Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 13, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes —is resd hy the wamen—selle goods for advertisers. VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 258. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1 TARIFF BILL IS BEFORE SENATE Mr. Aldrich Presents Payne Measure | as Amended by the Committee on Finance, | | DEBATE WILL BEGIN THURSDAY Minority Members Will Examine the Measure in Meantime. MANY SCHEDULES ARE REDUCED Chairman Says Committee Made More Reductions Than Increases. | PRESENT DUTY BACK ON GLOVES Schedule B Also Comes In for a Reduction oslery in House ~=Duty on Lumber in 1o Sta WASHINGTON, April 12—~The amended tariff bill is now on the senate calendar and by agreement reached on the floor con- sideration of the measure will begin on Thursday. The bill was alld before the finanee committee, with the democratic members present, at 10 o'clock this morning und & vote was taken on the question of making a report to the senate today, all republicans voting in the affirmative and democrats in the negative. Soon after the senate met Senator Ald- vieh prescnted the amended bill. Senator Danlel, on behalt of the minority, pro- tested that the democrats had not been given an opportunity to examine the meas- ure and Mr. Aldrich repiied that they could make their examination by Thursday. As reported the bill goes not contain all the changes In rates which ibe finunce commi tee proposed to make. Although sever: important amendments, such as the restor- atlon of the Dingley rates on women's gloves and hosiery, the placing of works of art on the free list and the assessment of a duty on iron orch ave been made, the revenue producing “possibilities of the bill are little changed. The increases are pro- vided mainly in the schedule covering lux- uries, the entire liquor schedule being ad- vanced. Will Produce Revenue. In discussing the revenue efatures of the il Senator Aldrich Inslsted that as it will be aumended by the senate the Payne bill will provide sufficlent ufnds to meet the expenses of the government without resort- ing to any but import tax. No maximum and minimu provisions or adinistrative features which include ad- ditienal forms of -taxation were reported in the bill, These sections to recelve the joint consideration of the republican and dem- ocrtic members of the finacne committee and ey not be reported for throe weeks or more. While noi changing the purport of the Phillippine section the committee report in- :#d-p.’,g a;;‘n, of _thia provision by eh its successful operation Will Be sured. 1( had been suggested that the pro- Vision for the free entry of 300,000 tons of sugar and 30,000 pounds of tobacco would | permit the importation under these limi- | (atlons of products from neighbor'ng islands through thelr importation Into the Philip- pines. This danger has been climinated by making these products dutiable when imported into the Philippine: Cotton and Wool. Changes were made in the cotton and wool schedules of interest to the manufa turers of cotton and wool clothes. The ac- tion of the finance committee in maintain- ing the high rate of duty which it placed | on tops at the time the Dingley bill w under consideration and which now stands In the present law, will undoubtedly re- open the controversy on the wool schedules The Intent of the Dingley law regarding the assessment of dutles on cotton cloth has been carried out through a change In | F rick Says | | expiration of the provision for the method to be used in counting the threads in cotton cloths. The | new proviso and the rearrangement of the duties on the various grades of cloths elimi- nates the ambiguity which resulted in many difficulties In carrying out th of the existing law, without changing the 3 valorem equivalent of the specific dutic By restoring the Dingley rates to barl and barley malt and by reducing the taxa- tion on the breakfast table by cutting down the dutles on coffee substitutes and placing cocoa on the free list the senate amecnd- ments to the Payne bill present a bid for popular favor. The numerous increases in the agricultural schedule intended for the vrotection of the American farmer and pro- vided for among the amendments largely through the efforts of Senator McCumber, & mew mewmber of the committee from the west, were framed with a view to gaining fuvorable eriticism Aldrich Explains Changes. Senator Aldrich fssued « stater iug the character of changes in which s in part as follows: In the muin the rates m the tariff reported from the senate finance com- mitiee are lower than those in the bill as it passed the house, the actual number of 1vductions belng about three times the num- ber of inercases. Buch Increases as have been made have been largely rendered nec- cssary o preserve’ the symmetry of the schedules. A considerable number of arti- cles In common use have been taken from the dutiable list of the nouse DI and re- stored Lo the (ree list. The great mass of the rates reported are below thuse of ex- Isting law “The house commitiee restored iran ore to the dutiable list at % cents per ton, a