Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1909, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8. VOL. XXXIX—NO. 81 THE OMAHA DAILY B WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska For lowa—Fair and warmer For weather report see page 2 Partly cloudy. OMAHA, SATURDAY TAFT FOR POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Executive Devotes Most of His Speech at Wisconsin State Fair to Subject. WILL FILL LONG FELT WANT Are Desirable Also as Encouragement to Thrift. OTHER COUNTRIES ARE CITED Americans Along Border Make Depos- its in Canadian Banks. ANOTHER PLANK OF PLATFORM Creation pf Postul Smvings Bank Sys- Is One of the Conmtracts tepublicans Made With People. tem President Taft dress in Milwaukee to the subject of MILWAUK devoted his principal a the State fair today postal savings banks. which he strongly endorsed beford a and enthuslastic gathering that overfiowed the grandstand. President Taf: said that the postal sav- bank plank the republican plat- form bound everybody who calls himself & republican. )r it they do not like the platform itselt they ‘:«mnu.-m\ with an exception, and that indicates a free and enlightened and dis- criminating people. “But 1 am here to uphold the doctrine of the postal savings banks (applause), be- cause 1 belleve that they will fill in this country & long-felt want. In the first place. it is sald the postal savings bank is & very paternal institution; that it has a leaning towards soclalism, fsm, and that it proposes to take the bank- ing business out of the hands of private persons and put it into the government. No, 1 am not a paternalist, and I am not a socialist, and 1 am not in favor of hav- ing the government do anything the citi zens can do as well or vetter, but there are conditions. “We have passed beyond the tide of what they call the laise faire school, which belleved the government ought to do noth- ing but run the police force; and we do recognize the necessity for the interference of the government because it has great capital and great resources behind it and beeause sometimes it can stand the lack of an immediate return oh capital to help out. We did it In our Pacific roads. We have done it in a great many different ways and this particular postal savings bank business the government is especially fitted to do what no system of private bankers can do (great applause). “The great usefulness of the postal sav- ings bank is the great encouragement to thrift on the part of those who are just wavering'Im the balance whether they shall have the money or use it, because they do not know where they can put it safely.” (Applause.) The president sald he did not want to antagonize_the bankers, but he did not belleve their opposition to postal banks was well founded. In some parts of the country, | especlally New England, where for every two citizens there is one savings bank account, Mr. Taft sald the need of postal banks was not felt. In other sec- tions where the savings aceounts amounted to only one in 167 citizens, the need of an encouragement to thrift was acute. New Class of Deposito Postal banks, paying only 2 per cent in- terest would not attract depositors from public banks who were paying 3 to 4 per ept a large ngs in cent, but they would attract the accounts | of (hose people Who were wavering In the balance as to whether or not they should spend their money for the want of knowledge of a safe place to put it The president dwelt at length upon the fact that the deposits of the alien popula- tion now sent back to government banks would be held in this country If there were postal banks with the government behind them to reassure the timid and panicky depositors of forelgn birth and affiliation. President Taft read a list of the coun- ties that have postal savings banks. “Canada has the savings bank, postal savings bank” he sald, and what is the result along the border up in the north- west? You find Americans going up the border and making deposits in those sav- ings banks. Why? Because they have ot the guarantee of the Canadian govern- ment President Taft sald the government had fssued upward of §70,000,000 of two per cent bonds of the United States and floated them &t par at two per_cent or a little more. N “We aid cdrner so faw some it by getting the banks into a they had to bave under the government security, and so they were obliged to buy those two per cent bonds” he said. ‘ Y In closing, President Taft shid: We are looking forward, I hope, with eontidence, to a re-adjustment of our whole financlal system and banking system; eertainly it needs it, an it had been sug- geated