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FAVOR TO AMERICAN
SHIPS TO BE TAKEN
FROM JRIFF BILL
XJhairman Simmons of Senate Com
mittee Consults Wilson About
Protest from Europe.
DIFFERENTIAL WILL GO OUT
It Provides Discount on Goods Im
ported in American Bottoms.
UNDERWOOD DOES NOT AGREE
Refuses, However, to Say that
House Will Objeot,
COTTON DYES ON FREE LIST
'Committee is Alao Expected to Sluke
Several Other Minor Change
In Schedule na They
Come from House.
"WASHINGTON. May 29. Senator
Simmons, chairman of the finance com
mittee, definitely announced after a con
ference with President Wilson today that
the proposed 6-cent differential on Im
ports In American owned or controlled
vessel would be dropped from the tariff
bill In the senate on account of protests
from foreign nations.
Senator Simmons also declared that ob
jections of foreign nations to the clause
to compel foroign merchants to submit
.their books to an American agent ,!n
.cases of disputed valuation would be met.
(In both cases the State department holds
that protests arc Justified. The president
upheld that view.
Chairman Simmons also took up with
the president questions of equalisation
of duties on raw materials and manufac
tured products, among them wheat, flour
and pig iron. Mr.- Simons declined to
discuss the president's views on those
points, saying no decision had been
reached, but that he had sought Mr.
"Wilson's Ideas and would transmit them
rpi members of the finance committee
Underwood May Object.
Chairman Underwood of the house ways
and means committee, when asked about
the probable action of the house should
the tariff bill come back with an amend
ment to eliminate the 5 per cent clause,
said that personally he favored the re
tention of the provision as' ono of the
ways of building up a merchant marine.
"I bellevo in discrimination in favor
of American ships," said he. "Foreign
nations discriminate In favor of their
own ships and I don't see why we should
not"
Mr. Underwood did not indicate whether
there would be any effort to retain the
provision if the administration raises
strong objection.
Senators, on the sub-committee of the
finance committee, working on the cotton
schedule of the Underwood bill, are said
to be ready to recommend some increase
In the house rates. More than a hundred
witnesses from the New England and
southern cotton sections ore reported to
have favorably Impressed the senators
with their arguments that some of the
puts were too great.
Cotton lyc on Free List.
The committee also is expected to rec
ommend Borne changes in the chemical
schedule, among them to be the free
listing of certain dyes used In the manu
facture of cotton which the house bill
has Included In the dutiable list.
Senator Stone's sub-committee still is
working over the wool and metal sched
ules. Few changes are looked for In
woolen manufactures. Some reductions
are known to have been decided upon In
the steel schedule. Structural steel will
he reduced, while pig iron and ferro
manganese probably will gq(on free list.
Fropoiei Tax on Bales.
Senator Cummins today introduced an
Amendment to. tha tariff bill to put a tax
f one-tenth of 1 per cent ad valorem on
stock market sales. The tax would be
levied upon the' sales of capital stock,
eh area, bonds or other obligations of cor
porations, all sales of products of the
noli, meats or provisions of any character
made under the regulations of any stock
exchange, grain, cotton or provision ex
change, board of trade or other such in
stitution wherein the seller Is not the
owner of the property. The-subcommittee,
headed by- Senator Williams, already
,Ui considering the proposed amendment.
FRIEDMANN SERUM
UNDER BAN IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, May 23. The board of
health adopted today a resolution forbid
ding the use of living bacterial organisms
in the Inoculation of human beings for the
treatment of disease unless permission
is first obtained from the board.
Although Dr. Frledmann was not
JICUWW4m ...
Jof the measure, ft was announced, will
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of his treatment for tuberculosis except
Vnder special permit from the board.
The Weather
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Forecast till 7 P-nt. Friday:
For Omaha, Council "Bluffs and Vicinity
f-Showers Friday; cooler.
Temperature nt OniuUtt Yesterday.
Hour. "e.
6 a. m 71
6 a. m 70
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n f -s ft a. m 71
' ?! JL 9 a. m 78
liVl" fcL ilSLm.. S8
12 m 91
1 n. m. 9i
9 IT 37
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f ri rzsin 6 m
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comparative Local Ilecord.
1311 lSli 1911. 1810.
Eljrheat yesterday 90 70 u n
lowest yesterday 70 ST 66 G7
lean temperature ..... w w 65 W
reolpitation 00 .00 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation depart
ures from the normal:
Normal temperature , C7
l?TnMa friv thn ilnv ... IT
(Total excess slnoe Murch 1
Tsormal precipitation is Inch
pendency tor tne aay is incr.
