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OMAHA, FRIDAY .MORNING, .-JUNE 3, 1910 TWELVE PAGES.
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vol. xxxix-xo. :;cnv
MKS. DOXEY TELLS
TRAGIC CHAPTER
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Woman Accused of Murdering Wil
liam J. Erder Takes Stand in
Own Defense.
RAILROAD RATES
STIR UNCLE SAMl
TAFT ADDRESSES
Fo.v Announces
Campaign Plans
For Presidency
Former Governor of Missouri Tells
Democrats that Doctrine of Equal
Rights is Pai amount.
BRYNMAWKQ1BLS
Filing of Schedules by Eastern Lines
Arouses Wickersham to Further
Action.
President Talks on Higher Education
Before Graduating Class of
Eastern College.
COLLEGE TRAINING NECESSARY
DEITIES CHARGES AGAINST HER
Omaha
Also Declares that She and Alleged
Victim Were Not Married.
MORPHINE CAUSED HER ACTIONS
31ames Her Husband for Drug Habit
that Proved Master Over Her.
VEEPS WHILE GIVING TESTIMONY
knt Crosa-Rzaiulued by Lnwjf
Who fur that Krldenre Dis
credits Itself Mra. Grace
Ulhani Questioned.
ST. I.Ol'IS. Juno 2. Mr. Dora K.
Doxey told In Judge Grimm's court today
the a lory of her tragic acquaintance with
William J. Krder, for whiiw d"Bth she Is
on trial.
She denied tliHt slip and Krder were
married, but said tli?y agreed to pretend !
Ihey were In order that they might openly
live, together. That Whs after Dr. Doxey
had cast her off. she said.
Intense stillness reigned In the narked
and stifling room while Mrs-Doxey. tier - I
vous, delected and pale, told her atory.
Onc or twice she burst into tears, the
first time when her aged father stood up
lo be identified by her She threw all the
blame for her slavery to morphine on Or.
I.. H. Doxey, Jointly IridlctPd with her for
Krdor'a deah. She denied that she had
dnilnlslered any arsenic tc Krder.
Mra. Doxey said PC Doxey knew of her
relations with Krder and that Errr read
er letters to and from the doctor. When
Jhe concluded her tvatimnnv -AsK-lstant
Circuit Attorney Newton, to the surprise
f all present, announced that he would
tint cross-examine her.
Omaha Woman Teat tries. .
Mis. Morris and M. Grace Latham,
f Omaha, another sister, testified to hay
tilt seen Dr. Doxey give his wife- mor
jhlno. 'Jefferson Fuller, the accused wo
man's father, told of his efforts to break
ber of the morphine habit.
With the testimony of three rebuttal
wltnest.es who testified to having known
Mis. Doxey In 1908 a$ Dora Dodge, the
presentation of testimony ended and court
d.lom-ned.
' The fudge's instructions will be given to
Hie Jury tomorrow morning. Kadi aide will
have two hours for arguments and the case
will go to the Jury tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs, Doxejr began her story by telling of
er marriage' to Dr. Doxey, August 29. 1!S.
Prior to thl she had been in St. Louts,
tier relations with hlm,! aha said, were
jftcnltrtplr stent.'' She testlffed she became
iddlcled to moiphlne In March, 1907, when
Dr. Doxey supplied it to Jior.
"Sometimes I would take fifteen or six-,
ieen grains In a single day," she testified.
"I nevpr took Itws than half a grain at a
'ifclmc. On some days Dr. Doxey gave It to
T)ie every hour. I remonstrated with him
aiid begged hint not to do t, but he In
sisted that he knew best what I ought to
have. He pretended at times to be giving
me other medicines, but it was really mor
phine. I tried to break the habit, but he
wouldn't let me." i
"My iather saw how the drug affected
me," said Mrs. Doxey, "and I promised
him I would quit taking it. He knew all
my trouble was due to It, but somehow I
k could not quit. When 1 was without It I
was wild. I wrb so nervouB that I could
not bear It."
Letters to Krder.
Mrs. Doxey ald she continued to corre
spond with Erder after her marriage to
Doxey. Hie became acquainted with Krder
on a visit here.
