Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 1

L1 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. "ABLISHED JU N OMAHA, GH\ER AL MliEg Bts“coum}:ss; OF ESSEX 'slmnes Ball G by Lord Rosebery. E WATCH OVER KAISER MUST CURB TRUSTS Small Army of Guards en Duty Every Time President Prepares to Oall Special Bession He Goes Out on the Street. to Oonvene en March 6. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ~|TAX BILL NOT DONE ka—Fair and Warmer THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast Sune SEEK THE SECRET OF OLD AGE Investigation by Government Brings Out Some Queer for Nebras y; Snow M Grand en Olawse Regarding Telephones is the One Bticking the Special Committes LEAVE RAILROAD CLAUSE AS IN OLD LAW Has More Invitations in Londen Than He Page % 1 1 Keep Miles Busy While in London, Gan Find Time to Accepte Emperor William Always Guarded Pre ent May Cal Revenue Bl is Not Completed. Kinkald Dislikes Office Brokerage. Venesuelan Matters Look Brighter. ews from Neb kn Town yan Will Not Ent with & or. Montreal Strike Settled Again. Rallronders Deny Story of Strike. Howell the Boss of Democracy. New Charne { Sadler Drama, or the Starving in Ru ‘s at South Omaha. ceement on Commerce Bill Sues U on Pacific for Milllons, Week in Omaha Soclety, Echoes of the Ante Room. Dance Manager Lands in Jail, Commerce of the t Year, Blufis and Town News, Hound to Re Cheaper. “A Wireless Proposal.” & News of the Day. War on Crooked indian 2 Sulty of Turkey Mak Good Move (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) | LONDON, pp. 7.~(New York World Ca- blegram—8pectal Telegram.)—The countese of Essex, who before marriage was Adela Beach Grant of New York, took some very valuable jewelry with her when she went this week to Dublin to attend some of the | brilliant gatherings of Viceroy Dudley's | Irish court. Her costly- gems have been { resot recently, and when she wore them | ALL OF THEM ARE PICKED MEN FROM ARMY the other night at the grand ball given | | by Lord Rosebery for his son on the latter's coming of age she made a decided sensa- tion. Her head and neck presented a truly dazzling spectacle, so covered was she with jewels, Next to the royalties | the largest purchasers of precious stones in London, and they show a fastidious choice, not the rule with English women. Princess Hatzfeldt, daughter of C. P Huntington, is in London now, baving all her dlamonds and sapphires completely overhauled and reset, as the fashions have changed considerably in Paris in mounting Press Publishing Co.) DRESDEN, Saxony, Feb. 7.--(New Yofk World Cablegram—Speefal Telegram.)—An extremely interesting investigation, under- taken with a view to solving, if possible, tho secret of age, has been completed by the Saxon government. The life histories of seventy-three persons over 90 years old, living in Dresden, have been studied. Twenty-three are men, fifty are women. First of all It was ascertained that the men are or have been married and all are sons of parents who lived to a great age. The majority are of medium height. Not one is bald, but scarcely any hi a tooth in his head, though the gums are so hard they chew ordinary food. Few can read without spectacles, the majority are deaf. Only one-fourth are still able to take exercise in the open air. At home they are almost all busybodies. All the old people questioned sald they sleep eight or nine hours daily, Out of the seventy-three only five are of a serlous dis- position, the others being gay and jolly. (Copyright, 198, by . ROCKEFELLER PRECIPITATES DECISION Six Senators Receive Telegrams Bigmed with Oil Magnate's Name. ATTENDS SEVERAL BRILLIANT DINNERS | MOVE QUICKLY AND WITHOUT DISPLAY Guest of King Edward at Windsor Oastle | Among the Other Funotions. PAYS A VISIT TO BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW Attract No Attention, but Are Watching Methods of Revenue Committee the Oause Everywhere for Danger, of Muoch Adverse Comment. MESSAGES STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY ACTION OPPOSITION TO NEW BILL IS CERTAIN { | - Combine's Attorney Waits on Legislators, but is Buadled Out ‘Moot There Beveral Indians with Who He Railroad and Train Inspected with Minute Had Arguments in the Past. Oare When He Travels. Members Who Are Drifting Back to Lincola Speaking Out Freely. 'VICKER-MAXIM GUN WORKS ARE VISITED While There He Witnesses Exp ments with Two New Guns the Firm is Turning Out, the Americans are GUARDS MET EVERYWHERE IN THE PALACE | CONGRESS APPROACHED IN MANY WAYS DOUBT WHETHER MEASURE WILL BE LEGAL Counc! Thewe Are the Most Trusted of All the Men Who Are Selected to See No the Ever Since B Were Introdnce, Efforts Have Been Made to De- feat or Render Them Power- less to Protect Public. Time Allowed 1 ufclent to Pre- pare Such a Bill, Especially When Law of Other State the B One Harm Befalls German Ruler, ), (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telegram.) — General Miles had his hands more than full with his engagements here. The desire to do him honor was so great that he was unable 10 accept a twentieth