reduction of 15 cents a ton in this schedule throughout. Nearly all these reductions nt show- | the bill, have been retained by the senate commit- [ the tee. In @ddition to those mads by liouse the senate committes has made quite large number of other reductions. The senate committee has retained the rate on lead of 13 cents per yound, but it has been obliged to raise the wies on Jead products throughout the bill w vorrespond with this duty on lead ore. thousand on rough lumber, a reduc tion of §1 from the Dingley law, and bLas retained the house rates on manufactures wood, nearly wll showing reductions friom the Dingley rates. The only im- portant changes in the schedule made by the senate committee was the restoration of imported hardwoods to the free list. The senate commitiee left the sugar schedule as It came from the house, but reduced the house rate on suger in the biscults and wafers from 5 to 2 per cent The tobacco schedule remaing changed “The un- agricuitural schedule, including (Continued on Second Page. provisions | | marriage. | $1.50 The senate has taken the house rate of ! Shallenberger Did Promise an Who Asserts the Can- " Made Pledges the Gov- : Has Utterly Ignored. OMA S pril 12.--To the Editor of The 3 % the utmost respect for the high o S8R governor of the State of Nebrasi " 08ls incumbent should be big l'fl'\llK‘IAv road enough not to make promisel e clection that his concep- tions “"’ ) fficlal duty forbid him perform ‘#ifter electfon. 1In the light of re- cent évents I think that all citizens who believe as 1 do that the passage of what is known as the “daylight saloon bill" is an unreasonable restriction upon a lawful business, an unecessary iterferece with the personal liberty of the individual citizen, and a direct violation of the contract made by the state with every saloon keeper who obtained & license for the year 1%®, that it he complied with the provisions of the Slocumb law he might lawfully sell during all the hours therein authorized until the the present license year, should know that during the campaign and prior to the election I met the democratic candidate for governor, A. . Shallenberger #t his request, at the Paxton hotel In this city; at this interview Mr. Shallenberger sald to me that he was opposed to prohibl. tion, county option or any other restrictions upon the sale of liquors In Nebraska, ex- cept the restrictions already embraced in the Slocumb law as it then stood. The members of the State German Saen- gerfest, who listened to Mr. Shallenberger's address before them at their state meeting at Columbus one Sunday afternoon during the primary campaign, and the Germans of Omaha who listened to his remarks at the opening of the German home on South Thirteenth street during his candidacy, will bear witness that the sentiments declared in his private interview with me were pub- licly expressed upon the occaslons to which 1 refer. It is well that the record should be kept stralght, and the good citlzens of Nebraska who belleve In the right of the individual citizen to enjoy the personal liberty see to it that the mistake they made last fall is not repeated A. N. FRICK to Graft Witness Will Testify Nick Oswald, Wanted in Los Angeles, Suddenly Appears Before Grand Jury. LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 12.~Nick Os- wald, the much wanted witness before tha grand jury, for whose apprchension $1,00 reward has been offered by the district attorney, suddenly appeared -in this city today and presented himself at the grand Jury rooms. Oswald's appearance is ex- pected 1o supply” the ‘missing link n ‘tHé testimony regarding alleged municipal graft involving several city officials and is expected to result in many convictions. Hearst Evidence Is Missing Stolen Suit Case Found Slashed Open and Valuable Papers Gone. HASTINGS, Mich., April 12.—The suit case which was stolen from Attorney F. R. Freshney in the Michigan Central depot here April 3. was found last night, slashed open.by a knife and with all of the depositions and evidence which Mr Freshney had gathered in Oklahoma for in the Haskell-Hearst libel case in Omaha, missing. REV. GEORGE LOBINGIER DEAD Father of Judge Charles §. Lobingler, Now in Philipplues, Passes Away in Lincoln, use (From a Statf Correspondent.) LMWCOLN, April 12.—(8peclal.)—The Rev. George Lobinger, one of the ploneer min- isters of the Christlan church of this state, died early Monday morning, following a | short illness at the family residence, 1726 J street. Mr. Lobingler came to Nebruska in 1875, residing in the state continuously ever since. He was in his seventy-elghth year, and was a native of Pennsylvania. In 187 Mr. and Mrs. Lobingler were united In Besldes the widow, Ada C. Lo- two sons, Milton S Lo- bingler of Napa, Cal and Charles 8. Lobingler, United States judge at bingler; Manila P. I, survive him. 