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he Omaha . Baily Bee. THE OMAHA DEE roes to tb homo la read by the women tells goods for adTertlsers. WEATHER FORECAST. Kor NehrnsVa Fair. For Iowa Fair. Ft r wouihor report see par 2. VOL. XXXIX-No. 222. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH .4, 1910 TWELVE PAGES. COUNCILS IGNORE .(TROLLEY STRIKE Philadelphia Officials Will Take No Action Looking to Aibitmting Differences. MAYOR ADVISES AOAIXST IT Sayi Law Provides Court for Settling Such Controversies. UNION LEADERS ARE INDICTED Murphy and Pratt Charged with Riot ing and Inciting to Riot. WILL STRIKE ORDER BE OBEYED T Official Assert Small Prrrrntisr of Workmen Will Herd the Com. niand to Walk Oat Fri day Mht. PHILADELPHIA, March S. For the first time In five years the citizens were excluded, from the. sessions of their chosen representatives this afternoon. An hour before tho time of convening the Select and Common councils, a vnst crowd hud gathered on tho fourth floor of the city hall, but policemen kept all snvo tho coun- cllmen, reporters and a few privileged per- eons outsldo the r;uto which leads to the council chambers. The grand Jury this afternoon returned Indictments agaliiHt John J. Murphy, presi dent of the Central ljibor union, and C. O. Pratt, organizer of the car men's union. Murphy Is charged with rioting and In citing to riot; Pratt with rioting, Inctlng to rot and conspruey. Mcaauae of the mayor. Tho strlko was practically Ignored by both councils. A message from Mayor Reyburn reviewed tho situation briefly and stated his policy of non-interference In these words; "It Is not tho city's duty, nor yours or mine, to Interfere between tho Philadelphia Kapld Transit Company and Its employes. The courts of law are available for the re dress of any reul gtievancej which either may have against the ottier. No reason Slsts, nor can exist, In proper cases, why y and all other disputants should not submit their differences to tho courts or adjust their disputes between themselves. It Is of the utmost Importance, however, for the good name of our city and for the safety of Us citizens, that no steps should bo taken by your honorable, bodies or by uny others which would undo or would In any way or manner Interfere with that which has already been done or lead any person to think, or beltebe, that he can by tho aid of the machinery of the executive or legislative branches of the municipal government, enforce any demand not cog nisable In the courts or voluntarily adjust able between the parties. "Any.. attempt, hov.cvorhonPBt It may be, which tends to draw uwuy Ji'uiu the parties themselves, or from the Judiciary the de termination of disputes, which under the constitution and laws of the commonwealth , ut 6 entrusted to them, necessarily weakens and Impairs our form of government and til the present caso would but tend to pro long the agitation that will delay the resto ration 'of full Bervice by the transit com pany. This the publto Is entitled to have and I confidently believe by the continu ance of present peaceful conditions it will soon be fully restored, "In bringing about peace and good order I rely on tho co-operation and aid of coun cils and the support of all law abiding cit izens.'' All retltloua Referred. That tho council were In entire accord with tho view of tho mayor In the fore gong was mado evident by the absence of any action or discussion relative to th crisis. Several pettons from busness men's associations and trades unions bearing on tne strike were heard wthout comment A resoluton from the eCntral Labor unon. signed by John J. Murphy, the president, raquestlnn arbitration, was Introduced In tho common council by James Clough, a member from the Thirtieth ward, "by re quest." as he explained. It was referred to the law committee. In select council Thomas McFarland pre f aented a resolution Instructing Mayor Rey burn, William H. Carpenter and George II. Karle, the city's representatives on tho Philadelphia Rapid Transit board of di rectors, to demand the submsslon by tho vohipany to arbitration. Councilman Henry J. Tralnor" Immedi ately moved that the resolution be tabled. Ha said ho was Informed that an act of the , Jeslslaturo of ls!3 permitted either party In dispute over wages to carry his case to The court of common pleas and that this gave the striking carmen an adequate rem edy la law. The motion to table was car ried with only a few dissenting voices. Satire by McFarland. Mr. McFarland twice attempted there after to gain the privilege of the floor In order to present another resolution, but