Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1903, Page 1

TA BL1 llhl) OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1903—TEN PAGE cory ARGUE MERGER CASE® Norchern Beourities Company. BECK SEES 0BVIOUS RESTRAINT OF TRADE | Olaims Wabash Employes Were Guiltless | Beside Hill Fuotion. RATES NEW JERSEY'S RECKLESS CHARTER | Deolares No Other 8tats Would Grant Un- limited Rights YOUNG REPLIES FOR RAILROAD MAGNATES Briefly Sketches History of Lines to Coant, Showing How Trade Was Gradually Bullt Up to the East, ST. LOUIS, Mo.. March 18.—For the first time in history, and by authority of a spe- clal act of congress, four United States clrcuit judges are sitting together to hear arguments in the fight of the government against the Northern Securities company. Under thie special act the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota is holding its session in St. Louls, and by this arrangement the case can go immedi- ately from this court to the supreme court of the United States and thus save from two to throe years. The four judges before whom the case is being argued are Judges Caldwell, Sanborn, Thayer and Van Devanter, Judge Caldwell presiding. The attorneys for the government are Games M. Beck and Willlam H. Day, D. T. Watson of Pittsburg and D. P. Dyer of St. Louts. For the Northern Becurities company are John W. Griggs, George B. Young of St. Paul, M. D. Grover, general attorney for the Great Northern railroad, and C. W. Bunn, general attorney for the Northern Pacifie. Most of today's session was taken up with an elaborate argument presented by Assistant Attorney Gemeral Beck. After he had concluded, an argument for th» Northern Securities company was begun by former Judge George B. Young, Mr. Beck began speaking soon after court convened at 10 o'clock and with the excep- tion of two hours he spoke continuously until 5:562. He referred to the Wabash injunction case, saying the laws were such that em- ployes of a raliroad who did not own 1 cent of stock, or one rall of the road, could be enjoined from striking and thereby inter- fering with the Interstate commerce act by stopping traflic, but that unless this court #0 ruled the government was powerless to prevent the owners of raliroads themselves from merging, preventing competition and thereby interfering with the very rights the interstate commerce act sought to pro- tect. Try to Override Public W Iu his grgumert Attarney Beck sald, in part: It would be difficult to exa; ortance of this controve: ate ever besn presented to any court which affected cofporate interests of such -fimm-, and still fewer which more ly concern the welfare of the Ameri- can peop) It compctln( carriers can form a stable, permanent and controlling _combination with _indefinite and perpetual _powers, through the simple device of a so-called olding corporation” organized under a state charter—a form which is far more inimical to the public interests than the trafic arrangements or technical trusts which the law has hitherto condemned— then both the Interstate commerce act of 1867, with its inhibition of pooling, and the act of July 2, 18%, with its sweeping condemnatior. of all combinations in re- straint of trade or attempted monopolies, will nullified by the power of indi- viduald, who will thus show the im- potence of the declared will of the Ameri- can people. Mr. Bock then reviewed the corporate history of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Unfon Pacific systems. He re- forred at length to the attempt made in the year 1898 by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern interests, to unite their respeciive systems, and quoted at length from the declslon of the supreme court in the case of Pearsall against Great Northern Raflway company declaring the attempted amalgamation unlawtul. New Jersey Reckiess with Charters. There was considerable discussion as to what charter could be secured to protect | such extraordinary powers. After careful consideration by eminent counsel, it was finally decided that the state which had won @ bad pre-eminence for its recklass sale of corporate privileges to secure petty fe was the state whose protective power should be invoked. Accordingly, the char- ter was applied for in New Jersey on No- vember 13, 1901, The whole transaction was nothing more than, the exchange of certificates of ownership; the buyers wers the sellers and the sellers were the buyers, with this important difference, that the part owner of the property of the Northern Pacific rallway, or the Great Northern, found himself a part owner of the property of both. Had the two constituent companies for mally consolidated, no different results would bave been accomplished. Had the Great Northern and Northern Pacific for- mally merged their corporate identity and fesued new capital stock In retirement and exchange for the pre-existing holdings, the | result would have been precisely the same as in the exchange for the certificates of the Northern Securities, with the single exception of the mame. Between a tech- | al merger and a transter to the