that the savings bank might well awalt that. 1 am bound to say that I do not see the necessity for uniting them togethér. It seems to me that one system can stand by itself and if we adopt the savings bank they will eastly bé worked into a gemeral system of banking because those savings banks will fyrnish us five or six hundred millions 42 dollars and that is & very tidy pile “lo have around for the government to f.se legitimately in order to carry om any financlal operation.” Crowd Awaits Executive. The president's train arrived here at & & m., after a slow run of three hours from Chicago. Secretary of War Dickinson, who had some departmental matters to take up | with the president, was expected to come along, but after spending an hour and & half on the Gain in Chicago he had ob- tained action on all the matters he had in hand at midnight and decided not to make 1his portion of the trip. The secretary will join the president at El Paso, Tex., Octo- ber 16 4 Mr. Taft slept unthh 7 o'clock this morn- s and then breakfasted on his car, which been placed in the yards at the foot of Wisconsin street. The crowd had begun to gather in the vicinity of the train as Jy as B o'clock, and when the president ppéared three hours later, he was cheered by & throng which extended for blocks. Entering an automoblle, the president was y St i S — (Continued on Second Page) eawe to be republicans or they are | state social- | Wilson Pleased With Prospects of Great West | Good Crops, but No Indication of Cheaper Living for Dwellers in the Cities. WASHINGTON, Sept. gram.)—James Wilson, culture, returned to Washington lll’lfl' an extended tour of the western states. He returned greatly impressed with the evidences he observed upon every hand of the general prosperity of the farmer, *““The farmers,” sald Secretary Wilson, ‘are buying more farms and more auto- mobiles. The prospects this year are *for big crops. The prices of land are steadily golng up.” | Becretary Wilson holds out no especlal | hope, however, that there will be any cheaper cost of living for “city folks" this winter, despite the fact of abundant crops throughout the west. I see no prospects,’ sald he, “‘of cheaper meats." “‘Cattie and other live stock are high | Meats will not be cheaper this winter The price of corn Is high and is now about 0 cents. It will g higher. The ranchers | In much of the west are going out of busi- ness,” added the secretary. “New settlers are going in and occupying the ranches and breaking them up into small farms. They are not producing as much meat as the ranchers, though in time they will pro- duce more. Through the reclamation work and the dry land farming we are going to have greater production of crops and live stock. Just now production is not keeping pace with the increase of population.' Nebraska postmasters appointed: Etna, Custer county, M. 8. Anderson, vice J. T. Edwards, resigned; Odessa, Buffalo county, arl 1. Pashby, vice J. W. Bergman, re- signe Venus, Knox county, Horace M Davis, vice N. J. Chamberlain, resigned. | The application of John C. Wilken, Wal- ter Shumway, O. O. Ayer, O. C. Gladwin and Guy L. Rawson to organize the Ger- man-American National bank of Arlington, | 1a., with $25,000 capital has been approved by the comptroller of the currency. Meidinger Bros. of Lemmon, 8. D, today filed a complaint with the Interstate Com- merce commission against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Chicago, Mil- waukee & Puget Sound Railroad companies alleging unjust and unreasonable charges by these roads on certain freight shipped from Racine, Wis, to Lemmon, 8. D. 17.—(8pecial Tele- secrotary of agri- Santos-Dumont Will Let Public Build His Craft Noted French Aviator Does Not In- tend to Patent His Wonderful Little Aeroplane. “PARIS, Sept. 17.—Santos Dumont has re celved In the last few days several orders for aeroplanes of the ‘“butterfly” model, the small machine on which he flew a few days ago with remarkable rapidity. He has said in reply that he was not bullding aeroplanes for money, but that his patents and models were held at the disposal of all comers with the sole object of advancing and popularising the art of flying. Speed War to Get Mail Contract | | Milwaukee and Great Northern Roads in Competition for Haul to Seattle, WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Rival proposi- tlons to carry the malls from Chicago to Seattle in fifty-six hours have been sub- mitted by the Great Northern Rallway company and by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rallway. Such an accom- plishment as s proposed would clip six- teen hours off the present schedule for the 2,200 miles. The threatened speed war has for its re- ward the four-year contract for carrying the overland mail from Chicago for the Puget Sound country, Alaska and trans- pacific ports and from Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis. It means nearly $7.000,000 additional revenue to the sue- cessful road during the four years follow- ing next February, when the contract due to be awarded. DIRIGIBLE BALLOON SAVES FRENCH ARMY FROM TRAP Mansuvess . Siauabies Efficacy of Afr Craft in Actual Warfare, 1s MONTLUCON, France, Sept. 17.