'The funeral announce- ment will be made later, arrangements pending word from velatives. Buslal will be at Wyuka cemetery The Rev. Mr. Lobingler was widely known in the Christlan church, having held pastorates at Hebron, Belvidere Chester and Fairfield, besides having ganized several churches in different sec or tlons of Nebraska. For several terms he served -as the county judge of Thayer county HOUSE ASKS FOR RETURN OF BILL Chairman Payne Wished to Correct 0il Schedule So as to Eliminate Alleged Joker, ALDRICH HURRIES MATTERS Bill Reported and Senate Adjourns Before House Message is Received. QUEER PARLIAMENTARY TANGLE Probability that Senate Committee Will Make Change Requested. PERIOD SHOULD BE A COMMA This Slip Has Effect of Placing Duty of Twenty Per Cent Ad Valorem on Byproducts of Pe- troleam, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 12—(Special Tele- gram.)—Unexpectedly, but with the evident purpose of preventing the house from se- curing the return of the Payne bill to that body for the purpose of correction, Senator Aldrich, chairman of the finance com- mittee of the senate, reported the tariff bill today at exact five minutes after 12 o'clock. After a short statement on the part of Mr. Aldrich and a ‘kick” on the part of Senators Danfels and Culbertson against the manner in which the majority had treated the minority during the con sideration of the several tariff schedules, the senate adjourned without receiving the messago of the recall of the bill from the house, which passed that body unanimously in order that the “joker” in the ofl scheduls could be properly framed to meet the po- sition taken by the house on erude ofl and “products thereof.” Representative Payne, antieipating the resolution from Congressman Norris, re- calling the so-clled Payne tariff bill so that omission from the free list provided for in section 2 of that bill afecting prod- ucts of petroleum might be correcting by substituting a period for a comma, was on his feet imediately after the convening of the house with a resolution recalling the bill and which, as said before, was adopted without debate by the house. Just what the parliamentary situation will be on Thursday is not exactly clear. Courtesy between the two bodies would seom to warrant the return of the bill for corrections sought to be made in the ofl schedule, but in view of the fact that the finance committee has ordered this bill reported with sundry amendments, to which the minority disagrees. a most Interesting situation arises. 1Is this a house bill or a senate bll1? If a senate bill, made so by senate amendments, has not the house lost its control over the measure by hav- ing beén sent in good faith to the senate. Will Be Corrected by Semate. No'one helleyes but that slin.ef a period for a comma will be correci for the slip affects countless articles made from petroleum, like vaseline and kindred oils, which bill under its present reading places a dut yof 2 per cent ad valorem. Whether the bill will be returned to the house for corrections sought 1s problematical. Tt s thought the finance committes when it re- ports additional amendments already agreed upon, In the new print of the bill author- ized for lssue tomorrow morning, that these corrections will be made and neces- sity for its return eliminated The bill reported by Senator Aldrich, as viewed by majority members of the fi- nance committee, is generally thought to be & much fairer measure than the bill which the house passed. While In some schedules it makes radioal changes in the Payne bill, it Is thought to be much more largely in the Interest of the consumer than the house measure. The market basket Is very con- siderably benefited while luxuries, such as yachts, European makes of automobiles, foreign grown barley, forelgn champagnes, mineral waters, still wines and other arti- cles which America is making or growing, have been advanced to almost prohibitive extent. Coffee, tea and cocoa are placed on free list. The duty on sugar is re- duced four one-hundredths of one per cent Duty on Pumice stone, in which Nebraska Is interested, is left as under the Dingley law, but with an additional sec- tion added providing for % per cent ad valorem duty in manufacturers of pumice stone “or of which pumice stone i5 com- ponent material of chlef value." This change being made necessary to meet de- cislon of the supreme court of the United States. To the farmerthe bill will commend ftselt particularly, for it gives him additional protection over the Dingley rate. Oals are rajsed from 15 to 20 cents per bushel; corn, 15 to 20 cents; rye, 10 to 20 cents; wheat, % to 3 cents, and hops, pound. Barley Is raised bill from 2 to 30 cents, Dingley rate. Shingles are the same as in the bill at 3 cents per thousand, as the Dingley rate. Hides and not Included In the bill, being left for later action on the part of the commlittee. Treasury experts are now at work mating revenues which this new bill will produce and which Senator Aldrich hopes to have in comprehensive shape for presen- tation on Thursday one. Pumice greatly to 15 ocents per over the house re-establishing the house coal are estl- Two-Dollar Whez{t 1s Now Predicted on Will wheat be $2 Omaha market before the top 1s reached? per bushel on the Ordinarily a grain dealer who predluul; or § wheat ridiculed the Omaha grain exchange, but dealers on tne floor each morning who say | wheat will be