so-called holding company is the difference between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. Obtalus Extra nary Powers. Mr. Beck then analyzed the charter of the Northern Securities company, and said: Such extraordinary powers were never yet granted to a corporation uniess it be one 'of the New Jersey breed. In a few words, its powers may be classified as fol- lows: (1) Infiinite in scope. (2) Perpetual In character. \ (3) Vested in the hands of a few. (4) By methods secret even to stockhold. ors. 1t will be interesting to follow out the ibilities of such a corporation. The or- inal idea of the olding corporation. as plained by noted fnancie 0 enable the minority to rule the majority, A majority of the Northern Becurities ompany. namely, SOLONMW controls the Burlingten, Northern Pacific and Great Northern systems and all subsidiary com- panies whose wggregate caplialization in- Sluding ' funded exceeds $1,000,000,000, bu[#h board of dll ctors, whose holdl orthern Becurities may be compa tively insignificant, can, during the tenure of their oftice, “womt a committee with power to act and to use the seal of the Corporation at pleasure. This committee may only be three in number, and & ma- jor(ty s’ determinative in the last analy two men may control the un- limited ‘powers of the holding company, which in turn controls the Vust powers of Buriington, Northern Pacific and Great PEOPLE 0F FRANCE PLEASED Take an Interest in Panama Canal, Although United St Wil F e i ’, PARIS, March 18.- % | the ratification of the Pahe by the United States senate ‘% recelved with satisfaction by (he and others here who have long beeif ested in this project In government circles the senate's action vas considered to be an assurance that the United States will carry out the work be- | Bun under French auspices. Although the government with the Panama Canal company, former has always taken a deep interest in the success of the late Count de Lesseps project, owing te the great number of French investors in the canal company. It is understood that the French com- pany will'not make any definite plans for ithe future until the congress of Colombhia | ratifies the treaty, when ‘he procedure for distributing the proceeds of the sale of the property will be arranged. On the bourse today Panama 3 per cents, which closed at 46 francs yesterday, ad- vanced to 47 and 48 francs. These repre- sent the bonds having a faca value of 500 francs, which sold ulmost the palmy da gement of . b'l treaty of Count de Lesseps. They years, but revived and have advanced illnm‘,\l,\' since the United States began the discussion of the treaty with Colombia. MOODY LIKES THE HARBOR nys Proposed Site for Coaling Sta- tion Most n Cuba Desirable, HAVANA, March 18.—Secretary Moody and party, with the exception of Postmas- ter General Payne and Senator Hal for Santiago on a special train today. Mr. Payne continued his journew\ to Santlago on Dclphin ani Senator Hale has started for Washington. , Mr Moody will stop for three hours at Matanzas. He will also visit Santa Clara and Buerto Principe and will arrive at San- tiago Friday. The secretary informed the correspondent of the Associated Press previous to his de- parture that the impression he had formed during his three hours' stay ashore at Bahia Honda was entirely favorable. The harbor, he added, ls convenient, and there is ample site for a coaling station, The coral formation of the bottom of the harbor will apparently require little dredg- ing. Mr. Moody found that an American company had already purchased a big tract of land for colonizing purposes in the im- mediate vicinity of the coaling site. NOVEL ' MACHINES FOR FAIR One of Them Catches the Heat Units Flying Out of a Factory Chimney, BERLIN, March 18.—Among the new ma- chines for conserving energy that Lieu- tenant Godfrey L. Carden of the United States revenue cutter service has found for the St. Louls. exposition is one to catch the heat units flying out of a factory chim- ney. This appliance in a plant at Dussel- don now yields 2,100-horse power, Another device to economize force can be attached to a steam engine and increase its power one-third without increased fuel consumption. Lieutenant Carden, who has been search- ing Europe for elght months for useful ma- chines invented since the Paris exposition, has arranged to send over about twenty other noveltles, including the process for making smokeless briquettes, which has been adopted by the British admiralty, and also a German briquette machine to utilize coal waste. LIBERALS WIN ANOTHER SEAT Conservatives Suffer a Crushing De- feat in Bye Election in Sussex. LONDON, *March 18.—The conservatives have suffered a crushing defeat in the Rye division of Sessex, where a bye election was held yesterday for a successor to A. L. Brookfleld, conservative, who has been ap- pointed British consul at Montevideo. The result was the return of C. F. Hutch- /inson, liberal, by a majority of 634 over Edward Boyle, conservative, Mr. Hutchin- son, who appealed to the electors as a eritic’ of the government's whole policy, obtained over 2,000 more votes than he did in 1900, when he opposed Mr. Brookfield, while the conservative vote fell off about 100. There was much talk in the lobby of the House of Commons today about the “‘moral" effect this and the Woolwich reverse would ‘have on the government. [SULTAN IGNORES AMERICA Refunes Minister Bearing Clalms Roosevelt Wishes Settled, to See LONDON, March 19.