part of the invita- tions. He found time, however, to visit “Buffalo Bill's” show at the Diympia with the United States charge d'affaires, Henry White, Captain and Mrs. - Clover, Colonel and Mrs. Maus, where most of the party went in the Deadwood coach. The general met at the Wild West show Indlans he fought against in some of his memorable campaigns, and they showed delight at being permitted to shake his band. General Miles began the week by becom- ing King Edward's guest at Windsor castle on Sunday, as has been already cabled to the World. Then Henry White's dinner 10 him at the Carleton hotel brought to- gether a company of very distinguished people. On Thursday the general's party dined with the Clovers in Park Lane, after- ward going to Daly's theater to see the “Country Girl."” It may be noted here that there Is a good deal of regret in a wide circle of friends here that Captain Richardson Clover, the naval attache to the United States embassy in London, and his wife are to leave London in April. Captain Clover’s three yeara' term of service is up, and he will now take a term at sea. Mrs. Clover and the children will return to Washington, but before leaving Burope they will go to the south of Frence for several weeks, as Mrs. Clover requires rest after an anxious time nursing her eld- est daughter through an attack of pneu- monia. General Miles visited the Vickers-Maxim works Thursday to witness some jmpor- tant experiments with an entirely new Maxim gun, embodying many noveities, in- cluding & device arranged so as (o be worked as & wheeled, galloping carriage or for pack transport. After & few hundred rounds had been ‘the gua, in k tirely stripped, the barrel and other parts of the mechanism being removed in a few seconds. It was then reassembled as quickly as it had been taken apart, and the firlng was resumed, In order to show with what ease the mechanism could be either removed or reassembled without using any tool. The general then witnessed a series of experiments with a mountain gun, the equipment of which was dismounted from mules, brought into action and fired five rounds in one minute and forty-five sec- onds, the time being taken from begluning to do the unpacking from the mule. The shells were set and burst accurately at 100 yards from the target Among the guests speclally Invited to meet General Miles were meveral officers trom the War office and others who re cently commanded British expeditions in east and west African campaigns. General Miles traveled from Euston sta- tion by the special boat expréss to Liver- pool and there boarded today the steam- ship Lucania for New York. REMARKABLE BALLOON TRIP Thirty Hours, (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—Jacques Bal- san, a young and rich adventurer who once commahded & Chilean guunboat, has just made a remarkabls aerial journey with Abel Corot, another Frenchman. The two feft St. Cloud Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock I the balloon Si. Louls. They had plenty of f00d, a small bed In four plecs & mattross and a safety stove, the inven tion of Balsan, which provided the aeronauts with hot water. Traveling before a west- erly wind they passed rapidly toward the frontier and at uightfall were over Ger- man territory, finally coming to earth in Hungary, fifty-five miles southwest of Buda-Pest, having covered 807 miles in thirty hours. LAY PLANS FOR A FAST TRAIN Ninety-Four Miles Per templated Betw. d Brassels. Hour Paris Ce (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Fob. 7.—(New York World Ca. blegram—Speclal Telegram.)—Some French and Belglan engineers are working on a scheme to reduce the time of the journey by rail between Paris and Brussels, 191 miles, from eix to two hours, by electric trains, €0 that Parisians may lunch at home, take a train to Brussess, transact ,business there and return to Paris for dinner. The cost each way is to be $4. The system will be double track, with acoumn- lators on the cars, united with each other by cables. All cars are to be first class. The termini will be in the center of busi- Dess in each city. cluding stops. ZGOELETS EXPECTED IN PARIS After & Short Stay They Wi South of France Until Time in June. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ci * Dlegram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs. Ogden “Goelet and her daughters are expected at + the Hotel Ritz in the fore part of March. + After a short stay here they will go south to Cannes, returning to Parls at the begin- Bing of April and remaining until June. precious stones. The trip will be made at | the speed of ninety-four miles an hour, in- | Mrs, Dominguez, formerly a Miss Murphy of San Francisco, has had her pearl and diamond clusters all set and polished in gold, which shows up the pearls, glving to them a much richer appcarance. Princess Hatafeldt fs having her jewelry similarly reset, to be ready for the first court early in March. Mrs. Chauncey, who is buylng new jew- els, including a splendid tiara, probably will be presented at court by Lady Saville or Lady Lister Kaye. Her