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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY,- NOVEMBER 23, 1918
SENATE REPORT
ON LA FOLLETTE
MAY GAUSE ROW
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Majority of Committee Finds
No Ground for Expulsion
and Advises Dismis
sal of Charges.
Washington. Nov. 22. Investiga
tion of the alleged disloyal speech
of Senator La 1-oUette at St. Paul
more than a year ago was aban
doned today by the senate elections
committee on a vote of 9 to 2.
Committee members said that,
however much the speech of Senator
La Follette on which the proceed
ings were brought might be de
veloped, there was no basis for ex
pulsion from the senate. Senate
Pomerene of Ohio, chairman, and
senator Walsh ot .Montana, botn
democrats, voted against dismissal
of the charges.
A contest may develop in the
senate over the adoption of the ma
jority, report, which will be sub
mitted when the senate reconvenes
December 2, by Senator Dillingham
"of Vermont, republican. Chairman
Pomerene announced that he would
submit a minority report and might
contest adoption by the senate of
the dismissal recommendation.
Senate Committee
Cuts Half Billion Out
of War Revenue Bill
Washington, Nov. 22. Reductions
aggregating $500,000,000 in the yield
from the new war revenue bill were
made today by the senate finance
committee in revising the measure
downward to the $6,000,000,000
total for 1919 proposed by Secretary
McAdoo. The decrease" was con-
r....pu.fj n, ,iIV iuuav.1.11, IUA-
ury, semi-luxury and other special
and excise schedules.
Among the more important de
cisions today were elimination of
the luxury schedule proposed in the
house bjll, levying 20 per cent on
costly articles of clothing and other
merchandise and estimated to raise
$184,795,000; elimination of the house
tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline
estimated to yield $40,000 000; reduc
tion from 10 to 5 per .cent or about
$200,000,000 in revenue in rates on
many articles classed as semi-luxuries
and a reduction of about one
half in the house rates on tobacco, a
cut of about $54,000,000 in revenue.
Speeding Production
Cause of Big Explosion
; Gillespie T.N.T. Plant
Perth Amboy, N. J., Nov.22. Ef
forts by the T. A. Gillespie company
to increase production at its shell
loading plant in Morgan, together
with failure to observe the pre
scribed rules for safety, were the
main causes of the disastrous ex
plosion there on October 4, accord
ing to government inspectors, testi
fying before the senate sub-committee
investigating the tragedy.
Saxons Seek Union With
' German-Austria in Republic
- Amsterdam, Nov. 22. In a proc
lamation the new government of
Saxony, according to a dispatch
from Dresden, declares it is striving
for the abolition of the old federal
constitution and for the union of
the Saxon and German peoples in' a
republic including German-Austria.
Self-government, the proclama
tion says, should be granted to the
component parts of the republic.
The authority of the soldiers' and
workers' councils should be defined
most speedily by the national coun
cil. A national guard to replace the
standing army after its demobiliza
tion is suggested.
Jury Delibrates on Case
' of Bandmaster Fagan
Geneva, Neb., Nov. 22. On the
second day of the trial of J. W.
pagan, former bandmaster at the
Girls' Industrial school, who is ac
cused of improper relations with
Orace Moore Saul, then an inmate
of the school, the defendant was the
nrinrinal witness
. Mrs. Saul occupied the witness
' stand yesterday and related dra
matically her relations with Fagan,
The trial was no less interesting
today with the former bandmaster
on the stand.
The decision is now with the jury,
who will return a verdict tomorrow
morning.
Nebraska in Tabloid.
' Misa Marct. Perkins of Fremont has
been selected for Younn Men's Christian
isRoctation canteen aervlre overseas.
Mrs. Laura Eddy was granted a divorce
from Russell Eddy, Fremont merchant,
and was given the custody of their 11
, rear-old son.
. Dodge county Is still limited to the
three-pound allowance ' ot sugar, await
ing further orders.
A foot ball gams will be played at
.West Point on Thanksgiving day 'be
tween Stanton and West Point High
whools.
The T-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
eorge Breltbarth was seriously injured
when be was caught in farm machinery.
The Spanish Influents la still prevalent
In Cuming county.
The Abandoned Room
By Wadsworth Camp. :
CHAPTER V. Continued.
He broke off, glancing at the door
through which Graham had disap
peared. "Then remember," she said softly.
"I don't belive it."
She released his hand, sighing.
"That's all I can say, all I can
do now. You're ill, Bobby. Go in.
