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The Omaha Daily Bee THE OMAIIA DEE ! th most powerful boaliMM getter la th Ht brs It icoea to the homei of poor and rich. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Showers. Kor Iowa Showers, l'or weather report pee pace 3. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 44. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1JKK TEX PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS CANNON SETTLES UP SOME SCORES "Injurfents" Draw Buck SaU in Speaker's Li it of Committee Auignmentt. NORRIS OF NEBRASKA HIT HARD Himhaw Alio Oeti Jolt from "Uncle Joe's" Bits Stck. Men Are Voting for a Walkout, Say Officials TAFT TELLS WHY HE SIGNED BILL He Declares Promise '-of Revision Downward Has Been Fairly Kept. TARIFF MEASURE A LAW AT LAST President Taft Signs Bill, and Extra Session , of Congress is Over. Balloting on Question of Tying: Up the Chicago Surface Lines is in Progress. NEW LAW NOT PERFECT ONE BOTH HOUSES HAVE ADJOURNED OTHER REFORMERS P"" tBERED Only Tried Friendi of peaker Put on Guar SENATORS ON WAT h NOW Barkett and Brown for Nebraska, Biprrulng Rat n with What Has Been 1 on Tariff. fFrom a Staff Correspondent ) WASHINGTON. Auf. B. (Special Tele-gram.)--Speaker Carnon. In his announce ment of the house committees, haa done what many disinterested persons expected tie would do take car of his friends and put his enemies In positions where they could do least harm. Geographical condi tions have not entered very largely In the make-up of the committee chairmanships and committee places, for In a number of cases two men from a state are given places on the same committee, and of such ranking Influence that either one or the other may see the chairmanship just ahead If the whirligig of pnlletlcs should brine about the undoing of those who take prece dence. The speaker haa not forgotten the fight at the beginning tof this extraordin ary session upon himself, and for the change In rules he has punished those who voted against him and those who Toted for t larrer powers In the house and less auth ority vested In the committee on rules. Jforrt. Oat . His. George W. Norrlss, of the Fifth Ne braska district, loeea a commanding plaee on the public buildings and grounds com mittee, a distinct loss to Nebraska, but la given placea on coinage weights and meas ures, private land claims and revision of the laws. Norrls haa not fought "Uncle Joe" particularly, but bas fought like a Spartan against the principle which Speaker Cannon represented, namely leg islation by rule. As one of the chief In surgents he has drawn lightning and It hit him.- But he la not alone In that par ticular, for Cooper of Wisconsin, former chairman of the committee on Insular af fairs, gives way to Olmatead of Pennsyl vania, a friend and champion of the Dan ville magnate. Fowler of New Jersey, chairman of the committee en banking and currency of the Sixtieth congress, not only wrwitiuysq irtnj joa. noQiroxiM utterly, out the chairmanship 1t' vested In Edward B. ' Vreeland of New York. Other , Ntbrulu Asetsrntnenta. felnshaw was too strenuous an opponent of the ship subsidy to suit "Uncle Joe." If the records ar to b believed, for Hln ahaw loses his place on th merchant ma rine and fisheries, where he stwod fifth, a New Yorker In th person of Oeorg W. Falrablld having been moved up to dis place th man from Falrbury. Htnshkw gets probably better committee assign ments than his colleague from McCook, holding his position on Indian affairs, in which Nebraska has very considerable In terest, together with a place on patent and elections No. 1 Klnkaid gains nor loses anything in the new committee assignments, except that he advanoes from sixth place on irrigation of arid lands tto third place, on education he moves frotn, eighth to fourth place and on Pacific railroads he holds the sam position that he did In th Sixtieth congress. Hitchcock has been very greatly ad vanced b th leader of th minority, be ing given a place on foreign affairs In lieu of Indian affairs. In which he had no par ticular Interest, holding his old plao on Irrigation of arid lands. Maguire of th First district gets a plaoe on coinage, weight and measures and mines and mining, while Latta take Hitch cock's place on Indian affairs. Aa Latta has a design on eorraling the Indian vote In the Third district. Champ Clark thought it would be good policy to glv th banker farmer from Tekamah an opportunity to run barbed wlr fence around th Omaha and Winnebago reservations, each indi