The Omaha Sunday
PART ONE.
NEWS SECTION
PAGES ONE TO TWELVE.
THE WEATHER.
Fair; Warmer
VOL. XLII NO. 48.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1913-FIVE SECTIONS -TIIUITV-EIGI IT PAGES.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS
What Omaha's New Hotel Will Look Like
Sunday Morning at Eleven
WATER RATES WILL
DISCUSS ANSWER
TO JAPANESE NOTE
President and Secretary Again Go
Over Anti-Alien Land Legis
lation Situation.
BE REDUCED JULY Is
BEE WINS ITS FIGHT
Majority of Water Board Deoides to
Listen to the Cry of the
People.
Bee
REFERENDUM NOT PROBABLE
Belief that Necessary Signatures
Cannot Be Secured.
WAR TALK COMES PHOM LONDON
Sympathies of Canadians and Aus
. tralians with United States.
PEACE MEETING IN JAPAN
Spenker Deprecate Tnlk of llonttll
tlca nml Suy tlint Nntnrallcntlnn
of Jt ly 1' nl toil State Will
Solve I'rolilem.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Secretary
Bryan conferred with the president tills
afternoon on the Japanese situation. The
president was taking a holiday but talked
with tho secretary of state about the
answer of the United States to tho Jap
anese protest against tho antl-allen land
legislation.
Arizona's new alien land law Is not re
garded here as seriously complicating
the negotiations with Japan because (he
act docs not contain the same direct
bar against Japaneso as the California
act. It is uxpected however, that be
cause of Its adverse effect upon Mexican
land owners in Arizona, a protest will
be forthcoming from the Mexican govern
ment, even In view of the rather irreg
ular status of the diplomatic relations
between America and Mexico.
With both the American and Japanese
governments waiting upon the final ac
tion of Governor Johnson, the possibility
of postponing the operation of the pro
posed California law by invoicing tho
referendum Is again being discussed In
official circles.
Tho overwhelming majority for tho
"VVcbb bill in both branches of the Cali
fornia legislature makes some Callforniani
In Washington doubtful if tho necessary
20,000 signatures for a referendum could
bo secured. 1
War Talk from London.
LONDON, May 17. "Should war break
out, the sympathies of Australia, New
Zealand and -western Canada would be
violently on the side of tho United
States," says the Pall Mall Gasettis to
day in discussing the California alien
land ownership controversy.
Tho newspaper considers that it w(l
be a. grave mistake to Underestimate the
chances of a conflict between the United
States and Japan. It says:
"Tho opinion that the Japanese will
never Co to war to force their treaty
rightti1(hjpaUfornla is one of those dan
gerous generalities which lead nations
blindfold to the brink of the pit"
The Pall Mall Gazette expresses the
opinion that there are several reasons
why Japan may be desirous of forcinir
the issue at th present moment The
most obvious of these Is the pending
opening of the Panama canal, while a
more remote one is connected with Hhe
condition of its Internal politics. The
article continues:
"The point at issue the exclusion of
Asiatics from permanent settlement
touches the British empire very nearly."
Pence TuIU from Toklo.
TOKIO, Japan, May 17. IrreeponBiblo
war talk was condemned by most of the
speakers at a mass meeting today, or
ganized by an association representing
partly business and partly educational
Interests, at which some parliamentary
representatives were also present
The speeches made by the majority of
the educational representatives. In con
trast to the others, were sober and con
servative. They gave expressions of confi
dence that Americans will side with the
Japanese if the Japanese steadfastly
point out the unfairness of discrimina
tion. It was, however, deolared that the time
had arrived when Uie Japanese must be
given equal treatment with other peoples,
and the speakers condemned the aggres
sions of the whites in the world against
the colored races, the instance being
given of the lynching of negroes in the
southern states.
Prof, Nagai of Waseda university, in
the course of his address, said:
"God made the white and colored peo
ple equal. Unless we claim equality we
shall fall to carry out God's wishes."
This was received with cheering,
Representatives Terutako Illnata and
Kenzo llayashl protested against the dis
crimination shown by the alien land own
ership bill and condemned the lack of
land and agricultural clauses In the ex
isting treaty. They scored the reckless
agitators, who, they said, were merely
playing the game of those seeking orders
for guns and warships.
