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VOL. XLNO. 174.
OMAHA SATLKHAY MOl.XlN'C ..IANUA1JY
1911 T W K N T Y I A G ES.
tsiNULv: corv two n;xrs.
NEBRASKA KEEPS 'Two Members of
ITS F-flI.MF.1. TUTIO Black Hand Gang
Census Committee IYimH Bill Appor
tioning 433 Members ef Congress,
According to Population.
DTTROSTJCLD BT JOL CB.U1CPACXER
States Which Eire Lost in Knmbers
Ef tain Kemben.
4 4
DAROTAS WILL EACH GAX5 USE
Committee Members Believe This
Measure Will Pre-faiL
H. H. WILSON MEETS PRESH3E5T
Imtrwdered kr Senator Barkftt and
la 4 set mt Br lief nsaltb Will
Oct Jaaieikla Dar la
raacrm.
norons
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Color
Ooc tactions . . . .
BtUaan
Florida
Caorfta
Uah
Xllinol
Indiana .......
Iowa
ArrostTzoavxsrT.
IS Srebraska
T srswada
11 Srw Kampsatre
Slew Jaraay ....
. Ira fork
1 Vartk Oarolina . .
4 St orta Dakota . . .
, IS Ohi
B Oklahoma
, ST Oraj-om
. IS Pennsylvania ...
, 11 SLhoe later.. ...
tooth Carolina . .
, 11 oath Dakota. ..
Tauaaaaa
4 Tnaa
rtak
IS Tsnnont
IS Tirsrtnia
. 10 WaaHlBt-Mm
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Xsntncky . . . .
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Mary lard ....
BSassaehuaett
SCiofclg-na
Xlanesota . . . .
Mississippi
SUeaoKii
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Tne ajjpartlamment wader tka proyoaet !
arraae-emrat wlU rapreaaat aa trcraaaa
arar tlae praaant wambarahlp aa foil owe: j
Alaaa.au, Dolormda. riorlda, Oeerffla,
Sdako, Iaialana, scjenlraa. Klaaaaota, ,
aaoataaa, sierxB vaxaxa, vow, wragwa.
Itkode SalaaA, Sontk
Dakota, Vtak mat
Waet Ttrglala, ene eaok.
Illinois, ataasaohusetta.
Slew S atsaj,
Texas a&4 WaahlBgtom, twa sack.
Callfarrla and O UaJkema, tares sack.
Seaaa)rlvaBla, f eax.
Slew Tork, els. . . ....
Onro a Staff Correapotidatit.) . .
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 CRpecial Tele
Brarn.l Rrpreaeritaxe Crumpacker, chalr
Bian of the committee on cectua. today In
troduced a bill providing for the reappor
tionment of r.it hjuae of repreaentarlve.
The preaeat ratio of apportionment give
a, eongresoman to every of popula
tion, while the propoaed bill will give one
to every tU OJt. .
The t'rumpaceer bill calls for a member
ante ef the bmiae of repreaexilafjvws, ikr
March L 111S. of t3S members, eseludlnr
Alisons aud New Mexico, and Is so framed
that the atates which have loat In popala-
tion during ihe la.t tea jeer, win ot
any of their rnt repre.cnt.ti. For
Instance, the mhol. of NebraaUa. ,K,pula-
lion increaaed .ll.htly and there
that a re.tTortlonment b.ll might reduce
lia repreaflntatlon, but under the t rum -
, t , t
packer bill Nobr.sk. aill h.ve ... repre-
aentatlveeln he houe.
1-iwa s ptpulation showed a loss, but the
. , . A jm, '
Crumpacker bill tvtil not disturb the pies-
. . .
nt number of mrmt.ers In tlie boune
eleven itli!,wii i ati ra.
I
nakwtae (.ala Two.
outn lkota under ti.e propoaed reap-
portionmect bill ealns one repreeeataUv a
and North L'aiota also will gain one. tnak-J
lng three eafh for the Iakotas. Wyo-
mlng s rpreDiAiia rania.na aa at pres-
nt- !
Mr. Crumpacker aaid that his bill was J
tentath-e and did not neceaarily repreaent
the final viems of hia oummittee. Its Intro
ductlwn being merely for the purpose tf
itavlng a bill referted bark te his commit
tee aa a baals of operations.
tefintte actioD by the committee will not
be taken until next Tuesday.
