Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1903, Page 1

% o ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, SOLONS" WORK OVER Fifty-Beventh Congress of United Btates Passes Into History, PRESIDENT WAITS WITH HIS CABINET Takes Btation in Private Room and Signs Bills Passed at End DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO OBSTRUCT Representatives Fight, Then Unite in Bing- ing Rpeaker's Praises. HENDERSON BIDS FAREWELL TO POLITICS Closes Term in Chair with Stirr Appenl to Patriotism Mem- bers Citizens in General. WASHINGTON, March 4~The Fifty-sev- enth congress expired at moon today by limitation. There has not been in many years such a demonstration in the house & occurred today, owing to the fact that Speaker Hendersow was retiring not only as presiding officer, but from the house as & member, The bitter partisan feeling that ha sprung up In the house of representatives during the pest week reached a pitch which prevented the unanimous approval of the house for the usual resolution of thanks and courtesy which was offered. More than this, the resolution had to come from the republican side, and while this has occurred before, it is not the usual custom. ‘The usual resolution of thanks to Presi- dent Pro Tempore Frye was unanimously adopted in the semat Two years ago, when the Fifty-sixth ccngress expired, it was remarkable, not only for the inauguration of McKinley, but for the fact that Sepator Carter of Mon- tana talked the river and barbor bill to death, occupylng the time of the senate up to within a few min of the end. Today Senator Mason, whose term ex- pired, also tslked an unimportant bill to death, but In his valedictory he lectured the senate for its unlimited debate, which #¥ows bills to be killed in that manner, and he also made a final plea for the fr dom of the Filipinos. As all the important supply bills had passed before the two houses took a recess this morning, no legislation was nece: sary, and none was attempted. The bills which had passed and reached the stage of enrollment were all signed by President Roosevelt, who, with members of his cab- inet, entered the president’s room in the senate wing of the capitol. This blennial visit of ‘the president to the capitol is one of the features of a clesing congress. MASON TALKS BILL TO DEATH . dem pmns, e g S Wi GTON, Miréh 4—The senate called to &t 10 o'clock today for the last sil of the Fifty-seventh con- grees, but business did not begin until some time later. The delay was due to the ab- sence of & quorum and to the fact that Mr. Cockrell insisted upon the presence of the necessary number before taking up the work of the de: & Mr. Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, made a statement regard- ing the amount of money appropriated by the present congress, as compared with the appropriations of the Fifty-sixth congress. The total appropriations for the present congress, he stated, was $1,564,108,518, as compared with $1,440,489,438 for the Fifty- sixth congress, Explains the Appropriations. There is also, he sald, an aggregate ap- propriation for the Postofice department of $153,401,549 for the mext fiscal year, as compared with $138,000,000 for the current year, making a difference of more than $50,- 600,000 in excess of the appropriation for the last congress for the postal service. This, he explained, arises from the enor- mous increase In expenditures caused by in- creased postal business. Then also, he said, the sural free delivery service required large sums. There was, he said, a smaller deficlency than there has been in many years In the postal recelpts, as compared with the expenditures. He called attention to the fact that the last congress passed no river and harbor bills. In the first session of this congress he sald $27,000,000 was appropriated for rivers and harbors, in addition 18 which $20,000,000 was appropriated in the sundry civil bill for carrying out contracts. He sald that, while it appears that the appropriations of this congress have beea largely in excess of those of the last eon- gress, the increase is chiefly made up of three items, namely, the $50,000,000 for the Papama canal, the increased appropriation of §60,000,000 for the postal service and the river and barbor appropriations. Mr. Balley (Tex.) called up a bill amend- ing the rivers and harbors act 80 as to pro- vide that the $125,000 heretofore appropri- ated for certain river and harbor improve ments in Texas shall be used for the con- struction of a channel In Sabine Lake, Tex. Hoar Talks P pines. aye and nay vote demanded by Mr. Mason the senate agreed to take the bill up—41 to 9. The effect of the vote was %o displace the Philippines tariff bill. It was then temporarily laid aside, and Mr. Hoar spoke on the Philippines bill. The bill had been talked to death, he said. This was nov In eriticlem of senators who think that in the closing hours of the session this remedy shall not be dealt with in an hour. The point he made, he said, was that the senate, the executive, the house of repre- sontatives and the public are not At to govern the destinies of a people 8,000 miles away who have no voice in the govern- ment. “It is the first great object lesson," said he, “the wretcheduess, the Iniquity of what the American people did two years 20 in regard to these people.” Lodge Replies to Hoar. Mr, Lodge made a vigorous reply to Mr. Hoar, in which he sald he did not agree with him 4n the view that the American people are aot able to deal with the great problems in the east. “1 belleve they are thoroughly able to deal with It as they gealt with greater and mightier problems before,” sald Mr. Lodge. Acting upon & resolution President pro tem Frye appointed Messrs. Allison and Jones (Ark.) a committee to meet a similar committes from the house to notify the ' president congress was ready to adjourn. Mr, Mason (IlL) took the floor and di 1871. