Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1901, Page 1

"HE OMAHA DAILY BEE. MENT Cuben Constitutional Usavestion Finally Approves the Pisit Olause. STABLISHED ACCEPTS AMEND VOTE STANDS FOURTEEN TO THIRTEEN Fight Herd at the Finish aad Abute Conservatives. SENOR TAMAYO TALKS OF 7 Radica! ~ng | / Eo Desiguates Everyone Who Vetes in tue Affirmative, NOW COMES IMMEDIATE INDEPENCENCE avana Neyspaper So Exel Hshing ult of the Vote =Election Law Taken Up Next, HAVANA, May 28.—The Platt amend ment was accepted by the Cuban constitu- tional conventlon today by a vote of 15 to 14 The actual vote was on accepting the majority report of the committee on re- lations, which embodled the amendment, with explanations of certain clauses. The radicals made a hard fight at the last moment and Senors Portuondo, Gomez and Tamayo bitterly arralgned the conserva- tiv, nor Tamayu was particularly via- dictive and declared that everybody who voted In favor of the Platt amendment was a traitor country. The conventlon | compelled bim to retract this statement. On | several occasions personal encounters | secmed imminent. Senor Gomez spoke for more then an hour | and his speech undoubtedly won over Senors Castro, Robau and Manduley. He appealed to the patriotism of the delegates and rchearsed the long fight for independ- ence, decouncing as perjurers all who favored the Platt amendment on tho ground that they had sworn to draw up a constitu- tion for an independent republic. Hefuies to Retraet, Several conservatives arose and requested Senor Gomez to retract, but be refused. Tho following delegates voted against the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Por- tuondo, Lacret, Manduley, Cleneros, Ferrer, Fortun, Robau, E. Tamayo, Silva, Castro, yas und Aleman. Senors Rivera and Bravo were absent. The couvention will continus Its ses- sions, which will be devoted to drawing up the elnction law. La Discuscion in an extra this evening | exclaims: ow will come immediate in- | dependence, By a decree to be fssued in Havana to- morrow the term for paying mortgages will be extended four years, the debtors paying ench year respectively 10, 15, 35 and 40 per cent of the principal and accrued In- terest. It is understood that both sides are tisfled with this arrangement. The sewer bide will be gpened tomorrow. There are twelve in all. e bidders are required to deposit $500,000. MISTREAT THE IMMIGRANTS Ricans G to anded In Hawail Not en Suficient Food Enroute. HONOLULU, May 16 (via San Franciseo, May 28.)—Inspection of the Porto Rican fmmigrants brought here by the steamer | Colon shows that they are in such state from the need of food on their voyage that they must be held at the quarantine station and fed until they regain strength suffi- sient to enable them to bear the journey to the other islands and to the plantations en which they will work. A joint committee of the legislature yes- terday pald a visit to Quarantine island to fnspect the immigrants. The trip of the legislators resulted in disagreement s to the condition ot the immigrants and their value as citizens of Hawali. The three sen- ators who were on the committee have made & unanimous report to the affert that the Porto Ricans are all right, but it is under- stood that Johu Emmeluth of the house committes will present a report severely denouncing the planters for bringing the Porto Ricuns here and on account of alleged Il treatment of them when they arrived. Over halt the lmmigrants on the Colon were women and children and a considerable | number of the men were infirm, while all were more or less emaciated. This is at- tributed to lack of food in their old homes. Some of those who came will never be able to work and it 1s sald the planters will se- cure a representative to act for them in Porto Rico and see that no more such im- migrants are sent here at their expense. Objectlon fs maie here to the bringing in of 8o many children, who will have to be oducated at the expense of the territory, and of many men and women who are said to be unlikely to ever become healthy and srong. orto tive Judges Incompetent. MANILA, May 28.—The Philippines com- mission has begun the discussion of the bill to reorganize the courts. Concerning the criticisms of the non-appointment ot native judges, Mr. Ide sald the commission was following its Instructions to the effect that, other things being equal, Filipinos should recelve the appointments, but the Filipino has proved incompetent from the outset, Natlve speakers welcomed the Anglo-Saxon judiclal procedure. All the fmportant American judges were averse to the provision making Spanish the language to be used (n the courts for a period of Bve years, but the commission desires to avold inconvenlence to the lawyers. ‘ TOWNE WOULD HAVE MONEY 1a Golng Out of Politics and Into New York=There's More n I May A dispatch to the Pioneer Press says: Ex-Sepator Charles A. Towne will remove to New York the latter part of June and will make that elty his future home. Politics will be a seconl- ary consideration with Mr. Towne for the next few years, it s said, for he is now fired with the ambition to make a fortune Mr. Towne left today for New York upen business in connection with the new com- pany which he is promoting and of which he will be the head. Mr. Towne and (hose assoclated with him have an option upon 00,000 acres of oll lands in Texas and they are organizing to purchase and operate them. ST. PAUL, —— Schooner Wreckage In Found. RACINE, Wis., May 28.