Mr. Krder knew of my suffering and f
my lire wlin i)?. noxey, j sue leacuied.
"He wrote for me to come here and he
would take care of me. 1 was thinking
of a final separation from the doctor
when Mr. Krder kept urging me and 1
finally consented.
"i uune here in April, Krder met
me at the station and took me to Ills
, Siome, where 1 .remained almost a week,
When 1 returned to Des Moines. Dr.
Doxey had gone to Columbus, NVb., and
1 followed him."
Mrs. Doxey related how Dr. Doxey In
liia flight from creditors Informed her she
must take care of herself and expect no
assistance from him. and how she In des
peration consented to accept ErUer's pro
posal to live wltii him as his wife.
She said she wks Introduced into the
Krder family at first as Mrs. Dodga at
Elders suggestion. He did not want his
mother to know Mrs. Doxey waa a mar
ried woman. 8he denied she married
Krder, but she said she consented to have
Krder tell that they were married because
of Krder'a family.
Attorney 'Johnson then exhibited to the
witness a copy or the marriage license
affidavit made at ('layiwn. Mo., ami
signed by Krder and Mrs. Doxey.
"Did you ever see- that paper before?"
lie asked.
"Not that 1 have any recullection of,
until the other day when 1 saw It in
ccurt."
tilie said she firrt learned of Krder's life
insurance after they went, to housekeeping.
Ki'der, she said, told her he was going to
lmvy Jils policies changed to her, as he nag
rJT ssxlPlayf ul Little
kuo't of her replies lo the doctor's letter
tie Part of l'le Herself.
Mrs. Doxey, in relating the events' of the
Wi da
pfs.-lf
t days before Krder became III. said she
ate a part of the blackberry pie
Which figured in the case. 8he denied the
pie niaJe Krder 111.
She said slis did not give him any medl
L in other than that prescribed by the
physician, fhe deuied giving Krder arsenld
in any form. The money she said she wrote
to Des Mulnes about was to come from the
(rotate of Dr. Doxe's father.
Mrs. Doxey was followed on the stand by
her slater, Mrs. D. M. Morrja of Kvanslon.
111., who has been her companiou during the
trial. -1
"Her statements were loo Incredible as it
' a.ood," said Assistant State'a Attorney
Newton, when he was asked whv he did not
cro-e xamine all. Doxey.
. r llaiidrral mix In Uklahswa.
- Qjl'UOKK. Okl.. June 2 -The tempt, a
1,,rtieie today reached K degrees, the
ljlfl-t of th season in Oklahoma, injury
0 ciopa is teatvi.
PT. I.OflS. June 2. Missouri democrats
of all factions at a dinner here tonight
heard former governor Joseph W. Fo'li
announce the principle on which, ' It Is
said, he will seek the providential nomina
tion In 1!12. The dinner was In charire "f
men who have been promoting the boom of
the former governor.
'The doctrine of equal rights should fu
made a living, vital and controlling force
In the government," said Mr. Foil;, after
he had listened to democrats from all
part of the mate tell the gucMs that the
former governor Is Hie 'man they should
endotp-e for the presidency.
"The demociatic party." cotitliun-d Mn.
Folk, should insist upon the stamping out
nf the graft and corruption from every de
partment of government; the eradication
of all special favors, including bounties,
subsidies and a tariff for any purpose
other than if venue.
"We need the honest, sincere enforce
ment of the laws we already hate and the
regulation of the rates of public utility
corporations upon a reasonable basis that
Justice may be done the people and a fair
return fur the amount actually invested
be afforded."
Other principles named by the spealtei
were the preservation of the rights of the
stale to self government, the " restriction
of American terrltnrv In the Western
Hemisphere as a necessary corollary of
the Monroe doctrine, the extension 'of
American trade by removing the restric
tion upon commerce, a Just Income taT,
the election of I'niled States senators by
dirtct vote and unrelenting opposition to
tbe domination In public affairs of special
Interests and thi elimination of such in
fluences from politics.
Des Moines Doctor
Rob Apartment
Housesin Memphis
J. C. Brown, Who Called Himself Dr.
E. E. . Fuller, Commits Twenty
Robberies in Tennessee City.
