Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1909, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION I'"A@)'S 1 TO ‘THE OMA e A SUNDAY BEE. F For For WEATHER FORECAST. Nebraska—Partly Partly clo report s cloudy i warmar, page 3 r owa weather VOL. XXXVIII-—-NO. 4 3, OMAHA, SU, g8 il RNING, APRIL 11, 1909 SIX SECTIONS—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE SENATE TARIFF BILL READY | Committee on Finance Will Report the Payne Bill Tuesday Morning. /CERTAIN SCHEDULES RESERVED P, | | Among Them Are Hides, Steel Rails and Crude Oil. IMPORTANT CHANGES ARE MADE House Basic Rates Extended to Re- | lated Articles. | GLOVES, HOSIERY AND WOOLENS Commit Will Recommend That Dingley Rates on These Articles Be Retained--Work on Pro- posed Taritf Bareau. WASHINGTON, taritf bill Aprll 10.—Thh senate 80 far as rates are concerned, completed tonight, but that in making a report Chairman Aldrich will announce a reservation on certain im- portant schedules for future action. These reservations will include hides, steel ralls, wood pulp and crude petroleum Chairman Aldrich asserted tonight that the senate committee had made a more general revision of rates than was done by the house committee on ways and means and that reductions in schedules had been made on a far greater number of articles. This dfd nct, mean that there would be a reduction of revenues, but that there would be recommendad a bona fide revision downward of the tariff. The great number of changes which will be recommended are due largely to the fact that while the Payne bill revised rates on certaln basic articles, the revision did not extend to related articles. For insfnce, lead ore was reduced in the Puyne bill and several manufactures of lead ore remain unchanged. The senate committee made general reductions on these manufactures in harmony with the reduction on the unworked material. Similar changes made in many other schedules, will account for the many amendments that will be presented In the senate. Hides and Steel Rail In the report which will be made to the senate, hides will go on the free Iist as provided by the Payne bill, but the ques- tion of fixing a rate in accordance with the sentiment of the menate, as expressed through a canvass taken by western sena- tors, will be taken up in the mear future. A similar condition will be reported on steel rails. The Payne rates are $3.02 per tom, which is one-half the existing rate. The committes was Impressed with tho arguments made by the steel manu- facturers that this rate should be in- creased, but it 18 known that considerable opposition to such action will be mani- fested in the senate. This item will be discussed later by the committee and the indications are that it will be recommended for an increase to about $4.35 per ton. Wood Pulp and Crade Ofl No decislon has been reached on the subject of wood pulp and this fact will be unnounced by Senator Aldrich when lie reports the bill. The same is true of crude petroleum, which the house put on the free list against the protest of the leaders In that body. Tt Is likely that (he senate will be glven an opportunity to vote | on this article. The dutles on lumber also | promise to occasion debate In the senate and, while change from the Payne | bill will be recommended, it is believed a | number of amendments will be offered on the floor of the senate. After' a long discussion of the rate on | bituminous coal the senate committee IOV} day decided to recommend a reduction from 67 cents to 40 cents per ton tn view of the action of the committee yesterday In strik- ing out the rociprocity clause. The Payne bill includes slack, or culm coal, at the| same rate as was fixed for bituminous oal, Increasing the duty on this product from 15 cents to 67 conts. The senate com- mittee has decided to restore the Dingley rate of 15 cents per ton Gloves and Wosiery. made by heawy importers of hoslery against the Increase | Payne bill over the existing | Dingley which protests were added to by the position taken by hundreds of women throughout the country, induced the | ®senatc committee to agree to pecommend | the continuance of the Dingley rates. The exlsting rates on woolens, which were ma- | terially de Payne bill, will be recommended by the enate committee. Specific duties will be recommended throughout on silks of all kinds, the mpecific | duty being & trifle above the combined ad valorem and specific dutles now collected | under the Dingley act. This action Is taken in order to meet probable severe competi- ton with Japan silks, which every year | are coming in larger quantities at a con- | ®antly decreasing cost of manufacture. | The de d for long staple