Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1909, Page 2

TdE BEE: P on 1 Lokt oftec ehave outlined. ‘As to mineyals, other than those herein- after specifiefl, pebatins of the mnnter of ocgurrenad, 'doubtiess no effeotive classifica oan ‘be made In mdvance of diseovery, and they should for that reason e treated as an exception in clasification and dealt with ngly. “As rogards néw legislation, the present coal Jand Jaws respecting the states and territorios, a8 well as Alaska, should be supplanted by an act fully meetihg existing as well as future conditions.” The induce- ments for much of the crime and fraud, both eonstructive and actual, committed under the present system can be prevented by separating the right to mine from the title to the sofl. The surface would thereby be open to entry under other laws accord- Ing to its character and subject to the right o extract the coal. The object to be ob- tained in any such legislation Is to con- werve the coal deposits as a public utllity ard to prevent mopopaly or extortion In their disposition. This may be accomplished cither through a leasing system, by which the title would remain In the government, under proper regulation and supervision by the secretary of the interior, or through {he gale of the deposits, and in elther case with restrictions on, their mining and use which would confrol the minimum output and conserve the deposits as a public utility. 1 believe the most advantageous method will be found in a measure authorizing the lease or sale of the coal deposits in the lands, subject to forfeiture for fallure to exerclse the rights granted, under such reagonable regulations as may be imposed An exploration perfod of at least one year upon & permit basis, at a nominal charge would {nsure to the applicant the necessary preliminary knowledge upon which to make the leasa or purchase of the coal deposits and venture the necessary investment for operation; The maxium unit authorized for this use could safely be made from three to five sections, provided no greater surface rights be granted pw.n will give proper facilities to reach and extract the conl deposits. ! Proposes Forfeiture. “In case of fallure of the lessees or antees to open and operate the coal de- posits under reasonable limitations and to maintain an output reasonably suited to the deposits, and in case of combinations as_to price or limitation of output, title should be forfelted by proceedings in court for that purpose. Government mine super- vision would doubtless be necessary to en- force the conditions and limitations under the grant. v “The above suggestions with reference to the disposition of coal deposits are equally dpplicable to the ofl and gas fields In the publfe domain, and similar legislation as to Jands containing the same is hereby recom- mended. Indeed, the very nature of these two' Important mineral resources requires that their disposition be in térms of quan- tity of the product extracted rather than of acreage. “Pending the enactment of new legisla- tion as affecting coal lands, all known coal dreas were withdrawn from entry for clagsification and appralsement through the geological survey. pril 10, 108, 1 changed to & practical #nd sclentific basis the system of: classi- fication and- valuation for disposition of conl lands under existing laws. For the purposes of classification and valuation, fthe coal deposits are divided Into four classes In accordance with their fuel veliue and tfie thickness and depth of the coal bed. The prices of the lands are determined on the basis of an estimated tonnage and range from one-half. cent tp, 3 cents per estimated ton, In acaordance with the qual- ity, thickness and’ sitnation of the coal Provision s also made for taking into conglderation in making the valuation any spectal conditions lenhancing the ‘value ot the land for coal mining purposes; also, for & review of the classification or valu- atlon upon proper application and showing to the department. “The classification and apprajsement of the coal lands Jn the states and. territories otheF than Alaska proceed upon the author- ity of the act of March 2, 1873, which fixas the minimum price only for lands ana leaves to the secretary of the Interlor their appraisement and the determination of thelr maximum value. In view of the fact that the law of Alaska directs the dispo- altion of the coal lands in that territory at the flat rate of $10, per acre, no such classification or appralsement i3 warranted by existing law. “Cgngress has, by the act of Februar: », substantially adopted the recom- mendations made by me as commissioner ot the general land office in the enactment of a statute, known as the “dry-farming” ot “enlarged-homestead” act,, authorizing the classification and entry of semiarid lands The department has, through the geologi- cal survey, under this act classitied 172,007, 642 acres. “I have also recently withdrawn tempor- not the aceomplish autharitative it arlly, for the purpose of submitting the | subfect to congress for new legislation, Inrge areas of ofl lands in Wyoming, Call- fornia, Utah and Oregon “I desire to call attention to authorixe the executive to reserve certain areas of thess lands for the purpose, of affording a supply of fuel oil for the future use of the navy, and to make such regulations as may be for the preservation and ex- traction of such deposits. No leglslation exists for the entry of ofl and tands other than the general mining laws of the United States, which are not adaptable to the disposttion B lands containing mineral ofls and g#s. 3 “Under ghe previous adminletration there were teWiporarily withdrawn, pending action by congress, 4702520 acres of land in the s of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah a8 contaffiing phosphate deposits. These lands being, re;examined by the geo- logieal ey, 8t my direction with a view sl tracts not containing such e ‘area of the original with. now been ‘reduced to 4,471,4s0 Th %:e slimindtion of nonphosphate acres by T am advised by the classitying | t adgitional areas will he elim- J& result of their ex containing phosphate axd not sdaptable.to disposition and stould not bhe allowed §8°bo disposed of as elther placer or lode lsims, but the deposits 8hould e leased o %old In limited