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1908—TEN PAGES. COPY THREE | cabinet by appointment. LAYS POPE LEO LOW Fear Serious Developments e of Holy Father's Welght of Year: CoLD Cardin Bee ROME, March 4.—Alarmists are to the fore again this evening and 'declare that Pope Leo is really 2l The truth is tf ,i%e pope never suc- ceeded In gettids the cold which caused a slight cough rseness. Dr. Lapponi - on visiting h today found him somewhat bettu’s frankly told him that he must eitheiy s to cure his cold or run the risk of &t « i3 serious. The pontiff thereupon gave. 4y and promised to suspend his audiences. However, the condition of the pope, tak- ing into consideration his advanced age, is not without danger and is causing consider- able anxiety, 5o much so, it is asserted, that the cardinals who have come to Rome from a distance have postponed their departure. BARK WRECKED ON A REEF Survivors Manage to Finally Reach Hong Kong in the Ves- sel's Cutter. VICTORIA, B. C., March 4.—Details have been received by steamer Empress of India of the wreck of the bark Alex McNell, which was lost on Pratas reef, when bound from Manila to Port Townsend The bark left Manila on December 10 and thirteen days later piled up on Pratas shoal, which, Ly Captain Jorgenson’s reck- oning, should have been sixty miles dis- tant. The mate and four seamen left in the ship's boat to explore the reef and nothing further was heard of them. After several days spent on the wreck the survivors started in their patched-up cutter for Hong Kong. They were four days at sea, suffering great privations, when a Norweglan steamer picked them up and landed them at Hong Kong. PEOPLE FAVOR THE BANDITS Keep Revolutionists in Macedonia I formed of Movements of the Troops. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 4.—Increas- ing numbers of Bulgarian revolutionary bands are operating in Macedonia and fre- quency of Stiff encounters between them and Turkish forces is regarded here as indicating that a general rising has al- ready begun. The inhabitants appear mot only to ba sheltering these bands, but to be inform- ing them of the movements of the troops, thus enabling the revolutionists to evade pursuit. The telegraph wires are being cut by the revolutionists, who are determinedly oppos - ing the troops whenever they encounter them. The aggregate losses on both sides bave been heavy. PRETENDER COMES TO LIFE Bu Hamara Both Defeats and ¥ De- feated by Moorish Saltan’s MADRID, March 4.—The Liberal today published a dispatch from Tangier, Mor- oces, announcing that the pretender has defeated the imperial troops commanded by Mohammed Sherqui and forced them to ve- treat after hard fighting. TANGIER, March 4.—Notwitbstanding the contradictory rumors circulated bere, the governor of Tangler has received a let- ter from Fez announcing that the column of the sultan’s troops commanded by Min- ister of War Elmenebhi has completely routed the Senajy tribe, the most fanatical of the pretender's adherents, FRANCE PENSIONS AGED MEN Atds Miners’ Scheme to General Super: Allowance. » First Step ation PARIS, March 4.—The Chamber of Dep- utles adopted tonight an appropriation of $200,000 annually to Increase the old age pensions paid by mining companies to their employes. The measure was passed prac- tieally without discussion and without a diviston. It 18 expected that today’s appropriation will raise each miner's pension from 55 francs to 360 francs per anndin. The meas- ure was a part of the soclalist program and is avowedly the first step in the direc- tion of providing old age pensions for all the working people. SEEK TO SET WEDDING ASIDE Noble French Parents Ol Son’s can Wife Caught Him ‘While a Minor. PARIS, March 4.—The civil tribunal of the Seine today took up the case of the Count de Keratry, a former prefect of po- lice, and the Countess de Keratry, who asked the court to annul the marriage of thelr son, the Viscount Hilarion de Keratry, and the Viscountess de Keratry. The parents allege that the marriage was contracted in the Unjted States while their son was a minor and without their con- sent. The marriage took place in New York In 1808 The bride's maiden name Baugian, but she was a Mrs, Jobn Mullins, widow of a New York contractor. FRANCIS STIRS SPAIN UP World's Falr President Calls MADRID, March ident of the St. Louls exposition, arrived here this afternoon and was met at the station by Upited States Minister Hardy. After a short conference with Mr. Hardy Mr. Francis called on the ministers of agriculture, accompanied by Secretary Sickles of the United States legation. Mr. Francls dined tonight with Mr. and Mrs. Hardy and tomorrow will meet the premier and other members of the Spanish He expects to re- turn to Paris on Thursday night. GOING TO AUSTRIA IN MAY to Deliver Newly to the Saxom Court. VIENNA, March 4.