Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1903, Page 1

IFABLISHED JU E 19, 1871. ()\lA]lA. TUESDAY SAYS LESSLER LIED Doblin Retracts Bribery Btory Told te the Oommittee on Baturday, CLAIMS HE WAS ASKED TO PERJURE SELF | Oomplaining Representative Writes Out Tale and Gives it to Him. COMPLETELY FREES QUIGG AND FRIENDS Witness Now Bwears No Money Was Offered for Boat Vote. MEMBERS ARE ASTOUNDED AT NEW STORY Closely Qu, Get Detalled Account of Alleged Plot Framed by New York Representative, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Philip Doblin, who told the house committes on naval af- fairs on Saturday that Mr. Quigg had of- fered to bribe he and Mr. Lessler, today retracted. The statement came without any previous warning and members of the committee Jooked at one another in amazement as Doblin went on with his statement. Gustav Rogers, an attorney, after the first witness left the stand this morning, aid he appeared for Mr. Doblin, who tad made some statements on Saturday which were true and some which were false and that he held in his hand a statement to which Mr. Doblin had sworn. The committee was unanimous in agree- ing that Doblin appear in person. He was called and made specific denial of all his previous evidence, wherein ho alloged at- tempts at tribery, He was rigidly cross-examined by prac- tically every member of the committee and pressed for an explanation of his action today, but persisted that he was telling the truth today and adhered to his denlals. When Doblin had left the stand the com- mittee’s program, which contemplated call- ing Dr. W. B. Kerr to the stand, was abandoned and it went into secret session. Some of the members, in view of the re- ‘markable developments, favored dropping ‘the investigation, but others urged that it be continued. It is understood that Mr. Lessler asked that he be permitted to make a statement and sald he had another witness he would call, whereupon the committee decided to meet again tomorrow. Mr. Lessler was present in the committee room when Dob- Jlin gave his testimony, Asks Immunity for Doblin, Just before Doblin went on the stand Mr. Rogers asked that such immunity be mccorded him as was within the power of the committee. Mr. Taylor sald only such immunity as the statute gives could be accorded. Mr. Doblin then proceeded to tell of his coming to Washington and of his appear- “ance before the committee. He sald when he came to Washington to appear before vthe full committee he decided to make the statement lu did. “I now retract, lh‘ sald, lxs . whigh I said M. 1 Qui ml oy bribe in any way.’ you state to the committee In what { Tespect your testimony 18 not true?’ Dob- lin was asked. “In relation to my being called to Wash- ngton and my conversation with Mr. Le ler at the Hotel Normandie at 8 o'clock or thereabout Statement Not the Truth. The fact is, the statements I made re- garding Mr. Quigg are mot true. I read the article as it was handed to me and I was told by Lessler, ‘You have got to stand for this,’ and I sald, ‘Ob, that cannot be.’ Well,' he sald, ‘then I am politically dead. *‘Well,' 1 sald, ‘you carry me with you.' \He sald, ‘You will be all right if you will Just appear before this committee. I will g0 and see the speaker and I will fix it up. He goes out of the room, comes back and said he had seen the speaker, and sald ‘It will be all right. All you have got to do is to go before the committee and sub- stantiate my story.'" “When 1 was called to Washington I got this telegram: * ‘Take midnight train and come to me. ‘Want to see you. Keep this confidential.— Monte." " Mr, Roberts—8igned by whom? A.—Signed by “Monte. Mr, Thylor—Who is “Monte?" soclate? A.—"Monte” {s Congressman Lessler. 1 have had correspondence signed *Monte." Continuing, he sald: “While we wero eating breakfast I was reading the article tamiliarizing myself as to the statement made, and when we got upstairs he said: ‘Do as you want about " Your a n “Well,' T thing like this. “‘Oh,' he said, ‘you have got to. T'll be back in a minute’ He went out of the room and wheu he came back he said: ‘I will go down and look after the commit- tee.' Just before that he sald: ‘You need not have any fear. There is nothing going to happen (0 you. You appear before this committee and they are friends of mine, and all there will be to it, they will report to the whole committee and there won't he anything further to it The congressman left the room. I laid on the sofa. I took the paper up again and read it over. In about half or three-quarters of an hour someone camo in and said: ‘You come along with me. We will get into the capitol all right. Nobody will see you. You will be able to got up through a side which is right close to the naval committee door and you can get in, and I will see that nobody sees you.' Makes & Startling Confe Continuing, Doblin said: “1 went into the committee room. gentlemen were standing about gulde said, ‘This is Mr. Doblin.' The other gentlemen all shook hands with me. 1 sat down and later I was handed a clgar, which I smoked. They made we feel agreeable. 