sister, Lady Newborough, will be presented also on ace count of her marriage. Mre. Peter Martin (Lillle Oelrichs) of New York, who just returned to the United States after a long honeymeon in Europe, spent chiefly in Italy, is the fortunate pos- sessor of ‘some highly valuable emeralds, and while passing through London her hus. band bought her some exquisite “trifies among them a very fine dlamond necklace. CHAMBERLAIN OFFENDS BOERS Wite's Acceptance of Package of Diamonds Also Com Mistake. (Copyright, 188, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telegram.) — Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's mission to South Atrica 1s regarded with misgiving from a pacificatory peint of view, even by his own partisr.as. He has made several lamentable dispiays of temper toward the burghers, ac- cepting as gospel everything told him by Milner and the capitalist loyalists, while recelving with cutting skepticism the rep- resentations of the Boers. Mrs. Chamberlain’s accepting a present of a parcel of diamonds from the DeBeers company directors, nominally worth only $1,000, but said to be fully valued at $50,000 at least, has excited much unfavorable comment as being calculated to convey a false impression to the Afrikanders as to the disinterestedness of their imperial gov- erpors, ‘why sion, of which so -M'I?‘m’?d is now deemed a fallure. Instead of soothing racial and po- litieal animosities in South Africa it will leave fresh memories of strife and hatred. ARMY IS BOUND TO CLAIM HIM Frenchman Horn in United States (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—A Paris chem- ist named Borel, aged 31, born In the United States of French parents, has been imprisoned here for not fulfilling the re- quirements of the French military law. In spite of his protests he was three times inscribed on the conseription list. Finally, at the age of 27—six years after the usual time—he was summoned to do military wervice and obliged to join a regiment in Algeria, where he rose .to be corporal. After eighteen months' service he was liberated by special decision, but in 1902 was agaln ordered in service. Having once been ' relieved from all military duty, he refused to obey the summons. The recruit- ing authorities ordered an inquiry and Borel was arrested. His papers are per- tectly regular and bear mention of his full lberation from further service. Neverthe- less Borel has been informed that he will have to appear before a court-martial at Tours for rebellion against the army regu- lations. HUNTS PICTURES AND CURIOS Richard Canfle with Investing His Cash the Lom Denlers, (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 7.—(New York World blegram, Special Telegram.)—Richard Can- fleld 1s still staying at Claridges. tically his whole time s devoted to hunt- ing plotures and curios. He has pald two long visits to the Wallace collection, the finest show of seventeenth snd eighteenth century French furniture and pictures in England, and has passed much time in the galleries of classie sculpture and sixteenth art at the British museum. Nearly all the time he is alone, but oc- casionally he has with him an artist or dealer to whom he gives commission for coples of objects that strike his fancy. He is particularly interested In fine old ivory carvings, and his taste is said by dealers to be unimpeachable. He has made large purchases of the curio dealers on Bond street. His present plans point to a stay in London of two or three months' longer. {GENERAL SAUSSIER. RETIRES Veteran of Twenty-Four Cam Lays Down Labors at Age of Seventy-Five. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. —(New York World Ca- blegram—S8pecial Telegram.)—General Saus- sler, once generalissimo of the French |army and latterly a member of the su- preme council of war, has tendered his resignation because of his age—he is 76— and in the interest of his health, he thinks it best to retire from the army. General Sauseier left the military school fof St. Eyr in 1850 with the rank of sublieu- tenant. He distinguished himself in the campalgns of the Crime: in Mexico, In Italy and o the Frane sslan war. He fought in twenty-four campaigns in all and bears three wound: He would have been retired ten years a but the government kept him in the first section of the general stafl because he had been commander-in- chief in the face of an ememy, Prac- | (Copyright, 1908, by Press Pubiishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—To secure the kalser's safety from accident or ene- mies is the most important task committed to the minister of the Interfor. The kalser will pot tolerate any visible fuss about these protective measures. They must be complete, effective, certain, but not in ev dence. He got out of his carriage at the Branden- burg gate the other day to speak to some mother he means to erect there. Suddenly he noticed that the traffic of that lvely quarter began to slacken and at last ceased. He looked around, and, seeing po- licemen stopping carirages, cabs and foot passengers, gave the police master to un- to be arranged for in that