Resolutions were tluin adopted declar
Ing the Japanese In America must have
equal rights with the whites and that
this fundamental solution of the existing
dlffloulty would uphold Japanese prestige
and get a permanent peace.
The meeting closed with dignity and
seriousness and with the expression of
the idea that granting naturalization
rights to the Japanese in America would
be a practical solution.
Leaps Two Hundred
Feet to His Death
OAKLAND, Cal., May 17.-Harold B.
Maglll, city clerk, committed suicide to-
day by leaping from the Fourteenth
story of the new city hall to the roof of
a lower part of the same building. Ills
body was crushed in by the fall of some
(00 feet
Maglll obtained a permit to go to the
roof, and while it was- being prepared
asked the olerk if he thought a man
could drop 200 feet And bo conscious on
striking. He had been n poor health
for several months and told one of his
assistants yesterday that he had not
elept for three weeks and had walked
miles In an attempt to tire himself out
that he might gain tome rest.
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PLAN SUBMITTED B,T ARCHITECT T.
PROTEST MADE f AlNST PAGE
London Labor Leaders Act on Note,
from United States.
LETTER IS UNAUTHORIZED
Secretary of 'Nevr Vork Printing:
Trade Council Bays It Comes ,
from OneanUatlon Expelled
from Federation.
LONDON, May 17, The resolution of
protest against the nomination of Walter
H. Page as Unltod . StateB ambassador
to Great Britain was Introduced by W
Coffey, a member of the executive com
mittee of the London Trades council, on
the strength of a letter written on pa
per bearing the letterhead of Uio Allied
Trades council of Greater New York and
signed "Charles .L. Conway, secretary of
the National Brotherhood of Bookbind
ers." After describing Mr. Page as a mem
ber of the firm of Doubleday, Page &
Co., the, letter says:
"This concern Is bitterly opposed to
organized labor. The only department
that forced recognition from the union
standpoint was the bookbinders, but they
are now on -strike, being forced out, as
the policy of the firm is to replace men
with boys."
The letter also says that the Interna
tional Typographical union, local No. s,
continues the firm on the "unfair" list,
and that the men who had been, secured
to take the strikers' places rebelled ana
struck withotit, the old of any . organ
ization. The letter concludes ,by asking "all
the organized Jabor of the United King
dom to assist )n giving this matter the
widest publicity and -also to file a pro
test to our goyernment on Its selection
and a protest to your .own government
for Its acceptance of this man."
Not Auth'orlsed by Printers.
NEW YORK, May 17. The National
Brotherhood of Bookbinders Is an "out
law organization," expelled two years
ago from the International Brotherhood
of Bookbinders, according to Peter J.
Brady, secretary of the Allied Printing
Trade council of Greater New York. ,It
has been repudiated! he said, by the
American Federation of Labor. ' '
Mr, Brady announced today that Tie
proposed .to' wrjte ''ttprfcto President!
Wilson ana Amoassaaor xage, explain
ing that this communication was unau
thorized either, by the Printing Trades'
council or by the International Brother
hood of Bookbinders, and tlikt he would
also so Inform the London . fades''
council
"Whatever may be the conditions at
tho Doubleday-Page plant In regard !to
the union labor," Mr. Brady said, "we
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Let the world know what we are doing
, : OMAHA IN THE REBUILDING
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L, KIMBALL TO BOARD OP DIIUCC-
to Dispense Three
, Hundred in Charity
CHICAGO, May 17, Records Intended,
to show that one woman dependent iipon
charity received less than $300 during
((Ichtoen months', while approximately
$3,000 was spent In Investigating her con
dition, were -produced -yesterday before
the legislative Committee Investigating,
charitable institutions.
. The beneficiary, Mrs. Maggie Ustlch,
resides next door to1 the ' Mary Crane'
nursery, a 'branch of the 'United' charities,
and two qf her children were asphyxiated
last year. At the Inquiry It was: told
how two pulmotors were rushed to the
home In an effort to save the children
who were overcome while their mother
was attending a lecture at the nursery
on the care of babies. Since their, death
Mrs. Ustlch has been coring for three
surviving children. Her husband Is In
an asylum.
A portion of the record of the case
submitted by the Rev. F. E. J, Lloyd,
member of the legislative committee fol
lows: Charitable organizations rendering ser
vice.' no.