cotton, which ®ouios into competition with Egyptian cot- ton used in the manufacture of mercerized silk goods has been denfed by the senate committee. This action was taken on the | ground that the staple raised on the ses | islands off South Carolina and Florida now brings a high price in the American mar- | ket and for the further reason that it | were which no Protests gloves and made by the rates, reased by the it was noted | | would be diffieult to 1ike ' protectien 1o cotton ralsed in certain parts of Texns and Mississippl. which is of comparatively | long staple. | win Present Report BN indications are tee will report the bill Tuesday next. The the committee will tomorrow, golng over the amendments agreed upon In order to guard against possible errors. A mectng of the full com mittee has been called for 10 o'clock Mor duy and the portion of the blil carrying | rutes will be presented to the democratic | members at that time. 'he administrative features of the bill, | il probabllity, will not be reported for | another week or more. These features will be the subject of careful consideration by the entire committee and 1t Is thought their adoption by the senate may be brought about without opposition Something of the proposed tariff bureau, which has been the object of a great deal was learncd tgpight, althougn the establishment of such & bu- reau Will not be completed until other ad- ministrative featurcs of the bill are ready i ou that the o the ma jority be in commit senate members e sah | on | of | all day | Second Page.) ! enthusiasm \Snag Boat Will Give Relief to Decatur People | Government Boat Ordered to Help Raise Ferry Boat and Help Out Citizens--Cripples Numbered. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 10.—(Special Tele- | 81am.)~The government snaghoat has been jordered to give relief If possible to citigens | of Decatur, Neb., who are said to be much Inconvenienced gecause the ferryboat that furnishes them with supplies has gone to| the bottom of the “Big Muddy.” At the request of Senator Burkett the engineering office of the War department issued orders for the government craft to go to their re lief. It seems that when the ice broke on the river the ferryboat was crushed in floating ice and sank. It was the sole conveyance of frelght for Decatur, which is some fifteen miles from Onawa, la., their shipping polnt. The freight depot there is sald to be crowded with goods due and needed at Decatur. Decatur is in the north east part of Burt county on the west bank of the Missourl river, Some time ago Senator Burkett asked the Postoffice department for certain changes in the rural route from Pritchard to Dun- ning. He has just been advised by the second assistant postmaster general that the contract has been awarded for desired service between these points with a sched- ule requiring the carrier to start from Dun- ning and travel between Dunning and Ran- kin on the outward trip, as patrons wanted. The Interstate Commerce commission to- day rendered a decision against the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rallroad com- pany in the case of the complaint of the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing com- pany and awarded the complainant com- pany reparation in the sum of $260. The Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing company complained that the defendant rallroad company’s rate of 19 cents per 100 | pounds for transportation of doors in car- loads from Dubuque, Ia., to Sloux Falls, 8. D, is unreasonable. The senate today again adopted Senator Burkett's amendment to the census blll, which provides for the enumeration of all children under the age of 16 years who are ruptured, crippled or deformed. The amend- ment is identical wtih that incorporated In a simflar bill by the senate at the last sesson of congress, but which was elim- inated by conferees from the two branches. Two Caught With Spurious Money Accused Men Say They Learned Counterfeiting From Book Bor- rowed From Public Library. KANSAS CITY, April 10.—Caught in the act of welghing spurious c~na which they had manufactured, two men giving their names as John F. Burns of Westfield, Mase., and Charles Adams of Byracuse, N. Y., were arrested here today. A complete counterfeiter's outfit was recovered. At the police station Burns and Adams sald they were out of work and had no funds. They had secured a book from the public library, they sald, and with this as a guide, proceeded to coin money. They disclaimed any plan to pass the coins. The colns seized by the police were quarters and halves, made of lead, and a very falr imitation. Dog’s Barking Saves Children Three Little Girls Locked in Closet Are Rescued Through Faith- ful Pet. BAY CITY, Mich., April 10.