—The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Constantinople says United States Minister Lelshman is still vainly walting for an audience with the sultan to deliver President Roosevelt's autdgraph letter on the American claims regarding the missionary schools in Ar- menia. In response to Lelshman's demands Tew- fik Pacha pronised that the sultan would | receive him aftey the celebration of Ba.ram, but the festival passed and Mr. Lejshman is becoming exasperated. MEMORIAL WREATHS CENSURED Berlin Pollce Guard A w st Seditle n the Populace Dee Rebels' Graves. BERLIN, March 18.—This being the an- niversary of the revolutionary outbreak of 1848, crowds of Berliners wandered to the cemetery to decorate the graves of those who were killed. A police lleutenant stood at the gate and examined the inscriptions on the wreaths, | while & policeman swanding oebind him with & pair of shears clipped off the rib- | bons on which objectionable inscriptions had been made. KING REMEMBERS COL. CODY LONDON, March 18.—King Edward has sent Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill) a hand- some scarf pin with the royal cipher in diamonds surmounted by the crown, a souvenir of his visit last Saturday to the Wild West show. as of France has no connection | the | at par during | had been greatly depressed during recent | {FLUOD SURROUNDS TRAINS Passengers Olnght Between 8pend Day in Oars. Washouts | WEATHER BUREAU IS MORE HOPEFUL ers Still Rise at Memphis, but £lsewhere Situation is Reported As Greatly Improved and Danger Passed. WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Ohio river has fallen 1.8 feet at Cairo, and as a conse quence the Mississippl river, while slightly higher at Memphis, can rise but little more. The stage at the last named point this morning is 39.6. The situation below is un- changed, the stages beivg: Vickoburg, 49.3, a rise of three-tenths; Now Orleans, 19.3, a rise of one-tenth. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 18.—There is tonight except in the fact that tributaries of the Mississippl to the north of Memphis are reported falling. One of the mokt serious developments is that all railroads entering the city from the west have been washed out and wll trains tied up. So suddenly did the rise vome after the | 8t. Francis levee broke at Price Landing tween washed out points and are now sur- rounded by water on blind tracks about three miles west of Bridge Junction, Ark. Aboard each of the trains are about sev- enty-five passengers. Rescue Fifty by Risky Work, The trains are on the track of the Iron Mountain near Altmar, Ark. By taking risks several handcars succeeded in reach- Ing them today and about fifty passengers were brought to this city over submerged and shaky tracks. The remainder are housed In the coaches, belng fed by the rallroad companfes. Some persons were rescued from Marion, Ark., today by means of skiffs and the sit- uation there is’somewhat relieved. Eight white families and fully 200 ncgroes re- main there in the second stories of build- ings. quarter of a foot was vecorded here today. A dispatch from Covington states that Island No. 35, the highest in the north end of the river, is flooded for the first time In its history. Sixty persons were rescued from the lsland this morning by a steamer. The situation ih North Memphis is un- changed. People are transferred in skiffs and many are idle because of the shutting down of several inCustries. SPRING VALLEY, Wis.,, March 18.—Very heavy rains last night over central Wis- consin caused floods in all the smaller rivers. At Martell, on the Rush hiver, a dam went out, taking three men, two of whom were rescued. Leon Gasman was drowned and Henry Gasman badly hurt. Five railroad bridges are out between here and Elmwood, a distance of elght miles. ‘The roads are almost impassable. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 18.—In eighteen hours 1.42 inches of rain fell in St. Paul, this belog within 0.02 inghes of the nomiual rainfall for the entire month. SCHWAB TALKS OF HIS TRIP Steel President Indulaes in Sarcasm, ut Closes with a Prac- tieal Hiut, NEW YORK, March 18.