as high as $1.50 to $1.60 and | reach even §2 per bushel, when it win be 8% cents per pound. It is now than 2 cents per pound. There 18 no top 0 the prices paid, ap- | parently. When the Updike Grain com- pany offered $1.25 for No. 2 on the floor of the exchange Saturday, it was thought it was because there was no No. 2 to sell But this proved wrong. The wheat which the Updike Grain company offered to buy Saturday was In the hands of Omaha | grain dealers, but they would not sell Monday the Updike Grain company satis- would be at there are may more chal ’Change 2 hard from C. from the L. Weeks for $1.24 and Omaha Elevator company for 512 The wheat bought from Mr. Weeks brought 2 cents more than was ever celved on & et for & bushel of wheat in Nebraske No. 3 hard wheat readily. A jnumber from $1.21 to $1.3 Rye had to g0 up a few notches and was sold for 76 cents, the highest price ever paid in Omaha. When the records were made Monday morning the grain dealers became serious, and “Where will wheat stop?’ was & com- mon question on the floor. The record has Leen broken almost every day for two weeks and the dealers are tired of hearing “high- est price ever paid before for wheat.” As a result of the steady climb there are some dealers in Omaha who say $1.50 will brought ot $.22 ana cars of No sola sold 4 | tied its appetite for & time by buying No. | be the price of wheat, and some say §2. re- | 3, 1909—TEN PAGES. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska--(enerally For lowa—Generully fair For weather report see page & fair SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. l | ‘ | | [ | shington Evenlng Star IF | HAD (THE DEMOCRACY AT MEART, YOU WouLb STEP L Sy DEMOCRACY + WoULD NOT, HAVE TO BE ToLD To STEP asipe! RECEIVED THREE SUCCESSIVE THE RETORT COURTEOUS. ANTHRACITE WAGE SITUATION Presidents of Interested Railroads Meet and Discuss Situation, NO REDUCTION AT PRESENT Committee of Kleven Appointed to Formulate Policy to Be Followed by Operators—I1t Will Re- port April 22, NEW YORK, April 12 —Presidents of sev- eral of the anthracite coal railroads held a conference in this city today to discuss the situation growing out of the failure of the coal operators to reach any agreement with the miners. Prioe o the feeding Hports were Tn cir- T culation that a 10 per cent reduction in the wages of the miners was contemplated At the conclusion of the mecting this aftor- noon It was announced that no action had been taken looking toward a reduction in the wages of the miners. A committee of eleven was appointed to formulate a policy of dealing with the miners, and structed to report at a meeting of coal operators to be held April The following official statement was is “A conference of anthracite coal opar- ators was held in the offices of the Trunk Line assoclation today to discuss the labor situation In the anthracite reglon. There were about fifty at the meeting, including Messrs. E. D. Thomas, G. F. Baer, W. H Truesdale, L. ¥. Loree, F. D. Underwood, W. J. Richards, W. L. Connell, Alvin Markle, 8. D. Warriner, J. D. Cake, W. A. Lathrop and E. E. Loomis. There an unusually large attendance of individual operators. The action of the operators’ committee of seven in the conference with the mine workers' representatives was unanimously approved. It was not decided to reduce the wages of the mine workers at the present time. A committee of eleven was appointed and instructed to formulate a policy to be followed by the operators This committee will roport at another meet- ing on April 22" Quest for Millions Stopped by Death was Claimant to Big German Estate, Including Castle, Dies at Reading. | | for George © late READING, Pa., April millions of the John Spang, who was one of wealthies n Germany, has been halted by the here today of Josiah L. Kalbach, the oldest direct descendants of Spang The latter left a vast estate consisting of valuable land and buildings. The famous ang castle at Hamburg, Germ occupled by Baron Kugthansen, is clalmed by the estate, which is valued at $120,000,000. Mr. Kalbach, who was 74 years old, tained 'possession valuable pa pers which he always declared would some day bring back the property The quest e men death one of ny, now ob- of certain to his heirs. BACK AT THE OLD STAND The business office of The Bee is to be found again in the ground floor corner of the Bee Building, which has been enlarged and re- fitted to accommodate the growing needs of the office force and patrons. Entrance from Farnam streer i | York Haskell Cases to Be Dropped, Says Federal Officer Prosecution of Prominent Oklahomans Stopped by Order from Attorney General at Washington. MUSKOGEE, Okl., April 12—The state- ment was given out from the United States district attorney's office here today that Speclal Attorney Sylvester Rush and Dis- trict Attorney Gregg at Tulsa had decided to abandon any further prosecutions of Governor Charles N. Haskell and the six other prominent Oklahomans recently In- wolved .