—This after- noon three little girls, for whom search had been golng on since late yesterday after- noon, were found in the closet of a nearby vacant house, where they had been twenty hours. They had gone there to play and the door, which had a spring lock, blew closed, making them prisoners into the house. PROHIB LAW Alabama Court Holds Storage Section | that the of State-Wide Law is constitutional. Ala.. April 10.—One MOBILE, of strongest sectlons of the state prohibitory [ ber of congress could judge today | what The | in the event the bill was passed with the sections knocked out prohibited the storing | spoils system Included. was declared unconstitutional Justice Mayfleld at Montgomery. law by or possession of liquor in any bullding or apartment which was Inhabited. Under this ruling the hotel and ease men, whose places were ralded a few days ago by prohibition | service have been expressed in executive have | decisions on numerous oc detectives with search warrants, brought suit to set aside the selzures. for | prisoners, | service was incomparably superior to the | Neighbors were attracted by the barking | Spoils system. Mr. Lodge sald no attempt | of a faithful dog, which had followed the | had been made by congress to pass the | census bill over President Roosevelt's veto IS HARD HIT/|He declared it was evident that every- the | speak for Président Taft and that any mem- | | sion, Senator Balley In a speech on the | tain member of a legislature had introduced CENSUS BILL IS PASSED Appointments Are To Be Made Under Regulation Made by Civil Service Commission. ATTEMPT TO AMEND MEASURE | Effort to Have Places Distributed by | Congressmen Has Scant Support. BAILEY DENOUNCES PRESIDENT Texas Senator Says Mr, Taft Is Try- ing to Dictate to Congress. ?SPD!ITED REPLY BY MR. LODGE Man From Bay State Says Classified Service Is Regarded as Im- provement Everywhere Oute side of Congre: WASHINGTON, April 10—The bill to provide for the taking of the next cen- | sus was passed by the senate today in a form which, it is understood, will mcet the views of the president regarding ap- polntments for census work under reg: lations by the Civil Service commission. Efforts by some senators to allow these appointments to be made upon recom- mendation of senators and representa- tives without examination received but slight support. The interesting feature was a speech by Mr. BBalley, who said it was reported that If the bill ax passed did not provide for appointments under the civil service the president would veto it and added that If any such “(hreat” were made it would stir up severe criticlem of the president. Asserting that he had heard it reported that President Taft would veto the pend- ing census bill if it did not provide for placing the appointments of census em- ployes under the Clvil Service commis- bill today declared that if the president “had thus early In® his administration undertaken to coerce congress he would find that the experience of the last seven years was a hollday with what the next four years woul be." Among other things, Mr. Bailey said: “I am one of the men who sincerely hope the president of the United States will dis- | tinguish himself in his great office. I hope his administration will be an unmixed blessing to all the people, but 1 do not hesi- tate to say that no man ever had a less desirable preparation for it than the pres- ent occupant of that high office. He went from the bench, where the tendency is to- ward a certfin kind of tyranny. There is scarcely a federal judge in the United States of twenly years' service who has 1ot become arbitrary, frritable, and some- times tyrannical. 1 do not mean that this experience wdlild corrupt Him in the sense of making him venal, but it tends-to cor- rupt him in the sense that teaches him to oppose his will against all obstacles.” Denounces Civil Service. Thesé remarks followed a general de- runciation By Senator Bailey of the civil service law, which, he declared, he had op- posed for twenty years as “a humbug and a pretense. He stated that former Presi- dent Roosevelt had not hesitated to appoint men to public office within the classified system upon his own judgment and with- out examination, which, he sald, was not | justified by any law. Instead of appoint- ments being made by political bosses, they are now, he said, made by departmental hosses. If there was to be a boss he pre- ferred a political boss." Mr. Bailey said he had heard that a cer- a resolution framed in laudatory language in relation to the former president and that later he had had this resolution taken to Mr. Roosevelt with a request that