—The crew of the hooner Rand, consisting of Captain Ralph rank Seebert of She- of Milwaukee and one Daxsenger, Miss Daisy Jefferson, probabiy NFe lost, as wreckage of the boat has been found floating ubout the lake, { Cablegram | or, | Judge at | mreater | Northern Pacific OMAH , WEDNESDAY TO CHEER THE UNDERGROUND 1 London Tabe of Make It White as n's Subwny. Me. Yerkes Wil Gas and 1ow (Copyright LONDON, 1901, May Yor egram.) saw World T correspondent today Yerkes, who had just r holiday to resume work upon his schemes to furnish London with rapid transit. Per- sonally, Mr. Yerkes was reticent, but he authorized one of his lieutenants to make the fo wing statement Mr. Yerkes' present change the Motropolitan from steam to electricity ! dark and filled the engines. Mr. Yerkes will His plans are prepared of an electric station the Thanies Chelsea and will supply power from there. The walls of the tun- nel will be white, arc lamps will be at regular intervals and the odors will be banished. During his visit America Mr. Yerkes organized the Metropolitan District Electric Traction company capital of $5,000,000 taken Yerkes and his friends He hase other extensive schemes in vie A meeting of the stockholders of the Matro- politan District company to pass on Mr Yerkes' scheme is fixed for June 6 aad, as Mr. kes and hie friends now hold controliing interests, th stock transfer will be effected at once TO THE ARBITRATION COURT Muller and Dr. Leyds Reported » Have Made an Ap- penl, Charles T urned from a brief N digirict railway At present the with nolsome " 0 on to by Mr BERLIN, May 8.—Special from St. Petersburg assert that Dr. Hen- arik Muller and Dr. Leyds, representing the Boer republic have appealed formally to The Hague arbitration eourt, promis- fng to abide by the decision of the tribunal regardiug the lssues iuvoived in the South Atrican war and pofnting out that seve of the paragraphs of the constitution of dispatches the arbitration court signed by the powers | represented at the peace conference bear directly upon the Souta African case. The Berlin papers tonight express the opinlon (hat it is quite possible Great Britain would submit the Issues to the de- cision of the court. UPHOLDS THE COURT'S POWER Carncas Orders Syracuse Firm to Make Deposit in Asphait Caxe. CARACAS, Venezuela, May 28.—(Via Hay- tlen Cable.)—The president of the supreme court, sitting alone as examining judge in the Bermudez asphalt case, has decided in favor of the jurisdiction of the court and hac ordered Messrs. Quinlan and Warner of #yracuse to deposit $20,000 guaranty to abide by the final decision. The question of jurisdiction was decided under a decree {ssued by President Castro May 1. The full court will propably be asked to finally de- clde the question. e STILL DIFFER ON. THE RATES Western Lines' Representatives Leave 1t to Martin to Arbitrate Bufialo Difierential Contentlon. CHICAGO, May —Western lines were unable to agree today regarding the rates | that shall be charged from Kansas City territory to eastern points and D. B. Mar- tia of the Baltlmore & Ohlo road has been requested to arbitrate the matter not lated than June 3. General Passenger Agent Crane of the Wabash stated in the meeting that his company would be sat- {sfied with nothing short of a pesnanent continuation of the rates In effect prior to April 30. The other lincs made several propositions, but none was acceptable to Mr. Crane. In explaining his position Mr. Crape sald: “We have simply taken the normal tarift fare from Kansas City to Buffalo and added the rate from Buffalo to New York by way of the Lackawanna. Now they propose to make a through rate that is than the double locals. We do ant a differential, and if the western to make time an element ot not Iines want diiferentials and introduce differentials into | wostern territory we are them." ready to meet |E. W, WINTER 8F THE OMAHA acifie President, in D) ously 111 in Chicago. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 28.—E. W. Winter, formerly general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and more recently president of the Northern Pacific system, lics In a Chicago hoepital gerously 111 his condition summoned a daughter living In St. Paul. Mr. Winter has been sick somo time, During the early winter his condi- tlon was serious, although he rallied some- what, and within the last few weeks there was a change for the worse Mr. Winter is known to almost every rail- way man In the west and was exceptionally popular in St. Paul His services with the resulted in many fmprove- ments to the system and he was universally regarded as ar. eficient ratlroad manager. When the change of ownership came to the Northern Pacific Mr. Winter retired, because it was stated he was not personally friend'y to James J. Hill, who acquired a controlling Interest in the property. WABASH MEN ARE WILLING stield Wil Accept itlon it Other kers Do. Ramany's P st SPRINGFIELD, 11, May 28.