The Omaha Sunday Bee.
f ART 03E
HEWS SECTION
rxaca ose to eiqiit
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Nebraska- I'nupHlecl.
For Iowa Increasing riniiiilnps
For weather report o pan a 2.
.VOl 1I-N(. VA.
NEXT LAND SHOW
HELDINOCTOIIER
Omaha B and Twentieth Century
farmer Western rrodocte E
libit for 1911 Announced.
TO BE PUT OS AT TEE COLISEUM
Down Town Facilitiet for Display Are.
Outgrown.
EA130J TO REMODEL OLD TEN
XnlfhU ef Ak-S&r-Bea Propose Re
Jure nation ef Structure.
ROADS ARE CARRYING SETTLERS
MeeaH Maaaaaanl apparent la
Tralfk lisle Set In Pndlllnle
Handling f rwiMlt rr"
paetsnen r.arly.
The rimsh l.nd r"how was organised
fnr a d-f'Mt purpose
It iiI.imi I in rnimillh a certain
dsflnlte t t.l rar
II la eomcihlng mora than a show, It I i
mar than merely an ln'nimtil for the
tiaa af the lend man In selling Intnl.
Il I mora than a fiiare collection (if the
I ear products of Ilia west
Il a rrvr lhan a gnut oble I lesson In
lha teat methods of am hull ore
r tint atarted for Ilia purpose of
Inftklntf rrif-tia-v In th,. m t,,w l.nntni'HM nr In
Sltraet crowds lo llmalia J
The oljecl of this mpoaltlon la til meet
greal Mini problem - tn atom the tide of
.rnigialton now nmni l'i Hi" noith and lo
iha auMili ami tu ilirait this alreatn west
ward.
Ir hs been the .;ii-t of Ilia tnansge
man! af The Omaha Ilea anil Tha Twen
iiaih IVnlur- farmer lo devote a large
amount of ara In I lir purpose of cllrect
fi altent on lo i i orltinltica In tha west.
touted a. Oman la. at tha gateway
af tna Irananvaaoiiri riniiilr, anil Willi tha
grant rallrcada preadlna out from thai
Biltr fariehap. rotation great territory!
fo.ni Nebraska to thr Pacific ail, .p.i. whnee
interact ara miinml, II la plain thai tht
ao'k can he undertaken ""I In Omaha.
Knowlnk Ilia adetitage of an exposition'
for tha purtHiaa of arousing interest; rrrng.
nutria! lha ah l Ir of tha powerful rallrosds
to recurs results through Hieli or-tailxn.
Ions, l.eilatlng thai xuil. orgnlilMllon j
o.l commercial rinl of Ihr weal, once'
roud. can acrmiillli vastly trior in j
tha future; hla exposition la organised to,
i.nli thaee 'nri.t and further IhU inula
I urpt-ar-In bring mora people to lha uppnr
lurcllleg ml ton wrat.
LJaoa af Mlraarr Mavaaaaat.
Th natural irrVui of utinilxratlon la
M Ika Uaaa of lajit rraialrnca. In N
laat tiu will find mora panpl from
aa. ItlltH'ta ami Ohio than from any
Ah Maiaa. 1 oar ma from tha aaat
la tr tarat. Tba rrat railroad trunk linaa
tmm aar taa tka contloaat In Imaa aitn.iat
aajralial Ion aaat ta waat. I'aopla ox
atmn$ ml tha aama rllrrtala a that
mt Ikaar aw a kclba. rut thla raawm tha
paaNaalaw aoaa lo tha twrthitmm.nl
MMn, a4 Ika Italia to tha aniith, whila
rf utmvtma wwa uur own country
aark a allmata aim Mar ta that of
tta r4 aawna. Thaaa ar tha natural Una
of lrr4, a4 Ik natural tiidanr la for
4raj4kiai frutm Ika araau rantral rivar
all'ta k aw.ia t v ard anl nor. to tha
iwia a Iw tka aulfe. Tka llnaa) of I aaat
laiaiaaw-a. tkarafura. ara from tba aaat
M tka waaa, Milk I! farta hafora im,
M a4laoiaat l allrart. tloao n leatr
a aaaMi at la tha a act ion whlt'h la
taa aatarai 4aat tnat ton.