he bo given a place and that he was appointed without examination to a pesition paying $7 | & day. ‘If any senator doubts that story,” said Mr. Bailey, “let him ask Senator Scott of | West Virginia whether it 13 true. Lodge Defends President. Senator Lodge, in reply, sald the civil| for the reason that it could not be done. where except In congress It was recognized classified service was an improve- T what went before. sald he did not ment ove Mr. Lodge assume to | | for himself | would be lkely the president to do | “It is well to remember,” he said, “that we are sending this blll to a president whose views on the subject of classified fons. It 1s my belief that he favors the classified service.” Heir to Throne of Holland | Is Expected Coming Week HAGUE, April 10.—The birth of to the throne of Holland is con- coming week, and the outburst of popular be such has seldom Duteh. THE an heir tidently f all goes well will been witnessed among the placid There has been royal birth the Vetherlands since that of Queen Will- helmina herself, twenty-seven years ugo. Thrice before since the marriage of Little Wilhelmina," as the Hollanders affectionately call the gueen, have the hopes of the country been raised, only to be dashed. The constant expected the as fear of the Dutch has | been that the House of Orange would die out with a childiess soverelgn and tnat Holland would pass under the rule of a German prince and would thereby possi- bly become a G nan vassal state. This partly accounts f the extraordinary cagerness with which the event s awaited in every town and village in the Nether- lands. Demonstrations on a large scale have been arranged, and’processions, concerts and fetes will be held all over the country. The school children have been s week's holiday and general amnesty wh. be proclaimed for certain classes of prison- ers. Guus already are in position on the parade ground here for the firing of a galute on the announcement of the birth One hundred and one rounds will be fired for the birth of a prince, and fifty-one for | a princess. Heralds, accompanied by trumpeters in costumes of the Sixteentn century will proclaim the advent of a prince or princess of Orange in all quarters of the city The health of the queen has been excel lent. Dr. Kouwer, an eminent gynecologist in addition to the queen's regular physi clan, is In constant attendance. The queen's apartments are situated at the back of the palace, overlooking a| qulet, old-world garden. A spite of six rooms has been prepared for the infant by the gqueen herself and in these have been installed some ancient eradles of the house of Nassau. of wonderful workmanship. All, however, have been discarded in faver or 4 homely wooden Dutch cradle, which will be used ordinarily, while on state oc slons, the baby will occupy a beautiful crade which was made at The Hague school of laework, where two score women instructors and pupils worked many months in producing tne lace for this cradie. Two rooms are literally filled with costly presents which have been sent for la concession,"” | 18 to be made the inst ‘‘Alas, that spring should vanish From the Philadelphia Inquirer. That love's sweet scented manuscript should close, ¢ f.fi»{\(\:‘\." 7 e with the rose! The nigtingale NO SUSPENSION OF MINING President Lewis Issues Statement for Mine Workers. CHARGES COMBINE OF OWNERS ays Operators Are Fixing Price of Coal Without Any Objection Being Offered to Action, PHILADBLPHIA, Aprfl 10.~The ofticlals of the United Mine Workers of the anthra- cfte districts of Pennsylvania today ap- pointad a committee to draw. up a-policy to be pursued by the miiners. The com- mittee is composed of President T.ewis and the district presidents and secretaries of the United Mine Workers. The miners say that so far as they are concerned there will be no suspension of mining. President Lewls fssued a statement this afternoon giving a resume of the mine workers' side of the controvers; “It is sald that the operators have granted states Mr. Lewis. “This I cannot understand, as the operato refuse to agree to restore the wages of ghose men which had been reduced during the last three years in direct violation of the award of the strike commission. “The operators’ representatives refused likewise to permit the miners' representa- tivs to sign any proposition on behalf of the United Mine Workers of the anthracite region. “Great stress has been given to the strike commission's award of the operators in stating that the award did not provide for the signing of any agreement with the United Mine Workers and that for this reason they rofused to enter into contract relations with the United Mino oWrkers of the anthracite