tactless, awk- ward manner. The kalser’s security Is the sole concern and work of a special wing of the Berlin police, numbering about 250 men. All ate picked men, of whose fidelity there can be no doubt, men who have been under the closest observation for years in the army, powerful, sharp sighted, well educated, with prodiglous memories for faces and volces. Twenty officers are set over these men, mostly retired military men, sharp and shrewd. In: addition there are about 200 men whose duty it is to appear in plain clothes among the people when the kaiser drives out and keep a sharp ear for hostile utterances Guards Along Route. When the court officials hear from the kalser that he intends to drive out they telephone the police the hour when he will appear. Immediately the entire 450 men are in motion. In an incredibly short time they take positions slong the kalser's route, each man within signalling distance of a comrade, facing the direction from which the kalser is expected. 1t the weather is fine the kalser drives in an open, two-horse Victoria. The rate s rapid, m .g;ldmn}uanm Joct .dars. . but there is noth! breakneck about it. On the box sit coach- man and liebjaeger, or body guardsman, both armed with revolvers. The coschman is an ordinary enough jehu, but the leb- Jneger is resplendent in cocked hat and White feathers, and is a man of great bodily activity and btrength. In front of the cai policeman, his eyes glaneing rapidly right and left up streets, down streets, shouting directions to clear crossings, to stop tram cars, carts and droskies. At every cross etreet a policeman stands, and dotted all along the route are those rigid, stern, watchful men, thelr keen | eves not regarding the kaiser as he passes, | but the crowds on the sidewalks. The precautions are most stringent when | he is traveling. When he was in Posen | lately a etrong body of the select Berlin police was in the city a week before he {arrived. They carefully surveyed the route and noted every balcony and window. They are afrald of balconies and windows. They scoured hotels and lodging houses, espe- | clally those frequented by the lower orders. and final'y knew every man from whom a wicked deed or disloyal word might be ex- pected. Day and night they kept up their restless labors. As in Posen, so In every ity visited. During his journeys equally vigorous precautions are in force. It 1s not so bad as in Russia, where whole army corps are ordered out to line the railways. But there is always a pilot engine in front of the impefial train, and sharp-eyed men are on it on the lookout for any point which means treachery. At and about the railway stations strong bodies of police and gendarmes are posted d no one is permitted on the platforms. When the train glides through the usually bustling stations all the kaiser sees, if he looks out of the windows, is a deserted platform, except for a rigid soldier or two, an official or & gendarme standing painfully at the salute. The train itself has a staft of ekilled, carefully selected men to guard it and search it. Before & royal journey is begun the train 1s examined in every nook and corner. There is nothing that is not ransacked or tested-wevery cushion, spring and plece of turniture. The wheels are tested, brakes | and other appliances subjected to minute | examination. foresight can do it. Palaces. In the imperial residences at 4 Berlin it is only natural that the kaiser should be secluded and carefully guarded. The courts are patrolled by guardsmen and police, and the interior cor- ridors, especially near his apartments, are watched by the castle guard with lynx- eyed vigllance without parallel. Every man of the castle guard would dle at his post to sdve his master from danger. These men have been picked from the very elite of the most loyal men in the land. Their loyalty is a passion. It does not matter whether it is day or night, their steady tread moves ceaselessly over the carpets of the corridors, and their gleam- ing eyes, flashing swords, burnished ac- coutrements, their great, strong faces, sur- mounted by their helmets, over which the gllded imperial eagle spreads his wings, are terrifylng sights Amid the momentous complications of the Venesuelan trouble the kaiser finds time to model in clay reliefs for vases. The clay comes from his estate at Kadin- enen, in East Prussia, where he is setting up furnaces for manufacturing pottery. His successful efforts have been two re- lief portraits of his father and the Prussian eagle. To the latter he imparts & remark- ably ferocious aspect. He has also sketched new designs for the porcelaln works at Charlottenburg. They are of a flambuoyast cheracter, like all bis works in art or politios i L1 officials about the statues of his father and | derstand that his personal security was not | age gallops a mounted | Some are even sald to have been wild In | strict anti-alcoholist, |only a few in the number who are total abstainers. of a good family, thinks she eannot live The possibility of accident or | hotel has been chosen as evil design is eliminated