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CORPORATIONS NOT
DOING BUSINESS ARE
EXEMP1JR0M TAX
Supreme Court Makes Far-Reaching
Decision Regarding Companies
that Lease Their Properties.
NEARLY MILLION IS INVOLVED
Decision Directly Affects Three Hun
dred Claims Against Treasury.
THREE JUSTICES DO NOT AGREE
Day, Hughes and Lamar Hold Com
pany is Doing Business.
ALASKA CASE IS REVERSED
Surctie Court Holds Hint Connts
In Indictments Aiinlnst Itnllrand
Coinpmir Wfrf Wrongfully
Dismissed.
WASHINGTON. April 7.-Hut:dreds of
corporations -will be relieved from paying
the federal corporation tax by a decision
today of the supreme court to tho effect
thot rorporattons leasing all their prop
erty and having no Income except that
yielded by the lease are not "doing bui
ncss," and therefore are not tubject to
the tax.
This phase of the corporation tax arose
In the case of the Mine Hill and Schuyl
kill Railroad company, once operating a
railroad In Pennsylvania, now leased to
the Reading.
About 300 claims, Involving $700,000 paid
Into the treasury under the corporation
tax act, turned upon the decision In this
case. Besides the many railroads leasing
their property In a similar way, nearly
100 telegraph companies are said to have
leased property to one operating company.
Justice Day announced u dissenting
opinion In which Justices Hushes and
Lamar concurred, holding the company
was "doing business."
MiinUii Fcdcritl Court Reversed.
The supreme court today reversed tho
federal court In Alaska which annulled
five ot the six counts of an Indictment
against the Pacific and Arctic Hallway
and Navigation company and others
charged with violating the Sherman anti
trust law and Interstate commerco law
In regard to Alaska transportation facili
ties. All the counts charged In varying torn
that the one railroad from Skagway to
the head waiters of the Yukon had en
tered Into a conspiracy with certain
steamship lines and their officials to cc
stroy the competition of Independent
steamship lines, such as the Humboldt
Steamship company,' by 'charging the In
dependent lines higher rates and refus
ing to make - through routes and .Joint
rules with the Indenpcndents.
Tho Alaska court held that before t
could havo jurisdiction the alleged dls
crimination should be passed upon by the
Interstate Commerco commission.
Tho case goes back to trial.
Colorado Lund Cnse Dismissed,
The supremo court today affirmed the
United States circuit court- for Colorauo
In dismissing the suit of William '.
Plested and Charles Beauchut to torc
the register and receiver of public lanis
at Pueblo, Colo., to sell public lands to
them for $20 an acre. Tho court held trie
complainants had not exfiaustod tiiiir
rights before the Interior department.
Tlio court did not pass upon tho question
of whether the department's new rule
that coal lands should be sold n tnoir
real value Instead of a lump sum of $20.
was valid.
Man Killed and Two
Wounded in Raid in
East St. Louis
HA ST ST. LOUIS, 111., April 7. In a
spectacular raid on "the valley," Kast
St. Eouln' notorious red light district, a
saloon keeper was killed last night, a
deputy sheriff believed fatally shot, an
other man wounded and 250 men and
women were arrested.
The raid was led by State's Attorney
Chailes Webb and Sheriff William Mul
t'unrey. t
When the officers entered the saloon
and wlno rooms conducted by George
Rogers at Third street and St. Louis
avenue Rogers Is said to have opened
flro with a revolver. Edward Petri, chief
deputy sheriff, was shot twice in the face
tZ Through the breast. He Pably i
fatally injured. Rogers was killed in the
fusillade that followed.
The Weather
forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday:
not much change In temperature.
nt Omnhn
Hours. Deg.
5 a. m
6 a. m
7 a. ro
8 a. m-'..i
9 a. m
10 a. m
U a. m
11 m
1 P. m
2 p. m
3 p. m
Loenl Weather Record.
1913. 191J. 1311. 1910
lowest last night........
34 32 50
Precipitation
.41 .00 .00 .00
Normal temperature for today, 46 de-
BIExcess In precipitation since March 1.
1.31 Inches.
Excess corresponding period, .4 of
n inch. , M .,, ,
Excess corresponding period, 1911, ,15 of
vi inch.
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Tornado Relief
Station
To facilitate tornado relief work,
beginning Tuesday morning, It will
bo handled at the Auditorium,
from which station nil supplies
will bo issued.