1 took it for granted that it was all right. The first thing I kaew one of the gentlemen of the comualitee, after a conversation in which I explained my interests in polities in Now York, asked me how long I had been fa politics. Then one of the gentlemen sald: ‘Wasp't 1t Mr. Quigg who said to you that there was $5,000 in it for Lessler and §1,000 for you? “I sald at that time, ‘No, sir. all the gentlemen around me sald ‘Ob. it's all right; you go on.’' and then there was @ discussion in the rcom as to how I atood 1 refused to amswer at that time ai all wenced by Lensle: id, ‘I cannot stand for any- The and my Then I MACEDONI elevator | | Ru | bas been hurriedly summoned to St | that | made large purch The gentlemen seemed to agree "hat there was nothing o it Feeling agreeadly at (BnnllnM on TIIN l’llo REPORT ATLANTIC BOAT LOST Anglesea Residetns Spread Disered- fted Rumor of Liner Ashore on Welsh Const. HOLY HEAD, Wales, Jan. 27.—Rumors are current here that & big Atlantic liner is ashore at Aberfraw peint, a rocky head- land about the middle of the western coast of Angles lanly are, however, en- tirely lacking and tory 1s generally discredited. [ According to one r bers of the crew have o mainder being deterred by No reports mention any passen the name of the vessel. S0 far as can be ascertained no s any importance engaged in the Atlan! service can be in the neighborhood of the Anglesea coast. The story Is rendered the | more unlikely by reason of the fact that the earliest rumors connected the wreck with the American line, whose passenger boats ply to Southampton, and which has no freight vessels in Welsh waters. teen mem- the re- "0 SCOFFER CONTRAOTS! PLAGUE Mazatlan E Measures and ufters from Dread Disease. ttor llc-vllel Sanitary Now MAZATLAN, Mex., Jan. 26.—There were four deaths from plague today, and the situation is considercd less favorable. The number of patients in the lazaretto 1s fAifty. One new victim is Luis Cervantes, brother of the chief of police of Guadala- jara, who recently started a daily paper, in which he has attackel sanitary measures and physiclans and advised the use of do- mestic remedies only. Antonia Leon, a school teacher, has died of the plague. Her relatives have departed, and the house which she occupled burned. The entire ward known as El Cuernito has been destroyed by fire to prevent its Infecting other localities. The increase of the disease is due to the return of the poor people who had sought refuge outside the city, but are being driven back by hun- ger. MAY SETTLE ACRE DISPUTE Bolivian Minister to Brasil s Given Power to Negotiate Treaty. LONDON, Jan. 26.—The Brazilian lega. tion in London announces that the Bolivian minister at Rio Janeiro, has notified the Brazillan government that President Pando has given him power to enter a formal agreement with Brasil concerning the Acre dispute. These negotiations are expected to lead to a peaceful solution of the dif- culty. The Brazilian government has or- dered the naval and military forces to mobilize. LAPAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 26.—The second contingent of the Bolivian expedition to Acre left Lapaz today wnder the command of President Pando. It will join the first contingent at Buenos Ayres on the Beni river. PELEE AGAIN IN ACTION | Otty, mem sccommodatfons for 225 puplls, instead of ened by Voleano. CASTRIES, Island of St. Lucla, B. W. I, Jan. 26.—The royal mafl steamer Eek took over 400 excursionists to St. Plerre, Mar- tinique, Saturday, and arrived here toda: 1t reports that while at St. Plerre, at b o'clock in the evening, Mount Pelee erupted. At the time there were moro than 200 persons ashore and great alarm was felt for thelr safety. Volunteers from the p remained on board assisted the crew hastening to the rescue. After forty min- utes of excitement all the passengers were brought back safely. Apparently about 600 feet of ihe of the volcano has been blown away. CHINA HONORS A MURDERER Appoints Hu Lien Sun to Important Post In Spite of M Massacres. engers who had cone wlonary PEKIN, Jan. 26.—Hu Lien Sun, governor of Hunan, one of the officials blacklisted by the powers after the Boxer troubles on account of the massacre of missionaries, has been appointed governor of Shan Si. The ministers ignored the failure of the Chinese government to dismiss him from office, but now the American, French and British ambassadors are sending a note to the government, saying that, considering the missionary murders in the territory under his jurisdiction, it is not wise to send him to a province where missionary interests are exceedingly important, GOVERNOR SUSPENDS MAYOR Porto Rican Executive Does Not Walt for Courts When Fra i Charged. Porto Rico, acting SAN JUAN, ernor Hunt, Jan. 26.—Gov- independently of any | Judicial proceedings, today suspended Man- | uel Egozcue, the mayor of this city, from office and ordered an independent investi- | | gation into alleged city frauds. A prosecution of Egozcue Is pending be- | fore the district court on the charge of | destroying the city records to cover up evidence of peculations. AN OUTLOOK GRAVE| n Minister Summons Sofia M ster to Hasty Peter VIENNA, Jan. 26.