Courts rendering servioe," $2.
Individuals investigating, 182.
Physicians In , attendance, ,12.
Nurses In attendance, $3.
Pulmotors rendering service, $2.
Visits and Interviews In regard to Mrs.
Ustich, N06.
Cash paid to Mrs. Usttoh by United
Charities, 1200.
Cash' spent by all organizations, cor
porations, and Individuals investigating
case; 13,000.
"Thla Is one of the apparent abuses
we'are trying to correct," sold 'Mr. Lloyd.
"If Is a shame so much money was spent
In -looking Up Mrs. Ustich when so little
was given really to)"help out."
Kern Receives Many
Letters About West
Virginia Peonage
WASHINGTON, ' May 17.-More than
1,000 letters, petitions and telegrams have
plied up Jn Senator Kern's office urging
the passage, of his resolution for in-
a airy Into conditions into the- Paint Creek
and cabin Creek coal mine region of
West Virginia. .
Today the senator received a letter
from a man In 'New York, who wrote
Jhat . he had been induced, to. go Into
the West Virginia .mines under false rep
resentations, compelled to pay his; own
expenses and to get away, was forced
to steal his way out to avoid the mine
tvards. The man offered to testify.
Action oh. the Kern resolution Is ex
pected Monday, after Senator Goff com
pletes 'his argument against It.
Drawn for Tho Bee by Powell.
NOW TOTALS 168,484
New Directory Just Published
Shows that There Has Been
Pair Inoreaso.
INCREASE OVER A THOUSAND
ComimriKon of ritrnrea rttli Lout
Yenr Show nn Increnite of ltOSB
- for Oinahn and 188 for
South Omaha.
The population of Omaha and tho,
suburbs, excluding South Omaha, accord
ing tb the, new directory Just published,
is very close to 108,484. In Bouth Omaha
there aro 33,627 more, making a total of
202,011 for the two cities, lxist year's
directory census showed a population of
167,429 for Omaha and 33,344 for South
Omaha, a total of 200,772 for both cities.
By a comparison of figures it is soon
that the Increase in Omaluv was approxi
mately 1,065, while in South Omaha it
amounted to 183, a total of 1,138.
The volume contains 74.SS3 names, which
multiplied by 2tf. to represent the names
and women not Included in the directory,
Indicates the total population of Omaha.
Treated In the same manner tho South
Omaha directory list of 14,301 gives tho
total there.
Fort Crook Troops
Stay Down South
TUlEarly FaU
Fort Crook officers and troops now m
Texas near the Mexican border expect to
remain south at least till early fall. Tim
Is the word that comes from officers to
their families left behind. When the de
tail to the border U withdrawn thoy ex
pect orders to return to Omaha, with pos
sibly the Third battalion of the reglnwnt
aitnougn tnis is sun uncertain.
COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
Omaha branch of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae met Saturday at the
home of Miss Nell Carn-snter, when about
thirty members were present. A plan of
the work for the coming year was sub
mitted. The workers will be organized
under six sections, four etng maintiined
for the study of civic or educational prnb-
1 iems and two for entertainment. Officers
elected are; Miss Buphenla Johnson,
principal of Brownell Hall, president;
Mli-s Mary Wallace, vice president; M!sa
Elizabeth Reswltt, secretary, and MUs
Mary Mcintosh, treasurer
Hvnim (liven Sixteen Years.
PIERRE, 8. D.,' May 17.-Slxteen years
in the South Dakota penitentiary was the
sentence given. It. C. Evans of Pierre,
who had pleaded guilty to criminal rela
tions with his 17-yoar-old stepdaughter.
