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A 4 Till: OMAHA SUNDAY IIKK: A PHIL 1", loin SENATORS READY. TO FIGHT Mississippi Men Prevented from "Mix ing" by Other Memberi. BRIBERY CASE BASIS OF TROUBLE II a oka Vara bc Word liar" Too 1'reelr Had TgrLrr Contra Forward lo Mix Matter Mht Session Held. JACKfcON. Miss.. April 9 The Interfer env nf other scnatois alone prevented a perscir.il encounter between Senator Par.ks and Tucker during the senatorial bribery Investigation yesterday. V. C. Mulaiiey, charged by Senator Bilbo with having paid him a bribe, was on the wit ness stand. Benator Turker, counsel for I'.llho, asked Dulaney if Percy had not paid the expenses of all senatorial candi dal ts except Vardaman. Trom the rear of the chamber Senator Batiks came charging to the front and for Senator Tucker. Tucker started for Banks. Any man who says or Insinuates that any body paid the expenses of my friend, Cjnrressinan Hyrd, Is a liar," shouted Bank. i P nnt'it turned over chairs and tables to k t between Banks and Tuckar and jei-k.ij I hem upart. The 'luoMlon, after further wrangling, wn. withdrawn ar.d President Pro Tern Pcaii Instructed newspaper men not to mention the affair. A. C. Andei.-on, I rprer ntatlve from Tip per nnd ftrnlou counties, testified that he saw Senator Hllbo mark his ballot for Vardaman. Senator J. A. Hailey of I.u derrtale was tho next witness. Senator Hilbo's counsel then rested his case. Dulaney, who testified next, said he cam to Jackson during the senatorial election "to - feat Vardaman for senator," neolea Invitation. Dulaney denied that Percy Invited him to coma. Of Representative Cow-art ha mild: " talked the situation over. Finally Cowart said 'I am representing my coumy, but far 1,000 I would represent Mrs. Cowart ejnd myself.' "I told him nobody was buying votes, nd he replied that people woudd Joke now and then. "About this Mrs. Nell: I met her around the Iemon house. She seemed a pitiful old creature, oraiy to make a Uttle money. "She paid, 'For $2,000 I can deliver nine Votes,' ' four In one hunch and five In another.' I said, 'You are crazy and, be st dee. no one Is buying votes.' That Is all X ever had to do with her." 'At the night session W. W. Mitchell, cir cuit cleric of Poplarville, Senator Bilbo's home, testified that he knew Senator Bil bo's reputation' for truth and veracity and that lie would not believe tho senator on oath. W. A. White, an attorney from BU oxl, -told of trying out Senator Bilbo In 1908. A bill was drawn and sent by a man named Bob Moseley to Bilbo. Moseley returned and said: . "Bilbo did not give me a chance to make a proposition; he made us one." Moseley corroborated White's story. , "I went to see Bilbo," said Moaeley, "and he said, 'It will cost you S300.' I offered him a check, but he said he wanted money." I Old Parliament ,.. Quits in France Long and Short Haul Clause is Public's Guard Provision in Railroad Bill of Benefit to River Towns. Says Mr. Ransdell. Adjournment Taken After Four Yean' Work Election This Month. FATU3, April 1 The Parliament which was elected In 1906 ended Ita labors tonight. The general election will take place AprJ.1 24, and the new Parliament will assemble , June 1. Henri Brlsson, president of the Chamber of Deputies, In hla closing address de clared that during the' forty years he had sat In the lower house no Parliament had w'orked harder or been more useful than , the retiring one. It had numerous social reforms to Us icredlt workmen's pensions, tariff reform j and the state purchase of one of the most , Important railroads In France and It also was leaving the Income tax bill In good shape for Its successor. All this, he said, . represented a hig step toward the realiza tion of the ideal of the constitutionalists of 1848. RICHMOND. Va., April . Representa tive Hansdell of l,oulniana. president of the National Rivers and Harbors congress, was guest of honor of the Chamber of Com merce of fhe city of Richmond .tonight, and the principal speaker of the evening. His subject was "The Systematic Improve ment., of the JUveia and Harbors of . the country." . ' ' Mr. Kansdell paid special attention to terminals .and the importance of public ownership thereof. He also discussed the "long and short haul" clausa In the ralS road bill . now pending before