—G. Bakhmetieff, the Russian diplomatic agent at Sofia, Bulgaria, Peters- burg to consult with the foreign minister on the Macedonian situation. M. Bakhmetleff expresses the gravest fear | of the situation in Bulgaria, which he de- clares is infinitely more threatening than at any time in the last five years. SWEDES FEAR COPPER TRUST Report Current 3 in Scandl American Comb Local Mines. Buyin COPENHAGEN, Jan, 26—The Oester- sundsposten publishes a report to the effect Ametican mining speculators have s of iron and copper mines in Sweden and Norway and that the great Scandinavian companies are likely to be incorporated in the American copper trust. IS LEASE BILL OR NOTHING Ohairman Laocey Blyi Time is Too Short to Push Through New Bill, WINNEBAGO INDIAN AGENCY DROPPED rong, Oppesition Developing to Remain on Hoard Forty-Elght Hou! (From a Staft Correspondent.) SHINGTON, Jan. 26.—(Special Tele- m.)—Chalrman Lacey of the dc lands’ committee today, g of the epecial message Governor Mickey sent to the islature t week recommending speak- which 1 the creation of a commission to examige into | the grazing lands of the west and make ports upon fllegal fencing of the public domain, said that a commission was wholly impracticable, and that it would be impossible to get a bill through congres at this session and appropriating the hec- essary amount to carry out the provisions of the bill. He further said that insofar as he had talked with members of his com- mittee that & practicable land-leasing bill was the only kind of legislation that could be accomplished at this session, failing in which he saw no other course left to the | secretary of the interfor than to pull down the fences, as he has stated he will do in the event there is no legislation at this ses- slon. Restores Indlan Agencles. After a heated colloguy, in which several members of the house participated, amend- ments were incorporated in the Indian ap- propriation bill today providing salaries for Indian agents at Crow, Creek, Sisseton, Lower Brule and Yankton, in South Da kota, and Sac and Fox, in lowa. The bill as reported provided for discontinuance of these agencies, but on request of Repre- sentative Burke, who was absent from the city when the measure was framed an op- portunity was given him to bring the mat- ter up in the house. As a result agencles at the five places named will be contin- ued. No effort was made, however, to provide for an agent on the Omaha and Winnebago reservation, the agent at that place hav- ing been discontinued by reason of failure to appropriate money for his salary for 1904, When Chairman Sherman was asked why no effort was made in bebalf of the Omaha and Winnebago agent, he stated that not one of the Nebraska delegation had called his attention to the matter. Senator Millard's attention was called to this, and the senator responded, stating that he would look into the matter, but not knowing the status of the case he could give no opinion as to what he would do when the bill reached the senate. South Dakota Fares Well. At a meeting of the house committee to- day several amendments to the Indlan bill, of interest in South Dakota, were report- ed favorably on motion of Representative Burke. One of them Increases the appro- priation for enlargirg the Chamberlain school to $13,600; also $9,000 for additional buildings, and $11,745 for the purchase of additional land at Rapld City, 8. D. The appropriation for maintenance of the Rapid 150. Other items are as follows: Four thousand five hundred dollars for erecting an industrial school at Flandreau, $5,000 for an additional building at Plerre and $20,000 for surveys at Pine Ridge. Shuts Out Home Companies. Attorney General Knox, in an opinfon today, sustained the action of the post. master general in ghutting from the mails certain co-operative home companies which have been dofng a lottery business in vio- iation of United States statutes the ai torney general in his opinion recites the case of the Nebraska Home company, whose charter was abrogated by state authorities and which finally reached the supreme court of the state, where a decision adverse to the Nebraska Home company was hand- ed down. The decision of the attorney gen- eral effects some forty companies through- out the west, Nebraska having one or two. The case came to the attorney general, be. ing taken up by the Co-operative Home company of Kansas City, and in which every contention of the postmaster general was oustained. Congressman Martin of South Dakota, speaking of the bill conferring jurisdic- tions of the federal courts to pass upon crimes committed upon Indian reservations, ated today that it was a matter of great- est moment to the citizens of South Da- | kota. He sald that when he first intro- | duced the bill the judiciary department of the government opposed the measure, but finally he secured a rehearing upon the measure before Attorney General Knox, and the attorney general finally agreed to make a favorable report on the measure. Senator Gamble had introduced a sim{’ar measure in the senate, but substituted Con- gressman Martin's