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aily Bee The Boo U the only paper ad- rnttte-d to thousand, of homo. Womwi are ths bayera. which v counts, h part, for the remark able retorn to oar lTrttni. WEATHER FORECAST. Kor Nebraska Kalr and warmer. For Iowa Fair ami warmer. For weather report nee page it. VOL. XL NO. 149. OMAHA. FHIDAV MORNLMi. l.KO'HKI! I'.MO -TWKIAT. PACKS. SINHJLF, I'OPV TWO C'KNTS. Fhe Omaha D MACVEAGH WOULD ABOLISITRED TAPE Secretary cf Tiewnry Sng-gf its Many Eefonna in Annual Eeport Pre tented to Cong-rest. HONEY SYSTEM PANIC-BREEDING Tantt Monet&ry Quettion Detached! from Sectional Consideration. FUTURE MERE MATTER OF CHOICE Gorerament Must Make Decision at to -v. the Future. BANKING LAWS NEED REVISION Cutemi Service hoM Re Free from Practical Politics aad Pay ment of Datles by Cheeks Aetherlaed. WASHINGTON, Dec I. Currency re form, extension of tha ecopa of the. na tional banking laws, In tha event of no Immediate general change of the mone tary system; civil servlca retirement; a customs service free from "practical" pol itics; business-like methods In the dally transactions of the government and a gen eral abolition of red tape wherever It clogs the wheels of the government's bus iness, are among the recommendations contained In the annual report of Frank lin MacVeagh, secretary of tha treasury, presented to congress today. Th eipenses of the government In the fiscal year 1912. for which thla aessMn of congress la asked to appropriate, are es timated at JS30 494.013. L2. The estimated expenditures on the Panama canal are given 'as IM.MO.MT.fS. making a total of $'.7,414.Mn 1. The estimate. If carried out. represent net savings of about $1. tt".0o9 In the executive departments ail compared with the appropriations for the current fiscal year. While the secretary- report estimates the total expenses of government at $iS7, 414.8W, the estimates which have been transmitted to congress ask for f748,414,Stl. difference of tHl.aW.00rt. Congress Is asked to appropriate this extra tM.OOO.OOO to make the sinking fund law effective. It would be an appropriation to permit the treasury to begin applying 1 per cent a year to the discharge of the national debt. The law authorising auch a procedure has been a dead letter for Some time, as congress has never appropriated any money. Receipts for West Year. Receipts for 1911 Secretary MacVeagh estimates, will be ItSfW.oro.OOO. which would, leave an ordinary surplus of around IWI. 000.000. If the treasury should continue to pay for tha Panama canal out of the cash drawar, as at present, such a surplus would be turned to a deficit of t7.. KW.tt. Secretary MacVeagh expresse th hope that tiie menrtary nuewHoti will conte Into congress detached from sectional or po litical consideration. "Our system can fairly be called a panic breeding system," he saye, "whereaa every other great national banking and currency system la pantc-prsventlng. Aa long as we continue under our present system we are liable to panics, and tha devastations of panics reach republicans and democrats and all parts of the country alike, ranlcs are no longer necessary and no longer re spectable. It la for tha government to aay whether we shall have panics In the fu ture or not. It Is a mere matter of choice. "We hava bo system of reserves; our banking system deetroys them. It concen trates In New Tork what are pretended to be reservea and then forces) the Hew York banks to lend and abolish them. Our sys tem. Instead of building up a reserve, de stroys It as fast aa It Inclines to accumu late." In connection with his criticism of tha money system on of Becretary Ml Veagh'a mot Important recommendations concerna , future Issue of Panama bonds, of which tSO.000,000 were authorised by the tariff act. Tha secretary renews tha rec ommendations ba made last year for leg islation to tax the new bonds at lMi per rent If used by national banks for circula tion, and Intimates, aa wa announced In news dispatches a few days ago, that It might be more prereraoie io iur u securities for Investment purposes only at a rate of t per cent 1mm os Bank Notes Sagaested. As a check against tha