Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1909, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO » THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 41, WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Fair For Towa—Fair and colder For weather report see page OMAHA, SUNDAY | MORNING, MA HOUSE TO HOLD LONG SESSIONS General Debate on Tariff Bill to Ocoupy Ten and Half Hours Each Day. HUNDRED MEMBERS WOULD TALK Hide and Leather Schedules Di cussed at Length Yesterday. HARRISON ATTACKS IRON RATES New Yorker Also Says Bill Levies High Tax on Women’s Clothing. CONTENTION OF SHOE MAKERS Mr. Gardner of Ma netts Says Free Leather nnd Free Roots and Shoes Would R Farmers ahd Manafacturers. WASHINGTON, March %i.—Debate on the tarift bill in the house today was largely devoted to an academic discussion of the question aud the political questions in- volved although Mr. Gardner (Mass.) thor- oughly viewed the question of free hides and a tariff on leather goods. Mr. Long- worth (0.) and Mr. Harrlson ¢ New York, the new democratic member of the ways and means committee, were the only rep- resentatives of the tariff framing commit- tee who made speeches. Represéntative Ansberry (0.) advocated free lumber and Mr. Keiger (O.) and Mr Slemp (Va.) concluded the speech making for the day, the house adjourning at 6:16 p. m. to meet again at 10 o'clock Monday. This was In accordance with the motion of Mr. Payne (N. Y.) that until the con- olusion of general debate on the tariff bill the house meet for ten and one-half hours each day. The hours agreed on are from 10 a. W. 1o 6 . m., when & recess of two hoiirs is to_be taken, the house continues in sesslon from § to 10:30 at night. There have been nearly 100 requests for time un- der general debate made up to the present time. Harrison Opens Debate. Declaring that there would diswension in the democratic ranks of the house with regard to the tariff and that the Fitzgerald ‘amendment to the rules made It possible for the minority 1o express its views upon amendments to the bill by a record vote, Representative' Harrlson ~of New Yook today discussed varlous features of the Payne measure. “Many schedules of the Payne bill offer ground for rejoicing among our partisans,” he sald, “in many cases they have not listened to the greedy clamor of selfish and unpatriotic men who have appeared before the commitise demanding prohibl- tive rates upon their own artl Under republican management, sald Mr. Harrison, the nation wes fast approaching bank- ruptey. *“Phis bilt" ediitains a heavsy tax upon the women af America,” lie coninued. “In many rospects they seemed to have been wlngled out for attack,” Mr. Harrison declared thai every itemn on thé steel and fron schedules should be DUt upon the free let iIn order to cheapen the prices of the products to the American consumer. He attacked the maximum and minimum provisions of the bill, the countervalling duty on coffee, and sald the democratic party favored am income tax, rather than un Inheritance tax, which should be left to the states. Gardner om H tariff on lhides was discussed by Representative Gardner of Massachusetts. He gave a bistory of the high tariff from the time of the civil war Lo the enactment of the Dingley bill. He said hides were on the free list as the bill passed the house, but that a duty of 15 per cent was fixed in conference. Mr. GArdner sald that he had lost pa- tlence with those who claim that they can- not vote for free hides because the leather duty and fhe boot and shoe duty have not been sufficlently touched. Ruin was wpelled by fre caltskin leather and free pat ent leather, he argued, and by free boots and shoes, 80 far as & substantial minority of magufacturers was concerned. He said that a duty on hides does not encourage the breeding of songle additional animal and does not furnish a market for a single Ameriq % hide. He prophesied that the price ! hides ‘ould gradually rises whether the duty w removed or not Mr. Gardner said the ultimate consumer would vecelve the benefit of free hides through the cheaper cost of production to the manutacturer. - 8o lonk s the shoe trade fs not controlled by a trust, he said, competition would keep the profits down. He argued the necessity for protection to the boot and shoe industry, saying that the American maker of cheaper grades must be protected or g0 to the wall. He as- serted that the ‘demand for free hides was based less on a desire for profit than on o mense of injustice. ‘While Mr. Gardner was arguing for the retantion of the duty on boots and shoes and ke¢ping hides on the free list, Champ Clark (Mo.) wanted to know if he would support a bill which would compel the shoe manufacturecs to stamp on the shoes they make & statement showing the ingredients of thelr manufacture. “Oh, I'll vote for 1" Mr. Gardner re- plied, “but they'll take my “head off down in my district for doing it. But the gen- tieman Is right.” That the national wealth has doubled is one of the effects which Mr. attributed to the operution of the Dingley bill. Speaking of ghe placing of certain raw materials on thé free list of the Pay: bill, Mr. Keifer favored a reasonable