—The fall maneuvers of the French army, in which {80,000 men are engaged, a; attracting par- ticular attention on account of the work of the dirigible balloon Republique, at- tached to the army of defense. Although the field of operation Is hilly and wooded, the Republique ascertained and disclosed to the defenders the plan of the enemy's campaign and prevented the former from falling into a skilifully contrived trap. One army is using successtully automobiles for supplies. Mujor T. B. Mott, the American military attache, is following the maneuvers | today | PRESIDENT ON | TARIFF ACT |In Extended Speech at Winona Says | It Is Best People Have Ever Known. | W W INSURGENTS OUT OF " Republicans Who Voted Against It Abandoned Organization. WOOL SCHEDULE TO00 HIGEi | An§ Attempt to Change Rates Would Have Defeated Bill. i (MEASURE WARMLY SUPPORTED | [ Charge That BN r-_u--. Advance In | of Living Answered by Citing Simi Condi- tions Abroad. Cont WINONA, Minn., Sept. 17.—In the most important utterance he has made since his | occupancy of the White House, President | Taft here tonlght, in a state which is the hotbed of the “insurgent’” movement within | the republican party, defended the Payne tariff bill as the best tariff measure ever passed by a republican congress and hence the best tariff bill the people have ever known. The president boldly asserted that insurgents who voted against the bill abandoned the republican party, “Was it the duty of the member of con- | L who belleved that the bill did not accomplish everything that it ought to ac- complish 10 vote against it?" asked the president. “I am here to justify those who answer this question in the negative. 1 am mnot here to defend those who voted for the Payne bill, but to support them.” To this statement the crowd In Winona opera house responded with cheer which could be heard far down the street. It was shouted by the adherents of Representative James Tawney of this district, the chairman of the house committee on appropriations, who has been on the defensive ever since the adjourn- ment of congress because he did not vote | with the other members of the delegation from Minnesota, both in the house and sen- ate against the bill “To make party government effective,” sald the president tonight, “the members of that party should surrender their per- sonal predilections of comparatively less importance. I am not here to critices those | who felt so strongly and belleved so in- tensely that it was their duty to vote against the tariff bill, because it did not contain all they thought it should. “It was a question for each man to settle for himself. “In_matters of this kind in a question with the party representative whether he shall help maintain the party solidarity for accomplishing fts chlef purposes, or whether the Aeparture from _principle in the bill, as he regards it, is so extreme that he must In couscience abandon the varty.” Further along, the president gave a final | word to the Insurgents. | “I am glad to see that those who voted | against the bill still insist that they are republicans, and that they intend to keep | up the fight for still lower tariff rates| within the party. “That is thelr right and, of things, 18 thelr duty “All I have to say In respect to Mr. Tawney's action in voting for the bill and my action In signing fit, is that 1| believe that the interests of the country, the intérests of the party, required me to sacrifice the accomplishment of certain things in the revision of the tariff which 1 had hoped for in order to maintain party soMdarity, which 1 believe to be much more necessary than the reduction of one or two schedules of the tariff. Woolen Schedule Too High. The president went into the ‘details of every schedule of the tariff bill, dwelling especially on the schedules which were the | subject of the greatest fight, and which developed more strongly the Insurgent movement. As to the woolen schedule, Mr. Taft de- clared without hesitation or equivocation, that the rates of the Payne bill were too