vidual barb to be placarded "Latta-Demo-JHp." Bark Gets Reward. In the surprises, some expected and Others not expected, the chief surprise Is U aelectlon of Charles H. Burke of South Dakota to be chairman of the committee on Indian affairs. HInshaw, with Knapp aa chairman of electlona No.i J. waa the ranking member of that committee, but HInshaw haa not atood strong with Can non, who has shown his appreciation of old friends by making the former a member of the Indian affairs committee in the Fifty-ninth congress chairman In the Sixty first. Just what disappointment Burke's appointment will excite In the Crawford Gamble faction of the republican party in South Dakota is not guess bl. Mr. Martin retains his old place on public buildings and grounds and public lands. "Walter I. Smith of Council Bluffs retains bis place on appropriation and is upon the committee on rule. Captain John A. T. Hill retain the chair manship of the military affair, and ha a, place on th committee on militia. Mr. Dawson of th Second Iowa district gets th chairmanship of th committee on accounts, and haa a place on naval affairs and reform In civil service. Senators Burkett and Brown lefo the t capital this afternoon after having cast their votes In favor of the conference re port and the concurrent resolution directing th recalling of the clerk to make dear the phraseology of the leather schedules. They remained In Washington until every im 1 fant vote waa recorded and the echo of the gavel adjourning the first session oi th Sixty-first congress rang in their eara aa they left th t'nlon station for their home in Lincoln and Kearney. Senator Burkett befor leaving said of th tariff bill, which become a law tomorrow: "It is a better bill that most people think. It clear up many discriminations and abuse that hav grown out of twelve year of th Dingley law on account of different court decisions. In addition to that, there ar so many reductions that It will un doubtedly meat with the approval of the (Continued on second Page.) CHICAGO. Aug. . Balloting on the strike proposition was begun here today by employes of the various surface street car lines. Aa fast aa the men finished their 'shift" they visited headquarters and tie posited their votes. This process will continue until early to morrow morning, and after that several hoar must elapse while the votes are being counted. Official announcement of the re suit is set for Saturday night. There are 8,000 members of the union entitled to vote. A two-thirds majority la required to carry the strike proposition. Union officials watching the balloting said the early vote was heavily In favor of a walk-out. President T. E. Mitten of the Chicago City raslway line has entered Into negotia tions with the employes of the Calumet & South Chicago Street Railway company looking toward an Increased scale, and trouble may be averted In that quarter at least Mayor Buase expressed the opinion last night that there would be no strike. At th same time the arrival of P. L. Bergoff, professional strikebreaker, who figured in the recent Philadelphia struggle, seemed significant. Bergoff said he had been asked to come to Chicago by the preai dents of the street railway companies, and that he could handle the situation with I, WO men. He- said he had 250 men on his payroll, most of them in New York and Philadelphia. Hailstorm in , South Dakota Extensive Damag-e to Crops, Building-s and Live Stock in Sully County. PIERRE, 8. D., Aug. 8. (Special Tele gram.) A severe storm swept western Sully county yesterday afternoon, with heavy wind and rain and some hall. About Laurel a number of small buildings were demol ished, the heaviest loss being sheds at the Esselbrug sheep ranch. At the Steeley farm four cowa were killed by lightning. Northeast of here there was heavy loss from ball In a small territory near where the damage waa done last . k. .The rain here amounted to one and a half Inches. Th telephone line to the north haa been down all day and It la hard to get partic ulars. Six Bodies Are Washed Ashore British Steamer Wrecked Near Cape Town and Many Lives Are Lost. CAPE TOWN. Aug. a-Th British steamer Maori foundered last night off Slang Bay. It ia feared the fatalitlea will b heavy, as the vessel carried a large number of passengers. Nine survivors hav thua far been landed and six bodies already hav been washed up on th beach. No trac ha been found of the missing steamer Waratah and the anxiety regarding its safety Is Increasing. Th vessel left Port Natal July 20, since when It