The relief stations will be con
tinued for the time being to give
any necessary Information and as
sistance, but no supplies will bo
Issuod except at tho Auditorium.
The relief committee desires to
Impress upon every citizen of
Omaha that It is your duty to Im
mediately advise the Auditorium
Relief Station, either personally
or by telephone Tyler 1890 of
any case that needs attention. Lot
this be impressed upon you, that
if assistance Is not given it is your
fault because you have not given
notice to the committee. Every
deserving caso will be taken care
of. Every effort has been made
by the committee to find tho needs
of each cyclone sufferer, but the
committee desires information, if
possibly nnyono has been over
looked. CITIZENS' RELIEF COMMITTEE
ABANDON RELIEF STATIONS
AH Supplies Now Sent Out from Cen
tral Station at Auditorium.
ASHLAND SENDS 20 WORKERS
National Officer of the Associated
Chnrltlc Are Here Asslsttntr lu
the Work of Looking;
After the Suffering;.
After ministering to 1,831 families since
thu tornado struck Omaha two weeks
ago tho relief citations, which wero es
tablished In the storm district to caro tor
thu suffering, have been abandoned and
relief work Is now centered at tho
Auditorium, where supplies are being dis
tributed. Information bureaus will be re
tained at the stations where relief was
dispensed, and competent workmen will
bH, kept In charge to see thut the needy
aie still cared for quickly and well
"Thero Is now no more apparent need
of these stations," said Major Hart-
mann "Wogons have hauled In the sup
plies and wo will conccntrato relief work
at the Auditorium."
Adjutant General Hall of the stato
militia has sent several squads of
guardsmen from tho several companies
or duty to their homes because It wnJ
urgent that they return. About . CICty
lnlllttamep will still be kept to guard the
wreckage.
"Our greatest.nced, jiow.Uaurnltuxe.."
said J. M Guild of tho general relief
committee. "We are maintaining a force
of cabinet makers at the Auditorium to
repair furniture that wm damaged In
the tornado. We find they are kept
busy, for much valuable furniture was
only slightly damaged and can bo re
stored with the expenditure of a little
efficient workmanship."
Finishes Cleanup Work.
W. S. Jardlne. who has been In charge
of emergency work and general clean-up
(Continued on Page Three.)
Suffragettes Plan
to Revise Marriage
Ritual of England
LONDON, April 7. A campaign against
tho "Indignities" to women, contained In
the Anglican marriage service Is the
latest effort of the Suffragists' Spiritual
Militancy league. Fifteen such moral
humiliations are mentioned In the mani
festo which the league Ih sending not
only to every clergyman of the Church if
England, but to all persons whose forth
coming marriage is announced In the
dally papers.
The first two Indignities alleged are
the words, "Obey him and serve htm,"
which the bride Is required to repeat,
and the questlo'nput by minister, "Who
glveth, this woman to be married to this
man?" One of the remedies suggested
for both Is the omission of the words,
the alternative Is that the bridegroom bo
required to promise to "Obey her; and
serve her" and that the minister also
ask, "Who glveth this man to bo mar
ried to this woman."
Three Indignities surround the mar
riage ring and the bridegroom's accom
panying declaration. The words, "With
all my worldly goods I thee endow," have
never been true." sayi the manifesto.
Tho government Is urged to drop the
ring ceremony and Its formula or to en
force an exchange nf rings and the use
of a formula containing "No economic
falsehoods or moral offense."
Humiliation number seven Is the min
ister's pronouncement that they shall
be man and wife together. The Implica
tion complained of Is that "The woman
Is wholly a wife, and the man not wholly
a husband."
Protesting that the first of the Psalms
addresses Itself wholly to the bridegroom,
the league demands Its omission or that
It Is supplemented by another addressed
to the wife.
The petition that the man shall love
his wife as Christ the church Is "An
nppallng humiliation of woman and a
pernicious exaltation of man."
The thirteenth Indignity Is quoting St.
Paul's words: "Wives, submit yourselves
unto your husbands as unto the Lord;
for the husband Is the head of tha wife,
even as Christ Is the head of the church."
The league strenuously opposes the Idea
of the husband being the head of the wife
and suggests, "Husband, also submit
yourselves unto your wlveB" as a supple
ment to this second exhortation to the
wife.
BILLS BROUGHT OUT
IN RETURN IMDTt
How Water D
Came
to B
Sifting
VlOLATESaSFIRIT OF THE LAW
Introducer of Anti-Log Rolling Bill
Taking Hand.