At that time Director l'uiand of the em
eus bureau. Chief CiiaUailclan Hill abd
Prof Wilson of Cornell university will ap-
pear before th committee.
A tnaio-ily of the memltera of ttia ccm-
mitiee believe the plan la ihia bill will p. a-
vali.
Wllaww fteea PreaMeat.
H. II. Wilson of Isnroin w ho haa been
in the eiiy e'iice Wednesday, I. ft for S
brstks totiighl. M'. Wll-on, ho is
law partner of Senator Burnett. al ,,re-
rented to the ireaicient VV.cn.aiav. Aa-
tuiallv. the aubject of a cand ka'.e to aur
ceed to tha Van Ievanter vacancy was
not mentioned Th prvsi-imt was saarc
of tha situation. Mr. V la..n. fur th.t few
mltiutrs he had with itr prraldent talked
about politics, but did rot even sucet to
Mr. Taft that Nt-braska would send aa in
Btriitted delegation lor Mm.
On leav ng tonight Mr. VI lleon sad that
aa
hia Judgment
a Nebraska man
niM In h. i.r-.nev . K
-
promotion of Judye sn Ieanter. lie
rather giie-wd that if the Ninth district
of Ioa was sure to send a republican
te cors-ress. Ws'ter I. Smith of Council !
Bluff would he apK nted !
"There is no diff cuity about Nebraska i
pol tirl! ." raid Mr. Wilson. ' It s a re
publican ata:e and will be founl in
B
republican ra.lunm In VIZ Our people
grokreraie, but that dors no: mean
wc are going lo tear doan aeerpted con- j
uiiiini,. , m a ii -j ,vit uiiiLiiia ana iti in 7
,-udcnient Nebraska will give a good ac
coi n', of heritelf in l"li." -
'! -r tb mir.
In order to oprn the Pinole eboali in
r-er. Pablo bav. wlilch fl, struct th to
Iranre to the Mare laland navy yard con-
grraa will beabkrd by the War depart- 1
mrnt to appropriate Sr.:.J. Secrrtao
1 m-l.trif on today fcrmounX'J that thr annr
Wi nrn'rs bad Juat airived at this er!ruate.
Wtien recretary Ueers appears nrxt
week tefa the house committee on iiaval
aftalrs. he will request an appropriation
of P ,VJ to clnar away t lie mud froTn tha
Uare Island oavy ) ard and to erect JettUa.
Pwwer at ie.aarsi S-'alkv
T' e propured kgislatiun respectliig tlie i xne trial ia attracting attention from
dtviiu if watec at Nutgaia Falls vw wal and nua.'.n orflrers.
ci. ussed st a i.eariag to.iay bfur tne j out of a Wng-tand'.ng unfriendllneas be-Iioum-
itimmlitre n riveia mid ha.rua.ra. s t ween General KHlott and Major lvis
Tne irf-ixi.iig lull is deaigned to amend the i grew the charges whkh led te the court -burton
Uw ao as t auil.onae the eocre- martial. Major fsvla was aocuaed of ia
tary of war te giant permit, for diverting aubordination because be wrote a letter te
aitulu New York elate the waters of N- t h -eretar ef th navy. In which he
declared that General Li Halt bad alay
""ti.il on becond Page)
Die in Electric Chair
Dominick Ferrera and Yineent Leon
ardo, Who Murdered Eent Col
lector in Albany, Executed.
tJANNEMORA. Jsr. a -Dominick I
Fen-are,
ind Vlnoent Leonardo, young
Italian, from Albany, who murdered a rent
collector at th be beet of the Black Hand.
j went to the electric rhaJr In CHnton prison
(this morning. Just before he was at rapped
1 1" tha chair Leonardo made confession.
I which substantiated tha evidence of the
Italian detective who had himself placed
in a cell next to the accused men before
their trial.
Leonardo said he and Ferrera had beea
elected by the Black Hand to dispose of
tha rent collector, named Phelps. First
they dug a grave under the floor of
a aaloon .and then, when ha came to
collect the rent, suddenly attacked him.
j Leonardo declare that hti companion did
v.. mm w.mkuiia "liU biisi prum inc.
which wea afterward found In the room of
one of tha accuaed.
Phelps staggered out to the street. He
died on October t. with half a dosen
tab wound In hta head and body.