Tfca raaa..a thai tha p-aopl "' t'anada j
aaav ,a a4i( thatr oaiortimit:ra ao ad
ra aaualy fcj aut thai tba wit
a ,aa 4-y not of far graatar advantaaaa,
i iMx-aii thara baa baa B ur(aiitia.l
vtr4, '(
H aakl axaMaMth.rt la for tha pur-
aa af balny rantial turi-a la I or Bin 4 ;
lata tat a 4 aVilaraH'.n iraatvard. Tha f .
M aaamilahad br tha flrat I'm;
lm4 ahow mrA mwat aallaf. turf. I la auo- ,
aa la m IniK VnM fu tha work of tha
aawaml aayoattltn, which, with tha an-!
aatajatlM aovp'4l a'fatly promlar.1 from
iror aaatluai nfla i"t, will a.rcvnipliali i
aa mora than Ilia (rodwrsajr.
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trtrti 4r net f i. iiiun rixr.tt ,
tlo ft a 14 l.l ft.
r wite tJt n
I til
hrtaka a (tjo Wlaj
I mrrttt rhMka.
Tka arriiil annuail ftiillt fnd ahnw
wtlt ha hl o-t.lHnt H- 31
T(a at.o la to ta hl. at tha Cnilawim.
Tw-r'ler'i an, I R irdett atiaara. Tha ax-
I'Wt a M pmr th' .Jim territory n-
i mI-1 n tna fuat a.iuv l,cl, In January.
rtia la' .f fia show hit a keen
akana f-uo Jiiii.oi I i CH-iiihrr t-i
a (. waiiir w'lh'h mn ir Interfera with)
a"aa lam a ami ine ai. poient of ilelh ata
archarj a'ol'0'ia m It are to ennatttute
aj tars a part n. t h rvt axlithtt.
T i i':lauTTr tia.a beau rhoaen aa the
ej.t of tna show Kfintiiw of tha growtd
af aimw heyoml thn lltnita of tha
Aiftt'oroiftt
"T'-a a-o v-ea ff rha first IhiiiI show
aof t! a f-tr tiaranca of the movement for
itci tna Un.l ato.ar iMmli have mails
t1 a a. ,nl -.I'-iva itnei ,iti . a,' aatil C '.
si.wawatt, niral rit'oii.-r of Tha H-e
a A r "9 T4f..n! i fV'ii'irv Krmer, !u
I Mliitntrlji tita .'ui i.illii prxdi.tt'v Ri
h.' t-i Im 411.11 In liHf p'ti(i'iftton4.
T a i i-"- 'mi 1 r.. t.a rMi,i!pftl by
Ka Mm1 It of M Sin On W.ok has
rr'H.t Will r When c. nii, trt Wll', ITI ike
r l i' i t ' 1 1 i' i M l,i' a new hut Kill i.
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, ti r -iiatil t4 ani-wri ah (ti ' 1 rn
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in .a4 jh riurcit fa
Extra Session of
Congress is Called
for April Fourth
Preiideni Taft Makei Announcement
of the Date Soon After Adjourn
ment of Both Houies.
tVAKIflNriTON, March l -Iraaldrnt Taft
ha laauad a call for an antra araalon of
ronaraaa to b(fln A rr 1 1 4.
Tha proi latitat Inn follow:
'Wharrn. hy tha apailHl niar..ia dutrd
January M, m. thara w tratiamlttad to
tha arnat and hounc of rapraaentatlva an
raatrint hot warn tha I ifpartmant of St
and lha Canadian (rovernmant In re"
rat iprnral tariff IrRlalatlon, tr'
an aamaat raromnirndatlon t
aary It-Klalatlon he promptly' .3V
"And, whara a bill to t it jO . -f-fcl
Jd ajiraamant haa pafnaft .' houae
of rapraaantatlva. but ha fallad to ranrh
a vota In tha nat.