LOOKS LIKE A CASE OF FORCE
Gates, Who Opposes Water Bill, Has
Measures Held Up.
SOME WOULD SEEK OFFICE
Support Promised ltlulit mid Left
for Offices by Oman of WntiT
llonril nml .Sifter Hilld Club
Over Othem.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, April 7.-(Speclal.)-ln direct
conflict with the spirit and the letter of
the antl-logrolllug bill passed by the
house, and in coanfllct with'1 the spirit of
tho oath to which they subscribed when
they became members ot the housn, cer
tain members of this body have stultified
themselves and have proven themselves
untrue to the confidence placed In them
by their constituents. Certain members
of the sifting committee voted to raise
Senate File No. 17, tiie Omaha water dis
trict bill, lit return for promises made
to them ot political preference In return
for help on other measures.
Korff Draws IIIm lllll.
Korff of Cedar, member of the sifting
committee, voted to raise Senate File No.
17. In return for this violation of the
antl-logrolllng bill the senate sifting com
mittee raised his bill, House Roll No.
280, permitting villages of 100 people to
Incorporate. This bill had been In tho
hands of the senate sifting committee, of
which Senator Sounders Is a mombtr,
since the committee was appointed. The
bill was yanked out tho other day and
then put back. Of course this was notice
to Korff that Saunders could raise It up!
or put it back Just as'lt suited him. H
was notice to Korff that unless, he voted
to raise the water bill his own 1)111 would!
be slaughtered In the senate sitting com
mittee. Korff could not stand the pres
sure and bo voted to raise the bill.
How Nome Are Interested.
Norton, Howell's man Friday, the au
thor of the anti-log rolling bill, has In
his possession as chairman of the com
mittee two bills by Gates of Sarpy re
lating to Irrigation which the people of
Sarpy county desire to have pasted.
Gates Is opposed to the water bill and
his bills arc still being held up In the'
committee. He has served notice on Nur
tonthat nnle.i thoy oomw out In 4he very
near future ho will ask the house to lift
them for him. Gates Is very much sur
prised that a real reformer like Norton
would seek to hold up his bills, and be
(Continued on Page Three.)
Eighteen Men Drown
When German Bark
Mimi is Capsized
BAY CITY, Ore.. April 7. Eighteen
men were drowned as the result of the
capsizing Sunday morning of tho German
bark, Mlml, which had Just been hauled
off the beach at North Spit, Nehalem
Ray, where it had been since February
13, when It went ashore. After futile ef
forts for nearly twenty-four hours against
heavy wind and sea the life saving crew
from Garibaldi station succeeded at 5
o'clock this morning In saving Captain
Charles Fisher of Portland, president of
the Fisher Engineering corporation; Cap
tain J, Westphal, master of the Mlml,
and two sallprs.
For weeks a contracting company had
been at work endeavoring to warp the
Mlml from Its position on the beach Into
high water. Virtually all ot Its ballast
hod been removed to lighten It for tho
Journey and to this fact can be Attri
buted the disaster.
Bussed mackman, secretary of the
Fisher engineer corporation; W. L. Koen,
a contracting plumber of Portland, and
J. H. Holyfleld, superintendent A the
Brighton mill at Brighton, Ore. are
among those drowned. They were aboard
the Miami directing tho efforts to haul It
off the Spit.
The survivors said that only seven men
were left on board the Miami after It
turned turtle. A cabin boy and a sailor
lashed themsolves to tho mast, where
their head bodies now hang. No bodies
have been recovered.
Canadian Experts to
Study Effect of New
United States Tariff
OTTAWA, April 7. The probable ef
fect In Canada of the tariff changes pro
posed by the bill Introduced today In
Ue congress of the United States will be
worked out by Canadian experts, and un
til their verdict Is submitted, It Is un
likely that any official opinion will be
expressed here regarding the measure.
Individually, however, the members of
parliament believed that the Dominion
would reap material benefit from the
proposed new schedules.
It was said that Canada's milling In
dustry, with Its great field of production,
should be able to obtain wide expansion
of trade In the markets of the United
States. Tariff students were not certain
whether the proposed reduction In thl
grain schedule would be sufficient to
broaden the markets of "western Canada,
but they believed It would have this effect
" (say, tv-
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INCOME TAX JILL OUTLINED
All Citizens Earning $4,000 a Year
Must Pay.