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POPULATION
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NORMS FAYORS HEARINGS
Nebraska Senator Disousses Pro
vision of Tariff Bill,
HE SAYS IT IS INIQUITOUS
Wool In Free, While Goat's Hnlr,
Which CoiiipelPti rrltli It, Is I'ro
teoted -Fre? Flour an- llnd
an Free Whent.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, May lT.-Spectni-Senator
Norris today Issued the following
statement on the tariff bill; ;
"I am firmly of tho belief that tho.
finance committee of the senate should'
grant hearings on the pending tariff till)
tu al peruonft who are affected by the
provisions of the bill. I do not believe
that these hearings should bo unlimited
ax to tlnic, or that people desiring to bo
heard should be permitted to go over and
over at length tho same ground, or to
duplicate the Knowing made before the
ways and means commlttoe of the houso
In connection with the present bill. There
Is no advantage to be gained by going
over ground that has once been thor
oughly presented. But there are a great
many cases where the ways and means
committee did not give full hearings and
where Industries Involving thousands of
employes and millions or dollars' worth
of property were granted only a few
hours In which to present their argu
ments. There aro millions of peoplo af
fected In this way who have never had a
hearing, and to refuse them a hearing
would be not only unjust and unfair,' but
a discrimination that in my judgment no
man could defend.
Nonpartisan Board Needed.
"All this goes to show the need for a
nonpartisan and permanent tariff board
that will be able to seek out the rral
foots that they may be applied sclentltio
ally. The tariff has always been a foot
ball for political machines. Such a com
mission would take It, to o. very great
extent at leant, out of the realm of poll
tics. We will never have a scientific
tariff until a nonpartisan and permanent
tariff commission has been provided for,
established and put In running order.
The present bill, as have all other tariff
bills, simply illustrates th weakness of
the present system of framing tariff
measures
Illll In Iniquitous.
"The present tariff in many respects can
not be defended, und Is In my Judgment,
Iniquitous. It should be revised and it
should be reduced. But the pending bill
Is not fair even as between the different
sections of the country. It provides for
free wool, but It provides for' a protec
tive tariff on the hair of the Angora goat,
which Is used In the manufacture of some
kinds of goods where wool Is used. The
sheep, however, are raised In the west
and the Angora goat Is raised In the
south. If we are to have free wool then
surely the hair from the Angora goat
should be admitted free. Free flour Is
Just as Injurious to the farmer who raises
wheat, as free whent. If we admit a bar
rel of flour free It has the same effect
on the termor ho raises wheat as If wc
admitted free the wheat required In the
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UNDERWOOD BILL IS
DISLIKED IN FRANCE
Proposed Tariff Measure is Con
demned by Conimoroe Asso
ciation, BITTER SPEECH BY GERALD
Deputy Says Clanse Intended to Sab'
staise AiherloAU Shipping Vlo
. . Iates Treaties with Twenty
Nations.
PAIUS, fllay 17. The Underwood tariff
bill as far as it relates to French' Indus
try was energetically condemned today
at. the monthly meeting of tho National
Association of Industry and Commerce.
Tho choir was taken by Andro Lebori, a
former minister ot Commerce and among
the distinguished company wro Gabriel
Hanotaux, former foreign minister, and
Paul Delombre, former minister of com
merce. Deputy George Gerald, In reviewing the
tariff bill, expressed his objection to Its
administrative clauses, which, Instead ot
rollcvlng the great hindrances which ho
declared exist lit trading in the United
States Increased them arbitrarily. "When
Mr, Underwood and his friends say they
are only applicable to professional de
frauders," said M, Gerald, "This affirma
tion is not sufficient for French export
ers, who already Know too much about
tho administration ot tho American
tariff."
Deputy Gerald continued:
"Tita world has seen how the United
States by its Tanama canst act has vio
lated the Hay-Paunccfote treaty and the
state of California has violated the
United Stolen treaty with Japan. Tho
projected tariff, which seems Intended to
subsidize American shippers, violates
twenty treatles-fthose made by the United
States with Spain, Great Britain, Italy,
Austria-Hungry, Denmark, Belgium, et
yet I still hope that Franco and the
United States will bo able to arrange a
practicable agreement."
M. Lebon commended tho "Judicious
comments" of Deputy Gerald and re
gretted that the United States, although
professing the desire to live on good
terms with all the world, does not give
any practical proofs of this to France.
Geneva Debater
First in the State
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Neb., May 17.-flpeclal Tele
gram.) Itobert B. Warring of Geneva
today won first honors in the High Bohool
State Debating league. Leonard W. Trot
ter of Lincoln was second and Floyd
Kilts of Wymore third. The commission
form of government was discussed by the
orators.
Cnriieuln Will Vlult KnUer.
BERLIN. Mo.y 17. Andrew Carnegie Is
coming to Berlin to congratulate Emperor
William on his twenty-five years' peace
ful relgn. He cabled today, reserving
rooms at a hotel.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
Over Six Cents Per Thousand to Bo
Second Cut.