as far as buman | dinner, as its rooms are | ster to Japan, is here on his way from | where he has been stationed. - He Potsdam | has his bride with him, and they have vis- ited the different intercsting places around their youth. The most unamiable an: quarrelsome of the lot is a woman wh in her youth was a ballet dancer. Nearl, hate water. For cleansing purpose they use it to wash their hands, but a bath is a thing they have renoulced, One of the Investigators, Dr. Weinert, One old woman, who come unless she gets drumk on schnapps thre times a week. The oldest man in,Dresden, who " likes a “little drunk.” ing sixty years ago. is 100 years of age, i¢ a total ab. He gavo up smok Some of the othe old men emoke, but the women do not, and they are the majority. Fresh air does no seem to be Indispensable to longevity, for the homes of these patirarchs are seldom even aired. All eat much and digest easily. All love vegetables, fruit and sugar. BARON ROTHSCHILD VERY ILL Has Been a Great Bemefactor to Poor of Vienna an of Ar a Patron Press Publishing Co. (New York World Ci blegram--Special Telegram.)—Baron Na thanial Mayer Rothschild, who is lyin critically i1l in Vienna, has been one of the greatest benefactors to the poor of thi; (Copyright, 1908, b: VIENNA, Feb. city, besides being a munificent patron of For some art, both ancient and modern. years the baron, who has been very deli cate, has passed the winters in a tent on desert near Assouan, and near the Nile, where he was guarded by an Arab tribe. The temptation to kidpap so rich a man was represented to him, but he had abso- lute faith in the integrjty of (he Arabs. His gardens at Hohenwurte, near here, are world famous and open to the public on e had an.as- certain days. Last summer bestos house built on L. peazottinlone of the. Y w Austrian Tyrol. This novel residence wa: designed as a shelter from the great heat of summer. It can be set up and taken t plecgs in a few hours. Until he lost bis health Nathanfal wa: one of the most prominent figures in Vi enna soclal life. As he Princess Paulin Metternich, nowned alike for a lady re her cleverness and he homeliness, acted as hostess for him. He is 66 years old. DATE OF CUNARD WEDDING SET Mrs, and a New Name Feb- ruary 24, (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co, LONDON, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca blegram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs. Flor ence Padelford's marriage to Ernest Cunard The bridal dress, Is set for February 24, & Worth gown, is being made in Paris. Al though a somewhat quiet-looking garmen its cost It is belng covered with rare and beautifu old lace. Cecll Campbell, Lord Stratheden's They will stay three son, will be best man. months at Nice, with the bridegroom’s tather and mother, who have a villa there. Mrs, Padelford has been considerable of an art collectof and has ‘a particularly rare collection of Dresden statues. The bride groom is said to be very wealthy, the bride has a fair share of this world’ goods, he means to settle a round sum on to touch a | penny of her own money while she is Mrs. her, so she may never need Cunard. PILGRIM CLUB TO DINE CHOATE Afftair Will Oceur o & Tour of the ) ranean. (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co. LONDON, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca blegram, Special club will entertain United States Ambas: dor Choate at dinner March 3, on his re turn from & tour of countries. Lord Roberts, the club, will be present la Liloyd C. Griscom, the new American min Persia, London. John Barrett, commissioner general of the Loutstana Purchase exposition at St. Louls for Asia and Australia, has arrived in Lon. don, and will remain for the Washingtos. dinner on the 23d. WONDERFUL ENGRAVING FEAT Young Russian Puts Words and Music (Copyright, 1308, by Press Publishing Co. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7.—(New York Telegram.)—A World Cablegram—Special marvel of engraving has just been accom plished by & youth of Odessa, who is known throughout South Russia for the extraordi nary precision of his work. On a grain of wheat he has engraved the music and lan national anthem, Every pote is alled to the mperlal court to show the czar the wondertul plecé of work, which is framed | falling over most of Kansas tonight in a tiny sliver setting. The ezar, amazed at the production, gave the engraver a gold Between words of the Ru with the aid of a lens. dotted and clearly defined. He was atch with his monagram on It. was grieved to find iner except on his birthdays, when he was unmarried, Padelford is to Get a Husband s said to run into three figures. and ag His Return from Telegram.)