has not been seen. It haa on board 300 persona. WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL Itaral Roate Si. S Ordered Estab lished at Polk, Polk County, Nebraska. (From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. (Special Tele gram.) Rural route No. 1 has been ordered established September 1 at Polk, Polk county, Neb., serving seventy-five families. Rural carriers appointed for South Da kota: Desmet, Route t. Henry Hlni, car rier; David A. Basard. substitute. Mlllbank, Route 1, George E. Wise, carrier; Mary H. Wise, substitute. St. Lawrence, Routes 1 and 2. Floyd B. Goodell, carrier, Andrew Thompaon, substltuts. Clarence E. Wheeler has been appointed postmastef at Plalnvlew, Meade county. S. D vice F. A. Holland, resigned. AGED MAN KILLED BY AUTO Prominent v Maaoa of Padarah, Ky.( Ran Down hy Machine on Way to Raeea. ROCKFORD, III.. Aug. (.-Isaac C. Wolfe, iged TO years, of Paducah, Ky., was killed by an automobile on the highway near Belvldere today. The machine was driven by P, A. Nott and hla sen, C. A. Nott of Byron, 111., who were on their way to the Algonquin hlll-cllmbtng conteat. Wolfe waa a prominent Mason. New Sample Ballots Good for Kites, but What Else? "Tha new sample ballots would make good kit paper for the kids," says Frank Dewey, deputy county clerk, "but I can't see that they are going to do anybody else any good." By the new primary law It Is necessary that every name filed for every office be upon every ballot. Each voter geta a bal lot with a column for every party and he can choose hi party when he starts to vote. Having chosen he must stay In one column or th vote la invalid. The or dinary ballot for a single party la six by about thirty-eight inches at the longest. Thl bug aheet will be 80x3 inches, mure than a squar yard' of paper. "In printing these big ballot, aays Mr, Dewey, "we must go through Just five time tit work aa waa neceaaary under the old law, beside rotating th name so that no candidate appears at th head of his ticket oftener than any other candidate. "W print T8.400 in all, equivalent to 392,000 of th single column style. Half of these ar samples. Th work of rotating the names makea necessary LIT J stops of the preMi and with thirty minute work ai- Impossible, He Declares, to Secure Everything- He Desired. EXCESSIVE RATES REDUCED Liquor Schedule Not Entirely Satis factory to President. LIKES PHILIPPINE SECTION Declares It Will Result In Great Benefit to Inlands Corporation Tax Also, He Says, Will Prove Beneficial Meaaare. WASHINGTON. Aug. B.-Fresldent Taft tonight gave out a statement giving his views of the new tariff act, which he designates as the "Payne bill," In accord ance with the past custom of giving first recognition to the framer of the measure In the house of representatives. The president declares that, while th bill Is not perfect by any means, nor "a com plete compliance with promises made, strictly Interpreted," It Is, nevertheless, a sincere effort on the part of th party to make a downward revision and to comply with the promises of the platform. Result of Sincere Effort. The statement In full follows: "I have signed the Payne tariff bill be cause I believe It to be the result of sincere effort on the part of the republican party to make a downward revision, and to com ply with the promises of the platform aa they have been generally understood, and as I Interpreted them In the campaign be fore election. "Thus la not a perfect tariff bill, nor a complete compliance with the promises made, Btrlctly Interpreted, but a fulfillment free from criticism in respect to a subject matter Involving many schedules and thou sands of articles could not be expected. It suffices to say that except with regard to whisky, liquors and wines, and in re gard to silks and as to some high classes of cotton all of which may be treated as luxuries and proper subjects of a revenue tariff there have been very few Increases in rates. Many Real Decreases! "There haa been a great number of real decreases in rates, and they constitute a sufficient amount to Justify the statement that thin bill Is a substantial downward revision, and a reduction of excessive rates. "This is not a free trade bill. I t waa not Intended to be. The republican party did not promise to make a free trade bill. It promised to make the rate protective, but to reduce thm when they exceeded the difference betwen th ooat of production abroad and here, making allowance for the greater normal profit on active Invest ments here. I believe that while this ex