MEMPHIS. Tenn., June 2-Admlttlng
having committed at least twenty burglar-
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he had quarters as a physician and attri
buting his absence at night to the exact
Ions of his profession, J. C. Brown, form
erly of Dea Moinfes, la., is Imprisoned here
tonight while the police are gradually re
trieving the numerous bits of Jewelry taken
by Brown during his nightly 'travels. So
far ten watches, besides numerous other
trinkets have been. recovered.. - r
Brown posed as Dr. E. K. Fuller, and but
for tala lingering ldo long ,'irt the neighbor
hood of a house he visited udme nights ago,
would still be at liberty. Me was recog
nized by an occupant and his arrest p fol
lowed. According to his own declaration he has
served terms of Imprisonment at Leaven
worth, Kan., Guthrie Okl., and Cassvllle
and Jefferson Cityi Mo., for burglary.
Brown declares he will offer no defense.
Asks Rehearing on
Inheritance Tax
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Attorney General of 'South Dakota
is Not Satisfied with Decision
of Supreme Court.
PIERRE. S. D.. Juue 2. (Special. I At-
tol.ney General Clark is not satisfied with
the findings of the supreme court In the
McKennan inheritance tax- case, In which
It held that the state .inheritance tax law
as It stands Is unconstitutional.. His con.
tentloit is that tho law In his opinion is
good and he has filed a pellion for rehear
Ins in the case which will act as a stay In
proceeding i.nttl it is argusd and a second
decision reached. The decision was of
more than local Interest, as it has brought
out Inquiries from many county treasurers
as Jo further collections of this tax under
the court ruling.
CONDITION OF COTTON CROP
tveraav ' l !Serly Oit- I'rr Cent
II latter Than It Mas One
Vear Abo.
.WASHINGTON'. June 2. The first cotton
report of the season by the crop reporting
board Issued today shows the condition otj
the growing crop on May 26 was S2 per
cent of a normal, as compared with M.t peri
cent on that date last year and M.9 per
cent, the average for the last ten years.
The area planted with cotton this year
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Is about 33.19ti.w0 acre, or about WJ.S per
cent, compared with 32.'J;.O0O aciei last
year: an Increase of about DOt.uOU acres, or
i.8 per cent.
4'arprater Noinlnntltin t'oui'irmeii.
WASHINGTON. June 2. The suiiale to
day confirmed the nomination of Fr. d V.
Carpenter, former secretary to President
Tuft, as minister to Morocco. He will
leave for his post at Tangier shortly.
Maul
Monkeys full of tiicks broke the inuuot-- valuable notebook one of tuc "monks had
ony of official life Thursday morning. The) aken. The license Inspector had on a new
monkevs were in tho Vposscssitin of two!""1 tnat look'''1 bad 10 " monkey, o he
. .. , ' . . threw It Oiit the window and cha rd
ltalans, who wera seeking a permit framL,....,.,, .., ... . tna-en
, boaneider onto tne counter.
.Mayor Dahlrr.an to exhibit them on thej AH the time the Italians weru uniting like
streets. First the monkey keepers planted ! angels and gurgling to their peu. "Nlc-e-a
themselves in Llcen-e Inspector Schneider's ' da monk; no-a hurt da in.ui. Just-a play
office, where they were found at an earl ! da little-a tr.ck; data all.",
hour by Councilman Bridges and Assistant! But fohneider called lu a j'anltjr and had
Gas Commissioner Butler. j him lake the two me.i and their pets to
In attempting to Investigate the clever-1 Mayor Dahlman's office. Here the monkeys
ness of the monks, Butler lost his last lock tried to repeat their antics, out the mayor
of hair, and Briirres received a sldo sw ipe i lassoed them, then roped and Vd them
from a playful paw that sent hlni to tne
dentist. II also lost a 10-cent cig-ir, out
of which he was taking a lot of anticipatory
satlsfact'ou. When Schneider showed up lie
was Introduced to the monkey by Council
man McGovern, who thus created a diver
sion which enabled him to gel back a
WESTERN MANAGERS IN SESSION
Traffic Directors in Chicago Consid
ering Problems of Case.
