Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1903, Page 1

) THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 187 1. 0 IAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 19¢C —TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. PUBLICITY ~ IMPOSED| House Adopts Oommeroe Bill as Amended by Benate in Joint Oonference. ONLY TEN VOTE AGAINST THE MEASURE Littlefield of Maine Joins With Nine Demo- orats in Seeking to Kill Proposal CALLS LAW TRUST SOOTHING SYRUP Ball of Texas Laughs at Rockefeller Tele- | grams and Nelson Amendment. WILL ENLARGE AND BEAUTIFY CAPITOL Cannon Desires to Spend 83,800,000 on New Offices for Members 2, 500,000 on Finishing Con- wressional Bulld! WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The bouse to- day adopted the conference repoyt on the Department of Commerce bill by 261 to 10, One republican, Mr. Littlefield (Me.), and nine democrats voted against it. Several democrats took the position that the Nelson amendment was a weak and ineffectual attempt. to provide for corpora tion publicity. Mr. Mann (fll.), on behalt of the republican trary, that it was a better measure of publicity than had been presented in any other bill. New Duildings Proposed. The remainder of the day was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr. Cannon, chairman of the appropriations committee, gave notice that at the proper time he would have two amendments, one to provide for the purchase of a site and | the erection of & three-story, 400-room of- fice bullding for members to be connected with the capitol by & subway and to cost $3,800,000, and the other an appropriation of $2,500,000 to carry out the original plans contended, on the con- | SWEDEN APPEALS FOR AID| United States Legation at tockholm to Colleet Conmtributions for Sufferers. LINDEBORG, Kan., Feb. 10.—Rev. Dr. C. Swenson, president of Befjiay college, today received a lengthy § from | the United States legation W x i Sweden. saying The undersigned, chairman of tHe mitice to collect contributions in Ameasss for the famine sufferers in northeW { Bweden, appeals to you in the name of Christian charity and of your love of old | Sweden to start collections in Kansas. { If a ehipload of provisions can be col- lected easier than money they will be received in New York and transmitted to | Sweden. Oats, rye, wheat, shelled corn, | potatoes, corned beef or sait pork will be acceptable. At least $1.000,0% Is necessary to avert | starving till next harvest Nn\r Just re- | | turned after a fortnight's traveling in the | stricken diatrict. My heart aches at the ‘“7"‘ of suffering witnessed drafts should be made payable Landshofding Bersirom, Lulea, Bweden. DAVID BELL. Dr. Swenson has just returned trom Topeka, where he had been to confer with Governor Bailey on the subject of relief, | and the latter will, it 1s said, take action officially in a day or two. | STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10.—Tne central com- mittee for the relief of famine sufferers |in Northern Bweden has received from America about $1 0. Besides this amount considerable sums have been sent to indi- viduals by American sympathizers for dis- tribution to the needy. | The American donations are under the express proviso that they are mot to be distributed in the shape of loans or for the payment of labor on the specially or- ganized relfef works. About $5,000 of Amer- | ican mcney has been expended in the pur- | chase of seed wheat, which has been di tributed in six of the most meedy prov- inces. The rest has been spent on food and in feeding poor scholars, The rellef committee says the misery | |18 more widespread than was anticipated | and estimates that $1,000,000 will be re- | quired. TRADE LEAVES BRITISH FLAG Ameriea and Germany Obtain Large South African Orders by to for beautifying and enlarging the main ‘wing of the capitol. The notable feature of tho general debate on the bill was a speech by Mr. De Armond Push and Enersy. (Mo.) on the Hanna bill to pension ex- slaves. He spoke in a sarcastic vein, but | the subject assumed a serious phase when Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) sald adveturers in the south were using the bill to impose op ignorant, credulous negroes, and called Mr. Cannon to give assurance that the passage of sugh & measure was mot con- templated. This assurance Mr. Cannon | gave, Sunday, Fobruary 22, was set aside for paying tribute to the. memory of the late Representative Tongue of Oregon. Eulogies | upon the life and public services of the late | Representative Rumple of Iowa were also | ordered on the same day. Mr, Hepburn (Ia.), chairman of the Inter- state Commerce commission, then called up the conference report upon the Department of Commerce bill. Publicity in Diluted Dose. Mr. Richardson (Ala), one of the eon- | forées o {16 BN, explalded his reasons for | decidiug to support the Nelson amendment | concerning the bureau of corporations. He did not believe any democrat could sustain Eimself by opposing everything aimed at the trusts because it was of republican origin. But he did not belleve the Nelson ‘amendment was aimed at the trusts. He sald it was a travesty upon what It claimed to be. It