—It is stated that the courts of Saxony and Tuscany have arrived at an agreement by which the former crown princess of Saxony may remove to Aus- tria In May and deliver her newly born child to the Saxon court. She will then be permitted to see her other children every summer. A satisfac- tory arrangement is also made for her, Oalls Attention to Bvil . of Unanimous Oonsert Practice. SPECIES OF\ LEGISLATIVE BLACKMAIL Says it is Time for People to Take Matter in Hand and Demand that Majority Shall Rule, ‘WASHINGTON, March 4.—The speech of Representative Cannon, chalrman of the appropriations committee, delivered after 3:30 o'clock this morning in the house on the conference report on the general de- ficiency appropriation bill, protesting against “legislative blackmall’ and insisting on the right of a majority to rule in the senate, in view of the fact that he is to be the foreshadowing a contest upon this ques- tion. The scene when Mr. Cannon deliv- in this congress. As late as the hour was the members were set on fire with enthusi- resounded with their shouts. Mr. Cannon said: Gentlemen know that under the practice of the house and under the rules-of the sen- ate the great money bills can contain noth- ing but appropriations in pursus isting laws, unless by unanimous consent of both bodies. If any of these bills contain legislation it must be by unanimous consent of the two bodies and any attempt to change the uni- form practice been disastrous so far as 1 know. The invariable practice has been, with the exception of one amendment upon. this biil, that when one body objected to legislation pro osed by the other upon an appropriation the oposing she {exintation vecedea, * "o ProP c Cause of Disagreement. In this case the trouble in arriving at an agreement because all clalms for speaker of the next house, is regarded as | ered this speech was the most remarkable | asm and they cheered until the great hall | ce of ex- | HER HUSBANC Mareh 4—Cafrying a laundry for the mur- derer, Mrs. Afith Knapp, the fourth wife of the man held at Hamilton, O., murders, left Injanapolis for Hamilton this morning. “1 am going fo bave a my husband,” e sald been Insane. 1| is true that he choked me in his slee}. It is not true that I have threatemed Mrs. Knapp's sister. In Cincinnatf. I have threatcned no one. I want is to be lot alone. If they take my husband to the ¢halr I want to die. 1 am s0 lonely."” HAMILTON, 0., March noon the INDIANAPOLE, basket flled long talk with “He must have fourth wite of Knapp, Annie Gamble, of Indixpapolis, came to Hamil-! ton and was driven to the jail. In com- pany with the deputy sherift and jailer, she was admiteed. into the presence of Knapp. She cried bitterly and asked Knapp it his coafegsion| @ the horrible murders was true and hp amswered that it was She wouldn't Knapp himself tdid her it was true. will return to Infilanapolis. The eemains of Hannab Goddard Knapp were buried thid afternoon Her uncle, Charles Goddard, had no means to pro- vide a burfal. so the.city authoritles took charge of the fumeral. Knapp will be asked to identify the ‘ring and earrings. The chief of pofice belleves that Knapp will break down when he sees this in- disputable evidente agatnst him. It is not likely for the present that Knapp will be shown the ring and ear- rings, as no further identification needed for them. Miss Lidia Sterrit of this city, half sister of Hannah Knapp, was today shown the jewelry as she lay 11l in bed. She at once declared them to She money clustered around one amendment. If there were many amendments of a legl: lative character proposed by the senate, there were many amendmentdy covering hundreds of thousands of dollars of claims, pure and simple, proposed by the senate ne by one the le llalivaexrovollllonl and the claims were disapproved and the senate receded, until we came to an agreement to pay the state of South Carolina 7,000, word as to that. In May last o the omnibus claim bill, a basis was fixed for the adjustment of the accounts of Virginia and Baltimore and South Carolina with the United States, growing out of the war of 1812-15. The auditing officers of the treas- ury, in pursuance of that law, adjusted the accounts of Virginla. An indefinite appro- priation was made to pay the respective states whatever should become due by the auditing officers. Upon that basis and under that legislation the sum of $500,000 in round numbers has been paid to the state of Virginia. Under the same law which is the law to- day the auditing officers in the adjustment of ‘accounts of the war of 1§12 found due to the state of South Carolina the sum of U gents. Now, the senate of the United States, notwithstanding the law, proposed l:x‘ltnrllnltlo;n on an appropriation bill to the ent of granf o state of South Carolina ;Hm n‘fhe house conferees ob- Jected and the whole long delay has been Over that one item. In the house of erlticising either side " or any " Indierioe member, we have rules, sometimes by our ratic friends and ltu‘::t‘l,:.fid BT s LN A S ', ! Tong, mistaken othe can legiulate. in another there’ are no such rules. Taanother body ' legislation. i had by ubanimous consent in Another bedy hh indlvidual