high. It was found easy in the fight, however, he asserted, Lhat the wool and woolen manufacturing interests in the re- public party were so strong that any | attempt to change the Dingley rates would result in & defeat of the bill. “I am sorry that this s so,” said the! president, “and I wish it could have been | otherwise. | “It i the one important defect In the bill and in the performance of the prom- | ises of the party platform. That it will | increase the price of weolen cloths or clothes, however, I very much doubt. No More Agitation Now. Mr. Taft sald It would be utterly useless and distressing to business to bring about further discussion on the tariff during the present or next session of congress and | added that it would require the three years | of his.administration for the commission | to collect facts which would justify the| taking up of the tariff on & more scientific basis than ever before By that time, he asserted, the party | would be ready to go before the people again with a definite proposition President Taft answered with much warmth the assertion that the tariff is re- sponsible for the high cost of living. He declared the tariff remained unchanged for ten years while the cost of living, not | the had the a in thelr view (Continued on Second Page.) F. Francis, Eleventh has experienced the tapped on the side of the head and robbed, and has had the satisfaction of soeing his assallant caught and placed in Jail A man giving the name of John Ken- nedy, claiming Buffalo, N. Y., as his resi- dence, Aid the deed. He was caught by Officers Risk, Jensen, Thresher and Dris- col. Franels was walking on Twelfth street, between Farnam and Douglas, about 2 & m. Friday when he odserved a stranger walking beside him. The stranger stepped up, grabbed Francis’ hat, threw it into the aliey, and, of course, Francis followed the and Center streets, novelty of being Holdup Mar;r(lafight by | Four Officers Before Escape | hat. Quickly, as per | thug followed Francis, administered head taps, took Francis' pocketbook waich and started to flee, when he intercepted by the four policemen, who had been attracted by the lusty yells emitting from Francls' splendid pair of lungs. The officers looked about and found the purse, which the robber had thrown away It contained $15. Fraucis, himself the watch at about a m Kennedy was arralgned in court walved his preliminary hearing. He bound over to the district court and sent to Jall in default of boud, which placed at 31,000, specifications, the the and was found &N o | bana MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1909—SIXTEEN PAGES. RV%IA\V-'(ILl:; (‘OPY TWO CENTS. Who Saw it First? The Polar Bear—When it comes to that, of tourse, we saw it before either of them. From the Minneapolis Journal. JOHNSON CRITICALLY ILL~ Governor Has Another Sinking Spell and Worst is Feared. PULSE DROPS QUITE SHARPLY Three Doctors, Two Nurses and Mrs. Johnwon Are With Him—Phys- Will Not Make Statement. iclans ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 17.—Dr. Nevin and one other physiclan and two nurses and Mrs. Johnson have been fin the governor's room since 3:30 this after- noon, and all efforts to see them are with- out avail. The 3 p. m. bulletin issued by St. Mary's hospital regarding Governos Johnson was very optimistic. o An hour later Mrs. Johnson, visibly dis- tressed, was hurried to the hospital, but nothing definite has been learned as to the reason thereof. Miss Margaret Sullivan, who Bick (oo At T:08 ¢*clock, sald: “I feel much alarmed for Governor John- son. Mrs. Johnson says that the governor is very low. The doctors themselves are very apprehensive. I.am sure of this. They have told me nothing, but I can tell by their actions.” Dr. Charles Mayo went to the governor's room before 7 o'clock. He refused to make any statement to the newspapers. Dr. McNevin could not be seen and says he cannot be seen tonight. It learned that the governor is in another sinking spell. His pulse dropped trom 103 to 78 between 2:30 and 3:30 o'clock, when Mrs. Johnson was called to her hus- bedside. Me- left ‘the is Hoax Played on Railroad Posse Agent at Cresbard, 8. D., Sends in Call for Help and Then Goes to Sleep. CRESBARD, S. D., Sept. 17.—(Special.)— Finding it dull In his office, Tom Burgols, assistant agent at the Minneapolls & St. Louis station here, sent in a call for help, declaring his office had been attacked by robbers and his leg broken. The chief dis- patcher caused a special train, carrying an armed posse, to be made up at Conde and it made the run of fifty-five miles in record time. Approaching the station with leveled guns, the members of the relief, party were disgusted to find Burgols sleeping soundly, with no sign of robbers or a fractured leg. The crowd dumped him in a dry goods box, nailed the cover down and went home, Count Tolstot Visits Moscow First Trip to City in Several Years Made by Noted Man—Health is Good. MOSCOW, Sept. 17.