The executions occurred ahortly after
o'clock. Ferrera want flrot. maintaining
hia Innocence to tha last. Both men were
C"m' '
Minneapolis is in
Darkness Because
of Big Explosion
! nnTTiTnarrial T.ifa nf Cifw im Unmf
Paralysed by Destruction of Big
Electric Light Plant
'
MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. . a MlnneapoU
Dlunrad Into darkneaa and the itommerci&l
life of the city a! moat paralysed thla murn
11 in by an explosion of the "18.000 wire"
1 i leading Inlo the power plant of the Minne-
aUa Ocwiral Electric eompaay. Third
avenue, goutheaat and Main street. Eleven
men enrrloyed In the building made their
uay to afety through the VaJley of the
M,;. . t. ..r,,,-t(f).
Ttie plant was wrecked and a tangrled
mass of wire, machinery and lumber was
thrown In every direction by the force
of the explosion. .
Fire followed and completed the demoli
tion of the building. Two men were in
jured and the damage to the property Is
estimated at IM.000.
Three separate explosions, accompanied
by vivid display of the blue electric flame,
occurred. The two men Injured are re
ported not oertouely hurt.
Last of Big Slide
'.. in Culebra Cut
Seres, and One-Half Acres of Clay D-
tee id from Mantain Xnta --
" Canal Prism. 1 .
1 WAHlRTl) lnji TV. null work.
, , m the ,.tbBlu, thty ... tn.
i, ef fh Mnh de. ,B Cu,ebra
't Th),
wtuT'pertod. of ou eaoence. ha. been enlng
pB reMnlH, Ust thw wa.
1 . . . ... . . . . .
haavy slide at la. Caecadas, but a much
j brMk on thfl 13(n for
! the mstertal from the first break had been
; - .. , , . ... . .
removed. Thl. laat slide, wheh wiped
I . ., . . . . . .....
i out the railroad tracka and half filled the
t , , - . . . . ,
canal priam. increased the total amount
.
of earth which has desoended front the
heights In the cut to seven and . half
,Cree. Moat of the stuff was pure clay,
t,fculn ,here was some rock, the whole
,ud!ng on a rock foundation with a pitch
.f n. itlrh lB fwt. On hundred and
f)fly thouaand yards is ntpected to be
added to thla, which will complete the
),!,,. .
BRAZILIAN MUTINEERS
MEET SUDDEN DEATHS
Oat Dies ef tioo.reoe, Tweatr-Six of
, Sawstroke ad Iti.kiteeai Ar
Safronrted. -
. '
j RJO I'E JANEIRO. Jan. (.According to
j today". Jornal du Cummerdo. Joao Can-
' dido, b-eder of the recent revolt In the
J navy, and forty-fiur other mutineers have
j mot sudden deaths. Candida succumbed to
! tangrene htla a prisoner, twenty-six of
1 asoocle.tes died from sunstroke while
j ent.ed In repairlrut the fortress on
i Cobras Island and eightern others were
auttocated in their celle In th prison )B
! Villefcalnin Inland.
MEMBER OF MABRAY GANG
ARRESTED IN OKLAHOMA
1
Po11- Pcta
re ef Wreatler Waated
t'waell Bloffs leade
Apprebewaloai.
j OKLAHOMA CITT
Okl.. Jan. 4 -
Thomas 1 avies WSS arrested last night W.rnnutt Baa lni.i.nnU ... .
, . .
! a ntn.hrr t,T tha Jamea t:. ja.Drar cans,
members of which were Indicted two yeais
ago at Council Bluff."" la , charged with
sviindllng. Itsvles ia a wrestler and his
picture advertising a wrestling snatch kd
to hia arrest.
Letter to Secretary of Navy
Results
PHlLADfcLPHlA. Jan. I. Proceedings In
the court martial tr,el of Major Henry C.
Iia of th United Slates Marin corpa,
he is chsrged among othr things wiLh
insubordinauon, war halted her today
after Major General George F. t.lion of
the Marine corps, retired, had given hia
testimony.
A telegram was sent to Secretary biever
of the Nsvy department asking permissiun
to adjoarn the court wdefiDitety. until It
eouM be k-arrd when Mrs. Alvira Iwvis.
i mother of tn accuaed offjoer. and other
I witnesses could be here to testify.
been bis oneoiy ad s4 tnsultod him.
SEW CLUB OYEK
TOBACCO TUU ST
McReynolds Ssys Dissolution it Asked
Under Wilson Tariff Act as "Well
as She rman Law. '
RESTRAEJT OF TEADE LXPLAHfll
History of Alleged Combination Given
by Special Assistant.