—The Pligrim the Mediterranean the president of The Hyde Park the place for the WASHINGTON, Feb. by authority that unless anti-trust legls- lation at least reasonably satistactory to the administration is passed at the present session, President Roosevelt will call an extraordinary session of congress on March 6 The president himself has told members of congress of his desire and of his de- termination in this regard and it is under- stood that the announcement was direct and unqualified. It is further stated that the determina- tion of the president was reached only after careful consideration of the strenuous ef- forts that are being made to defeat any anti-trust legislation by congress. These a —It can be stated 0 y s e r t r were characterized today by neat republican leader: “The most remarkable of which I have had any personal knowledge during my public life.” Messnges Signed Rockefeller. 'hese efforts culminated during the past thirty-six hours, it is now declared, in di- rect appeals from the Standard Oil com- pany, through its president, John D. Rock- efeller, to members of the senate not to enact ant{-trust legislation at this time. No less than six United States senators have recelyed telegrams signed ‘John D. Rockefeller,” urging that no anti-trust legislation be enacted. It has not been possible to obtaln a copy of these dis- patches, but it can be said that they are practically identical. Substantially they read as follows: We are opposed to any anti-trust legisla- tlon. Our counsel Mr. — will see you. It must be stopped. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. Yesterday morning one of the Standard Ofl company's lawyers arrived in Washing- ton and called immediately on members of the senate as indicated in the telegrams. He did not remain long. Scarcely had he made known his busin than he was in- f a bit curtly is presence was York. 01l Lawyers Seen B During the afterncon information con. cerning the receipt of the messages leakel out and became the subject of sohie quiet cloak room discussion in the senate. The news also reached the house, some of the prominent representatives learning the gist of the dispatches. Then it became known that this was not the first time the Stand- ard Oli company, through its attorneys, had endeavored to infiuence legislation in congress at this session. The attorueys for the company, it was one promi- ) g t s o r ment of the measures submitted by Attor- ney General Knox to the subcommittee of the house judiciary committee. Subse- quently, when what is known as the Little- fleld bill was reported to the house, it can be said, on the best of authority, the Standard Oll company’s counsel began to devote their opposition particularly to the Nelson amendment to section 6 of the de- partment of commerce bill, the amendment which contains practically the publicity teatures of the Knox enti-trust bill. They @id not want that Incorporated in the meas- ure and it is said used thelr utmost efforts to prevent its fayorable consideration. Al Effortd Have Falled. They were unsuccessful, as the bill, with that amendment, was agreed upon unani- mously today by the conference of the two branches of congress. The action of the conferees was recelved with satistaction, it 1s understood, by the officigls of the ad- ministration, as it is regarded as a long and essential step toward the kind of anti- trust legislation that both the president and Attorney General Knox belleve will be effective. It ie this legislation particu- larly that the Standard Oil company so vigorously objects to and which it hoped might be headed off or emasculated, through the appeals made to senators, before it was actually passed. It is sald by authority that the adminis- tration hopes that the Elkine rebate bill, which was p will be passed also by the house. While this measure, too, is opposed by ‘hose who are opposing any trust legislation, the special opposition to it does not come from the Standard Ofl company, because, it is explained, that corporation has grown be- yond the effects the enforcement of such | legisiation might have upon it The president, it Is understood, regards the Elkins bill as essential to a rounding out of the administration's plan for anti- trust legislation, and it is believed by those in close tough with him and with the con- ditions in congress that it yet may be en- acted Into law. Tonight the efforts being made to defeat or emasculate pending anti-trust leg tion formed the subject for some animated conferences. Indeed, the subject is Itkely to be developed in some detail in congress One of the reciplents of telegrams signed by Johp D. Rockefeller sald: No such formidable weapon ever has been put in the hands of one man by another n a legislative matter as was put in my hands by the sender of that telegram. If necessary I will rise in my place in the senate and read Iit. Then we will see )| whether any votes are to be recorded against the legislation at which these ef- forts are being directed SNOW FALLS KANSAS Wind Plles Drift t Tempera- e Fortunately Rem: i ) \ 14 ) TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 7.