reglon “As & matter of fact the strike commis- sion not only believed that an agreement should be made with the mine workers, through their organization, recom- mended a form of matter of record. “It seems the strike commission's award ument of depriving the anthracite mine workers of every right that wage earnine and citizens of this country should enjoy according to the laws of the land. “No one questions the right of the mine owners to organize. No one has denied them the right to fix the selling price of coal. No one has Interfered and, so far as we know, even attempted to interfere in their right to sell anthracite coal at such a price as they declde upon from month o month. “That they have a perfect organization is evident from the fact that they can lssue orders at any time to advance or reduce the sclling price of coal, and that order is quite uniform in its application. Even now it is reported that thay have notified their selling agents not to contract for large but | tonnase. Gorge at Nia, Falls, NIAGARA FALLS, N April 10.—The fce jam in the Niagara gorge continues and between this city and Lewliston the water has risen forty feet above normal When asked how he made his money a certain rich man once replied: ‘I buy my straw hats in the winter time.”’ If you want to pick up a bar- gain in an automobile, the time to is before the season bhegins. do so You will find on the want-ad page, under the head ‘‘Automobiles” a number of machines, which have been used, offered for sale. These the royal baby from every city and hamiet in the Netherlands, - are worth investigating. agreement which s a | Taggart’s Resort at French Lick is Under Fire Governor Marshall of Indiana Orders Investigation of Report that Gambling is Carried On. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 10.—Gov- ernor Marshall, before leaving for a trip to New York, has instructed the prosecut- ing attorney for Orange and Washington counties to Investigate the reports of gambling at French Lick, and if he finds them true, to proceed against the pro- prietors of the games. Under the direction of Governpr Hanly, the present governor's republican predecessor, the games at French Lick were ralded. It is alleged they have been re-opened in elaborate gambling rooms, which are crowded every evening by fashionably dressed men and women, who play roulette, faro and stud poker. The gambling rooms, it is reported tp the governor, are in @ small hotel just outside the land limits described in the charters of the West Baden and French Lick hotels. Thomas Taggart, former chairman ef the national democratic committee, of the latter resort. a democrat. is owner Governor Marshall is Missourt Roads | Will Fight Suit | Officials of Eighteen Defendants in Two-Cent Fare Case Decide to | Resist Injunction, | | ST. LOUIS, April 10.—That the railroads | of Missourl have made all possible con- | cessions to the state authorities in the matter of passenger rates and will resist |the injunction suit filed Thursday in St. Louis, was the gist of an announcement | made today at the close of the first session of a gathering of executlve officlals of the elghtecn systems interested RATE BILL _IN MISSOURI House Orders Engrossed Measure to | Allow Commission to Fix | Tare. | | JPFFERSON CITY, Mo. April 10.—An- other phase of the passenger situation in this state was emphasized in the house of representatives of the general assembly today, when that body by an unanimous vote ordered engrossed the bill giving the state rallroad commissioners authority to fix passenger fares. The emasure was made a special order for Tuesday after- noon, when it will be placed on its final passage. | WASBHINGTON, April 10.—The intricacles of the Payne taritf bill, which passed the | house yesterday, and complications which may result from its eractment into law, | are {llustrated by the hides and ltl(h'ri schedules. In conneoticn with the maximum and | minimum provisions of the new bill a | pecullar situation is presented The blil places hides on the free list, with a re- | tallatory provision for a duty of 20 per | cent ad valorem on hides coming from | countries which do not give the United | States the benefit of their most favored | nation clause. The duty on sole leater, | as now in the bill, Is 5 per cent ad valorem. | The maximum duty provided for sole leather 1s 2 per cent of the duty In addi- tion, which makes It & per cent ad | valorem. It I8 coitended that the inequality be- | tween the maximura duties on hides and | sole leather is so great that it will lously | affect the American tanners. It was| pointed out that Venesuela, for Instance, | would find it to its advantage to have | the maximum rates of duty in the Payne | blil apply aguinat its products, in order to | shcourage Ita tanaing Industry. While its hides would not find as large a market on account of <he.20-per cent duty, | without a stmilar that in the branches sang— Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!" HASKELL BILLS ARE VOlDl Judge Marshall Quashes Land In- dictments on Technicality. END NOT YET, SAYS S. R. RUSH Omaha Attorney Deel Present the Charges Grand Jury Now im es He Wil to the Session. TULSA, Okl., April 10.