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VOL. Mi-NO. 42.
DIAZ SAYS
THIS IS HIS
LAST TERM
"Iron Man" of Mexico Concedes No
Re-election for President and
Other Executive Officers.
DEMOS CAUCUS
' ON COMMITTEES
Majority Party in New Congress
Accepts Distribution of Ways
and Means Committee.
Coming and Going in Omaha
PLACES ABE HANDED OUT
Kebraskans Get Some Positions that
They Desired.
LATTA LANDS UPON BANKING
Lobeck Secures Berth in Body for
District of Columbia.
NEW RULES FULLY AGREED TO
Several (hanares In Proeedare Are
Provided for and Number of
Office Iloldrra Cot Off
Mat for the Time.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. April l.-(8peclal Tele
gram.) Committee assignments, as pre
pared by the way and means committee,
were adopted by the democratic caucus
Just before recss was taken for dinner at
615 o'clock tonight.
Congressman litta Is assigned to bank
ing and currency, Indian affairs and ac
counts. Ixiberk gets the rlstr1ct of Columbia,
which he. was out after, and expenditure
In the Treasury department.
Maguir goes to agriculture and claims.
Congressman Pepper, the lone democrat
from Iowa, Is Riven military affairs and
war claims.
The caucus waa noteworthy for lt har
mony and the smoothness of its progress.
Besides the committee assignments the
democrats adopted the economy program
and the new rules prepared for the com
ing session by the committee's that have
been working In the laet month.
Important rhanges In procedure and a
general reorganization of the house will
result from the action of the democrats.
The power of naming committees waa
definitely taken from the speaker by the
rules and lodged In the house Itself. Com
mittee members are to be elected by the
house, not only In the first Instance, but
also In the filling of vacancies.
Nome Employes tot Oil.
A saving of 1182.000 In the annual cost of
. running congress is promised through the
cutting out of surplus employes and In
active committees and through the abol
ishment of the time . honored "extra
month's pay." Appointive places are put
, into the hands of one committee, a special
'body to be known rts the committee on
organisation and the scramble for oongres
' tlnnal positions will center about Its doors.
The important changes In the rules under
which the new congress wll I operate are;
The selection of committees by the house.
A provision to prevent filibustering under
the rule giving authority to discharge com
mittees from consideration of bills.
A provision permitting amendments to
appropriation bills whenever those amend
ments will resuplt In retrenchment of na
tional expenditures.
Authority for bills to coma up twice for
PHisage under th eunanlmous consent priv
ilege. i ne rule to prevent filibustering on a
motion to discharge a committee from
iiictody of a bill la the result of the flit
buster conducted In the last session by
Representative Mann of Illinois. He had
the postofflte reorganisation bill placed on
the calendar under this rule, and demanded
that It be read completely and peart Ion
that consumed several days.
The new rule provides thst a bill shall
be read only by Its title and that Its title
shall not be more thttn 1U0 words long.
It prohibits any member from having be
fore the house at any one time more than
two motions to discharge committees from
the -custody of bills. I'nder this rule the
democrats believe It can be made to work
a originally Intended, to prevent the bury
Iiim of bills in committee.
The new rule affecting appropriation bills
Is a renewal of the so-culled . "Holman
ule" first used by the democrats In 1875.
It permits amendment to appropriation bills
if wide character when these amendments
w ll effect a reduction of federal expendi
tures. Committee AsslaTasaeats.
The democratic members of the standing
committers of the house for the Sixty
second congress as selected by the demo
cratic caucus today follow, ths first mem
ber named In each case being chairman of
the committee:
Ways and Means Underwood, Alabama;
;andell. Texas; Harrison, New York;
lirantley, Georgia; Hhacklefurd, Missouri;
kttrhln. North Carolina; James, Kentucky;
ltalney. Illinois; Ltxon, Indiana; tiughes.
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ALFANO FENDS SKILLFULLY
Leader of Camorra is Not So Con
vincing Under Cross Fire.