was, he said, an “ultra- diluted dose.” Its purpose, he declared, ‘was not to authorize the president to pro- ceed against the trus but simply to secure information upon which he could base recommendations. This was a pure response to the bold threats which were heralded abroad that an extra session would be called unless effective legislation were enacted. Mr. Ball (Tex.), who followed Mr. Rich- ardson, ridiculed the program of the ad- ministration regarding anti-trust legisla- tion. The administration was represeated as anxious to secure the passage of the | Nelson and Elkins bills, and it was pre- tended that the Standard Ofl company was sending telegrams to prominent senators against their ge. “I @o not belfeve,” said he, * that John D. Rocketeller or any other trust magnate has raised a voice against the homeopathic doses in those bills. They are no more harmtul to trusts than would be Mrs. Wins- low's soothing syru Mr. Menn (IIl.) declared that the Nelson amendment would give to the bureau of eorporations greater power to investigate the affairs of trusts than was conferred by any other bill presented to congress. Mere Delusion and Snare. Mr. Adamson (Ga.) said that while he realized the Nelson amendment was “a de- lusion and a snare, thinner than thin air.” yet as motice had been served that it was the only measure on the program of “‘the trust busters,” it would receive his vote. The report was adopted—251 to 10. Those voting in the negative were: Ball (Tenn.), De Armond (Mo.), Fleming (Ga.), Lester (Ga.), Little (Ark.), Reld (Ark.), Robertson (La.), Shackleford (Mo.) and Vandiver (Mo.), democrats, and Littlefield | (Me.), republican. The house then went Into committee of the whole to consider the sundry civil ap- propriation bill. Mr. Cannon, chairman of the appropriations committee, in charge of the measure, explained its provisions. It carrled, he said, $78,017,92 646,393 more than accounted for by $14,646,- 393 for rivers and harbors and $3,000,000 recommended for the relief of distress of the people in the Philippines. At 506 the house adjourned. CLAIMS TRUST BILLS ARE HUNG organ Calls Statehood Peaceful Po- Mtical Blockade of Se WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The statehood Dl again came up in the semate today when Mr. Morgan (Ala) spoke on it for some time. In the course of a two and a half hours' speech he said bills regarding trusts had been kept back and would be kept back til It was too late to discuss them. The time of the senate was being wasted on account of what he termed a ‘'pesceful political blockade on the statehood bill," when more important measures were await- ing action. Mr. Hapns presented the conference re- port on the Department of Commerce bill and & final vote on it wes deferred until tomorrow. The conference report on the general Staff bill was agreed t0. A number of other bills were passed, including one increasing s ek e (Continued on Secoqd Paged | ready lost heavily to American and German LONDON, Feb. 10.—Ben Morgan, 8 mem- ber of the British industrial commission which recently made an exhaustive inquiry into the industrial and business possibili- ties of South Africa, spoke tonight at the Royal Colonial institute on trade condi- tions in South Africa. He sald British manufacturers had al- firms because the latter bad representa- tives on the spot and booked large orders for delivery as soon as peace was declared. | The Afrikanders, however, preferred Brit- | ish goods and anly placed orders with for- | elgn firms because of low prices and quick delivery. He urged a permanent committee of intelligence at Johannesburg and a | shipping combine 1n the iaterest of British manufacturers in order to break up the present _discrimination against British goods. Mr. Morgan was convinced that the ne colonies were capable of a great production of wool, cotton, tobaces, $ugar, tes and | coft ANARCHIST IS SENTENCED'! Imprisonment for Life for Ma Attempted to Kill King Leopold. in freight rates Who Itallan avarchist, who has been on trial here since February 6, charged with at- | tempting to assassinate King Leopold, No- vember 15, by firing three shots at the king, while he was returning from the cathedral after attending a Te Deum mass in memory of the late Queen Henriette, | was found guilty today and was sentenced to imprisonment for life at penal servitude. When the trial of Rubino was resumed today counsel for the defense appealed to the jury to act in a manner simfiar to that |ot the jury which tried Sipio (who at- | tempted to assassinate the then prince of | Wales, now King Edward, at Brussels in | April, 1800), and, “listening only to the volce of their official duty, acquit the a cused.” ISTHMIAN Central TROOPS MOVING Amerie: Republics diers Ready for Tri- State War. PANAMA, Feb. 10.—It is reported that Guatemala has 8,000 men on the frontier. | The Nicarguan government has sent forces | trom various points to help the retiring | | presidet of Honduras. General Zelaya o Nicaragua and President Regalado of Sal vador are convinced thit General Sierra | will not allow the meeting of the Hon- | auran congress. | Senor Alvarado Guerrero, one of Senor Sierra’s ministers, has sent him to join | President-elect Bonila, who has organized {his government at Amapala island. The origin of the present conflict is the opposi- | tion of President Cabrer: of Guatemala to | the intervention of Salvador and Nicaragua in favor of General Sierra. {HARD TO CONQUER REBELS | Prilippine Constabulary Wi | { Be Re- Rixal inforced in Bulocan an Provinces. | MANILA, Feb. 10.