use of the bonds as the basis for a further Inflation of the national bank currency, he suggests that a circulation tax of even I per cent would hava the effect of making thera unprofit able for lianks to use for such a purpose and at the same time would make them attractive to Investors without injuring the t per cent bonds, of which more thgn $700. Ooo.OuO ara outstanding. Another means of accomplishing tha same end, tha secretary suggesta, would be for congress to author ize an Issue of tiO.Uuu.OOO or $WO.0u0,000 of the bonds at t per cent, without the circu lation privilege. If there la no prospect of Immediate change In the monetary system the secre tary thinks the American national bank ing system should be developed to per form sn International fuuctlon. There Is a clear need of banking facilities In for tsn countries where there Is American eemmerce. he says. "Wa shall never be a full-fledged com mercial nation." he says, "unless we have I merchant ship, ot our own ana banks of our own. e snouia ii un at all ports that are Important to our com nierce." The treiisury's relation with the busi ness communities are unbusinesslike, arti ficial and burdensome, the secretary de clares, and be recommends legislation to permit the payment of revenue to the gov eminent by certified check guarding the government axatnst loss. The recommendation thai the treasury j ba autloi1ed to Issue gold certificates agaimt gold bullion and foreign gold coin la renewed. reoperation ot Fraada. Tle1ev Ing the discovery of frauds and the sub-euuent reorganisation of the cus toms service. Secieiary MacVeagh urges appropriatione fur reaards to those who aid the government. The rehabilitation of the tus-toma serweu at New York haj beta nuu-ked. be . by a decided elim ination of spoils Influences and practical politics. "American tralers are more and more reaii::rg the indefentfiblenes of aniug aiiiiM. It rank dishonesty and lis bad ex ample and Inf 'uenc," a the report. Leciuintrnd:!ig a study of the clarified s stein of employes, the secretary de- (Continued an Third Page) President Taft Makes Retort Courteous to W. K. Kavanaugh Basinest of Court to Hear Witness No Matter How Much He May Abuse Court at Corner Grocery. "WASHINGTON. 1 ec. S.-Prsldent Tft and W. K. Kavanauch. who made an et- tack on the former during the recent I waterways convention at S. Iuls. met in I the White House toJay. The president j Rave a respectful hearing to Mi. Kav anaugh a ipokumm of a committee which called on him to present a resolu tion adopted at St. Iul asking support for a fourteen-foot channel from Chicago to New Orleans and then said: "Mr. Ktvintugh. I was on the bench long enouKh to learn that It Is the duty of a Judge to listen to the testimony of any man, no matter how much he may have been abusing the court at the coiner groceiy." Fallowing this "retort courteous" the president .promised to give the matter his earnest consideration. Mr. Kavanaugh la president of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf leep Waterwavs asso ciation. In a xpeech at the last convention he declared that the president had lost In terest In the Mississippi project; that he hr.d appointed engineers unttfatvorable to the project and that he had unduly favored the Improvement of his own river. the Ohio. British Coalition is Still in the Lead Unionist and Liberals Gain One Seat Each in the Balloting of Wednesday. LONDON, Dec. .-The counties of Eng land which voted yesterday remained staunch to the unionist cuuse and the gap between the coalition forces and the union ists remained about the same today, Mie government coalition having a majority of thirteen In a total of "91 seats for which elections have been reported. The state of the parties early thla after noon was as follows: Coalition: Liberals. 