—A wet snow is In the western part of the state the fall is & foot deep. The wind 1s ausing it to drift, In the the two Is of Nicholas Il the engraver is | central and eastern portions of the state now engraving a long prayer for the czar's | much snow bas fallen, but the temperature d Safoly, taken from the Russlan liturgy. bhas not gone lower than 24 degrees above, efforts have covered a wide range. They | stated, had opposed vigorously the enact- | ed by the senate this week, | Weekly Review of Sports. Pletures of Famous Men. Stories Stimulate Reading. ummer Blooms 'n Winter. In the Domain of Woman. Amusements and Musie. Story, Famine Wants The Na ftorial. Seven Secrets.” Menncing Finland, for Time in Jail Law Bovks. operative Colonies. n Sabbath Schools. used by Errors. Markets and Financial, Bridge Contractor Strikes Snag. 22 3 24 Hour. 5 a. 6 a. 7 a. % . » n 10 a. 11 a 12 m. WILL PROTECT AMERICANS Committee Takes p the Cause of Ameriean Raillroad Men in Mexico, The brotherhood relief committee ot Kan- «as City rallway orders, with headquarters at Kansas City, is now actively in opera- tion with its plan for investigating the al- leged mistreatment of American railroad- ers in Mexico, and of putting a stop to the practices of unjust incarceration of which complaint is made. The committee alleges that a railroad man from the United States who may be handling a train that has an accident and kills some an subject will be imprisoned for an ir“afinite length of time. It is eald that a subject of Great Brijain, meanwhile, is . no time denled the right to give bond, nor an impartial trial. | there, poses ralsing & fund to pay the expenses of a personal Investigation by the committee. It is stated thet frequent complaint has been made of this state of affairs to the American coneuls, but 1o no avail. The brotherhood relief committee is formed by the appointment of one member trom each of the local railway orders in Kansas City. It comprises a chairman, James Corrigan, from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, division 549; a man. ager and secretar Harry H. Adams; a consulting attorney, Ben R. Estill; a treas- urer, C. E. Hutchison, and three commit- teemen, W, H. Hollis of the Order of Rail- way Conductors, division N. 0. Harrle of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen No. 330, and Dock Swarm of the Brother- hood of Railway Tralnmen No. 281. COMMITTEE TQ PUSH TAX FIGHT Chairman of Mass Meeting Appoints Citizens to Work for House Roll 171, T. J. Mahoney, chairman of the railroad taxation mass mecting of cltizens Friday night, has, in concurrence with a resolu- tion adopted by that body, appointed the following committee of ten men to go to Lincoln and urge the passage of House roll 171: Lorenzo Crounse, Robert Smith, Victor Rosewater, Cherles H. Brown, Al- fred Millard, Thomas Kilpatrick, David Cole, Mel Uhl, Herman Kountze, W. H. Bell mittee held an informal meeting Saturday but determined upon no definite plan action. BURLINGTON SETTLES CASE Dise Eve of Speck Arranges mination Charge on Investiga- tion, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7.—Judges J. D. Youmans and C. A. Prouty, members of the Interstate Commerce commission, came to Kansas City today to hear a case brought | by Gilbert Barr, a mercnant of Kearney, Mo., against the Burlington rallroad. The allegation is that the railroad charged him the same rates to Chicago as it did Kansas City merchants. The case was set- tled by the attorneys, however, and the commissioners returned to St. Louis to- night. SAY CANNON Doctors Report IS IMPROVING rmer Utah Sena Now Likely to Recover Heulth, SALT LAKE CITY, Feb of ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon, who was operated on Tuesday for appendicitls, is reported to be greatly improved today and | strong hopes of his recovery are enter- | tained. 7.—The condition Movements of Ocean Vessels Feb, 7, At New York—Salled Havre: Zeeland, for Antwer, ampton;” Princess Victoria 1 for sau; Minnehaha, for London; Saxonia, for Liverpool; Biue Cher, for Plymouth, Cher- bourg and Hambus At Liverpool—Arrived—Winifredian, from Boston; Celtle and Nomadic, from New York. At Southampton — Arrived — Friesland, from New York At Queenstown—Arrived—Etruria, New York, and proceeded without municating with (he shore on severe weather for Liverpool At Cherbourg—Bailed—FPhiladelphia, Southampton and New York. At Antwerp—Salied—Vaderland, sork At Yokohama—Arrived—Indrapura, Portland, Ore.; At York At Boulogne—Arrived—Rotterdam, from New York, for Rotterdam. for ~La Touralne, via South- se. from com- account of for for New from Korea, from San Francisco. Havre—gailed—L Auritaine, for New Some of the members of this com- | of | | state purposes.” Nas- | (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 7.—(Special Tolegram.)