Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1903, Page 2

Y SE———— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABL I*HFI) NOT-LAW OF NATIONS |#noco PRINCE A BANKRUPT|REFORN 1N GERMAN MORALS Monros Dootrine if' Not Officially Recoz- nized by Powers, 80 SAYS BERLIN VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG Dec'aration is Bitterly Asmailed by This German Newspaper. ITS EX CTIONS ARE OF NO CONCERN Declares Even South American States Do Not Oountenance It. S0 GERMANY CANNOT ACCEPT ITS TENETS | Wil Estab Venesuela AMrms that Country Its © Without Regard to Position of United States. fms Agnainst BERLIN, Jan. 4.—The government Is| without information regarding the landing | of the German marines at Puerto Cabeilo, | Venezuela. The foreign office says that 1¢ such landing occurred it must have been | transient and regards the reported selzure | of the customs house at Pucrto Cabello by | German marines as a canard. Several newspapers today in their yearly political reviews, devote much attention to Venezuela and the Monroe doctrine. The Vossische Zeitung (Independent Jiberal), re- gards Germany's proceedings against Venez- uela as entirely within the limits of Inter- national law. ‘Whoever has a claim against another, says this journal, “tries to collect it whether they be private Individuals or na- tions. If anybody disputes our right to| compel payment of the Venezuelan claims we must ask that person if he be willing o pay the debt himself, or glve guarantees therefor. It so, the matter speedily could be settled, but, If this other person is un- ‘willing to give such guarantees, his objec- tions don't concern us. The United States | could settle the trouble between Germany | and Venpzuela In a moment If it would stand good for the payment of our claims, | but the United States {s unwilling to take this step and we cannot demand that it do #0. In this case the United States should not hinder Germany from pursuing a course that is deemed expedient.” Scouts American Press. The Vossische Zeltung refers to what it calls “the wild nolse” in a portion of the American press which declares that Ger- many bas no right under the Monroe doc- trine to take forcible action in Venezuela end that Germany has not even recognized the Monroe doctrine. “The latter assertion is correct,” says the journal. ‘“No other European state ever rocognized this doctrine and we belfeve 1o | Buropean country will ever do so. The Monroe doctrine is not adapted to become & subject of diplomatic negotiation and the document hardly exists fn which this doc- trine is 1sid_before any European power with the ‘femest ‘What this power make a declaration thereon.” After reciting the history and origin of the framer of the doctrine the paper serts that the right of intervention clalmed by the holy alliance has long since been abandoned. The countries of South Amer- foa have been in & state of chronic revo- lution, yet nobody In Burope dreams of in- tervention. The disastrous issue of Na Poleon’s attempt in Mexico renders it prob- able that no European state will ever re- peat the effort to establish itself in the western hemisphere, & “Later interpretations of the Monros doctrine,” continues the Zeltung, “do not involve the defined hegemony of the Unitgd | States over Central and South America. | The United States claims suzerainty over these states, with the right of interven- tion, but denles to European countriés the right to interfere In their affaire. How far such suzerainty extends and what rights and obligations come from it have mever been cleared up. Nelther have the Central and South Amorican states recognized this suzerainty, but they bave decidedly re- Jected 1t owing to its repulsion of the Ro- manic and Germanic races. No European state has made concession In this respect and finally the United States itself has | given no clear statement of its aims. Says it 8 Unrecognized. “The Monroe doctrine does not belong to | intornational law, but to conjectural polli- tics. 1t binde nobody and endows nobody | with rights. Germany has no obligation \o. recognize and no occasion to dispute the Monroe doctrine. The South Amerioan | states stand toward Germany as sovereign nations, and they all bave the rights and all the obligations of sovereign states, and ing such obligations must pay their debts. | ‘Germany will establish its claims con- siderately in form and action. The Taglische Rundschau complains that | that hard realist, the Yankee, does not ap- preciate courtesies like the visit of Prince Henry and the gift of the statue of Fred- | erick the Great, “but blows a few notes | into the rusty and hoarse Monroe trumpet and Germany must lot that impudent | trickster, President Castro, alone while he | laughs in his fst.” HUMBERTS ASSISTED DREYFUS | energetically fn | Colonel Du Paty de Clam Confirms the | Statements Made by Gaston Pol Recently, PARIS, Jan. 5.