"And. whfraaa. the atrraemant atlpulate
hot only lha prrrtldmt of the t'nlted HtHta
will communli ate to ronitra the conclu
lona now rain had and recommend tha
adoption of alien h-nlBlatlon a may be
rterraaary on the part of the I'nlted State
o kIv affect to the propoed agreement,
hut alao the Kov-ernmenta of the two roun-
tila will uae their utmost effort to
brlna; shout inh chanffp by conrurrent
laKlHlntlon at WaahlnKtun and at Ottawa.
"Now. therefore, I, William Howaid
Taft, '.r-l,l,nt of the I nlted Htafe of
America, hy virtue of the powej vested in
ttii hy the ronatltutlon. do herrby pro
claim and declare that an extraordinary
occaalon require the ronvenlne; of both
hoiiae of the connrpnn of the I'nlted
Htate at their reapectiva chambor In the
city of WanhlnRton. on the 4th of 4prll,
1U. at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that
they may ronaldcr and determine whether
the rontrrea ahull, by the neceaaary legis
lation make operative the agreement.
All peraon entitled to act a member of
the lxty-econd congrea are required lo
iHke notice of thl proclamation.
"Olven tinder my hand n.nd the Heal of
the I'nlted State at WaahlnBton the 4th
clay of March, In the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred anil cloven
and of the Independence of the I'nlted
State, the one hundred and thirty-fifth.
WILLIAM II. TAFT.
"Hy the prealdent. P. C. Knox, secretary
of tate."
Gov. Brady Issues
Call for Meeting of
Development League
Will Ask Executive Committee of
Association to Meet at Salt
Lake March 30.
IIOI8K, Idaho, March 4.-rtpeclal Tela
gram l liovernor James H. Brady today
Inalructed Will A. Campbell of Omaha,
aecrelury of the Western I "fVcjUipment
soclatlon, to laaua a call for a meeting of
tha executive; committee of the association
for Halt lke City March 20 at the rooms
of the Halt Ijike City Commercial club.
(lovernor Urady nays the people of tha
went are taking a great Interest In thl
work and ha any he feels that much good
can be accomplished at a meeting at this
time.
The Western Development association
waa formed during the recent land show
held In Omaha and already Its work
through the west is being strongly felt.
Convict is Flogged
Twenty-Six Times
Deputy Warden Catlin of Michigan
Penitentiary Tells of Punish
ing Prisoners.
MAKrjl'KTTK. Mich. March 4 Testi
fying before an Investigating csmmitteo,
Iwpiity Warden Catlin, of th state pen
itentiary here, said today:
"Wo- flogged Convict Stephens twenty
six time. I .old Stevens that ha would
get another flogging tha next day and
ha was sent hack to the shop with ball
snd chain,
"Tha next day when we went to his
cell to bring him down for punishment,
ha had foolishly cut his wrist."
In reply to a nuAatton as to what was
tha longest time aconvlct In karquette
prison hns ever been strung up, Catlin
replied.
"Fourteen days."
Mrs. Schuyler Colfax
Dead at South Bend
Widow of Former Vice President
Passes Away at Seventy-Three
Years of Age.
nTTH PF-.Xn. Ind.. March 4 -(Special
Telegram M:-s. K.llen Wade Colfax. 73
"Id, widow ,,f Vice Prealdent Schuy
'er Cotfux. died here this morning after
nn li ne s of several r.ionths. She was a
nlc e of Senator Hen Wade of Ohio. She
leaves a son. former Mayor Schuyler Col
fax of South U-nd. now of Rocheater.
.N Y.