—The government is preparing to thoroughly round up the dis-| | orderly eclements in Bulocan and Rixa provinces, where the constabulary will be | reinforced by several companies of native | seouts. | The rumors from the disaffected prov- | inces are believed to exaggerate the num- ber of hostiles, of whom it is said there are 2,000 in the fleld. More trustworthy reports say there are mot over 500 under arms and that the tulk of these fied after Sunday's fight. It Is belleved the chief difficulty will be fn cornering them. CUBA TO BORROW MILLIONS wint ue Bomds d Ald y Soldiers ar Agrie uiture. HAVANA, Feb. 10.—The joint committee of the senate house has prepared its report on the soldiers’ pay bill. It pro- vides for a 5 per cent bond issue of $35,000,- 000, 34,000,000 of which will be expended in the aid of agriculture, and the balance in paying the soldiers. The loan is guaranteed by stamp acts, and duties on liquors, matches and to- bacco, but the committee does not propose to levy the duty on tobacco until ten years hence, wh partion of the priscipal loan due | cation that it be reimbursed through its | | treasurer. Alfred Millard, for $245 spent in | | burned the usual meals were cooked by | right | J. Sterling Morton. |‘celved from Harrison & Morton, | Rallroad company, a geveral strike on all CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Steps to Purchase Water Plant are Ordered to Be Taven. TO PROCEED UNDER HOWELL-GILBERT LAW in His Message Recommends | Parehase Under Clause of Fr chise That Becomes Oper- Y. ative This Year. . Steps preliminary to the acquirement of | the (water works under the provisions of | the Howell-Gilbert law were taken by the | city council last night on the motion of | Councilman Hascall. The mayor had scarce finished reading his annual message when Mr. Hascall moved that the city attorney be Instructed to prepare an ordinance de- | claring 1t advisable and necessary to ac- quire the water piant by purchase, as di- rected by the new law, the ordinance to provide that the question of value of the | plant be submitted under the arbitration clause of the act, if a mutusl understand- ing cannot be reached between the city couneil and the Omaha Water company. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trostler and passed without debate or dissent. Councilman Mount, who was excused, was the only member not present The reading of his annual message to the council by Mayor Moores required more than half an hour, as it covered the work done by each department during 1902, and | making numerous recommendations for the future. The mayor explained that it had been delayed by the slow arrival of re- ports from the subordinate department Close attention was given to the message. Perso Injury Responsibility. Upon the motion of Councllman Hi the following concurrent passed: That the city attorney be and hereby is authorized and directed for and on behalf of and in the name of the city of Omaha, to give notice in writing of the commence- ment of any action to recover damages for personal Injury, to the cwners, agents and lessees in front of or adjacent to any property where such accident occurred, and turther to notify sald parties that the city of Omaha will hold them responsi the amount, If any, recovered action; and that the amount rec any such action will be conclusive on sald parties and that they will be estopped from denying the amount thereof, and off- ering to allow such parties to defend any such action. The Taxpayers' club asked in a communi- all resolution was securing the location of the market bouse on Capitol avenue east of Fourteenth sireet, | The club holds that it is mo more than | that this payment shall be made | from the appropriation for the buflding. The matter was referred to the committee on buildings and property. Hauck Wants More Mon Jacob Hauck, in a letter to the mayor and councll, rejected the allowance of 350 made to him for engrossing the resolutions adopted by thé council concerning the late Nr. Hauck set forth that four weeks' time was required in | “designing_and executing the srtistic and | very appropriate heading and. kaligraph- ical writing.” He says further that e -; perts and critics have said that It is the | best work of the kind ever produced in Nebraska and worth $100. A settlement for | $75 is requested and the claim was placed | in the hands of the finance committee. | The ordinance regulating runners for | hotels, mercantile and other establishments was amended and passed on third reading, | 80 that the ftinerant solicitors for business | deputy chaplain in chief; BRUSSELS, Feb. 10.