INJUNCTION DOES NOT APPLY
Iowa Commission Points Out Weak
ness in Complaint.
IT COVERS RIVER CITIES ONLY
Points 1 Ions Not a tbe Missouri
Are lH)ina the Increased
Hates Railroads to Hold
a Conference.
WASHINGTON, June I. Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham said today that he had
not given any thought lo the question
v.iudher the government should take action
looking to injunction proceedings against
the Interstate Commerce commission.
L'nltl he learns more of the conditions
under which the rates had been filed, XIr.
Wickersham said he was not prepared lo
say what the government might do.
The attorney general pointed our-that
conditions under which the eastern roads
had filed their rates might be entirely dif
ferent from those In the west.
It Is now too late for the government to
take any action toward extending the scope
of the injunction granted by Judge Dyer
at Hannibal, Mo., so as to cover other
rates than those referred lo In the bill In
equity filed by the Department of Justice
against the Western Trunk LJne associa
tion. This was made plain at the depart
ment today.
The government included in the bill such
rates "as wire called to its attention and
the failure to embrace all the tariff ad
vances made by the association, It was
said, must be laid to the doors of the
shippers.
Revised freight rates, effective July, 5,
were filed today with the Interstate Com
merce commission by the New York Cen
tral & Hudson River company, the West
Shore railroad and the Delaware, Lacka
wanna & Western rallioad. There is somo
advance In the commodity rates.
An advance In commodity freight rates,
eastbound from Chicago to New York, was
filed this afternoon by the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company. It will take effect
July 1. The average increase Is approxi
mately 9 per cent.
Railroad Managers Meet, -
CHICAGO,' June 2.-Pi esldents and traffic
managers of railroad t centering In Chicago
met here today to consider .problems which
recent rate decisions have brought to a
climax. E. P, Ripley, president of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system, took
the Initiative In calling the meeting, which
was held in his office. The discussion
turned on a defense against the assault of
the government on the recently enjoined
advance In freight rates in Western Trunk
line territory. .
The meeting as secret, but' it Is known
rnat tne presidents are agreed that any
action taken might be concerted, but not
sufficiently so to come under the ban of
the la.
&y I n jnncllou Fnlls.
DES MOINES, la., June 2.-(t-peclal Tele
gram.) Iowa shippers and manufacturers
became alarmed today over the reports
that the injunction asked for by the gov
ernment in the federal courts to prevent
the incrcasein railroad rates falls to In
elude the schedule which affects rales to
niosi oi ine iowa potnis. rney took it up
vvlm Hie attorney general and railroad
commissioners, and they immediately wired
to Attorney General Wickersham to have
Iowa points included In the suit.
it was also Hated that unless this is
done an Independent suit will be com
menced here.
Order Served uu Roads.'
ST. I.OL'IS, June 2. Service In the In
Junction suit of the government against
iweniy-nve western railroads to restrain
thm fioni advancing freight rates was
obtained on officials of three of the roadt
here today. Deputies t'lom the United
States marshal's office served the ordet
at the headquarters of the Missouri I-a
clfic, abash and 'Frisco systems.
ine announcement last night that the
defendants proposed a vigorous contest of
the restraining order granted by Judg
David f. vyec or the United States cir
cult court at Hannibal, Mo., Tuesday.
tnougn not unexpected, was taken in shin
pers" circles here to Indicate eoncluslvel
tnai me government naci caught them
napping.
The action coming as It did was a com-
I plete surprise, so much so mat otflcfnis
here were unable to decide quickly upon
" .u eiiaei
telegraphic conference yesterday that th
general conference of railroad counsel to
be held In Chicago tomuiiuw waa agreed
ill un.
from information' obtainable this morn'-
log the old freight rates are in effect "
.11 points on .ailroads having gene."
headquarters here. None of the official,
...,iilH rrmll tiimnelf In li mi.il..l .... ....
would rermlt himself to be quoted on the
question of rates today.
Monkeys
City's Officials
I and Messenger Wilson escorted the aston
ished party to the sidewalk. Later the men
gut their permit.