—Count Tolstol celebrated his elghty-first birthday week, came Into Moscow yesterday for the first time in several years. He left today for @ nearby town to visit his friend, M. Pashkoff, the leader of the religlous movement among the better classes, which resembles Tolstolsm. The count appeared to be In vigorous health who last Before shopping, look over our class- ification “ Every- thing for Women” on the Want Ad pages. Women will find it the most interesting column in the pa- per. From it you can make your list and save much of the worry and running around you usually do when shopping. you read the want ads yet Bankers Take Issue With the Chief Executive Investment of Savings Funds in Gov- ernment Bonds Declared Bad for the Country. f CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Resolutions con- demning in strong terms both guaranty deposit laws and the establishment of pos- tals savings banks were adopted today by the American Bankers' association. In crit- icising these two propositions, Arthur Rey- nolds of Des Moines, chairman of the federal executive committee, the postal savings bank, declared that the “danger of the political use of such a power should cause all patriotic men to hesitate before adopting such a radical measure.” He also took issue with President Taft on the question of the investment of the funds deposited in such savings banks, de- claring the executive committee was op- posed should a postal savings bank bill be- come law, to the investment of such funds in elther United States bonds or state and munieipal bonds. “The investment of $600,000,000 or $700,000, 000 in United States bonds, as has been ad- vocated recently by our chief executive, he said, “would be a serfous mistake and a menace to our nation's credit, as it is in other countries where such investments | are made.” | A= a substitute for these plans the com- | mittee recommended state and federal su- i]’\?r\ldun and the creation of separate sav- ilnks departments in national banks. Los Angeles was chosen for the 1910 convention of the association. San Antonio, Tex., withdrew and put in a bid for the convention of 1911, COUNCIL BLUFFS PEOPLE IN CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE Small Blaze in Guests, hut Little Damage is Done. CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—(Speclal Telegram.) —Guests of Hotel Grant were routed out early this morning by a small fire in the basement. Among them were Mrs. E. M. Smith and M. E. Sherman, both of Councll Blufts. ROOSEVELT KILLS ELEPHANT Ex reniden Tusker, Brings Down While Kermit Five Lions. Fine Bags NAIROBI, BRITISH EAST AFRICA, Sept. 17.—News has come in here that Theodore Roosevelt, hunting in the Mweru district, has killed a bull elephant with good tusks. Kermit Roosevelt has been hunting independently at Guaso Nyiro, and has been successful, bagging five lions and three buffalo. He has now started out elephant hunting. Mr. Roosevelt will move on to Guaso Nyloro to join his son as soon | preservea. manager E. J. Cuninghame of the expedition, and Heller, one of the naturalists, are at pres- ent engaged in this work. Mr. Roosevelt declares he has great sport and all members are well. referring to | as the skin of his bull elephant has been | the general | Edmund | | and Forest schools. PUPILS MOBILIZVE FOR TAFT Twenty-Two Thousand Children Will Assemble at Dozen Buildings, CADETS STATIONED ON FARNAM Military Div of High School ‘Will Form Line Through Which the President and Wil Pay fon Escort children in * the schools of Omaha Twenty-two thousand public and parochial will help welcome President Taft to Omaha next Monday. The 20,00 children in the public schools will be mobilized at nine central school buildings, while the children in the parochial schools will greet the president from three or possibly four bulldings. It would be impossible for the presi- dent to pass each of the thirty- four public school buildings, but to give each child a chance to see the presi- dent, ft was declded by Superintendent Davidson and the principals to gather the children into the school bulldings on the line of march. the children to be lined up in front of the bulldings when the presi- | dentlal party passes by. None but High school students will con- gregate on the High