~The Temps has pub- | lished an interview with Colonel Du Paty | de Clam concerning the articles pub- | lished In the Gaulols by Gaston Pollonals, | the well known polumist, in which It was | asserted thit the colonel recently made a deposition before the magisirate invest! gating the Humbert case to the effect that the archives of the gemeral staff contain documents showlng that the Humberts | were active In trylng to save Dreyfus Colonel Du Paty de Clam confirms the accuracy of M. Pollonals' statements. He | adds that he was stfuck during the Drey- | fus affair with the activity of the Hum- berts in behalf of Dreyfus. He says the former were especially active in 1897, when everybody whom the Humberts could com- | mand worked Bard to save Dreyfus. ‘What | the Humber(® wanted was money, says| Colonel Du Paty do Clam, for money gave all the Influence in bebalf of Dreyfus and the Humberts were able to sot many strings at work. Disturbances Are Spreading. BHANGHAL Ji 4.—The disturbances in the interior of China are spreading. Five thousand troops have been sent to sup- disorders in the province of Che JUNE | Deerharat, | best | Blane, | seven years | dresses beautifully. 19, cendant of the Great Mogul not Live on Paltey 830,000 Per Year. (Copyright, 198, by Press Punishing Co.) LONDON, Jan. 4.—(New, York Wotld Ca- blegram—S8pecial Telegiof nce Vietor Dhuleep Singh, whose ff ¥ roubles are engagiog the attentioh bankruptey court, says thaw » government would pay him the owes him he would not only be soR g wealthy Prince Victor, a brother-y& by marriage of Lady (Viergina Bougup® tish grand mogule. of Delht at the found a babe of 3 years in the great temple and government, which appropriated $70,000,000 worth of his father's property, Including the tamous Kohinoor didmond, now the chief Jewel In Queen Alexandra’s crown. Prince Dhuleep Singh was brought to England, placed under the care of a gov- ernees and educated at Eton and Oxford. The British government then made, under After the capturc deed, a solemn settlement on him of $500,000 | a year in compensation for the family prop- erty appropriated at Delhi. Dhulsep Singh married a French woman at Suez and de veloped extravagant tastes. He was the partridge ehot in the world, having | made the record of killing 1,000 birds to his own gun in a single day on his estate | at Clevedan, in Norfolk. He got into financial difculty, claimed his property from the Dritish government and when the lability was repudiated went | to Russia and tried to stir up a rebellion among the sikhs, of whom he was the head. This falled. He returned to England, made atonement and was accorded a reduced in. come of $60,000 a year., On his death he left three children—two princesses and Prince Victor—between whom his {ncome was divided, the daughters getting $15,000 a year each and the prince $30,000. Prince Victor three years ago married a daughter of the earl of Coventry, Lady Anne Coventry. Her taste in selecting a husband was freely criticised, for Prince Viotor, though educated in England, is as much of an Oriental as his father was. He seemed to think that if he married into a swell English family and so gave hostages for his loyalty, as it were, that the British gov- ernment would restore his father's original income of §500,000 a year, Accordingly he proceeded at about that rate, giving his wite costly jewecls and keeping great s But now that his creditors have come down upon him the British government looks on his troubles with callous indifference. EMPEROR STARTS MODEL FARM Shows German Agriculturists How to Make it Pay Without State Afd. (Copyright, 1802, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Jan, 4—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.) — Emperor Willlam has been directing much atten- tion lately to agriculture. He says If German farmers would only take lessons from scientific farmers in England or the United States they could increase thelr crops and improve their condition without state aid. His model farm in Oldlnen 1s being rap- fdly transformed into an agricultural show place. When the emperor took posses- slon of it four years ago it was in a con- ditlon of wreck, both houses and estate, badly drained, badly stocked and ylelding no crop worth speaking of. In four years he changed everything. The house is now a charming English country house and shooting lodge combined, and the estate of about 5,000 acres, half forest, is in a fair way to add $20,000 a year to the emperor's revenues. Four years ago only rice and potatoes would grow in Cadinen. introduced wheat, oats and barley and mangel wurtzel for cattle. He has put 150 Dutch cows on the estate and every day their produce goes to Danzig and other towns In the vicinity. The Cadinen milk, cream, butter and cheese have become famous throughout the east of Germany and command the highest prices. The emperor's new dairy i{s modeled upon the ‘Windsor establishment. A spirit motor supplies all the power needed. During his recent stay in Cadinen the emperor read up all Dbooks on dairy farming. His attention has also been directed to a better breed of swine. He has just bought a farm ad- Joining Cadinen, a place called Kickelhof, | where he has ins Westphallan breeds. But he is proudest of his potatoes. In four years he has replaced the poor, soapy potatoes which used to grow in Cadinen with a splendid, floury article, admired all over the countryside. The potatoe output of Cadinen this year was over 1,000 tons. LOSES HIS HEART TO A WIDOW Soldier ¥ Falls Desperately in Love. lled some of the best Coasting Bachelor ny (Copyright, LONDO! blegram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs, Blake of Boston will wed next Tuesday Sir Seymour 1503, by Press Publishing Co.) who has alwaye boasted that he had never had a love affair and never met an English girl who could entice him from