"Those animals will add some j,.y to ihe
day for th children," aid liie mayor.
"even If thev do like to maul bald-headed I
men.-' i
Another
SVom the Cleveland leader.
BLEACHED FLOUR CASE IS ON
Ed P. Smith Says Northern Millers
Are Real Prosecutors.
BLOW AT WINTER WHEAT STATES
Wheat from Nebraska and Kansas
Makes Floar that l ailchtly Tel
low Denies that Blanch
ing: la lajnrtona.
KANSAS CITY,-. Mo.. June S.-Kdward P.
Smith of Omaha, .attorney for the millers
in the bleached (lour case which is being
tried In the federal court here,- made tile
opening statement to the Jury today when
tie said the case In. not litigation between
the government and several sacks of flour
that had been .seized aa the government's
brief seemed to Indicate, but a suit be
tween the millers of Minnesota and the
Dakotas. whose flour Is naturally . white
and the mlllera . of Nebraska, .Kansas.
Missouri and Iowa, whose wh.eat produces
a flour that is just a bit yellow. .
The government alleges that : the process
used by the mlllera in bleaching flour adul
terates it In violation. of the fetleral pure
food and drug act. It i charged that ele
ments are Introduced Into Ah flour which
nesiroy-j. me nreao- - mj4ig .. possibilities
and' when taken Into the stomaoh, : form
gasea which affect the lunga and attack
the blood. Attorney Smith argued that
bread made from bleached flour doea not
have this effect. , .
. First Testimony Taken. .
John M: Mitchell of St. Louis, president
of a oompany that manufactures machln
ery used In a certain process for bleaching
flour, was the -first witness called. He
testified that his company Installed the
machinery used by the Lexington Mill and
Elevator company at Lexington, N'eb
where the flour seized by the government
and forming the basis of this suit was
manufactured.
B. O. Perry, a grocer of Greencastle, Mo.,
testified that he bought the flour, 625 sacks,
from a salesman of the Lexington Mill and
Elevator company and after selling twenty-eight
sacks a United States marshal
seized the remaining sacks In his posses
sion. He said he bought the flour uncle'.-
a guaranty and that no representation was
made to him as to whether the flour was
bleached. Ha said the Lexington mill re
placed the flour seized by the government.
Dr. James H. Shepard, professor of chem
istry at the State agricultural college of
South Dakota, qualified as an expert on
the chemical processes Incident to the man
ufacture and bleaching of flour. His testi
mony waa a thorough technical description
of these processes.
IOWA ROAD INCORPORATES
. IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Forest till, Fertile A Mason CI tr
Llue Files Articles at
Pierre.
PIERRE. June 2. (Special.) Articles of
Incorporation have been filed with the sc
retary of state for the Forest City, Fer
tile, and Mason City railroad company,
with headquarters at Watertown, S. P.,
and the privilege of a business office at
Forest City, Iowa. It is capitalized at
HOO.twO, and the purpose of the company Is
the construction of a line of road thirty
miles long In the counties of Wlnnebaso,
Hancock, Worth and Cerre Gordo, Iowa.
The line Is to start at Forest City, Iowa,
running in en easterly direction to Fer
tile, and from there In a south-easterly di
rection to Mason City. The incorporators
lT the comPanarlT - K10- C.,N
""""Ph" C; S' C- FSt Cl '
i,owa; , eJhelmo, Baldwin,- Wisconsin
A' B,ler,n- M J' llaw,ey Va,";town
1'- 1-
The wants
Turn to them
If jou want a servant they will
bring one to your door.
It you want a position they will
find one for you.
If you have something to sell
they will sell It for you.
If you have lost something they
will find it for you.
It you have found something they
will be the first to tell you who
lost it.
H you can't comu down
town to the office, call Doug
las A cheerful staff will
write the ad for you and see
that it gets proper classifica
tion. Everybody
Reads
- r.ee Want Ads.
Investigation Committee Reports -
Gerbracht Tries
to Put Blame for
Fraud on Spitzer
On Cross-Examination He Admits
that Havemeyer Ordered Him to
Reduce Test Figures.