membe:r of that body can rise in his place and talk for one hour, two hours, ten hours, twelve hours. It 1s & matter of history that a senator on the republican elde In a former congress talkeq lan"ellh a river and harbor bfl‘v o comes a time constantl, of bills when you must 2 o3 settil bills wh o 80 and 50, or 80 and 8o, else your bill cannot pass, and this with reference to the great money | bills.” In my opinion such & condition, ex- isted as to this bill and oclustered about lh,‘-hu"e lmtndh'n:enl. a H ere was al an amendment put on i the bill In another body which® invorved legislation to the extent of granting the state of Vermont $150,00 in adjustment of its war claims. The senate receded, bat your conferees were unable fo get the | Senate to recede upon this gift from the ) treasury against the law to the state of South Carolina.* Evil of Unanimous Consent. By unanimous consent another body leg- | islates and in the expiring hours of the | sesslon we are powerless without that unanimous consent. “Help me, Cassius, or 1 sink.” Unanimous consent comes to the center of the home, unanimous consent comes through statuary hall and to the house doors, and comes practically to the house. \ We can have no legislation without the approval of both bodies, and one body, in my opinion, cannot legislate without unanimous consent. There was the aiternative—in my opinion this applied not only to the deficiency bill, but to the naval bill. Your conferees had the alternative of ubmitting to legislative blackmail at the demand, in my opinion, of one individual 1 shall not say where—ar of letting the; great money bills fall. Now, what are we going to do about it? “This bill contains | many important matters—your appropria- tions for public bulldings—legislation lately bad all along the line of the public service to_the extent of §20,000,000. Now, I have taken the house into my con- fidence touching this matter, as it Is my | duty to do. I am getting to be & somewhat aged man. I pray God that my life may be spared untfl an intelligent and a righteous sentiment, north and south, east and west, pervades both of the great parties, will lash anybody into obedience to the right of the majorty ‘to rule. Majorities and minori- ties shift back and forth Majority Should Rule. Ah, says somebody, did that work in ref- erence to the matter of statehood, d did you belleve in statehood? I did not believe in statehood, and 1 am putting now the strongest case against my own party, buat a majority of the people, voiced in the senate and house, had the right to have its will expressed. Gentlen.en, | have made my protest. I do it in_sorrow and in humiliation, but | there it is, and in my opinion another' body | under these methods must change its method of procedure or our body, backed | up by the people, will compel the change, else this body, close to the people, shail be- come a mere tendeter. a mere bender of the prezmant hinges of the knee to submit to what any one member of another body may demand of this body as a price for leg- tslation. DENVER COUPLE TRY SUICIDE Aged Pailr | | | Find Life Determine Togeth Too Die DENVER, March 4. —Major Martin Hurd, aged 72 years, was found dead in bed to- day, at 4606 Homer boulevard, where he lived with Mrs. Georgic Stanley, an aged woman. Mrs. Stanley was still alive, but | unconsclous. ® A dog and a canary were found dead in the room, whers the man and woman lay. The police believe that the couple, who were in destitu:e clrcumsiances, deiermined | o commit sulcide together. UTAH PROTECTS LOCAL SHEEP Establl spect { s Commissioners and with View to Fight. ing Scab. SALT LAKE CITY, March 4.—The house today passed a bill creating a state board of Sheep commissioners and a state sheep inspector.” The main object of the bill s to provide for abatement of scab among the sheep of the state. The bill has already passed the scaate. | be those worn by the murdered woman. Another balf sister afterward identified the jewelry, making the fourth relative to identity them. The reason for the making of all of his contessions was given by Knapp to his sister, Mrs. Sadle Wonbell, today. The prisoner harbors il will' against his sister, Mary King, and her husband, and does not attempt to copceal it where hy charges that they betrayed Bjm. “They told on me,” he said, “s0 I just thought that I would tell everything and if they were looking for disgrace they could have the disgrace of it alk I hope they are satis- fied now. PROTEST = AGAINST TROOPS —_— Mayor of Coloralle City Says There in No nreuIL‘l:r Presence ot setaters. DENVER, Colé, March 4.—Mayor J. F. Faulkner, Chlef of Police George Birdsall and City Attorney John McGoach of Colo- rado City have protested to Governor Pea- body agalnst the presence of the troops In that city. \ n their nn-*- 1o the govermor they say: » “bets no istuthance more oecaslonal brawls since the strike began, -and we respectfully protest against an army being placed in our midst. A deleagtion of business men will call on you with & formal protest of the citizens of the city.’ Governor Peabody said today that he had received some protests on account of his sending the stato troops to Colorado City, but that he was satisfied that he had only done his duty. “The troops will stay here,” he declared, “Just as long as they are needed to protect property, and when they are no longer peeded they will be ordered home.” COLORADO CITY, Colo.,, March 4.