Mrs. ColfHt n betrothed to Mr. Colfax
on top of l'lk i liens and ass married to
hint the night before his election as vice
president.
Positive and Negative Results
of This Session of Congress
WASHINC.TON', .M.trch 4,-Out of the
amok of tii closing battla In congress
mama tiirw raaults of larger luteiests:
Positlva raults:
Provlolon of l3.um.ijo for th fortification
of tha Panama canal.
Provision tor two naw baitlesblps.
Rwcdifuailoa of tha judicial cud r
garded aa in., at important for tha amelio
ration of tli law a delays.
c'raatlon of foraat reaervaa In tha South
ern Appalachaln and Wlilta u.ountalna
Provldng for tiia oonat ruction of m
baaav and lea.tln buildings auioad.
K.--ii.lnn4 tna laspectiun of lucoinotlve
bojira.
Vegatlva results:
i'ajlura of tha Canadian reciprocity
aareamant an4 0unat4Ucnl carlatniy of an
aira sasalui
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKXIXd,
CONGRESS FAILS
ON BIG MEASURES
Sixty-Pint Gathering Adjourns With
out Acting- on McCall Bill to Rat
ify Reciprocity Agreement.
EXTRA SESSION STARTS APRIL 4
Taft Issuei Proclamation Immedi
ately After Two Houses Cease.
TAPT BOARD ALSO FAILURE
Filibuster Renders Action
. the Senate Futile.
EXPECT SCHEDULE AMENDMENT
C real it rB Will Probably Not Ttrfnae
Mania to Any Action Which
IJoaa Xol Oppose Policy
of Proteetloo.
WASHINGTON. March 4-The Blxty
flrst congress, heedless of one of the most
Important legislative task Set before It,
came to an end shortly after noon today.
Within the hour following President Taft
had Issued a proclamation calling the new
congress to meet In extraordinary session
at noon on Tuesday, April 4.
He will then submit for ratification to a
house overwhelmingly democratic, and to
a senate barely republican, the reciprocity
agreement with Canada. The McCsll hill,
carrying that agreement Into effect and
passed by the house, met today, at the
hands of the old senate, the death freely
predicted for It. The president, warned, if
not entirely reconciled to the fste In store
for the measure, was at the capltol to wit
ness the obsequies. The bill waa not
allowed at any lima to come up In the
senate for a moment a consideration.
The permanent tariff board bill, forced
to Its passage through a reluctant senate
at 8:30 o'clock thl morning was hurried
over to the house, there to be strangled by
a democratic filibuster.
The president. In tha room reserved for
him in the senate lobby, heard the news
with resignation.
Congress provided funds to continue the
work of the temporary tariff board for
another year.
Democrata Requests Granted.
It wa at the request of the democrats
of the house and the senate that the presi
dent fixed the date for the beginning of
the extra session at April 4. '
The new democratic ways and means
committee of the house, which Is to erve
as a committee on committees, will meet
on Monday to take up Its latter duties.
A full caucus of democratic members of
the new house will not be held until April
2. In the meantime . the plates for the
xtra aeaslon will have developed.
There Is little doubt now that tha demo
crat of the house will undertake to revls
at least twe or throe of tha schedules of
h Peyne-AldUch tariff act and there
Is every reason to believe these bills will
b favorably reeelvad In the new senate,
the Increased democratic and Insurgent
strength In that body giving a majority
for the principle of a further revision of
the tariff downward.
It also Is supposed that so long as the
new schedules do not flagrantly violate tha
policy of protection, President Taft will
no twlthhold hia approval of them. He
has announced, however, that If a general
revision. In violation of tha protective
policy, should be Inaugurated, ha would
not hesitate to use the power of the veto.
How long the session will last la
problematical. While the new congress
may promptly ratify th reciprocity
agreement some democrats are In favor
of withholding confirmation until two or
three new tariff schedules are ready. If
tariff differences should arise between
the new house and tha senate, the ses
sion unquestionably would be a long one.