NEW YORK,. June 2. Ernest W. Gcr-
bracht'a effort to put the responsibility for
sugar iinderweighlng frauds solely upon
Oliver Spitzer, former superintendent of
the .American Sugar Refining company's
Williamsburg docks, or by implication upon
men now dead, waa attacked by Federal
Prosecutor Henry L. Stimson, at the re
sumption of the sugar conspiracy trial to
day. ,
Mr. Stimson questioned Gerbracht on
cross examination.
"Now -I think that you said H. O. Have
meyer directed you to falsify the reports
on the testa of raw sugar?" said Mr. Stlm-
aon. .
"1 never said any such thing." exclaimed
Gerbracht. ;'
"Npw didn't you make, the tests lower
than their true figures'!" asked Mr. ftim
son. . '. ..'
"Yes." i
"And didii't Mr. Havemeyer tell you to?"
"Yes." '
"So now you don't object to my saying
that Mr. Havemeyer directed you to falsify
the test?" .
"I dc; he did not." .
Mr. Stimson . asked the witness to explain
the difference. .'..
" "I mean there waa no true test In polari
zation," said Gerbracht. . .
"Why did you use the polarization test
if It was not true, to fool the sugar grow
ers?" "I don't know," answered the witness.
Reward for Slayer
of Little Kellner
Girl is Growing
It Will Probably Reach Ten Thou-
sand Dollars Indications Sus-
pect Went to Europe.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 2.-Vith the
contribution by the city council last night
of 12.500 to the fund which will be offered
for the arrest and conviction of the slayer
of Alma Kellner, whose body was found
burled in, a cellar of St. John s paroachial prooiemaucai. unless they Join the repub
school, .the sum ' has now reached Sj.DOO. I leans In supporting tho rule to limit Ucbato
This will be augmented probably today by j on tho bill it Is Impossible tc- predict how
an offer' by Governor Wilson of JiOO on I long the debate wia last and everybody Is
behalf of the atale. Smaller subscriptions Interested to l-ao?' -(th which side the In-
of from ti to J1U0 were tendered today by
citizens of Louisville, and It is expected
that before the end of the week the reward
will reach S10.000.
Chief of rollce Lindsay says that he
has received information which leads him
to believe that Joseph Wendling, the miss
ing Janitor, remained In Louisville as late
as March 1.
GRAIN BROKERS ARRESTED
Albany, X. V. Men Are Charged Tlth
Srrlnrillna; by Manipulating;
Bills of I.adiua.
AI.BANT. N. Y.. June J.-Gibson Oliver,
treasurer of the grain firm of Durant &
Klniore, ar.d Henry C. Palmer, former
freight agent of the Delaware & Hudson
railroad, were arrested today on charges
growing out of alleged manipulation of
bills of lading. It Is claimed the firm was
able to borrow hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Oklahoma to Vote on suffrage.
GUTIIRIK. Okl.. .Tune 2. Whether women
will be granted suffrage in Oklahoma will
be decided at the regular election to be
held In November. The last obstacle in the
way of voting on this question was ret
moved yesterdav.
Business Man's Profits
From Deal in Water Bonds
A well known business man In Omaha
is telling bis friends how he made HX In
ten minutes Tueaday morning by sn
opportune purchase ot Omaha Water com
pany bonds. He admits t tin t there wis an
element of luck in the transaction, but
u4o takes credit for his foresight.
' Idly thinking that a decision in the Water
ronmpanj a cao was about due from i the lust two years on theso bonds. When
Washington, he happened to meet Sam j they were at M) to sears ago, an Omaha
Bums, the bond broker, on the street and man bought twenty-five at tills price, which
inquired about the bonds. This was aboutjeost him KO.OGO. At the pieaent price they
11. X) o'clock. Acting upon the impulse, lieiate worth l-fc.Oou.
INSURGENTS' PLACE IN DOUBT
Action on Postal Savings Bank Bill
. Not Known.