--Charles M. Schwab, who returned to New York on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, sald in the course of an interview that he never had felt so well in his life or been so gad to get back to work. He declared he bad no intentlon of resigning the presidency of the steel combination, adding: “But, of course, I don’t own the United States Steel corporation, and its stockholders choose its officers.” When asked regarding his big automo- bile, Mr. Schwab replied: “The one in which I was said to be making a tour of Europe? Oh, I sold that. It was too flerce for me. 1 am pretty strong, as you see, but that machine was a terror to every chauffeur I had, but T bought three machines aud they will be here pretty soon.” “What about that phantom yacht of yours that was making such remarkable speed on the Swiss lake?” Mr. Schwab was asked. “That was a neat little launch that I hifed for a few days. Its remarkable speed was only part of the phantasmagorfa that have surrounded my journey and given the trip its bizarre character.” “Your cruise In Mr, Drexel's yacht, Margherita, was real, was it not? “Indeed it was, and the most ful reality of my life; We all enjoyed the Mediterranean, but a great many absurd things were sald of that crulse. We did | mot go up the Nile and our itinerary does not call for special notice.” Referring to his observations in Europe, Mr, Schwab said: “I made this trip to study nature. I must say, however, that there 1s great commercial activity in some parts of Europe. Germany, for example, as well as France. This is not the only manutacturing nation in the world, and the sooner we realize that the better. Charles M. Schwab was at the office of the Uhited States Steel corporation today, where he was greeted by the chiefs of the | various divisions. Later he called at the | banking house of J. P, Morgan & Co., and conferred for a long time with several members of that firm. . delight- |FIVE BOYS DEAD IN WATER Near Chant, Territory. JOPLIN, Mo., March 18.- tragic death of five boys w today from Chant, I T playing on a raft which capsized. Dead RAYMOND CROCOFT. RALPH OAKS. CHARLES OAKS. PETER BERRY. LUTHER BERRY. The ages of the boys ranged from 6 to § years. The bodies were rescued. JAIL OPENS FOR MAD MAN | $t. Joseph Embessler Lea News of received here JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, United States Marshal E. R. Durham to- day started with Lee Gallagher for Wash- ington, D. C., where he will be placed in the government insane asylum Gallagher was serving a term for em- bezzlement commitied while & beak clerk 1a Bt Josephs March 18—~ scarcely a ray of hope in the flood situation | that two passenger trains were caught be- | NATCHEZ, Miss., March 18.—In spite of the great width of the river a rise of a which is considered one of the | The boys were | |WABASH WAES ON UNIONS| Clatms Real 6 with Men's L Originated I, Who Wish Organizatign Recognized. ST. LOUIS, Maréh 18—AMdavits were | Ainished and arguments commenced late this | afternoon in the Wabash injunction suit. | In opening for the company, Colanel Blodgett eaid: “We @laim that the griev- ances said to exist S the Wabash origi- nated with the defenlants in this case and | mot with any of the@mployes ot the com- pany. As evidence fhis I point out that there is not in any ®f the reports of the meetings of thelr ance committes a | eIngle statement to W that any of these | so-called grievances) Were eoyer discussed | by that committee. These grievances Must haxe originated somewhere, and we olaim that the proceed- | ings of the grievancelcommittee show that they were made i rdance with the | demands of the Wesffn association of the general committee oF these two organiza- tions as a foundatih for their demands | for official recognitigh of their union. “It is important,” B declared after read- ing the bill of complaint, “that it should | be underatood what s meant by a ‘union road.’ It is'a road where committees of labor organizations {&re recognized and | contracted with, w! written agreements are signed by the md of their representa- tives, and by the mabagers of the road. A nonunion road formulites its own rules and be seen. There are mp signed agreements. At this polnt court adjourned. Among afMdavits submitted by the railroad | today were those uf Johm W. Schrader, who said he was a member of the Brotherhood of Raflway Trainmen acquainted with Gragd Master Morrissey. He declared he had heard Mr. Morrissey | threaten to bring abélit a general tleup of | all Gould lines unlesy the union was rec- ognized officially by the Wabash. Grand Master Handahan of tie Firemen and Vice Grand Master Lee of the Train- men, were similarly accused. In rebuttal, Messrs. Morrissey, Hannahan and Lee offered afdavits of energetic de- nial. They declared the afdavits charging them with uttering fhreats to tie up the road or injure its business were false in every particular and declared they had never before heard of the men who made them. OMAHA TACTICS REPEATED Kansas City Southern Follows Unlon Pacific Lead in Attempt to Break Strike. PITTSBURG, Kan, March 10.—After being idle for a week, the Kansas City Southern shops started again today with ninety nonunion men brought in from fhe north. The men were unloaded and escorted to the shops under an armed guard fur- nished by the railway., The guard, however, was unneceseary, as the strikers made no attempt to molest the new men. A stockade is being built around the ehops and grounds, jmside which the new men will sleep and eat in tents and board- ing cars. Today fifty | ‘walked a beat around the shops, m rifles were stacked up Inside 1) A number of the fifln 's painters went out today and eight of the company's roundhouse men also quit. LABOR UNION - INCORPORATES First te Take the Step Files Articles Hartford, © ctl- at HARTFORD, Conn., March 18.