—Governor Charles N. Haskell, Oklahoma's firet chief exec: tive, and the six other prominent Okla- homans indicted by the federal grand jury charged with fraud in Muskogee town lots, will not have to stand trial. The motion of the defendants to quash the indictments was upheld here today by Judge John A. Marshall of Utah in the United States court. The court In its decision, which was very lengthy, quashed the indictments on the ground that they were returned by a grand Jury composed of twenty-three men under the federal law, instead of by a Jury of sixteen, as provided for by the Arkansas aw, which was held to bo in force in oid Indian Territory by federal enactment at the time when the alleged frauds were com- mitted. Sylvester Rush, special assistant attorney general, who worked up the cases for the government, stated after the oplnion was handed down today that he would again present the matter to the grand jury, sub- mitting it without delay to the body now in sessfon Prominent Defendants Freed. The defendants affected by today's de clalon besides Governor Haskell ar Clarence W. Turner, Muskogee, 65, prietor of a hardware company, member of the city council in Cleveland, O. Waiter R. Eaton, Muskogee, a native of Kansas, but resided in Lima O., and Has- ting: Neb,, before coming to Oklahoma in 1509, William T. Hutchings, aged 4, lawyer, real estate dealer. F. B. Severs of Muskogee and Okmulgee OKkl., aged i4; a Creek citizen by adoption by the Creek council; engaged in mercantile business: formerly a member of the Mus- kogee eity council A. Z English, aged 41 years of F. B. Severs, lawyer, capita Muskogee Title and Trust company Jesse Hill of Muskogee, aged 38 years. He was indicted jointly with English and Severs pro former He was born son-in-law manager Indictments Returned by Rush. The aggregate wealth of the seven men s said to be over $2,000000. The Indlct ments against them numbered thirteen and thoy were returned at Muskoges after a lengthy grand jury investigation conducted by Sylvester Rush of Omaha, witnesses (Continued on Second Page.) Hides Clause in New Bill May Work Against Factories tor sole tanning the hides and exporting leather to the United States have an advantage over the American manufacturers, whose hides would cost more on account of the maximum duty in leather NEW RAILWAY MAIL DIVISION Territory Wil the the would increase of protection on ol the amount Include Alaska and Pacific Northwes. States, WASHINGTON General Hitchcock April 10. ~Postmaster has signed an order creating on July 1, next, the Thirteenth divislon of rallway mail service, with headquarters at Beattle, Wash. The new division includes Montana, ldaho, Oregon Washington and Alaska. It was carved out of territory comprising the Eighth division, except Montana, which was part of the Tenth. An additional division super- intendent and assistant superintendent wil| be appointed. The re-adustment particularly glves Alaska headquarters In Seattle in stead of San Francisco and simplifies the arrangement of schedules to meet the | ably COPY FIVE CENTS, DAYLIGHT BILL HITS WORKERS Fifteen Hundred Men Employed in Nebraska Saloons Will Lose Jobs July 1. WORKING FORCES MUST BE CUT Sixteen Hundred Saloons Average Three Men Each. STATISTICS OF THE BUSINESS Brewers Have Ten Million Invested in Their Plants. RETAILERS ARE ALSO IN DEEP Review of the Business in Nebraska that Will Practically ' Have to Be Rearranged Meet New Conditions, Saloons in Nebraska, estimated, 1,600. Investment in same, including loenas, $3,000,000. Saloon licenses issued in Omaha, 251, in- oluding brewers and wholesalers. Invest- ment aside from license, $375,000. Breweries in the state, ten; investment, $10,000,000. Poople engaged about saloons, 5,500; to be let out, 1,600, “You voted for Shallenberger, didn't you?" was the half Inquiry and half asser- tion directed at a bald-hemded bartender by @ person in a mcod to have some fun at the expense of a back-bar chemist. “No, sir, 1 did not; I give you my word of honor on that. I'm from Missourd, all right; but the brains of the country is in the ropub- lican party, and the business of the coun- try trusts that party and