Total rainfall slr.ee March 1. .11 30 Inches
texcess since March 1 2.78 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 19C 3.43 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period Ull 121 inches
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SCOTTISH RITES REUNION
Class of Fifty from Different Parts
of the State to Get Degrees.
GRAND COMMANDER IS COMING
J. D. Richardson of Washington, D.
C, to Attend All the Sessions
and .to -Have the Claa
Named After Hint.
The Scottish Rite reinion, to last three
days, began this afternoon at the Masonic
temple in Omaha. A class of some fifty
men from various parts of the state will
be given the degrees from the fourth to
the thirty-second. On account of the
very busy season the class Is smaller this
time than It would ordinarily be. A re
union was begun on the Monday following
the Easter Sunday tornado. On account
of the great disturbance In Omaha at
that time the reunion was somewhat neg
lected and Instead of conferring the de
grees with all the formalities, the organ
ization merely communicated the degrees
and the reunion closed as soon as possi
ble. Degrees yesterday were conferred
from the fourth to the fourteenth. Fri
day the degrees up to the thirtieth will
be conferred. Saturday the thirty-first
and thirty-second will be conferred. Or
dinarily the reunion holds four days. This
year the work will be crowded into three.
Special patriotic degrees will be con
ferred on members Friday, which Is
Memorial day.
The reunion is to close with a banquet
at the Masonic temple Saturday evening.
Bulgarians Destroy
Town Near Saloniki.
and Kill Inhabitants
SALONIKI, May 19. A dispatch from a
trustworthy source says that the Bul
garian trooDs have destroyed tha villnen
of Hadji, between Saloniki and Serres
and have massacred the Mussulman
population.
Activity of Stork
Blocks Slander Suit
8CRANTON, Pa,. May 29. Three pairs
of twins, which the stork delivered in a
South Scranton neighborhood Tuesday
night, have clogged the machinery of
Alderman James Wolf's court The moth
ers are Important witnesses In a slander
suit which the alderman was to try, and
In their absence yesterday he continued
the suit indefinitely. All the parties it.
the suit live In the same block. Mrs. Jo
seph Savage charged that she was slan
dered by Mrs. Joseph Slage In the pres
ence of seyeral women of the neighbor
hood, among whom were Mrs. Ellen
O'Boyle, Mrs. Hannah Boyd and Mrs.
Margaret Stanton. It was to the latter
three that tha stork was so generous.
ANTI GAMBLING LID
GOES ON IN NEW YORK
ALBANY, N. Y., "There must be no
gambling on the race tracks or anywhere
else In the state." says Governor Sulzer
In a letter to Arthur Brisbane of Naw
York. The executive declares "he shall
adhere tenaciously" to the letters he has
written to authorities of counties In
which tracks are situated, warning them
to enforce the law.
"It there Is any gambling on the Bel
mont Park race track, or an violation
of the law," continues the governor, "I
shall hold those officials responsible and
promptly take action."
The governor says he Is "opposed to
gambling on the race tracks and will en
force (As law."
Omaha Daily
"No More
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Cuban Troops Will
March in New York
Memorial Parade
NEW YORK, May 29.-The protected
cruiser, Cuba, arrived early today bearing
representatives of the Cuban government,
army and navy, to pay tribute to the
memory of - the United- States sailors who
perished when the battleship Maine was
blown up In Havana harbor fifteen years
ago, By special permission from the
state, the Cuban forces will bo welcomed
ashore under arms tomorrow to partici
pate In a parade preceding the dedica
tion of a monument to the Maine's dead.
Tho welcome of booming guns from
twelve dreadnoughts of the United States
North Atlantic fleet awaited the visiting
warship whon it proceeded from the
quarantine station up to the Hudson river
anchorage under escort of the gunboat
Yankton, to be boarded later In the day
by a reception committee and to send
ashore her own delegation of three spe
cial envoys to pay respects to Mayor
Gaynor.
In addition to the three envoys and the
usual naval force, the cruiser brought
a battalion of coast artillery and a mili
tary band to participate In the parade.
The men include both whites and blacks,
discrimination as to color having been
ruled against by President Menocal.
Leaves Three Widows
and Two Fiances
CHICAGO, May 28. A fifth woman ap
peared lost night In the strange case of
the late Homer Edward Morrison, "man
of many widows." ' She is Miss Millie
Ostrander, who asserts she was to have
married Morrison yesterday as W, B.
Morrison.
Morrison, who died a week ago, left
three widows and two fiancees, and the
police believe there are other women who
are mourning him as husband .or fiancee.
