Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1902, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 2, 1902—TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ENDS AMID A STORM Olosting Bession of American Congrees Marked by Much Excitement. TART DEBATE IN LAST HOURS OF SENATE Philippine Question is Called Up and Warm Words Are Passed. MARKED ENTHUSIASM IN THE HOUSE National Hymo is Btarted and the Galleries Ring with Applause. YELLS COME FROM HUNDRED THROATS Speaker Stand mnd Alternate tas Spangled Peneral Hooker a » by Side “Dixle” with ¢ Ban WASHINGTON, July 1.—After a session parked by some of the stormiest debates ever held in the American congress, the senate adjourned sine die today. During the last hours of the session there was a tart debate on the Philippine question, participated fn by Messrs. Carmack of Tennesses, Spooner of Wiscopsin, Culber- won of Texas, McCumber of Maryland and Lodge ot Massachusetts. The conference roport om the Philippine government bill was adopted without fous opposition #nd then| when the decks of the senate were cleared for adjournment, Mr. Car- mack called up his resolution providing for & continuance of the investigation of the Philippines by the committee during the presont summer. This started the trouble and for more than an hour a battle of words was waged. Mr. Spooner delivered & scathing denunciation of the minority of the Philippine committes for what he doclared was an attack on the American army. Mr. Carmack denled that any at- tack bad been made upon the army and declared that any fool could charge sueh a calumny and any parrot could be taught | to repeat {t. The resolution was referred | to & committee, thus effectually killing it. Just before adjournment the usual res- olutions were adopted, including ome of- fored by Mr. Cockrell, sthe venerable dem- ocrat of Missouri, cordlally thanking Pres- fdent pro tem Frye for “the dignified, impartial and courteous manner in which he had presided over the deliberations of the senate.” After the adoption of the resolution Mr. Fryo delivered a feeling response and then declared the senate adjourned without day. Stirring Times in House. ! Amid scenes of enthustasm that h: been paralleled since the exciting and stir- ring days of the Spanish war, Speaker Henderson at 5730 this aftérnoon declared dhe house. of representatives adjourned hout day. In doing so he declared that no house of \zepresentatives siuce the adoption of the e GOmBtital had done es much work os e audience to which he made Bis brie! address was a brilliant one. The galleries were banked to the doors and ialmost two-thirds of the members were /in_thelr seats on the floor. The speaker's appreciative words to the jmembers in thanking them for their co- eperation during the session had touched & responsive chord and they gave him a re- markable demonstration of thelr friendship and good will. While the cheering and ap- plause were still in progress the members on the floor began singing ‘“My Country, 4"Tis of Th It was taken up by the correspondents in the Press gallery over the speaker's chalr and by the spectators in the surrounding galleries and soon the vast hall was ring- dng with the swelling chorus. Other_patriotic airs followed as the mem- bers oxchanged farewell, “The Star Spaa- gled Banner” alternating with “Dixk The 5, saker came down from his rostrum, Bis appearanco on the floor being greeted with “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, @ perfect rush of members to grasp his hand. Standing In the area In front of the lerk's desk, he, too, jolned in the son; and there was a wild scene when General Hooker of Mississippl, the old one-aymed confederate veteran, took his place by the side of the speaker, and together they sang “Dixie.” Mr. Candler, a Mississipp! democrat, jumped upon a desk and let out a yell of Jubilation that fairly shook the rafters. For almost half an hour the jubilation continued. All this time the spectators remained standing In tbe galleries, watch- ing the animated scene below and joining in the singing. The adjournment came at ‘the end of & seven and a half hours' ses- sion, during which much minor business was transacted. In all seveuty bille and yesolutions were passed. The gencral good feeling in the house had been heightened by the victory won over the senate on the ftem in the naval appropriation bill for the bullding of a battieship in a govern- ment yahd. The closing hour was ocoupled with & 'spirited debate between Mr. Cousins of Jowa and Mr. Richardson, the democratic Jeader, over the report on the investiga- tion into the charges made by Captain Christmas concerning the sale of the Dan- ish West Indies. Mr. Cousins ridiculed Mr. Richardson for bringing the matter to the attention of congress. The latter de- tended his course. \ GOVERNMENT TO BUILD ONE Becretary Authorised to Have a Bat- tleahip Construeted in Navy Yard. WASHINGTON, July 1.