single blessedness. But when he met elegant, Mrs. Blake, the Bostonian, and who ha widow of a rich lved for the last in a pretty house on Hans Place, the baronet soon lost his heart Every night he dropped in to Hans Pla and, until the engagement was fixed, he was unhappy. The bride-to-be is a charming woman, quiet and kindly, and for sone time has been in rather delicate health. She has irreproachable taste in all things and Her wedding robe will be of gray velvet with old lace. At Mrs. Blake's wish the wedding will be very qulet It will take place at Holy Trinity, Sloane treet, at a very early hour. Mrs. Blake has a great soefal connection Among her most intimate personal friends are Lady Chesterfield, Lady Roden, Lady Wallscourt, Lord Munster, Miss Vanwart and Lady Abinger, all of whom are invited to the wedding. About seven years ago Mrs. Blake lost her only son. To Resist American Cotton Kings. PARIS, Jan. &.—It is said that Jules Slegtried, Richard Waddingten and Felix Meline, as well as other deputies and sen- ators and a number of leading cotton maa- ufacturers have formed a colonial cotton association, with a view to resisting the American cotton momnopoly by alling the development of the growing of cotton in the French colonies and especially in the Soudan. Transport Huncock at Valparaiso. VALPARAISO, CE{l, Jan. 4.—The United States army tr port Hancock arrived | here today from Mare leland qn its way to New York, London | it | is a direct descendant of the™ time of the mutiny his father wae | was taken charge of, by the British | te. | The emperor has | the latest English | , Jan. 4.—(New York World Ca- | a septuagenarian bachelor soldier, | the tall, | OMAHA, \l()\ I)A \IORVING JANUARY 5, 190¢ SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS ‘Women of Hizh Degree Take Part in Move- ment to Regenerate Oountry. | LAXITY IS NO LONGER TO BE CONDONED Two Meetings M and B Mak- Emperor's Siater Preside at the Next Onme Held in Berlin, ort ing to Ha Upyright, 1008, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Jan. 4.—(New York World Ca- blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—German prin- cesses to the number of sixty-nine have made a solemn vow to reform the morals of the Fatherland. They will work in two directions. First—They will seek to establish institu- tons for redeeming unfortunate fallen women. Second—They will bring their social in- fluence to bear on men in high stations to take up strong ground against im- morality. Two of the sixty-nine are queens—the queens of Wurtemberg and Saxony. Thirty- five belong to relgning houses in various parts of Germany. These women are going about their work in businees fashion. Thelr first meeting was held in Frankfort-on-the- | Main. Only sixteen real princesses were prosent, although twenty others sent repre- sentatives. They had high tea in the principal hotel | ot the place, and the proceedings, to which no man was admitted, were prolonged. Judging, however, from the noise in the room in which they met, th% meeting was animated and not infrequently jocynd. At this meeting the princess of Waldeck- Pyrmont presided. She is a stately, hand- some personage, with a beautiful voice and lovely hair. She rules society in her own little principality with a rod of iron—woe betide the unfortunate male transgressor who gets Into her clutches in Pyrmont. He is ruthlessly excluded from ber court. An- other important person at the Frankfort meeting was the ‘Duchess of Crach, one of the swectest of the younger German duch- esses, a woman of a fine mind, winning in all her ways, graceful as a sylph. 'She is a Wurtemberg lady. Her castle and gardens are models of care.and show what culture and refinement in their mistress can ac- complish. She is the secrotary of the ast clation. cond Meeting Lively. The next meeting was held at Cassel and was better attended, not probably by prin- cesses, but by their business representa- tives, who mean to work hard to carry this thing through. No particulars as to the resolutions adopted have come to lght, but enough {s known to assume that the crusade has begun. One woman sald she was going to begin that very day to influence her men triends to do their utmost to chan prevalent laxity of views. 'Another said she must get to work at once among the hapless women. She spolled an otherwise admirable speech by reference to the shock- ing morality of the “lower orders,” and was speedily brought to book by a friend with the remark that in the matter of morality there was little to ckooss between the aristocracy and the working classes. And every princess in the room applauded. | Bo, at least, rumor has it, for no such vulgar person as a reporter was present among this bevy of aristocratic dames. A leading spirit at the Cassel meeting was the Duchess Frederick Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holsteln, a woman who comes from & fine race of pure and herolc men. Another was the duchess of Ratibor, a woman of tremendous energy and one of the leaders of Berlin soclety. She is constantly | in and out of Emperor Willlam's court, and exercises a tremendous influence in mili- tary circles. She is one of the best dressed | of German women. Two women who take a profound interest in the movement are the princesses of | Schaumburg-Lippe and the princess of Saxe- | Melningen, both sisters of Emperor Wil- liam, but gentle, winning women. They will not take any prominent part in the | public agitation, yet all their sympathies are with it. | But the soul of the movement s the | Duchess Vera of Wurtemberg, the wife of Duke Eugenef,”a Ru princess by birth, a flery, enthusiastic Slav nature, full of notle impulses. She Is a deeply religious | woman, & fine bible scholar and fn her Wurtemberg home the center of everything | that tends to regenerate soclety. She has a strongly marked Slav face and cares little for cutward appearances or dres: The next meeting is to be in Berlin, and efforts will be made to induce one of the emperor’s sisters to preside. {FRENCHMEN ELECT SENATORS Off Without Imetdent % Confirm General Expectations, PARIS, Jan. 4.