cess has not been reduced In a number of cases In a great majority the rate are such as are necessary to protect the Ameri can Industries, but are low enough In case of abnormal increase of demand, apd rais ing of prices, to permit the possibility of Importation of the foreign article and thus prevent excessive prices. "The power granted to the executive under the maximum and mlnmum clause may be exercised to assure the removal of obstacles which have been Interposed by foreign governments In the way of undue and unfair discrimination agalnat Ameri can merchants and products. Like Philippine Bectlon. "The Philippine tariff section I have struggled to secure for ten years past, and It gratifies me exceedingly by my signature to give It the effect of law. I am sure it will greatly Increase the trade between the two countries and It will do much to Build up the Phllipplnea In a healthful prosper ity. "The authority of the nresMont t .... agents to assist him in the application of the maximum and minimum sections of the statute, and to enable officials to ad minister the law, gives a wide latitude for the acquisition under circumstances favor able to its truth, of Information in respect to the price and cost of production nf imuii at home and abroad, which will thiow muoh light on the operation of the nrrnf tsHff and be of primary Importance In securing ornciaiiy collected data upon which future executive action and executive recommen dation may be based. Praia (or Corporation Tax. The corporation tax Is a Just and eqult- aDie excise measure, which, it is hoped will produce a sufficient amount of revenue to prevent a deficit and which Incidentally will secure valuable statistics and Informa tion concerning the many corporations of th country, and will consUtut an lmpor tant step toward that degree of publicity and regulation which th tendency in cor porate enterprises In the last twenty yeara has shown to be necessary. lowed for the run and stop on each shift ing or tne names.' it will take 63S hours, or more than twenty-two days, to get them printed. Three presses will be kept going night and day until the prlmarlea In order to get them done In time. "As printed the ballots ar placed In six teen piles, each pile representing on man at the head of tit longeat list of candi dates. From these they will be gathered In aeries so that each precinct will get an equal share of th ballots headed by each candidate. "Mr. Haverly and I will hav to b at th printing office to O. K. every change in th forms and that means that w will be at th offlc all th Urn, night and day from now until th printing Is don. "W have spent a great deal of time trying to flgur out soma way of running them off with leas trouble, but It can't be done. As fsr aa I can se th sise of the ballot will not make it any mor efficient. If the bos get on to th acheme they will ask Dad to bring home a few samples when he vote and they will hav enough beautiful red. green and yolluw kit paver to last ten years." From the New York World. SPEAKER GIVES OUT PLUMS Uncle Joe Rewards 7" Friends and Punishes s. IMPORTANT CHANGES ARE MADE Fowler of New Jersey Loses Oat aa Chairman of Committee on Bank ing and Currency Vree land la Named. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Speaker Cannon today announced his committees for the Sixty-first congress. Following are the new appointments to house chairman ships: j Vreeland N. T-). bao'iln and cttrreney; Rodenberg (III.),' lndtosti'lal arts and ex positions; Mann (111.),' Interstate and for eign commerce; Weeks (Mass.). postofflces and post roads: Alexander (N. T.), rivers and harbors; Parker (N. J.), Judiciary. Representatives Fowler (N. J.), Gardner (Mass.) and Cooper (Wis.), thre of the rules insurgents," who held chairman ships in the last session of congress, have lost their committees. Representative Vreeland (N. Y.) succeeds Mr. Fowler as head of the committee on banking and cur rency and Representative Rodenberg (III.) succeeds Mr. Gardner as chairman of the committee on Industrial arts and exposi tions. Mr. Cooper was replaced by Repre sentative Olmsted (Pa.). Representative Davidson (Wis.) is retained as head of the committee on railways and canals. These members participated in the fight on the rule at the beginning of the present ses sion and thus Incurred th speaker's dis pleasure. flsnn Lands Good Place. Although Representative Wanger (Pa.) was the ranking member of the last com mittee on interstate and foreign com merce. Representative Mann (III.), "who has