—The conferees of the two houses of congress on the naval ap- propriation bill reached an agreement at 12 o'clock today on the one polat left in dis- pute after former conferences. This poin Telated to the contention between the two houses as to whether any of tbe proposed Dew war vessels should be bullt in govern- ment navy yards The ,house bill originally provided that half of them should be bullt in government yards and the other half by contract. The senate provided for the constructioa of all by contract. The compromise agreement suthorizes the construction of one battle- ip in & government yard and also others in case of emergency, the provision belng ws follows: The secretary of the navy shall build one of the battleships Authorized by this act klllk‘hnnv'nrdnlu.tydli te and o shall build all the vessels herein amthor- sised in such pavy yerds as he may desig- pate, should it reasonably appear that t poreons. frme or con ns of the sgents hereof bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any com- bination, agreement or understanding the ftect, object oF purpose of which s to de- ve romant of fals, Sben and un- Sm”“ n_in letting contracts ‘for the construction of any of sald vessels. ‘There Is an appropriation of $175,000 for e pquipment of sach navy yard BRIBERY CHARGES UNTRUE |(MAHA CETS A WAREHOUSE [CHINA Special Committee Parel to Investigate e of Danish West Indies Makes Report. ASHINGTON, July 1.—Chatry s, el of the special committee of % 7%, of representatives which Investigaty 7 charges In connection with the purchas. the Danish West India tslande, today siv mitted the report of that committee. After detalling the charges of bribery and show- ing that Captain ‘Christmas had repudiated the alleged report on which the charges were based, the committee sums up the results of their Investigation as follows: That there is not the slightest sem- blance of evidence that any member of congress, either directly or indirectly, was offered any bribe or was paid any val- uable consideration of any kind or char- acter to vote for or asaist in procuring the 1, adoption or ratification of a of sale of the Danish West Indlan islands to the United States. There is not the remotest ground from which to draw inference or on which to base a conclusion that there was any corruption or wrong-doing on the part of the pub- lie officials of the United States in con- nection with the negotlations for the pur- chase and sale of the Danish West Indian islands. It is plain beyond peradventure that the bribery alleged In the report could have existed nowhere save in the imagination of Christmas, since the whole burden of his story is that he had no money. It is in evidence that he had to borrow In order o pay his passage home from this coun- try. After reciting the allegation that Christ- mas had enlisted the services of Abner Mc- Kinley, brother of the late president, of W. C. Brown and of Seligman & Co. in New York, the report gives the testimony of each of these parties denying the allega- tion. Similar denials are given from the senators and representatives who have been referred to. The report adds: Each and every one of the parties thus named appeared before the committee and gave the lie to the statement of the re- port, with the exception of Senator Clark of Montana, who, however, stated to the chairman that he had never met Christmas and_had not, therefore, as a matter of course, had 'any conversation with him on any subject. Senator Lodge met Christmas several times, but it is unneces- sary to cite his testimany, since the report speaks of him as the most respected mem- ber of the senate and who of all the poiit- fcal persons I have met in America is the only one that cannot be bribed. The report aleo exonerates those who in private cApacity had dealings with Christ- mas, including Carl Hensen, Richard P. Evans and C. W. Knox. As to the state- ment that Christmas was introduced to W. J. Broan the report states that Mr. Knox, who s said to have made the introduction, testified that he never saw W. J. Broan. TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS MADE Senator Allison Presents Statement Showing What Has Been Done by Congress, WASHINGTON, July 1—Just before’ the senate adjourned finally today Senator Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, _presented a statement showing the total appropriations of the Agriculture, $5,208,960; army, $91,580,136; diplomatic and consular, $1,957,925; Dis- trict of Columbia, $8647,5626; fortifications, $7,208,005; Indian, $9,143,902; legislative, etc., $29,398,381; mlilitary academy, $2,627,- 2 navy, $78,678,963; pensions, $139,842, 230; postoffice, $138,416,598; river and har- bor, $26,726,442 (exclusive of contracts au- thorized); sundry civil, $60,125,359; defi- clencles, $28,039,911; miscellaneous, $2,600,- 000; isthmian canal, $50,130,000; permanent annual appropriations, $123,621,220. Grand , $500,193,837. The total last year was $730,338,575. Chatrman Cannon of the house appropria- tions committee today presented a state- ment of the appropriations made at the present sesslon of congress, showing a total of '§750,063,837, not including the large amounts that will be required for the isthmian canal and public building and river and barbor contracts. In his statement Mr. Cannon says: “An analysis of this table shows that the total estimated expenditures forecast by the executive departments aggregated $776,348,318; that the total appropriations made, exclusive of $50,130,000 toward an isthmian canal, aggregates §750,063,837."" CHANCE FOR GOOD CATTLE Theroughbred Am fean Antmals. WASHINGTON, July 1.