—The troops sent here by Governor Peabody are doing guard duty about the ore reduction mills which are operating with nomunion men. There has been no disturbance of any kind today. A petition to the governor to recall the troops is belng circulated here and Colorado Springs. . STUDENTS MAKE DISCOVERY Find Germ that is the Cause of Cholera Infantum—Anti-Toxine to Kill Alse Found. BALTIMORE, March 4.—Another great discovery, the anti-toxine which shall de- stroy the germs of cholera infantum, has been announced by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. It was the death of his grandson that turned Mr. Rockefeller's attention to the absolute inability of the medical profes- sion te cope with this disease that annually carries off many thousands of infants and resulted in the plans for the cstablish- ment of the laboratory and hospital that 15 to be bullt in New York. Last fall the announcement that two stu- dents of the Johns Hopkins medical school had discovered the germ which caused the death of millions of children was recelved. | It was then stated that the emergies of the investigators would be directed to- ward the discovery of & serum which would destroy the bacilla. @ In ore of the private lecture rooms of the Jc Hopkins hospital Dr. Stmon Flexner and Dr. J. H. M. Knox of the hospital staff, have declared that as a re- sult of their ‘Investigations, the qualities of the peeded serum had been discovered and that the perfecting of it would occupy but a few months longer. Dr. Flexner declared that before the end of 1903 the anti-toxine would be ready for | practical use and given to the world. RAILROADS AID . COMMUNISM Arrange Big Excursion to 0ld Mexico to Exploit Farming Possi- bitities, CHICAGO, March 4.—An innovation in rallroad land colonization is to be tried by the Rock Island and the Chicago Great Western. On March 17 a big homeseekers' excur- | sion will be run to Old Mexico to exploit | the possibilities of farming and fruit rals- ing in Mexico when undertaken by Amer- icans under the community plan. SEEKS TO RESTRAIN JUDGES Minois Legislat ports Bill Limitin, Labor D Committee Re- njunction Power in SPRINGFIELD, 111, March 4.—The com- mittee on labor of the Illinois house of rep- resentatives took favorabale action tonight on a bill providing that no injunction in- volving a labor coutroversy shell be lssued without & bearing after due notice has been siven. for five ! Al 4.~This after- | | ve the confession until is | ALL WISH HENDERSON WELL Affecting Scene When Ex-Speaker Takes Final Leave of Fellow Members. ETTER GETS SOUTH OMAHA POSTOFFICE Senntors Will Make an Bffort to Settle United States Attorney- ship—Rosebud Bill Dies with Session. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 4.—(Special Tele- gram.)—No retiring speaker of the house of presentatives, at least in the past dccade, has met such cordial and general personal well wishes as did David B. Henderson to- day. Immediately after laying down the gavel after the pronouncing words, “I now declare this house adfourned sine dle,” a number of members possessed of good | voless started the national anttam, which brought all wn the floor to their feet, and those in the galleries as well. The timid | oves on the floor quickly added their voices to those in the lead, and the galleries took up the refratn till the great hall rever- berated with the echo of that grand song sang in almost perfect unison by the 4,000 persons present. Meanwhile, ex-Speaker Henderson had descended the few steps from the speaker's rostrum aud stood at the right of the chair. During the singing of the national air every member on the republican side waved a small flag. At the the house toward the part of the hall where the ex-speaker stood, all eager to grasp his hand and wish him god-speed. A domen members, who, it is said, lead church choirs when at home, rapidly formed a hollow square about Mr. Henderson and started the inepiring aria, “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, That Nobody Can Deny,” and appa ently that proposition was carried unani- mously, judging from the great number who pressed forward to grasp the hand of the ex-speaker, pronounced by the choir an all around good fellow. The chorus, “‘So say we all of us” met with no opposition, and there was no call for the “yeas and nays. Kiss and Make Up. Representative Underwood, representing the Third Alabama district, a great, big- bearted fellow, strong in debate and one of the leaders of the recent filibuster for the minority, when he approached Colonel Hen- derson threw his arms about him and kissed him. Representative Allen, who represexts the distiict of Maine so long represented by the late “Tom" Reed, was also most pronounced Jo his salutations of the retir- ing speaker. He embraced Mr. Henderson, kissing him upon either cheek. There were many glistening eyes in the throng of mem- bers, who pushed forward to grasp the hand of Colorcl Henderson during the ten- minute impromptu reception he held today on the floor of the house of representativcs. As soon as the people in :he galleries could gain an admittance to the floor they, too, pushed forward fo extend their greetings