congress, which prohibits railways from cnatglng more for a ehorter than for a longer distance over the same route in the same direction. He said if such a clause were adopted It would prohibit the unfair practices of railroads at river points, which charge such low rates there as to drive the boats out of business and recoup their own louses by much higher rate at Interior points away from the water course. Mr. . Ranadell Is firmly convinced that unless the national government is . willing to protect the rivers by some . such provision as this or adept a method similar to that of the Hermann, which requires railroads competing with water lines to charge 120 per cent of the water rate that It is unwise to continue to ex pend large sums In the improvement of the rivers. May Build Church in Salt Lake City Latter Day Saints Are Seriously Con templating Carrying Work Into the ' West. INDEPENDENCE, Mo., April .-(Special Telegram.) Following the usual early morning prayer service at the Latter Day Saints' conference being held at this place Elder Henry Sparling of Missouri preached. At 2 o'clock business was resumed with Joseph Smith in the chair; followed by his second counsellor, Elder T. A. Smith. The petition presented yesterday requesting that a church building be built in Salt Lake City was referred to a committee composed of the first presidency, quurun of twelve and Bishop Rye with power to act. Vari ous reports were read, Including those from the twelve and the church historian and the missionaries In charge. They report a gradually increasing Interest in the work of the church, an activity in debate and great diligence and application on the part of the missionaries. The number of the new openings greatly Increased and there are more Invitationa to preach than can be responded to. Popular feeling has In creased in warmth toward the reorganized church and fewer articles and books are being published against it, as it Is becom ing better known and understood. Two telegrams of congratulations to President Joseph Smith upon his Jubilee anniversary were read, one coming from the Saints In West Philadelphia and the other from those in San Bernardino. Cal. Rev. R. A. Broyles, a negro, was allowed a few minutes to present his work in the Enterprise institute, a trades school .of Chicago, established for tha uplift of the negro. This evening a program was ren dered by the mothers' society of the church, known as the Daughters of Zion. UNITED STATES DRUG INSPECTOR ARRESTED Offlolal at Philadelphia (barged with Being; Engaged In Co. rain Traffle. . PHILADELPHIA. April 9.-A sensational move by tha Stat Pharmaceutical board, .which Is carrying on a crusade against the illegal sale of cocaine In this city, was mode today when Benjamin P. Ashmead. United States government inspector of drugs for the port of Philadelphia, was arrested on a warrant charging him with being engaged in the traffic. Ashmead, who is a resident of Cape May, N. J., was arrested as he was leaving the United States appraiser's store. SOUTH DAKOTA POSTPONES CHARITIES CONFERENCE Board Decides to Hold No Meeting; Becnase Speakers Cannot Be Secured. SIOUX FALLS, S. IX, April 9.-(Speclal.) At a meeting of the executive committee and officers of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections It has been de cided not to hold a meeting of the confer ence this year, but to postpone the meet ing until next year. The postponed meet ing will be held at Watertown. The officers of the conference, in explain ing wthy no meeting will be held this year, state that they have been disappointed in securing certain speakers of national rep utation whom they counted on being pres ent at the meeting if It was held this year, and that It now is too late to secure other speakers. At the 1911 convention of the con ference the executive committee will recom mend that tha meetings be held each year thereafter. The executive committee fully realises the Importance of having a meet ing of the conference each year, and hav ing' people present who can deliver ad dresses which will arouse the right sort of sentiment and aid in the work which the people interested in penal and charitable reform and advancement have undertaken In South Dakota. The National Conference of Charities and Corrections will be hold at St. Louis, Mo., next