FLIGHT TO UNITED STATES
lie Nays lie Went Abroad Beranse
Ills Health Would Not Stand
Detention In Jail Did 'ot
Need Passport.
VITERBO. Italy, April 1 Under cross
examination today, Knrloo Alflno appeared
to less advantage than he did under direct
Interrogation yesterday, when his vehement
denial that he waa either the head or the
tall of the Camorra or had guilty knowl
edge of the deaths of Qennaro Cuoccolo
and his wife, fairly swamped the audience.
He fended skillfully, but wits not so con
vincing. "If you were Innocent," asked President
Btanchl, "why did you flee to the United
States? You did not take your flight
when, Immediately after the crime you
were aocused. In fact, you delayed and
were arrested. But, following your release,
you fled when Abbateniagglo's revelations
began, and In so doing you showed that
you felt that the Informer spoke the truth."
"I fled." answered Alflno, "because for
the second Urns I was experiencing an at
tack of Intestinal trouble, and I feared that
It would be aggravated by confinement. If
1 was held In prison for some years pre
ceding my trial. Of my ultimate vindica
tion I had no doubt
"And what of the Camorra today?" pur
sued ths president.
"It no longer exists."
"That assertion," retorted ths president.
"la explainable when It Is recalled that
rule of the society obliges Camorrists to
deny to the authorities their affiliation
with ths Camorra. this repudiation of their
position not Implying cowardice In the eyes
of the Camorra."
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Passport Not Needed.
Alfano explained his failure to secure
a passport when he went to America by
ssylng that It would have been dangerous
for him to have applied for one.
"Anyway," he added, "a passport was
quite unnecessary. Twenty dollars la
wholly sufficient to allow one to be ad
mltted on any steamer without a pass
port. In fact, from the moment ths
steamer sailed I permitted my true name
to be known and was living under that
name when arrested by Petroslno, the
American detective."
Regarding the statement that he had
placed Lulggl Fuccl art his puppet at the
head of the Camorra, Alfano said that
this was untrue. On the contrary, Fuccl,
together with Abbatemaggto, the informer,
and others who had not been arrested,
had tried to play htm false.
"ays Confession Is Absurd.
The prisoner called the attention of ths
court to what he said was an absurdity
In the confession of Abbatemagglo con
earning the scene of the murder of Cuoc
cola. He asserted that owing to the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906, lava
covered ths scene of the alleged assassi
nation And that it would have been diffi
cult for one to have gone from Torre del
Oreoo to Cupa Calastro, by which name
the narrow strip between two walla of
lava rocks fronting the sea Is known.
Ths crime Is said to have been com
mitted at Cupa Calastro. It was ridicu
lous to Imagine, the prisoner said, that
he went to Mlmt-a-Mare to watch ths
crime.
Counnsel for ths defense brought out that
Abbatemagglo waa a persistent reader of
detective stsories. The informer Inter
rupted to admit that he had read seven
teen volumes from the prison library, the
works Including the memoirs of Petroslno.
During the proceedings the priest. Clro
Vltozxl, and Pasiiuale tlarglulo, another
prisoner, both of whom are in poor health,
fainted.
The cuse was adjourned until Tuesday.
Favor State Aid to
Normal High Schools
Southeastern Iowa Teachers' Associa
tion Passes Resolutions and Will
Meet in Council Bluffs.
ATLANTIC, la.. April 1 (Special Tele
gram.) Southwestern Iowa Teachers' asso
ciation, which was In session hers, ad
Jounrned today after pausing resolutions
favoring state aid to high schools with
normal courses and a larger appropriation
for ths normal departments and short
course work at Ames college.
The teachers also passed a resolution
favoring a normal school in southwestern
Iowa. Tbe next meeting will be held In
Council Bluffs next spring.
Ths following officers for 191 1 were
elected: President. Superintendent V. F.