—Genaro Rubino, the | Are prohibited from doing so in front of the | Springfleld, O., sergeant in chief. houses competing with those that employ | them. The annual license fee of $30 1s | made the same as formerly. | City Attorney Comnmell reported that he | had considered the offer from former Mayor George P. Bemis for an amicable settle- | ment of his personal. injury claim against | the city. He recommended that the coun- il inquire into the matter and arrange such settlement as it deemed fair and eatistactory. No proposition as to bearing | their share of the damages has been re- | the firm | that owned the sign that was blown down | bt upon Mr. Bemis. For More E Estimates as to the amount of bonds re- quired for the comstruction of fire engine houses and a garbage crematory, as recom- | mended by the mayor, will be prepared by | the Board of Public Works and the city | ttorney will prepare suitable ordinances | by order of the council. The motion was made by Mr. Hascall toward the close of the session and met with no opposing votes. The appointment of W. O. Bartholomew, | Charles P. Thomas and Joseph Redman as | appraisers of the property to be condemned | for the opening of an alley between | Twenty-eighth and Park avenues from Har- ney to Dewey avenue, and of Willlam F.| Wappich, George W. Wareham and John | G. Willis for a similar improvement be- tween Hamilton street and Lafayette ave- nue from Thirty-third to Thirty-fourth streets, were confirmed by the council. A petition requesting the grading of Twenty- seventh avenue from Lake to Grant streets | was referred to the street committee. MAY TIE UP STREET CARS Cable Men niti- with Promise to Strike Chicago Prese matu on Company's Refasal. CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—By action' taken to- night by the employes of the Chicago City lines of that system Is made possible The union formulated an ultimatum to be presented tomorrow, demanding the re- instatement of Thomas Daley, a discharged cable splicer. p That James Little, the man who took his place, be discharged That all discrimination in favor of non- union men be discontinued. A strike will follow the rejection of these demands and would effectually tie up every transportation line on the south side, except the “Alley L. The charices of the demands being granted are thought to be small and the men fully expect to strike ELEVATORS WILL RUN AGAIN Chicage Office Managers Agree fo Submit Strike Issues to itration, CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—The strike of ele- vator men and janitors came to an end to- night. The abrupt finish was unexpected snd was brought about by the Managers' association receding from the position it bad taken in refusing to submit its case to the Chicago board of arbitration The teamsters have agreed to supply the buildings with coal o the morning and the trouble bas come to an end for the time belog &t least. CONSTABLE 1SN CHARGE[SETTLING ON A COLLECTOR Depositor in a Turf Investment Com- pany Seises Property on an ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10.—The office fixtures and all visible assets of the John J. Ryan Turf Investment company were attached to- day by a constable of Justice Kleiber's court. The attachment fs the result of a suit brought by Miss Mable Quinn for $200, which, she alleges, she gave to the Ryan company for investment, and which company tefused to return on demand Ryan's offices were crowded all morning with investors. In November notice was given out by the company that mo money invested could be withdrawn without first giving the company thirty days' notice. Representatives of the company declare the company is solvent and that all divi- dends, about 5 per cent a week, will be paid as heretofore, and withdrawais will be per- mitted under the rules of the company. A constable is in charge of the attached prop- | erty. Later the attachment was lifted. a bond for double that amount being fixed by the investment company. The offices of the Ryan company are filled with withdrawing their funds, and there was a similar condition of affairs at the head- quarters of other like investment compan- nies here BURNS MURDERED HUSBAND Woman Shoots Spousp, Cuts Body Up and Cooks Over Roasting Remnine, Y. Feb. 10.—The 14- of Mrs. Taylor, charged of her husband, told ja her mother's erime to- MONTICELLO, year-old daughter with the murder horrible story of day. The girl is the woman's daughter by a former marriage. She sald her stepfather came home drunk and began quarreling with her mother. A short time after she heard a shot and running into the kitchen saw Taylor lying on the floor and saw her mother shoot him the | | | | investors | | | Omaha, Benator Millard Has Papers of Oadet Taylor and Others Under Oonsideration. MOVE FOR PUBLIC LAND COMMISSION te Flynn Along the Line Suggested by President in His Message. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Senator Millard today took under consideration the papers in the case of Cadet Taylor, collector of customs at together with those of other appli- cants for the position. The semator he expects to dispose of this case before the end of the month. There {s a possibility that Omaha may be named by the commissioner of Indian aftairs as a point of delivery for druggis supplies furnished to Indians by the Indian office. Senator Millard is working to secure such designation and has hope of ultimate Senator Warren today Introduced a joint resolution authorizing the president to ap- point a commission of experts to Investi- gate and report upon land, grazing and other western conditions. The resolution 1s in lne with the recommendation made by President Roosevelt In his message at the opening of the present session of con- | gress, and in harmony with the resolution adopted at the recent meeting of the Na- tional Live Stock assoclation at City. Senator Warren's resolution pro- vides that the commission shall report prior to December 1, 1903. The resolution was referred to the senate committee on public lands, to which will be left the priv- ilege of formulating the details of the commission as to number of members and | | eral raaagers elsewhere, and invite them | rate of compensation. In the house Delegate Flynn introduced a resolution of like purport, but giving | It authorizes the | details of organization. president to appoint a commission of five * | railroad before beginning in other pla Kansas | again. Mrs. Taylor then seized an axe and cut off his head and right arm, both of which she placed in the stove. The remainder of | {persons to be known as the public lands | commission, who shall have special oppor- | | tunity to observe the workings of the public | the body was cut into four pleces, put in a sack In the pantry and during the two succeeding days parts of the body were burned untll it was all consumed. During the time the body was being Mrs. Taylor. VETERANS ELECT OFFICERS Soldiers Hold Make General Hutch- insen Commander-in-Chief. SPRINGFIELD, O., Feb. 10.—Thirty-four tes were represented at the meeting of the National Union Veterans' union today. Resolutions were adopted {n favor of the original principles of the organization, al- lowing only veterans of six months' serv- fce and one battle to become members. The was _harmoniousy 4 resolutions mau-a nndn:%a officers elected with- out a dissenting voice. The following officers were elected: Gen- eral F. B. Hutchinson, Rochester, N. Y., commander in chief; W. H. Keepers, Ports- mouth, N. H., first deputy commander in chief; N. B. Plerce, Illinols, second deputy commander in chief; H. A. Waver, Topeka, J. W. Barry, ROCKEFELLER PLEADS DEBTS t Man America Evades Payment of Tax on His Property. Young NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—John D. Rocke- | tellor, Jr., is supposed to be about the rich- | est young man in America, but he owes $400,000 and has only $30,000 worth of per- | sonal property, according to the statement filed with the department of taxes and as- ments. Mr. Rockefeller was assessed at $500,000. From what could be learned at the tax of- fice he called there and stated that he had $400,000 in debts and that his personal property above his debts was worth only $30,000. He sald he was willing to pay taxes on an assessment of 350,000 and the commis- sioners accepted his figure: WISH TO TEACH RELIGION | Delegates of All Faiths Meet in Ohi- eago to Disci Chy Public School Course. CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Aroused by a belict {hat religious education is failing to keep pace with secular education, 600 delegates embracing & diversity of religious bellefs have gathered in Chicago to formulate a plan by which religious cducation may be given in the public school The idea is to eliminate sectarlan ideas and teach only those doctrines accepted by all denominations. Besides this the convention will corelate the work of reli- glous instruction in the church, the Sun- day school, the home and In all the vari- ous religious organizations. TRIES TO BUY VOTES CHEAP Ohio Politick ndieted for Offering Election Judges $10 for Hundred Ballots, CLEVELAND, 0., Feb 10.—The grand jury todsy returned an inlictment against Thomas Doreen, a well kiown local dem- ocratic politician. It is alleged that Dorecn offered J. W. Pritts and Harrv Branigan. election judges, $10 a plece for 100 votes for Charles Saleen, democratic candidate for county clerk, and $20 for 200 votes. NO EXTRADITION REQUIRED Freuch rder Suspects Semt Home Author by Immigration tes as Undesirable Pers P NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The immigration authorities today decided that Henry Thi- beouf and Marie Pietto should be sent back to France as undesirable immigrants. STANLEY ACCEPTS AFTER ALL Withdraws Comm| etusal Join Dawes Announced on to TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. W. E. Stanley today decided to take the place oun the Dawes Indian commission, s 10.