—At a meet- 1ng of the Wabash Machinists' union this afterncon it was decided to return to work upon the terms offered by Geueral Mu Ramsay of the Wabash in a cirenlar po last Saturday at the shops. However, the lacal men will not return to work until the strikers at Fort Wayne, Ind., and Moberly, Mo., have acceptod the scale and if this I8 not accepted by Friday the men here will not return to work. The thirty wmeu who were discharged by the company and who discharge resulted in the strike will he taken back to work by the company, KILLED BEFORE THE CAMERA tifle in and One Gets Charge in Her Henrt. WICHITA, Kan, May 28.—At Nardin, Okla., a party of society young people went plenicking and when a picture was being made of the group Miss Nora Wolfrum agked Miss Bishop to point a rifle at her to add (o the romance of the scene. M Bishop did so. The rifle was discharged ac- cldentally and Miss Wolfrum was killed in- stantly, the bullet plercing ber heart. Posing 3 Publishing Co.) | The World | principal plan is to | aced | with a | dan- | A telegram today telling of | FAIRBANKS FOR PRESIDENT | Formal Announcement of His Candidacy | s Made. | EXPECTS INDIANA TO WORK UNITEDLY Is Counting on His Home Siate for Solid Support and Conslders that that Aakes Him the Logieal Man, | CHICAGO, May 28.—Senator | of Indiane was formally announced today as a candidate for president before the republic national convention of 1004 Harry 8. New, republican national commit- teeman from Indiana, who arrived in Chi- cago today, is authority for the statement that Indiana will tand behind Mr. Faire banks in his race for the honor. Senator Fairbanks will be supported by | a solid delegation from Indiana,” said Mr New. “The whole state will be back of him at the next national convention. He is the logical eandidate of the party and with his nomination Indiana will be sured to the republicans.” FOR POSTOFFICES AND BANKS Government Adopts Men Ing Their Eficiency | ern States, irbanks as- | % Incren (From a Staff' Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 28.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Additional rural free delivery will be established In lowa July 1 as follows Hedrick, Keokuk county: Route cm braces sixty-nine square miles, containing 4 population of 1530; Jacob Lindsay and 0. C. Wilcox were appointed carrlers, The postoffice at loka will be supplied by rural carriers trom Hedrick. Paullina, O'Brien county: Area to be covered, seventy-seven square miles, con- | taining & population of 1,175; W. F. | €childts and W. H. Elder were appointed carrfers. The postoffice at Germantown is | to be discontinved and mail sent to Paul- lina, Josiah Coombe is appointed postmasier at Spencer, Boyd county, Neb., vice C. E. Moffett, removed Rural free delivery letter carriers were appointed today in lowa as follows: John D. Cottingham, at Dubuque; Niles Taber, at Anamosa; Thomas S. Evans, at Montour; Orla Clark, at Vinton, and W. J. Gayman, at Davenport The First National Bank of Buchanan County, St. Joseph, Mo.,was today approved as a reserve agent for tha First Natlonal bank of Friend, Neb., and the Des Moines National, Des Molnes, la., for the Atlantic Natlonal of Atlantic, Ia. The Commercial National bank of Coun- il Blufts, Ia, was today authorized to begin business with $100,000 capital. Jo- seph R. Reed is president and C. E. Price cashler. A postoffice Brule county, as postmaster. VOLUNTEERS’ MacArthur Sends Full List and Corbin Says Disbandment Arrang ments Are Complete. is established at 8. D, with Paul Grosse, Grosse SAILING DATES WASHINGTON, May 28.—In reply to a request from the War department Gen- eral MacArthur has informed the depart- ment that the volunteers will leave Ma- nila for the United States on the following dates: Transport Thomas, sailed May 27, via Nagasaki, Forty-seventh infantry, a3 officers, 972 enlisted men; battalion Forty- ninth infantry 24 officers, 368 enlisted men; band, t..ce companies of Thirty- eighth infantry, 10 officers, 255 enlisted | men. Ohlo, sails tomorrow, direct, head- quarters, ten companies of KForty-second | Infantry, 20 officers, 749 enlisted men Trausport Grant, with Forty-eighth in- tantry, two battallons of Forty-ninth in- fantry; transport Kilpatrick, with Forty- third infantry; transport Logan, with two battalions of Thirty-eighth infantry and Forty-fourth Infantry, sail June 1. | exception of a General Corbin sald that the troops mentioned in General MacArthur's message comprise all the voluntecrs now in the | Philippines and that the arrangements for their departure indicate a complete ful- fillment of the law requiring the disband- ment of the volunteer army by July 1. PHILIPPINES NOT AFFECTED Collection of Dutiea Wil Continae Untll Supre Court Decides Specitically on Them, WASHINGTON, May 25.