Cramer of Red Oak; vies president. Oeorge
F. Masters of Red Oak; secretary. Mary
Davis of Audubon; chairman of executes
committee. C. E. Reed, principal of Council
Uluffs iilgh svLool.
HAREM SCARE 'M
General Weyler Will
Be Asked to Form
New Spanish Cabinet
Canalejas Cabinet Develops Wide Dif
ferences Over Opposition of Army
and Decides to Resign.
MADRID, April 1. It is rumored tonight
that General Weyler, captain general of
Catalonia has been charged with the re
spc nslblllty of forming a new cabinet.'
The Canalejas cabinet met today and dis
cussed the violent controversies which have
arisen within and outside the Chamber of
Deputies durlngvthe debate on the trial of
Prof. Ferrer, the founder of the modern
school at Barcelona, who was executed in
1906, after conviction of the charge of in
citing revolution.
The ministers also discussed what action
the government should take concerning
new developments, particularly the opposi
tion in the army. There was such a di
versity of opinion that the resignation of
tbe cabinet was decided upon.
SEVILLE. Spain, April 1. King Alfonso,
who has been stopping here with Queen
Victoria and their children left hastily to
Vlctorta and their children, left hastily to
official dispatches concerning the resigna
tion of the cabinet.
i
The Canalejas cabinet was formed on
February 9, 1U10, and reorganised on Jan
uary 1 last. Canalejas, In forcing religious
reforms, encountered the bitter opposition
of the Catholics and his course resulted
In a practical suspension of diplomatic
relations between the government and the
Vatican.
Ths premier has, however, been credited
with the support of KJng Alfonso and his
bill of associations, aimed to regulate the
religious and other societies, which he re
fused to submit first to the Holy Bee, was
approved unanimously by the cabinet last
Tuesday and was to be Introduced in the
Cortes on April I.
Insurrection Spreads
Into State of Jalisco
Band of Rebels Enters Region from
Zacatecas Mexican Gunboat
Captures Arms.
EL PASO, Tex., April 1. Nothing more
Is heard of peace negotiations. Interest
centers in the fighting at Santa Parbara
and In Sonora. Details of further fighting
in those regions are lacking today.
Word comes from Guadalajara, however,
that fighting is expected In Jalisco, as
Luis Moya. lender of a band of Insurrectos
In Durango and Zscatecas. has entered
Jalisco. The state legislature of Jalisco
has appropriated toO.OOO for the organiza
tion of state rurales to oppose the Insur
rectos.
The Ban Carlos gold mines, a British
concern, were raided by the Moya band at
Mesquital Del Oro. Zacatecas, and a quan
tity of dynamite taken. This, It Is re
ported, the Insurrectoes are to use against
Ban Cristobal de Barranca, which has been
fortified by extra troops pending the ex
pected arrival of the- Insurrectoes.
Confirmation Is given that the Mexican
gunboat, Tamplco, captured a small ship
loaded with munitions of war for the In
surrectoes near Mazatlan. The arms were
said to have cleared from Ban Diego.
Celebrates Twentieth Year
With the Same Firm
Twenty years sgo yesterday Maur
ice Meyer went to work for the Krug
Brewing company, now the Fred
Krug Brewing company and last
night at the German home he was
the guest of honor at an anniversary
dinner provided for him by the firm
and his business sssoclates.
Yesterday ha received the felici
tations of his many friends for hia
long service with one firm. He Is
now general sales agent for the
firm, making the territory of west
ern Nebraska. Colorado. Utah and
Wyoming, lie opened up this west
ern territory for the firm for which
he now worka.
Mr. .Meyer owns his own home at
B33 North Central boulevard, m here be
Uvea with Ms wife and grownup son
and daughter. He was born In ths
Rhine valley In Oermany fifty-three
years ago and Is now a thorough
American and an Omaha booster.
Employes of the Krug Brewing
company have a club which meets oc
casionally to give the numerous em
ployes an opportunity for better ao
yuatntance. Colonel William Kennedy acted as
toastmaster last evening
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50H2fNY WISE.