TO REMOVE ALL C0KPETIII03.
Competing Plants Purchased Under
Contracts with Proprietors,
WORLDS TEADE PARCELLED OUT
At teraey Allr.es mm Reaelt of twnibl-
atloa aapetilloa la Porchaae
f I-af Takares Haa Beea
Fllmlaated.
i
.eaaaassssss
WAfHINOTOS, Jan. . Oral argument
tf the proposed dissolution of the "tobacco
trust" were begun late today in the su
preme court of the I'nited States. As a
year ago. when the dissolution suit aaa
argur-d for the flrat time before the court,
so today J. C. McReynolds. speclsl assistant
to the attorney general In charge of th
tobacco fight for the government, made
th opening addreas. lie had not concluded
his remarks when court adjourned until
Mrnday. T.y arrangement, counael on both
aides agreed to conclude their arguments
In twelve hours.
This will bring the close of the presenta
tion about 1 p. m. next Wednesday. At
that time the Standard till diasolutlon suit
will be takvn up In oral argument.
Wile Art I evoked.
At least one Important result was accom
plished in the first few minutes that Mr.
McReynolds spoke. He surprised some
members of the court by sayltuj the dissolu
tion was aaked not only under the Sherman
anti-trust law, but under the Wilson tariff
act of IBM.
Mr. McReynolds told the court this was
the first case that had ever been brought
under the Wilson tariff act. This, he ex
plained, applied to Instances of reKtr.lnt
of trade where an !murter was a party.
Much discussion bad taken place In th
"truat" rasea as to whether or not the
phrase "I'eatralnt of trade." as used in the
Sherman anti-trust law, was equivalent to
"restraint of free competition."
Mr. McReynolds pointed to the lsonjpftT UATFT Tfl I DA! TPETfiN
tariff act as the congressional interprets- uUD fiUILL, fVlLL rUUuLiUAH
tlon of the Pherman set, passed four years I
previous, when an doubt as to the meaning j B Bandits at Duluth Murder Officei
had Men removed hr uairt ntti-aae "
"restraint of free competition."
Nearly the entire time that Mr. McRey
nolds spoke was devoted to a history of the
"tobacco trust," from the time the flrot
American tobacco company was omntzed
la 1830 for the alleged purpose of affecting
a monopoly In the cigarette trade and thus
voJdlng competition of :ndeprni1ent cor
poraUons down t t,r fti-r rjinre-tln. of
ISO of the now American fobs-oco com
pany, controlling sixty-five cwm parries ln-
terosted in Various branches of the td'and night porier. resnertlvetr. of th
bacco business.
He described the "plug war." about IKK.
resulting In the organisation of the Con
tinental Tohenco company by which, h
alleges, ptus was restored and competl
tioa of Independents- was eliminated. He
told of s mllsr combinations In the snuff,
cigar and stog! trade.
To Remove Competition.
These combinations he described as de
signed to remove competition. Once or
ganized he told how competing plants were
purchased, each purchase being accom
panied by covenants on the pert of those j
who were selling out not to engagre In the
bu.ness of manufacturing or selling to
bacco within ten to twenty years In the
United fMetes. except Nevada and a ter
ritory or two.
Finally he turned to the con tracts of th
American Tobacco company with the so
called British "tobacco trust." the Im
perial Tobaooo company. By these con
tracts, he said, the trade of the world in
tobacco had been parcelled out between
them, the American "trust'" taking the
I'nited Ptates and Cuba for Its own; the
British "trust," Great Britain. Ireland and
the Isle of Man, and the British-American
Tobacco company, organised by the two
"trusts,", carrying on the tobacco husi
neas In the rest of the world.
Aa a result ef these romh.natims. he al
leged that the competition in the purchase
of leaf tobacco had been eliminated in the
United Ktates.
Hlstorr f Ike Cwae. :
The suit under the Sherman anti trust
lsw to dlssolts the s-called -'Tobacoo
trust" was instituted in 117 in th circuit
court of tb United Ststes for the southern
I district of New Tork. The prcedliigs
were brought by the Department of Justice
against more than sixty corporators aJtd
a number of individual defendants, headed
by James B. Duke.
The process of organisation of the com
bination, alleged to be unlawful, spread
over me ay years. It began In January,
18S8. Then th first American Tobaoco
' r " "'.
i n i. .il - .
it ia alleged, of taking over the business
j pf tiv. independent ciarett plants.