President Haslett refused to recognise him. Tnl" resolution satirically called upon "our peerless leader. Contractor James p. JlcNlooll, who Is now sojourning In sunny Florida undor the sheltering palms, In com pany with certain Influential republican and democratic members of the councils, and tho founders of the Worklngmen League Party to Immediately return and Issue the necessary orders to Reyburn and Clay to olisnge their belligerent attitude." Falling to tiring this resolution officially to the attention of the council, Mr. McFar land distributed typewritten copies to his colleagues after adjournment Director of Public Safety Clay today wrote the president of the builders' ex Change directing that all building materials neur plans under course or construction be moved from the streets by tomorrow night. This Is to prevent riotous ptn-sons from securing missiles for use against the poMce and trolley cars. The director also Issued an official no tice to industrial establishments thro-ugn-out the city calling attention to the "duty of preventing the strees from being filled wlh grva crowds, which may be Influenced to acts of disorder and lawlessness by irr sponsllile persons. tomuany Scoata Arbitration,. Arbitration has be-n scout, d by the Pnil- tdelphla Rapid Transit company officials, t:io city's representatives on the hoard of titreetors of the company, and. In fact, by rrncucauy all persons connected in pn official capacity with the transit company. The action taken at the meeting of the Central Labor union last night, whin that oiganlzatlon made final preparations to carry 'the threatened sympathetic strike (Continued on Second Page) Cummins-Clapp Make Report on Railroad Bill Insurgel ubers atif Committee ce Court and Other Tight . Peal 2 & r. . Taft Heasure. r-. WASHING the admlnlsti1 T pair the efflcl and that the t V mcrce which tk V.V moan an expert sary," Senators t rch 3. Declaring that Uroad bill would len gths existing statute of a court of com ire Involves would 'wholly unncces- s and Clapp today submitted the mliiorlty report of the sen ate Interstate commerce, committee. The report holds that the creation of a court, the sole work of which would be to try rullroud cases, would foe fundamen tally wrong and reminds the senate of "the tremendous Influences which will Inevita bly surround the selection of such a tri bunal. " In the last three and a half years, the minority report asserts, there have been just twenty-six cases In which such a court would have had Jurisdiction. In pointing out some of tho things the senators think make the bill ineffective, they declare It should Include all corpora tion common carriers and that there Is nothing to prevent a holding corporatalon from Issuing all tho stocks and bonds It may plouse. What Is termed tho most "objectlonible and harmful feature' la the proposed de parture from tho method of defending suits j brought by carriers to mako Inoperative the orders of the commission, Tho minority senators claim that the section to govern consolidation of railway lines would permit water and rail routes to consolidate; would allow a railroad to I buy up a competitive steamship lino and that In effect all the railroads In the United Stntes could be merged under a slnglo corporation, provided they would be operated by eleetrio power. Sonators Cummins and Clapp reported to further amend the existing law to make all holding corporations como under the Jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce commission and would mako the term "common carrier" embrace all corporations having a controlling Interest In a common carrier. Court Upholds Elevation Fee in Pcavey Case Judge Sanborn Enjoins Order Prohib ; iting Roads from Making Allow ance to Elevators. KANSAS CITY. March 8.-In a decision handed down here today the United States circuit court permanently enjoined the In terstate Commerce commission from en forcing an order prohibiting railroads and other carriers from allowing compensation to owners and operators of elevators for elevation and trunsfer of grain in transit. ' The decision was given by Judge Satif born and was concurred in by Judges Hook and Adams. ' The Injunction suit was filed In St. Louis by the Peavey Elevator company, which was supported In its petition by commer cial bodies of Kansas City, Omaha and other cities In the middle west. Tho Interstate Commerce commission Issued the order prohibiting the owners of elevators from receiving compensation for the elevation and transfer of grain in tran sit on the theory that such action amounted to a rebate. The order had. It was alleged, been