—Frank W. Bick- nell, special agent and agricultural explorer of the Agricultural department, writing from Buenos Ayres to the bureau of animal industry, says that if it is possible for some of the breeders of the United States to send some really firet-class animals to that place now s a good time to do so, as British cattle have been barred owing to an out- break of foot and mouth disease in England. The cattle must arrive in Buenos Ayres not later than August 1, o as to have time to get in condition before the opening of the great animal show of the Rural eo- clety, which begins in Buenos Ayres Sep- tember 14 and lasts five days. This show brings out the best animals in the country and Is for purebred stock only. At this time all the best sales of the year are made, both on the show grounds and in the la auction houses in the eity. Representatives of some of the principal houses there say & few good animals from the United States may be eold, but it is useless to send anything but the very best. DEFALCATION IS DISCOVERED s of Clerk Whe DieW More WASHINGTON, July 1.—Unjted Btates Distriet Attorney Gould today announced in the probate court that William S. Yate- man, formerly disbursing clerk of the War department, was at the time of his death, April 20, 1901, a defaulter. So far as known the alleged detalcation amoupts to about $15,000. The government will take steps to recover the full amount. The defalcation, Mr. Gould announced, was only recently discovered and was don: through the manipulation of vouchers. NAME THE NEW WARSHIPS At Suggestion of Secretary Moody the Cabiuet Takes Action the Matt: \ WASHINGTON, July 1-—At Secretary Moody's suggestion, the cabinet today adopted names for the six new warships authorized by the naval appropriation bill. The four larger ships, two battleships and two armored crulser will be named Loulsiana, Connecticut, Tennessee and Washington, but it is not yet settied which states sball be chosen for the bat- tieships and vice versa. The two gunboats provided for in the Bill for Quartermaster's Depet Pushed Through in Last Hours of Gongress, NETRICH GETS SPEEDY ACTION ON IT 7 it »y President Imm After Reaching the Ca 1 875,000 Appropria- on Is Avallable. (From a Staft Correspondent.) WABHINGTON, July 1.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Upon ground mow opened by the United States the city of Omaha will have a new bullding to be known as the quarter- masters’ warehouse, to cost $75,000, The bill for the erection of &his building passed congress today in the hitherto unheard of time of three hours, but the credit does not wholly belong to Congressman Mercer, as may be claimed. Senator Dietrich eaved the bill by poll- ing the military affairs committee of the senate during an executive session and, having recelved a favorable recommend: tion from the individual members of that committee, called the bill up immediately after the senate came out of executive se slon Into a continuance of the legislative day and paseed it under unanimous consent. Mr. Mercer, fearful lest his champlonship of the bill, which he introduced on March 18 and which was reported from the com- mittee on military affairs on May 6, would be objected to if he arose to push the meas- ure, had the ranking member of the minor- ity of the public bulldings and grounds committee, of which he is chairman, Mr. Bankhead of Alabama, call 'up the measure. Mr. Livingston of Georgia, possibly in the play that was being made to the gallery, reserved his right of objection, but wanted to know why the bill was being pushed during the closing hours of congre: Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, was not so thoughttul, however, of the feelings of the member who called up the measure. He said he ob- jected to consideration of the bill at this session, especially as it carried an appro- priation of money which he did not believe the government was warranted in expend- ing. He sald the necessity of the structure was not demonstrated and he was inclined to object to its conelderation under suspen- slon, of the rules. Mr. Bankhead arose to move its consider- ation, which would have required a two- thirds vote to carry the measure, when Mr. Mercer rushed over to Mr. Cannon and told him that it was his bill to which he was ob- jecting. Mr. Cannon arose and, waving his hands in the air, said he ‘would withdraw any objéction which he intimated making, and the bill was passed. Tug Comes In the Senate. Then came the tug. Mr. Mercer went over to the senate to see whyt could be done there to pass the measure. The bill had never been acted upon by the committee on military affairs of that body. In the ab- sence of his colleague, Serator Millard, who left during the afternoon for Omaha, Sen- ator Dietrich said that he would do what he could to pass the bill. While the sen- ate was in executive session the eenior eenator from Nebraska proceeded to poll the committee on military affairs on the bill and, having received a majority favor- able to the measure, he called the bill up immediately after the senate had termi- nated its executive session and the bill was passed without comment. ~_ It was at once taken in charge of by the enrolling and engrossing clerks of the two houses and was the first bill to be signed by the president after he entered the pree- ident’s room at the capitol just previous to the adjournment of congress. Senator Alll- son, who has In many respects borne the brunt of legislation of the session just ended, having not only looked after the in- terests of the committee on appropriations, of which he is chalrman, but has been an active member of the Philippines and finance committees, sald today that the ses- slon just epded has been the busiest ses- slon he has known since he came to con- grees. My opinion is,” he eald, “that the passage of the Philippine and Isthmian ca- nal bills will be accepted by the American people as the best legislation that could have been adopted under all the cireum- stances surrounding both cases. 