131; nationalists, 10, Indcpendcnt-nationalldts, 6; labor members, Jb; totul, 3C. Opposition: Unionists, 1S9. The unionists scored a gain in the Ksk dale division of Cumberland, where Claude Low ther, a relative of Speaker Lowther. turned out Oeoffrey Howard, but the lib erals evened up matters In Radnarshlre. Sir F. Edward turning the tables on C. Venables Llewellyn, who had defeated him in the January elections. The majorities In the counties generally were smaller In the cases of both liberals and the unionists, but thts Is accounted for by the reduced total vote cast. Interesting personalities among those whose election was announced today are Moreton Frewen, who comes to the House of Commons from Corlv county -to support William O'Brien, the InUenpendAit-national-lat leader: H. Spender Clay for the Ton brtdge division; Kent and Lord Wllloughby de Fresby for the Horncastle division of Lincolnshire. All three married American women. Eighteen Injured in Traction Wreck Passenger Car Runt Into Freight Car Jutt East of Springfield, Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. S.-Elghteen persons were Injured today when a pas senger car of the Illinois Traction system, bound from this city for Danvtll, struck tha rear car of a freight train at Starnes, Just east of Springfield. Slippery rails caused tha accident. Jarnes T. Upper grove of Chicago, who suffered a broken rib. was tha most aerlously hurt. CRUISER SENT TO HONDURAS Tscesia Ordered to Puerto Cortes Meet Aut Emergency that Slay Arise. to WABHIirrjTON. Dec. S. In view of alarming reports of an Impending revolu tion In Honduras against the administra tion of President Davllla, the Navy de partment has ordered the cruiser Tacoma to Puerto Cortes to meet any possible emergency that might endanger Americans or American Interests. The Tacoma left Cristobal today and probably will arrive in the Honduran port on Saturday It ! said at the Navy department that no official Information has been received In regard to prospective revolt and the action In sending the Tacoma to Honduran watera waa merely a precautionary meas ure. SCHMIDT SUES MATHEWS0N Base Ball Paa Darned with Theft of Bali Willi Damages for False Arrest. NEW YORK. Dec. 8. Suit was begun In I the supreme court In Brooklyn today by Frank Schmidt, a Brtxtklyn man, against I Christy Mathewson. pitcher of the New York Nationals for alleged false arrest. i bet,n nnloh ,nd Nw York at Wa,h. Ington park on Airil 2K. IS, of which Schmidt was a spectator, the bail disap peared. Mathewson declaring that Schmidt took it as a souvenir, tv-hmldt denied hav ing taken the ball, but was arrested later discharged. Recovers His Diamond Dropped Off Speeding Train Seated In a barber cha r in a Farnam shop, H. a. Harricks of Red Oak. la.. transfixed the barber who was attend ng him by a remarkable atory of luck Thurs- day morning. Mr. Harrkks breathed a sigh of satisfaction and chanced to re- mark that he was the luckiest man in eighteen statea He thertun Informed the barber he had dropped a 110 diamond fruro h.s ring through th wash basin slot of a Burl ng- ton train moving at the rat of forty miles an hour, and later regained the gem. Mr. Harricka further declared h had recov ered hla gem by merely getting oft th VOICE XO SORROW AILEADKU'STOMUr Funeral of Mn. Mary Baker Eddy Marked by Simplicity and Ab- j sence of Mourning. j EULOGY OMITTED FROM SERVICE! Judge Smith Reads from Bible andj Offert Prayer. I PREPARES PROGRAM HIMSELF i i Correlative Passages from ' Science ! and Health" Presented. I LORD'S PRAYER RENDERED ALOUD Face of Founder of Krllsrloaa feet Appears Teotkfol Eipreuloa Praeefal, Ithoat la of offering. BOSTON. Dec. 8. The followers of Mrs. Mary Laker Kddy. the founder of the Chrto tlon S. lem-e church. jerted with her vleible iorm toaay at a runrrai service that was marked by Mtnplli Ity and absence of osten tation: that yielded no expressions of sor row, at l.