Miss Ostrander told the detectives she
met Morrison six years ago and during
that time he took her to many places of
amusement and gave her several sub
stantial presents.
Before Morrison began to court Miss
Ostranger he had two wives. Two years
after he began to pay her attentions he
married again. He also found time to
pay his respects to another woman, a
widow, who says she was to have married
him next month. She gave Morrison
$1,000, Miss Ostrander is the only woman
of the five who does not claim to have
given Morrison considerable sums.
Ready
to Enforce
Lazy
Husband Law
SEATTLE, Wash., May 29. Preparatory
to enforcing the new "laxy husband" law,
effective June 6, which provides that hus
bands who do not support their families
shall be sentenced to hard labor, the pro
ceeds of their work to be given to their
wives, plans for the construction of stock
ades on sixty-three acres of logged-off
county land were taken up today by the
county commissioners. The land Is cov
ered with small Umber and large stumps
and the sheriff believes a large gang of
lazy husbands can be kept' busy several
months clearing the ground.
FIVE MEN KILLED BY
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
PORT VENDRES, France, May 29. A
terrible explosion of dynamite In a fac
tory Just outside this port today killed
five men and Injured twenty others. The
report was heard at a distance of twenty
miles. The men killed were blown to
pieces and portions of their bodies were
picked up a long; dlstanoi out la the
MeHtrrarjea,
OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY
Their Broken EanksSSiW Meet"
TROUBLE AHEAD IN MEXICO
F. G. Hollend, Visiting Omaha, Pre
dicts Gloomy Outlook.
INTERVENTION TALK FOOLISH
Americana Are Heavily Interested
In the Hepunllo and Interference
Would Not Be ' Good "
Tollcy.
Frank G. C. Hollend, an American
writer and engineer, making hts home In
Washington and Mexloo City, Is In
Omaha. When asked about the condi
tions existing there at this time and
what the future peace of that country
was, he shook his head. He belonged to
the staff of the late President Madero
and his knowledge of the government's
politics Is the result of a personal study
extending over a number of years.
'When the election which has been
postponed will really take place is prob
lematic," he said, "Provisional President
Huerto Is far from being popular and his
high-handed method of obtaining control
(Continued on Page Two.)
Ballew is Given
Twenty Years for
Assaulting Woman
LINCOLN, May 29. Walter Ballew, the
Hiawatha, Kan., negro, who ten days ago
committed a criminal assault on Mrs. '
Anna Keller at Falls City, Neb., being at
that time pursued by a mob and narrowly
escaping lynching, was this afternoon
taken from the penitentiary, where he has
been, held for safekeeping, to Tecumseh,
where he was arraigned In district court.
entered a plea of guilty, received a
twenty-year prison sentence and was this
evening brought back to the penitentiary
to begin serving his sentence.
Tecumseh is in the same Judicial dis
trict as Falls City, and arrangements
were secretly made whereby District
Judge Raper would hold a special ses
sion of court without attracting atten
tion. Officials agreed It would be unsafe
to take the negro to Falls City as threats
had been made to lynch him If ho was
brought there. Warden Fen ton of the
state prison, whose home Is at Falls
City, said It would be tempting fate to
hold the trial there, as the feeling grow
ing out of the assault has not yet abated.
R. E. Gantt, Bellow's attorney, after
conferring with the black man this
morning, advised him to enter a guilty
plea, and the latter willingly agreed to
If he was not taken to the home of his
victim.
The court proceedings at Tcumseh
were of the briefest possible nature. He
was taken to the courthouse, arraigned,
information read to him, his plea of
guilty entered on the docket and sen
tence pronounced. The return train for
Lincoln was taken with scarcely a score
of persons knowing of the proceedings.
and he was back In his cell In the prison
within scarcely five hours from the time
lie left It.
The National Capital
Thursday, May 30, 1M8,
The Senate.
In session 2 p. m.
Chairman Hoke Smith of labor commit.
tee called meeting to consider plans for
Investigation Into West Virginia coal
mine strike.
Suffrage parade special Investigating
committee reported aisoraer of March S,
was due principally to unusual crowds
and praised work of the police.
The Houae.
Met at noon and adjourned at 11:60 un
til noon Monday out of respect to the
memory of the lata RasresentallTa Vorest
30, 1913 TEN PAGES.
Japanese Ministry
Submits Wilson's
Eeply to Council
TOKIO, May 29. As the result of grow
ing attacks by the opposition the Japa
nese government today took the elder
statesmen and other-leaders, Including
PrlnceTaro lCEti"uTthVf BrnTer premie?,
Into its confidence on the .California
question and submitted to them the text
of America's reply to Japan's 'protest
against the California alien land owner
ship legislation.