1 regret that we could not have passed the Cuban reciprecity measure, but circumetances aid not seem entirely favorable and the effort was abandoned for the session. In many particuiars more vital legislation has been enacted than the most optimistic of us could have hoped for at the beginning of the Fifty-seventh congress. The war taxes have been taker off. We have enacted a comprehensive Philippine measure and we have started the wheels for the bullding of an isthmian canal which the people have demanded for year: and at the same time provide for its run- ning expenses. Frankly, 1 must confess that I have never worked a0 hard and 1 welcome the adjournment as I never have before.” Senator Millard left Washington this aft- ernoon for Omaha. Senator Dietrich ex- pects to leave for his home in Hastings the latter part of the week, and after spending some little time in Chicago and Aurora, T, will go to his home for the summer. His daughter, Miss Dietrich, expects to remain in the Catskills until fall. Ends lowa Fight. The nominations of H. G. McMillen as district attorney and J. U, SBammis as col- lector for the morthern district of lowa and Harry G. Weaver as collector for the southern revenue collection district of Towa, which were sent In today by the president, terminated, so far as the Iowa delegation is concerned, a strife and con- tention growing out of the recommenda tions made by the delegation from the Hawkeye state some three weeks ago. The president informod the delegation pre- vious to thelr meeting that if a united recommendation came to him for several federal offices to be filled he would rely upon that recommendation, but in .the event the delegation should be divided he would take it upon himself to nominate men who seemed to him best suited for the several positions. The recommenda tions for the several positions in lowa were signed by the eleven represgftatives and two senators from that state. There were heartburnings and protests growing out of the conference which was held on the' dis- tribution of federal patronage. The pres! dent deferred action until he could review the protests that were flled against Mr. MeMillen and My. Weaver, but finding that the protests been exploded for some time, he sent in the names of McMillen, Sammis and Weaver today and they were confirmed during the course of the after- noon. Representative Mercer, who hd expected to remain in Washington for a fortnight at least, looking aftér matters in which he is Interested, bas decided to leave for Omaha the latter part of the week, when (Continued on Second Page. o In addition, we have | almed to perfect the laws of its government | ISSUES ULTIMATUM Refuses to Pay July Installment at the Present Rate of Ex- change, PEKIN, July 1.—The taotai of Shanghal has notified the Bankers' commission that China refuses to pay the July installme of the indemnity except at the rate of ex- change prevailing Apeil 1, 1601, The forelgn minieters consider that the taotal's declaration is the result of the an- nouncement of the United States minister, Mr. Conger. to the Chinese viceroys that the Unlted States sustains China's conten- tion and {s willing to accept payment on the basis mentioned. But the ministers are confident that China will aceept the declsion of the majority of the ministers when it s convinced that the United States is its only supporter. Some of the ministers insist that the pol- fey of the United States is unreasonable and in direct opposition to the terms of the protocol. They assert that Prince Ching, head of the foreign office, and other Chinese offictals, before learning that China had the support of the United States in the matter, admitted that their arguments were rather a plea for mercy than a demand for justice. | WASHINGTON, July 1.—The State de- partment has not yet been notified of the Chinese refusal to pay the July indemnity which is the first payment of money to become due from Chiha to the powers since the signature of the Pekin agreement. The department regrets being placed in a posi- tion of taking issue with the powers on this question, which Is so important that grave doubt is entertained as to the prob- able effect of an insistence on the European contention as affecting China’s integrity. It is nevertheless the case that a careful reading of the progress of the meeting of ministers at Pekin which led up to the agreement taken in comnection with the context of that document bas convinced the department that it Is the unquestion- able purpose of the ministers, and that purpose was unquestionably set out in their proceedings, to permit China to pay the indemnity at the rate of exchange as it existed on the date of signature, and it is equally clear that what appears to be a contradictory clause in the agree- ment was nothing more or less than an inadvertence. However, the United States has ‘not gone to the length of refusing to accept its payment on the same basis as the other powers, namely, at the cur- rent rate of exchange, all it ‘has done in that direction was to notify China that it regarded Its contention as a reasonable and proper one. LANSDOWNE GIVEN RECEPTION Br mut Social hich 1 Affair in London, Attended by Visite ing Royalty. LONDON, July 1.