to Mr. Henderson. =/ __Etter Gets Another Term. Senator Millard stated today he Had re- celved word from Postmaster General Payue that F. M. Etter, present postmaster at South Omaha, would be renominated for the place he now holds, and that in all probability the president would send in Mr. Etter's name to the senate tomorrow. Attormeyship Comes Next. Senator Millard expects to leave for Omaha early next week, important business demanding his attention in the west. Be- fore going, however, he will have a talk with the president over the district attor- neyship, which is the next hard nut for the Nebraska senators to crack, and it is glving them much trouble. Upless an agree- ment s reached, it is doubtful if the pres| dent will make an appointment until fall. Senator Dietrich is just as pronounced as ever in favor of Mr. Lindsay, while Senator Millard leans toward Summers, and there the matter rests. Just what the outcome will be is still problematical, although it is believed the president does not lean to- ward Semmers with any great degree of warmth, - Mercer Looking for Place. Casting about for a place to land, ex-Congressmaa Mercer has had his triends begin to talk him up for director of the census on the assumption that ex-Gov- ernor Merriam of Minnesota {s soon to r sign to accept a position in New York. Mr. Merriam's son, however, continues to say the family knows nothing of any contem- plated retirement of the census director. When Senator Millard was told today that there was a well-authenticated rumor to the effect that ex-Congressman D. H. Mercer was to be appolnted commissioner of the census in place of W. R. Merriam, who 18 shortly to resign, the junior senator trom Nebraska sententiously asked, “Will his nomination be charged to the District of Columbia "' Hosebud Bill Dies. The Rosebud blll died on the calendar with the close of the fifty-seventh congress. Every effort known to shrewd and efficient representatives was made to get the bill before the houses before adjournment. At one time during the early hours of this morning it looked as if it might be reached. Speaker Henderson having indicated to | Representative Burke (S. D.) his intention to recognize the congressman for the pur- pose of putting the bill on its passage. But just as hope seemed brightest confer- ence reports on two big supply bills were presented, and as the gray dawn broke over the city the house*took a recess until 10 | o'clock with every appropriation bill dis- posed of, and the Rosebud bill, like thou. sands of other bills, died with the congres | 1t is the intention of the South Dakofa del- egation to bring about a ratification ef the treaty with the Rosebud Indians during the summer along the line of the last bill introduced, so that there will be nothing in the way of speedy legislation when con- gress meets next winter. Senator Millard, asecompeanied by Con- gressman Hitcheock, called®on Commissioucr {of Indian Affairs Jones today with & view ! of securing an order from the department for the Inspection of drugs intended for the Indian service at Omaha. The commis- sioner stated he would take the matter un- der consideration, although he told the gentlemen that he had only one drug ln- spector, and he was located at Chicago. Te The Bee, however, the commissiyner stated he believed that the matter could be brought about. C. H. Paul of St. Paul, Neb, who has been comnected with the ordnance bureau of the War department, has beem tra ferred to the Treasury department, and has been given a position with the immigration service in New York at an increaseG salary. Routl of Departments. Charles T. Doty of Chicago was today arded the contract for eleciric wiring ln } (Continued on Second Page.) conclusion of the song there was an almost | simultaneous movement from both sides of | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Fair Thursday and Friday. Omaha Yesterdny: Ho Dew. Temperature o T s " 10 1" 12 FEEEE LR TEPPTIEY vee B2 RIFLES Much { THRIFTY Reorgan MILLA| ed Comp: Activity and in Numbers. Shows s Growing Since ita reorganization last November | the Millard Rifles has increased its mem- bership 100 per cent, and is now a first- class infantry company. The progress has | been in all departments and the record ot | the brief four months has been most flat- tering. G. W. Sues Is captain, R. H. Walker first lleutenant and E. V. Colby of Beatrice, Neb., Colonel Frank B. Moores and Frank Dunlop of Omaha were elected honorary members. Last Friday was held an examination of candidates for noncommissioned officers’ positions. On Monday |D|’ promotions re- culting were announced as follows: Guy M. Matson, first sergeant; Elmer A. Wiemer, quartormaster sergeant; Frederick Hanson, second sergeant; Bert McMahill, third ser- geant; Bugene Harris, first corporal, and Arthur Hardy, second corporal. There are still to be issued appointments of two sergeants’ and two corporals’ war- rants. These positions are being held open to give the new members entering & chance to compete. Sergeants Hanson and Mo- Mahtll are both former regulare and Philip- pine veterans and have both been under fire. Sergeant Hanson has in addition served as second lleutenant in the volunteer forces, while Sergeant McMahill made the entire Philippine campalgn with a Kansas regiment. A