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he Omaha Daily Bee The Omaha Dee It thn most powerful business getter In the went, because It goes to the home of poor and rich. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Tartly cloudy. For Iowa Fair; cold. For weniher report ot pago 2. ( VOL. XXXIX NO. ISO. OMAILA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1910-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. SENATE TALKS ON IRRIGATION Bill to Issue Thirty Millions Worth of Certificate! it Discussed for Two Hoari. WESTERNERS CHAMPION IT Knapp Approves Taft Measure in Committee COLDEST DAY OF THE WINTER Record for Many Years Broken by Low Temperatures in South west and West GBAIN EXCHANGES UNDERTIME PROBE House Committee Investigation , Switches from Cotton to Wheat and Corn Today. BROKERS OPPOSE PENDING BILLS Statement by Chairman of Commerce Commission Draws Fire from Senator Cummins. SLEET OVER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY P Money Badly Needed Project Now We11, ' to Finish der Way. WILL NOT AF, Funds to Liquidate Be Paid by "REASURY itei Will c LAND WITHDRAWN SNTBY I. a rate Trarte In Wyom a ' M nn- tnna, Supposed to Contain Cost, ' Will lie Examined Other Tracts Restored. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-For more. than two hours today the senate listened to a discussion of the senate bill authorizing; the Issuance of $:,000,000 worth of certificates of Indebtedness for the completion of Irri gation projects already begun. The measure was championed by a num ber of senators, especially Messrs. arter and Borah. Mr. Carter said In a number of cases dams had been completed, while the ditches had not been constructed, thus providing; for the storage but not for the distribution of water. The effect was to withhold the wator from settlers. It was stated that the money would all be repaid by the settlers and that in reality the treasury would not in any way be affected. The fear was voiced by Senators Flint and Crawford that the department might be tempted to enter upon new schemes be fore the completion of present enterprises and thus soon Involve the government In further obligations. It was contended on behalf of the measure that the danger had been averted by the language of the bill. Senator Heyburn charged the shortage of the reclamation fund to be due to the wlth Srawal of the public lands from sale. Thus the fund had been starved by the govern ment and congress had heedlessly per mitted the process, he said. He declared It would not be asking too much to ask the appropriation of the money necessary to make good the wrong done. He urged that the t I f should not be crimped. The bill was under consideration when the sen ate adjourned. An extensive temporary withdrawal of lands from the public domain was made by Secretary Balllnger today Involving 2,0(8.492 acres reserved from coal entry, and , 127,122 acres withdrawn from all forms of disposition. Forty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-one acres were restored to settlement. Date recently collected by the geological survey Indicated that the public lands In Wyoming und' Montana contained valu- hle Ureeestt tfauaXaiid- tdetermlnaiAiatuwia-tomUy In .the Armour Packing the question the secretary of the Interior today withdrew from coal entry 1.208.201 acres In the former state and 8A0, 286 In the latter pending a detailed field ex amination. - Twenty-one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-eight acre1) located along the Red Rock lakes In Montana have been tempo rarily withdrawn from all entry In aid of . proposed legislation affecting the dis posal of water power Kites on the public domain. A field Investigation having shown the existence of valuable coal de posits on 67,255 acres in Colorado the land has been reserved from all entry until they have been classified and appraised ly geologists, and 26,002 acres in that state which are now exempt from coal entry were today withdrawn from all forini of disposition, pending their classi fication and appraisement Phosphate Lands Restored. Tn nil of proposed legislation affecting ortd disposition of phosphate deposits on the puhlle domain the soiretiry has tem porarily withdrawn 2,298 Here? in Utah from nil entry and hai restored to, settle ment 56,4 31 rrres. which wene tempo rarily withdrawn in that state on Decem ber , IMS A field Invest xdtlon proved j that the lnnds which have been restored : did not contain deposits of phosphates, The total area covered by withdrawals for examination an to phosphate deposits now amounts approximately to 2.493.656 acres, of whlrh about 86,553 are in Utah. In aid of proposed legislation affecting the use and disposition of petroleum on the public domain. 