FAIL TO SECURE THE CASH
Attempt Made to Rob County Treas
urer's Safe at Des Moines.
SEVEN SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED
Deputy Keller Bonnd and (incited
While the Robbers Remain In the
Office and Try to Dyna
mite the Banlt.
DES MOINES, la., April l.-Seven ar
rests were made by the police today In an
effort to apprehend four men who shortly
before midnight bound and gagged Deputy
County Treasurer C. W. Keller and tried
to dynamite the vault tn the county treas
urer's office In which $!00,00 had been
placed late In the afternoon.
On what is claimed by the police to be a
confession from Al Rhodes, the first of the
men arrested. Deputy County Treasurer
James O'Callaghan has been arrested.
O Callaghan Is a brother of Robert O'Cal
laghan, a well-known Western league base
ball manager.
Lynch and Wife Held.
With Rhodji anl O'Callaghan, the police
are holding Bart Lynch and his wife. Mrs.
Rhodes, Clarion Bayles.and an unidentified
man. Rhodes 'was arrested after a running
fight with three officers shortly after mid
night. .' . , ' -
The officers, enrouta to the. house In
which all of ths suspected parties live,
suddenly encountered the four men. One
of them fired at the officers, then all ran.
Rhodes was ths only one placed under ar
rest at that time. Later the others were
seised pending Investigation.
The attempt at robbery of the vault
proved a failure. One more charge of
nitroglycerin would have given the men
an entrance, but they were frightened
away after the first explosion, which par
tially wrecked the door.
Looking; for Leader.
Chief of Detectives E. E. Johnston today
asserted his belief that Tom Hatch, a con
vict who escaped from the penitentiary
at Stillwater, Minn., two months ago, waa
the leader In the dynamite 'plot against the
vault in the county treasurer's office here
last night.
Detectives sre now seeking Hatch, who.
It is said, has been seen In the vicinity
recently. Hatch once escaped from the
Montana penitentiary and two years ago
escaped from the Iowa penitentiary' at Fort
Madison, where he had been sent for
seventeen years for robbery. His latest
sentence In Minnesota was ten years for
shooting a policeman.
Al Rhodes, on whose alleged confession
the arrest of James O'Callaghan was due,
denied In the city Jail that he made a con
fession. (name Asalnet O'f 'allaghan.
Chief of Detectives Johnston this after
non filed charges of burglary ' against
James O'Callakhan, "Al" Rhodes and
James AJiderson, who were arrested at the
home of Rhodes. They are held In con
nection with the attempt to dynamite the
vault In the office of the county treasury.
The police have been unable to locate
Tom Hatch, an escaped convict, who is
suspected of being the ringleader.
Dr. James Seott Brown Hralgns.
WASHINGTON. April l.-IJr. James
Brown Scott, solicitor in international
arbitrations of the State department, has
tendered his renignatlon. effective today.
Dr. Scott Fevered his government connec
tion In order to assume the duties of secre
tary of the t'arnegie endowment for in
ternational peace.
MAURICE METKR.
v
IOWA BOY WHO IS HELD IN A
MEXICAN PRISON.
A
LAWRENCE H. CONVERSE.
General Stanley
.Formerly Member
rof'NintVInfantry
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Commander of Iasurrecto Army at
Mexicali May Be Arrested for De
sertion if He Crosses, Line.
MBXICALI, Mexico. April 1. "General"
Stanley, the American leader of the rebels
in Lower California, took full command
today of the insurrectos of Mexican.
Leyva, the deposed commander, has de
parted and is supposed to be on his way
to Los Angeles. Should Leyva bs caught
he Is liable to prosecution for a violation
of the neutrality laws gf the I'nited States,
as he and Berthold organized the original
rebel force m Holtvllle, Cal., lust January.
It became known today that Stanley's
real name la Stanley Williams and that
he was formerly quartermaster sergeant
of the Ninth Infantry, V. S. A. If ho
should be driven across the line In the
forthcoming fight with the Mexican fed
erals he might be arrested by the Ameri
can troops and tried for desertion.