—The first labor union to filé articles of incorporation in this state did so today, when an applica- tion was presented at the office of the sec- retary of state for the incorporation of the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers, Molders and Brass Workers’ union No. 73 of Meridan, The objects of the proposed corporation, as given In the application, are reduction of he hours of labor, municipal ownership of public utilities, government ownership of national monopolies, abolition of govern- ment by injunction in controversies between capital and labor and the enhancement of wages and the general welfare of all labor- ing classes. COLORADO MINERS SCORE WIN Most Companies Agree Not to Ship te Boycotted Reduction ‘Works, CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., March 18.— With few exceptions the mines approached by the Western Federation bave agreed not to ship ore to the mills of the United | States Reduction and Refining company. | The mines which have shut down are the Independence, 450 men; Isabella, 100; | Thompson, 50, and Granite, 40—a total of 640, MORRIS TO BUILD A PLANT Chicago Meat Packer Decldes Spend One Milllon Dollars in Kansas City. to KANSAS CITY, March 18.—Nelson Morris | & Co., the packers, are to establish a | $1,000,000 plant here which will employ 1,000 | hands, according to a statement made pub- | e today by Colonel C. F: Morse of Chicago, | wh> has been in the i el days in connection vcllh the project Colonel Morse says that building opera- tions will be begun at once and that the plant probably will have been completed hy fall. The plant will be built at Riverside, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, near the five gcres in extent, several months ago. which was purchased Minnesota's Lower House Asks Peo- ole to Vote on Prop- ST. PAUL, Minn,, March 18.—By unani- | mous vote this afternoen the house passed a proposition to raise the gross earnings tax on rallroads from 3 to 4 per cent. A similar law passed by the last legisla- {ture failed to recelve a sufficient vote at | the last election. |FINE FUN TO WRECK TRAIN Indinna Boys Plle Rails on Track and Hide to Watch the MARION, Ind., March 18.—Charles Ceell, 13, and Harry Wilkinson, 12, were ar- rested today for attempting to wreck a traln on Saturday, Cecil says a crowd of boys placed iron ralls on the tracks and then hid under & brides (o walch the trala jump off. schedules and posts fhem where they may | and personally | stock yards, and on a tract of land forty- | WOULD RAISE RAILROAD TAYX a bill to submit to a vote of the people | MAM NEW UMION Btfifixs Omaha Street Oar Employes Oan Nearly All Wear Them Now. | ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE IN A DAY Union Holds a Big Meeting and Takes In Members by the Score and s Now Numerically Strong. Diviston No. 283, Amalgamated Assocta- tion of Strcet Railway Employes of Amer- fca, recelved a landslide of new membere at the all-day meeting held yesterday. About names were added to the roll of the unfon. According to Presideat Q. H. Smith of No. 285, there are now, counting the accessions of vesterday, 4256 men in the union. The street railways of this city and Council Bluffs employ about 500 men, 80 it will be seen that the nonunion men, that Is those who have not yet joined the organization, are greatly In the minority. The unusual number joining yesterday d1d &0 because that was the last day on which membership could be obtained for $.. At the time of organization it was decided to hold the membership fee at this figure until this date and then raise it to $5 for one month and afterwards to $10. This raise affects only men in the service at this time; all men newly joining the street car sorvice will be charged the original fee. The men who are still holding aloof from the union are almost to a man old employes of the company, and those who jolned yos- | terday were for the greater part also of this class. Those early in the organization were mostly men who had not served any great length of time. Many of those who | have just joined had intended to put in their names at some time, but had delayed action, for one reason or anotner. Those still remaining out of the orgamzation are said to have dofie so through fear of some complication or unpleasantness. Leaders are Jubilant. I Men who have been prominent in the work of organizing and increasing the union are jubilant over the accession of yester- day and think that it wili be but a short time until practically all of the car men are in line. The majority of the men of the Council Bluffs line early joined the union, and most of those still unsigned are on the Omaha side. The union was organized August 28 of last year. At the time application was made for the charter 204 names were signed to the application as intending members. Mest of these later withdrew