month, and Governor V'essey will ap point delegates to represent South Dakota at the meeting. Something Doing when a bowl of crisp, brown, fluffy Post Toasties and cream is set before a ( hungry school child nnd tho nat ural instincts of the youngster is allowed full play! Try it with your young sters and watch results. Popular pkg. IOc. Family size 15c. The Memory Lingers" JWum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek. Mich., T.K. A. j A Limited '( In South Omaha You ' Can Buy Furni ture at 20 Per Cent Below Omaha Prices r ' - - - - rV $1 ii crri I II SUCCESS ACORN GAS RA.NGK Everyone knows that the Acorn brand of stoves Is never sur paseed for superior construction and perfect satisfaction. We charge from $22.00 down to $10, according to size. Don't buy a gas range before seeing the Acorn at these prices. You 11 save several dollars . r'sio SOUI OAK STAND Strongly made or line selected oak, our price, only each, at Vi YOUR SAVING AT THIS STORE AMOUNTS TO $20.00 ON A $100.00 PURCHASE. ISN'T A TRIP TO SOUTH OMAHA WORTH WHILE? Wilton, Digelaw and Bedy Brussels Rugs 20 Per Cent Below Omaha Prices Compare Our Prices on Carpets and Rugs With Thoso Charged In Omaha 0v19 Brussels Rugs, In cautlful patterns and perfect dD nr JXlu designs Our price, at 0lw A fa Velvet Rugs, handsome patterns and good values at JXl4 Omaha prices, but we ask 20 less N 11 ft ft Sold here, for tfltJ.VV 0vl9 Axmlnster Rugs of very high quality and noted fi tn rA Jiu for long wearing Our price, only . These prices are not for only one day, but for every day. All new, 1910 stock, just arrived no joli lots. THE QUALITY OF OUR IS THE SAME AS IN OMAHA, FOR IT ALL COMES FROM THE SAME SOURCES lip hkass iu:ds Our complete line of all sorts of lirass beds la one of the finest to be seen. They are artlsilc and sanitary, and each Is marked. 20 T Rclow Omaha Price STKKIi COCCI! ( like cut )--.-irong-ly constructed folding couch, with doable supported spring full sire; a bed at ni?ht and an ornament at flay our price tfO HZ only - r:ir i I i , 1311 HJ. : LLC. LIBRARY TABLK A handsome tables, complete line of up from large and $2.75 Transfer From Any Omaha Car to any South Omaha car They all pass our door. If your purchase In very large you will save about ttl.OO for eve-v ex'nt minute y.u ride In the car reaching our store. r I HI ill 'jir"nJ:''tlM Dressers Chiff loners and Com plete Sets Jt will not be difficult to find what you wnnt in our immense new line. These pieees mey be had in all woods and finishes. You can fill out your incomplete set or et just what you want in a new one. All we ask is that you know the Omaha price before you visit us. mm tm Is the price we have marked for lrfo this most, useful household ner flttj cessity. This is a full size, ad justable curtain dryer, and )n. be made to fit any curtain. The regular price is $1.25, but we sell them at 7nc FOR THIS WKF.K ONLY Please don't think that because our prices are so 'far below those charged you In Omaha that we arc doing busi ness at a loss. On the contrary, our profits are just the sane as all line of business. It's our expense that's low, and Its here that your saving conies In. We give the customers the benefit of our low operating expense, rental, etc., and thereby sell 20 below Omaha prices. mm FTOIITU CO 24th (Ei L Streets, ,j SOUTH OMAHA MILLERS SEEK EARLY ACTION Besolutions Aim at Quick Decision in Bleached Flour Cases. OFFICERS ELECTED FOR YEAR Chnnncer Abbott of gchnrler and W. W. Black of Beatrice Are Made - Directors of Federation. CHICAGO, April 9.-Membfrs of the Mil lers' National Federation In convention here has adopted resolutions urging fed eral courts which have the matter under consideration, to render an early decision on the question of bleaching flour that millers may determine the character of their output. .The convention also agreed on a demand for revision of fielffht rates to Island bordering the L'nlted States; a petition to congress for a daily Issue of the consular report; support for tho British millers in their d mand for more equitable transat lantic freight rates and a refusal to act on the proposal to revise government stand ards for weights and measures. Dwlght lialdwln of Minneapolis was elected presi dent. Other officers elected were: First vice president, John