Berthold, who commands the rebel de
tachment holding Alamo pass. Bent word
to Stanley today that he would not return
to Mexican at present, but would continue
to hold the pass.
Nine Persons Hurt in
Wreck of Fast Train
on the 'Frisco Line
Meteor is Derailed on Curve Eat of
Springfield, Mo. Debris Takes
Fire, Two Coaches Burn.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 1 Nine per
sons were Injured when east-bound pas
senger trsin No. 10, a fast train, known
as the Meteor, on the St. Louis ft San
Francisco railroad was derailed on a curve
forty-five . miles east of this city today.
Two coaches were destroyed by fire. L. E.
Rugh, fireman, of Springfield, war. badly
burned. It is believed none of the Injured
will die.
Among those Injured were:
Mrs. Klla liesper, Merrlmac, Okl., collar
bone broken.
B. Goodman, baggageman, tt. Louis,
back sprained.
Mrs. A. Butler, Marlon, Ind., left arm
sprained, badly bruised.
Henry W. Wood, mail clerk, St. Louis,
Ipks and body bruised.
Mr. and Mrs. It. Iiecker, Oklahoma City,
hands and feet cut by flying glass.
It. K. I'olndcxtei, Benton, III., back In
jured. Joseph A. Karll, St. Louis, back sprained.
A defective rail is believed to have caused
the wreck. The train was going at a speed
of about forty miles on hour.
Famous Painting Will
Come to United States
Option of British Nation on Rem
brandt's Picture, "The Mill,"
Expired at Midnight.
LONDON. April 1 The nation's option
on Rembrandt's painting. "Ths Mill," ex
pired tonight. Only a small fund had been
raised to purchase the picture and It there
fore will go to an American. Ths paint
ing is owned by Lord Iansdowns. He waa
tendered JiuO.OiO for It by an American
whose Identity is unknown, but offered to
let stay In this country If the people would
rain II 5,0X1 for Its purchase. This they
have failed to do.
FAST !
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HAS ALDRIGHBASE BALL BILL?
Expected that Governor Has Plan of
His Own for New Law.
PRESENT MEASURE IS WEAK
Thinks County Boards Are Not Cilven
Sufficient Police Power Over
Games Outside of Smaller
Towns.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, April 1. (Special Telegram.)
Governor Aldrlch is understood to be
ready to veto the Sunday base ball bill,
but may possibly suggest a way out of the
difficulty by offering a bill of his own.
Governor Aldrlch cannot maintain that
he Is against the general principle of Sun
day base ball as he Introduced a bill for
It when he was a member of the legis
lature and made a hard fight for it. He
has objected consistently to the Bartling
bill, but promised to approve It If the
amendment excluding small towns from
the liberties was adopted. When this was
killed largely through the votes or small
town enthuslsatlcs and by the efforts of
Arthur Mullen and J. C. Byrnes, i who
think they can cause trouble for the; gov
ernor with ths bill, he declared that his
proposition had been turned down and
there was nothing for him to do but retain
his position. ,
Today the governor gave out the opinion
that the bill as drawn does not give county
boards the proper power to regulate play
lhg outside of towns. There was an amend
ment giving county board ths right to con.
trol playing outside of village limits this,
thinks the govenor, does not give them
sufficient police power to carry out the
regulation.
The Idea that he will offer a bill of his
own Is not official, but Is well founded
because the governor has had much poli
tical pressure brought to bear upon him
and admitted after he had once made up
his mind to veto that he believed that
there were two sides to the question. If
he Introduces a olll of his own It will un
doubtedly go through and the question
will be settled.
Veto of Tanner Bill.
Governor Aldrlch by vetoing the Tanner
bill to change the school board terms In
South Omaha refused today to sanction
the Interference of the legislature In
local municipal affairs. The bill was
drawn to allow certain school board of
ficials soon to retire from office a chance
to hold oevr by a legislative extension of
their terms. Their opponents are demand
ing another election to put other men In
their places and the governor thinks that
the legislature has better things to do
than to take sides In such a dispute.