-ast. not by her followers; that "is sjiTounded by no trappings of mourn Inir. but was, nevertheless, sufficiently Ira prsle to linger long In the memory of 131 tersons who attended. Judge Clifford P. Smith, first reader of the mother church, read the greater part of the services prepared by himself, which consisted of selections from the Bible, cor relative passages from Mr. Eddy's book. "Science and Health." and a prayer. He was assisted by Mrs. Carol Hoyt Powers, the second reader, who rendered Mrs. Eddy's poern "Mother's Evening Prayer," with tender expression. There n as no eulogy, no soothing, except by the young granddaphter. Mary Faker Clover, whose crep-cn-ered hat was the only sombre color note In tha house. Details of Funeral. The spacious parlors, where the little fathering sat for eighteen minutes In calm thought, was bathed In sunlight while a rpray of roses on the coffin, and here and there a bouquet, a If for decorative affect, were the only evidence of the customary massing of flowers. It seemed like one of Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical meetings of years gone by and one had to glance at the mas sive bronze casket re-'ting in the rose-tinted alcove to realize the significance of the oc casion. There were two Intervals of Impressive silence. The first Was at the beginning. The company had been seated and as the hour approached! the whuvpeting gradually ceased. There was not a rustle to break the stillness until the clocks In the house chlmsxt out the eleventh hour. Judge Smith then began his reading In a tone fervent, but unwavering. Aa ha cloned he passages from "Sclcnca and Health," ha said: "Wo will now engage In silent prayer to be followed by the, andtMs rendering of the Lord s prayer." ' Again the rooms were silent for a little more than a minute, although It seemed longer. Then Judge Smith broke the still ness with "Our Father who art In heaven," and all Joined In the prayer. Tha "Mother's Evening Prayer" fo.iowed. Last View of ftody. Those who wished to loog for the last time on the face of the leader of the sect saw the small, delicate face of a woman who looked 80 instead of SO and whose expression waa singularly peaceful and showed no sign of suffering. Eighteen carriages followed the hearse across the snow-clad hills to Mount Au burn cemetery In Watertown. There, before the open doors of the re ceiving tomb, Judge Smith finished the services of the day by reading the twenty third psalm and pronouncing aa a benedic tion the last verse of Jude. The coffin waa slipped into its niche, the door was shut and sealed and a man waa placed on guard. As a measure of pro tection, the guard has access to a tele phone, which the directors of the church have placed temporarily In tha vault. It is expected that Mrs. Eddy's will will be filed tomorrow at Concord, N. H. The honorary pallbearers ware Honorable John L. Bates of Boston, Edward P. Bates of Syracuse, N. T.; Arthur Brisbane of New York, Judge Charles R, Corning of Ccncord. N. H. ; Frederick Dixon of Lon don. Honorable Samuel J. Elder of Boston, Mayor Charles F. Hatfield of Newton, Mass.; "William . Johnson of Boston, Albert Metcalf of Boston and General Frank S. Streetor of Concord, N. H. Where the final resting place of the body will be Is a matter of conjecture. The Chris -tan Science leaders had prac tically settled on a large lot at Mount Auburn,, but Oeorge W. Glover, tha aon. expressed a strong wish yesterday In favor of laying his mother away at Tllton N. H. WILL TEST IOWA LIQUOR LAW Harahalltewa Saloon Keener Will Appeal to the Called Statca tstnns rasrt. WASHINGTON, Dec. t Several saloon keepers In Marshalltown. Ia.. will ask ths surpeme court of the Cnlted States, prob ably next Monday, to Issue a temporary order staying the enforcement of the Ioi liquor laws, pending an appeal to tha court in regard to their validity. The lUjuor dealers filed a bill In the federal court of Iowa for an injunction to prevent officials of Marshalltown from en forcing the law. The lower federal court dismissed the bill and declined to continue itv- I a temporary injunction which had been is andlued until an appeal to the supreme court cvuld be perfected. train and walking back four miles along ' the track. "You see. it was easy enough ouch, be ; careful there." said Harrlcks. "As I was saying, It was easy enough the way I did ; it. The moment 1 saw th stone flicker ' Uiroucu me slot I looked out the lndow and noticed a tlegraph pole with a cross ' arm hanging half brvken from Its top. Then ', when the train stopped I Just walked back i till I cam to tha. pol with th broken arm. It waa easy to locate the stone almost oppoaits th pole." To prove his remark able adventure, Harrlcks displayed th un set diamond ta Ui astonished barber. t! Iill nl t ,..U urrx I I I I'd I '--.. 