—The treasury officials discussed with much interest to- day the decisions of the supreme court yes- | terday In the Insular cases and the con- clusion has been reached that nothing in these decisions is conclusive upon the gov- ernment to change its administration of the custom laws as to the Philippine islands, and therefore duties will continue to be collected on imports from those Islands as heretofore and until the court shall have decided specifically that the islands are In the same situation with re- gpect to the United States as Porto Rico. SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS In & Importations Philippines Are Not Taken Up. WASHINGTON, May 28.—After u session of three minutes today the United 3tates supreme court adjourned until the secoud | Monday in October. The briet session wus devoted to the formal disposition of tlons. The two remaining insular cases, one of them that of the fourteea diamond { rings, dealing with importations from tle Phillppines, and the other known as ‘he | second Dooley case, involving the question | | of exportations from the United S:ates to | Porto Rico, falled to receive atteation 10- day and they go over uuntil the aext rerm | NORDSTROM'S WAITING ENDS Sentence of Death eferred for Nine Years Afirmed by Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Unlted | States supreme court today afirmed the judgment of the supreme court of the state of Washington in the case of Charles W. ! Nordstrom, under sentence of death on the | charge of murder committed in that siaie and directed that the mandate te issued at once. The case has become famous by rea- son the fact that Nordstrom's death | sentence hus been postponed for niae years | by reason of legal complications | Cares from 0 of WASHINGTON, May 28.—The secretaiy of the treasury today bought three small lots of bonds. For $35,000 worth of short 4s he paid 113.75 and for $8,800 short s | 108.51 was pald. The total purchase to date for the siuking fuud is §9,481,790. 1 { spection duty | pedo | bureau | result | aged 11 years, were UNCLE SAM IS GLAD ENOUGH any Complete Sat at Lattes's Recall of Tro WASHINGTON, May The partment today replied to the announ: ment of the German government that majesty, the emperor, considered tha time had come for the recall from Ch Fleld Marehal Count von expressing the satisfaction of the ment of the United States at nouncement This government drawn its troops Stato his govern- this an drcady having with trom China, with the all guard intended solely for the protection of its legation in Pekin has expressed its view with regard to the turther military occupation of China. In replying to the memorandum of the Ger man government occasion was taken to express the high esteem with which Field Marshal von Waldersee has been regarded by the officers of the United States In China and appreciation for all the per- soaal courtesles extended by him Be Frencha 28.~The German without exception, comments in terms of val upon the news that Emperor am has ordered Count von Waldersee and the German troops to return home. Even the military papers joln the chorus. The reports that negotiations are progress between the cabinets of the pow- ers with reference to & jolnt appointment of a commander for the troops of the ullies censor to BERLIN, May press, remaining in China are semi-officially con- | firmed The Lokal Anzeiger says it hears that Count von Waldersee's suecessor will prob- ably be a Frenchman. LONDON, May 28 rom Pekin yesterday Dr. Morrison con- firms assertions of the probable acceptanc of the British indemnity proposal. He says: ‘“The powers will agree to begin the evacu- atfon on the issue of an Imperial admitting that China's indebtedness is 430,- 000,000 taels, plus interest, and that China will willingly compls @BJECTS TO FOUR PER CENT Court Constders that Much of a Durden to Undertak: Chinese Too PEKIN, May ~Chinese plenipoten- tlaries have informed the ministers of the powers that the court has notified them of a willingness to pay indemnity to the amount of 430,000,000 taels, but the court objects to 4 per cent interest. LONDON, May “The Boxers are again active in all districts where there are no foreign troops,' the Standard from Tien Tsin, dated May 27. “Yesterday a missionary who was going to Tu Lu, on the Grand canal, was obliged to return to Tien Tsin on account of a flerce fight raging between Boxers and Catholle converts. There was heavy firing on both sides.” “Four thousand Insurgents from the province of Kwai Chau have invaded the province of Sz0 Chuan,” says the Shanghal correspondent of the Standard, wiring yes- terday, “causing & widespread panic. It is said that 3,000 Yunnanese &re about to join them.” ~ [ Dr. Morrison, wirlng to ok Yiwes from Pekin, says: M. de Glers' has announced that Russia agrees to the formation of a mixed commission, such as is provided for in the British proposal. It is expected Mhat Russia will also agree to Creat Britain's | indemnity proposals. Count von Waldersee has written to the ministers of the powers proposing that the provisional government at Tien Tain shall continue until the last troops are with- drawn, but the ministers are generally In favor of permitting China to assume the government forthwith FOR SLY LIEUTENANT WARD mmand of the Lawrence is Pr the Man Wh ured Spanish