibility of the Lave. "The new law had Its origin In vicious and mischievous thoughts and the movers of It had this In mind: That if one party put up a candidate who would be subserv ient to certain Interests those Interests could go to tho polls and nomlnnte him, or they could defeat a strong man on one ticket and nominate a weak man on the same ticket and then mould the weak man as they chose. "The law makes It Incumbent on Indies of election to register voters as to porty affiliation, but If we are to have an open primary why keep a record of party affilia tion?" Thomas W. Blackburn advised the dub to assist In selecting delegates to the stat? comentton who would resist any attempt of delegates from the rural districts from saddling the party platform with a county option plank. Michael Lee thought the platform should be silent on the liquor question and Charles L. Saunders said that Inasmuch as the ttate ticket will be composed solely of candidates for the supreme bench and for regents of the University of Nebraska that the platform should be largely of a Judicial and educational nature. James B Haynes coincided in this view, while Judge Lnngd jn advised a platform dealing mainly with the tariff and national Issues. In Memory t Kennard. The following resolutions on the death of M. J. Kennard, county commissioner from the First district, framed by a com mittee consisting of Frank H. Woodland and W. H. Hatheroth, were adopted: Whoreas, Death has removed from our midst our esteemed fellow citizen and loyal coworker, Milton J. Kennard, and, Whereas, It Is but Just that a fitting recognition of his many virtues should be so'nR,l! therefore, be It Resolved. That In the death of Milton J. Kennard we " have lost one of the most loyal members of this club, one who ful filled the highest duties of citizenship and faithfully discharged all public trusts, ant who endeared himself to his fellow men by his uniform courtesy and uprignt con duct. Resolved, That we wIM cherish In affec tionate remembrance his manly qualities and noble character. Resolved, That we tender to hla be reaved widow our heartfelt sympathy and condolence. TAFT TO SAIL MISSISSIPPI Chief Executive will Take Down Hirer from St. Louis. Trip WASHINGTON. July 23. -President Taffs plans for his western and southern trip in the fall gradually are taking shape, He has decided that he will make the trip down the Mississippi river from St. Louis to New Orleans late In October as the guest of the deep waterways convention, which will be held In New Orleans upon his arrival there. The date of the president's meeting with President Dial of Mexico at El Paso, Tex., has definitely been set for Octo ber IS. KANSAS DEPOT IS ROBBED Bandits Blow Safe at Mlaeral Eseape with Fire Hun dred Dollars. and PITTSBURG, Kan., July 23. Robbers early today dynamited the Missouri, Kan sas and Texas railway safe at Mineral, near here, wrecking the depot and escaj lug wllb K-JU, SHAKE." Shea Scored by Judge Foster as Enemy of Labor Former Leader of Teamsters Sen tenced to Prison for At tempted Murder. NEW YORK. July &. Cornelius P. Shea, the former Chicago labor leader, found guilty of attempting to murder Alice Walsh, with whom he had been living here, was sentenced today to not less than five nor more than twenty-five years In prison. The former president of the In ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters listened stolidly to Judge Foster's scathing remarks in pronouncing sentence. "Your services for humanity are Urged here in your behalf," said the court, "be cause you have been active In the affairs of organized labor. I believe in the right or labor to organise, but there Is a prejudice In this community, and we must admit Its existence, against organized labor, because such men as you dominate It with your brutal methods and your coarse, offensive personality, and a part of the community has come to look upon organised labor as being composed of brutes and securing their victories by brutal meth ods. But that Is all wrong. I believe I am helping the cause of organized labor by ridding it of one such as you and sending you to state's prison." Paul Morton for French Boycott Says it is Time to Teach Paris Financiers a Lesson. NEW YORK. July 23. That the pend ing customs tariff bill and the effort to secure the listing of United States Steel ! common stock on the Paris Bourse are linked in the minds of some prominent French financiers. Is the view of Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance society, who arrived from Eu rope today on the Lusltanla. Mr. Morton said while he was In Paris a high French government official even went so far as to make a tentative propo sition that If the United States would make some preferential' arrangements for French Imports he could suggest a plan for listing American securities on the Bourse, "Personally. I think," continued Mr. Mor ton, "it is time to teach France a lesson. Americans are very broad, long suffer ing and liberal, but unless France awakens to a realization of the fact that we are among Its best customers, something like a boycott on French goods ought to be Instituted." Mr. Morton said he spent a day with E. II. Harrlman at Semmerlng, Austria, and found Mr. Harrlman looking remark ably well. MINERS STAND BY M0YER Federation Endorses Position of Pres ident by