Prt-slaVat Mar Kaal ftraalon.
In this connection, however, the Inter
esting fact was developed today that tha
president has a constitutional right to
bring the sasslonto an end In case tha
two houses of congress cannot agree upon
a time for adjournment. Such action. It
Is admitted, would be revolutionary, and
there Is little thought to be little likeli
hood that any prealdent would care to
Invoke tha power.
The old congress ended amid acenes
of extraordinary excitement "and uncer
tainty. In th housa th disorder at
times In the closing hours, when the usc
ceasful filibuster against the tariff board
hill was In progress, became almost a
riot.
Representative Johnson of Kentucky,
glaring angrily at Speaker Cannon,
shouted above tha general roar of con
fusion, a challenge that but for the
speaker's gray hair he would carry tha
wordy disagreement to a more serious
conclusion. hTe speaker, his sparse
gray hair bristling with rage, declared
with a vlcoua blow of his gavel on tha
desk, that no member need let hi gry
hair bo a bar to any thing they had to
offer. The house stood Up and cheered.
Tn th senate a filibuster, conducted by
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, threatened tha
final approval of four of the great ap
propriation measure up to within half an
hour of the time sat for adjournment. Sen
ators of both parties appealed In vain to
senator Owtm to stop talking and let the
supply hills go through. The senator said
he had se ut to talk to death the resolu
tion approving the constitution of New
(Continued on Secomi Page.)
Failure of th permanent tariff board
bill, which passed the senate, but was
killed by a filibuster in the house.
Failure of tha resolution to admit to
statehood Arlsona and New Mexico, killed
by a filibuster In tha senate.
Failure of the proposal to increase th
rat of postage on tha advertising sctloni
of tha largo magaalnas; but a commission
provided for to Investigate th subject.
Failure of the resolution providing for
direct election of I'nlted States senators.
Failure of the gan. ial ana pension bill
Failur to act cm th ballinger Plnchot
in aatigktlon reports.
Failur to enact tha ocean mall subsidy,
paaawd by th senate alona.
Failur of th effort to unseat William
Lorltuar aa senator from Illinois on th
gruuad of altege4 bribery la hi lcUou.
MAKCIl .. lull-SIX SIXTIOXS-TIUIJTY-KIGIIT IAG1.
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BAILEY QDITSjCHAHGES MIND
Senator from Texas Resigns and
Takes it Back.
j ANG!tY a COLLEAGUES' ACTION
7 -
(icrrraar 4 olttnltt llecllne t Accept
Rcslanatlon and Asks Senator to
Withdraw It Sherman
Also Declines.
WASHINGTON. March 4. Pcnator Joseph
W. nalley added to the excitement preced
ing the adjournment of the Hlxty-flrst
congress today by resigning hi office as
senator from the state of Texas and a
few hours later withdrawing his resigna
tion. Angered at tho attitude of his demo
cratic colleagues In favoring the resolution
approving the new constitution of Arizona,
to whose radical , features Mr. Bailey has
voiced his opposition, he wrote his resig
nation and took It to the vice president
with the request that he announce it to
the senate.
Mr. Sherman declined, so Senator Bacon,
Importuned in like manner to announce It,
took a similar position. Thereupon the
Texan telegraphed It to (lovernor Colquitt
of Texas, who promptly refused to accept
it, replying:
"I decline to accept your resignation as
a senator from Texas and respectfully ask
you to withdraw It. Please wire fully."
Colleagues Reject HI Leadership.
When tha resignation waa first aent by
Mr. Bailey to the vice president, th latter
refused to announce It In th senate. Sena
tor Bacon wna then appealed to make the
announcement and when be llkewls re
fused, Mr. Bailey wired hi resignation to
Governor Colquitt of Texa.
During th last few days Mr. Bailey'
leadership ha ben repudiated abaolutely
by his colleagues. It wa with him that the
republicans made their agreement for a
vote on th Lorlmer case and making the
tariff heard bill the unfinished bulness.