1 ii .0 U1 t 111 I hi trC-? 1 W E h I .4 ii i "i V t ii in i" 1 l Hi 8tS 4 m From the New York World. CAMPAIGN EXPENSE BILLS Congressional Campaign Committees File Reports in Washington. HUNDRED THOUSAND IS SPENT More Than Three-Koarths of Amoaat Is Dlabwrsed by Reps 1 leans Where the Money Went. This! WJHlNOTON. Dec. . The republican congreastonel committee receve, rf.tfTt. and, disbursed 74,S73. while tha democratic con gressional committee received IJT.TM and dlsbused tV.m. during tha recent campaign, according to reports filed today with the clerk of the house of representatives, Tha largest individual contribution to the republican fund was made by Representa tive William B. McKlnley, which amounted to SR.OOn. A contribution of 15.750 was re ceived from the treasurer of the I'nion 1ea.jrue club of Philadelphia. The republi can state committee of Ioulslana con tributed S2.000: former Secretary- of the Treasury. Ieslle M. Shaw, as treasurer of the Manufacturers Club of nilladelphla. $1.63(1, and John Pitrairn of Pittsburg. Sl.ftO. The national commltttee gave ftS7. The largest Individual contribution to the democratic fund was $1,000 from W. C. Beer of New York City. Traveling expense during extensive speaking tours were contributed by Rep resentatives Champ Clark of Missouri, A. . Burleson of Texas and OIMe James of Ken tucky. From the sale of HO campaign text books the republican party received $107. The democratic report doe. not show any re ceipts from this source Hitchcock Give. Five Hundred. Only one member of President Taft'. cabinet Is shown to have contributed any thing to tha republican cause. Postmaster General Hltchocck gave $500. The diplomatic corp. Is represented by R. C. Kerens of St. Louis, ambassador to Austria-Hungary, who gave $Soo, and David Jay no Hill of Rochester, who gave $100, Charles Ryer Norton, secretary to Presi dent Taft, contributed $K. Senator Root made a contribution of $f00, his being the only nam representative of of the United States senate. Under tha bead of disbursements, the democratic report shows no extraordinary expenditures. Expenditures of $200 each ara shown for the campaigns in the Third con gressional district of Kentucky, the Ninth Missouri, Second Nebraaka, Seventh Mis souri. Sixteenth Missouri and Eighth Mis souri. In Kansas $00 In disbursements wars reported, while $300 was ax-ponded In Iowa. These amounts do not Include traveling expenses of speakers. Rraabllran Bill for Sneakers. The republca.n report shows many large expenditures In comparison with democratic disbursements. Under the bead of expenses of epea.kers, it Is shown tha Representative McKinley, received, $1,000; A. C. Rankin of Chicago, $1,774; Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill of New Tork. $2,260. and many other amounts be tween $M and $XXV The republicans ex pended $1,000 cash in the Sixth Kansas. Ninth Iowa. Tenth Kentucky. First Michi gan, Fourth and Fifth Minnesota, Second Tennessee and the Seventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Mis souri district The republicans lost four seats In the districts named. In nine other districts the expenditure of $fciO each were reported. These were the Flm and Sixth Iowa. Ninth and Eleventh Kentucky, Sixth and Fifteenth Ohio, First and Second Oklahoma and Second West Virginia. TORONTO RIOTING AT AN END Pay As-1 ea-Eater Care Are Baaalaar la laeadlea City W Ithoat Interruption. TORONTO. Ont.. Dec t Operation of th newly Installed pa v-a-you-entr cars of tb Toronto street Railway company was continued today without further In terference on th part of those who ar I said to object to ths typ of cars used j Eight persons were arraigned for alleged j participation in last ntght'a disturbances, i charged with disorderly conduct. No estl- mat of tha damage done has been made, but the railway officials stated that It re sulied largely f rum glass broken In many ear a. Let Down the Bars ge I LifV Man Murdered in New York Mistaken For Strikebreaker xnree Men Held in Connection with Killing of Young John Warner of Highwood, Conn. NKW TORK, Dec. t