—The reception by Lord Lansdowne, foreign secretary, and Lady Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House tonight, was a very brilllant affair. Uniforms were not generally worn. The Indian princes and other envoys to the eoromatfon, however, were clad in gorgeous, jewels, while the women present were most ¥ichly dressed, wearing tlaras, besut(fii] laces and jewels. Among the guests iwere Prince and Princess Christian, the duke and duehess of Connaught, Princess Henry of Battenberg, the crown princess of Roumamia, the duke and duchess of Aosta, the crown prince of Sweden and the envoys to the coronation from India, Japan, China and the vatican. Among the jewels worn by the duchess of Marlborough (formerly Consuelo Vander- bilt) was a crown of dlamonds and ropes of pearls. Whitelaw Reld and Mre. Reld, attended by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Fleetwood Ed- ‘wardes, extra equerry to his majesty; Jo- ph H. Choate, the United States amb: sador, and Mrs. Choate; Henry White, sec- retary of the embassy, and Mrs. White; Joseph H. Chamberlain, the colonial secre- tary, and Mrs, Chamberlain, and their daughter, also attended the reception. SPEECH A DISAPPOINTMENT of Joseph Chas Conterence of Colonial Premiers Not Satisfactory. LONDON, July 1.—The speech made by Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, at the conference of thé colonial premiers last Monday is sald to have been a great disappointment. It is described as “'varied and comprehensive, but indefinite.” ' Mr. Chamberlain covered a large field f subjects in bis speech, he commited him- self to no decided opinion on any one of them and he advanced no definite opinion or proposal of any kind on behalf of the government, his only suggestion in the direction of imperial federation being that of the perlodic repetition of the confer- ence of colonial premiers in London. Mr. Chamberlain’s speech has left the impression that regarding the Zollverein and all other important points, including imperial defence, not only his hands but bis tongue also is tied. Mr. Chamberlain, the earl of Halsbury, the lord chancellor; Joseph H. Choate, the United States ambassador, and some of the colonial premiers now in London were en- tertained at dinner tonight by the bench- ers of the inner temple. EVIDENCE AGAINST CHINAMEN Buffalo Laundryman Arrested Charge of Murdering Six-Year- 01a Chula. BUFFALO, July 1.—Charley Wee, a Chi- nese laundryman, was arrested today and held on an open charge in connection with the murder of Mary Murphy, a 6-year-old glrl, who mysteriously disappeared on June 17 and whose body, bound with ropes and wrapped in newspapers and coarse cotton cloth, was found floating in & small pond in Forest Lawn cemetery. The autopsy showed that the child had been butruged and strangled. Public feeling runs high and all the Chinese laundries in the city have been closed and policemen stationed in front of them. Wee's place was thor- oughly searched and the police say they found ample evidence on which to hold the Chinaman. Pleces of rope similar to that on the body were found In the shop. The coarse cotton goods used in the laundry for the purpose of covering ironing boards cor- responds exactly in texture with the plece of cloth in which the body was wrapped. In a room used by Wee as a bed chamber the police found blood-stained bed cloth- ing. The wall bebind the bed was bespat- tered with blood. A second Chinaman, who was visiting Wee at the time of ths arrest, was also taken Into custody. Mills Suit Dismissed. DENVER, Colo., June %.—Tho suit of H. B. O'Reilly against David A. Mills, sec- retary of state, to enjoin him from ' pub- lishing the elght-hour day and other con stituglonal amendments which are to be voted on this fall was dismissed by the gupreme court today, pe = GOOD NIGHT FOR BREWERS QOounty Board of Equalisation Has a De- ocidedly Lenient Turn. REMARKABLE ACTION OF THREE MEMBERS Conmolly, Harte and Hofeldt Hold a Session and Rush Some Import- ant Business Through n & Hurry, To those thirteen jobbers who appeared before the County Board of Equalization a few days ago and uncomplainingly stood a raise of $107,505 over ‘the aggregate of their assessments as returned by the sessors of 1902, the report of the work_of the board yesterday will be very interest- ing reading. To those bankers who are required to furnish sworn statements, and to those small property owners who have been put under oath before being permitted to answer a single question concerning their small holdings, such a report will be equally interesting. And to those many, many substantial citizens who have been examined and cross-examined for a quarter of an hour at a time concerning their business and stocks it will also have a certain fascination in the reading. Briefly stated, the result of the day" work on personal assessments was that six leading lumber companies were raised only $5,666 on an aggregate assessment of $16,055, making the final total $22,610, and that nine leading brewing companies, some of them with plants in this county that cover more than an acre of ground each, were let off with a personal assessment aggregate of $27,392, every complaint being