bill for his own, in order that relief might be obtained. cl Fifty clerks connected with the census bureau will leave about the middle of Feb- ruary on an official tour for the purpose of gathering information on debt and wealth, and those assigned to the semi- arid states will be especially charged to look up the subject of irrigation Adjutant General Byers of Ic¥a will have a hearing tomorrow morning before the house committee on military affairs the claim. of Towa against the government covering equipment of troops by lowa dur- ing the Spanish-American war and rent of barracks at Des Moines after troops were mustered into the service of United States. Senator Gamble today secured a favor- | able report from the commerce committee | of the senate extending the time in which to erect a bridge over the Missouri® at Yankton one year. The diplomatic bill, senate today, carrie Pressing low m, which passed the an increase of $500 | for salary and $900 for clerk hire for the | consul general's office at Monterey, Philip C. Hanna of Kossuth county, lowa, is consul general. Objections Al The bill recently passed by the house providing that live stock may be held in cars forty-eight hours, has brought forth protests from humane societies throughout the west, who contend that the cattle will suffer from lack of food and water. The owners of cattle have also objected to the bill, for the reason that it will result in the landing of the stock on the markets in an unfavorable condition. The present law on the subject, provides that live sicek in cars shall be unloaded, fed and watered and allowed to rest every twenty-eight hours, hus been on the etatute books for tweniy-ive years. In compliance with it, steck yards have been constructed and all arrangements (Continued on Second Page.) Around. which MORN pub- | on | the | where | o Xy {ING, JANUARY CONCEDE TELLER'S ELECTION| Much Doubt as to the Regularity of the Jaint Sew- sion. il Jan @ reguiarity of the of United tes Senator Teller at a joint slon of the demo ‘ eratic members of thé two houscs of general assembly practically conceded | by the republican senators, who today | abandoned the separate organization which they maintained all last week and returned to the senate chamber, where the demo. cratic majority has m in continuous ses- sion since last Mouday. Lieutenant Governor bands with the demoefatic president pro | tem, Senator Adams, Who had preside | uring his absence last weck, and resumed | the chair. The senate then adjourned un- | | til Thureday atternoon | The republican officers of the house of representatives today recognized the demo- cratic senate as the regular organization by recefving from its sbcretary the emer- gency appropriation bill, which it passed [ 1mst week. | A motion was made hrmpmanmuw | Frewen, a Wolcott membl to reconsider the adverse action on the revort for the ex- | | pulsion of all the Afapahoe democratic | | members, but it was defeated by a vote of |37 to 24, The house then adjourned until | tomorrow. Governor Peabody sald today that he knew no reason why he ehould not sign a | | certificate of Senator Teller's election, but ! he would wait for A “judieial opinion” on the matter, for which he had asked. The subcommittee of the democratic state central committee has ar- ranged for a banquet at the Brown Palace hotel o8 Wednesday night to be tendered to Senatdr Teller, the demo- cratic meinbers of the senate and house, the unseated democratle members of the house and the democratic state central | committee, Preceding the banquet, the same eveniag, & public reception to Semator Teller w.ill be held in the rotunda of the Brown Palace hotel. The democratic and anti-Wolcott re- publican members of the house have agreed to maintain the presemt organization of the house intact. In consideration of recognition of the democratic senate and an agreement to unseat po mqre democratic members, the democrats will vote with the anti-Wolcott republicans against any proposition that may be sprung by the Wolcott faction look- ing to a reorganization of the house. Thus the republicans opposed to Wol- cott's senatorial candidacy, who refused to | £ enter into a caucus, will be left in control of all the important house committses throaghout the sessfon. Frank C. Goudy, one of the republican candidates for' senator, tomight issued a statement declaring the election of Teller fllegal. He defends the action of the anti- Wolcott members of the house In tailing to seat the republican contestants from Denver én the ground that such action would have caused the unseating of all republican senators and blocked necessary legislation. He says the campalgn of 1902 was made upon the distinct understanding that Mr. Wolcott would not be a candidate for senator, and that “if he had not come into this fight there wduld have beem no factionalism and in all ppobability Mr. Teller would not. Yol PRISONERS SAW WAY OUT Death of the Sheriff Gives Men in Mitehell, South Dakota, Jail = Chane DENVER, election aturday | Haggott shook MITCHELL, §. D., Jan. 26.