Secrecy was main tained at police headquarters regarding the Identity of the three men made prisoners lute yesterday, but there seemed to be good reason to bHee today -the men are1 in custody in connection- with the murder of John C. Warner, the young engineer of If igbwood. Conn., who was stabbed to death on Seventh avenue more than a month ago. While the detectives were not ready to admit this, it waa learned they feel certain they have solved the Warner mystery and that he met his death through being taken for an express strike breaker. Through the statements of the three men detained the police men detained, the police today said tbey expected soon to have the real murderer In custody. The names of these men, all of whom were Adams Express company helpers, wero later made public. They are Charles Klieman, Peter J. O'Connor. Harry W. Morton and James F. Mulligan. O'Connor, the oldest. Is but 13 years old. They are charged with aiding and abetting In the killing of Warner. The authorities are said to have ths name of a fifth man, who all of the wit nesses agree plunged a knife many times Into Warner In the belief that he was an armed guard or strikebreaker. New Commerce Court Under Consideration President Hat Two Hundred Applica tions for the Five Placet on the Bench. WASHINGTON, Dec. S. Much of Presi dent Taft's time was taken up today In hearing recommendations of senators, rep resentatives and other caller, of various candidates for appointment to the new court of commerce. Th list of candidate, for this court, which will have five mem bers. Is rapidly growing, and the president Is said to. have soma 200 namea under con sideration. The president wilt have a series of Im portant conferences this afternoon regard ing the supreme court. Attorney General Wlekersham, Vic President Sherman. Speaker Cannon, Senator Idg and Rep resentative McCall of Massachusetts are among those who will be at tha White House. Th president . had his picture taken In front of the Whit House with a delega tion of TOO German-Americans, who came to Washington to attend the unveiling yesterday of th statu of Baron von Steuben. Plan for Protection and Development of Power Sites WASHINGTON. Dec S.-A plan is being considered by the National Conservation association, of which Glfford Plnchot la president, to bring together th advocate of federal regulation of water power site, and those who stand for state control, according to an announcement made today by th executive committee of the asso ciation. The object of the plan, which was drafted by Philip P. Wells, former law officer of the forest service, Is to afford " . water power platform on which both aides of the water power controversy may unite to protect the pubi c Interest and at the same time encourage the development of many m llions of horsepower no going to wast in the mountain streams of the far west and th great rivers of the cen tral and eastern parts of th country." Tb proposed plan haj ben laid before a number of engineers of wide experience la water power development, as well as m Pli ! 1 1 Phi' am,, i t.:.1 I ANTHRACITE DEALERS WIN Court Decidet No General Conspiracy to Restrain Trade. TEMPLE IRON COMPANY A TRUST Jndares lirsnt Prayer of Government for Injunction neatralalaK Cor poration from roallaslsg B Ineas In Violation of I.arr. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. t. The Un'ted state. eirciUt court fnr the aaatern tfistrlot of Pennyslvanla today decided that there Is no general conspiracy among the anthra cite coal carrying railroads or coal com panies to restrain trade or commerce nor to monopolise trade, nor to maintain cer tain prices, but It decided that the Temple Iron company Is a combination of anthra cite coal carrying railroads. In violation of the Sherman anti-trust law and granted the prayer of the government for an In junction restraining that corporation from continuing business In violation of the act. The government wins only one of several points, that in the Temple Iron company case, and the defendants will not be com pelled to change the present prices of coal ns a result of the court's decision. The case waa heard by Judges