duty on hides. “If hides are not to be made dutlable then boots and shoes and leather mahufactures must go on the free list,” he said. “Why should not the raiser, breeder and feeder of cattle have the same protec- tion on their producta s is given the shoe manufacturer and tanner on their prod- uote ™ “Produetion and the Seuth” was dis- cussed by Mr. Slemp (Va), who said that the protective policy, historically, had its origin In the south. ‘The house at 616 p. m. adjourned. be no to take plaoe in have been closed Keiter (0.) | Loses Trousers in Pullman Car Pantless, Prominent Coal Operator Lurks in Coach Until Relief Comes Through Friend. COLUMBUS a coal operator left Cleveland last night over the Big Four rallroad, found himself In the em- barrassing position of not being able to leave the train at Columbus today for want of proper clothing and without money enough left to purchase a meal He was asleep on Pullman car “Grassa’ when some one stole his trousers, $&% in money, a gold watch, chain and secret soclely locket and twc raliroad mileage books. The robbety was discovered by the porter soon after the train left Gallon. Pullman Agent Morrison of Columbus re- | cetved a long distance telephone mossago that a Mr. MReinthal, who left Columbus on Big Four train No. 28 at 2 a. m. found himself in a similarly tlom at Cleveland. He lost besides his trous ers, §100 in money, & gold watch and chain valued at $160. Ticrney was compelled to leave the sleeper In Columbuk as it went through, but he was given the use of a Big Four coach in which he stayed on a spur in the Big Four yards until Mr. Morrison could get a check cashed for him and purchase a palr of trousers for him. Bail is Denied Boy Murderers 0., March 2. of Elkins, W J. J. Tierney, Va, who Criser and Heddendorf, Charged with Stamford Crime, Are Held to h District Court. ALMA, Neb, March %.—(Special)~The preliminary hearing of George Criser and Benjamin Heddendorf, who were charged with killing W. C. Dillon near Stamford last week Wednesday, was held yesterday, and the boys wore bound over to the dls- triet court without bail by County Judge Bhelburn, The attorneys for the defense were Perry & Lamb of Boeaver City and John BEwverson and J. G. Thompson of this ofty. The defense ‘made an effort to get the boys out on bail, but the judge refused It. Criser was taken to the Holdrege jall and Heddendorf to the Red Cloud fail. The, decision of the judge in refusing bail meets wiih the general approval of the public and public sentiment appears to be against Criser and the sympathy with Heddendorf. The court room was crowded to its full capacity all day durlng the hearing. National Banks Want to Get In Senator Curtis of Kansas Calls on President in Regard to Bank 1 ftuaranty Ruling. WASHINGTON, March 27.—Senator Cur- s of Kansas called upon the president today for a second time with reference to the operation of the bank guarantee law of his state. The situation in Kansas is sald to be becoming somewhat acute. The state banks are taking advantage of the law and, It s said, are making a' strong bid for deposits by pointing out the ad- vantages of the insurance provision of the law and calling attention to recent national bank failures in the state. Governor Stubbs, { Attorney General Jackson and Bank Com= missioner Dolly of Kansas will be in Wash- Ington Monday to appear before Attorney General Wickersham, who has been asked |tor an opinion as to whether or not the national banks can take advantage of the guarantee law. REPORT OF EXPLOSION ON BOARD MISSISSIPPI FALSE hone Dispatches Say Battleship is Lying at Anchor with Rest of Fle Tel % GUANTANAMO, March 2.—The report of an explosion on the warship Mississippl 18 talse, Telephone m es trom the naval station report that the Misstssippi is lying at anchor with all of the other men-of- war and that there ia no indication what- ever of any disturbance in the fleet. JAP LICENSED TO WED GIRL Aski and Helen Bmery Disappear After Receiving Ofcial Per- mit at Seattle, BEATTLE, Wash, March 2.—Gunjir Aok! was granted a license to wed Helen Gladys Bmery In this city today, The party then disappeared and are supposed 1o be st some mipister's house for the cersmony. The Bmery family registered at one of the leading hotels. WABHINGTON, Msvch ‘The republican | house leaders are finding themselves in | quite a quandry as to their future line of procedure. They are one and all convinced that the only way to deal with the Payne tariff bill is to bring in a rule cutting off all amendments, but they tre con- fronted with a considerable doubt as to siderable doubt as to the possibility of getting such /(a rule adopted. There does not appear to he apprehension on account of the “rules Insurgents,” as a body, but many of the republican members who did not join the insurgents as well as many of the Insurgents themselves are demand- Ing the right present amendments to some of the schedules. Many of them are quite indispossd to surrender this privil ege, an dthe number is sufficlent to render doubtful the adoption of the rule It ported. Tn view of this fuct the present in- clination is to drift with the tide and con- ! the general