no other. I vote the straight republican ticket." After the inquirer had caught his breath, he said heartily: “Blessed #f I don't admire your nerve. Most of these kickers claim they voted for Shally, just to get even with Sheldon."” “Well, 1 didn't,” sald the bald-headed one, “for 1 always thought that Sheldon was right In Insisting that the Slocumb law was the best of its kind In the United States, and If his advice had been taken the Shallenberger shputers in this busi- ness wouldn't have been glven such a kick in the shin as they got. At that, the only kick 1 have coming is that T will probably be thrown out of work and have to o somewhere else and hunt a job, in the meantime leaving the family here until 1 find one.” This is a grist pf an actual conversatien and the bartender hit off the thought that is worrylng many a mon in his line in Nebraska today, “What to do after the first of July, next?" e Number of Jobs Vanish, There are close to 1,600 saloons in the state, at Lhls time, and the number waus not reduced by recent town elections. Each of these places has an average of threc employes, even in Lincoln, where the day- light rule has been in force for a year So it follows that 1,500 to 1600 men, bar- tenders and porters, will be out of work just as soon as the new law becomes opera- tive. Many of these are married men. In a great many instances one bartender and one porter will be let out. This will be true whether the proprietor h been in the habit of “standing a watch” or not, be- cause the hours from seven in the morning to elght at night are not extreme for one watch, with an hour or two off at noon Wages of bartenders averages $0 to §75 a month, some getting more than $75 and few, except in small towns, getting less than $50. s In the cities get % to $12 a week. In Omaha there are a score or more of outlying saloons that will be cempelled to close, throwing all hands out of a job. ‘Phese saloons have been enjoying a quiet morning trade, and a more or less steady trade aftor supper untll closing time. Their day trade will not be styong enough to keep them running. Just how many of these outlying places will close ne one s willing to estima aw Will Affect Omaha Most, brewers' and hotelmen's end Gott- very Porte: before 7, ort lleb Stors perhaps gave a falr view when he safd: “1 am not prepared to say that the law will hurt the state; but I do be lieve that it will hurt Omaha. Tt puts our ity in the pecullar position of being a metropolls. without one of the commonest conveniences of & large city. Several of the cafes and hotels of Omaha have invested very largo sums of money, and their repu tation is widespread. Under the operation of the new law they are bound to lose largely. Investments are carefully figured on future possibilities, but here is & de preciation of earning power that no one could foresee, and the effect will be in jurlous in the cases of men who have in with the Slocumb law in vested heavily mind. “As to the brewers, with thelr $10,000,000 Investment, they can probably manage (o get along. There are no saloons owned by brewers any more, and it may be that the case beer trade, supplying families, will increase; vet no one can say just how that tactor will develop.” Invostments in Saloons. Keating, secretary of the Retall Dealers' assoclation of Nebraska for the statement that prob- more of the saloons in the an outlay of $5,000 or hotter estimates, will average $1,000 for fixtures equipment. This would make an investment of $1.500,000 at least License money paid will foot up over an- other $1,500,00, for In Lincoln and some other places the license costs $1.500, Where saloo located In communt dependiy surrounding farm atry, it 1o foretell the o but it fs considered doubtful 1 they can pay $1,000 and live, when closed at 8 o'clock every night in the week. Some who have given the subject study assert that the bottle and trade Iy sure to show & heavy Increase in such communities, cspeclally where the forelgn clement s numerous, and the isolated thus recoup themselves, in Nebraska number ten, lo- Omaha, South Omaha, Fremont, Hastings, Nebraska City and Wilber. Be- sides these, about all the Jarge brewerles of othem cities have branches in the state including ugents of Milwaukee, St. Paul, St. Louis, Lacrosse, Chicago Kansas City and St. Joseph brewerios A51 Licenses in s © In Omaba %1 liccnses have be to retailers, wholesaler liquor dealers and Henry Liquor 15 authority thirty or state The represe rest, he and are the is difficult ties on ing ¢ men ca saloons Brewer cated In may ever-changing -needs of thet o rapidly grow. brewers. In Bouth Omaha last year elghty |uconses wers issued, Tbe next time of 3