been most active on that committee, succeeds to the chairmanship. Representative Gardner (N. J.) was the ranking member of committee on poet offices and post roads, but Representative Weeks (Mass.) haa received the chairman ship of that important committee. The ways and means committee and the com mittees on accounts, mileage and rules were organized earlier in the session. Representative Alexander (N.. Y.) suc ceeds to Senator Burton's position as head of the committee on rivers and harbors, and Representative Parker (N. J.) la made chairman of the Judiciary committee to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement from congress of Representative Jenkins (Wis.). Representative Pwlght (N. Y.). the re publican whip, gets Mr. Crumpacker's place on the ways and means committee. Mr. Crumpacker resigned his position on that committee today. Representative El lis (Ore.) waa appointed to fill th vacancy on the same committee caused by th death of Representative Cushman (Wash.). The Important Places. Important chairmanships retained by members are: Appropriations, Tawney (Minn.); agriculture, 8eott (Kan.); census, Crumpacker (Ind.); military affalra. Hull (Continued on Second Page.) Realestate presents a safer investment, paying ahigher rate than money invest ed in any other way In buying Omaha real, estate, at present prlcea, you can make five, tea and even fifteen per cent on your Investment by holding It for two or three years. The increase may bring your rate on the Invest ment up to twenty or twenty-five per cent. Moreover, you know every minute Just how your Invest ment stands. If you have n few thousand dollars to invest, put it in Omaha real estate. Nearly a page of choice realty bargains and investments in the real es tate column of The Bee today. - "J"" 'VWx. TILE FANDANGO. Posse Fills Bank Robber With Bullets Man Who Holds Up Minnesota Cashier Gets Shot Full of Holes. " mi in zm,jr, minn., Aug. o. in a right with rifles and revolvers today following a noiaup or the First State bank of White Bear, Robert Pohl, said to be an ex-convlct, and Edward Larken. cook at a Bald Eagle lake cottage, were killed and several others wounded, one, William Butler, a White Bear fisherman, perhaps fatally. Pohl. who had been working at White Bear for about a week, and who Is believed to have been a professional bank thief, took a check for S7 to the bank today, and while the cashier, Alfred Auger, waa exam ining it, he produced an automatic rifle, and bade Auger hand over all the cash in the bank. Auger complied. Aa the robber dashed out of the bank with 1566 in cash, Auger raised the alarm, and citizens pursued the man to a lumber yard, where he hid. Larken entered the yards and was shot through the heart. The robber then ran to a pile of lumber a short distance beyond the yard and hid under It. A desperate fight with the citizens, during which at least 500 shots were exchanged, followed. John Brachvogel, one of tlje posse, who was armed with a repeating rifle, wounded the robber in the arm. The man dropped his weapon, but picked It up again, and an he tu.-ned to fire, Brachvogel shot htm dead. Fifteen bullet wounds were found in the man's body. Preach Holy War Against Spain Riff Arabs Revive Old Legend Which Destines Moors to Recon quer Country. ALHUCEMA8, Morocco. Aug. 5. Th Riffs are preaching a boly war against Spain, and a picturesque feature of their argument la a revival of the old legend, according to which the Riff Arabs, who ar descendants of th Moors, driven out of Spain by Isabella and Ferdinand, are des tined to clear the Spaniards out of Africa, cross to Spain and reconquer the country over which Boabdll, the last king of Granada, ruled. Every Riff family la being visited by the priests, and told that the time for the fulfillment of this legend la now at hand, and urged to enter the war to regain th Alhambra. CERBERE, France, Aug. 6. It is reported here today a general strike is likely In Spain owing to th refusal of th author ities to permit pacific demonstrations against the war in Morocco and in favor of tha release of the men confined In the fortresses since the rioting at Barcelona lost week. SWEDEN-AMERICA OCEAN LINE torkholra Millionaire Will Establish First Direct Passenger Line Between Countries. STOCKHOLM. Aug. 6 -Axel Johnson, a local millionaire, haa purchased two large ocean steamers for th purpose of estab lishing the first direct passenger line be tween Sweden and America. Zeppelin II Circles Tower of the Cologne Cathedral FRANKFORT. Aug. 6.