(-the Muskogee town lot_cases. This course, it was stated, had been dic- tated from Washington. Following the quashing of the Indictments against Has- kel et al. at Tulsa Saturday last, Attorney Rush referred the matter of further action to the attorney general In relation to the report from Muskogee Mr. Rush said Monday night he had not becn advised of the issuance of the state- ment. Will Prosecute IrQn Mountain Penalty for Rebating May Reach One Million Dollars if Charge is Sustained, LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 12.—United States District Attorney Whipple today re- celved instructions from the of Justice to proceed with the prosecution for alleged rebating. H. Bunch, an elevator man of Ar- | gerta, and Wilbur C. Stith, now traffic | manager of the Waters-Plerce Ofl compa: of St. Louts, but formerly traffic manager for the Iron Mountain, indicted at the same time for rebating, have already pleaded guilty and been heavily Should the Iron M ntain be found guilty on all counts and the heaviest penalty im- posed its fine would amount to - 00,000, over No Rehearing for Waters-Pierce Trial in Texas Ouster case. WASHI of ’t TON, April 12—The supreme United States today denled rehearing in the case of Waters-Plerce Oll company, which court affirmed, a decision by Texas courts Imposing a fine of $1,600,- the company and ousting It from state. the n court the n the the the 00 supreme on the Department | fined. | Supreme Court Refuses to Grant New | | previously of the Iron Mountain railroad. indicted in| multiplicity the federal court here on fifty-nine counts/ feated the me | | | | | | him to please 1 DEFECT IN JUDICIARY BILL Donohoe Measure Amends Sections that Are Already Repealed. MAY KNOCK OUT ENTIRE ACT State Railway Commission Con Governor (o Get Permission to Carry Out Physieal Val- uation Act. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 12.—(Special.)—It Is pos- sible and even probable that the Donohoe -partisan judiclary and regents of the The bill amends at least three sections of the STAttes of 107 which lxve been repealed no university bill, is not constitutional. by the leglslature of 1907. The sections amended been r 6,89 and 5,813 of Cobbey's relate to the tim nominations, convention certificates of nominatios, Uder supreme court declslos, lawyers say If these sections were induc ments to the passage of the act, then the act is vold and otherwise the sections only are vold Notwithstanding pealed by the primary law In and which statutes, of the were carried passage 1907, the j one of the authorized statutes, and the sec- operating under of state provisions. Donohoe bill sought of all judges, and county superintendents with- out the formality of a nomination by political party. The bill was fught by some of the republicans in legislature on the ground give to the speclal Iult-l‘Yls an the judges, by re tunity to elect of candidates. sure did take the retary their The election tendent has been to cause the state a n of a Those who de- 50 on the that it Judiciary politics, The sectlone repealed ried over in the statutes revealed sections aménded. would out and which it have been Commission and Governor Confer. of the State Rallway commis- constitutional officers serving six Members sion, years and drawing $5,000 a year cach, called upon the governor this morning them go ahead to ask physical valuat naming experts to do the work. tion was madc by This necessary one of tion of job makers he gov that he hs the work urse, he the matter Nebraska ple k that as long as he thought they all right he would not Interfer they did not do as he thought th then, of he should e authority in the matter not yet selected his helpers. will recelve between $3,000 [ nor assured the 1 no intention of of the commission, though, had a certain responsibilify and wanted to s engineer appointed nters to head . but should, ercise he gov The chief man and $4,00 a (Continued on Third Page.) NEW YORK, Lieutenant 12.~The of the New was assas- April tuneral Joseph Petrosino police department, who while engaged Palerno, Siclly, was made the ocaasion today for a remarkable tribute to the dead detective The police department, many Italian so- cletles and prominent citizens of that nationality, united in expressing the grati- tude of New York for Petrosino's self- sacrifice in his work and sorrow because of the untimely ending of his career at the moment when he was belleved to be en- saged In his most important service 1o the sinated in special service | city and country Although the hour set services in the old St. i Mot street was U & for the funeral Patrick's cathedral m., many Itallans of | gathered | people Unusual Tribute to Petrosino at Funeral 1 n New York carly the home body was lying The heavy police guard the house would permit no congregation of In its immediate vicinity, but mirers and cdmpatriots of Petronine found time to paus¢ and with bowed heads, utter a silent prayer before passing on to work Twenty-five policemen were stationed in front of the Petrosino home and fiffy de tectives were duty in the yards and on ihe roofs of that and adjoining bulld ings. Four hundred and fifty policemen including many dressed in plain clothes were assigned to guatd the funeral proces slon on its way from Lafayette street to