The texnt of the reply sent by Washing
ton omphaslzed that the question at issue
Is an economic and not a political one.
It points out that the state of California
Insists that there has been no violation
of the American-Japanese treaty.
After lengthy dwelling on the friend
ship of the United States for Japan the
reply concludes that the courts of law
are open and expresses the hope that the
question may be solved In a manner
satisfactory to Japan'.
Davis WiU Plead.
Guilty and Go at
Once to Prison
DAKOTA CITY, Neb., May 29.-(Special
Telegram.) Bert Davis, paroled convict
from the Nebraska penitentiary, who on
Wednesday afternoon assaulted Mlis
Caddie McGlasnen Welte near Homer,
Neb., was captured by a posse during the
night and brought to Dakota City by
Sheriff Frank Mahon and lodged In the
county Jail.
Rumors were circulated thai a lynching
party was being formed ti the vicinity
of the victim's home and the sheriff and
County Attorney B. T. Frum hurried the
prisoner io Pender today, where he will
be taken before District Judge Guy T.
Graves and a plea of guil'.y tc the charge
of criminal assault will be made by hlnii
He will be taken direct to the penitcn'
tlary from there.
Snowballs Will Be
Served for Dessert
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 29.-To re
duce the cost of living serve snowballs
for dessert. The novelty may be em
ployed In midsummer by the adoption of
a chemical laboratory to the kitchen and
application to the Boylstone Chemical
clut.f of Harvard university for the
recipe.
At the banquet of the club next month
the wintry weapons of the small boy will
be tried for the dessert. The students In
chemistry have agreed to make them In
the university laboratories and turn
them over to the caterers to be flavored
and served Instead of expensive Ices and
sherbets.
The senior class Is also said to be con
sidering making snowballs In June In
order to have a snowball fight take the
place of the usual class rush or the con
fetti battle at the stadium.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
ARE VISITING BOSTON
BOSTON, May 23. Forty-sir confederate
veterans, members of the old guard of
Atlanta, who came to Boston to attend
the Memorial day exercises, were the
guests today of the Ancient and Honor
able Military company.
The entertainment of the veterans In
cluded an automobile trip to Lexington
and Concord and a visit to the estate of
Colonel Everett C. Benton at Belmont.
Tomorrow the southern visitors will
march to the stifle hours, place a floral
tribute on the soldiers' and sailors' monu
ment on Boston common and be the
luncheon guests of B. W. Kinsley, post
111,, araod. Army; at lbs JupuMlc
Bee
SINGLE
TO HONOR THESOLDER DEAD
Numerous Exorcises Are Planned for
Memorial Day. Here,
DECORATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Tvro Separata ProKratna to Be Qlven
at the Auditorium Bishop
"TlbTen'ln ihoMornlnar to
tha Children.
BCSXOSIXaXi DAT ACTIVITIES,
Graves of old soldiers at oemcterles
will be' strewn with flowers during tha
morning.
Oeneral Memorial Uy parade at
a o'clock from Sixteenth and Capitol
avenue.
Bxsrolsea by the Oathollo school chil
dren at the Auditor! am In the morning.
Oeneral Grand Army of ths Bepubllo
program at Auditorium In afternoon.
Memorial srriots In evening at ths
Swedish Baptist ohuroh, 610 tforth
Eighteenth street.
Iisunohlng of miniature battleships by
Wsvy club at Miller park In afternoon.
All-day shoot at Omaha Gun club.
Carter lake olub opens season with
golf in tones, Invitation dinner and
dance In evening'.
Auqnatio sports, games and dancing
at lake ICanawa.
Council Bluffs Rowing sssoolstton
opens season.
Ball games on all the lots In ths city.
Business will be generally suspended
In the afternoon.
Golf at Xappy Hollow rield club and
Country olub,
Orand Army of ths Xepubllo women
will decorate the graves of the unknown
dead at Torest Xawn oemetery In morning-.
Trap shoot at the Seymour lake olnh.
In memory of those who fought and
diod surviving members of the Grand
Army of tho Republic and the Spanish
American war veterans will gather at
tho various cemeteries in and about
Omaha at 10 o'clock this morning,
and strew the graves of those comrades
gone before with flowers. Business
houses In the dty will Join In observing
Memorial day by closing for the after
noon. Even the graves of the unknown will
be remembered, when the women of the
Grand Army of the Republic place flags
and flowers on the graves In Forest
Lawn cemetery.