—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—A jail delivery took place in this city last night and a very fmportant pris- oner made his escape. Jack Sully and Fred Baer, the two in- mates, were released from the prison and no trace of them can be found. They were | assisted by outside parties, who sawed the | lock from an outside door that is rarely [used, and then sawed thelr way into the Jail At 4:30 in the afternoon the deputy sheriff saw Sully in the jall corridor and when the deputy returned at 7 o‘clock the jail was empty and an investigation re- vealed that the prisoners had gone. Tele- phone messages were sent in all directions to intercept the fugitives. Sully is the noted cattle rustler who has operated on the Sioux reservation, west of Chamberlain, for a number of years and in that time has made way with hundreds of cattle. He has always been able to es- | cape the officers, or has stood in with | them to the extent of having escaped ar- Test. Last summer Sully was arrested at Ver- aigrie, Neb., where h chad driven a large number of cattle and had sold them to Omaha dealers. He was brought back to Lyman county and later placed in the Mitchell fail for safe keeping. It is believed that the plan for the de- livery bas been in operation for several days and the fact that Sherift Brooks died Saturday afterncon gave Sully's friends a chance to work all the better. It was not a difficult matter to saw through the iron bars that held them captives Baer was sent here from Alenandria to serve a sentence for ninety days. With only an hour's start of the officers, Jack Sully, the notorious cattle rustler who broke jail here last night, has so far eluded all efforts to locate him. Not the faintest trace could be secured of him after he left the jail, about 6:30 in the evening. It Is belleved that three par- ties were connected In the delivery, one of whom sawed the bars to the outer door and | the other two who watched and spirited ! him away. | Today the deputy sheriff made another | discovery in the condition of the jail. Sully had taken a bar from one of the cells and broke the plaster on the south- cast wall. He then picked out the mortar and the stones and had a passageway large enough for him to pass through. Evidently he was not aware of the help he was get- ting trom the outside. |MEMBERS NOT JACK RABBITS | Utah Legislators Officially Censure Paper Which Oriticises An Vaceination. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan house of the legislature tod: objection to its members being compared | to jack rabbits. | The objection was in the form of a set | of resolutions severely censuring a Salt | Lake City paper, which on Saturday pub- lished an article stating that wemopers ‘rom Pete county “could change places witi jack rabbits and the legislature would be strengthened by the preseuce of thelr sub- | stitutes.” On account of the uravalerce of small- pox agitation In faver of compulsory vac- cination has been strong and (he repre- sentatives from San Pete county vigorously opposed the movement. —The lower | y made formal =27, | for SINGLE lml EN PAGES ) TAX LEVY FOR THE SCHOOLS Board of Educatien Deocides to Ask for Two and Three-Tenths Mills. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast fc In West Pe day Nebraska with Enow Fair in Bast, Snow Colder Wedn: mperature at Omaha Yesterday: FINANCE COMMITTEE MAKES ESTIMATES Fignres that the Needs of the Vario Departments of the Public School System Will Require Out Iny of $507,850. RELIEF FOR FAM!NE VlCTIMS Swedes of Nebraska Have Sent About Two and three-tenths mills is fhe lovy{ that the Board of Education will ask the city council to make for school putposes the coming year. In thir action the board will follow the recommendation of its committee on finance Member W. R. Homan offered as a eub stitute for the committee report a resolu organ‘zed months ago tion to commit the board to ask for a levy | purpose, have ralsed about § 0 for the of only two mills, but the motion to sub- | people of their native land who are suffer- stitute was lost by a vote of 2 to 10, Mr. | Ing as the resuit of crop fallures last sum Mclntosh vot with Mr and | mer. Judge Stenberg, as head of the voting Human Messrs. Andreesen, Levy and Maynard being | clety, is sending the money at ent adoption of the orig- | 1,000 crowns per week to Sweden 00 to the Suffering People. The Swedes of Nebraska, through a so- | cloty two where it cory for the | the vate of | | framed at | noon, | Teach: i Pollce court fines Then on th inal report, Mr. McIntosh voted aye, leav- ing Mr. Homan alone in the negative. The report of the finance committee w a meeting held yesterday after- which all members of the board were invited to attend, and most of them were present at least a portion of the time. The committee presented an estimate of the needs the various departments of the school system for the coming year as base upon the expenditures of previous years and the needs of the coming year which are already apparent Estimate of Expenses, This detalled estimate is as follows Advertising s Architect’s wers o Books Gartage sus onime Conatruction Drawl kindergirien upplies Election expense tric power amining committee 5) ixpress and frelght v LB Fuel ‘ 000 Furniturc and fixtures . Smprovemen insurance premiums .. Interest and exchange Janitors §.ght and ‘toel gas Maps, charts and globes Printing ... H Plano rent and umlnx e Rent ... Repairs ... Salaries, officers and clerks Special taxes ... i Statlonery and suppifes . and’ music .00 14,000 200 7500 1,859 I 100 0 0,00) 000 Miscellaneoue ... “ond redemption insurance fund . Total { Following Is the summarized estimate of probable expenditures for the year: For support of schools ... 