most detrimental to the business of elevators, the total valuo of which is millions of dol lars. The decision today rays that "the order of the Interstate Commerce commission which prohibits the allowance or payment by carriers of all compensation to owners and operators of elevators for the elevation and transfer of grain In transit la beyond the delegated power of the commission." PROF. ROSS' FRIENDS THINK HIM SCAPEGOAT Visit of Emm Goldman to Madlaon Createa BlKareet Kind of Vnl veralty Sensation. MADISON, Wis., March 3. (Special Tele gram.) There is a growing belief here that Prof. Ross, who came to Wisconsin from Nebraska university and Who was yester day censured for his connection with the visits to Madison of Emma Goldman and Parker Sercomb, will refuse to retain his placo on the faculty in the face of the re proof of the Board of Regents. His friends are outspoken in the belief that he Is being mado a scapegoat for the entire affair. He is no more to blame, they believe, for the visit of Emma Goldman than any other member of the faculty and his friends re sent the censure, saying that the report of the Board of Visitors, which investigated the entire affair, was so framed as to be come a whitewash of the university Itself, and that Prof. Ross was censured so that the sentiment In the state resulting from the affair might be satisfied by some sacri fice. In other words, rPof. Ross' friends believe that he Is carrying the burden which should have fallen to President Van Hlse as head of ths university. Tjr Cobb- 'a Salary Nine Thousand. AUGUSTA, da.. March S Tyrus Cohh received and signed his contract with tho Detroit American league ball club yester day. Cobb's contract calls for a salary of 9.0U0 annually for three years. Noisy Solons Plan to Get Two1 Jobs and Knife Shally Trcnmore Cone of Saunders county and E. B. Quackenbush of Nemaba county, belligerent fuslonlsts in the house of the 1907 legislature, are said to be in a com tlno against the re-election of Governor Shallenberger, which. Incidentally, con templates their own elevation to office. Cone would be state railway commissioner and Quackenbush attorney general. Cone Is quoted as saying that he secured a majority of the mrmbers of the house and senate petitioning the governor to convene the legislature in special a?sion to enact the Initiative and referendum and that despite the fact that Shallcnberger had faithfully promised to Issue the call If a majority of the legislators made this WILL LOOK INTO OLEOJNDUSTRY Judge Landis Orders Pederal Grand Jury in Chicago to Make Investigation. TESTIMONY IS STARTLING Moonshiners in Chicago Had Organi zation to Maintain Prices. , RATE CUTTER IS SLUGGED Association Refused to Reimburse Witness Who Paid Thug. MOXLEY'S NAME MENTIONED Conarrrsaman from Sixth Illinois Dis trict anil Other Prominent Makers Are Mentioned In the Testimony. CHICAGO. March 8. Federal grand Jury Investigation of the oleomargarine industry In this city was ordered by Judge K. M. Landis In the United States district court late this afternoon, after the court had listened to testimony given by three men who had pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Internal revenue law relating to the coloring of oleomargarine. The name of William J. Moxlcy, congressman from the Sixth Illinois district, as well as those of other prominent manufacturers of the product figured In the hearing. The testimony upon thii astlon was based, was given by Samuel Drlesbach, Daniel Borta and William Broadwell, dealers In oleomargarine in this city. Broadwell jv-as sentenced to six years In the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth and fined $15,000 by Judge Landis on Monday, but after hearing the story of the three men, the court di rected United States Marshal Hoy not to execute the sentenpe until further notice. The sentence of Drlesbach and Bortz was deferred. F.our Thoaaand Founds a Day. Broadwell, who gave the most startling testimony, appeared as a witness on his own account and acknowledged that he did so without any hope of leniency. Ha told of purchasing the white oleomargarine from manufacturers, who, he said, furnished him with the coloring, and of his selling the illegally colored product to restaurant keepers, hospitals and hotels. More than half of the total output of the oleomargar ine factories In Chicago is sold to "moon shiners," according to tho testimony of Broadwell. Pays for Slairslna-. Samuel Drlesbach told the court In de tail the course pursued by him and others In mixing and selling oleomargarine. He declared that in 1908 he mixed oleomargar