—Senatorial elections were held today in thirty-four departments of France, Algeria and in the colonies of La Reunion and Guadeloupe, to select ninety- | elght senators, of whom ninety-four will fill seats the terms of whose occupants have constitutionally expired, while the | other four will fill vacancies caused by deaths. The elections passed off without incident. The results have confirmed the general ex- pectation that the ministerial majority in the upper house would be strengthened. The conservatives have elected five progr sive republicans, the liberals have elected twenty-five republicans, eighteen radicals | and thirty-four radical soclalis Final ! returns from some seats in France and | the two colonies have not been received. | Premier Combes has been re-elected from the Department of Charente-Inferieure; he was also returned from Coreica, where he was only nominated Saturday. Finance Minister Rouvier was clected in the De- | partment of Alps-Maritimes. He thus| passes from the Deputies to the Senate. M. Combes and M. Rouvier are the only | ! two ministers who were candidates. The only other moteworthy result of the elec- tions was the defeat of the former minister of foreign affairs, Hanoteaux, in the De. partment of Alsne. Of the candidates elected today sixty-eight were already | | members of the Senate; the others are | deputies, ex-deputies or new men | The ministry of the interior claims that | the government gained fifteen and lost two, & net gain of thirteen seats in today's elections | Attempts to Steal the Jewels. | LONDON, Jan. 5.—In a dispatch from { Delh! the correspondent of the Daily Mail | says: “A body of Pathans made a bold attempt In broad daylight Priday to attack | the guard and rob the jewel room of the | arts exhibition, where gems valued at $1,250,000 were in keeplng. Membery of lhe‘ 'vohu force and the jewelers present after | 8 scufle succeeded n folling the attempt | Entrance to the jewel room has BOW been | made much more dificuit.” { from the United States Steel | trom window: | inal. | | was turned on which the animal stood | rent wi COAL TO GO UP A NOTCH TODAY Scranton Companies Agree on I crease of §1 Pdr Ton In Price of Anthracite. N, Pa., fn. 4 —Following the lead of the Lehigh Valley, the Jersey Cen- the Reading companies, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Westérn company yester- day acceded to the demand of its contract shippers to suspend the 85-35 contract until circular and actual market prices agaln contorm. Only about half of the independent op- erators are selling under the 65-35 con- tract. They have had to be content with 65 per cent of §5 on big sizes and the samo | per cent of $3.75 on small sizes, the arbi- trary figure fixed by the carriers for coal at tidewater. The independents who were not under contract terms have sold their coal at the breaker for at least $5 a ton and the purchaser looked after the freight The contract independents argued that it was unfalr that they sbould be bound by an arbitrary circular price when they could get fully B0 per cent better prices, and particularly whea otber Independents were getting all that the law of supply and demand allows. This means that the Independents are now all fren to sell thelr coal at the breaker at the best prices they can secure, leaving it to the purchaser to deal with the carrier about freight charges. In return for the concession the Inde- pendents have promised to favor the east and New England, re coal s most needed, and with thil end in view they have already announ that no more coal will be sold by them & retail. To generadly discoufge local consumers from buying more coSl than fs actually needed an advance fn price was agreed upon, and tomorrow Scrantonians who want coal will have te pay $5 a ton for the larger domestic sizes. This $1 a ton more than it was selling for last week. Under normal conditions it sells here for $2.50 delivered READING, Pa., Jan. 4.—By midnight to- night the Reading company expects to have transported to market for the past forty-eight hours 3,600 cars of anthracite coal. This movement of coal began yes- terday morning, and In forwarding this great quantity the company is breaking every record. all classes was pressed into service and all available frelght crews were called on for help. Most of the 8,500 cars were moved today. Officers estimate that dur- ing the holidays and because the miners failed to get back to work promptly 260,- 000 toms of anthracite failed to reach market. The Independent operators of the region mine about 15 per cent of the entire pro- duction of anthracite coal NO MALLEABLE IRON COMBINE Proposed Organisation Announced a Month Ago as Completed is Gone to Pleces. PITTSBURG, Jan. 4.