In 18W the Continental Tobacco company
was Incorporated for the alleged purpose
(Continued on Second Page.)
in Court-Martial
A trumpeter en the Island of Guam.
Philippine Hianda. where Major Da via we.
commander of marine, blurred his bugle
oella. Captain E. J. Iorn. a retired naval
uffioer, a governor of Guam. He sus
pended Lieutenant R- E. Ludlow because
of tha bugler's mlstaka.
Lieutenant Ludlow wrote to the eecre
tary of Uie navy aaklng that his punish
ment be not held agalnat his record. Major
Davis concurred la his request. Genera!
Elliott, as head of th Marine corps, eel sea
upon ths endorsement, declaring thai H
showed the laxity of marine discipline on
ths Island. H severely condemned Major
Itavla. The latter wrote a letter to the
secretary of the navy la which, tl I al-
.gd. h impugned tl. motives of General
Elliott. Hi court-martial waa then or
dered. Although there ate t nitty counts tn the
Indictment aa.nt Ma tor liivii. n, Biam
( uint the ceort must d-ctde is shot her tne
letter Is tnso.ent and ina-uborwinaie la tone.
'rom the Minneapolis Journal.
Who Arrested Them.
LARGE POSSES ARE UT PURSUIT
Iwwtbfol (rlnlaill Wit Were Bela
j Braafkt Hack ow street Car Rok
rauFarrn After KllHwaT '
i the Officer
I:
Hl'LUTH. Minn . Jan. WH'tam mmi
aary. aired !. and Algot Johnson. 1-H bov
11 it"!
McKay, early today held up. robbed, shot
at the nltrht clerk and tilcht porter, and
escaped with Sr0 belonging lo the hotel.
They were arrested and placed on a
street car after a chase, throueh the In
terstate bridge district, snd while being
taken back to the c ty asked That they he
allowed to go Inside the car. which re
quest being- rrsntcd. one of the men prillrd
a revolver Ihst had escaped the stten'.U.a
of Policeman Harry Chrsmore, who had
made the arrest, opined fire on that offi
cer and killed him.
The robbers then held up the passenptr
land crew of the street car. and at :30 a
j m. escaped over the Northern Pacific rsil
j road bridge. It Is believed. Up to 10 a. in.
! the two bandits had evaded the police and
citisens, a large crowd of the latter hating
Joined In the man hunt.
Automobiles, motor cycles and the en
tire police force had been thrown Into the
saw mill dstrict. where the robbers msy
be. Out on the Ice of St- Louis bay po
licemen have been ststioned to prevent an
escape Into Wisconsin.
How Hotel Wwa RobkeoV.
The two boys entered the hotel about
S:45 this morning. Clarence Rtubsted, the
night clerk, and Charles Flroved. the night
porter, were stsndtng bes de the desk.
"Hold up your hsnds." shouted one of
the boys, pointing a revolver. The clerk
snd the porter thoupht the boys were Jok
ing. To rhow that they were rn earnest,
one of them fired a ahot through the floor
ear the desk and the cierk and the porter
pot up their handa.
The youtha then marched them Into the
dining room and ordered them to etand up
against a large Iron poet in th middle of
the room and tied their hands to the post
above their hearts.
The boys returned to the desk and went
through ths eaah register, taking about Shu.
The two hotel men were later discovered
and gave the alarm.
It was expected the bandits would try to
reach Superior and Cheemor was on the
watch for them. He found the men Just
before they reached Interstate brldgs and
Inlarl hm unilrr arrest A a tVtwv mera
coming up Garfield avenue on a street ear
one of the boys complained of being cold
''All right, go in and alt down," said ths
officer
On Kuperior street the officer's atten
tion was dixtrsrted by an Intoxicated man
on the platform and while he was looking
at blm. Mi.iiery. it la alleged, drew a re
volver and began firing. The first shot
went wild. The second penetrated the of
ficer's lung. Tha third end fourth went
wild and the fifth entered Cbtwmor eye.
He dropped to the floor and the two men
holding the reolver to the conductor's
breast forced ths gates of ths car open
and escaped.
The two handtte are only 1 year old.
Call Tyler 1000.
Think of your
want ad for Sun
day's paper.
The ad taker will prepare
it for you and plae? it.
(Jive it to her in time, so
that she may give it good
position.