ine In different places on the west side of this .city, principally In barns. He said that he went under the name of Jersey Creamery Company and mixed about ten tubs a day. At one point In the story he told of be ing in a barn mixing the fcroduet when the place was raided -and he escaped by means of a sscret stairway which had bon built for that emergency. Drlesbach said that the oleomargarine "moonshiners" had an organization to maintain high prices and that one of the members had been "slugged" because he out prices. The wit ness complained that he had paid the sluggers and had not been able to get iw Imbursements from the "moonshiners" as sociation. The witness declared that In the last year he had assisted in disposing cf about 4,000 pounas or uniawrully colored oleomargarine ally. . Dodo-ln Revenue Collectors. William Broadwell, who gave the most Important testimony, occupied the stand during tho afternon session. After telling how he happened to get Into the business of coloring oleomargarine, witness de scribed methods used to "dodge" revenue collectors." At one time he said ho had fifteen tubs' of oleomargarine stored at the Moxley plant and when the revenue collector made a raid of his placo he had the stuff shifted around from place to place. The witness said he was president of the Association of "Oleomargarine Moonshin ers, which was ore-anlzed In mm ti; ganlzatlon kept books concerning the)- dealings, but finally the members decided to nave the books burned. Broadwell testified an employe of the Moxley concern showed him how to use the coloring. It Is expected the grand Jury Investiga tion will begin on Monday. CHARGED WITH THEFT OF LARGE SUM FROM ESTATE Mosea Levlne of Loa An ore Irs Koand Living; with Rnaslan Family in Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, S. D.. March S.-(Speclal i Telegram.) Moses Levlne, arrested here by Deputy Sheriff Shaffer and Deputy United States Marshal McVeigh on an embezzle-! ment charge at the request of authorities at Los Angeles, Cal., will be held pending the arrival of requisition from California. Levlne Is accused of stealing $11,000 from a California estate of which he was receiver. He came here last Sunday and registered at the Ward hotel. He claimed the room assigned him was not good enough and left. The officers later located him with a Russian family in the suburbs of the city. Upon confirmation of the description of Levlne with the Aberdeen man, he was arrested. request "he back-tracked when Wa tnnlr the petition to him, and that Isn't the flrbt time ne nas double-crossed us." So Cone and Quackenbush and their friends don't care If Shallenberger "gets It in the neck." They have a man for governor In their little combine, but they are not disclosing his name. Cone admits, however, that this man is not one of ths essential spokes In the wheel of political fortune by which he and Quackenbush ex pect to roll Into the state house. "Shallenberger has fooled the people as cleverly as a man could, but he caa't fool them again," is Cone's avowed belief. "We know he Is lined up with the corporations and liquor trade and he can't hoodwink us any morV :p,N AFRICA ' 0' U.sjj " J From the Minneapolis Journal. RAILROAD DEADS TO GUTHRIE Oklahoma Will Call Sixteen of Most Prominent Into Court. WOULD LEARN VALUATIONS List Iirlndea Gonld, Ripley, Wlnehell, Mads and Many Imwr Offi ciate HJ mmmtuK -Into . ."V GUTHRIE. March 1 Sixteen railway of ficials. Including -several of the most prom inent In the United) States, are to be served with subpoenaes Issued this morning by the corporation commission of Oklahoma, demanding their presence In Outhrle March 15, as witnesses in the freight rate .Inves tigation now in progress here, v The list Includes George J. Gould, presi dent St. Louis, Iron Mountain. & Southern railway. New York; J. A. Edsonr, president of the Kansas City Southern railway, Kan sas City; E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, Chicago; B. L. WlncheA, president of the St Louis & San Francisco railway, St. Louis; H. U. Mudge, president of the Rock Island lines, Chicago; George H. Crosby, vice president, secretary and treasurer. Rock Island lines, Chicago; F. H. Hamil ton, secretary and treasurer, St. Louis & San Francisco railway, St. Louis; C. N. Whitehead, secretary and treasurer, Mis souri, Karsas & Texas railway; E. L. Cope land, secretary and treasurer, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Topeka, Kan.; A. C. Torbert, secretary and treasurer, Gulf Railroad & Santa Fe, Galveston, Tex.; Frank Kell, president Wichita Falls & Northwestern railway, Wichita Falls, Tex.; A. H. Caley, secretary and treasurer, St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern, New York; G. C. Hand, secretary and transfer agent, Kansas City Southern, New York; A. A. Allen, president. Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, St. Louis; F. G. Pettlbone, vice president and general manager. Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe, Galveston, Tex.; C A. Morse, foTmer chief engineer, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, Topeka, Kan. The presence of these officials Is de manded by the state of Oklahoma In an ef fort to get responsible officials on record as to the valuation of the various proper ties in Oklahoma which they represent. The state wants this Information in perfect ing Its refutation of the findings forming the basis for the recent federal Injunction Issued by Judge Hook In St. Louis, restrain ing the Oklahoma corporation commission from enforcing the freight rates that have been established in Oklahoma during the last twenty-two months. FIFTY MORE BODIES I Corpses Will Be Removed from St. I Paul Mine nt Cherry, 111., Today. PEORIA, March Richard Newsam In 3. Mine Inspecto- telephone message j from Cherry, III., late today said fifty o- sixty bodies have been found in the mam north entrance of the St. Paul mine and will be removed tomorrow. Easter is in sight. It is, not too early to begin to prepare for it. TherV will be hundreds of things necessary. Hundreds of dealers have received Easter finery and are ready to display it. In the "For Easter Column" in the Want Ad Page, will bo found their announcements. About everything required is listed there. Have you looked them overt A Natural History Study. Sixty Killed by Explosion in Alaska Mine Twenty-Three Bodies Have Already Been. Recovered -Many Others Are Injured. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 3.-Slxty are dead and many injured as the result of a magazine explosion In the main shaft of the Treadwell mine today. Xwenty-three bodies have been recovered Many Towns at Pierre Meeting South Dakota Navigation Convention Will Draw Delegates from All Along River. PIERRE. S. D., March 3. (Special.) The committees In chargo of the work of pro motion of the state meeting of dep water ways, which will be held at this city March 30 and 31 has beeVi busy slnco its selection, and Is receiving a great deal of encouragement. C. E. DcLand, who was selected to secure speakers for the occa sion has received ' assurance from the Omaha Commercial club, that It will have representatives at the meeting. The of ficers of the Mississippi Valley Transporta tion company, with headquarters at St. Louis have notified Mr. DeLand of their Intention to be represented. Commercial clubs at Kansas City, Sioux City and other river towns say they will be represented, and a representative of the National Rivers and Harbors congress will be In attendance. Besides the lono question of navigation, other matters closely connected with move ment of freight by water are being In vestigated, and will bo discussed among thj possibilities of benefits from river naviga tion. One of theso Is the proper handling of the lignite coals which are obtainable all along tho river. CLEMENCY ASKE DF0R BY DAKOTA PARDON BOARD State Body Aska that Charlee Haynea , De Not llanaed, bat Given Life Term. PIERRE. S. D., March 3. (Ppecial Telc- - gram.)-The Slate Pardon board today rec F0UND ! ommonded clemency In the case of Charles Hayes, sentenced to bo hanged In Lawrence county on March 13, recommending a com mutation to Ufa Imprisonment. They rccom mended pardons for Leroy Nath, sentenced on a burglary charge; for Marvin Stanley, sentenced from Lincoln county on an arson charge. They recommended a transfer from the penitentiary to tho reform school of Joo Dunn, sent from Lincoln county on an arson charge. Roosevelt Given Freedom of City of London by Council LONDON', March 3. The court of common council today unanimously adopted a reso lution conferring the honorary, freedom of the city on Theodore Roosevelt, In recogni tion of the "distinguished manner In which he filled the office of president of the United States and fcr the eminent service which he rendered t e cause of civilisa tion and the promotion of amicable rela tions between foreign ' nations." Mr. Roosevelt will vlilt London the mid dle of May. KHARTUM, Sudan, March 3.-Colonel Roosevelt and his part; left Mongolia to day for Lake No, where Colonel Roosevelt may take a shot at tln antelopes of that vicinity. ( TAFT ON OHIO POLITICS President Disclaims AH Interference with Affairs at Home. NO CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR Mr. Ellis Released at Reqaest of Leaders and with Cnderatnudlna; that lie Doea Not He pre sent President. CLEVELAND, O., March 3.