472,850 For ercction and furnishing of nchool bulldings .. 25,000 For the creation of siniing fund.> )0 50,000 ¥or payment of interest on bonds and . 50,00) 307,850 warrants . Total Estimate of Resources. The committee estimate of the resources of the school department for the coming ow: Miscellancous licenses interest on funds Rent ... Miscellaneous sources .. Sale of junk, etc.. Nonresident tuition . “tebate on interest ... Tax collections, 2.3 miil levy Total In the absence of Mr. Maynard, chatrman | fot the finance committee, the report was submitted by Dr. Christie, who moved its | adoption. Mr. Homan moved as a substi- tute for the report a resolution, as follows: ‘Whereas, the school year ending June 30, 187, s shown in th 9 and the ave 2 and the average per pupil; and Whereas, For the school year endl June 30, 1002, the expenses were $574,72 the average attendance 14,863 and the a age expense per pupll $36.85, or $8.50 per 100 ‘200 1,000 age dafly att expense $28.3 pupil increase In the expense per pupll in | the course of five years; ana Whereas, For the year ending June 20, 1897, the average number of teachers em- ployed was 322, with an average of forty pupl® to the teacher, and for the year end- ing June g0, 192, the average number of tegehers was 418, with an average attend- ance of less than thirty-six puills to the teacher; and Whereas, It the attendance ha been kept up to the average of forty puplls to thp cacher the saving, would be 335,000 per year; therefore be it Regolved, That the expenses of vy methods ols may be reduced of nomy and the city councll be asked to | make @ levy of but 2 mills for the coming Y Homan Urges Ecomomy. Mr. Homan made a long argument in support of his substitute, quoting from the reports of past years to substantiate his statement that the expenses of the schools had been higher than need be. He thought that if the levy was small the tendency woul@ naturally be toward economy, while the larger levy would be conducive to ex- travagance. Dr. Christie took issue with Mr. Homan and sald that while that gentleman was very ready to come in at this time and charge the committee with having been extravagant in its estimate, he had had nothing to say in the afternoon committee meeting as to how that estimate could be reduced. All of the members had been invited and requested to attend the meet- ing and make suggestions, and that was the proper time and placa for Mr. Homan to say what he had to say on this subject and suggest how the levy could be reduced Dr. Christie said that although Mr. Homan was very severe in his arraignment of the former board for its expenditures, he was himselt a member of the finance committee and presumably sanctioned the expendi- tures, and even now be did not suggest any definite means of cutting down the ex- penditures. He did not say which teachers might be discharged or which schools might be closed up, or in fact suggest any means of reducing expenses Superintendent Makes Statement. Superintendent Pearse was called upon for a statement as to the average number of puplls per teacher and the average ex- pense per pupil. In the course of his re marks he reminded Mr. Homan that he had in a conference of members of the board within the week proposed a levy of 23% mills for school purposes. Mr. Pearse quoted statistics to show that the average | number of pupils to the teacher in the Omaha schools is as large as in eny of the other cities of its size and the cost per pupil as small. He said that the cholce of 1897 as a year for comparison was not fair, from the fact that at that time the city was suffering most from the hard times and the school board took unnatural means of reducipg expenses, such as hold ing only half-day sessions in the kinder- gartens and lower grades. In correction of some of the other facts (Continued on Second Page.) 12,500 | 300 7.8 | the | the is 18 received by King Oscar. | can be sent the | and there is enough in sight | tain that it can be sent at that rat least two months from time. | According to word reccived from Stveden by Omahba partics, the greatest trouble not to care for the suffering | time, but their live enough grain The center Qistress fe the town of Gallivara, which is located miles north of the Arctic circle, in which in ordi- { nary years produces enough grain and live the inhabltants, but this grain nd live stock of peculiar varieties, by long cultivation adapted the extreme | northern climate, the | mature and the cattle able to the most part on the twigs of the trecs whick cover the northern peninsula and