HOW ASSESSMENTS ARE MADE
i
Hntp In tine 1'er Cent Up to Twenty
Thousand I'ny of President,
Federal Judges nml State
Officers Mxeniut.
WABH1NGTON, Aprjl 7.-lncluded In
the .democratic tnrlff ' revision bill In
ttoduccd In congress today, Is an Income
tax bcc:!ci whlcn would require every1
icsldent of- the United States who earns
more than (4,000 a. year to pay a tax ot
1 per cent on his earnings In excess ot
the exemption.
This would not require tho man who
earns only 34,000 to pay a tax, but It
would demand that the Individual who
earned 34.100 for example, pay Into the
government treasury an annual tax ot 1
per cent on $100 of 31.
The bill also would provide higher rates
of taxation for persons with larger In
comes, adding a surtax of 1 per cent ad
ditional an earnings In excess of $20,000;
2 per cent additional on earnings In ex
cess of $50,000, and 3 per cent additional
on earnings in excess of $100,000.
Under the surtax provisions, the man
who earns only $20,000 would pay to the
government each year at tho rate of 1
pur cunt on $16,000 ($1,000 exempt), or $160.
If he earns $30,000 he would pay 1 per cent
on $16,000 still and 2 per cent on $10,000,
thus making his annual tax $300. The per
son with a $t0,000 income would pay 1 per
cent on $16,000 and 2 per cent on $30,000
a total tax of $700. The man with an In
comu of $100,000 would be required to pay
1 per cent on $16,000. 2 per cent on $30,000
and 3 per cent on $60,000, bringing his total
Income tax to $2,200. The Individual with
(Continued on Page Two.)
Home Office Denies
That Mrs, Pankhurst
Is Being Forcibly Fed
LONDON, April 7. The home office
denied, this afternoon, the report that
Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst, the suffra
gette leader now In Jail undergoing three
years' penal servitude, had been forcibly
fed and Is consequently In a state of
collapse. In other quarters It Is said
that the early release of Mrs. Pankhurst
Is expected.
The Woman's Social and Political
union, representing the militant branch"
ot the suffragettes, Issued a statement
today that the policy of the organization
had not been changed as a result of the
Imprisonment of Mrs. Pankhurst. The
attacks made by members would still be
on property alone. The union will con
tinue to respect human life, but the war
fare on property will be Intensified In
consequence of the government's meas
uies of coercion.
John L. Griffiths, United States consul
general, has received letters from Amer
ica, reproaching him for falling to take
measures for tho release from Jail of
Miss Zelle Emerson of Jackson, Mich. As
a mutter of fact, the consul general was
busily engaged with the caso Immedi
ately after Miss Emerson had been in
carcerated. Mr. Griffiths then ap
proached the home office and received
permission to visit Miss Emerson In Hoi
loway Jail. Tho vice consul general went
there and assured himself that she was
being treated the same as the English
women who were prisoners there.
Figuring Out the Costs
The National Capital
Monday, April T, HHil.
The Hennte.
Met at noon and organisation perfected.
L. Y. Sherman of Illinois and Nathan
Goff of West Virginia sworn in.
Senator Hitchcock Introduced a rew
currency bill.
The House.
New members were sworn In and or
ganisation was perfected.
Representative Henry Introduced a bill
to haVe homes for American diplomats In
foreign capital,
Resolution to change Inauguration day
to April by constitutional amendment In
troduced by Representative Henry.
Progressives recognized by alignment
of Representative Murdock to ways and
means committee and Iteproso.itative
Chandler to rules committee.
Representative Underwood introduced
new thrift bill, which Includes an tncoin.j
tax provision and provides for a .reduc
tlon 6f duty on many articles besides
placing others In free list.
WILSON WILLREAD MESSAGE
President Deoides to Present His
Views in Person.
JOINT SESSION WILL BE HELD
Nennte and Ilnnae Will Meet Tomor
row at Noon to Hear Exeontlre
Ilrenka Precedent of
a Centnry.
WASHINGTON. April 7.-Presldent
Wilson's determination to read his own
message to congress tomorrow has com
pletely displaced the tariff and the In
come tax as subjects of chief popular In
terest. No president since John Adami
hns availed himself of the right. Con
gress was amazed when It heard of the
president's plan. Borne of the old line
leaders refused to believe It until Secre
tary Tumulty personally brought the
nows.