-In a letter to H. D. Davis, United States marshal here, President Taft, denies any responsi bility for the recent election of former assistant to the attorney general. Wade H. Ellis, as chairman of the Ohio re publican executive committee. The letter received today follows: , "The White Houso, Washington, Feb ruary 28, 1910. "My Dear Mr1. Davis: I have your letter of February 26, In which you refer to criti cisms of ma for interfering In Ohio poli tics by suggesting the selection of Wado H. Ellis as chairman of the republican executive committee Of Ohio. "I am glad to have tho opportunity of assuring you '.hat I am not In the slightest degree responses for the selection of Wade H. Ellis as chairman of the repub lican executive committee of Ohio. "The natonal committeeman, Mr. oVrys, and the head of the central commlttao, Mr. rBown, and Mf. Williams, who was chairman of the'oxedutlve committee, came to Washington, and after what I assumed was a canvass. of the state, notified me tiat for the general goed of the party I should release Mr. Wade 11. EUIh from his position In tho Department of Justice (where ha was doing excellent work) and allow . him to leave tho government ser vice' In order to succeed Mr. Williams as head of the executive committee. "Most reluctantly did I do this and I did It also with the express understanding that I did not deslia to Interfere wth local police, n Oho; that I had no ciioce for governor, and that, though Mr. Ellis might succeed to the chairmanship, he would noA, whllo there, represent me or act upon my suggestions." "What I ani most anxious about Is that the republicans of Ohio shall have full and free expression with respect to the plat form that they shall adopt and also us to the Candidates to be selected. i ao not tnnik that theer Is now in j the state any Influence of an organized character that would seek to prevent such ' a full and free expression o fthe republic- ! ..,. -r. loMuj. i onaii neitner have the power nor the Inclination myself to exert any Influence of this kind. Sincerely yours, "WILLIAM H. TAFT." ' Mlaaourl lco Shaky. PIERRE, 8. D., March 3. (Special Tele gram.) The Ice on the Missouri river be came so shaky today that hacks stopped crossing on the Ice. Bad river has broken open and Is piling ice out onto tho Mis souri, forming a dam at the mouth of the t-nibller stream. The party Is due here, according to the local understanding, on March 17. NAPLKri, March 3 -Mrs. Theodore Roose velt and Mlxs Ethel, returning from an ex cursion to Capri today, found a message from Colonel Hoooevelt awaiting them. Tim message stated that Colonel Roosevelt had made no change In his plans. He exacts to arrive here during the first week of April and will go to Rome to call on King Victor Emmanuel and the pope. He will then proceed to Paris, where he Is due on April IS. GENEVA. Swltxerland. March S.-Former President Roosevelt and Brutas J. Clay, former American minister to Swltxerland, weie today appointed corresponding mem bers of the Geneva National Institute, ROADS OPPOSED TO INSPECTION Railway Men Hostile to Federal Inquiry Into Condition of Locomotive Boilers. BURKETTS MEASURE MAKES STIR Many Objections to Provisions of Second Draft. CHANCE FOR IRRIGATION WORK r Bill for Thirty Million Certificates in House. OMAHA RESOLUTIONS PUT IN Con cress Hears Appeal for Grab Stake Ilomeatend I.btt and for Money to Stop Kncroach ment of Mtaaonrl. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 3. (Special Tclo gram.) .Interest In amended Kurkett bill providing for federal Inspection of locomo tive boilers shown by a large number of persons present at today's hearing of tho subcommittee of the Interstate commerce committee over which Senator Cummins of Iowa presided. It is porslble that the new bill Introduced by Senator Kurkett with the advice of tho attorney general may have been responsible for tho large attendance, but railroad officials and their attorneys were there In large numbers and the way these attorneys went after things Indicated that they didn't like the new bill any more than they (lid the flrat measure, which Senator Burkett Introduced. The time was too short for finishing statements of the subcommittee by various railroads and the hearing was continued until tomorrow morning at 19 o'clock. The railroads in their statement followed tho same general line of argument as to suf ficiency of Inspection already given the locomotives