Tha understanding was that there wa to
be no filibuster on th tariff board bill,
but a large faction of th democratic aena
tor led by Senator Btone of Missouri de
clined to be bound by th agreement
From that time on th small part taken
In th senate proceeding by Mr. Bailey
seemed to be contrary to th Judgment of
hi colleaguea. ,
Governor Pif)i te Accept It.
AUSTIN, T-jeV-Ach 4. Governor Oscar
B. Colquitt this afternoon refused to ac
cept the realgnatton of United State Sena
tor Bailey, when it reached him by wire.
It Is believed the present legislature will
attempt to elect former Governor Tom M.
Ctnntiell to the vacancy, although a sug
gestion Is that Ciarema Ouaiey, editor of
the Fort Worth Record, may be a strong
candidate.
Milwaukee Road Sells
Big Bunch of Bonds
Twenty-Five Million Dollars in Secur
ities of Puget Sound Company
Taken in New York.
NEW YORK, March 4 (Special Tele
gram ) Kuhn. Ijoeb Co. and the Na
tional City bank of Naw York have pur
chased W.0U0.iOD of Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound Railway company flrat mort
gage forty-year gold bonds, due In 1IM,
principal and interest unconditionally
guaranteed by the Chicago. Milwaukee
St. Paul railway.
Negotiation looking to thl end have
been under way for a week or ao. during
which Urn there was a good deal of dis
cussion lietween the road and th ban Wars
aa to what sort of a bond to put out. At
flrt It wa thouKht advlaable to sail gen
eral mortgage bonds of the St. Paul proper,
but subsequently the plan were changed
providing for the sale of bonds of the
Puget Sound road, th Pacific coast exten
sion of the St. Paul.
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Coming and Going in Omaha
VI
A 6
of the Week, as Viewed by The Bee's
State Teachers Vote
to Come to Omaha
During November
Crvwasi of the Teachers of the Asso
ciation Giv.i Omaha a Good
Majority.
By a vote of .12 to 1.S10 school teach
ers of Nebraska, have voted to hold their
next meeting In Omaha and It . will be
during election week In . November,, the
teacher voting almost two to one in favor
of this time.
Omaha'a margin of 102 votes was possi
ble because the teacher out In the tate,
even near IJncoln, voted for Omaha. Lin
coln and Omaha were the only two cities
inviting the convention to hold their meet
ings In the cities. More than 3. MO teach
ers were sent ballots. Over 2,900 were re
turned, but only 1,722 were legal ballots,
and Omaha got 1.412 of these.
The announcement was made Saturday
evening from Columbus, where the ex
ecutive committee of the Nebraska Teach
ers' association was called to meet at 1:30
Saturday morning. A majority of the
committee waa present and Secretary
Stockdale brought In the 2.900 ballots.
President W. M. Davidson of Omaha pre
sided and representatives of th Omaha
and Lincoln Commercial club were pres
ent to watch th counting with much in
terest. It required about six hour to fin
ish. The committee gave each club an
opportunity to protest. If there waa any
protest corning, but both declared them
selves satisfied and the executive commit
tee declared Omaha to be the next meet
ing place of the association.
With the work Omaha expects to do on
the moetlng, with the program which
President Davidson and his committee will
arrange and the fact that Omaha Is able
to accommodate all teacher at Its hotels.
It Is expected to make the coming con
vention the largest In th history of the
association and from 4,6no to 1,000 teachers
will b In the city a week.
Suicide at Yankton.
YANKTON, a D March .-Sp.eclal
Telegram.) Tony Krauskl, aged 5 year,
a Polander, working on the section of the
Milwaukee railroad, hanged himself In
Foresters grove In this city last night. He
leavea a widow and family In Poland.