Arrangements for the extraordinary
event got under way today. It waa
planned that the president should first
go to his room on the senate side of tho
capltol and later go to the hall of tho
house, where both branches of congress
will be assembled. The legislative pre
liminaries to get the house and senate
togeteher were being laid out today.
Under ordinary circumstances the two
(Continued on Page Two.)
Smoot Has Plan to
Reduce Living Cost
WASHINGTON, April 7. Senator Smoot
has a Plan to reduce the coat of living
which he hopes to see congress adopt,
which he says would cost the United
States about $300,000 annually anfl save
millions to housewives. The senator ex
pects to reintroduce his bill appropriating
$10,000 annually to each state and terri
tory to be used through agricultural ex
periment stations In research and ex
periments In home economies, the results
to be printed and distributed in each
state and territory.
"Such legislation," the senator said.
"would rob the American garbage can
of millions of dollars annually by teach
Ing young girls how to purchase, pro
perly prepare and cook food and how to
utilize the food that Is left over.
"If 1 had a dozen daughters," he said,
"and waa able to give each one of them
a million dollars the day of her marriage,
I would still want each ono to know how
to cook, make her own clothes, and, In
fact, be a superior housekeeper."
The senator's bill was not pressed at
the last session, but many women's or
ganizations have endorsed It
COST CONGRESHN SESSION
Third Annual Convention of Mis
souri Valley Typothetae Meets.
PLAN MANY ENTERTAINMENTS
Ilnnqiict Tuesday lSvenlnir, Auto
Hide Around City, Theater Party
nml Oilier Ntutits to Keep
All Visitors llusy.
The thjrd nnnual convention of the Mis
souri Valley Typothctao cost congress
began In Omaha yesterday with an
attendance, of .more than 300 at the
Paxton hotel. Delegates from four states,
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska,
besides, a host of salesmen, cost experts
and printers' supply dealers from points
all over tho United States, were reg
istered before the first session was called,
at U o'clock.
Members of tho Tri-Clty Ben Franklin
club, which is host to the congress, wero
ptcsent at the opening meeting to wel
come tho visitors. The numbers of the
local organization will swell the attend
ance of tho congress to above 400,
Mayor Dahlman, who was scheduled for
the welcoming address, came to the hotel
early and assisted the reception commit
tee getting acquainted with tho visitors
before time for his speech. He was
preceded on tho program by C. E. Corey,
secretary of the Trl-Clty Ben Franklin
club, who gave a short address, and was
followed by W. P. Tracy, president ot
tho Missouri Valley Typothetae Cost con
gress. Interest In Cost Hysteni.
Interest In the cost system for print
shops, which has sprung up within the
last five years, la mainly responsible for
the large attendance at the convention.
The new system will be thoroughly ex
pounded and discussed In the sosslons of
(Continued on Page Two.)
Alleged Forger
Is Arrested After
Two Years' Chase
MINNEAPOLIS, April 7. William Pad
dle, accused of having committed exten
sive forgeries In Salt Lake City, San
Francisco and many other cities through
out the country, was arrested by detec
tives today. Paddlo has been sought for
more than two years. He Is said to have
cashed many thousands of dollars worth
of forged paper.
Paddle, who gave his name as James
Robertson, Is said by the police to be a
former bank employe at Winnipeg,- Man.
It Is alleged he disappeared In 1911, and
that the last twelve months he has
passed In boating on tho Columbia tlver,
bathing In the surf ut Los Angeles, bet
ting on races at Juarez. Mex., hobnob
bing with the late President Madero at
Mexico City, lounging on vine covered
porches of liospltablo southern homes
and conducting gambling operations from
New York to Minneapolis.
The police say he Is uccused of steal
ing 100 bank money orders from the In
stitution In which he was employed, and
that threo of them were found neatly
hidden In his under clothing and that two
more later were found In his room at
a hotel where he was stopping here. He
Is accused of forging the names of the
tellers and manager of the Winnipeg
bank.
Paddle, In strong Scottish accent, stren
uously denies that he la the man wanted.
He will be arraigned here on u charge
of swindling a local clothing dealer.
MANY BILLS RUSHED
MEDIATE ACTION
One Would Give Ohio Flood Suffer
ers $25,000,000 Currency Re
form Measure Up.
FEDERAL RAILROAD IN ALASKA
Another Would Authorize Issuance
of $5,000,000 Bonds for Project.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS AIDED
Proposed to Set Aside Million Dol
lars for Teachers' Fund.