the mosses which cover the ground. Thoy reed, however, a certain amount of hay, and this | has completely failed. It is fearcd that | the seed and the stock is consumed be- tween now and the making of the next crop it will be almost impossible to arclimatize other grain and other stock to the couniry, relief board created by hoped that the money ame rate until July, to make cer- » for 1t s people save stock for seed a country | stock for ubsist for “mnl for this reason the royal board desires to supply the people of the stricken dis- trict with provisions until they can pass ) | another harvest. | Omaha has raised about $2,000 of the fund in the hands of the local society and Chi- | cago has contributed about $15,000 to the { relle{ fund. The total amount sent from | the United States up to this time {8 #bour | $50,000. |CAPITOL LODGE CELEBRATES of Forty-Sixth Anniversary by Orgnanization Masons Observes Giving Banquet. One of the most pleasant Masonic re- unfons of the year was the celebration last night of the forty-sixth anniversary of Capitol lodge, No. 3, the oldest Ma- sonic lodge in the city, as Nebraska lodge, No. 1, was located at Bellevue for many before being moved to Omaba. was spread at 7 o'clock. W. A. DeBord was toastmaster, and after the feast intro- duced George W. Lininger, one of the old- | est members of the lodge. Mr. Lininger ! entertaied the 200 assembled Masons with | a briet history of Capitol lodge and some recollections of early Masonry in Nebraska. The second epeaker was Edward J. Cor- | nish, who spoke of “Masonry and Democ- racy.” John J. Mercer, who was to have | responded to the toast, “The Acacia,” was unable to be present, and his place was | filled by Henry Hardy, whose treatment of | the subject was well received, though ex- | temporaneous. “The Square and Compass” | was the theme of Isaac R. Andrews and “The Lambekin Apron,” that of Rev. Lu- ther M. Kuhns. During the evening songs were sung by Daniel H. Wheeler, jr., and Jo F. Barton | and Instrumental sol played by E. O. Pederson and Ernest Nordin. APPOINTS NINE NEW FIREMEN | Fire ana Police Board Includes Four Former Members in the List. At the meeting of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners Monday evening nine new members were appointed to the fire department, as follows: Thomas Murphy, Pat Roche, Ed A. Burmester, M. C. Kotch, G. L. Fox, C. Cummings, R. D. Gray, Bd Car and August Gutter. Murphy, Bur- mester, Fox and Car were formerly in the department. Four policemen were brought before the commissioners for having left their beats while on duty. The violators of the police rules were Patrolmen James Cusick, M. J. Sullivan, Willlam Good and A. F. Lambert. Each pleaded gullty to the charge and was fined two days’' pay. LOTTERY TO PAY SOLDIERS of Ra tisfy Revolu- tionary Clatms, Cubnns Propose New Me: ing Funds to HAVANNA, Jan. 26.—The majority of the house of representatives and the peo- ple in general are In favor of a govern- ment lottery to guarantee the loan for the payment of the soldiers. The scheme, however, would be veteed by President Palma, and the passage of the bill to pro- vide for the payment of the loan through {nternal revenue is probabl | | bonds, running for forty years at the mini- mum price of 90 per cent. Congregationali; Omaha Man So Pleased with Preaching that Call is Probable. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Jan mittee of the First Congregational church of this eity recently visited Omaha, Neb,, to listen to the preaching of Rev, Edward Trefz of the Kountze Memorial church The committee has reported favorably and it is belleved that the church will extend a call Movements of Ocean Vessels Jan, At New York—Arrived from Havre: Soutlgumpton; of sta, from Gen At Hamburg—Sailed—B: ¥ 1 ik At Liverp York: Tritonla, from 8t. John, N, BE., Halitax. Balled—Armenian, for Boston. At Glasgow—Balled- Monogollan, for St. {Iohn, N. B.; Oreadian, for Portiand. 26. ~La Champagne, Minneapolis, from London and Etruria, from Kingston; City trom Savannah; Phoenicfa, ulgaria, for New Arrived—Ivernia, from D at (his | of the | grain being quick to | it This bill proposes the issue of 6 per cent | [BINGHAMTON WANTS TREFZ | 26.—A com- | THREE (‘ ENTS. 'NEW BILL FAVORED Sentiment of Revenue Committee Opposed to Tinkering the 01d Law, GOSSIP ABOUT THE KANSAS MEASURE Small Attendance Delays Action on Questicn of Leasing Gragzing Ldans. MADE SPECIAL ORDER FOR THIS MORNING Patent that Sentiment is Practically Unani- mous Against It SPIRITED DEBATE OVER PRINTING House Wants to Lett t the ¢ Know More About ntract and Why Are Not Promptly Ret rned, (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)— My judgment s that we will rec- entirely new bill rather than roviglon undertaken by amending old law,” sald a member of the sub- of the joint house and senato committees on revenue revision tonight. This rubcommittee, which was appointed to decide whether a whole new bill or sim- ply amendments should be attempted, had a The members sald no decisfon was reached as one committeeman Senator Pemberton—was absent. He was absent because of his