from the movement and only seventeen men . _.uained to fight for the associatictl. ‘fhese were suspended by the street rallway company, but were later reinstated. Eight others Jjoined the movement on the night that the seventeen were suspended, and these twen- ty-five ploneers elected officers and began work among their less active companions. The union men say that they have no grievance against the street rallway com- pany at this time, but feel that they should be organized. They express the intention to make the union work for the goed of its members and for the good of the service, and are confdent their employers will never have any cause to complain of its actions. SNOW STORM IN COLORADO Proves to Be the Most Severe Blizsard Bxperienced There This Winter, DENVER, March 15—The snowstorm which reached this ety from the west this morning has proved to be the most severe Dblzzard experienced here this winter. The snow, driven flercely before a high north wind, makes pedestrianism difficult. and | business ls generally suspended. There is every indication that the storm will con- tinue throughout the night and that the weather will become decidedly colder, es- pecially in northeastern portion of state. Within the city limts all street cars with the exception of & few downtown lines were effectually stopped and trains have been stalled on some of the railroads. F. P. Johnson, a well known stockman, sald 1f the storm should continue for twelve hours the loss of cattle will be incalculable. “The sleet is of such dampmess that it will stick to their hides,” he sald, “‘and will chill them so that they will die by thousands.” CHEYENNB, Wyo., March 18.—What the stockmen consider the worst blizzard of the winter has been reging In this section since early morning. The air 18 full of wet snow, and a high wind is drifting it badly. The | weather is cold. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 18.—The sc- verest snowstorm of the winter s prevail- ing here today. Up to 2 o'clock over Zour inches of snow had fallen, accompanied by & forty-mile wind, an) street trafic is seriously interfered with. The storm is general throughout southern Idaho, north- ern Utah and western Wyoming and Is working westward rapidly. MERCURY BREAKS RECORDS Reaches Eighty in the Shade at Bur- lington and Breaks Rec- Elsewhere. BURLINGTON, Ia., March 18.—The mer- cury rose to 80 In the shade today. MILWAUKEE, March 18.—According to the weather bureau today's heat broke the record for March for the thirty-three years | | since the local weather bureau was estab- lished, the thermometer registered | LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 18.—The ther- mometer registered 81 degrees today, 25 above normal CLEVELAND, March 18.—The tempera- | ture today for March was & record breaker, | reaching 74.6. The highest previous record for March was In 1896, when 74 degrecs was reached AMES PLEADS NOT GUILTY Appe: in Minneapolis Court on Seven Indictments Charg- ! ing Bribery. | MINNEAROLIS, March 18.—Dr. Ames, | former mayor of Minneapolis, pleaded not | gullty to all seven indlctments againet him, charging bribery, conspiracy and ex- tortion, In the district court today. | Bail was then fized at $15.000 and he was given four days to secure bondsmen. CLEVELAND KEEPS BIRTHDAY P s Sixty-Sixth ¥y Quietly at Home, Former Preside Annivers Forecast for Snow and Colder Thursday; Nebraska Friday Fair. Temperature ut Omahna yesterday: Hour. Deg. Hour. Dex. - .61 1 [ . w0 o0 . 61 64 s o4 . 64 WESTERN UNION MOGULS CALL! Superintendents of the Central Divi- | slon Spend m Day at the Local Ofice. Prominent representatives of the West- ern Union Telegraph company were in | Omaha yesterday. T. P. Cook, general superintendent of the central division; D. R. Davles, superintendent of construction for the same, and Morris Cook, private secretary to the superintendent, arrived in the morning in the Western Union's private car Blectric over the Purlingion | road on a tour of inspection and remained until after noon, when they went to Lin- | coln. From there they go to Topeka and through Kansas to Derver aud then per- | Baps south to Texas. They are accom- | panfed from Omaha to Denver by C. B. Horton, superintendent of the third dis- | trict of the central division, and Foreman | C. L. McKean of the same. W. W. Umstead, local manager, stated | last night that the officials were on a tour | of inspection and that while there is con- siderable construction work in progreas and several new wires coming in from the east, their visit here was without’ special | significance, PENNSYLVANIANS TO MEET Are Arranging for Thelr Annual Re- union at Myrtle Hal March 20 The Pennsylvanians of Omeha, South Omaha, Council Bluffs and the tributary vicinities are to have their annual as- sembly and reunion at Myrtle hall, Fif- teenth and Douglas streets, Thursday even- ing, March 2. In preparation for the event, which is invariably a ‘‘big time," the various committees met at Driesbach's | candy store last night to report progress end discuss the finishing details. This year, as last, the plan is to have a box social at which each woman will pro- | vide a box of lunch and the men bid for it, the highest bidder to lunch with the woman who filled the box. The proleeds of the auction defray the expense of pro- viding music and decoratidns. The Pennsylvanians have an organization or club, with W. G. Shriver as president and Mel Horner as secretary. At the box | social the attendants are to be native Penn- sylvanians or the wives or children of such. It is anticipated that between 500 and 600 will be present. TO STUDY THE RACE PRCBLEM et el Bill Pefore the Wisconnin Legisiature Provides for n Conference on the Subject. MADISON, Wis., March 18.