BOTH HOUSES OPEN AT NOON
For First Time In Many Years Dem
ocrat Are lit Full Control of
llotli Winn Tnrlff lllll
Is HlKKest Issue.
WASHINGTON. April 7-Bltls and
resolutions to reform tho natlon'a cur
rency system, to prevent floods In the
Mississippi river, to provide for relief of
flood sufferers, to build government rail
roads In Alaska, and a host ot other pub
lic purwposes were adopted in both
houses of congress at tho opening session
today. Tho measures represented weeks
of work on the part of senators and rep
resentatives In the preparation of legis
lative drafts to bo urged for Immediate
action.
Several currency reform bills appeared,
one by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
a member of tho senate committee that
will prcparo currency legislation. It
would establish twenty distinct national
reserve associations with wide powers ot
note Issue, discounts and exchange. Tho
bill devised by tho national monotary
commission was Introduced again by Sen
ator Lodge, acting for Senator Weeks.
Legislation for tho construction of 1,000
miles of government railway In Alaska
was1 proposed by Senators Chamberlain
and Jones, and by Dolegato Wlckersham
of Alaska. Tho bills would authorize the
Issuance of $5,000,000 of government bonds
to finance tho project, to be redeemed
from federal receipts In Alaska.
Two Million Dollar Flood Relief.
Senator Burton presented a resolution
for $2,000,000, grant for tho relief of Day
ton flood sufferers and In the house
Representative Ansberry proposed to ap
propriate $25,000,000 for the state of Ohio.
The Burton resolution proposed that the
War department first bo reimbursed for
the amount It had expended In relief
work and that tho balanco be placed at
the disposal of tho American Red Cross.
Senators Dansdell of Louisiana Intro
duced a bill aiming at preventing flood
disasters on the Mississippi river. It
would authorize an arffUTaT Appropriation
of $12,000,000, for five years to bo expended
by the Mississippi river commission. Tho
bill would require local Interests to supply
one-third of the amount necessary for
river Improvement In ay establshed levee
district.
Consideration of a federal department
of health was again proposed In a bill
by Senator Owen.
The senator's Involuntary servitude
law, vetoed by President Taft, waa auln
Introduced by Senator La Kollettc. The
Immigration bill, also vetoed by Presi
dent Taft, was reintroduced by Senator
Overman.
Senator Smith of Georgia reintroduced
tils bill to create a division ot markets
In the Agricultural department. Senator
Smith of South Carolina again Introduce!
his bill to regulate trading In cotton
futures. Senator Brlstow reintroduced
his resolution for a constitutional amend
ment providing that when tho supreme
court holds a law unconstitutional tho de
cision might bo submitted to a vote of
the people.
Aim to Aid Agriculturists.
Agricultural and vocational education
was the subject of several bills presented
In tho senate. A resolution by Senator
Hoke Smith of eGorgla rpoposed a
commission of nine members to Inves
tigate the efaslbllity of giving govern
ment aid to vocational education and ha
also Introduced bills for agricultural ex
tension departments for state agricul
tural colleges and for the establishment
of a $1,000,000 teachers' training fund.
Senator Page reintroduced his agricul
tural education bill, which passed tho
senate at thu last session.
A $10,00) pension for cx-prcsldents was
proposed In a bill by Senator McCumber,
tho president to be retired as -Joni-mander-ln-chtof
of tho army and nny
Senator McCumber ulso Introduced a fed
eial grain Inspection bill, and Senator
Nelson n measure to regulate the eervicu
of seamen In the merchant marine.
A currency bll presented by Sen nor
Jones of Washington, a republican mem
ber of the banking and currency com
mltteo, proposed sixteen resorve districts
wit an assistant United Sfates treasurer
nt the head of each. It would -nako
clearing houses semi-official institutions
I nthat they fould bo construed par: of
the national banking system.
Session Opens nt Noon.
Congress began business .at noon. As
Speaker Clark dropped his gavel, Majority
Leader Underwood dropped the tariff re
vision bill Into the hopper and thereby of
ficially started a business that promises
to keep congress at work through the
Washington "dog days" and well Into
August.
While tho legislators were finding Ihelr
new seats a procession ot soman suf
f i agists representing eight congressional
districts In the United States, Invaded
tho capltol nnd presented petitions de
manding equal suffrage for the women.
In the house the day's proceedings were
principally of organization. The ro-cl-c-tlon
of Speaker Clark was the first
business after about 100 members iitd
been sworn In. Most new senators, 'low-
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