-Th airship Zep pelin II started from here at dawn today I on its third effort to reach Cologne, 110 miles away. Th line were cast loose at twenty minutes before t. and even at that early hour a crowd of M.000 people bad as-1 sembled to cheer the departure, I COLOGNE. Aug. I The Zeppelin airship1 arrived here at 1015 a. m., today, two hours and a quarter later than expected. Tne vessel was delayed by unfavorable weather. The ship circled the tower of the Cologne caiuediai. fl U.g Iww, aiij Uteu sailed to WILL NAME CONVENTION CITY Jewelers Decide Today Where to Go Next Year for Meeting. NAME OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR Archibald Re-elected President and Joseph Maaer First Vice President L. Combs of Omaha on Executive Committee. The Jewelers will determine this morning what city shall have the next annual con vention. The contest for the honor has waxed exceedingly hot following the elec tion of officer yesterday. Detroit and Cedar Point, O.. are still regarded las hav ing the best chance. Some speeches of invitation were got out of the way at the session yesterday afternoon. These speeches and an address by A. F. Sheldon took up all the time that the dele gates spent In session. Mr. Sheldon, who is president of the school for salesmanship bearing his name, talke on "Betterments In Business." Following this some of the dlc gates visited the smelter and others went to Fort Crook. In the evening the Order of Kuku initiated a class, following which ihsy gave a vaudeville program. The display of diamonds and Jewelry In the Rome was seen by many hundred peo ple last evening. The jewels shown are the same a those on view all week. The following officers were elected Thurs day morning: President J. p. Archibald. Blalrvllle, Pa. First Vice President Joseph Mazer, Mc Alester. Okl. Second Vice President-Jacob Nabsted, Davenport, la. Secretary Claude Williams. Columbia, Mo. Treasurer A. B. Hull, Belding, Mich. Member Executive Committee T. L. Combs, Omaha. The administration with a whoop ao far fleers were concerned. slate went through as the first two of- President Archibald was first accorded a unanimous re-election, A. B. Paegel of Minneapolis having concluded not to enter the lists for that office. He was, how ever, a candidate for re-election as first vice president and was beaten by Joseph Mazer of McAlester, Okl. F. A. Morean of Illinois was a third candidate. The vote on th first and only ballot atood as fol lows: Mazer, SS; Paegel, 36; Morean, 1 Th convention then proceeded to the election of a second vice president, C. E. Williams of Condon, Ore., the Incumbent, and Jacob Nabsted of Davenport, la., being nominated. Williams Is In th administration group and nominated Mazer. Mazer reciprocated by seconding Williams' nomination for the second vice presidency. Williams I Loqnadons. Williams eumeious speeches were a pro nounced feature of th Thursday session. He made from one to four addresses upon very subject and motion before the con vention, and It was declared even by Mazer that "h had talked too much." So simi larly T. L. Combs f Omaha, a Williams spokesman, alao declared. In nominating Mazer for the first presi dency Wllllama produced a hearty laugh by finishing his address without naming his candidate. Wllllama. after Nabsted had been nomi nated aa a rival candidate declared that h would ask Combs to withdraw his name. Mr. 'Comb did not respond and Wllllama did not seem greatly disturbed. Th vot for second vice president stood: (Continued on Second Page ) the suburb of Blckendorf to come down. Th landing place and the balloon she! were surrounded by Immense crowds. The progress of the veknel was reported by telegraph aa It came down the Rhine Crowds witnessed the passage from Llm burg. Neuwied, Remagen and Bonn. The ahlp ran Into a thick fog as it approached Cologne and deviated from its course to the southwest and missed Cologne by ten miles or so. It got Its bearing again near Deuren, and when th fog lifted. It hedl straight for Uie city and cam In rapidly. Senate Adopts Conference Report by Vote of 47 to 31. SEVEN REPUBLICAN INSURGENTS Iowa Senators Vote with Democrats Against It. NEBRASKA MEN FOR THE BILL Bnrkett and Brawn, vrlth Crawford of Mouth Dakota, Give It Their Votes A Id rich Knlav glsea Bill. CHRONOLOGY OF PAYNE BILL. March 4, ISO President Taft called an extraordinary session of congress to revlss th tariff. Karch 15 Congress convene. March 18 Chairman Fayn of th house ways and mean oonuoitt introduced a provisional Mil. April 10 Xons passed bill and transmitted It to th senate. April la Benat began considera tion cf th measure. July 8 Beset passed bin with 847 amendments. July Tariff question shifted from both house of oongress and sent to conference ooznxnltts. July 8 Conferees reach agree ment and It waa signed and reported to th bouse. July 31 Sous adopted eoni... nc report and passed th ellL August 6 Senate adopted confer ence report and passed bill, August 8. President signed tariff bill. August 6 Hew tariff law baoom effective. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The tariff his been revised and "he extraordlnay seesion of congress has been brought to a olose. Both houses adjourned sin die officially at 6 o'clock tonight- That is the time en tered upon the journals, but a a matter of fact the adjournment waa taken In the house at &' p. m. and in the senate at 6:f p. m. The closing hours of the session war un interesting. The revision haa ben accord ing to the desires of soma and with tha hearty disapproval of others, and tha last two days had been cor fumed by members of the senate In expressing their satisfac tion or dissatisfaction, aa th cas might be. ' ; . The conference report on th bill ' ' was screed to by the sei.ate by a vote of 47 to 31 when the vote waa taken at 1 p. m.. and soon afterwards the concurrent resolution making changes in the leather schedule was adopted by both houses. Prior to the adpotlon of th report, speeches against It were made by Senator DoMlver of Iowa, representing the repub lican Insurgents, and Senator Bailey of T5xas. for the democrats. Senator Aldrich, chairman of the finance committee, de fended the bill In an earnest speech, and several speeches were made by other sen ators. The bill received all the' republican votes except those of Brlstow, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, La Follette, Beverldge and Nel son. The senate then took up th concur rent resolution, reducing the rale In the leather schedule. Vote la Detail. The following is the vote in detail: TEAS. Aldrtch, Ciy-utli, Lorlmer, Borah, Lep, McCumber, Bourntt, Dick, Ollvr, lr.aier. Dixon. Pais. Brand(M, Dupont. Penroae, Bruwn. Eiklna, Ptrkiaa, Uufkeiejr, Kllut, Piles, Burkatl. Fry. Root, Burnham, Gamble, Scott, Uurroa, Uumnhelm, Smith (Mica.), Burton, Hal. Sruoct, Cartar, Heybum, S'.apbanaon. lark (Wyo.), Jobnaon, Sutherland, Crane, Jonee, Warner, t'j-awlord, Kean, Vt'.uuore 47. Culktn, Lodie, NATS. Bcn. Dolllver. Oreraua. ?"' . Hetrhar, Paynter, ' llanktiead, Koater, ha nor Beveridze. Frailer. Bhlely, Brietow. Oore. fcinuuoo chamberlain. Huzlias, goilUi aid, ;)W. La toilette. Smllh (s. c!l. McLsurm, Siena, i.uloeraon, Marlln. Tillafarre XL Lumnilii. Nelson. ure ai. . iJeuiel. Siewlanda, .SciiatorTkicEnery of Louisiana, democrat, who was. absent, waa paired for th bill! He was the only democrat favoring th measure. Tho pairs on th blU wer as follows, those for It being first mentioned! Brlg.H with Johnson, Dillingham with Tillman, Galllnger with Taylor, Nixon with Owen. Richardson with Clarke (Ark.). War yen with Money, Mciir.cry wUn Eavla, lJresii(ent Taft arrived at th carltol at i ii p. m. and entered th room set aside for the occupation of the president on th concluding day of a session of congress. Hia appearance there, th first sine his In cumbency as president, caused members of congress to desert the two chamber aud form in line to be received by him. There was a constant procession of hand shaking siateBmen through the pieHldent's room from the. tim of his arrival utiUl his departure at 5. SO o'clock. President Signs Bill. Just aa the hand of the gold clock In the president's room reached 5:06 the Payne tarriff bill, as the measure will b known, was laid before the president. He picked up a pen supplied by Chairman Payne of the house Hays and means committee, and which had been ust-d by both the vice president and the eiitaker In signing the bill, and attached hi signature. After writ ing "William 11 Taft," the president added, "HlKned five minutes after five o'clock. Auyust oth.' 1!?-W. II. T." Bending over the president aa he af fixed his signature a ere Secretary Knox, Stcretary MacVeagh. Attorney General Wlckei bliain. I'ost master General Hitch cock. K'cretary Nag.'l and Secretary Wll mjii. fTandiug about' the table were Sen ator Aldiich, Hepienemative Payne and many other membtin of the senate and house. Mr. Payne stood with hand extended, waiting to receive th pan lit whloh th bill was signed. He took It wits) a picture of boylkb glut veiivr4Ui4 hi face.