Overwhelming Vote. DENVER. Colo.. July 23. By a vote of 223 to 79, the Western Federation of Min ers' convention today endorsed the position of President Moyer In his controversy with P. J. Flynn of the Butte Miners' union No. 1. Little Chinese Sold as Household Drudges NEW YORK. July 2C. Two round cheeked little Chinese maids, their almond eyes very wide, their bangs brushed flat across their foreheads, their black braids, laced with scarlet silk, hanging down their backs, stood demurely before Justice- Wyatt In children's court today and swore to a story which left little sympathy In those who heard for the two elderly celestial merchants who reported their "children" missing to the police on last Wednesday night. Both little girls swore that they had been held against their will as household slaves, harshly treated and forced to work long hours. They were accompanied by an agent of the Children's society, who had found them on the day following their dis appearance from Chinatown at an East Side parish house. The two made sworn statements which were read today in court One said: "My name is Moy Yum Toy. By Chinese reckoning I am 16. by American 14. My father died whoa I wag very young and GRAFT IN CniCAGO POLICE Grand Jury Indicts Detective Said to Have Collected Blood Money. ENORMOUS SUMS GARNERED Accused Man Is Alleged to Have Levied Toll of $,000 a Month, from Denlsens and Magnates of Under World. CHICAGO, July 23 An astounding story of graft In the socalled west side levee of Chicago is said to have been related to the grand Jury today. Detective Sergeant Jermiah Griffin, al leged to have been tho receiver of pro, tectlon money from dive keepers, gamb lers and cocaine sellers, was Indicted on eight counts. He Is alleged to have garn ered as high as $9,000 a month, a very small part of which remained In his own pocket In all, Griffin, who travels out of Desplalnes street station headquar ters of Inspector McCann, is said to have collected $160,000 from denizens of the underworld on the west side. Indictments were returned against Lewis Frank, saloonkeeper and poli tician, who Is said to have accumu lated a fortune of $1,000,000 in the levee district and against Michael Heltler, who la familiarly known as "Mike, the Pike." They are alleged to have collected money from Illegal houses by represent ing themselves as agents of the police. Testimony against Griffin was given by Charles Yanker, a levee proprietor, known commonly as "Monkey Charley." Morris Schatz, who Is said to conduct an Illegal establishment at 10S Peoria street, appears on the lndlotment, as com plainant Four detectives also gave testi mony. One witness charged that the price of protection recently rose from $20 to $40 a month, and that he was compelled to quit business on account of the expense. SUTTON CASE N EARING END Navy Side of Testimony Practically All In Adjournment Until Monday. ANNAPOLIS. July 23.-The navy pra tically rested its case today In the Invest! gallon of the death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton of Portland, Ore., who was adjudged a suicide by the naval board of Inquiry, which sat following Sutton's death two years ago. i After a short session today Commander John Hood. U. 8. N., president of the court of Inquiry, adjourned the hearing until Monday. With the exception of Lieutenant Harold H. Utley and Surgeon F. C. Cook, recently attached to the battleship North Carolina, and now enroute from Europe, nearly all the remaining witnesses are considered to be witnesses for the Interested parties out side of the service. HOPE TO SEE T. R. MAYOR John S. Wise Says Ex-President Prom, Ised to Return In Time for Next Campaign. PARIS, July 2S-John S. Wise. jr.. of New York, who Is now in Paris, says that former President Roosevelt, Just prior to his departure from New York on his Afri can hunting expedition, promised him and other republicans In New York that he would return In time for the mayoralty campaign. Mr. Wise says he has not given up the hope that Mr. Roosevelt will head the mayoralty ticket In New York this autumn. Girls Are my mother married again and left me alori with my grandmother, who was very, very poor, and I was sold to the wife of Moy See Chal and she brought me over here to America about two years ago. I have had to work very hard In the house, mak lng buttons and button loops from early morning until late at night. When I tak a rest I get scolded and beaten." Chin Flng Toy's narrative was similar. t-he was sold In Chins for $10, she said brought to this country and sold again for $&00 gold. "Some mornings," her statement reads, "I had to get up at 7 o'clock and sometimes work right on until 1 in the morning. "I would rather die than go back to Mott street." Neither she nor her companion will have to. Pending full investigation of their tal they will be held by the Children's society Their story has aroused talk of anothe rigid Investigation In Chinatown, which has hardly settled down after the probing wUcU followed lh aurder itt till Siial. All Other Disputed Schedules Are SUU Up in the Air. HARD FIGHT FOR HIDE DUTY Far-Western Senators Bitterly Oppose Cutting It. BURB0WS FOR IRON ORE RATE Conferees Dismiss Their Clerks and Go Into Absolutely Secret Ses sion to Discuss Most Important Schedules. WASHINGTON, July 23 While no agreement wart reached by the