feature of the company's work this year 18 to have the weekly medal drill. This will stimulate individual interest. Corporal Arthur Hardy has twice won the proficiency trophy. In addition Second Lieutenant Cooper has offered a handsome gold medal to be awarded to the most proficent all- around soldier at the end of the year. DOCTORS TAKE NEW DEGREES Phi Rho Sigma Holds an Initiatory and Anniversary Session a Celebration. Eta and Iota, the two Omaha chapters of Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fra- ternity, held their joint annual anniversary celebration last night. BEta chapter, at Creighton Medical college, is just one year to the day older than Iota chapter, at the University of Nebraska medical depart- ment. The affalr comprised the usual two features, an initiation and a banquet. Five undergrdduate candidates were led across the gridiron. and back, and six honorary members were recelved, the largest ?QL ‘ever ‘handled at one time. f - Phi Rho Sigma Is now exceedingly strong in Omaha. Fighty medical men attended the festivities last night, and the two chapters of the fraternity here start an- other year with the firmest of foundations and the brightest of prospects. The hon- orary members received were: By Eta, Drs. Coulter, Barstow, Jennings, Summers; by Tota, Drs. Milory and Mogridge. The undergraduates tortured were: By Eta, Messrs. Wead. Schlier and Nelson; by Iota, Messrs. Eplin and Fuller. Initiatory rites and the usual accompany- ing castigations of the spirit and the flesh were conducted at Royal Arcanum hall, in the Bee bullding. The banquet followed at the Iler Grand hotel. Among ‘prominent members of the fraternity in Omaba who attended were: Drs. A. 8. Jones, W. H. Christle, A. H. Cooper, A. B. Lindquest, B. B. Davis, F. S. Owen, G. H. Bicknell, B. W. Christie, A. C. Stokes. C. F. Mayer of Eta chapter was toastmaster and the responses were all of the stellar variety. .[HOLDUP MEN TURN BOLD TRICK Knock B. Lehan Down While He is Standing at Thirteenth and Dodge. B. Lehan was the victim of two holdup men at an early hour this morning. He was standing at the corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets looking at the electric lights and, other signts when the holdup men came up and kuocked him down. They im- mediately proceeded to go through Lehan's pockets and secured what money he had, departing without even thanking their vie- tim for the contribution. Lehan does not know just how much he lost, but places the sum at somewhere between $7 and $i2. Later the police arrested two brothers, Dan and Matt Bablc, whom Lehan identifies as the parties who bheld him up. The two Babics are Austrians and room at the Cam- bridge hotel. HIGH LICENSE IN VERMONT Liguer to Be Sold Openly Towns First Time in Fifty Yeu Many HITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt, March 4.—Returns from remote towns of the state siderably deluyed and today towns out of the 246 cities and towns iu the state had not yet been heard from. While the high license advocates ex- pected a substantial victory, the figures at hand show a surprising increase on the high license majority as compared with that at the special vote taken a month 0, when the legislative act annuling the prohibitory law which had stood for halt a century accepted by & margin of about 1,000 votes in & total of 60,000, In every one of the six cities of the state, . Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, Barre, St.*Albans and Vergennes, liquor will be openly sold on April 1 for the first ime in half a century. Movements of Ocean Vessels March 4. At New York—Arrived: Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse, from Berlin; Minneapolis, f-om London. Salled: Celtle, for Liverpool; Rot- terdam, for Rotterdam trom At The Lizard—Passed: New York, for Hamburg At Gibraltar—Passed Naples, for New York; Naples, for New York At Plymouth—Arrived: from New York Beyrout—Arrived: Kaiserin Maria ta, from New York via Funchal, Constantinople, etc., for Jaffa, Alex- etc., on crulse. rbourg—Arrived: Graf \Valdersee, trom New York via Plymouth, for Ham- burg, and proceeded. At Bouthampton—Arrived: St New York. At Liverpool—Sailed: ton. At Sicily—Passed: 8t York, for Southamplon. Bulgaria, Phoenicl Calabria, trom from Gfat Waldersee, Paul, from Sylvanian, for Bos- Pau|, from New on the license question yesterday are con- | twenty-five | CENTS. Bl FLOOD OF BILLS Approach of Time Limit Has Oaused the Legislators to Wake Up. ONLY TWO MORE DAYS TO GET THEM IN Beveral of the Bills Introduced Are of Oon- siderable Importance. RENEW FIGHT FOR RAILROAD TAXATION Beveral Coustitutional Amendments Pro- posed by Memminger MOVE TO REVIVE THE MAXIMUM RATE LAW Kennedy of Douw Belleves Pros- perity of Rallroads Wounld In- duce Courts to Reverse Their Ru (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 4.—(Special.)