inability to lo- | cate the meeting, so carofully was it guarded The member quoted also asked not to be | understood as making a decisive statement as to the attitude of the committee, but be showed plainly by his remarks that the sentiment inclines toward complete nue revision. “There are forty amendments in the prosent revenue code,” sald he, “and I am convinced that it would be unwise to patch it any more. Thig legislature had better simply make an out and out new law. Oh, of course, I don't mean to throw away the old law enfirely. It contains some good features that could and should be used to advantage in drafting the new statute In answer to a query as to his opinion of the proposed Kansas revenue bill, which is indorsed and supported by the Union Pacific as a good law for Nebraska, this | representative satd: “I think In most respects it fs a good bill. T have read it carefully, and believe it would equally meet the needs of thiy state. I don't know why the Unfon Pa- cific or any other corporation that is ac- cuged of tax shirking should exert its en. ergy in behalf of this measure. I see moth- {ng In it encouraging to a person or cor- poration looking to evade a just share of taxation." A fusionist member of the legislature | has made this observation of the Kansas Union Pacific bill: “It looks to me llke the fairest and most economical method of revenue legls. lation 1 have ever seen. 1t certainly is a fact fhat this bill, good - pushed by or. .bad, Je. being Vi Unfon Pacific lobbyTuts. One' of ‘these lob« bylsts was asked tonight if it was not the Union Pacific’s scheme to secure the In- dorsement of this blll, while still not wholly approving it, as & moans of de- feating any sort of revenue legislation. He smiled and said: “That's one way of looking at it. But the members of the joint revenue commitee insist that the legislature will | not and dare not fail to enact rome reve- nue law. ommend an reve the committee ue sec meeting. tpone Action on Leasing. Owing to irregular attendance, the house at 2 this afternoon decided to postpone o'clock this afternoon decided to postpone consideration of Governor Mickey's mes. sage on the Dietrich land leasing bill a special order, as was arranged for Sat- urday. The subject will be taken up to- morrow at 10 o'clock, Before dropping the matter for today, however, the house listened to the read- ing of several resolutions on this import- ant subject and every one Indloated clearly and beyond any doubt that the overwhelm- ing sentiment wgs against Senator Diet- rich’s bill and with the plan outlined by President Roosevelt and commended by Governor Mickey, namely, that a commi #loh of experts be appointed to Investigate the conditions of leasing and fencing graz- ing lands and report to the proper authori- { tles. In fact, a resolution of precisely this character was introduced by Shélly of Douglas. As the entire matter went over for consideration tomorrow this resolution was not acted on, Although the general feeling among the legislators is that the unfriendly attitude manifested by Governor Mickey In his me sage last week practically puts this bill aside 8o far as this session of congress is concerned, as was stated by The Beo's staft correspondent in Washington, there is an evideut desire that the Nebraska legisla- ture place itself squarely on record as being unalterably opposed to this propos- tion and for that reason the members who are most active in the matter are not dis- posed to “speak easy.” When the matter comes up At tomorrow morning's session, therefore, disapproval of the house may bo looked for in strong and forcible lan- guage. It is quite lkely that the Shelly resolution will be adopted and not at all improbable that it will go through without a dissenting vote. Makes Thi This was “Missourl” day in the house. The members wanted to “bo shown” some interesting and pertinent things in con- nection with the contract by which t house printing is done. For some moments the stssion resembled an old-tlme Meth- odist experfence meeting and then at other periods it had the appearanco of an indignation rally. Some days ago the house instructed its committee on public printing to ‘nvesti- gate the printing contract, by whom it was {let, to whom snd under what conditlons Today that committee reported, through its chairman, Anderson of Knox. This caused the ruffie. Mr. Anderson sald :hat the contract was let by the state printing board, composed of the state auditor, (reas- urer and secretary of state, ani was let to the State Journal company, which con- cern was to print the bills for $1.34 a page for 500 cog as wae stated some days ago in The Bee. The contract further spe- cified that the printers should return bills within three days or forfeit a fine of 325 for eachd fallure so to do. It was Inei- dentally mentioned in the report that the price two years ago for this work was only DRE Pending consideration of this report, Good of Nemaha introduced a reselution that the employes and officers of the house be subordinated and subjected to the direc- | tlom of the chief clerk, and Gresg of Wayne Interesting.