tariff con ferees today on coal, lumber, hides, oil. Iron ore, the cotton schedule or wood pulp and print paper, It was said tonight by the conferees that the prospects of settling these big questions tomorrow were excellent. For a time today it appeared that these socalled ''national Issues" might be dis posed of by tho conferees today, but when adjournment was taken at 6 p. m., It was learned that the matters under dis cussion were still at issue. Should tho conference complete Its work tomorrow It would be Impossible to report It before Tuesday, as tho house, which agreed to the conference on tho tariff bill, and, therefore under the rules must receive It before the senate, ad journed until Tuesday. Heroic measures were put In operation today in an effort to compose differences existing between the senate and the house on the tariff bill and to carry out President Tuft's program for a reduc tion of duties on raw materials. All, ex cept the conferees, were excluded from the chamber and It was agreed that dis cussions leudlng up to a settlement of any of the subjects familiarly termed "national Issues," should bo regarded as confidential. Hides Great Sticking Point. Several conferees said tonight that the feelings entertained for each other wero more pleasant than they had been for many days. When Arthur B. Blielton, lerk of the finance committee, and Wil liam E. Payne, were excused from the conference, It was understood that voles would be taken on all of the subjects In dispute before adjournment for the day. As the question of hides la giving Hie committee more trouble than any other of the schedules that have claimed the attention of the president, it was dis cussed first The discussion had not preceded far before it was developed that the differ ences between the two houses were al most irreconcilable unless boots and shoes and other leather goods should be greatly reduced if hides were to go on the free list. Western Senators Protest. Senator Aldrich had reports from many western senators protesting against the re moval of the duty on hides or a reduction below 10 per cent ad valorem. Tho ,t,iv terms on which the western senators would consent to consider the abolition of ihe duty Involved the removal of the duty on eather goods. It is understood the Khodo Island senator said there is no use in re porting to the Benato something that Btood no chance for adoption, and the hide in terests and tho shoe Interests must get to gether and make concessions if an agree ment v.as to be reached. Discussion then turned upon the amount of reduction the leather trade could stand without serious Injury. On this question a variety of opinions were expressed, many of which appeared to some of the con ferees to be Inconsistent, considering the relations sole leather bears to boots and shoes and that harness bears to finished leather. Soon It was developed that the conferees would have to confer with associates not on the conference committee, and there fore an adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock tomorrow. The strict executive es slons Inaugurated today will be resumed to morrow. Afler adjournment Senators Lodge and Crane and Representative McCall of Mass achusetts had a long consultation with Sen ator Aldrich. It is not known what under standing. If any, was reached, but it would surprise very few people outside of the conference chamber If an agreement Is ar rived at tomorrow substantially reducing the duties on hides and leather goods. Oil Going on Frea List. After the duty has been fixed on hides and leather goods little difficulty Is ap prehended In reaching an agreement to put oil on the free list and In compromising on a duty of about 45 cents a ton on coal, a rate of $1.2.1 a thousand feet on rough lum ber, with proportionate differentials and a rate of about $3 a ton on print paper. Iron ore Is expected to give more trouble than any of these subjects except hides. Many senators thought little objection would be made to placing Iron ore on the free list and this question was generally regarded as good as settled. Senator Bur rows is making a stubborn fight for the retention of tho senate rate of 25 cents a ton on Iron ore and he Is said to be confi dent that he wilt prevent the abolition of the duty. It Is difficult to predict whether the senate rale will remain, whether the ore will be mado free or whether a rate will be fixed In the vicinity of 10 cents a ton. The news that the conferees had ex cluded the clerks of the commute and were trying to reach decisions on the Im portant items in difcpute caused confusion among the hordes of lohbylsts in the cor ridor leading to the conference chamber. Tim representatives of special interests used, without success, every sort of arifut doriue in their anxiety u learn something of the nature of the proceedings. Several times the voices of the conferee sounded through the walls at a high pitch, which Indicated anything but harmony, and this added to the excitement. If there Waa any friction ll vas smoothed over before the conference was adjourned. All of the members came out of the chamber smiling. There was some disappointment when it was learned that the house bad adiouined until Tuesday, as that a'.tion makes it im possible for the conferees to make a report before Tuesday. KepresuUUv Dwlgbt tit New York, Us