the old cathedral in Mott street and from the cathedral to Calvary cemetery on Loa- don Island today In Lafaye detective In state te street near , where his of the on duty about on has pedled are sections 5,808, They of filing certificates of nominations and however, these sections were re- state-wide in |smaller than a total of elghty acres, pay- the superin- vigorously that this would oppor- ground | of were simply car- is these wtih the n of raflroad property by ac- the political pie bills passed by the late aggre- commission nterfering with ot some good the Then he told the commission | were doing it his rnor has STRIKE CAUSES REIGN OF TERROR Violence and Disorder Grow Out of Walkout of Button Makers at Meru, France, SOLDIERS PATROL THE CITY Two Thousand Troops and Eight Hundred Gendarmes on Duty. MOB BECOMES REVOLUTIONARY Cries of “Down with the Republie! Heard Constantly. NUMBER OF SOLDIERS INJURED Representatives of General Federas tion of Labor from Paris Urgln Strikers to Fight to th Finish, MERU, France, April 12.—The striking button makers, whose demands for a con- tinuance of the previous wage scale in the button factorfes have been followed by violence and disorders, have brought about a veritable relgn of terror here and in the nelghboring towns of Crepin and Lor- maison. About 2,600 goldiers under the com- mand of General Nicholas, and 50 gen- darmes under the eladership of the prefect of Oulse, are today patroling the streets of the town and the surrounding country. I'he mob s ugly, and eries of “Down with the republie” are heard constantly, The soldiers are bearing the insults with great stocism, although a number of them have been injured severely by stones. M. Voirin and other representatives of the general federation of labor are here from Paris urging the strikers to fight to a finish. Settlers Are Far From Pleased at Irrigation Rule Explanation Given by Department of Reason Why it Has Been Put in Force, (From » Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Settlers along the North Platte rri- gation profect in western Nebraska are mot altogether satisfled with ‘he reduction to eighty acres per family the amount of land that can be watered uader the project Senator Burkett not long ago took the question up with the direcor of the recla- mation service with a view to having un adjustment made that would be satisfactery ta.both settlers gnd department. The- di- rector took he matter under adviseren and conferred with the engineers in They intimated to thelr chief that in many cascs settlers in thelr opinion undertook | more than they could properly handle, it ms (he law provides that waler shal Ibe furnished to an area of land ‘large | enough for products raised on It to support a family.” This the department construed to be eighty acres, and the director states »{that If a larger area were to be given it would result in hardship to the settlers In support of this view he maintains that while during the first years of irrigation the cultivated must necessarily be o area ments must be upon the amount irrigable and not merely on acreage cultivated. To Increase the unit would be to increase pay- without increasing the acresge a settler could cultivate and sell crops on, the director holds, and the law would net permit increasing the unit any way. He refers to the fact that if settlers are unable to meet payments the law provides for forfelure of all former payments and los sof their holding. Norris to Sail Soon for Panama ments also Congressman to Leave Wednesday for Two Weeks’ Absence on the Zone. (From a Staff Coy WASHINGTON, April (8peclal Tel gram.)—Representative George W. Norri together with a number of other member: the house, will sall from New York ut Wednesday on the ship Panama for Colot o lock over the canal zone. Judge Norrl invited Cleveland the campalgn and assist Mr. Cassidy who has recelved the nomination to suc ceed M who on March 4 enterec the senate However have liked ospondent.) had been to Burlon. much as Judge Norrls would to ald his young friend Cas sidy, he had booked passage for aname and could not therefore well disarrange his plans and those of his fellow voyagers. The party will be absent from the capita! city about two weeks Senator Norris Brown will preside a the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Seclal Sclence at Witherspoon hall, Philadelphia, Saturday evening, April 17. The general theme of discussion will be upon the sub. | ject. “The Relation of Immigration i | Race Improvement. Mount Etna 1s in Eruption i Big Volcano is Covering Surrounding Country with Ashes—~Great Fear is Felt. April A great g out of the thick on t able app: NAPLI eruption 12.-Mount Etha s In cloud of mnoke is pour- crater and ashes are falling e surrounding country, Consid- henslon is felt Conl Trust Case June 1. PHILADELPHIA, April 12.—After brief proceedings here today Judges Gray und Buffington in the United Btates circut surt fixed June 1 us the date when coun sel representing the anthracite raflroads and coal companics should complete thel, testimony In the auit instituted by the government Lo dissolve the so-called Cosl st