dismissed with mo correction of the as- sessor's figure, except in the case of Metz Bros., where an increase of $790 was made. Invidious Comparison In consequence of this “equalizing,” M. E. Smith & Co. and Hayden Bros. are each slated to pay persomal taxes on within $10,000 of as much as all the leading brewers and six of the leading wholesale lumber firms of Douglas county combined; the Carpenter Paper company is asked to pay within $610 of as much as all these lumber firms combined, and both Paxton & Gallagher and McCord-Brady are im- posed with personal assessments $5,908 greater than the combined asscesments of all these nine leading brewing companies. The lumber dealers were dealt with in the afternoon. Just how they were dealt with 1s shown in the following table: Assessors’ Return, 1902, Board's Ralse. e 1,450 Bradford & Kennedy, Sout| Omaha. ... i} Bullird & Hoagland . George A. Hoagland Omaha Hardware Co. Guiou & Ledwick Alfred Bloom & Co. & Corrected total . Short Work on Brewers. The brewers called at night. Every one of the companies mhmed In the list below, except the Lemp company, was represented and yet the “quiz” and the vote consumed less than forty-five minutes. The hour set was 7 o'clock and the brewers were there. So were Commissioners Hofeldt, Connolly and Harte. Commissioner O'Keefte did not come at all and Commissioner Ostrom did not come until 8 o'clock, which he said he had understood to be the hour set. Harte took the chair and asked a few direct ques- tions of each of the brewers without swearing any one of them, although that rule has been rigorously insisted on by the board for many days past, no matter how trivial the complaint. Connolly took a full breath and a tight grip on his courage and made the bold declaration that the brew- ers’ assessment didn’t seem high enough. Peter the Silent passed his stein hand through his whiskers and sald nothing committal until it came time to make a motion to dismiss each case. Then he spoke and every motion went through with all three of those commissioners voting ave. Connolly sald afterward that he voted aye in,order that he might be entitled to ask a reconsideration. He sald also some other emphatic things, afterward, about the inadequacy of the assessment as compared with that imposed on the jobbers, who, un- Iike the brewers, appeared without being formally eited. But when Attorney Mcln- tosh asked the sworn foe of the corpora- tions why he hadn’t said all these emphatic things before the vote was taken and in- sisted on a wait untll others could be present, he was mute, Were Expecting McIntosh. Attorney McIntosh had arrived late. The brewers knew he was intending to come and one of them, Connolly confessed, had sald: “Let's hurry and get out of here before that lawyer arrive The assesments as allowed to stand are Anheuser-Busch, $2,700; Krug, $4,015; Pabst, $830; Gettleman, $605; Schlitz, $5,402; South Omaha, $200; W. J. Lemp, $460; Storz, $3,600, and Metz, $9,690, raised from $8,900. Walter Moles & Co. escape with an a sessed valuation of §2,050 and Riley Bros. at $3,875. The only brewer who paused to protest before escaping from the bullding was the representative of the Schlitz com- pany. He said that on April 1 his company bhad just three carloads of beer in Omaha and yet it is assessed $1,300 more than the Krug company, which has its brewery Bere. 2 3 May Be Reconsideratiom. After the brewers were gone and Attor- ney Mcintosh and Commissioner Ostrom had arrived Ostrom and Connolly spent much time in bemoaning the injustice of the evening’'s work and Ostrom sald he favors recalling the brewers. Connolly sald he did, too, but he failled to move that any such action be taken. Hofeldt said maybe it was all right. Harte made the half- hearted defense that he had asked all the questlons that seemed pertinent and didn't know what else to do. Attorney McIntosh suggested, with a withering smile, that the board might have done a little thinking of its own, made such an assessment as would seem equitable with the other sessments of the week and then let the brewers go into court if they dared. There was an abundance of talk and smoke, but no action. Session on Sugar. S Early in the day the board had a round with some sugar men in an endeavor to discover the owner of two carloads of sugar in storage in local warehouses. Assessor Thomas Harrington had discovered it and, being refused definite information by the warehouse owners, had assessed it in the name of the American Sugar and Refining company at $10,000. This company pro- tested to the board and the board in mak- ing its investigation shortly after noon learned from P. Cavanaugh, a broker and commission man representing the American Beet Sugar company, that this latter com- pany has many care of sugar tucked away icamumd on Becond h;':) [ CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Fair Wednesday; Thyreday Showers and Cooler. Temperatare at Omaha Yesterday: Hour, 3 ¢ n EARNINGS OF CORPORATIONS Statement Showas Inerease of About $11,000,000 in Past Three Months Compared with Year Ago. NEW YORK, July 1.