—In the deluge of billa that broke loose in the house today forty-five were introduced, among them several of great importance. The unusually large number was due partially to the fact that the house had been so crowded for days past with other work as to have little time to devote to the intro- duction of mew measures and partially 1o the fact that but two days remain of the session on which bills may be introduced without epecial consent of the house. The senate was less prolific in its production of new measuree, only about a dozen being In- troduced. One was of considerable import, especially to the people of Omaha xnd other cities which have just been defvated by the aflroade In the attempt to secure the pas- sage of a measure that would give to mu- nicipalities the right of taxing railroad terminals for city purposes. This bill was Introduced by Saunders of Douglas. In the loag st of house bills was one by Kennedy of Douglas, presenting a joint resolution instructing and directing the at- torney general to begin proceedings for the enforcement of the maximum freight rate law. Other bills of unusual importance In- troduced in the house were four by Mem- minger of Madison, providing for comstitu- tional amendments, increasing the number of supreme court justices, changing their salaries and the salaries of the state of- cers and providing for the safe investment of the permanent school fund. Would Enforce Rate Representative Kennedy, the lon¢ demo- crat trom Douglas county, sets forth in his bill for a joint resolution for the enforce- ment of the maximum freight rate law, that that law has not been enforced in late years. He specifically providea that the attorney general shall proceed at once upon the passage of this resolution, to the en- forcement of this law and shall furnish to the legislature at the earliest possible date & statement of his estimate of appro- ‘priation necessary to conduct:such action. It also provides that the governor and at- torney general “employ apy and all necessary a in the way of counsel, clerical help and oxperts in prosecuting this case. The bill explains that the federal circuit and supreme courts held that when this law was enacted in 1893 the rates which it contemplated were too low, in view of the depression, due largely to crop failures, to enable the railroads to make fair incomes, but that since the radical change in indus- trial conditions the courts have modified their rulings so as to validate these rates and remove any cause for their non- enforcement, that despite this latter action of the courts the officlals of Nebraska charged with the enforcement of this act have been derelict in thelr duties. Terminal Taxation Bi Close on the death of H. R. 330 is born another measure contemplating taxation of rallroad terminals for municipal purpose: constructed on the same fundamental pri; ciple as both house rolls 171 and 330. This new bill ‘was Introduced in the senaie by Saunders of Douglas. Douglas county members assert that this is their first siep in rencwirg the fight, and that it will ce tollowed by others calculated to force the sanction of this proposition upon this leg- islature. The Saunders bill merely provides that the railroad property shall be assessed and taxed on its fair cash value for city pur- poses the same as other property, and that in fixing the standards of assessment and | taxation the figures returned by the State Board of Equalization shall not be taken by the city tax commissioner, except for school purposes. This, of course, would eliminate that obmoxious clause in the Omaha city charter which compels the tax commissioner to accept these figures, and which is the cause of this entire fight, in- stituted by the Real Estate exchange of Omaha. Ot course, the introduction of mo number of bills on this subject is going to do any good unless there 18 an avowed determina- { tion, and a ceaseless endeavor on the part of the Omaha delegatiqn to force their proposition through. It Ys seriously que tioned if the fatal mistake was not made in allowing this matter to go until near the close of the session. Not a few mem- bers from otber sections of the state have declared it to be thelr bellef that had the Douglas delegation buckled down earnestly and persistently to pass this bill at the | first of the session, employing all the means at their disposal, such as that one so com- monly used, trading of moasure for meas- ure, or the reciproeity plan, the bill would long before this have become a law, and there would not mow, be any mecessity of incriminating railroad lobbles for imfluenc- ing the legisiature to defeat this propos!- tion. Amendments to Comstitdtion. Memminger of Madison, a fuston mimber of the house, introduced four bills pro- posing amendments to the constitution H. R. 391, the first, provides for the in- vestment of the permanent schoo) fund of the state in registered school district bonds of the state. H. R. 892 provides for changes in the salaries of state officers, conferring upon the legislature the right, by & two-thirds vete, to raise or lower such salaries, provided, however, that the salary of no official is changed during his term of office and that no changes can be made oftener than omce In four years H. R. 393 and 394 deal with the member ship and salaries of the supreme ocourt and doubtless will be considered wost in- portant. The former provides that the legislature may, by a three-fifths vote, change the salary of the suprere court justices, and the latter increases (he mem- bership from three to five, providing for the election of two justices for & term of two years and two for a term of four years in 1504 and thereafter one for a term of five years annually. These three propositions, thy provision