LENGTH OF DEBATE PROBLEM
lowans In fancna Secure Number of
Amendments to Mesiure-' toni
" mlttee to Revise Court
IPractlce.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 2. (Special
Telegram.) Without attempting to reflect
In any manner upon the position of the so
called Insurgent republicans on the postal
saving bank bill their absence from the
house republican' caucus last night defeated
the vreeland amendment to the bill, which
provided that forty-seven and one-half per
cent of the deposits could be withdrawn for
Investment In bonds or other securities of
the United States and that seventy-two
and one-half per cent should remain on de
posit in banks in -each state and territory
willing to receive the same under the terms
of the act.
The Vreeland amendment waa defeated
by five votes and had the republican mcm-
I bers of the Nebraska, delegation plus two
Insurgent-nembera. from'th Iowa delega
tlon been In caucus, the Vreeland amend
ment would have been adopted Instead of
the Davidson amendment which provides
that nft exceeding thirty percent of the
amount of such ' funds deposited may bo
withdrawn by trustees, requiring that a
residue of sixty-five percent shall remain
on deposit in the banks of the state of tcr
ritory.
Iottii Secures Amendments.
In the caucus of last night, Iowa showed
up large in amendments adopted, Repre
sentative Good securing an amendment to
section 9 of the bill which authorizes the
board of trustees to take from a bank's
securities public; bonds, certificates of in
debtedness, sewer and wafr bonds un
municipalities supported by taxing power
and which trf board may deem sufficient
to Insure safety and prompet payment of
deposits which the trustees may make in
solvent banks.
Congressman Dawson, who has labored
earnestly for the past-aga of such a bill,
secured an amendment am to the invest
mcnt of bonds or other securities of tin;
United Slates from the fund which tho act
provides tor when in the Judgment of the
president the public welfare and tho in-
teiests of the United States requires.
Just what position the Insurgents purpose
taking on the postal savings bank bill now
perfected by tho republican caucus Is
I surgents purpose to play when tho postul
savings bank bill comes up for consider- t
ation.
Wywniluu 1. anils.
The house committee on public lands to
day made a favorable report on the.41on
dell bill to moke vacant, lands within what
was . known as the Fort Bridges Military
reservation and which the state of Wyo
ming undertakes to reclaim and settle. It
is believed that some of these lands can
be reo!imed and settled only In that way.
There are about 7,(KK) acres of land accord
ing to surveys made by the state of Wyo
ming that can be Irrigated as provided by
the Carey act now lying worthless within
the old Fort Bridges reservation.
fcUortculiiK 1. hit's Delay.
Ralph W. Breckenridge of Omaha was
in Washington for a short time today on
his way to Omuha from New York, where t
he was In attendance upon the committee
of the National Civic Federation, appointed
to draft the revised court practice act. A
subcommittee of the committc-e appointed
by Judge Alton B. Parker was appointed at
the meeting yesterday to whip Into shape
suggestions for new procedure In equity
casea and If possible to bring about a
(Continued on Kecond Page.;
bought ten of the.-u- at .35 each. Lefore
lie reached his office ten minutes later a
message had been flashed over the wires
giving the information that the United
states supreme court had decided that the
city must purchase the water plant. On
receipt of tlila news, the bonds went lo
rar, which made the man HM.
This is but mi instance of profit made in
Dissents from View that Education
Unfits Women for Life Work.
ALSO DISCUSSES MARRIAGES
Says that Motherhood is Normal
Status of Woman and Happiest.
HOME AND FAMILY THE NUCLEUS
tnlla This the Illuhest Meal, lint,
Saye that t.lrla Are- Sot
failures If They Do
Sot Weil.
PHILADELPHIA. Ouno l.-Prefldcnt
Taft In his address to the graduates of
Bryn Mawr college today on woman's col
lege education spoke In part as follows:
"Your president has asked me at this
commencement lo sny something In respect
to the higher education of w-oincn. It Is,
of course, a themo most relevant and ger-.
mane to the occasion, but It Is one of which
I hesltato to speak in the presence of those
who havo made It their life atudy and
whose opinions In regard to the matter are
of so much more real weight than my
own."
The president reviewed the advances
made In educational advantages for both
sexes since 1S00.