—A statement of net earnings of the United States Steel corpor- ation for the quarter ending June 30 was issued today. Earnings for April last were $12,320,7668, for May $13,120,930 and for June, estimated, $12,250,000, making a tetal of $37,691,606, against $26,362,000 for the same perfod last year. This statement shows an increase of net earnings for the quarter of $11,829,896. The regular quarterly dividends were de- clared of 1% per cent on the preferred stock and 1 per cent on the common stock. James Gayley, a vice president of the corporation, was elected to a vacancy in the executive committes. Since last year the Shelby Tube company has been taken in by the corporation and part of the in- creased earnings during the quarter were due to thi The net earnings for six months from JAnuary 1 to June 30 were $65,054,153. After paying $9,120,000 interest and crediting $6,- 796,456 to the sinking fund, there remained a balance for dividends of $48,490,607. After payment of dividends there was left an undivided profit account for the six months of $20,463,623, applicable to the depreciation and reserve fund, new construction or sur- plus, ELOPES WITH HER LIFE SAVER Seventeen-Year-Ola Agnes Dace Marries Dr. W. C. Riggs, Who Res cued Her from Lake Manawa. KANSAS CITY, July 1.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Dr. W. C. Riggs of the Columblan Optical company and Miss Agnes Dace of Rushville, Ill, were married at the home of a common friend, Mrs. Ray Blankenship, 716 East Thirteenth street, yesterday even- ing. The elopement—it can be called nothing else, because the parents of melther knew | of the marriage until it was over—was the result of a romance. The young peoplg first met last summer at Omaba, where both were visiting. Together they visited Lake Manawa, a neighboring summer resort, where they were much in each other’s com- pany. Whfle on the lake one day the boat cap- sized and Dr. Riggs made a thrilling rescue of the young woman by swimming with her unconscious to shore. The friendship which had grown out of their first acquaintance ripened into love, the young man sought and won M Dace's hand. The only objection of the parents was Miss Dace's youth. She s 17 and be is 26. - CAR PLUNGES THROUGH BRIDGE Loaded with Passengers, Falls with ‘Weak Trestle and Several Are. Injured. ELGIN, NI, July 1—One of the large interurban trolley cars running between Elgin and Aurora plunged through the bridge crossing the Cross river at St. Croix today, carrying its load of thirty passengers into the river. The bridge col- lapsed from the weight of the car. No one whs killed, but all were more or less hurt or suffered from shock. Seriously injured: Mrs. William Hench, Dundee, brujsed and injured internally. Mrs. Charles J. Smith, Chicago, injured internally. Mrs. Hopkins, and stunned. Mrs. Jacobson, St. Charles, back hurt. Mrs. Granger, Geneva, bruised and se- verely shocked. The bridge has been considered unsafe for a month and the authorities were con- templating soon replacing it. RAILROADS EQUALIZE HATES Make Packing Ho Live Stock the Same from Missouri River. CHICAGO, July 1—(Special Telegram.)— According to the promise of the repre- sentatives of the railroads handling live- stock and dressed meats between Chicago and the Missouri river, these two classes of ftreight were today put on an equality. The Chicago Livestock exchange contended that the rate on packing-house products from the Missouri river to Chicago, when adided to the Chicago Atlantic rate, taking the through rate from the river to the sea- shore, was less than the combined rate on livestock from the Missourl river territory to Chicago and the rate on packing-house products from Chicago to the Atlantic. The readjusted rates make all classes of both Mvestock and packing-house products 23 cents from the river to Chicago and will re- move the objection of the livestock ex- change. MELON FOR STOCKHOLDERS Holders of Rock Island Oertificates Are G n Agreeable Surpri head Muscatine, Is., bruised NEW YORK, July 1--At & meeting of the directors of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific raliroad here today it was voted to distribute to stockholders 12% per cent of their holdings in new stock at.par. Trans- fer books will open on July 7 and close again on July 21 The stockholders of the Peoria & Rock Island and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern were notified that the time dur- ing which they may exchange their stock for Rock lsland stock had been extended to July 16. Movements of Ocel casels July 1. At New York—Arrived: Grosser Kur- furst, from Bremen; Sicilla, from Naples Hohensollern, from Genoa and Naples. Bafled: Nord America, for Genoa and Naples; Kron Prinz Wilhelm, for Bremen. via Plymouth and Cherbourg: Graf Wal: dersec, for Hamburg via Plymeuth ana Cherbourg; Kensington, for Southampton At Antwerp—Arrived: Vaderland, from New York At Rotterdam—Arrived: Nord America, trom New York. Al Glasgow—Atrived: Astoria, from New or! At Plymouth—Arrived: Kaiserin Mart Theresa, from New York, for Cherbourg and Bremen. At Queenstown—Arrived; Oceanic, from New York, for Liverpool. . THINES BURT ERRS Btrike Leader Wilson Takes Issue with Unif- Pacifio President. SAYS PIECEWORK SYSTEM WILL NOT DO Asserts that Increased Pay Under It Would Be Only Temporary, REFERS TO PRESIDENT AS A HUMORIST Dosen't Believe Gompany Waats to Treat Men “Gently and Fairly” CENTER OF ACTIVITY NOW AT CHEYENNE perintendent MoKeen Wyoming City to B Touch with Situation. T. L. Wilson, vice president of the In. ternational Assoclation of Machinists, who is directing the Union Pacific machinists’ strike, finds objection to statements made by President Burt of the rallroad