No ad will be taken later
than 7 o'clock tonight,
"Let George Do It."
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Government Files
Brief in Employers'
Liability Schedule
Document Was Prepared by the Late
Solicitor General Bowers Attor
ney General Xndorses It -
WASHINGTON. J(n OBiths logic of
the dead,' ttw tetmrtnwmt -or "Justice will
est Us case of upholding the protection of
1 living, extended by the eanployere' 11a
uii'.ty act of congress.
The department today sent to the su
preme court the brief of the late Lloyd W.
Poaers, solicitor general, tn defense of
this act of cor.gress. Tacked to the brief
was a tribute to Mr. Bowers from Attor
ney General Wlekereham. It read:
"The foregoing brief waa prepared by
the late solicitor general with his accus
tomed rare and ability. In order that It
may properly be before the court 1 adopt
it and ask Ha consideration."
The act which Mr. Bowers defended was
pawed In 1W8 to replace the employers'
..ability act Just declared unoanstltutiunal
jy the supreme court because It applied to
intrastats commerce as well as Interstate.
Mr. Bowers argued that the present law
avoided this objection. He defended the
law as a legitimate extract of cotujress
over 1 tit era tale commerce.
Inquest Into Killing
of London Anarchists
Police Say Soldiers Were Sent For Be
cause Ken in Barricade Had.
Higher Power Guns.
I.ONDOTT. Jan. t The Inquest Into the
desth of the two' outlaws who were Wiled
while resisting the police In their Eydney
street home Tuesday began today.
The testimony showed that soldiers were
summoned by the commissioner of police
because the anarchists were eo superior
te the weapons of ths polloe and that less
than fifty polloe officers participated In
the siege, the remainder being required to
deal with the crowds.
The examination of the surgeon who per
formed the autopsy developed that one ef
the men waa shot by the polloe or soldiers,
while ths other probably died from suffo
cation. One of the bodies showed . bullet
hole through the skull, the bullet having
entered back ef the right ear. "1 be
ll era." aald the witness, -that this Injury
caused the man's death. I do not believe
the wound waa self Inflicted.
The urgeoti thought the victim died be-
the flames reached him.
The Inquest waa adjourned until Mon
day.
Peary's Friends
Walking Test as Vindication
WASHINGTON, Jan. a-The official re
port of Captain Robert E. Peary . rerent
walking teat aa prescribed by the Navy de
partment. Just made public, is, in the opin
ion of liis friends In the nsvy the strong
est possible refutation of th argument
advanced by critic who brv questioned
the time the explorer-captain made over
tbe toe on the return from the North pole.
Captain Peary selected December IS. IS
and SS for the government tests. On tbe
fust day he walked twenty-five mile In six
hours and forty -five minute; on the seo
on oay iwemy-iiw nuioa m men uvui-.ub iria.ii) navai oriiuers.-nas shown now
tnd twenty-atx minute and on th third, fit tn we while in the tar north for hard
day. five mlleB in one hour and twenty
etgiit nilnutea. In other words he walked
fifty-five mile In fifteen hours and tntrty
nln minute.
Heturning from the North pole to tne
point l where he left Bartlett, Captain j Captain Peary will appear before the j clerks and secretaries of th l.tw reii...
Pear) cohered Is mile rn tbre aya. an j house committee on insvaJ affairs tomorrow , r busy, however, in euintr in ti.eu- '. -average
of f.fty miles a day. Th journey 1 1 a newer rutnlrg fire of questions con-j 1 and in fixing up the offices fi. . M
northward from Bartlett required five corning his puler achievement. ira! work that b. 'ri l,o il,e a
da. .a avara- of thirty mile ay. j I btg.n tgain Tuesday oiurnins. Ti.t eum-
WOOL INTERESTS TO COMBINE
Growers Seeking: Basis for Agreement
with Manufacturers.
MORE PROTECTION IS WASTED
Delegates to Netlowal teeveetlea In
Portland Declare Hedwrtlon of
Tariff Wewld Itolw the
keep Industry.
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jt.ii. ..-Todays tssk
In the wool grower national con von tlon
Is to formulate a busts of agreement be
tween the manufacturers and tbe wool
growers, with a view te combating re
vision of the tariff.
Delegates to the ronvrntlon aomost as
a unit declare that a reduction of the
tariff would ruin the sheep Industry of
the United State.