debate until the sky is clearer. The leaders generally contend that If the way is once vpened for the offering of amendments by members gen- erally and for the discussion of them the consideration of the blll will be indefinitely prolonged. This complication = will be avoided if it is found possible to obtain the adoption of & stricter rule of cloture. to unfortunate condi- | jy trol and distribution of such fund.” PENSIONS FQF e :Retirement Systems for Teachers, Policemen and Firemen Created ! by Legislature, | i | LIMIT FOR FIRST $500 PER YEAR | Amount Paid After Thirty-Five Years of School Work. | TWENTY TO HAVE BEEN IN CITY | Firemen Half of Salary, but Not Less Than $50 Monthly. | WIDOWS AND ORPHANS INCLUDED | Twenty Years' Aggregmte Servies Entitles Pollicemen to $40 n Month and Same for Disability Incurred in Service. OMAXA'S PENSION SYSTEM. For Teachers—Service retirement, $500 & year, after thirty-five years' teaching, twenty in Omaha. Disability retirement, #30 & month, as long as Aisability oon- tinues; twenty-five years' experience re- | quired. For Firemen—Fifty per cent of salary, but not less than $50 a month. Includes firem. their widows and minor ohildren. Twenty-one years service required. For Policemen—Twenty years' aggregate service required; $40 a month; same for disability incurred in line of duty. Three bills have been passed by the ex- piring legislature to create retiremont pan- «lon systems in the city of Omaha, for the school teachers, the firemen and the police- men The pension fund for the teachers is to be created in part from contributions by | the beneficiaries themselves, which contri- | butions will provide two-fifths of the pro- posed fund, and the Board of Education is to provide three-fifths. “The police pension fund and the fund for | firemen are to be provided by the munici- | patity. The laws providing for the two last named funds become operative July 1; that for the teachers will not come prac- tically into operation umtil September 1. The teachers' pension law provides thit the Board of Education shall have power to adopt rules and regulations “to provide for a retirement fund for public school teachers in school districts in metropolitan cltles, and to provide for the retirement of teachers in such districts, and the con- The the following fund m: is to be created mer: “First, by an assessment of not less than 1 per cent nor morc than 1% per cent of every instaliment of salary pald to a teacher regularly employed by such school district; second, by the se‘ting aside from (he general fund of such school district of an athount wiich #hall be not less than oné and one-half times the amount of such ealary assessment, and not less than the smount necessary to meet the payments herein provided for; third, by the receipt by gift or otherwise of any real, personal or mixed property or any Interest therein.” The fund so created is to be exempt | from garnishment or execution. It will be ! disbursed under Instructions and orders of the board. It can be invested, It at all, only in the bonds of Omaha, Douglas county, state bonds or United States bonds. A simple lllustration of the working of the law may thus be made: Teachers draw- ing $50 per month will pay 50 cents to the fund each month, and to that the board will add 75 cents. Membership is Voluntary. Membership in the teachers' retirement fund is not compulsory, for any teacher may be exempt from assessment by making request in writing for such exemption. That & very small percentage of the teach- | ing staff, if any, will make a request for lexemption 1s indicated by the fact that only a dozen or 80 of the whole force falled to sign the petition to the legisiature, and none because of pronounced opposition. Teachers credited by the board with an uggregate of thirty-five years' service, twenty continually in the Omaha publle schools, may be retired; teachers having forty years' of experience shall be retired. For retirement because of dlsabllity or in- capacity, physical’or otherwise, an aggre- gate teaching experience of at least twen- ty-five years is required, and 1f any such teacher Is later relnstated the years of re- tirement shall be counted in the teacher's aggTegate If cause arise for retirement anew. In cases of disabllity, however, dur- Ing the perfod of retirement the monthly in House May Refuse to Limit -Amendments to Payne Bill re- | Installments shall aggregate for the year such percentage of 300 as the number of years of teaching experience shall bear to the term of thirty-five years, which would mean practically $30 a month. For retire- (Continued on Fifth Page.) Singe the introduction of the Payne bill and the subsequent publiclty given it mem- bers of the ways and means committes have recelved numerous letters criticising schedules and provisions. While these are belng given consideration, it is not likely any of them will be acted upon. A meei- Ing was held by the committee yesterday and another today at which amendments to bo offered to the house when the Payne bill is taken up under the five-minute rule were considered. It is now apperent that the large dry koods and department stores that import articles of merchandise on which the Payne i1l places a higher rate of duty will make & strong effort to have these duties re- duced and the schedules mades in the Ding- ley law retained While they claim that Lheir interest Is merely to have the cost of these articles to the consumer kept as low as possible, the American manufac- turer, who would recelve protection through the increased duties, are equally emphatic in their contentions that these importers have large interests in Buropean factories that make these articles. The principal articles about whioh this conten- tlon has been raised are gloves and cer- taln cotlon fabrics RGHA 28, 1909—SIX SECTI0! —THIRTY-SIX PAGES, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. 