Senate Passes Merger Bill.
The senate this morning approved
of a telephone merger bill, while the house
was passing the Minor bill with the mer
ger clause stricken out. The senate took
up the Varner bill providing for physical
connection between competing exchanges,
and by amendment it was to include mer
gers under the control of the State Rail
way commission.
Senator Bartos, mover of the merger
change, was able to muster fifteen votes
and only eleven were cast against. In the
house the Minor bill, which had originally
a merger clause, was passed as amended
by a vote of 70 to 14.
It provides for physical connection and
commission control.
Ths senate amended the general elaima
bill before placing It on general file to
prevent the payment of the cla'm of
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WILL REFORM ELECTORAL LAWS
Effective Changes in Provisions for
Selection of Officials.
SENDS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Improvements in Regard to Power of
LocaJ Authorities.
SUFFERING IN MEXICAN JAIL
Two American Boys Captured by the
Rurales Are Starving.
ARRESTED ON AMERICAN SOIL
Kvldence leathered by Anxloaa Par
ruts Proves loan Men Wers
Taken Without Authority
Rebuilding the llrldses.
CITY OF MKXICO, April 1. The prin
ciple of no re-election for the president
and other executive functionaries and an
effective reformation of the electoral laws,
v ere conceded In the message of I'resldent
IIhx to cotigreKg today. ,
Reforms touching the power of local au
thorities. Judiciary and rural estates also
were promised.
After reviewing at length the progress
of the nation in the last eight months and
briefly the events leading up to (he re
bellion and Its progress, the message con
tinued: Recent expressions of public opin
ion of various questions of governmental
policy have attracted general attention and
for this reason the executive sees fit to
make known the measures which he be
lieved ought to be adopted and the views
by which he will be guided In his endeav
oru to warrant the confidence which the
country has reposed In him.
Chan are to Satisfy Demand.
"The change of ministry Just effected
aims, for example, at satisfying In prac
tice una very general aspiration, which Is
that the political personnel bn renovated
from time to time. I have not hesitated ti
part with the services of capable, loyal and
honest advisers who, for a greater or less
length of time had given me their valued
co-operation.
"My single aim has been to set the
precedent of not carrying on the govern
ment indefinitely with the eame cabinet
however high may the merits of ths per
sons composing it be, and to show that
room should be made from time to time t
new energies in the direction of public
affairs.
"Furthermore, measures will be taken
that will demonstrate a firm purpose to
give heed to reasonable complaints that
are made against some of the authorities,
especially those who are In close touch
with the people."
Americana Suffer Hardships.
KL PASO, Tex.. March 29 -(Speclal Cor
re spondence.) Locked In a-filthy, narrow
cell, with a dirt floor ana compelled to
eat only the very coarsest or food, Law
rence Converse and Kdwln Blatt, the two
American lads In Jail at Jaurex, Mexico,
on charges of sedition, have decided that
Sherman was about right about war.
The boys, both of a venturous spirit, de
cided at the outbreak of hostilities they
would like to see a real battle. It was
with this purpose In mind that they en
tered the Interior of Mexico. For a time
they were with Madero's forces, but find
ing battles were few and far between they
started for the American side. They ob
served that a party of rurales eyed them
curiously and so made greater haste to
put the Rio Grande between themselves
and Mexico. A short time after they had
crossed the river and were seated on a
log eating frljoles, sixteen rurales galloped
up to the river on the opposite side.
Stealthily four of their number crossed
and selied the boys. They tied their hands
and marched them across the river at a
ford. Here rope nooses were thrown over
their heads and tightened about their
necks. The ropes were tied to the saddles
of rurales and this wsy they entered
Juarex. They were thrown in Jail Incom
municado, which means they were locked
In a dark cell for seventy-two hours, with
out being allowed to see anyone. At the
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