George Gray, Joseph Bufftngton and William M. Lannlng, last February. Three opinions were handed down late this afternoon and each dlffere from the other. Judge Gray dismissed all of the govern ment's charges, except that relating to the Temple Iron company, which he sustained Judge Buffington dismissed all the charges except the one against the Temple company and the one relating to the per cent contract existing between th llg corporations and the Independent coal companies, sustaining tha charges of viola tion of law on these two points. Judge Lannlng dismissed all the conten tions made by th. government. List of Defeadaata. The suit waa filed In June 1907. during President Roosevelt's administration. The defendants Included the Heading company, Philadelphia & Reading, Lehigh valley, Delaware, Lackawanna Western, Cen tral of New Jersey, Erie, New York, Sus quehanna. A Western, Philadelphia & Head ing Coal and Iron company, Lehigh Valley Coal company, Lehigh and Wllkeabarre Coal company, Pennsylvania Coal company. Hillside Coal and Iron oompany, New York, Suatjuehanna and Western Coal company. Temple Iron company, and about forty In dividuals or so-called Independent coal companies. The three other anthracite coal carrying railroads were not Involved In the suit as they were not competitor. In carrying anthracite to tidewater. They ara the Pennsylvania; New York Ontario and Western and Delaware A Hudson rail roads. The theory of the government', casa waa tiiat all the defendants had long been (Continued on Second Page ) various officers and managers of hydro electric power companiea, and Is said to have met with their approval. The basis of the plan Is development, "withaut delay, wast or th sacrifice of other and higher uses of flowing waters." for this plan declares private capital must b aided by tb statea or federal govern ment through corporate franchises, con demnation of prtvat property and license to us public lands and obstruct puhlle. waters. The power companiea ar to hav certainty of tenure for a reasonable time and a rhanc for "generous profits on their actual Investment." For th publto, the plan promises, "good service, fair prices, full publicity aa to coat, honest capitalization and fair rentals for public property used by the companies." Ths federal government. It is conceded In th plan, has no Jurisdiction unless Its land Is to be occupied or navlgabl streams affected. STATE CASE TOLD IN GUARANTY SUIT All Lawyers Talk Before United states Supreme Court, Finally Dividing Their Time. MULLEN GIVES CURTAIN RAISER Gets Only Fairly Well Started When it it Time to Stop. COURT INTERROGATES WHED0S Judges Closely Question Point Raised in Defense of Law. WESTERNERS GET APPOINTMENTS lorrana Assigned to t ontmlttees ! lloase lid trnae Where Death Made acenrlro No t nui- t PmIhm Funds In Nebraska. WASHINGTON. I ec S -(Special Tele gram.) The Ncbiaska hank guaranty case, coupled with the Kansas tae uf th saiu character, wan oinpn it-il toilav, attorue) a for the two states having agreed to divid tiie four hours allotted to the cases Into five equal parts Jilin I.. W'ebter ot On aha and ex-Si nat i- Long of Kansas occupied the remaining time. C. O. W hedon. who was first In the field I tit he retMlno.1 aa i-fiiinel fur fhe KtAte'B prosecution of the bunk guaranty tase". ir.iough concession- of Attorney General Arthur Mullen and J. L. Albert uf special counsel for Nettaka, Mas permitted to cluhc. and the court did Mr. Whedoti the honor not only of listening to him, but Interrogating htm upon points he brought out In the twenty-five minutes allotted lu lit in as fifth counsel In the ra.