2 From the Minneapolis Journal. BROWN ON HOW IT HAPPENED Nebraskan Voted for Bryan as a Com- pliment to a Neighbor. EXPECTED OTHERS TO SAVE DAY State Launched the Taft Campaign by Coming Out for Hi in the Orucigl Days of Campaign for N ominAtion. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 27.—(Special Tele- gram.)-8enator Norris Brown, who, with the vice president of the United States and the speaker of the house, were guests of honor at the fifth annual supper of the League of Republican clubs, together with Benators Cummins of lows, and Warner of Missourl, and ex-Congressman James ‘Watson of Indlana, in addressing the league and Its guests, quite 30 in num- ber, sald in part, as follows: ebraska was lost to the republican fold because the candidate of opposition was believed by his neighbors to be better than his party and they reckoned it was no harm for them to compliment a candidate, knowing, as they did, that the rest of the country would repudiate the party “While we lament our failure to send a Taft message to the electoral college, we demand that you do not forget the o braska republicans were the first republi- cans in the country in a state convention years in advance of the national conventfon to raise the Taft standard and pledge the delegation to his nomination. Notwith- standing the protests of petty trimmers and political band wagoners, Nebraska republicans enlisted in his cause when volunteers were needed. 1 do not just know how you feel about it, but my heart al- ways beats a little faster and my blood runs a little warmer towards the volun- teers in the front ranks whether the bat- tle be with bullets or ballots. But, my friends, 1 did not come here tonight to talk about my own state, I would rather rejoice with you on the general resulis, to congratulate ourselves and the country on the election verdict of the greatest and busiest people in the world “How good it ‘seems tonight to know by reason of that verdiet we have a man in the White House who stands for all that is best and wisest in the political affairs of men, “How good It is to know that the great (Continued on Fifth Page.) Thinking of mov- ing this spring? The time to look for a house is before everybody getsbusy doing thesame thing. Under the heading ‘‘For Rent, Houses,’’ on the want ad page you will find practically a complete directory of the houses that are offered for rent. This gives you a chance to select a list of the houses that might interest you and then investigate. Youn will find reading the want ads is a good habit, Have you read the want ads jyet todayt THE “‘CUB’’ REPORTER Opium Bar Goes Up This Week All Forms of Drug Denied Admis- sion Except for Medicinal Purposes, o WABHINGTON, March 27.—After April 1 neither opium nor any mixture or com- pound epntaining or representing opium in any form can léga'ly be brought into the United States or any of its outlying posses- slons except for strictly medicinal purposes. Carrying into effect a law passed at the last sesslon of congress embodying this restriction the secretary of the treasury today Issued regulations in which it in- dicated the terms “oplum” shall cover all of its forms, including the following named alkaloids, thelr salts or combinations and such others as it may be found necessary to include in the future: Morphine, codelne, dionine, diacotyl, heroin, peronine, thelr chloroforides, sulphates, phosphates, etc., and all mixtures or preparations containing them. The term “for medicinal purposes only,” used in the law, is declared to mean for the treatment or prevention of diseases of man or other animal. Smoking oplum will be seized forthwith and destroyed as lllegal importation. Body of Suicide is Under Guard Burial of Mrs. Lorillard May Take Place in the Family Plot. NEW YORK, March 2.—The body of Mrs. Caroline Hamilton Lorillard, wife of Plerre Lorillard, who committed suicide 1n Washington on Thursday, was placed in the receiving vault In Sleepy Hollow cemetery, near Tarrytown, today. It will remain in the vault, guarded by detectives, until ai rangements for burial can be made by Mr. Lorillard. It is possible the body may be ‘interred in the family plot of George | Hamllton, Mrs. Lorfllard's father, in the cemetery. ‘Stoeck |PRUNING ENIFE AT WORK Secretary MacVeagh Initiates Taft's Plan for Economy. LETTER SENT TO BUREAU CHIEFS Budget Katimates Mast He Closely Stodied and Will Be Passed Upon by Cabinet After Con tion e come, WASHINGTON, March 27.