S. Plllsbury, Minneapolis; necond vice president, Alfonso Mennel, Toledo; secretary, A. L. Uoetzmann, Chi cago; treasurer, E. D. Tilton, s$t. Louis; export agent, F. H. Price, New York; of ficial counsel, Frank F. Jtecd, Chicago; directors, Walter Stern, Milwaukee; J. S. Plllsbury, Minneapolis; Chauncey Abbott, Schuyler, Neb.; Joseph Lecompte, Lexing ton, Ky. ; J. Is. Uregg, Chicago; C. K. Cur ran. Concordia, Kan.; Askur Miner, Wllkes barre. Pa.; W. G. Gooding, Minneapolis; L. .S. Mohr. Kansas City; George 11. Lew Is. Lawrenceburg. Ind.; U. A. ICckhart, Chi cago; W. W. Black, Beatrice, Neb and Charles T. Ballard. Louisville, Ky. butter producers and wholesalers control ling the markets In northern Illinois, south ern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa, thus bringing the matter under the Jurisdiction of the federal courts. U. S. MAY BUST BUTTER TRUST IF ELGIN DOESN'T DO BETTER Attorney Genera WlrLrriUim Scrnte Illegal Flltus of Price hy I.eaBrue of Protlncers and Wholesalers. WASHINGTON, April 8 -Attorney Uen eral Wlckersham wants to know whether th Klgin butter hoard Is a combination In restraint of trade. He has assigned O. K. Harrison, one of the administration trust busters, to make a thorough investigation to determine whether Hie M-.ernian anti trust law is being vinlaled. The 'attorney general said that prelimi nary Investigation had been In progress for some time, but that his attention was called to the situation particularly by Hie testi mony of President Nfuman and Vice Pres ident Wood of the Klgin Imaril before the senate cost of living commit le yesterday. The Klgin officials gave the committee the Idea that the price of butter was fixed arbitrarily about as high as itaas thought the public could stand it. Mr. Wlckersham called for a transcript of the testimony The suspecttd combination is between Hot License Fight atMt. Vernon, S. D. Members of Council Ordered to Put Question on Ballot by Court After Hearing;. MITCHELL, S. V., April 9.-(Spcclal.)' Six members of the city council of Mount Vernon and the clerk were brought be fore Judge Smith Tuesday on mandamus proceedings. A petition was presented the council asking for a vote- on the license question, and in preparing for the publi cation of the notice calling the election, the council refused to accept the petition. This being the case would leave Mount Vernon a dry town for another year. Jl was then the mandamus proceedings wero started and tha council required to appear before Judge Smith of the circuit court. The council held that the pe-tition was Illegal from the fact that some of the signers were not freeholders, and that two members of the council had signed the petition, and that they could not vote on the proposition. Judge Smith held that the council would be required to publish the notice and to grant tho petition to vote on the license quejtion. After that, if license carried, the court stated that the council could then take up the question of the Illegality of tha petition. A particularly hot fight Is being aged on the license question and speakers heve be-n holding meetings every night this week. Embroidery Sale 0)0 PRINTERS CONFER OVER WORK Leading; Newspapermen of Month Da kota Oraranlse Ben Franklin Club. MITCHELL. S. IX, April 9.-(Sneclal Tele frram.) A good representation of the lead ing newspaper men of the state lias been in session In this city today for a discus sion of trade matters, relating particularly to the cost of Job printing. The morning hours were spent In talking the situation over among themselves to find out on about what basis the printers of the state have been figuring job work and there was a great variance, as was demonstrated in the personal statements made. In the afternoon two addresses w?ie given the printers. One was by (l lbeit F. Byron of Minneapolis, president of the Ben Franklin club of that city, snd J. F. Adams of Sioux Falls. A Ben Franklin club for the'stste was organized and a constitution and bylaws adopted. The fol lowing officers were elected: President, W. R. Roland of Mitchell; vice president. J. W. Parmley of Ipswich; secretary. F. F. Nash of Canton; treasurer, II. A. Sturais of Beresford: executlve committee. L. . Ioty nf Roland snd Paul I'euteher of Brookings. Persistent advertising Is the road to Big Retui us. Human Hair Goods Serc,0nrd 18 and 27-in. Embroidered Flouncings.Skirt ings and Corset Cover Widths, also wide in sertions and 22-in. allover embroideries the newest designs on big bargain squares worth up to 7oc at, 25c39c 20c Embroideries at 10c Fine embroidered galloons, galloon headings, insertions and bands an almost endless va riety of new designs, worth up to 20c yard, at 15c Embroideries at 7ic Swiss, nainsook and cambric embroideries, in sertionsin neat, effective designs, ni worth up to 15c yard at, yard 2i 12ic Laces and Insertions, 5c French and German Vals. Crochet, Cluny and American effects, many to match, worth up to 12 .