—The Gazette tomor- roy will sa; The $20,000,000 mallea solidation announced -a5.an as- sured thing has gone to pleces. It Is sald that the support of former Judge Elbert R. Gary, Max Pam and their assoo! in the United States Steel corporation was with- drawn on the ground that the conditions are not opportune for the launching of such a concern and this led to the deal being dropped for an indefinite time. Early last month Willlam C. McMillan of castiugs con- |the Michigan Malleable Iron company, which would have been one of the strongest of the Seventeen constituent concerns, an- nounced that the deal had been completed. Audits had been completed by a New York firm and everything was in readiness for the financing when the important support corporation interests was withdrawn. Only one of the several Pittsburg malle- able concerns had planned to enter the consolidation. This was the Pittsburg Mal- leable company, controlled by the Westing- | | house company. The new concern was to have been launched the first of the year. The seventeen concerns which were to form the consolidation have a combined yearly output of 200,000 tons of malleable castings. These concerns are mostly lo- cated in the middle west, in Illinofs, Indi- ana, Ohfo, Michigan, Wisconsin, with three others at Buffalo, N. Y., Trenton, N. J., and Chattanooga, Tenn. DEATH IN LODGING HOUSE FIRE One Killed, One Fatally and About & Dozen Seriously Injured at Denver Conflagration. DENVER, Colo., lodging house on streets today resulted in the death of one Jan. 4—A fire In a | man and the injury of a dozen more, one fatally and several of them seriously. The fire fs thought to have been caused by the explosion of a gasolige stove. The dead: JOHN OTT, itinerant tinker, aged 45. Fatally injured: Nacine A. Shamaley, aged 28, a saloon | keeper and proprietor of the lodging house; terribly burned. Seriously injured: Charles Hatk, Glendo, Wyo. Willlam Hardin, baker. Burt Keefe, cook. Ferris Thomas, bartender. Frank Brown, laborer George Herbert, laborer. Ed O'Malley, laborer. Lizste Hall. All of the latter were burned and brulsed, the brulses being received from jumping The property loss was nom- ELECTROCUTION FOR ELEPHANT Topsy, the Original “Baby” of Fore- paugh Show Many Years Ago, is Killed Humane! NEW YORK, Jan, 4.—Several pectators today witnessed the electrocu- tion by electricity at Coney Island of “Topsy,"” an elephant who had killed three hundred | | men and had recently become unmanage- able. Immediately after 200 gralns of cyanide of potarsium had been administered. con. cealed in a carrot, a current of through copper plates on and when the cur- turned off, was pronounced to be dead. An autopsy showed that the polson bad not had time to take effect The execution was conducted under the supervision of the Soclety for the Preven- tien of Cruelty to Animals. ““Topsy” was about 35 years old and was the first baby elephant exhibited in this covntry, when she wi brought here by Adam Ferepaugh twealy-elght years ago. Almost instantly the elephant fell, at the end of ten seconds, Today every locomotive of | | week. ‘Thirteenth and Market | | tions will be introduced at the beginning 1of the session tomorrow, | Senator Hoar will | must cease at 2 o'clock unless unanimous | 2,600 volts | WORK AHEAD FOR CONGRESS Little Expected for a Few Days Until Mem- bers All Return from Holidays. STATEHOOD BILL ON DECK IN SENATE Many Other portant Measures Pressing for Recognition—Com- mittee Considers Cuba Treaty. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Many of the senators who left Washington for the Christmas holidays are still absent and the present {indications are that when business is resumed At noon tomorrow there will not be a very full attendance, Before the week is far advanced, how- ever, the senate again wfll be in regular working order and there will be little ce sation of work before March 4. The pre- diction is very general that the remainder of the sesslon will be exceedingly bus: because of the number of fmportant que tions which will be pressed forward befora final adjournment. During the present week and probably for some time to come the omnibus state- hood bill will be the chiet tople of discus- sion on the floor, but under the unanimous agreement by which the bill was made the unfinished business it cannot be taken up any day before 2 o'clock. It I8 the pur- | pose of the friends of the bill to press its | consideration and not to allow the bill to be sidetracked unless under very great pressure. The present purpose is to give way only for appropriation bills, but there | are no appropriation bills on the senate calendar. It is, however, the purpose of the senatorial leaders, and eepecially of those who oppose the statehood bill, to | press appropriation bills to the front as rapldly as possible. The senate committee on appropriations immediately will take up the legislative, executive and judiclal appropriation bill, and it will be reported to the senate as s0on as possible. It is & bill which d mands considerable investigation, and it s not probable that it will reach the senate much before the middle of the month. When it is reported the committee will seek to secure its immediate considera- tion. \ Debate on Statehood. According to the arrangement made be- fore the