school campus for the reception to the president, though the cadets will not take part in this reception at the school. They will line up on both sides of Farnam street, between Fifteenth and Eighteenth streets, and stand at at- tention while the chief executive passes between the lines of these future makers of history. From the high school the line of march will take the party past the Central school where in addition to the will be congregated the children from the Webster, Farnam, lom and Cass achools. Lake school will be the next bullding and here will also be gathered the children from the Lothrop, Saratoga, Monmouth Park, Central Park, Sherman and Druid Hill schools. Children from the join with the children from the Long school at the latter bullding to welcome the president as he passes. At the Saun- ders building will be mobilized the children from the Saunders, Clifton Hill and Wal- nut Hill schools; at the Park building will be mobilized the children from the Park, Dupont and Windsor schools; Vinton school children will join those from the Mason school at the latter building; Beals and Columbian children will join Leaven- worth school children at the latter build- |ing; and at Comenlus school, the last to be passed by the president, will be gath- | ered the children from the Comenius, Cas- Bancroft tellar, Pacific, Lincoln, Traln, Each child will be asked to bring a flag from home, but those who have no flags wili be furnished at the school buildings, providing the supply holds out. When tho president. passes these flags will be waved. Principals of the various schools will use thelr own discretion regarding further welcome to the president, and children in some of the schools may be trained to sing patriotic songs as the president passes. The route marked out for the president's trip through Omaha will take him past the academles of St. Berchman and of the Sacred Heart and by the St. Cecllia Catho 1001 (Continued on Second F WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The average laborer is today living better than Queen Elizabeth did in her time,” said Sécretary Wilson of the Agricultural department today upon his return from a month's va cation on his farm in fowa. He was dio- | cussing the prosperous dition of th farmers of the west and high wages of the workingman in the east “Take the Washington the today,” he continued, “vou day—most of them—and, what is more they are nmot content with any kind; they want the best cuts. They can afford them. As a result, the price of meat is away up. While the farmers a more beef every they ducing enough to meet the population. I do not look for 10 decrease materially soon ' The secretary was asked If the western farmers were really investing such large sums of momey in automobiles, producing are not pro- increase in | year the prices meat bills of the laborers in | will find that they eat meat three times a | | securities, | of 1abor. | along 'I:i'leAs'e Are f:ull bays for Farmer and Laboring Man “There is too much ports,” he responded. ‘““The farmer is out of debt: he has paid for his farm, his fences and his machinery. He has money in his pockets and big crops continue to come He is afraid to invest in eastern lest & year might bring tro As a result he puts his luxurles, in channels give a return. Why not know what luxuries 80 west to find that out “The farmer is sull handicapped by Too many have gone the sidewalk. I hope agricultural lines will remedy this but the tide has not yet turned backward One thing, however, the farmer means of improved machinery many times as much as the farmer ac- complished ten years ago. He does It with ease, 100, for a farmer sits at mearly all his work nowadaye.” truth in those re- on re. m in that might ks in the east do are; they must ad of lack farm to education today, by ean Central children | Students in these schools will from the | do | SLATE WINS AND AUTONOMY HIT | Administration Ticket and Policy Are Endorsed by Eagles by Large Vote. |ST. LOUIS GETS NEXT MEETING Louisville Insurgents Cut Down Ma- jority of 128, However., SLIGHT GAIN FOR STATE AERIES Granted Unlimited Power Over Edu- cational and Social Privileges. GRADY GOES IN AS PER PIAN | New Yorker Will Be the Next Grand Worthy of the Order —Bell Gets Largest Vote tor Prestdent The convention by & large majority adopted the judiciary committes amend- ment on state autonomy after a fight against it by the state autonomis! @Grand Worthy President—F, E. HMening, South Bend, Ind, Grand Worthy Vice President—Thomas ¥. Grady, New York. @kana Worthy Chaplain—Frank H. Cole, Englewood, Tl @rand Secretary—Conrad