( at, yard L Latest Parsian Novelty The Turban Cluster Made of natural wavy hair, a $G value, at Hum grade hair, various colors 098 l exception of gray ami white, at . .v Turban Braid, made of fine French hair, $8 values at $5 Turban Crowns,ftA r0e values, at.Ut 7."x' Washable Hair Roll, 24-incli, JJjg Allover Nets Mondav at. . 5c Our Crochet Braids-Measuring fully .!(! inches long, good and full, made of -fine medium trrade hair, various colors 98 with Man Feels Quccr Jumps Off Train J. H. Kramer of Sioux Falls Plunges from Moving Car and Suf fers Injury. FIF.KRE, 8. U.. April . (Special Tele gram.) A the eaatbound Northwestern passenser lialn was appioachlnK Cotton wood. lt0 mileg west of here, J. H. Cramer of .Sioux Falls, who had complained to I fellow pabseiiKem that lie "fell nueer. stepped onto the platform and opt-niiK the vestibule doom, made a plunae fiom the train. A is. arc hi na parly found him uu- coniicious and paralyzed from an Injured ipi-ie. He wb brought to this city this evening and placed In a hospital. ACTRESS " FATALLY INJURED Fella Twentr Feet lo fctaar of aude. till House In View of A aillenre. PKwm.V III.. April P-Mrs. Hemy IVit ter. known on the mage aa May Harris, fell twenty feet to the fttaga in a local vaudeville theater and auatalned fatal In juries tonight. Her husband and team mate In a novelty gymnastic act failed to catch her while turning In the air. The ac cident was witnessed by aeveral hundred women and children. SLIDING SCALE " FOR TIMBER evr Regulation treating Dlu De mand for 'limber Men Through out Black IIIIU. !iFAIWOOl' S. !.. April P. (Special .) Through the efforta of Supervisor Kelleter a new system of handling limber as in the Wark Hills national forest has been devised and put into effect, the result, be ing a great convenience to timber pur chaser In this region and greatly Inn eased sales. It has been the government's policy to sell all dead and bug-Infected timber and such green timber as had reached ma turity and the removal of which would not injure tho remaining tree growth. The minimum figure allowed by the government In bids advertised for has been i per thou sand feet for green timber anywhere In the Black Hills forest. Hut competition be tween native timber and that shipped In from outside points has been keen, low freight rates rum the west allowing lum ber companies to ship In timber here even cheaper than It could be purchased here at the government's minimum figure, In many cases long hMiils by wagon being necessary in this e.v rve. Supervor Kelleter had a thorough, ex amination made of the whole forest and then abolished the od fin I minimum rate, making a sliding scale according to local-It'- which takes Into consideration the ac cessibility of the timber, Its proximity to a market and the general topography of Hie country. This has rcsuliid In a great demand for timber in the Hills on the .new tale end the rangers are all busy flgui.ipg up with purchasers and making examina tion of timber sections, the present sales bringing from $1 to $ii per thousand, mak ing increased activity at all the sawmills' and resulting In the reopening of. the big lumber camp of the Mclaughlin Tie and Timber company at Nahant, where 1U0 men were formerly employed, and creating a demand for timber men throughout the Hills. The forest service officials here ex pect a more prosperous summer In the tim ber business than the Black Hills has ever seen. I.I 1 1 1 e Hoc llrownefl. BKATRICK. Neb.. Apill 9. i Special Tele gram. )-Willla m Hian Feigtmon. S years old. was drowned In a rr.-ek near Tecumseii today. The child wandered i.wav from lit mother and the body was laKr found In tiia l reek.