—Ex-Governor | | | | | deliver eulog land laws, whose duty it shall be to in- vestigate and report upon the complicated questions involved In the land laws, use of desert lands, location of forest reserves, proposed leasing of grazing lands, un- authorized fencing and all methods of ac- quiriog titles and possession of public 1ands in the United States. The commission shall have power to send for persons and | papers, administer oaths and compel at- tendance of witnesses. It shall appoint a secretary, stenographer and messenger. The commission shall be allowed actual trav- eling expenses and subsistence when absent from home on public business. Members shall reccive $400 a month for their serv- ices and submit a final report mot later than March 1, 1904. resolution calls for an appropriation of §75,000 to pay the expenses of the com- mission. Senator Warren today presented a favor- able report on and secured the immediate ‘paseage of Senator the cost limit of the public building at Evanston, Wyo., to $170,000, Department Does Good Work. Senator Warren today lald before the senate the resolution adopted by the Wy- oming legisiature relative to investigations conducted by the Agricultural department regarding the frrigation of arid lands. The resolution states that irrigation investiga- tions by the Department of Agriculture have proved to be of the greatest value | to the arid and semi-arid states, and the rapid development of the west through frrigation enterprise has raised many que tions which should be investigated at a oarly date. Senator Millard was today advised by the Postoffice department that rural free delivery routes 2, 3 and 4 would be es- tablished out of Norfolk April 1. Discuss Land Laws. Senator Quarles’ bill providing for the | repeal of the desert land, stone and timber | act and to repeal the commutation features | of the homestead law, was lald up for con- | sideration before the public lands com- | mittee of the senate today. It was decided after some discussion to defer final action until Saturday, when a special meeting of | the committee is ordered to meet to dis. cuss and finally dispose of this measure. | Representative Connor today Introduced a bill to pension Edwin Babcock of Fort Dodge, Ia., at $30 per month. Senator Gamble today secured the pas- sage through the senate of a bill to permit the purchase of forty acres of government land in Rockford, §. D., for cemetery use: This bill has passed both houses and goes to the president for approval. Eulogies will be pronounced on the late John Nicholas Rumple in the house of rep- resentajives Sunday, February 22. Repre- sentatives have signified their desire to tic addresses of tribute to worth of the late Captain Rumple. Routine of Departments, Reserve agents appointed for lowa na- tion banks: Western National Bank of the United States of tor Commercial ational bank of Charles City and First | Natlonal Bank of Spencer; Des Moines tional bank of Des Moines for First tional of Woodbine. These rural free delivery letter carriers | were appointed today in lowa: Bagley regulars, Earl E. Naylor, Henry C. Smith substitutes, Charley Naylor, Frank W Smith. Churdan, regulars, Newton S. We: ver, George W. Canady; substitutes, Paul C. Boon, Bertha V. Canady. Arcadia, reg- ulars, John W. Bruning, Henry Terlisner; substitutes, Frances C. Bruning, John Ter- tiser. Persia, regulars, George H. Hub- bard, Frank Wear; substitutes, B. A. Hub- | bard, Charles Wear. Weston, regul Juhn! F. Hayward; substitute, Arthur Yeacom Lewls, regulars, Nathan F. Hunt, Willlam F. Starr; substitutes, Frank Hunt, Henry M. Stai D PERSECUTES TRUST FOR GAIN Plaiutiff Loses Action to Recover Share in Stock Exchange Profits, —_— | ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.—The court of appeals today afirmed the decision of the lower courts, dismissing the complaint of Judge James N. Veazey against Henry Al- len & Co, The case grew out of the investigation of “The Whiskey and Sugar Trust” by a congressional committee in 1883. Veazey ued to recover | ome-balf ®f the profits made by the defendants by reason of the investigation. Veazey had, according to the evidence. contracted with Allen & Co. to bring about the investigation to depreciate the stock He was ponsulted on thbe ground that contract was contrary to public policy. “Bill increasing | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast and for Nebraska—Falr Thursday Wednesday Temperature nt Omaha yesterd Hour. Deg. Hour, 58 om 1 pom 6 A m 2 p.om Tam 2 pom ™ 4 pom. - 5 p.om. i - 6 p.om. { m T p m. . R op.om. ® p.om |TO OPERATE FROM ST. LOUIS and Trainmen in | Plan of Conductor Effort for Wage Con. cesslons, | -— | The Western Assoclation of General Com- i mittees of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Rallway Trainmen | has decided to operate entirely from St Louis as a basis in its movement to secure wage and other concessions from the fitty- two roads embraced by the organization. The association is greatly pleased with | the results secured from conferences with the four Gould lines at St. Louls, and now | { will take the matter up with the Wabash in the association territory. Information that | this plan had been adopted reached head- quarters of the general committees yester- day morning. By securing the concessions from the { Wabash the association will then have won with all five lines having beadquarters in | St. Louls. That city is the center of the movement and the working center of the assoclation, and, by having it solid, there will be a firm basis from which to spread the work over the other forty-seven roads. A feature of this plan will be the doing ences which it was thought would be neces- sary. St. Louls roads as a basis and simply sub- mit the results obtained there to the gen- to comply similarly. Thus after the Wabash matter {s settled