-e. By permission of the court and a.'ter long conferences held previous to today's pro ceedings. It -was decided that all of counsel representing Nebraska and Kansas should have an equal chance before the cuurt. At torney General Mullen had but twenty-fiva minutes, which he used In KenerallUs. In fact. Mi. Mullen did not gel started before the flag fell. He served, therefore, as Intro ducer of the talen which followed, Mr. Albert and C.' O. Whcdon. Ji hn G. W'ebMer had an hour and a halt and It is said by court habitues that his argument not only was one of the bast heard In the historic chamber for yeai. but several of the Justices remarked upot. Its clearness and Its forefulness. In fact, one ot the associate Justices did remark that Mr. Webster possessed material fuf an associate Justice of the supreme court. Committee Change. Republican Albert E. Dawson of lows has been assigned to membership of tb committee on appropriations to succeed the late R. P. Brownlow of Tennessee, de ceased. This Is a very distinct honor ant! waa a committee assignment sought bj many older members. Mr. Dawson will undoubtedly prove a ost valuable addition to the house committee and appropriation as h'.s work sine coming to Washington has had to do with great problems whch annually confront the several appropri ation committees of house and senate. Chairman Tawney has assigned Republi can Dawson to the subcommittee In charge of preparing ths pension appro priation bill. It Is understood that Senator La Fayette Young of Iowa will be assigned to a plact on the committee on postofflce and post roads vacant through the death of Sena tor Dolllvar. An assignment on this com mittee, one of the most Important of th senate, la deemed a high honor. A. H. Kneiile, superintendent of th Omaha and Winnebago Indian schools, ar rived In Washington today from a visit to his old home In -Byron, Geneseo county, New York. Abbott Hetnrns. F. H. Abbott of Aurora, assistant com miastoner of the Indian bureau, arrived In Washington. Since casting his ballot at Aurora Mr. Abbott ha made quite an extensive official trip In the Interest of th. affairs of tha department over which ha In part presides. He has been In Omaha looking Into the warehouse system ther. and In Montana, and spent th last two weeks In th vicinity of Santa. Fe making personal Investigations of condi tions among the Pueblo Indians. Representative Klnkald has Interested himself in a bill to grant three months' leave of absence to homestead settler. In Nebraska, so that If they desire to leave their entries to seek employment eleswhere during the winter they will not los credit In making final entry because of such absence. A bill similar to that adopted last year for relief of settlers will, through efforts of Judge Klnkaid, Include Nebraska citizens upon new homesteads. Representative Frank Mondell of Wye mlng has returned to the capital, com pletely restored In health. Kmnde la ( aiupnign. The republican committee's report sub mitted today shows that organisation did not send a dollar Into Nebraska to alo those struggling either to "com. back" or to reach the goal as original propositions. The democratic committee did not "loosen . up- very much. but they did send $ for use In the Second district, and this double century piece of currency helped elect C. O. Lobeck to th Sixty-second congress. Pension Agencies Hemala. There will be no necessity for Repre sentative Hull to make a fight this win ter to maintain th. pension agency at De Molnas In the new fiscal year beginning July I, UU. Th pension appropriation bill, which Is nearly completed, will soor b. reported to th house. For the flrai time la four year. th. provision discon tlnulng the eighteen agenclea. among their tha on at De. Moines, will not appear. Representative Kelfer, who handle, the pension bill, has gtvtn up th. ghost. There', no use trying It," h. said to day. "These agenciea with members in whose districts thtey operate will stay. If ws had abolished thte agencies hiee years ago aa proposed tha government would have been ths gainer by $l,Wi, 000." Omaha te Lose Indian Warrhoaae. Tha Indian warehouaee at Omaha. Chi cago and four other cities will be abolished on July 1. 19U. If the senate concurs In action taken by th house today. Th hous: approved that section of the Indian appro priation bill which, In effect, legislates th warehouses out of commission, by falling to make provision for them. After con sideration of reports from Secretary Ua! Unger and Commissioner Valentino, the house committee on Indian affairs decided that ther was no further use for the In dtan warehousea. It was shown that it they wer discontinued tb. goveruuicui