by their Inspectors and urged again that there was no necessity for federal inspection. Vice President Kendrick of the Santa Fe railway was on tho stand tho great part of the time, and later a representative of tho Missouri Pacific railroad testified as to the Inspection followodon their lines. Some of his statements were rather sharply criti cised by members qf the subcommittee, one admission lh particular, that their boilers were often Inspected only after flues had blon out. In all testimony given there was a gen eral tone of criticism as to the present draft of the bill. After tho hearing was over one of the senators had a Utile Im promptu conference with the railroad offi cials and urged them to draw a bill that did satlsgy them If they were! not entirely pleased with the present measure. It was gathered from this conference however, that no bill providing for federal inspeo- ' tion of bM'.drs woulbachely. satisfac tory to the railroads. They are opposed to federal Inspection, though they admitted that In all probabil ity they would have to submit to it. Irrigation Bll Under Way. Tho bill providing for an issuance of S.10,000,000 bonds, chargable to the irrigation fund, to carry to completion various pro jects which have been started by the reclamation service and not yet completed will this week be taken up before the ' ways and means committee, to whom the ' bill was- referred today by a committee of fifteen, headed by Representative Mondell of Wyoming. This committee 1 composed of one representative In the house of rep resentatives from each of fifteen states whire Irrigation or reclamation projects have been started and where successful completion of such projects Is sought. There will bo a preliminary meeting of this committee In a few days to frame up a mode of procedure as to the moat ef fective methods to bo adopted to convince the ways and means' committee that the proposed bond Issue s a good and whole some thing. From a preliminary canvass of the situation. Representative Klnkald of Nebraska today said he believed ob jections which some members of the ways and means committee have openly avowed to the bond issue for reclamation projects will be overcome. t'oat of Dmlnsse. Senator Brown from the committee on Indian affairs today reported favorably a bill of Senator Burkett Increasing the cost of drainage of lands in drainage dlstrlot No. 1, Thurston county, Nebraska, from 37 to 33.B0 per acre. This drainage district was created four years ago through the efforts of Mr. Burk4t and Includes land In the Sac and Fox trtbe of Indians In Hlchurdson county, provision being made that the cost of drainage should be as sessed against the lands benefited. It was found that the original bill which provided for $7 an acre assessment would not qulto cover the amount, neoessary for proper execution of the project, and It was therefore found necessary to Increase the cost to 9.50 par acre. In his report Senator Brown referred to a letter of recommenda tion from the secretary of the Interior fa voring the Increased cost. The secretary stated that It will bo highly Important to the Indians as well as to their white neigh bors that this drainage projec should bo constructed at an early dats and that the department believed that Indians- should pay their fair proportion of the cost. He therefore recommended passago of the hill. Senator Burkett said he expected to have the bill passed within a day or two. tirnb Stake Homesteads. Senator Burkett filed resolutions this morning from Central,- Labor unions of Omaha and Lincoln urging the passage of tho "grub-tdake homestead" bl'J which tho senator Introduced last week. Great Inter est Is taken In this measure by various labor organizations of the country and they are sending petitions to senators and con gressmen from all parts of the United States favoring Its passage. The senators filed also resolutions from the Leather Workers union of Fremont. Neb., asking that the olght hour law be extendent to Include all work on govern ment contracts. It Is stated In the reso lutions that some contractors or sub-contractors who have government contracts, require twelve and In some Instances four tean hours a day from their employes en gaged on government Contracts, and the pasage of the senate bill Is urged to en force the eight hour regulation for all government work. The settlers on government land In the North Platte reclamation project have writ ten to Senator Burkett that they favor proposed $.W,O3,0U0 bond Issue to complote the lrrlgutlon project under way, and ask ing also that they be granted patents after