holldays, the debate on the state- hood bill will be resumed at 2 o'nlock to- morrow, Senator Nelson of Minnesota being the first speaker on the list. He is a mem- | ber of the committee on territories and in | addition to his opposition to the admission of the territories of New Mexlco and Ari- zona, he is a staunch advocate of the bill for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state, which was reported by the majority of the committee as a sub- stitute for the house omnibus hill. He has a carefully prepdred speech and its de- livery probably will require the greater | part of two days. Senator Burrows will be heard next and he will probably speak for two days or more. Other republican senators have agreed to speak in opposition to the bill and it is now estimated that there wili-be mo fewer than fteen anti- statehood speeches before cons on of the measure is concluded. Bome speeches in support of the bill are promised, but the indications are somewhat agalnst the delivery of any of them during the present week, though it is possible that Senator Foraker, who is an earnest advocate of the omnibus bill, may be heard some time within the next few da; Other Me The time of the senate each da 2 o'clock will be earnestly contested for, among the measures seeking early atten- | tion being the omnibus bill, the immigra- tion bill, the eight-hour government labor | bill and the Philippine currency bill. Senator Proctor has given notice that he | will call up the, militia bill Monday morn- | ing as soon as the routine business fs dls- | posed of, and he will try to keep this bill | to the front until action can be secured. Some features of the measure are sharply antagonized, so that it may provoke con- siderable debate. There also is a dieposi- tion to amend the immigration bill. The supporters of this measure do not yet seem inclined to concede the changes demanded. Senator Lodge, as chalrman of the com- mittee on the Philippines, has given notice that he will press the currency bill as rap- idly as possible, and expresses confidence | in its passage before the sesslon grows | much older. Senator McComas will urge | consideration of the eight-hour bill. The committee on foreign relations, it is expected, will take up the Cuban treaty at its meeting this week, but it is doubtful whether it will be reported during the It bas not been decided whether there will be any hearings on the treaty. | Thus far no formal request for them has been made and probably none will be sought untfl after the beet sugar convention, which is to be held in this city during the week. Senator Cullom says that he will ask the senate to give the treaty its at- tention at as early a day as practicable after it shall be reported. A large number of new bills and resolu- res Pressing. among them a joint resolution by Senator Morgan direct- ing the executive department to cease ne- gotiations with the government of Colombia for right-of-way for an isthmian canal and to close agreements with Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the construction of a canal by the Nicaragua route. On Thursday during the morning hour | address the senate in support of his anti-trust bill. It is probable that his speech will give rise to more or less debate, but any discussion on this bill consent should be procured to delay the statehood bill for a time. No Program for the House. No complete program is mapped out for the house for the first week of the mew | year. The leaders are very anxious to| force the appropriations bills ahead as rapidly as possible The Indian bill is on the calendar and | headway is making in committee witn the | postoffice, diplomatic and consular and Dis- trict of Columbia bills. The latter, at| least, will be reported to the house before the end of the week. | Mr. Sherman of New York, chairman of | the Indian committee, is 111 at Hot Springs, Ark., and his absence may delay considera- tion of the Indlan bill. | Until the appropriation bills get into the hopper the house probably will occupy | its time with miscellaneous matters brought | up uuder calls of committees Recelver for Sliverton Bank. DENVER, Jan 4.—A speclal to the News says that Thomas Ancear has been a | held. Glasgow; CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Falr Monday and Tuesday. at Omaha Yesterday: Hou Tempera Hour, CzasRaABE~ pepgszage ACCIDENT Has Skull Street FATAL COASTING Young EI Molntyre Crushed on William AL Elmer Mclntyre, & l4-year-old Iad, crashed Into a “traveler" on the Willlath street hill at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon with such force that his skull was crushed and ho died a few minute later. The vic- tim of the accident resided with his mother, Mrs. M. Mcintyre, at 1225 Willlam street. During the afternon a large throng of boys and girls and several coasting par- ties, in which older pleasure meekers min- gled, had been meking speedy flights down the smooth fcy surface of Willlam streot, from Sixth to the Burlington rallroad tracks. The McIntyre lad had started on his little sled from the top of the hill and was sliding at a terrific speed, when at the intersection {of Fitth and Willlam he nearly collided | with a large coaster returning to the sum- mit. Just behind was being drawn an- other. Unable to avold a collisicn, he crashed into it, striking his head upon the planking of the big coaster. some distance and knocked unconsciovs. Bleeding profusely from his wounds, he was carried by Charles Povilk and Mrs, 8. Welsbroad {nto the meat market of Joe | Vopolka, 1324 South Fifth street. Police Surgeon Mick was immediately notified, but before his arrival the boy died, Mr. McIntyre, the father of the dead boy, cannot be located, having left the city last fall, since when nothing has been heard regarding his whereabouts. ~Coroner Brailey took charge of tho body and res moved it to his undertaking rooms.’ An inquest will be beld. STRIKE SETTLEMENT LIKELY Message trom New York Gives Union Pacifie Strikers New Hope. “We meet the officials again Tuesday, when a settlement probably will be de- cided on.” This I8 the news that came yesterday to strike headquarters from an executive rep- resentative in New York. On the strength of this telegram from one of the men en- aged In the conferences with the Union Pacific officials, strikers are disposed to look with more seriousness than ever upon the possibility of a settlement this month. Still, they are proceeding with their plans “ust as il they expected the £ght to con- tinue for another months and will ob- e SN EPT war is gone. But the strike-breakers are less skeptical, so to speak, than the men outside the high board fence that sur- rounds the Union Pacific shops. They con- tinue to leave, and probably wisely so. The telegram quoted also brings te in- formation that the reports contained in some eastern papers to the effect that “an unequivoeal victory” has been won by the strikers in their ability already to se. cure the officials’ pledge to the abolition of plecework, are positively incorrect. The officals have not only hot yielded in this, the cruclal point, but are holding out with spectal tenacity and show they would rather give up every other proposition before that one. Plecework or no plecework s the pivot on which the strike hangs and has hung on all along. INTEREST RATES GOING UP Omaha bankers say the tendency of the money market 1s toward higher rates of interest. The rate during the fall months has advanced gradually until it is prac- tically 2 per cent higher than it was four months ago, the prevailing rate being 7 to 8 per cent, againat § to 6 per cent on sim- tlar paper in August, A largo amount of western cattle paper { which was placed six months ago at 6 per cent 18 now commanding 8 per cent, as loans become due aund are renewed, for much of the cattle which it was thought would be marketed in December is being For two or three months the Omaha money market has been lower than in any of the large cities and the expectation is that the conditions which prevail elsewhere will be seen locally before the end of the season of activity, CAPTAIN BARNUM EXONERATED Court of Inquiry Blames Major Ayers for Making Complaint and Alle- sations of Misconduct. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan 2.— A court of Inquiry appointed by Major Gen- eral Jobn C, Bates, commander of the De- partment of the Missouri, to investigate certain allegations and charges ngainst Captain Malvern-Hill Barnum, Eightu cay- alry, has completed a report entirely ex- onerating Captain Barnum. Major General Bates approved the findings of the court. The trouble occurred during the fall maneuvers at Fort Riley, when Ayers was commanding an Eighth cavalry squadron, with whom Captain Barnum was orving. The charges concerned the lssu- ance of passes, and in passing upon them the court says “The court is of the opinfon that Major Ayers in making these assertions was | hasty and intemperate, and that, while not imputing to him any intention of making | the assertions made by | | him were misleading, a false statement, inaccurate and un- warranted."” Movements of Ocean Vessels Jan, 4, At New York—Arrived: Umbria, from Liverpool and Queenstown; Sardinian, from lesperia, from Genoa and Naples; Canadian, from Liverpool At Holy Head—Passed: Rhyndland, from Philadelphia, for Liverpool At The Lizard—Passed: M! London; Bluecher, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg At Liverpool—Arrived: Etruria, from New Yorkvia Queenstown: Nomadic, from New York. Bafled: 8t. Louls, from Southamp- ton, for New York neapolls, for from New York, for pointed receiver of the Bank of Sliverton {at Stiverton, Colo.. which closed its doors | Friday after the disappearance of its pres dent, J. H. Robin. who committed sujeid. One committee appointed to examine into | the affairs of the bank is credited with | | saying the depositors will be paid in full. | At Queenstown—Sail Iverata, Liverpool, for New York trom Monos, from Ta- 0 via Cen- th American ports and Havre. At raiso—Arrived nited States army ort_Hancock, from San Fran- elsco for New York. He was hurled | Major | HOUSE NOT SO SWIFT Takes More Time Than Senate to Settle on the Matter of Organisation. SPEAKERSHIP FIELD IS A LARGE ONE No Oonoentration of Bentiment on Any One Man is to Be Noted, EFFORT TO REVIVE TWO-YEAR-OLD FIGHT Oards Which Are Intended to Damn Mockett with Its Praise. SOME SUGGESTION OF A DARK HORSE Indioations that Mockett Will Lead at the Start, with Thompson a Close Second—Several Ballots Probable, (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Jan. 4.—(Special Telegram.)