Kest for awhile- When you've had
sleep you may remember some
thing." He shook his head. He walked
slowly with her to the house.
As he climbed the stairs he Iieard
Paredes telephoning. He couldn't
understand the man's insistence-on
remaining where clearly he was an
intruder .
He entered his bedroom which he
had occupied only once or twice
during the last few months. The
place seemed unfamiliar. As he
bathed and dressed his sense of
strangeness grew, and he under
stood why. The last time he had
been here he :iad stood in no per
sonal danger. There had been no
black parenthesis in, his life during
the stretch of which he might have
committed an unspeakable crime.
For he couldn't believe as firmly as
Katherine did. Since he couldn't
remember, he might have done any
thing. "Come!" he called in response -
a stealthy rapping at the door.
Stealth, it occurred to him, had,
since last night, become a stern
condition of his life.
Graham entered and noiselessly
closed the door-
"I had a chance to slip in," he ex
plained. "Paredes is wandering
about the place. I'd give a lot to
know what he's after at the Cedars.
Katherine is in her room, trying to
rest after last night, I fancy."
"And," Bobby asked, "the detec
tive Howells?"
"If he's back from the station."
Graham answered, "he's keeping
low. I wonder if it was he or Pa
redes who followed you through the
woods?"
''Why should Carlos have followed
me?" Bobby asked. "I've been
thinking it over, Hartley. It isn't a
bad scheme having him here, since
you think he hasn't told all he
knows."
"I don't say that," Graham an
swered. "I don't know what to
think about Faredes. I've come to
talk about just that. I'm a lawyer,
and I've had some criminal practice.
Since this detective will be satisfied
with you for a victim. I'm going to
take your case, if you'll have me. I'll
be your detective as well as your
lawyer."
Bobby was a good deal touched.
"That's kind of you more than I
deserve, for I have resented you at
times."
Graham, it was clear, didn't guess
he referred to his friendship for
Katherine, for he answered quickly:
"I must have seemed a nuisance,
but I was only trying to get you
back on the straight path where
you've always belonged. I can't be
lieve you did this thing, even un
consciously, until I'm shown prOof
without a single flaw. Until the au
topsy the only thing we have to
work on is that party last night. I've
telephoned to New York and put a
trustworthy man on the heels of
Maria and the stranger. Meantime
I think I'd better watch develop
ments here."
"Please," Bobby agreed. "Stay
with me, Hartley, until this mba
takes some definite action."
He picked at the fringe of the
window curtain. "If the autopsy
shows that my grandfather was
murdered," he said, "either I killed
him, or else some one has deliber
ately tried to throw suspicion on me.
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for with only a motive to go on
this detective wouldn't be so sure.
W hy in the name of heaven should
any one kill the lod man, place all
this money in my hands, and at the
same time send tne to the electric
chair? Don't you see how absurd it
is that Carlos, Maria, or any one
else should have had a hand in it?
There was nothing for them to gain
from his death. I've thought and
thought in such circles until I am
almost convinced of the logic of
my guilt."
He drew the curtain farther
back and gazed across the court at
the room where his grandfather lay
dead. One of the two windows of
the room was a little raised, Jut the
blinds were closely drawn.
"I did hate him," he mused.
"There's that. Eversince I can re
member he did things to make me
despise him. Have have you seen
him?
Graham nodded.
"Howells took me in. He looked
perfectly norm al not a mark."
"I don't want to see him," Bobby
said.
He drew back from the window,
pointing. The detective, Howells
had strolled into the court. His
lips were stretched in ; that thin,
straight smile. He paused by the
fountain, glancing for a moment
anxiously downward. Then he came
on and entered the house.
"He'll be restless," Graham said,
"until the coroner comes, and proves
or disapproves his theory of mur
der. If he questions you, you'd bet
ter say nothing for the present.
From his point of view what you
remember of last night would be
only damaging."
"I want him to Jeave me alone."
Bobby said. "If he doesn't arrest
me I won't have him bullying me."
Jenkins knocked and entered. The
old butler was as white-faced as
Bobby, more tremulous.
"The policeman, sir! He's asking
for you."
"Tell him I don't wish to see
him."
The detective, himself, stepped
from the obscurity of the hall, smil
ing his queer smile.
"Ah! You are here, Mr. Black
burn! I'd like a word with you."
He turned to Graham and Jenkins.
"Alone, if you please.