0,109 acres of land In Wyoming have been withdrawn from all forms of disposal. .Indian Appropriation Lower. The Indian appropriation bill being placed before the house today, Representative Burka (S. I).), chairman of the committee reporting tho measure, spoke at length upon the condition of the Indiana In the United Mates. While the appropriations for the present fiscal year aggregated nearly 112. 300.000, the aggregate of the pending bill was but 18,278,662, excluding payments to be n nde from trust funds. He said the com mittee would be able at the next session of congress to reduce still further these appro priations. cnsation in Paxton Answer Administrator Says Evidence Tends to Show Dr. Hyde Was Double Murderer. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 17.-John O. Pax ton, In a sensational answer jflled In the circuit court at Independence today, ac cuses Dr. Hyde of bad faith In trying to secure evidence In hi (Paxton's) posses slon "tending," the answer reads, "to prove that the plaintiff has murdered by the administration of poison Thomas H. Swope and Chrlsman Swope; has alao at tempted to poison Margaret Swop and by the same kind of treatment had communi cated lo the members of tha Swope fanillv '-yphotd fever." This was the first time that Dr. Hyde had been openly charged with communi cating typhoid fever to the members of '.lie Swope family. Mr. Paxton'a amended answer was filed in connection with a mo ton filed by Dr. Hyde'a attorneys to compel Paxton to Include In his deposition In a civil suit letters or other communications he had received from Dr. Ludwlg Hektoen of -nicago. AlfW hearing the argument In the rase thiourt overruled the motion filed by Dr. Hyde's attorney WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Unqualified ap proval of the administration railroad bill In all Its essential features was given to day by Chairman Marlln A. Knapp and Judson C. Clements of the Interstate Com merce commission at a hearing before the Senate committee. Some minor amend ments were suggested, however. At the conclusion of the statement by Chairman Knapp he was asked by Mr. Rlklns whether the commission endorsed the administration measure in preference to the Cummins bill. Mr. Knapp replied that such an Inference could be drawn. "In view of the question asked by Chair man Klklns, whlrh I helleve to be some what unfair," Interrupted Mr. Cummins, "I should like to cross-examine Judge Knapp." Mr. Elklns hastened to say that he had not Intended to be unfair and he thought the chairman of the commission had given a guarded answer to whlcji no objection could be made. Mr. Cummins said he found no fault with Mr. Knapp's answer, nor his statements approving the adminis tration bill, but that he was of the opinion that one bill might be approved without condemning another. Mr. Knapp said that there were marry features of the Cummins bill with which the commission was In sympathy, The tense situation finally was adjusted by Senator F.lklns withdrawing his ques- tlon. Armour Says His Meat Prices Are All Competitive President of Kansas City Corporation Denies Representatives of Pack ers Fix Selling Price. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo Feb. 17. Charlca W. Armour, president of the Ar mour Packing company of Kansas City, contended before Special Examiner Daniel Dillon In an investigation of the meat packers here today that competition fixed the price at which meats were sold. He denied that representatives of his firm met with other packers to fix prices. Mr. Armour testified that his firm is a member of the Kansas City Produce ex change and that the exchange fixed prices Uv hMftinff for nffpHnffa. Mr. Armour, the first witness, declared I the Armours had no financial Interest in the National Packing company of New Jersey. , Mr. Armour told of the holdings of the company of New Jersey, Armour & Co. of Illinois and Armour Co. of West Virginia. The latter company sells for the Illinois company of the same name and reports Its earnings to the Illinois office. He also told of the subsidiary corpora tions In which the Armours are interested. Three Injured by Copper Converter Oscar Meyers, Smelter Foreman, and Two Others Seriously Hurt ' by