Hock Island Raises Dividend,
NF.W YORK, March . IMrectors of th
Chicago. Rock Island 4 Pacific railway
which is owned by the Rock Island com
pany. today declared a quarterly dividend
of Us per cent, an increasa of per cent
over the preceding quarter.
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THOMAS HIREUN ATTORNEY
Says He Has No Statement to Make
at This Time.
KELLEY'S STORY SHAKES US. UP
" 1Wp' Mors I In Town Working
on th Case II Has Not En
tered Ilia Official Ap
pearance. Th publication of the detailed tory of
the shakedown, which he had been trying
o hard to keep quiet, ha finally made
Postmaster Thomas realls that It la get
ting warm. Therefore, he Is said to have
hired a lawyer. Along thl Una when
asked if he had any further statement to
make he said, "Not now. My case Is to
be tried before the civil service commis
sion, and not In the newspapers."
The story told In the Kelley affidavit
was quickly taken up by the postofflce
clerks and carriers aa soon aa they learned
of Its appearance in print, and they began
to fit the various parts of It in with what
they knew or had observed. The employe
at the postofflce. however, ara
ful these days to do moat of their talking
in auenc lor rear of being put on. the
postmaster blacklist aa Letter Carrier
Tlllotson was. but they have all known
Keller for years and have no rinnht t,n
that he la telling the exact truth. One
carrier, who has previously expressed
himself In strict confidence declared:
"Mr. Kelley Is unquestionably telling the
straight of It so far as he la concerned,
although If the postmaster got 1100 from
Kelley. It Is fair to presume h "touched"
som other who are not on the list, di
rectly or througn other. The gtory of
the Job they tried to fix up on Burger
alo show what Thomas' defense will be.
He will deny that he ever told Kelley to
collect any money, and be will deny that
Kelley ever gave him any of the money
collected. He will try to get those who
paid the money to help him discredit Kelley
by denying that they paid it, and he will
probably try to get others to corroborate
him. Instead of making Burger the "goat"
a he had intended, he will now try to
make Kelley the goat. A far aa th ret
of ua ar concerned, we are keeping our
ear, open and our mouth hut."
Story of Pestmastera' Meeting.
Th account printed In another news
paper of th meeting of postmaster about
ten day before election, held on Pot
master Thoma' invitation In th federal
building, at which money i said to hav
been collected for the campaign, ha also
(Continued on Third Page.)
(X)PY FIVK CKNTS.
FIGHT AND SING
AS SESSION ENDS
! Scenes of Strife and Sorrow Mark the
Closing Moments of the Sixty-
First Congress.
OWEN BLOCKS THE SENATE
Filibusters on Statehood and Almost
Defeats Appropriation.
PATHOS OF THE LAST SESSION
What the Adjournment Means to
Many Members.
MARKS PASSING OF OLD REGIME
t.rlarled Veterans tio Dnvtn the stairs
ever In Return ns Members of
the Great I.eataliHlve
llodj .
(From n Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, March 4 -(Special Tele
gram.) Not In forty yenrs has there been
as turbulent and in ninny ways as unaat-
j Isfartory a termination of congress as that
which expired today by operation of law.
I'p to (lie last It was fight, flulit. fight,
and filibuster In both house and senate,
and at 11 o'clock, within an hour of the
constitute nsl limit placed upon the Sixty
first congress, It seemed as If four of th
great supply bills would fall because Sen
ator Owen, forsooth, had constituted him
self th esle Judge as to what sort of a
constitution the president and cons. res
should accept from Arlsona, the constitu
tion of New Mexico linvlng lu-cn accepted
on the part of the house and the new stst
was knocking at the doors of the senat
to he admitted Into full statehood.