—The joint resolution of Senator Hatton providing for a conference on the race problem came up in the senate today for action. Senator Haton made a speech in favor of the resolution. He spoke of the importance of the question and cited the sayingo of southern writers on the outlook. It was not proposed, he said, to have a gathering of politiclans, but of economists and so- clologists to consider establishing train- ing wuchools for teachers in different branches, ete. He read a letter from Acting President of Wisconsin University E. A. Birge rec- ommending fhe conference, and moved to refer the resolution to the committee on | education. The motion was carried. While the sentiment in the senate seems ! to be strongly against the bill Senator Hat- ton is of the vpwniun that when its intent and scope are better understood the feel- ing regarding it will be different. METHODISTS HISS MORMON Utah Elder Tries to Address Chris- tian Conference, Without Success, PHILADELPHIA, March 18.—A Mormon elder, who attempted to address the Methodist Episcopal conference today, was ejected amid a storm of hisses. Dr. Sarah J. Elliott, formerly a medical | misslonary among the Mormons, was de- nouncing Mormonism and polygamy, when a middle-aged man edged his way to the front and handed her a card bearing the inscription, “N. F. Simpson, Salt Lake, Utah." The reverse side bore the Mormon declaration of principles. The card was passed to the chairman, who announced that a Mormon elder de- sired to speak. Immediately the church | was In an uproar and there were cries of “Put him out.” . “I only want to say a word,” ehouted Simpson, but the sexton was called and escorted the intruder to the street. TO HUNT FOR BLUE BEAR| sh Museum Wants Specimen of | One of the Rarest Animals in the World. NEW YORK, March 18.—To seek in | Alaskan wilds the blue or glacler bear, an animal so rare that so far as Is known | only one has been killed and none captured, | two English sportsmen, Captain Charles Eustace Radcliffe, a retired officer of the Life guards, and Richard Fitzgerald Glynn of the First Royal dragoons, having been commissioned by the British museum to get a specimen of this animal, bave arrived | here on their way to nortbern Alaska. Movements of Ocean Vessels March 185, | At New York—Arrived: Georgle from | Liverpool; Astoria, from Glasgow. Sailed: | 8t. Paul, 'for Southampton; Germanic, for | Liverpool; Statendam, for Rotterdam. At Liverpool—Arrived: Oceanic, from New York: Rhynland, from Philadelphia. | Balled: Celtic, for New York via Queens- | town, At The Lizgard—Passed: Minneapolls, from New York, for London. At Queenstown—Arrived: Baxonia, from | Boston, for Liverpool, and proceeded Sailed: Ultonia, from Liverpool for Boston. At Southampton—Arrived: Philadelphia, from New York At Naples—Arrived York, for Genoa, and proceeded Fayal-—Salled: Commonweakh, from Palatia, from New Pennsylvania, PRINCETON, N. J, March 18.—Former president Cleveland was 66 years old today. | He passed the day quietly with his family | &t his residence on Bayard lane, from from 8hinno Genoa and Naples, for Boston. At_Alglers—Salled: S8ardegna, from Genoa, for New York At Cherbourg—Arrived: trom New York. At Hong Kong—Arrived: Hyades, Tacoma via Yokohama; Indrasama Portland, Ore, via Yokohamas; Mary, from Seattle via Yokobama. | | the pow-wow | by Ten Eyck | mended for passage | tude | with interest. CENTS. IBILL RLM)Y T0 PASS Houso Orders Revenue Measure Engross for Final Passage. THREE SEVEN FUSION VOTES GO TO RAILROADS | Test Comes on Amendment Offered by Ten Eyok During Debate. CLOSING MOMENTS IN COMMITTEE LIVELY Electric Light, Gas, Telephone and Other QOompanies Get Busy. RAILROADS HAVE ALL THEY WANTED Mensure as at Present Endorsed Cone tnins Exactly the Provision Pro- posed by the Special Rev- enue Comm (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 18.