— Although only one day remains before the caucus that is to settle the spoakership fight the contest s still being waged, with the fleld full of candidates. The day ha boen full of rumors, uone of which, how- ever, have materialized into any definite action, binding any number of members to a particular candidate. The rush line tactics pursued by the senatorial end of the field, which carried Harrison to Hall over the goal of president pro tem, have produced a sort of reaction. Harrison s recognized as a ort of legates of the so-called antis of the last legisla- ture and his scoring has been followed wp by an effort on the part of the same ele- ment to resurrect the old issue of D. B. Thompson as a factor in the speakership contest against Mockett, who was one of the lieutenants of the Lancaster county | candidate for United States senator two | years ago. Early in the evening cards were distributed throughout the hotel lobby pur- | porting to be a plea for Mockett, but in reality designed to cut under him. The reading matter on the card is from the pen that produced the screeds against D. E. Thompson during the session of 1901 and were aptly referred to as an extra edition ot the historic *Daily OCapital,” published at that time by the sc-called antls. Sentiment is general that this effort to revive a buried issue is likely to over- reach itself and react against the can- didacy of W. T. Thompson, in whose be- half its authors appear to be working. W. T. Thompson himself, it is only falr to say, disclaims any knowledge or coun- tenance of these campaign cards. Sugmestion of Dark Hors 80 far as the lineup between the speaker- ship candidates is concerned, it cannot be accurately described, because about half ot the members of the house are yet to put in their appearance. The impression is that Mockett will lead in point of strength, with W. T. Thompson a close second, and that the finish will not he seen until caucus proceeds to Ballot tomorrow night. The hope of the other candida! is that nefther of the leaders will be able to muster the necessary number of votes, and that their foliowers will be compelled to choo among them. There is some suggestion of a possible emergency which may bring out a new man altogether, but at the same time there is a general aversion to dark horses on ac- count of unsatisfactory experiences with dark horses on former occasions. While the agreement upon Harrison by the senators has caused a renewal of the talk about a compact that was to make Mockett's running mate, all parties con- tinue to deny the existence of such a com- pact. Rouse of Hall, who was cxpected to be a formidable candldate for spewker, has unquestionable suffered from the premature action of the semators, but has tried to combat the argument against giving the presiding officers of both houses to onme and the same county by recalling the legi lature of 1899, when Lancaster county cap- tured both the presidency of the senate and the speakership of the house. Delesdenior of Cass and Sears of Burt each have numerous delegations of their friends bere assisting in the promotion of thelr campalgns. The death of Representative Musick of Nuckolls and the eerious {liness of Repre- sentative Atwood of Seward will reduce the number participating in the ocaucus, even if all the rest are at hand, and make the vote necessary to noiinate thirty- elght instead of thirty-nine. Senators to Caveus. Notwithstanding the fact that the senate organization Is practically decided on, & senate caucus will be held to make It & formal matter and agree upon the minor offices. Senator O'Nelll was by mistake represented in these dispatches to have been present at the conference of Hary son followers yesterday, whem in fact he was not there, and naturally does not want his friends to labor under the impression that he gave up the fight and went over to Harrison without their knowledge or assent. He has, however, acquiesced in the result and expresses himself today as atisfied with it. Among the onlookers here are State Chairman Lindsay, Congressmen-elect Hin- shaw and McCarthy and United States Mar- shal Matthews, but they all insist they are here as spectators only. Messnge is Ready. Governor Savage's meseage 18 practioally completed and will be ready by tomorrow for transmission to the legisiature, al- though it will not be delivered befors Wednesday. It is understood that the mes- sage Is & quite lengthy document, going into considerable details for all the various departments of the state government and full of recommendations on various sub- jects of publie importance. It is expected to be in: the governor's characteristic style, with forcible language that calls a spade a spade. Fusionista Are Lomesome. In the melee the fusionists seem to have been almost entirely overlooked. The few already here indicate a disposition to vote for George L. Loomis of Dodge for speaker, just to show a friendly disposition. The four fusion votes in the senate have not yet found a lodging place. Dedicate New Pythian Hall, ASHLAND, Neb., Jan. 4.—(Spocial)— Sheffer's new hall, which was completed last week, was dedicated last night for the use of Star lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pyth fas. Frank J. Kelley, grand chancellor of Nebrasks, officiated In the ceremonies of dedication, after which the members r paired to the Selma hotel, where a quet was held, plates being lald for sey- enty. Officers for 1903 were Installed by Grand Chancellor Kelley as follows: C, C., M. Mays; V. C.,, R. D. Pine; P, J, A