—Economy in the administrative departments of the gov- ernment is to be insisted on by President Taft and the members of his cabinet, At the first cabinet meeting after Mr. Tafts inauguration sthe question was fully dis- cussed and an agreement reached that the members of the cabinet were to constitute thepselves a budget committee whic thfough a subcommittes could carefully scrutinise each item of the estimates of appropriations submitted to congress the several bureau chiefs and other ad- ministrative officers with a view to eliminating every item not necessary to the efficient working of the government machinery. This plan recelved the hearty endorsement of all the members of the cabinet, but the credit for taking the in- ftiative in putting it into effect belongs to Becretary of the Treasury MacVeagh. Secretary MacVeagh today addressed a letter to the principal officers of the Treas- ury department, as well as the other de- partments of the government, asking them to take immediate measures to consider the qeustion of such economies in expendi- ture as may be found by the most com- petent study to be feasible. It is intended to make the estimates of expenditures for the next and future years with the great care and it 1s desiable that the attention of this department should be directed early as possible Lo the geenral study of this matter, It is the Intentlon that the estimat the different departments shall hereafter bo submitied to the cabinet and tha they shall be considered ogether and as a whole and in connection wtih the treasury esti- mates of the probable Income. There s clearly a new disposition, not (Continued on Becond Page.) by ot er Law Wipes Out Present Education Board Practically a complete ciean-out of the present Board of Education of Omaha will result from the enactment of the Stoecker bill for the election of members by wards. The bill has passed the legisiature and is awalting executive approval. Under the provisions of the now law the members of the Board of Education in Omaha will be eleoted one from each ward, as are the members of the city councll, but instead of electing all at once, as.with the councll, only a third’ of the membership will be elected at & time. One-third of the present membership now retires each year, 50 three years will be required to wips out the present board of fifteen and to re- place it with a board of twelve. When five members go out January 1, 1910, and give way to four to be elected in the November prior thereto it will make & board of fourteen members. On January 1, 1911, five more will retire, to be replaced by four others to be elected at the regular election In the previous November, which will reduce the membership to the unlucky “thirteen.” The following year five mem- bers will retire, to be succesded by four elected by wards. The new law provides that next Novim- ber the people shall elect board members from the First. Second, Third and Fourth wards; in November, 1910, from the Wifth, Sixth, SBeventh and Highth wards, and in November, 1911, from the Niath, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth wards. Of'the five members who will retire next January only one is eligible to re-election This is John L. McCague. The other four who retire do not live in any of the four first wards and therefore will be prohib- ited from standing for re-election. Mr. Me- Cague lives In the Fourth ward. The other four who retire next January are W. B. Christie, Fifth ward; Charles Harding, Seventh ward; C. E. Herring, Seventh ward, and J. W, Maynard, Ninth ward. Two members who will retire in 1911 will be eligible by residence for re-election in November, 1910, These two are Paul W. Kuhns, living in the Sixth ward, and J O. Phillippl, llving In the Eighth ward, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth wards be ing the ones to be In the 1910 election. Of those who retire in 1911, F. B. Kennard lives In the Fourth ward, James C. Lind- say i the Twelfth and Dr. J. H. Vance in the Twelfth, therefore being eliminated from continuous participation in school board politics. When Alfred C. Kennedy, living in t Seventh ward, and R. V. Cole, living in the Fourth ward, retire in January, 1912, they will not be eligible for re-election. The other three retiring members in that year may become candidates for re-elec- tion, for they live in the right wards and retire at the right time. These are §. P. Bostwick, living In the Eleventh ward; Dr. Grant W. Willlams, living in the Twelfth ward, and James Richardson, liv- ing in the Eleventh ward. DEADLOCK ON AT LINCOLN House Insists on Amendment to Rail- road Valuation Bill and the Senate Balks. CONFERENCE REPORT REJECTED Taylor of Custer Leads in Onslaught Against Ransom. SENATE FOR CHILD HOSPITAL House Refuses to Take Up the Pro- hibitory Amendment. GOOD ROADS BILL SLAUGHTERED One of the Demoeratic Platform Pledges Which the Legislatare Does Not Propose teo Redeem. From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. March 27.—(Special.)