areas ard on conditions preventing monopoly and ‘“The sircalled timber and stone aocts of June 8, and August 4, 1908, should be npua.. i for the timber from the the land after the timber is removed, under Appropriate agricuitural or mineral laws, “The land proximate aggregate of grants in national forests, 067,400 acres. ese’ lands. cannot be surveyed out of present or general appropriations by @ survey of public lands, Without additional legis- not give the department au- relmburse ftself out of the lands congress tor such sur th vey are fot subject to state or taxation. ingtion. | and a3 ‘aw enacted providing position of all the remaining | N the publie lands separately #ofl, and for the disposition of lands Adiustment ‘under the raliroad within primery {mits, which ate unsurveyed flclent to survey these lands, impose a| llen upon them for the reimbursement of | the cost thereof, and give authority to compel s prompt reimbursement. | “On antieipation of new legislation by | congréss to prevent < the acquisttion of | power sites on the public domain by pri- vate persons or corporations with the view of monopolising or adversely control'ing | them mgainst the public lpterest. there | have been temporarlly withdrawn from all forms of entry approximately 608,35 | acres, covering all locations known to possess power possibilities on unappro- priated lands outside of national forests. Without such withdrawals these sites would be enterable under existing laws, and thelr patenting would leave the gen- eral government powerless to Impose any lmitations as to thelr use. “If the federal government desires to exercise control or supervision over water power development on the public domain, it can only do so by iimitatfons imposed upon the disposal of power and reservoir sites upon the public lands, the waters of the streams being subject to state jurisdiction In their appropriation end beneficial use. I wou'd, therefore, advise that the congress be asked to enact a measure that will authorize the classi- fication of all lands capable Of belng used for water power development, and to di- rect their disposal, through this depart- ment, under substantially the following conditions: “1. That the title to such lands be re- served in the federa' government, and only an easement granted for the pur- pose of developing and transmitting elac- trical power for private and public use, and for the stornge of waters for power, irrigation and other uses; That such easement be granted for a lmited period, with a maximum of at least thirty vears, and the option of re- mewal for stated perfods upon agreed terms; 3. That entry shall be accompanted by plans and specifications covering the works sought to be installed, and cover- ing the maximum horse power capabla of development at such site; also, that a substantia! entry fee be paid to show good faith, and that a transfer to the United States of the necessary water rights to permit of the estimated power develop- ment be made; “1. That the construetion period allowed entrymen for the development of at least 25 per cent of suech power shall not ex- tend beyond four years, or such further time as may be granted by the secretary of the interfor upon a proper showing; “5. That a moderate charge shall be made on the capital invested, or upon the gross earnings of the project for the first ten years of operation, adjusted at each subsequent ten-year period, and equitably determined by appraizement; “¢. That all 'rights and easements shall be forfeltable for fallure to make develop- ment within the limitations imposed or upon entry Into any contract or combina- tion to charge or fix rates beyond a rea- sonable profit on the investment and cost of operation, or entry into any agreement or combipation to limit the supply of elce- trical cutrent, or failure to operats the plant; and, 7. That all books and accounts shall| always be subject to the inspection of the department. “Unreasonable or narrow restrictions be- yond the necessity of public protection against monopoly, or extortion in charges, will, of course, defeat development and serve no useful purpose. The statute should, therefore, while glving full public protection against the abuses of the privi- leges extended, so far as consistent, en- courage investment in these projects; and it must always be borne in mind that ex- cessive charges for the franchise will fall upon the consumer. Legislation of this character proceeds upon the theory that congress ‘can impose such contractual terms and conditions as it sees fit in the sale or use permitted of government lands so lang as such limitations do not' cohs flict with the powers properly exercised by the state wherein they may be sity; ated. Reclamation Serviee, “The act approved June 17, 1%02, known as the reclamation act, clothes the secie~ tary of the interior with a broad discre- tion in the construetion of rrigation works and the disbursement of the reclamation fund, Into which fund had been pald, up to and including June 30, 1905, the total sum of $30,661540.27, and the net Invest- ments from which the reclamation works on June %0, 109, amounted to the sum of | $46,757,918.4. The cash i #Z0lpts from water | right charges to June %, 109, were: Bulld- Ing charges, $209,841.22; operation and main- | tenance charged, $70,825.88; total, $370,067.10. Because of the magnitude of the work and the desirability of making plans far in ad- vance, it has been #ound necessary to| make estimates of the amounts that will | become avallabfe before the actual receipts | can be known. The estimated total re- | celpts in the fund to June %, 1909, are §8,- | i2,140.66. Upon this basis, and estimated | receipts which will become avallable be- | fore December 81, 1910, $5,528,060 have been allotted for reclamation purposes to De- cember 31, 1910, “The discretion imposed by the act also carrles with it commensurate responsibili- tles and obligations, which my predecessors have carried out with the utmost fidelity to the publie good. “Some of the most important elements of conservation of the natural resources of the public domain lie within the purview of this statute; the dormant power of steaam and flood being conserved for the transformation of the desert Into vast till- uble are *“The receipts from