Continuing, he said:
"I dissent from the view that an aca
demic education unfits a man or woman
for business.. It may be that the tastes
that lead one to an academic education
are not those which Insure business suc
cess, but the assertion that the mental
discipline, the power of reasoning, the cul
tivation and comparison of ideas, are not
of assistance in business transactions in '
which the highest quality of the mind are
actually In action, can hardly be true.
"But it is said that women are not all
going into the professions and so that the
education necessary as a basis for a pro
fessional career is not needed by those
women who have a competency - or who
look forward to marriage and motherhood
as the chief end of woman.
Itraaon for Kilncatlon of Women.
"It Is even suggested that the highest
education of women rather unfits thein to
discharge the duties of a wife and mother;
that In some way or other It roba them of
a charm and gives them an intellectual In
dependence that Is Inconsistent with their
being the best wives and mothers. I ut
terly dissent from this view. The com
panionship of married life la the chief
charm and reason for, .its .balng o far as '.
it relates' to the two persons ronceriMMt,
The enjoyment of the home, with children
and the training of them, are, of course,
among the most important duties and
pleasures of married life, and It certainly
does not detract from the power of a
woman to make a good companion or to
teach and train her. children up to high
ideala that she should have the advantage
of the higher education. It is not essen
tial that a woman who knows much must
conform to the unattractive manner anrt
ways of the conventional . blue Htocklng
that she should make the es.t'jit. of her
knowledge a source of disco l tort to thosa
with whom she associates or that she
should lose her interest in the sentiment
and emotions of life or fail to have an ap
preciation of beauty and romance.
"I am quite ready u. . oiucde that mar
riage and motheti:uo.i a-.c a normal utalua
for women, and, ot;ior things being equal,
she 1h happier in that condition than in
any other. But this W far from saying that
a woman's life ir a failure because sh
has not married uml that her life may not
he a fttlluic bscause she has married. The
home and th family are the neucletis of
the hlfihcst happiness, but if olrcuni
utances are such as to force women to ac
cept husbands whom they do not reepect
and love and whom they would not many
except to escape a life of poverty,, the
home and the family are not Ukejy to be
a model or to furnish an Ideal."
"We cannot be blind to tho general move
ment l-.i favor of openi.ig niofeand more
occupations not dependent , on . physical
strength to the female He.
Kilucntlon of Mothers,
"I do not think we can estimate the
enormous advantage that the present gen
eration has enjoyed, and tha,t the future
generations are to profit by, In the increas
ingly sound and thorough education of th
mothers of families.
"1 do not think we can estimate tho in
creased happiness that men and women
have experienced who, as husband? and
wives, 'have enjoyed the higher sense of
companionship that is made possible by the
association of ideas between two thoroughly
educated people.
"The higher education of women should
bo sought wholly without regard to a pro
fessional or matrlnion al fulute. The mental
discipline that It afford, the mental pleas
ures that it makes possible, the enjoyineir
of reading and study that It invites are
enough In and of themselves to he compen
sation for the effort In securing It.
"Before I close I wisJi to call attention t.)
one advantage that I think there Is In tin
Independent woman's college. It may he
that my view of this l inspired by that
sense of infallibility which Dr. David i-':ar
Jordan ascribes as a result ot the training
at Harvard or Yale, but whatever Iff
cause. 1 cannot help giving expression to it
It seems to me that there must be a clon.
analogy in t lie benefits derived from lite
association of life In P.ryn Mawr and thoss
which every graduate of a college and un,
verslty like Yale values ever more highl
than he does the mental discipline arid the
learning which he acquires from his collet."
course
The friendships that are formed In col
lege, by uu association of four years ut i
time of life when out nature are mallea
ble, when or characters are being formed
when we aro nut old enough to have h:d
our selfishness indurated, when we luspou.I
more quickly to the motions, when our
Ideals of friendship and our actual friend
ships are more nearly the same, are more
enduring than friendships formed there
after. They are friendships that bear the
tooth of time and the trunt of absence. They
are friendship that can be taken up upon
a moment after an Interval of twenty ye.it
und s em as fn-j.li hud frugruut as fl-mer
of tiie friendship when It firm budded
llnuurr uf Discontent.
"There Is one danger of a cuili-go i-d n.
tlon and four yeaia' life under colleg.; la-