K. Mann, Kan« sas City. Grand Treasurer—Finley MoRae, Hel- ena, Mont. Grand Worthy Conductor—W. A. Disch, Parsons, Kan. Grand Inside Guard. mond, Va. Grand Trust Theodore A. Bell, Napa, Cal W. T. Gartland, Boston, Mass. Owen Xane, Cleveland, 0. H. J. Lea, Seattle, Wash. Meeting Place in 1910—8t. Lonis, Mo. With the ele adoption of the Judie and amount of the grand aeri . R, Fuller, Rich- | | tion of these officers, the eport of the committee on the transaction of a large of minor importance gles practically com- pleted the business of the seasion late yes- terday afternoon. Many of the delegates packed their grips and took late trains for home. Those who remained will witness this morning the installation of the newly elected officers with due ceremonial and the session will then end. he adoption of the report of the judi- clary committes yesterday by an over- whelming majority was a defeat for the faction that is secking wide powers for the state aerles. The judiclary commit- tee's report was in the nature of a com- promise allowing the state organization very limited powers and subjecting it largely to the control of the grand worthy president. The other features of the report were adopted without material change. The San Francisco darill team was the lucky reciplent of two first prizes yester- a as announced that the team had won the $400 prize In the secret work com- petition Wednesday night, Kansas City, the only other competitor, being a close second, taking the $260 prize money, In the competition of the drill teams yesterday afternoon San Francisco also the first prize, Benson the second and Kansas City the third. First prize was $100 in cash, second §0 and third $25. The competition was held on Davenport street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, Colonel A. B. Falconer, Major J. |B. Erwin and Lieutenant N. Haskell were | the judges. With the close of this session the old ritual will ut of u an entirely new one, mainly the work of Grand Worthy Presi- dent Frank Hering, going into force here- after. The work under the new ritual was presented for the first time Thursday night and from now on all subordinate | loages will use it | Slate is Vietorious. | The “siate” won out completely in the | election, though Loulsville, candidate for | the next convention, was uble to organize an “insurgent” movement which reduced | the nominal majority of near 1,500 to 128. The only contests we for the next meet | ing place of the grand aerie and for mem- | bership on the board of trustees. The vote i on these was as follows: Meeting Place— St. Louls | Loulsvilie | Truste ry | | | | | | won | 6|/ Tuthill 47 Me Donal L8056 Kelly . 48| Loulsville Scares St. Louis. Louisville, though unsuccessful in land- ing the convention, succeeded in throwing & scare into the St. Louls boosters and untll a late hour Thursday evening it looked as though the Kentucky city had | won out. The combination of .the extreme eastern cities with the extreme western aerles and the delegates from Kansas and Missourl proved too much for the Ken- tuckians to overcome. There were only three St. Louls delegates in the convention and these were not the most aggressive, The most formal business of the morning was the reading of the report of the judiclary committee by Thomas F. Grady of New York, the chair- man. The committee has been wrestiing with the state autonomy problem for the |last two weeks and the result was awaited | with a great deal of intérest by the dele- gates. The report of the committes on the sub- | Ject of state uutonomy was not very satis- | tactory to those who have been demanding | state organizations with larger powers. | The amendment proposed by the commit- tee limits the jurisdiction of state or dl |trict conventions to “educational and so- clal work,” Including the exemplification |of the ritual. The grand worthy president is given the power to commission a state distriet convention, whenever in his judgment discretion the number of aeries instituted in the state district warrants. He fixes the date and place of the convention, approves its rules and regulations and decides whether or not | any action of the state convention exceeds the “educational and social” limitation, important session | Gist of the Power, The gist of the granted state convention is contained in power to the fol- [ lowing section Sec. 3. The authority | worthy president t or district conventic power of any such convention beyond the educational and soclal work in which it may engage. The ritual of the order may of the commlasion slate 1 not rge the grand sh Y (Continued on Sixth FPage)