President Gooding snd others declsr
that the best result of the convention will
he the Incorporation of the Wool Growers'
association Into . militant defensive body.
"The subject assigned me is schedule
K. tof the Payne-Aldrtch tariff bill) from
the wool growers' point of "iew," said
Peter O. Johnstone of BlscVfoot. Idaho.
In his address last night- "1 realise that
this Is very intricate and one with wljch
very few men are fsmili.:.
"In the humbl Judgment of your fellow
wool growers, the sheep industry and the
western country In general would have
been million, of dollar, better off If the
Payne-Aldrtch tariff law had been de
stroyed by the president's veto.
"During the lost ten years the cost of
production has Increased fully eleven
cents per pound. We do not have enough
protection.
"The tariff commission as recently ap
pointed Is endeavoring to get squarsly at
the facts."
Adrlaa-a Real sees Bra-antaatlon.
The speaker aaid . business organisa
tion was necessary to protect the inter
ests of the wool growers. Continuing he
said:
"Most of n who have had. the forest
reserve to deal with h.ve suffered from
the ' Pinchot rule and regulation.' plagus.
a disease unknown until ths advent of
bureaucracy in our United Ptates govern
ment, but we had to suffer and will con
tinue to suffer until we have, as 'other
great interests have, a powerful organi
sation as a means of cure and defense.
"We are her to try th experiment for
the first Urns of bringing the wsol growers
and manufacturers together to see if they
cannot make their Interests mutual.
"Theodore Roosevelt declared that we
ate up all the grass and destroyed the
land. I wish he had postponed that saying
until after November S, 1SW. and It would
not hrva been taken so seriously
But now
(Continued on Second Page )
Regard His
Friend of the captaJn aay that his naval
teaia prove conclusively tliAt fifty miles a':rnd- Tilibets will get the Jude-iary,
day over ths loe on the memorable return ! Pkties constitutional amendment". Allei t
from the pole was not an unreasonable ' apportionment. Lee. a "'diy democrat." the
distance for him to have covered. j privilege and elections ruiiimiilee. .whion
Proceeding north from Banlett, the Time j t'1" handle county option liiilr; J'lak.
consumed in covering th 1&2 miles th pole : highway and bridges and Talcott in cj
wa necessarily slower, because It was an j rroeairig cotuiiuttee. The final aiun.ui.i-e-advance
into territory through much of i nient of tlie senate committees is also iw-
whlch the explorer's party had to literally
hew Its way.
In the light of his reosnt walking
achievements Captain Peary, in the opln-
aud steady goings under condition that
would have riscouraged a weaker man
. . v uiuuidu ne niaoe a round inp
of kus mile ia fifty-four days, an average
VWH. t . . - 1 . . . .
of . little leas than eighteen tuiiea a day.
iSIX WET: SIX DRY:
jKUlIL'SWOIiDGOES
; House Committee Chairmanahips Bona
j of Contention Over Which Mem
bers Are Fighting.
wkissick ixry in the luech
i
', Gage County Man Shoved Endely from
: Pillar to Post.
ftUACEXKEUSH LOSES HIS CHOICE
j Dry Leader Put Arice for Grossman
for Judiciary Head.
iOIXIS PROFITS BY EXPERIENCE
al!e )! Ks-wemker Wwrklns:
Strate.i In Senate Tanoer Lands
Mark tarda wmmlttee
Option to tn.
il'rum a Stulf Correponilrnt
LINCOLN. Jan. (.prcial Th house
! committee -n c mmiltces. r nip i-ed of all
j wets suit six di-js. with the fprakrr ss
' the wet man with tlie bntance of power,
i spent all the morning and most of t!i
aftrrtioon In the rlfort to get together ott
a few of tlie important committee chair
men, and Klncc Kuril held Ihe whip haul
cer the dry a most of the a ste on fi m
mitlees will so through without a hltc't
The committee refuses to go on record
with It" appi'ln.mcr.t". however, until Mon
day. Tin m;il disappointed man In Ijnco.B
and the one man who did n.M liomt,
althoiikh be lives within is nee snd has put
committee work to keep him. was J. W.
MrKletick of tlKgr. McKissIck has hern
tincf remriilmly ehcxed from the place ho
thought he had on three committers In
urccKKion and ivw he Is not ccrtsln
whether he will land at all. MrKlsvick
came to Tele' Poland of, Douglas several
day apo and tiled to get the tmaha man
to give up hie claim to the chairman; i!p
of tie com mitt re on rHies and towns.