Secrets. May who has for WASHINGTON Ward, -Lieutenant eral years ac H. od H. | as assistant to Admiral Crowinshield in th navigation bureau, has been ordered to ine in connection with the tor- boats Lawrence and MacDonough, with the ultimate purpose of taking com- | | mand of the former vessel when it 1s com- missioned. Mr. Ward administered some of the heaviest dutles of the navigaticn during the Spanish-American war It was while nominally attached to the bureau that he slipped away (o Spain In the guise of an English tourist, during the early days of the war, and see cured valuable information concerning the movements and condition of the Spanish fleet, in recognition of which service h received the extraordinary award of ten numbers advancement in his grade by the actlon of the sevate Lieutenant Charles Weber, who has be for some time in the agsumes the duties which heretofore have fallen to Lieutenant Ward and he will be assisted by Lieutenant C. B. Barnes, just detached from the Lancaster. CORBIN TG HAVE COMPANY Adjutant Generenl Wil Be Joined by Commissary Oficers When 1 vestlgnting at Mauila, May Adjutant Gen- te accompanied to the Philippines by General J. F. Weston, commissary general, and General Stern- berg, surgeon general. At Manila he will be joined by Colonel Charles M Humphrey of the quariermaster's depart ment. It is the desire of Secretary Roo that a complete Investigation of the ad- ministrative and supply artments of the army In the Philippines be made and the reported to him. General Corbin will have authority to make such as he thinks necessary for the improvement of the adminlstrative ments of the army e— PLEASANTON BOYS DROWN [ % In Over His Hea y Norman $i Ate tng Hescue, Kan., yea and sine WASHINGTON eral Corbin will 3, a le be PLEASANTON, Norman, aged 18 May 28.—Harry and Todd Blake: rowned in the Mara des Cygne river near here today. Young Blakey, while playing in the water, go in over his head. Norman tried to rescue him and both were drowned. DISMISSES THE MAYOR'S SUIT Cleveland e Discournges Johu won's Effort 10 Compel Higher Ap- pratsement of Ohlo Ruilroads, CLEVELAND, 0., May 28.—Judge Strim- ple today dismissed the mandamus suit brought against the Board of County Audi- tors by Mayor Johnson to compel ‘it to make higher appraisements on various rallroad propertics in Oblo for tuxation, Waldersee, | “Wiring (o the Times | edict | says a dispatch to | navigation bureau, | hanzes | and supply depart- 1901-TWELVE P oMAHA GREETS PRESIDENI Nation's Ohief Leaves Car te Bhake Hands with Early Morning Oallers. THANKS THE MEN WHO GUIDED ENGIN: President Not ared to Discuss supreme Court's Import Decision =Looks to The Hee for Come« plete Re Without the clanging of bells, the hissing of steam or the cheering of a multitude the president’s train, on ite long journey | trom the Pacific coast to the Potomac, rolled slowly into the Omaha union station at o'clock yesterday morning. As it was not known until an early hour in the morning what time the presidential party would pass through this city, there ere less than 200 people at the depot to | greet the nation's chief executive, and | this small crowd was composed chiefly of ‘,mllx'! officers, railroad officlals and em- 'I-Iu)tu and newspaper reporters Some of these peaple had been walting at the sta- tion since midnight; others had been there since 2 or 3 o'clock, but the most of them | came upon the scene within half an bour |bl‘lur-‘ the arrival of the president sy nthy for Mra. MeKinle: The fmpulse of patriotism that bid erowd greet the president’s special o rousing cheer was restrained from ae serting itself by an underlying feeling of sympathy and solicitude for the comfort of Mre. McKinley When the traln stopped President Me- | Kinley was the first of its occupants to show himself. With good cheer stamped in every line of his smiling countenance the president appeared on the rear plat | form of his car and bowed graclously to | the hundred or more of people who had hurriedly but quietly surrounded him Then the check loosened for an instant and a subdued cheer escaped, followed by tow moments of hand clapping Secretary of the Interfor Hitchcock, See- retary of Agriculture Wilson and Private Secretary Cortelyou jolned the president on the platform. and then an improptu recep- tion began, the president reaching down over the brass railing and grasping twenty or more outstrelched hands in rapid suce cesstun. the with restdent Leaves the Train. | Finding the position somewhat uncouw- | tortable for hand-shaking, the president had one of the gates opened and descended to the depot platform so that he might be on an equal footing with the citizens who | wanted to grasp him by the hand. Stand- 1ng at the eud of the car, he continued the | reception, passiug a pleasant “good morn- ing”" with everyone who shook bis hand |and heartily thanking those who stopped | for a moment to express the wish that Mis. | McKinley's improvement may continu | Nothing could have been more democratic | than this early morning reception, with tho | president of the United States mingling | with citizens in all walks of life and no at- | tention whatever beiug pald to formalities. | When & citizen lifted his bat in respect for the president the head of the chief execu- { tive was as readily uncovered In respect for the citizen. When & policemun asked some- body to step back that somebody stepped forward and talked to the president. | Devold of Formalities, There was no mayor or chairman of a re. ception committee present to make a formal | | speech and “‘prominent citizens” did not | figure 1u the proceedings at all. Just as the handshaking was concluded the staff photographer of The Bee hurrled acrose the depot platform and asked the president to stand in front of his camera for & minute. | “I'm not very | president, | with your | pleasant.’ | The crowd melted away from in tront of | | his excellency, the photographer arranged ! his apparatus, choked off his usual injunc- tion to “look pleasunt,” and seized a ne tive of the president with such neatness and dispateh that the crowd gave him « generous round of applause. | Thanks the good looking,” sald the | good-naturedly, “but go ahead | snapshot and I'll try to look | wine Crew. | President McKinley then expressed a de- sive to meet the men behind the boilers of the locomctive that had pulled his train | safely o from North Platte. Joe Screnson and Fred Voss, englneer and fireman, re- spectively, of the prosidential train, and En gincer W. H. Bay and Fireman Charles Getchell of the pilot train, all of them in blue jumpers and with smoke-stained faces, | were brought to the rear end of the train, where the president greeted them warmly | and thenked them for their efficlent service, | Then a reporter for The Bee took ad- | | vantage of an opportunity for a briet in- | terview with his excellency. In reply | the first que.’'ton submitted to him, the | president said that Mrs. McKinley had rested well during the night and was im- proving slowly. Still Very Sick, “She f¢ still a very sick woman,” added | the president, gravely, “but she is standing | this long journey with splendid fortitude | and we expect to get through to Washing- | ton without having her suffer a relapse. | Mrs. McKinley and 1 can never amply ex- press our gratitude to the people of the | country for their kindly interest and well | wighes.” | Upon belng asked what he thought of the decision of the supreme court in the {nsular cases, the president said | am not prepared to say anythlng on | the subject. We have recelved only a | meager report of the decision and have | hud no opportunity to know its meaniug. Looks to The Bee for Report. | “The Omaha Bee of this morning, which | | we will have the pleasure of reading as | we pull out from here, will glve us our first understanding of the court's decision.” ‘Our journey from San Francisco,” re- | marked the president, suddenly changing the subject, “has been very pleasan and | comfortable. Providence favored us with a liberal rain as we came through the desert of Nevada and in that way what we anticipated as the most disagreeabl part of the trip was ,passed in comfort, The railroad offictals Bave been very at- tentive, looking after the smallest detalls with great care and leaving nothing what- ever for us to worry about. Owing to the weakened condition of Mrs. McKinley we are traveling slowly and if there are any rough stretches in the Unlon Pacific tra k wo passed over them easily and without noticing them anks for Good Weather. “The weather has been extremly pleas- ant and 1 am particularly thankful for ihis on Mrs. McKinley's account. And while | am on the weather, I must say that this is one of the finest mornings 1 have known. The air is balmy—exhilaraiing—1 feel as though 1 could enjoy a two or three-mile walk and I'm sorry I haven't the time tor it."" As the president stepped back onto the platform of his car he kicked his heeis ever | (Conticued on Fourth Page.) | of the Republic | the birth. | from New York SINGLE copry Forecas! r N Nebrask and Thursday riab) v Hour. erature at Dew. OMAHA TO CEDAR RAPID3 Prestdential Party Make Withoat Mishap=Che “Tamn Jim , la., May 28.—The triy train from Omaha east the state of fowa was without incident. It was made Chicago & Northwestern, and to crowds at the stations engine and train crews were changed a fow miles from the end of each divigion. Few stop were mude, but the train was slowed at the principal towns and cities and prosident appeared the rear p This s Secretary Wilsow's state, shared henors with the president today At Tama, where Mr. Wilkon formerly re- sided and from which he got his sobriquet, “Tama Jim,” there big crowd to greet them both, but no was made. At Marshalltown the locai Grand Army post was lined up in the the s for Trip CEDAR RAPIL ot the president: ward today practically sver th avold across the th. atform and he on is wns a st ai station Mr. to show steady but not rapid improve since she left San Francisco. S! Ing strength and the much encouraged. She has hor couch, however. Dr. Rixey does not desire to have her tax her ngth, but he permits hor to sit up In bed most of the day. Tho president is at he much of the time. At the place where the Chicago & Northwestern crosses the