—(Speclal)—After all indulged in by the organs and leaders of hyphenated politics in Ne- braska about minority members in the legislature being the only true advocates of tax reform, scven of these minority members fell in line and cast their votes with those to whom these organs of fu- sionism have all along been referring as “tools of the railroads” and “hirelings of the corporations.” The test in which these seven fusion members jumped the track came on an amendment to the revenue bill submitted (rep.) of Douglag, providing for n method of local taxation of rallroads, a counterpart of the principle embodied in H. R. 330, out of which the fusionists tried to make s0 much campaign thunder. Thirty votes were cast for the amendment and 62 against. Of the twenty-four fusionists in the house only sixteen supported the amendment, seven voted against it and one evaded the roll call. Fourteen repub- licans votad for it. The house oncluded consideration of the revenue bill and adopted the report ot the ~ommittee of tho whole recommeuding it fo passage. The bill, with its amend- ments, will be engrossed for a third read- ing after the amendments have been printed ard it is not probable that it will be back in the Jouse for a third reading before next week. Corporations Lose Again, The louse devoted the greater part of the day (o the bill. In the interest of the streot railway corporations certain mem- bers prolonged Giscuesion on the bill so as to give the interests they represented time to slip in thelr amendment placing them under the gross earnings-franchise tax system. The amendment was submit- ted by Burgess of Lancaster after the mo- tion was made in the committee of the whole to report the bill for passage. But it did not prevail. On the contrary, it was voted down very decisively. Koetter and Mangold of Douglas voted for it. Thompson of Merrick secured the adev- tion of his amendment knocklg out the electric light companies ffom this provi- #lon. The electric light concerns, with other utility corporations, had surrepti- tiously tacked on an amendment to sec- tion 80 of the revenue bill glving them the benefits of this gross earnings-franchis method of taxation. They werq found out and Mr. Thompson's amendment was their deathknell. However, the gas companies were not caught. The bill got through before it. was discovered that they were couched safely in the folds of this provi sion. The street railway concerns, which are accused of tylng up with the Burlington In securing a sifting committee to their lik- ing, endeavored to rule with an {ren hand today and probahly this accounts, in some measure, for their decisive throwdown. Certain members balked when this com- bined lash was wielded £nd the result was Qisastrous to the street rallways. It has been suggested that It might have been better for them had not they fallen heir to a share in the sifting committee. Railrond Clause Stands. Desperate efforts were made to amend the ravenue bill 80 as to change the pro- visions relating to railroad taxation, but all in vain. Loomis submitted an amend- ment,. which was a modification of the Caldwell amendment, and Perry of Furnas resubmitted the Caldwell amendment. The tormer was defeated by a vote of 67 to 35, one fusionist voting ugainst it, and the latter was lost by practically the same vote, Thus the bill goes through with the iden- | tical railroad taxation method provided by the joint committee that framed the bill. It has been generally argued by those op- posed to the bill that this means an enor- mous Increase in all taxes save those of the corporations, which, under the State Board of Equalization arrangement, will be given just as good, if mot better, opportumity for evading thelr taxes as under tha old law. To offset this friends of the bill protest that the measure contemplates an equality in (axation and places at the disposal of the assessors every means of getting at the taxable property of the rallroads which will tend to prevent tax- shirking. Course that of Fusion Leaders. the revenue bill is recom- Dby the house, the stti- fusiolilsts will be watched As a matter of fact, the have themsclves largely to the success of the bill, as is understood. it Is no secret In the state house that the high priests of fusionism wanted & revenue bill passed that would not be eatistastory to the people of Nebraska. Their purvose was 80 obs vious as to decelve no ope, and the iwan- ner in which they have conducted their fight to suppress any other sort of legisla- tion along this line has been a subject of eneral comment. One little detail of the fusionists’ meth. ods Som2 days ago they made & big ado about not allowing the street rallway, ga electric light and telephone companies to be taxed on their gross earnings for thelr franchbises, and gave it out cold that they would see that all these utility cors porations were placed in the same category for taxation purposes. Today was the time for them (o “make good” thelr housetop proclamations. But taey slunk away ine stead with the amendment in thelr pockets and didn't open thelr mouths about the proposition, except to consult privately among themselves, and declded—since one prominent fusion member owhed stock in an independent telephone compapy—that it would be unwise to suggest this change. Legislative Employ The present bouse of representatives has bad appointed just an even 100 em- 11 of chapter xIviil of the compiled statutes ployes, the senate only ffty-nine. Section provides that the house shall not have to exceed seventy-five employes, and sec- Now of the fusionists blame for generally