BOARD IN SECRET SESSION
Howoll's Idea of Big Sinking Fund
is Overruled.
MEMBERS HAVE THEIR WAY
Second Cut in l'rlce na Result of tif
forts of The lice to Secure an
lSuuttnlile Hate for the
Smnller Consumers.
BowlrtK to tho will of tho people.
ns voiced by Tho Doo again and
ngnln, tho Wator board will recede
from Kb unronaonablo position In the
matter ot rato reduction and will,
according to Information emanating
from reliable sources, Issue an ordor
effoctlvo July 1 reducing rates to
prlvato consumers from 31 A cents
to 25 conts por 1,000 gallons.
This reduction has been cqnsld
erod at several secret sessions of the
Water board, along with Tho Boe'a
statistics of tho earnings ot the
plant, produced during its persistent
campaign for lower wator rates, and
an agreement on tho per cent of re
duction has been roached by a ma
jority ot tho board members,
Wator Commissioner Howell's
plan to make another reduction, 8a
Blight that practically no relief
would bo afforded to poor consum
ers, mot with tho disapprove! of his
colleagues on tho Water board, wb,D
bolleved a roductlon that reduced
was duo tho public.
Preparations are now being mado
to Issue tho ordor of reduction, al
though it will not bo effective until
July 1. Howoll Is still holding out
tor delay, but tho Water board mdm
bcrs who favor a real reduction are
In the majority and thero will bo no
'tight on tho Issue, na It has been
pretty thoroughly settled In execu
tive sessions of the board.
Concerning tho reduction, Howell
said ho bollovod tho plant ought ta
have a large rcsorvo fund on hand
und that tho earnings, huge as they
aro, - do not at this tlmo Justify n
substantial cut In tho price ot water.
Quick exception was taken to thla
by one of the members, who said bo
favored roductlon that would be
shown at onco that tho board was
getting away from the Idea that the
plant was run tor private profit In
stead of public sorvlco.
JAMES WINTERSTEEN, JR.
EXPIRES AT FREMONT
FltEMONT, Neb., May 17. -(Special.)-James
H. Wlntersteen, Br., one ot tho
last survivor of the autl-slavery men iti
Ohio before the war, died at the home
ot his s6n, Judge Waldo Wlntersteeri,
last night at the -age of 92. Ho was born
In Ooouga county, Ohio, and lived at Har
risnnvllle, a, little town on the Ohio river
until 1871, when he came to Maunders
county, Nebraska.
Though postmaster and always an ncr
tlve democrate In politics, his home was
a station on tho "underground railroad"
and a good many slaves were aided by
him In their escnpo to their freedom.
He had lived In Fremont for the past
thirty years, retained hla mental mid
physical vigor, aside from deafness, rr
marbkably welt and until about thrca
weeks ago walked from his son's home
down town and back a distance of sixteen
blocks nearly every afternoon,
Morgan raiders pased through Harrtcon
vllle and had a stiff tight with the fedcrtl
forces on his premises and left one niQii
dead on the door step rtd several
wounded In the yard. Non1 oJ,' the famMy
was hurt. His wife died ab.-.t ten yeitis
ago. He leaves .three sons, P. H. Wlrtor
steen, a veteran of the civil war; Watlo
Wlntersteen of this city, anU J. H. Win
tersteen, jr., of Lincoln, four daughters
and a number of grandchildren and gr'at
grandchildren. .
The Han
Who Needs
a suit of clothes, a hat, a pair
of ahoea or anything else for
bis porsonal comfort and adorn
ment tho man who doesn't
know where to go to buy
should read BEKJ advertise
ments. When he does, he buys to best
advantage. This season ot the
year generally finds many men
with depleted wardrobes;
The things that lasted through
Winter and survived the early
Spring, now look ancient and woe
begone. These must beeplaced by
the newcomers In the realm of
things to wear. Business do
mands are such that moat men
must dress well, and naturally
most men aro just as eager- to
orerclse economy as most
women.
BEU3 ads will help you aurprlu.
lngly, sir. Read them, and when
you need a particular fnlng in
clothing or Its adjuncts, you win
know precisely where tc go when
you start out to buy.
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