Des Moines river, over the new Boone viaduct, sald to be the lougest and highest double track structure in the world, thé train was balted for ten minutes to permit the photographers with the party to take sev- eral group pictures of the president, cab- inet and newspaper men. The train is due to reach Chicago about 3 o'clock tomorrow morning. It will not run into the s tion, but will be switched to the tracks of the Pennsylvania In the outskirts of the ecity and proceed directly to Is galne president {s not yet lett some | ngton. At Canton tomorrow a stop of twenty or thirty minutes will be made to permit some of the relatives and friends of the president and Mrs. McKinley to come aboard NEBRASKA FATHER REFUSED Justice of Lincoln of Hix Own C ORK, My 2 Den P » Frank wtody a. —Frank B. Weyant, wealthy owner of a cattle ranch near Lin- coln, Neb., made an unsuccessful cffort in the supreme court today to obtain the cus- tody of his infant child, Gladys. About a vear age Mr. Weyant came to Brooklyn with his wife to pay a viskyte | bis relatives. Walle here the child was born and the mother died a few days after Mr. Weyant returned to N braska to attend to his business interests there, leaving his child with his brother, Henry 8. Weyani, and his wite, Lizzie. A few months later correspondence wus opened with a view of having the child sent on to the father, but the sent word fo the father that think of such @ thing, and that of having so young a child travel a distance was ahsurd the extremw. Finally Weyant on with his sister, Mrs. Lucy Armstr but was surprised to find that the brother refused to surrender the child. He then had recourse to the courts and the « ame up before Su- preme Court Justice Maddox today, the facts in (he case were presented Several physicluns were called and gave it as their opinion that it inexped to have a child sent Other physiciana would pot suffer trom Maddox begun giving 2 of the child’s re uiion, the father broke iv and heard. He cited numerou invalids had traveled long perfect safety, notably that of Mrs. Me- Kinley. Justice Maddox decided that the child should remaln in the cusiody of the broth for n year, at he end of whivh time the the idea 0 iong me 1 on so0 long a ourn testified that the child the trip. Justice decision in favor when counsel for insisted on belng instances whore distances with Probuble Murder Results pute at a Chu Sociable, from reh Ta., May 25.-—Because ‘cheap skate” at a colored church scclable ionight, Harry Baker walked a mile, procured a revolver, re- turned to the church aud shot three other negroes, one of whom, Jim Askew, will die. Tho others, Charles Watkins and Louis Cloyd, are not dangerously wounded. Rivalry for the affections of a colored girl and the statement that he could not buy fce cream first roused Baker's anger. BEAR MAY NOT GET T GO utter, Ansigned to S , Tied Up by the Mna. chintnta’ Strbie, SIOUX CIT! was called a he berinn May 28It 15 possible that on account of the machinists' strike the repairs on the revenue cutter Bear will not be completed in time to permit it 1o proceed on the journey mnorth. This will necossitate the abandonment of the voyage to Siberia and *he distribution of the herd of 400 relndeer now awaiting the arrival of the Beur. In this event Lieutenant Bertholt will be compelled spend the winter ou the Siberian coast Gold tor Europ NEW YORK, May 28 —l.nza ship $1,600,000 gold oun the steamehip ‘on Thursday next e o vements of Ocenn Vesseln M At New York--Arrive Koenlgen from Bremen; Taurien, from Liver Salled—~Oregonian r Honolulu, via Francisco At Plymouth SEATTLE, it 1o | Freres will French line an, Lufs f Arrived r Hambyrg Arrived—Tunlslan, Pennsylvania AL Liverpool from Montreal outhampton—Arrived—Lahn, New York, and procecded Passed-Cufic, frof from At York, for Liverpool At Sagres—rassed from New York, for Georgla, from New Y New Duchessa Naples k., for al and Genoa! Naples and Genon At Gibraltar-—Passed and Naples, for Ne Moville—Arrv v Glasgow JORne-- AT rork, for Rot Scotla, York Ethlopia and proceede ved—Rotterdam, rdam from Genoa from New from and proceeded enstown-—-Arrved—Oceanic. {rom for Liverpool, and proceeded rerbourk — Areived — Pennsy lvanis, trom New York, for Hamburg, up | McKinley's condition has continued | Wash- | brother | he could not | when | ather mighc renew his application. | NEGRO SHOOTS TWO OTHERS | San | KIVE EXTRA irion Buggesa Fo f Congresy P N ! Delima Unse Dec ibility PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION TO REQUIRE I IT slands’ Btasas Too Inviting to Thove Whe Would Deirand. EXECUTIVE FAMILY TALKS T OVER owa Ecemery to Pesr Into Fuinre | Mo 1 | Tmport Fossibilities, WASHINGTON HAS IT FOR A TOPIC se Calling hat win | i | 0 Se ert Legistution for Luzon Be Necessnry. CEDAR journey Kinle spent RAPIDS, and the much of ng th May oda ™. ~During theie President Mo« cabinet g and dis- < of the opine n the insular rested in the two . e lowa members ¢ their time rea published ep: supreme coutt siuch werd 1 divh The dectslon lowed In the sumed 1t would ng of an extra n A fol- result in the as it 18 f congres: In the Delima case tecided that