Explosion. Oscar Meyers, 1414 Chicago street, and two Austrian laborers were severely burned last night at the smelter by the explosion of a copper converter. The two men were in a serious condition and were taken at onoe to Clarkson hispltal. Meyers is fore man of work about the converter and has boen In the employ of the smelter for eight years him. i The two men were laborers under Brown Proposes River Amendment Nebraska Senator Will Seek to Get Funds for Missouri Above Kansas City., From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-(8peclal Tele gramsSenator Brown today Introduced an amendment to the rivers and harbors bill providing an appropriation of S200.0UO fur further improvement of the Missouri river above Kansas City. Senator Crawford of South Dakota to day was appointed a member of the com mittee to Investigate the Increased cost In living. . . v POWDER MILLS ARE WRECKED Several Reported Dead In Explosion of Trogent Worka In Cal ifornia. OAKLAND, Cal.. Feb. 17. Word has been received from Fan Lorenxo that the Trogent Powder works has been wrecked by an explosion. Several persons are reported dead. Marry in Omaha with Cheap Old Iowa License A peculiar case has come to the surface through the Investigation of the pension department relative to the status of certain marriages performed In Omaha, where the licenses were procured In Council Bluffs. It appears that In this particular case the colored couple wa married by a colored minister in South Omaha on a license bought in Council Bluffs. The marriage took place in 1904 and now the question is up to the validity of the marriage. The man being dead. Ills wife Is an applicant for a pension as his widow. It has been the general policy of the pension depart ment to recognise the validity of common law marriages and It will doubtless do so In this particular case. It was developed during the hearing In the pension Investigation that numerous Thermometer is Below Freezing at Brownsville, Texas. DEEP SNOW ALONG THE OHIO BBBBBBSBBPB) Traffic Demoralized by Gale of Sixty Miles an Hour. TRAINS LATE EVERYWHERE Disturbance Will B Ontral at Points Along; the Atlantic Coaat This Morn ing. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Oentle spring, which ventured abroad !n the Atlantic states yesterday and today was running for cover 'by tonight, ahead of a snow and sleet storm which has tasen a flying start over the eastern arulf states and Is mov ing northeast, rapidly. The eastern Atlantic states will be under its influence by to morrow morning at the a test, the weather bureau forecasters say. This morning at Brownsville, Tex., at the mouth of the Rio Grande, the temperature is below freeslng and the mercury Is re- vtatapln 9ft mrtA in t,Alnr In (H. nnrthvnil A sleet storm Is central over the Missis sippi valley and snow Is falling over the Ohio valley. Gale In Northern Ohio. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 17. A gale rang ing in Velocity from forty to sixty miles an hour and bearing with It a heavy snow has demoralized traffic In northern Ohio, Passenger trains on the New Tork Cen tral and Pennsylvania lines are running two to four hours late. Suburban cars are reported stalled west and south of here and local traffic is spasmodic. Practically no , freight trains are moving, thousands of care being held here, at , Buffalo, Youngstown and various division points. Coldest of Winter. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 17. The coldest weather of the winter prevailed In western Kansas, Colorado and parts of Wyoming today. The cold also was very severe in Oklahoma. Texas and other portions of the southwest. The Kansas temperatures ranged from 10 degrees above to 4 below. In Colorado some of -the mountain districts report as much as 80 degrees below sero. ' In the Colorado lowlands sero temperature with ,now mad the d' exceedingly uncom- fortable. Colorado Springs had the coldest weather in ten years 10 below aero. At Corono, a little hamlet on the summit of the divide, It was SO below, with . the wind howling through the hills at the rate of fifty-two miles an hour. In Oklahoma, eotuhern Kansas and the Texas Panhandle nearly two Inches of snow fell during the night Sleet and Snow In South. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 17. A com bination of sleet, snow and high winds during last night shut off wire communi cation to the south today. The sleet throughout southern Indiana, lower Illi nois and parts of Kentucky and Tennes see practically put telegraph companies out of commission except to the east and north. In Louisville an Inch or more of sleet was covered during the night by four Inches of snow and It Is still snowing, MKMrnls, Feb. 17. On the heels of springlike weather the central south and southwest today is covered with sleet and snow. In Memphis two Inches of sleet fell during the night and it was still snow ing today. In north Mississippi and central Ar kansas practically the same conditions prevail, while the extreme northwestern section of Arkansas reports a snowfall of ten Inches. , in southwestern Texas the weather Is clearing but cold. Oklahoma points report the coldest weather In years. NEW RICHMOND. Wis.. Feb. 17. This is the coldest day of the season, 24 degrees below sero. Death - In Ohio Storm. CINCINNATI. O., Feb. 17.-One death and numerous minor accidents were charged to the bllssard which descended upon this section yesterday and continued today. Heavy drifts of snow packed hard by a stinging north wind, blocked suburban trol ley lines and steam roads and Impeded the operation of street cars in this and sur rounding cities. Herman Havrkamp, 1326 Clay street, was found unconscious in a snowdrift at Twelfth and Vine streets and died later. Heavy Snow la Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 17.-Last nlghfs snowfall was the heaviest of the winter in Seattle and the country north and east. Here more than an inch fell and fourteen miles northeast there was a fall of four teen Inches. LARAMIE. Wyo.. Feb. 17.-A minimum temperature of 8 degrees below sero was recorded here last night. I , Insurance Agent Killed. CliESTON. Ia., Feb. 17. (Special Tele gram.) J. E. Glass, an Insurance agent, whose home Is at Atlantic, was killed at Shannon City this morning while waiting for a north bound train. On its approach he stepped in front of the engine, suppos edly by mistake. Death was instantaneous. marriages of this character are performed by colored ministers In Omaha, and that at least twenty of such marriages are known In South Omaha, with a larger number In Omaha. The excuse of the parties for going to Council Bluffs for license was that they could be procured cheaper over there than In Omaha. The marrying parsons made their returns to Council Bluffs, although performing the ceremony In Omaha or South Omaha. Under the Nebraska laws the parties thus married are held guiltless, and while the marriage may be recognised as a common law marriage, the person performing such marriages la amenable to the law and the license Is not worth the paper It Is written upon. Neither Is the record of such mar riage of any legal value. From the Washington Star. TAFT STIRS UP SENATORS Leaders Getting Ready to Push Ad ministration Measures. l FIGHT THE INCORPORATION BELL This and Alaska Legislative Act Are In. Greatest Dangrer of Defeat In the Upper House of Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 Arrangements having been made by republican leaders of the senate to smooth out the creases In tha administration. 6V, for. the enactment of , postal sevlngs bftv legislation,' stock Is now being taken, of other bills numbered among the Taft .policies to ascertain what may be their chances for passage. So far as the senate is concerned, all of the ad ministration bills appear to be In good condition, except, the federal Incorporation measure and that to create a legislative oounctl for Alaska. The fact that Senator Beverldge, who is sponsor for the Alaska bill, has agreed to allow It to be displaced as the "unfinished business" Indicates that he is not entirely sanguine of Its success. There has developed In the senate a very pronounced objection to denying the people of Alaska the right of suffage as would be done by a bill permitting the president to appoint a legislative body. Many senators believe It would be better to permit present conditions to continue until the territory becomes more thickly populated. Congress, they argue. It In position to exercjse control over the mineral deposits so as to pre vent any monopoly from gaining a foot hold. The Arizona and New Mexloo statehood bill will have early attention. It will be amended by the senate committee on ter ritories In accordance with the plan re cently agreed upon between the congres sional leaders and the administration ad visers. In that form It Is likely to pass the senate and It Is probable It will be accepted by the house. This plan looks to the. separation of votes in two territories