the rest will be but a matter of form and time. The general com- mittee of the Wabash will begin with the general manager of that road Friday morn- ing next. | Although they will mot mow be needed for a conference and discussion, the mem- bers of the gemeral committees of the Elk- horn and Union Pacific lines will neverthe- les affair is completed, for no business can be done without a full attendance. | |WOMAN DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID | | Family Quarrel Ends Up with Wife Attempting to End Her Lite. Mrs. Anna Smith, wife of Louls Smith, living at 921 Pacific street, attempted to commit suicide yesterday evening shortly before 7 o'clock by drinking the carbolie acld from & ohe-ounce vial. Dr. Smith, | trom across Pacific street, and Police Doe- tors Hahn, Mick and Vance attended the woman and after three and a half hours pronounced her out of immediate danger. Her faceond. hands are badly 2 the esophagus from the throat to the stomach is swollen from the acid and there ie danger that it may close completely, preventing the taking of food. Mrs. Smith will be in grave danger for several days. The sufferer is about 30 years old and the husband is an itinerant optician. There are three other familles living In the same house. It is said that relations have been strained between the couple for some time. ! Yesterday evening they quarrelod violently. { Mrs. Smith is said to have taken the bot- | tle of acid from a pocket and swallowed the contents In the presence of her hus- | band. (CHIEF SUGGESTS TWO LAWS Both Taken From Statutes of Cali- fornia and Conmsidered Ap- plicable Here. | copies ‘of two laws of California from At- torney Le T. Hatfleld of Sacramento which he tavors and will place in the hands of one of the Douglas county 1epresentatives for introduction into the legislature at Lincoln. One of the acts is known as the “Monday law,” and it provides that all prisoners serving penal sentences shall be | discharged from prison on Monday, The | other prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors other than for money. | “The last act should be passed for | Omaha’s sake,” sald the chief. It will do away with thleves pawning plunder with | saloonists for drinks, and will also do much {to curb the pawning of jewelry taken by { husbands from their wives.” STATUS OF THE REVENUE BILL Omaha Committee Reports Matters in Nebulous Condition at Linco! Lorenzo Crounse, Mel Uhl and W. G | Ure returned last night from Lincoln, where | they went as a special committee of the commitice of ten to ascertain the exact | conditions surrounding the proposed vev- | enue law. Mr. Ure said: | It is impossible to tell anything about the proposed revenue bill, as the committee {has arrived at no conclusion and every- | thing that may be said would be guess work timent in favor of house roll No. 171, Omaba charter amendment, is growing, and I believe that it will pass. | The people down there seem to realize that there is no0thing in it to hurt the counties of the state and sentiment in its favor is rapidly growing.” WOULD STOP CONVICT LABOR Seek Michigan Author Broom Makers to Restraln es Hiring Criminals O DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10.—National Broom Makers' union No. 2, the Whittler | Broom company and the Vanduran Broom | . { company of Grand Rapids are secking an injunction to restrain the state authorities from carrying out a coptract recently made with the Illinois Broom company to hire out conviets to manufacture brooms at 50 cents & day. Movements of Ocean Vessels Feh, 10 York for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Ham- bure. Al Madeira—Arrived: Auguste from New York. for Malags, Genoa Vietoria, At Antwerp—Arrived: Kroonland from | New York, via Southampto At Naplos—Satled: for New York. away with the forty-seven other confer- | It Is now schemed to take the five | be assembled as soon as the Wabash | Chiet of Police Donahue has received | At New York—Arrived: Finland, from Antwerp. Sailed: Pomeranian, for Glas- gow. At Liverpool—Arrived: Rhynland, from | Philadelpnia At Ecilly—Passed: Patriclan, from New BIG LOBBY ON HAND | |lhilro-dn Making a Supreme Effort to | Avoid Paying Their Oity Taxes ! | EX-GOVERNOR CROUNSE ON SITUATION | Republican Legislatare Owes It to the Party to Do Justice by Oity. | REVENUE COMMITTEE HAS THE BILL Organization of Committee Indicates Meas< ure May Be Buried. MINTOSH STATES ISSUE PLAINLY Lieutenant Governor MeGilton Makes Plain His Position on the Gile bert Water Works B (From a Staft Correspondent.) | LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 10.—(Special.)