—Again In the house has W. J. Taylor of Custer got the better of Frank Ransom of Douglas county, the boss of the senate. The fight this time as it has been all the time, was over the physical valuation bill, which the house amended to apply to the stock vards at South Omaha and all other public ser- vice corporations. The senate refused to accept the house amendments to tho bill and a conference committee was appolnted by both houses This committee reported back the bill as it left the senate, the committee being unanimous. The senate yesterday unani- mously accepted the report, but this morn- ing the house turned it down by a vote of 6 to 2 A second committee Was ap- pointed by the speaker, consisting of Kuh! of Cedar, Taylor of Custor and Brown of Sherman. to meet with the senate commit- tes and agree upon some compromise. In his fight against the adoption of the committee Teport Taylor showed that the bill provided for the finding of the phys- feal valuation of every raliroad in the stae save one. “One little thirty-six miles of mad in South Omaha,” he said: “All the work of the legislature hinges on the next few days,” said Taylor. “I am fighting against the adoption of this re- port. [ do mot dispute that the members of the conference committee are honest, but they are no more houest and have no more ability than other members of this house. “I wish that my definition of the two bodies, the senate and the house, could go out all over the state. The senate savs we want all rallroads in the state of Ne- braska valued, save and except one, The house wants all rajlroads In the state of Nebraska valued. “The argument advanced against the position taken by the house Is that it costs too much money. The bill went through the senate with one little thirty-six mile railroad left out. “Should we agree to that just because & democratic senstor happens to be the at- terney for that road?”" At this juncture, when Mr. Taylor had also made some reference to the Dougl county members who were for the com- | mittee report, Speaker Pool Insisted that Taylor should not get personal and repeut the performance of several days ago. Wants to Be Understood. “I do not desire to get personal Taylor, “but 1 hope I will be permitted to speak plain enough S0 my meaning will not be misunderstood. Mr. Taylor then went into details on the earnings of the South Omaha Stock Yards company and sald that company charged exorbitant rates and paid dividends upon a fictitious value. The packing houses owned stock In the company for which they pald nothing, but it has been given to them for locating near the He told the stock yards company had asked per- mission of the rallway commission to in- crease its rates and when the commission asked for a report of its physical valua- tion and its earnings the company refused to present the statement. The railway com- mission then secured a mandamus from the supreme court to compel the company to file the statement and at the same time the court. held the stock yards a common carrier. Instead of making the statement de- manded by the commission he said the stock yards company has simply made a report of its earnings and charges in the switching department, Mr. Taylor explained the difference be- tween the feeding yards at Valley and Grand Island and there he said the charge was made for feed only, but in the South Omaha yards the switching and yardage charge 1s made. In shipping stock from his home in Merna he said the Burlington touk | the stock to within & few rods of the stock yards and then an extra charge had to be made to get the stock over the stock yards lines into the yards. The stock yards, he sald, made from $700,000 to $300,000 a year ubove their feeding charges. Bowman of Nuckolls and Kelley of Fur- nas spoke agalnst the report, while Shee maker and Stoecker of Omaha spoke feF the report. Kelley argued that the valuatien of all public service corporations had been promised in the platform, while Shoemaker argued that the platform meant only rail roads which carried frelght and passen- gers. Taylor in his closing lalk showed that the senate had attempted to decelve the mem- bers by cuttidg dut the word “or” dnd in- serting “and’ between the words freight and passenger. Railroads carrying freight and passengers exempts the stock yards, The original bill related to raiiroads carry- ing freight or passengers\Taylor's motion carried by @ vote of 6 (o 22 and the house applauded. The senate refused to yleld a point when the action of the house on the physjcal valuation bill was reporied and immbdi- ately reappointed the conference cominii- tee which acted with the first house com- mittee. No meeting of the joint comunit- tee was held today Senate Favors Omal Site. The senaté todmy favorably recommended an amendm the general appropria tion bill providing §20.00 to be expended by the regents of the state university for a site for a hospital in Omaha to be a branch of the state university medical school, which alrcady 18 located in the metropolis, The plans, Senator Ransom stated, are not yet completed, and he was not at lib- erty to give the names of the physiclans backing the project, but he sald he knew of one man at least who would donate 50,000 for the erection of the hospital, ana had becn reliably informed leading phyed