Not since the days when Senator Thomas
H. Carter talked a river and harbor bill to
death, away back In McKlnley's time, ha
such sovereign power been displayed,
lodged in the person ut one man, as wa
shown in Owen's esse. Importuned hy his
democratic friends, licseeched by his repub
lican colleagues, labored with to even the
Iosb of personal dignity by the vice presi
dent, and asked to see the president In
the room set apart for the chief executive
when I nthe capltol. Senator Owen turned
a deaf ear to nil and voiced in thunderous
tones the Information that he waa present
to defeat a republican state coming Into
the union If It was not accompanied by
a democratic state, for h classed Naw
i Mexico as republican and Arlsona aa dem
ocratic. Finally an agreement was reached
to vote on his amendment to the resolution
permitting both states to come. In and
should his resolution fail then further
consideration of the bill admitting New
Mexico wa to be abandoned.
Owen Kill Two State.
The vote stood 39 for td 48 against th
Owen resolution and New Mexico and Arl
sona passed off the stage until the Sixty
second congress shall enact legislation that
will bring them Into the union.
With the Owen resolution defeated. It
wa comparatively easy to get the supply
bills through and signed before the hour
of noon arrived, to the Intense Joy of hun
dreds of employes, especially about the
capltol, who had an extra month's pay In
the general deficiency bill, money to pay
their board bills and enough left to get
home on, while their places will be taken
by a hungry horde) of democrata, who ar
already marching on to Washington In
anticipation of the feast which will follow
fast upon April 4, when the democrats will
organise the house and take the offices.
Note of Madness In llonae.
Although It was fight, fight, fight until
the last, there was throughout the scenes
In the house a tragic element of sadness,
accentuated by the clear treble of one of
the young pages, who sang from th
vantage ground of the top of a' denk, sur
rounded by scores of members, "My Old
Kentucky Home" and "That One Sweet
Sung," which touched the heartstrings of
many of the older men of the house, for
they saw In It all the pathos of severed
friendships and In many casee beginning
life over again. After all, while politics
brings lta Joy of triumph, It 1 problematic
whether these hour ran assuage the pangs
of defeat, and there haa not passed out of
the gray portals of the capltol la a quar
ter of a century so many grlzxled political
warriors who from tomorrow will prefix
"senator" or "representative" with an
"ex," and many of those who passed out
and were swallowed up by the crowd on
Pennsylvania avenue will never come back
again.
Heaolta of the Meaaioa.
Out of the smoke of the cloaing hattia
In congres emerge these results of larger
interest, positive results:
Provision of Ki.0uu.uii0 for th fortification
of the Panama canal.
Provision for two new battleships.
Recodification of the judicial code.
Creation of forest preserve In the South
ern Appalachian and White mountains.
Providing for the construction of embassy
and legation buildings abroad.
Requiring the Inspection of locomotive
boiler.
Negatlv result:
Failure of the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment.
Failure of the permanent tariff board bill,
which passed the senate, but was killed
by a filibuster In tha housa.
Failure of the resolution to admit to
statehood Arizona and New Mexico, killed
by a filibuster in (he senate.
Failure of the propusul to Increase the
rate of postage on the advertising sections
of thn lurge magazines, but a commission
provided for to Investigate the subject.
Failure of the resolution providing for
the direct election of I'nlted States senators.
Failure of the general ago pension bill.
Failure to enact the ocean mall subsidy,
passed by the Senate alone.
Mct'artaey Sot Confirmed.
The nomination of Frank McCartney lo
be postmaster at Nebraska City, which
came to the senate yesterday failed of con
firmation, because th chairman of the
postofflce and postroads committee. Sen.
ator Penrose, failed to report It In (Kite
to be acted on last night, or rather esily
thls morning, if it had been reported the
nomination would have been rejected, but
It waa an raster way to kill th nomi
nation by having It held up In committee.
-Ncbraskaas Coming Home.
Senator ill ow n will leav Washington
tomorrow afteinoou for Kearney, stopping
at L. s Molt.cs un route to psy a brief usit
to his mother. .
Representative I-atta left for Tekamati
this afternoon.
Representative Macyuiie. Kltikald, Noil la
snd lllnrhaw are as yet undecided at (.,
when they may start for coins, but lha