the du- ties collec Rican goods before enacted the For law were i legal and must be It is presumed that the court, following the same lines of reasonin will d the duties col« lected on goods fr ie Phillppines wers also illegal and th the ods from (he Philippines are subject (o free entry futd the United States until congress acts, as it hos already done In case of Porto Klco. Such a declsion would mean not only a ro- | tunding of duties heretofore collected, but | would open tho ports of the United States to merchandise and goods of ev tion from the Philippines moets in December. the court ed on Porto coni refundcd lde m that ry degerlp until congress Gives Cannce 1o Defraud. It §s palpable thut importers | edvantage of | United States thus defraud enues. Whether the danger great enough (o warrar gress in extra session s one question which will decided after deliberation. It Is | possible that this danger may have already been obviated in the enactment of tha | Spooner resolution delegating temporarily to the president the power to govern the Philippines. This may be considered an act of congress within the meaning of the Downes decision afirming the constitution- ality of the Foraker law. But It 18 a deli- | cate question and one which the president and his advisers will consider in all fts bearing before coming to a conclusion. The meters of (- eabiuet déeline to discuss the subject for publication. They united In a message of congratulation to former Attorney General Griggs, who prepared aud presented the goverament's case to the su- preme court. might take goods Philp wen through th, the gover is into the 8 anl of Its reve from thi source I3 ng of con- Lodge Says It Musi, WASHINGTON, May 28.—Interest In the supreme court decisions centered at tha War department today and efforts were made to ascertain the intentions of the department. Secretary Root would express no opinion, sayiug that he had not the fuil text of 1t decision before him and it would r carctul consideration before the entire import of those opiniong could be ascertained with a ot futy actlon 8 senators and - represeutatives the secretary today and situation with him, givieg Interpretations of the opini ondered yesterday and the bearing ¢ would have in the future governmeat Philippines. Among these were Sen ator Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of the Philippines committee of the senute. e expressed the opinion that the decisions of the court would inake Philippine leg- islation absolutely necessary in the com- ing session of congress. He also was clearly of the opinion that under the Spooner law the president had absolute power to provide for a revenue, both cu and internal for the Phill {slands in the general scheme for th {ppine government Another suggestion made by senators, previous to the time when it was supposed that a decision in the Philippine case would cdered by the court simlilar to the | Deltma case in Porto Rico, that an export duty on goods coming from the | Philippines to the United States could ba levied In order to prevent free trade from the islande to the United States. Any such | necessity will be obviated, however, by | the determination of the Treasury depart- | ment to continue to coilect Dingley rates lon Philippine products and goods coming trom the islands view sovernluyg o execu! oral called on nssed the views and toms be r was Collected from Phill | Pigures were turnished at the War partment ¢howing the collections from ‘he Philippines. From April 11, 1509, to Feb- ruary 28, 1901, there were collected on goods imported from the United States into tho Philippines $1,09200%. Durlug the sumn period there were coliec ed (n exior's £ om the Phil ppin s o (he United 5 at s 1198 144 From April 11 April 12, 1900, the date of the passage of the Foraker law, the collections on imports from the Uniied States (o Porto Rico were $436,237 It 18 belleved that the War department | promulgate a tariff for the Philippines soon. The Phillppine commission, together with officers in charge of the customs in th island. prepared a vislonal draft or a new PhIt pine tardff which wes pibl shed o March. That draft has Leen undergoing number of modifications at the War depart ment, und is still recelving consideratfon Secretary Root has heen holding back this tariff, awaiting the decision of (he supreme court in the insular cases, and it Is now probable that 1t w1l not be promulgat:d | until he has had time (0 examine the op.n- fons of the court with care ” A Tari, The followink it 15 made congeris {og the proposed tarifi und what is belug done at the War department “The tarift as prepared at Manila was based entirely upon the specific system of duties which levies customs charges ac:ord ing to welght or number of the imporied article thun accordiug to i This principle has the appioval of Hecre ary Root, but it hought desirable to an wd valorem limit in certain cases whero there i a wide difference bet tho | values of art d under anio | paragraph |7 The spectn be retained in nost of the t will be provided | that the urticles shall pay not less than until 18 or valu een duties will cases, but