Ilnrpstrr na Marshal
The general Memorial day parade will
be In charge of C. W. Harpster, who will
be marshal! of the day. Charles W. Al
len and L. M. Travis will assist The
big demonstration will be participated In
by veterans of the two wars, High school
cadets militia, clvlo bodies, the Navy
club and a platoon of police.
The line of march will be from Six
teenth street south to Douglas, east to
Fifteenth and south to the Auditorium.
The parade will form at 2:30 o'clock on
Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street.
Navy club, militia. High school cadets,
mall carriers and seml-mllltary bodies
will form on the south side of Capitol
avenue, west on Sixteenth street, and
the Grand Army of the Republlo and
Spanish war veterans will form on the
north side of Capitol avenue.
The parade will end at the Auditorium,
where all may listen to speeches by the
veterans of the civil war who saw actual
service under Abraham Xinooln. From
the Auditorium the meeting will adjourn
to Miller park, where a miniature battle
ship will be launched and saluted by a
volley.
In the morning the Catholic school
children will hold memorial exercises at
the Auditorium, when Bishop Tihen will
speak.
All the Omaha parks will be ready to
receive large crowds. George Green and
y COooUwueA 5m Pace, T-vrp.)
THE WEATHER.
Showers; Cooler
COPY TWO CENTS
COLONEL PILES OP
ARIDITY EVIDENCE
IN SUJTFOR LIBEL
More Witnesses Swear RoosoveK
Never Intoxioatod to Their
Knowledge.
JUST A MODERATE DRINKER
Kept "Gentleman's Cellar," Teddy's
Second Cousin Says.
AFRICAN TRIP IS COVERED
Smithsonian Attache Asserts Jour
ney Dry for T. R.
CHAMPAGNE CASE TAKEN ALONG
Ncttb Writer! Former Locomotive
Fireman, Rough Illilcr and For
mer Jnda-e of Ohio Court
Take the Stand.
MARQUETTE. May 29. Five witnesses
for Colonel Theodore Roosovelt. a re
lative, a former member of the Rough
Riders' regiment, a former locomotive
fireman, a newspaper man and a former
Judge, testified today in Colonel Roose
velt's suit for libel against Gcorgo A.
Newett. the Isphemlng newspaper owner,
All of tho witnesses colled by the
plaintiff asserted that tho colonel was
only a moderato user of Intoxicants.
The substance of the testimony a
given by Philip Roosevelt, a young son of
the colonel's cousin; Charles Willis
Thompson, a New York newspaper man;
Andrew A. Abelo, a former locomottvo
fireman; ICdwln Kmerson, a Cuban Rough
Rider compalgner, and ' A Z. Blair, a
former common pleas Judge of Ohio, was
that during his campagn In Cuba with
the Rough Riders Colonel Roosevelt
drank only black coffee or water, and
never liquor of any kind.
That during his political campaigns tha
colonel drank champagne only occas
slonally and never to excess.
That while Colonel Roosevelt kept a
large and varied supply of wines at his
home, he never indulged In them.
"He kept a regular gentleman's cellar,"
Philip Roosevelt said.
Cblonel Roosevelt, as usual since tho be.
ginning of the hearing, listened with th
keenest Interest to the witnesses' denial
from the stand that the former president
"got drunk," as charged In the editorial
published by the defendant.
Olfford Plnohot, chief forester In thi
Roosevelt administration, at tho after
noon session testified as to the temperato
habits of the plaintiff.
Olfford Plnohot's Testimony.
The witness sold he was educated la
New York at Yale and abroad, and ottet
taking his' degree at New Havon took"
up sdenUflo forestry as a profession. Ho
first mot the plaintiff In Washington
when the latter was connected with the
civil service. Witness was appointed
chief of tho dlvlslnn nf fnrrv Kin
President McKlnley and remained there
until aftet- Colonel Roosevelt retired from
the White House. Blnco then Mr. Pln
chot said he had seen the colonel many
times on trips and at Oyster Bay.
"Have you observed Colonel Roosevelt
keenly?" inquired Attorney Pound.
"Yes, I have and I would llko to give
my reasons for 'so doing "
"We wilt come to that," interrupted
Pound. "I'll ask you tho question now,
you may tell your reasons."
"My reason for observing him closely
was a deep Interest in the subject of
efficiency. If I ruvw a man who was
capable of unusual work, who was very
efficient, I wanted to observe why, to
learn why h was efficient, I observod
what he ate, what he drank, how much
he slept, everything which might account
for unusual efficiency. Bo I studied
Colonel Roosevelt."
"Now, from that observation, please tell
the Jury whether he drank spirituous or
malt liquors."
"Occasionally a glass of wine."
"Could the plaintiff In this case have
drunk to excess, have been a heavy
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