on the acceptance of a constitution and the eleotlon of officers and provides for a general federal'scrutlny of constitutions that may be adopted. This accords with the president's plan and it Is asserted he will be thoroughly satisfied with such an adjustment. Strong Influences are nt work to get the railroad bill out of committee at the earli est possible moment and some of the senate leaders have given their promise that It will be reported next week, If not this. It was announced today that the special committee of western senators of which Senator Smoot is chairman to which the administration conservation bills will be referred, expects to hold day and night sessions for the purpose of expedltllng !t work. The conference of republican leaders o' the senate, which was agreed upon yester day, for the purpose of harmonising enn fllctlng amendments to the postal saving bank bill, Is to be held today after the sen ate adjourns. " V ' Mad Mullah on War Path. ADEN, Arabia. Feb. 17. Mohammed Ab dullah of Somallland. the "Mad Mullah," Is again on the warpath. A big force of dervishes has raided the sultanate of the M!Jertlns, killing and burning. The slaugh ter of the tribesmen) was very heavy. One whole town was gutted by fire and 14,000 camels taken by the dervishes. This weeka man sold a sewing ma chine, that he hadn't been able to give away, by advertising it once in The Bee 'For Sale Columns. j The machine was nil right, but none of his friends or their friends could find use for it. The Dee Want Ads will sell any thing under the Sun And they will do it quickly. tt you pay rent on a phone it will be all right to call. Doug. 238 Want Ad Department, Miss Democracy's Quest Rest of People Lett on Lima Arc Rescued Eighty-Eight Passengers Who Re mained on Wreck Saved by Chilean Cruiser. QUELLON, Chile, Feb. 17. The Chilean tugboat Plsagua arriving here reports that the Chilean cruiser Mlntstre Zenteno has rescued the eighty-eight persons who had been left on the wreck of the British steamer Lima, Jn the Huablln passage, Strait of Magellan. . -' i WASHINGTON, Fen, 17. All hope that the missing United States navy tug Nina, j " consumption of the produc ts of the which left Norfolk February 6 bound to ! Standard Oil company. Boston with thirty-two persons aboard. Is I "9 "Pke ln opposition to a blll authoris stlll afloat Uiaa been Abandoned by the ) an o11 and S8-8 P'Pe llne acroM tlie Navy department and today the warships i which, for five days have been searching ' for the Nina, were ordered to discontinue thelr hunt. Laborites at War with Ministry President of Party Says Veto Must Be Dealt with Before Budget. LONDON. Feb. 17. George M. Barnes, member of Parliament for GlaBgow, Black frlars division, who two days ago was elected chairman of the labor party In Parliament, threw a bombshell Into the political arena this afternoon ln the shape of a manifesto, which If acted upon, means the severance of the ties which heretofore have united the liberals and the laborites. "I learn," writes Mr. Barnes, "that Pre mier Asquith Is to hold office without as surances from the king with regard to the veto and that the veto is to be dealt with after the budget. "That, of course, will not be acceptable to the "labor party." This manifesto is generally accepted as an ultimatum that in the event of this protest being disregarded the laborites will vote against the government. ADMITS HE KILLED I0WAN Joseph Halnnr llnnued for Murder of Alex Kroner, Champion WIiik "hot. REGINA, Saskatchewan. Feb. 17. Joseph Halnor was hanged in the Jail yard here today. Last night he confessed to Captain Lanktn of the Salvation army that he had killed his employer, Alexander Fraser, be cause he owed him two years' wages aB a farm laborer. Fraser was from Iowa, where he was known as a champion wing shot. Roosevelt Party Reaches Gondokoro; All Are Well GONDOKORO. On the Upper Nile, Feb. 17. Colonel Roosevelt, Kermlt Roosevelt and the other members of the Smithsonian African scientific expedition arrived here today. All are well. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the other hunters and scientists constituting the ex pedition sent out by tho Smithsonian In stitution at Washington have passed through the most trying stage of their African journey and from now on will be In close touch with the outside world. For the last ten days they have been practically Isolated In a wilderness where the only communication between the scat tered villages was through native runners. At Gondokoro a brick house has been placed at the disposal of Mr. Roosevelt. In the town there are a few shops belonging to Greeks and Indians and a few traders make their headquarters there. The steam boats owned by the Sudan governmnt call once a month for passengers and the mails (or Khartum. The American party will embark on the -irdar's launch probably tomorrow and proceed down the Nile tj Khartum, where JEFF DAVIS FLAYS OWEN Arkansan Charges Oklahoman with Being Rockefeller Tool. WISHES JOHN D. IN HADES Makes Characteristic Speeeh In Senate and Bill lie Oppoaes Passes with Only His Dissenting Vote. WASHINGTON., Feb. 17-Senator Jeffer son Davis of Arkansas startled the senate today with the declaration that he would like to see John. D. "Rockefeller consigned to perdition and burned in flames caused P'bHc lands of Arkansas. Accusing Sena- , tor Owen, sponsor of the bill, with a busl- ness connection with the Standard Oil company, ne engaged in a spiruea conoquy with that senator. The bill had been passed at a previous session of the senate and was recalled by Mr. Owen to accom modate Mr. Davis. In the course of his speech, Mr. Davis contended that the admission of the pipe line Into Arkansas would violate the anti trust laws of his state and saying that hell was the only place he would be will ing to see the Standard Oil company's pipe line enter, and he added that he would also be glad to see Mr. Rockefeller "In cinerated ln the flames caused by his own oil." ' Mr. Owen denied all connection with the Standard Oil company and said that the oil In Oklahoma could be taken out only through pipe lines crossing Arkansas. On the passage of the bill Mr. Davis cast the only negative vote. What Mr. Davis Sail. Mr. Davis asserted that the bill was In the Interest of the Prairie Creek company, which he said, was a branch of the Standard Oil company. Believing this to bo the truth, he snid he could not sit idly by and allow to be passed a bill, which was in direct conflict with the anti-trust law of his state. This law, he said, had proved to be ef fective, while the Sherman anti-trust law had done absolutely nothing tu check the grasp and greed of the Standard Oil com pany. He had not forgotten the verdict for $:'9,000,000, he said, but that had vanished as the frost before the sun. Hence, he concluded that the provision requiring com pliance with the Sherman law as "a mere sop to catch the votes of senators, who would not openly cast their votes In favor ! statute pussed March 25, 1W8, limiting bank of the set of thieves and robbers which ' In In that state to corporations and pro constitutes the Standard Oil company." j vldlng for a guarantee fund for depositors t'hallena-ra Minority to Aid Bill. He declared the bill to be one that no senator could afford to support and chal- (Contlnued on Second Page.) they will be due about March 6. Three days will bo sptnt at Khartum when the trip to Cairo will be begun. Mrs. Roosevelt In expected to meet hi r husband and son at Khartum. CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Fred.rlek O. RonfH of tho Denver Pont left Chicago for New York today on his way to Khartum to meet former Prrsld'-nt Roosevelt. Mr. Bonfils. who carries with him credentials from almost evry chamber of commerce between Kansas City and the Pacific coat, will urge Mr, Roosevelt to return to this country through Rufcsla and the Philippines, making his entry nt Sau Fran cisco. The program which la to be suggested to Mr. Roosevelt will not Interfere with his present arrangements in Kurope, but he will be asked, after the conclusion of his lectures In England, to turn toward the east tigaln for the purpose of visiting Japan and tha Philippines, In order to acquaint himself thoroughly with the existing con ditions in the Pacific. Mr. Bonfils will saJI from New York on Saturday. He will be accompunled by George Creel, a member of hla Denver st a Men from Chicago, Duluth and Min neapolis Will Be Heard. BURLESON CLOSES FOR COTTON He Says New York Confesses it is No Longer Spot Market. EXCHANGE LOSES ITS FUNCTION Institution Does Not "err as Mediant for Bringing- Growers and Pro ducers Together .Only , Gambling; Concern. WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. The Investiga tion of transactions in futures on ex changes and on boards of trades, which has been proceeding before the hoouse committee on agriculture, swung tonight from the cotton exchanges to the grain mnrts. Both sides on tlia uestlon