com- pany in his interview published in The Bee. Mr. Wilson thinks Mr. Burt errs in holding that the plecework system would ‘beneflt, the machinists and offers argument to prove that the men are not as fairly dealt with ns they should be. Admitting the argument of President Burt that the Unfon Pacific has pald the maximum wages to its employes, Mr. Wilson takes exception to the statement that the wages are 10 per cent in advance of otber roads. Mr. Wilson's Statement. The following statement was given out by Mr. Wilson last night: “We admit that in the past the Unlon Pacific has paid the highest rate of any road in the immediate vicinity, and that previous to the advent of the present president the men had liftle to complain of, but now we are told that the rate of pay on the Union Pacific ‘is 10 per cent higher than on any other system outside the Southern Pacific’ The statement is not correct, for the Great Northern has agreed to pay 32% cents per hour at St. Paul on'and after the first day of July, and this point has at times been paying from 20 to 30 cents per day less than Omaha. There are three roads that rum into St. Paul that have agreed to raise the pay of the machinists to an amount equal to 15 per cent, so that when the demand was made for more money on the Union Pacific it was eminently fair and strictly in line with the general move- ment of all mechanics to get a falr share of the existing prosperity in the United States, to which we are justly entitled, “Now, in the matter of plecework, it is no breath of confidence when I say that, the constitution of the International Asso- clation of Machinists will pot allow any of its members to do or to take work by the plece, except in those places where ft . was already in vogue. Here is the poiat on which the etrike was called, and this is also the point of the most vital ine terest to tl men. Not Like Tratnmen. ' “Plecework in the machinists’ trade does not work the same as it does in the case of the trainmen, for in first place, the tralnmen are .not in 4l competition with one another, nor does thefr scale of wages, as paid by the mile, leave any chance for any one man of particular abil- ity to set the pace, as it were, and when after having established a record, he finds that his pay, which for the time being wa: greater than it ever was when he worked by the day, he suddenly discovers that his extra efforts are in a way appropriated by the company when it cuts his pay to what it thinks is suficleat for an ordinary infiividual to have. Then the workman becomes disgusted and quits his job, leav- ing it for @ new man to take hold of at a price which s practically starvation wages for weeks, until the workman becomes as skilled as his predecessor. Then, again, it takes away from the men the chance to make their agreement with the employer as a body, and leaves them as individuals to the mercy of the foremen. Therefore, our organization and its principles have been attacked in onme of its most vital parts, hence our positign today. Calls Burt » Humorfst. “I am inclined to think that Mf. Bust is somewhat of & humorist, and that when he ys that ‘we want to deal gently and fairly with the men' he forgets that he has shown the publio that that statement is & myth. “Look at his actions as discovered at Cheyenne. A few days ago it was the 1 tentlon of the company to feach the bus s men of Cheyenne & lesdon, and 1u or- der to teach this lesson he takes from 600 men, fhe men_he deald 6 fairly with, thefr means of livelihood" Then he finds that he has subdued the business men and that it 18 necessary to open the shop he nally intended to dispense with, and he tMes to fill it with what he terms the ‘right kind of men.' It is also his evident intentfon to fill the Omaha ebops with the ‘right kina 1t we can find any evidence of the kindness referred to, and compare bis kindness to the fairness of some other Systems. “A little more humor: ‘We prefer to deal with union men’ There s B0 question about that, and the way that Re prefers to deal with them is to discharge all of their officers—intimidation pure and simple. A any time that he has discovered & mad amongst his employes with backbone enough to stand for his rights and his fel- low-craftsmen’s rights, be ‘Yery kindly, very gently,’ told him his services were no longer Decessary. “Our organzatioa has ever shown & dla- position to be fair and when the bofler- makers struck we merely adopted a resolu- tion, filing an objection to work with mon- union men, and confined ourselves to this action alone. The result was & large lay- off. The same was done in & similar case on the Great Northern by our men, with the result that the Great Northern granted our agreement and raised the men's pay and further agreed in a true spirit of fair- ness to cut the time to six hours per day before they would lay off ahy machinist whatever. Notice the different treatment. “Now to sum up: We want to state that we will not take plece work; our organiza- tion and principles will be supported to the best of our endeavors. And I do not hes!- tate to eay most emphatically that this trouble was broyght about by the arbi- trary actions of the Union Pacifie. It wanted the strike, it got it, and apparently it is glad of it. Since we are fosbed to it we will see that the men's demahds ai granted, or we will go to defeat like one man. “So far we have eBjgled the support ef P