This Boland refused to do. because thd, Po
sition lis always gone to a 1'oiicla
county member. Belaud waa persuaded by
the othei members of the Douplas delcga-
tlon lo give II up tn Mortsrlty becjuiss
j that memlicr I" a Iswjer. end I" wss de
I elded thst ihe Omaha and Uneoln r iar-
teis would be taken care of by a lesally
trained memlier. Poland surrendered will
ingly to htB culleairuea, hut McKlssick waa
left out in tlie cold.
Hob Holme sin I I we.
McKiKSlrk came back to Poland with th
proposition that If he eouid get swrport"
for h!mself as cha rmun of the committee
on public lands and buildings he would
back Douglas county frrr anything. Bnt
Bob Holmr of lknigla was slated by the
controlling vote for this Job and Ho
pod sky of Bsllne. who wss on this com
mittee In the last session, wants to rot It "
sway from Holmes snd hss some rheacsv.
Here akafn McK'ssIck wss Ttished ashfre.
Then he thought he had landed as chair
man of the committee on Insurance, but
when the matter came up in committee
Speaker Kutil. crar of all the appoint
ments, thundered "No" McKisslcU Ii An
i Insurance mnn and surely no Insurance
mnn should be allowed on that committee.
Gallagher of Cum ng s the , sp'-aker'g
choice and Gallsrher It must be. McKls
sick wss said to tie dangerous to frater
nal Insurance Interests because he Is rgent
for old line companies and so tils doom
waa saled. He went to Gsllsqher. tried
to get the ear of different members of the
committee on committees, smiled and
looked persuasive, but there Is no nop on
the horison for him. Just why he should
deserve such a fate, no one seemi lo
know, but at any rate he la not gettlnr
try-thing from the thirteen.
aaeeakWBk -Left.
Qusckenhnsh. leader of the S-mor ratlS
dry's In the house, wanted to be chairman
of the Judiciary committee, but Oroanni
of Omaha la slated fof th Job and will
probably get It. Quackenbush's failure ,1s
a good Instance of the fact that t-even,
votes best sis. All th -dry's In the com
mittee are for him, but the man who beat
him out for speaker will not give htm th
Job he wants.
The apportionment committee. Is also a,
tough pussle. and as yet no one has been
landed at the head of it. Apportion' sent
is going to he a hard fight In this session,
and Die committee will ponder long be
fore anybody gets tlie plsce.
Plate mm fkalraanaaklp.
Rome of the other slate preference
that will probably lie confirmed are:
hoada and Hnrtges Fries of Howard.
Live Mtoek and firm'ng-hu'la of luuKuia.
Ktnsnoe Gerdes of Klchardson.
Kallroadi. Hink of Hall.
rtauke end Bankiii. sagel of Kali lie
lamiH lirueber of Thayer.
Corporations-- l-idlsh of Otoe.
Plnce he threw poe Tanner of r-euOS
Omaha out of the committee on commit
tees so unceremoniously th other day Sen
ator Ollia. a chairman, lias held the upper
hand In the senate choice of 1'ha.iiiua.n.
The wet faction, headed by Volpp of
W aahlngtnn, promised f.r a time to niiLke
trouble, but tta efforts to get help from the
wet republicans failed absolutely, so Obey
came Into line without another werd.
I Volpp himaelf is said to prefer the Insur-
ani committee anO will undoubtedly get
that or th railroad a He wanted inoet of
all to head th finance, was and in. -ana
committee, but Ollia lias picked that out
for himself.
Tanner gets hia Job aa chairman of mis
cellaneous oorpui siions buck beam, an
ths bills as-ainst the tot k )rd w ill go
through liis hands. Keaaan nu alate.l by
ths oDuglas county delegsilnu to be tiiair
man of municipal aftVi-s. but lluiioti ba
I been chosen Instead, and KeaFati is unaa-
served until the members com !e a ko
Lincoln agaiu and probably will be n-it
Muiiday lugiit.
Th Nebraska .tele house preaei,!. al
n.o.t a. Inactive an ai'i-arane today ,.a
It did a week ago In spit of the fact tht
the leglaiatur is now in session. Lvny
member who did not come from tin- fjj-
1 . . . . . . .
I w "" o is gune noma except a
I 'w w ho remained to fight out the iiueeu. B
I of representation on tlie committees.