Bobby mutely agreed, and Graham
and the butler went out. The de
tective closed the door and leaned
against it, studying Bobby with his
narrow eyes. ,
Bobby experienced a swift impulse
to strangle the brutal word in the
detective's throat. But he stood
still while the man went to the
bureau, struck a match, and applied
it to a candle. The wick burned
past the curtain of the open win
dow. "Come here," the detective com
manded roughly.
Bobby dragged himself forward
until he stood at the foot of the
four poster bed. The detective lift
ed the candle and held it beneath
the canopy.
"You look all you want now, Mr.
Robert Blackburn," he said grimly.
Bobby conquered the desire to
close his eyes, to refuse to obey
He stared at his grandfatehr, and a
feeling of wonder grew upon him.
For Silas Blackburn rested peace
fully in the great bed. His eyes
were closed. The thick gray brows
were no longer gathered in the
frown too familiar to Bobby. The
face with its gray beard retained
no fear, no record of a great shock.
Bobby glanced at the detective
who bent over the bed watching him
out of his narrow eyes.
"Why." he asked simply, "do you
say he was murdered?"
"He was murdered," the detective
answered.
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"Murdered in cold blood, and, look
you here, young fellow, I know who
did it. I'm going to strap that man
in the electric chair. He's got just
one chance if he talks out, if he
makes a clean breast of it."
Across the body he bent closer.
He held the candle so that it's light
searched Hobby's face instead of the
dead man's and the uncertain flame
was like an ambush for his eyes.
In response to those intolerable
words Bobby's sick 'nerves stretch
ed too tight. X0 masquerade re
mained before this huntsman who
had his victim trapped, and calmly
studied his agony. The horror ot
tne accusation shot at In"
the body of the man lio rmil.tii't
.f die
hadn't
be sure he hadn't murdered, robbed
him of his last control. He cried
out histerically:
"."y, d0"'1 3'ou do something?
For God's sake, why don't you arrest
me"
A chuckle came from the man in
ambush behind the yellow flame.
"Listen to the bov! What's he
talking about? Grief for his grand
father. That's what it is grief."
"Stop!" Bobby shouted. "It's
what you've been accusing me with
ever since you stopped me at the
station." He indicated
form of the old man.
telling me I murdered
don't you arrest me then
the silent
"You keep
him. Why
Why don't
you lock me up f w ny don t you
put the case on a reasonable basis?
He waited, trembling. The flame
continued to flicker, but the hand
holding the candlestick failed to
move, and Bobby knew that the
eyes didn't waver, either. He forced
his glance from the searching flame.
He managed to lower and steady
his voice.
"You can't. That's the trouble.
He wasn't murdered. The coroner
will tell you so. Anybody who
looks at him will tell you so. Since
you haven't the nerve to arrest me
I'm going. I'm glad to have had"
this out with you. Understand.
I'm my own master. I do what I
please. I go where I please.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Two Bound Over on Charge.
Perl Ellerdine and Gust Laizro
vitz, 1527 North Twenty-seventh
street, were bound over to the dis
trict court on a charge of receiving
a stolen auto. Their bond was fixed
at $750 each.
Complaint is Filed
Against Former Rural
Credit Manager Here
County Attorney Magney has filed
in district court a complaint against
Hiram Tyree, charged with mis
appropriation of funds and records
of the American Rural Credit asso
ciation, of which he was president in
1916.
Tyree has not been apprehended.
At the timi of the alleged crime he
h d charge of the association's office
in Omaha. The complaint filed by
Magney was at the request of Chad
ron, Neb., persons who intend tc
prosecute Tyree if he can be brought
to bar.
Charles Bierdsdorf Dies
Friday of Heart Disease
Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 22. (Special
Telegram.) Charles Biersdorf, a
pioneer real estate insurance man of
this locality, was found dead in his
office chair Friday noon. He died
from apoplexy. His sons conduct
a drug store at Emerson.
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NON-SECTARIAN SPIRITUAL TRAINING
INSTITUTION, DECEMBER 2, 1918
Under its direction we will conduct a
DOWN TOWN CHURCH
215 South 14th Street
where all people who have no church home will be wel
comed. For the present, at this location, classes will be
conducted in training in all branches of Christian serv
ice. Classes mornings and afternoons; lectures and
gospel service in the evening.
REGULAR CHURCH SERVICES SUNDAY
11A.M. 8 P.M.
THE MID-WEST BIBLE INSTITUTE OF OMAHA
Rev. Denton E. Cleveland, President.
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