— The revenue committee adjourned this afternoon without having completed its bl The most important section yet to be decided is that of telephone taxation, and on this question the committeo spent nearly the entire day. An effort was made to have the telephone taxed the same as railroads for county and state purposes and on this hinges the Aght. The Insurance companies received a se- vere jolt at the hands of the committeo and will be taxed on thelr gross roceipts for all purposes Instead of just receipts as at present, Real estate will be taxed at a sh | value and a penalty clause is attached to compel assessors to carry out the pro visions of the section. County assessors will be elected to serve four years and will have power to appolnt deputies. The | Douglas county assessor will receive a sal- ary of $1,800 a year, Realty taxes become due October 1 and delinquent May 1. Porsonal taxes become due October 1 and delinquent December 1. Cattle will be assessed in possession of owner between February 1 and July 1. The Board of Equalization was enlarged and its powers broadened. As was expected, the rallroad taxation was not changed, the committee leaving to the legislature the question of the city's right to tax terminals for city purposes. Several of the committee went (o their homes this evening and no meeting will be held tomorrow. Stenographers are getting in shape the sections agreed upon and it will be several days before the legialature sees the bill. The committee still re- fuses to make & statement. Actions Awaken Prejudice. The procedure of the revenue committes in framing a revenue law has awakened a prejudice agalnst the measure th: will be introduced even before the contents of the bill are known. A senator remarked today that no matter what kind of a bill would be Intro- it would be amended and and a fight ‘would be the result. It is the with which the committes has worked and its vacillating methods in in adopting standards that would be a good foundation for & revenue bill, as much as anything else that has caused this | prejudice. Some of the legislators are feel- | ing pretty wrathy now that the legislature adjourned to give the committee time to get up a bill. “If we had’not adjourned,” said one of these, ““the revenue committes | would have amended the Nebraska law to | suit and would have done it in a short time, and we would have known just what we | were doing. We would have been on the ground, and that is where we should have | been. Mark my words, it this legislature pasges an entire new revenue law made by | that committee it will pass & law that will | not be constitutional. It is mot probable, though it is possible, that any committee | of men like those we have, unused to such | work, can frame a revenue law in a week that will stand the test. Its members will find out when they get that bill before the legislature that we will not take all of it on falth.” wecrecy Probably Turns Omaha Down. Senators Hall and Umstead sald today that it was likely that the legislature would turn down the proposal of Omaha to tax the railroad terminals. Senator Umstead has just returned from his country home and said that his people, he believed, were vpposed to the bill. “They fear that it will reduce our tax collections,” he sald. *It we allow cities to tax terminals for clty purposes, it s more than probable that all the money thus taken in by the cities from the railroads for city purposes would be taken out of the assessment made by the State Board of Taxation for county and Both of these gentlemen claim to be open to conviction, however, and both admitted that they had not studied | the question carefully, and Senator Umstead #ald he had not heard the speeches of the advocates of the terminal taxation. When told of the fear of the senator that the Board of Equalization would take out the assessment of the terminals made by the city of Omaha from the assessmemt made by the beard for state and county purposes, one member of the hoard said: “While T have not looked over the mat- ter very caretully, that is, the bill that has | been introduced, at first glance I am of the impression that it {s a just measure, |and I am sure that if Omaha taxes the terminals on an assezsment of $15,000,000, as its citizens are cndeavoring to do for city purpeses, it would ust In my ! opinion it would not mal difference }m the rest of the state ia rcgard to thelr tax collections on raliroad property. It would not reduce the school tax, nor the county tax, nor the state tax collections. And if the bill becomes a law 1 don't sea why we as a state board of equall; fon should feel called upon to take out of our valuation that amount of money assessed on the terminals by the city of Omaha." Appeal to rejudice, The rallroads are using many and va- rious arguments with the legislators to be allowed to escape just taxatlon. The lobby is now making an endeavor to stir up an opposition against the city of Omaha by appealing to the political prejudices of | the legislators. “This is a republican le islature,” they say, “and look how Omaba knifed the republican c-ndidate for con- gress and the head of the republican ticket.” They are trying to show that it would be unwise politically to allow Omaba to levy a tax on the terminals for city purposes. “You owe nothing to Omaha,” they tell the legislators, “be- cause Omaha didn’t line up with & repub- lican congressman ard with a large major ity for the republican candidate for gov- ernor. Let Omaha appeal to the demo- |crats for ald, it has done mothing to merit anything at the hands of this re- publican legislature.” And, strange as it may seem, oven this kind of an arguwent will carry welght