— Ex-Governor Crounse, who with Mel Unl and others from Omaha, appeared at the capitol today in the interest of H. R. 171, was much impressed with the power’and | scope of the 1milroad lobby being maine tained here for the defeat of this and any | other bill contemplating fairness in the | matter of taxation or any other matter at« | fecting the railroads’ interests, | ““The rallroads have ecmployed the most | unfair means of defeating this bill, which {1s so generally demanded and so grestly needed in Omaha,” sald the ex-gevernom “They are maintaining a large and ex ! pensive lobby here at the state capitol for this sinister purpose and are using every | possible method to hoodwink and deceive | membere of the legislature who are to mct on this bill. Their arguments are false |and many of them condemn themselves on their very faces. No intelligent member | ought to hesitate or waver for one minute | In rallying to the support of this bill, for | it contemplates pothing but justics and | tairness.” | Mr. Crounse hoped this legfslature, so | overwhelmingly republican, would see to it that this bill was not dofeated. It was plain from his talk that he apprehended serious results If the republicans did not | pass the bill which they have in thelr power to de. Mr. Uhl talked with members of the | bouse and senate revenue committees about | the Bill. He returned to Omaha this after~ noon, preferring not to have his states ments as to what he had learned here die vulged, for the good of the bill. Keeping Measure Buried, It is evident that the rallroads’ play now is to prevent this measure, which con- templates the taxation of thelr Omaha terminals at what they should pay, from leaving the committee on revenue fn the house, where it has been all this time. ‘Warner of Lancaster is chairmen of this committee and he is a generally recognized railroad man. When pressed for s State- il o TR okt Akt Tave e eatuss : | be submitted and considered when the | other bills of this character, among them | the regular revenue bill, are taken up. { But this is very vague and has.no means {ing to the actual friends of the bill, ex- {cept to show all too plainly that Mr. Wara | mer and the other railroad members of the committee do not intend to let the bill get past them if they can help ft. | The indications are that they camn win out, too, at this game, since it appears that the railroads have the majority of this committee. As it would require a two- thirds vote of the house to take the bill {out of the committee’s hands, sucoess by way of that course {s despaired of for ob- | vious reasons. | Some one has suggested the wisdom of baving the bill amended so as to specify that all municipalitios In the stats, mot only Omaha, shall have the right to levy a direct “assessment on the terminals. But | triends of the bill take little stock in this. As has been suggested, opponents of the bill would then say, ““Well, in such and such towns there are no terminals and hence this bill contemplates something that is neither necessary or practicable.” | Some comment already has been heard to the effect that if this bill is ever passed {1t will be because of the eternal vigllance and ceaseless activity ofgthe Douglas coun- ty members, who, however, have as yet appe-ntly mot completely marshalled all thel rees for the comfiot, | McIntosh States Case, James H. McIntosh is the author of & booklet dealing effectively with the prob- | lems contained in H. R. 171, which has been ipruvnxcd to members of (he legislature, Some of Mr. McIntosh's arguments are | these: The Omaha Water coigeny is & part of la “system” having its’pumping station {and settiing basins in Florence, and pipes and connections in Benson, Dundee, South Omaha and Omaha, and pays village and city taxes in aach of these places. he Omahe Gas company is & part of a “mystem.’ having s pipes, oconnections and franchises in Florence, Benson, Dun- | dee, South Omaha and Omaha, ffl . village and city taxes in each ‘of L+ places. 1‘ acee. trange that the ratirosds are foroed to resort to paid editorials and misrepre~ | sentations to perpetumte a city tax dodg- ing system under which one railroad on | its 384 s of city | equivalent to 1 ity blocks, 15 ty lots, cupying a e Chntht posttiof paye leas oity takes han the Commercial National bank pays on its haif of a with a two-sto buflding on it? Ci honest _trut] stify a syst ‘ould a grain of common fairness de | “"The bill mereiy asks that the same officer that values other city property for city I o ralinead ornesty” i ty for city taxes. By urging its pas o we ely asking for the raile uds the 1€ that exists for our s 1t sed neither the state, nor any or any' school distriet will collect from t rallroads & single peuny less in taxes on account of it | The Rallrosds Can Fool No Ome, tell you House Roll 171 will re- state, county or school district taxes, tell them it will not for | after the bill 'is passed the same officers will value the same railroad property for state, county and school taxes that value tax will be distrib~ then as now. th same it wil and the ¢ may on their cil them it w pr 1 keep th to make you think they pay ity taxes show them where, 4 acres of improved rall. thin a city, they pay only us much city {axes as & n & half lot with it you their ' ity value is dis- « line for city taxes, ask | thera where, and what citles tax it for ty purposes. Ask them what city taxes | e cornfields. Show them that in Cities and villages along the main one of them it pays in city and | village taxes ¢ $0.6i7.9%. or less than | ane hat & local corporation pas aving within the city less than ones the property value (he raliroad has. Let | them know you know they are not telling you the truth It they insist such & law 18 lwpractcanie,