of pro posed legislation to abolish the specula tive operations In the New York Cotton exchango closed today and tomorrow dele gates from the grain ferunis of Chicago. Philadelphia, Duluth and Minneapolis will voice their opposition to the pending bills. Both the New York Stock exchange and the whl;e slave traffic evil were drawn on by L. Mandelhaum, a member of the Now York Cotton exchange ,as Instance where the Interference of the law could overstep Its bounds In certain particu lars. He portrayed the exchange was gen erally without blemish. Former President Hubbard traced tho exchange's evolution. Ilnrleson Prefers Ilueketshopa. Representative Burleson of Texas, a producer of cotton and ns a representative of cotton producing Interests, declared the bucket shops were Infinitely prefer able to the exchange, with Its manipula tions of prices, and that the exchange by comparison with bucket shops was as Monte Carlo and Its roulette and monthly record of suicide to the game of craps the pickaninnies play In the back alleys. He arraigned what he stamped as con fessions of the exchange Itself. He said New York had ceased to be a spot market, and when Representative Cocks of New York UHked, ''Where Is there a spot mar ket then?" replied that they were ln the south. The producers and spinners, he In sisted, were 'united in the demand that the intubus of the exchange be removed, that Its revision committee was vested with power that no committee should have and that the fixed dlfferenoea sys tem might easily becomo the vehicle of disaster. He declared that the low grades and the "overs" the rcTu!t,-Brar mostly were sent to the New York warehouses that the ootton exchange had not performed Its function of bringing the producers and the spinnerB together and referred facetiously to the members of the exchange as "mer- chants, I will not say gamblers." ot nn1ii,le for Anything;, The consumption of cotton , would con- Unue even of tne New york and New Orleans exhanges were abolished and he declared that bread riots would follow In Manchester If the spindles there were stopped. Asked If he would holdthe New York cotton exchange res-ponslble for such possible riots he sarcastically suggested that he did not hold it responsible for any thing. I Its me only commorcim ouay 111 1110 world, save two," he claimed, "that can arbitrarily by committee repeal the law of supply and demand." The producers and spinners, he urged, have a right to expect oongress to lift from the shoulders the burden of the exchange, whoso representatives In tho "branch ex changes" In Texas had been "dragged from their confines," and shut out of the state. "There are more creeping, flying, boring insects preying on cotton tian on any other plant In the world and is It possible," he asked, "that you are going to leave this tender plant to the mercies of the worst pens of all, the bulls and the bears?" Guaranty Law in Supreme Court Nebraska Case Involving Its Consti tutionality Taken on Appeal to Washington Tribunal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. The question ol the constitutionality of the. Nebraska in state banks, was brought today to tht supreme court of the United Slates. Tin case in which the question arises was that btgun in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Nebraska by the Klrnt State bank of Holsteln against Gov ernor Shallenberger and other state offU cials. The court enjoined the officials from enforcing the law on the ground that It la unconstitutional. From this decision the state of Nebraska appealed to the supreint court of the United Stues. NO CHANGE IN C0NGO METHODS Belgian Chamber of Deputies Pnaaea Badgrt with Old Form of Halilnv Revenue. BRUSSELS, Feb, 17. The Chamber of Deputies by a vote of "9 to 40 today passed the Congo budget. It provides for no change in the system of raising revenue by compulsory labor. M. Lorand refused to vote, explaining that the d bate on tho budget had proven that no effective control was exercised over the Belgian administration of Belgian Congo. MORE LANDS IN RESERVE Secretary Bollinger Withdraws Twe Million Acres from iOntry. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17,-An extenslvt temporary withdrawal of land-i from tht public domain was made by Secretary Bal linger today Involving S.OOx.Ol acres re served from coal entry, and 118,015 sere withdrawn from ail forms of disposition. Forty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-one acres were restored le selUe-mtnt. r