all sources do not give encouragement that the fund will =D, suf- | ficiently replenished to enable an expe- | ditious completion and extension of exist- | Ing projects or to take up any new work. I am nog In favor of the extension of the time of these payments, as eleven year (which the law practieaily gives) without Interest, in ten annual installments, ought to permit any prudent man to meet his payments, unless the cost of construction Is & greater burden than the lands will naturally sustain. “In ylew of the importance of & speedy | completion of exlsting projects and their | proper extension,’ and’ of the necessity in | 1912 of an adjustment between the states by which the major portion of the funds | arising from the sale of public lands withtn | each state and territory shall have been expended 8o far as practicable within such state or territory, and In view of .the im- | portance of making a beneficlal use of | waters already appropriated or capable of | appropriation to which rights may be lost | for nounse,l believe an urgent appeal should be made to congress to anthorize the Insuance of certificates of indebtedness, | or of bonds agalnst the reclamation fund, | to an aggregate of not exceeding $30,000,000, or 80 much thereof may be needed. These certificates or bonds should be sold by the treasurer of fhe UnWed Btates from time to time as may be required by the see- retary of the ‘Interfof Wnd the proceeds placed to the credit of the fund. They | should be redeemable dn ecall within a period of not exceeding ten years after issuance. The proceeds should be devoted to the completion of feasible‘ettating proj- ecta and the censtruction of any feasib extensions thereof, and so much thereof may be needed should be devoted to the | construetion of new projects In the states | and territories in which the expenditures | have not met the requirements of section ® of the act of June 17, 1902, This is a re- afrfimatee of my recommendation to you from the field August 2, 1909, “Among other amendments. an ademnA- ment to permit the assignment of home- ’ stead entries, within projects, ofter entry- men havce completed flve years' residence and cultivation and made proof thereof, Is recommended. Indian Affairs. An Ihvestigation of the fleld sarvice of the Indian bureau in the early spring satisfied me that it required a thorough reorganiza- tion. and steps have been energetioally taken to effect this necessity. In no other | public service i= it as important to have | field agents and a | rellable and faithtul systematie method of Inspection and report s In the Indlan service. The Indian may suffer the impositions and know of the misconduet of his agen without a murmur, where the white man under similar provo- eetion would loudly volee his rights. This divereity of temperament has, in n meas its foundation In the fact that the Tndlan's appeals have been too frequently ignored by field agents, especlally where the In. dlan's interest confllets with the white man's interest. I have no doubt that this unfortunate condition has had a demoralizs Ing effect upon some of the officers of the service. 1 do rot want It understood that the service has no agents or superintend. ents in the field who are of the high type and character tlat such a service demands, On the contrary, the faithless and de- ficlent agent Is the exception, and the de- partment s dispensing with of such officers as fast as weeded out. the services they can be Indian Warehons: “I am strongly In favor of dlscontinuing the United States Indian warehouses at New York, Chicago, St. Louls, Omaha ana San Francisco as soon as It is possible to clear up the business that will pass through them under the annual contract system ‘The Indian service is pu asing about 82,000,000 worth of supplies each year under & system which is in no wice based on commerclal methods. . “It 1s purposed to deveiop a system of purchasing through purchasing agents and to make arrangements for the elimination of certified checks, contracts and bonds, and to provide for the ssttlement of all bills within @iscount periods—certainly not exceeding thirty days from delivery. “The cost of Inspection (Inspectors are now hircd at $10 per dlem and expenses) Wil be climipated, as the goods will be bought prineipally f. o. b. destination, and ingpection made by the superintendent re- celving them. At least-iQ per cent of the expense of the annual cobtract work and the handling of claims at Washington will be saved.” T The Yellow Peril, Jaundice—malaria—biliousness, vanishes when Dr. King's New Life Pills are taken. Guaranteed. %c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. RELIEF FOR CHERRY ORPHANS United Mine Raise Workers Propose Permonent Fund of $100,000. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 28.—The United Mine Workers of America will attempt to raise §10,000 as a permanent religf fund for the widows and orphans of the Victims of the Cherry, Ill, mine disaster, it was announced today. President Lewls estimates there are one- thousand children who have been made homeless. While the Red Cross soclety is attending to immediate needs of the des- titute families at Cherry, Mr. Lewis be- leves & fund should be raised for the care of the children in the future. It is the plan, Mr. Lewls says, to have the fund helC in trust by the committee for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Cherry dimaster. to HiIl Gives to luron Collége. HURON, 8. D, Nov. 2.—(Spectal)—Dr. Calvin H. French, president of Huron col- lege, has been advised by James J. Hill of the Great Northern raflway system that he will give $60,000 to the endowment fund of Huron college. The gift Is con- ‘tingent . ypon. the raising of 300,00 ad- ditional for this fund. This amount must be, rafsed within two years. President I¥rench, s Well as the trustees of the c lege, are greatly pleased over Mr. HIil's offer and are confident that they will suc- | ceed In raising the amount required. A number of gifts are already promised and the outiook is very favorable. To England Afier Fortunme. MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Nov. 28.—(Spe- clal)~Convinced that the Bank of Eng- land holds in trust a fortune belonging to his grandfather, clty Is now in Bloomington, i, looking up evidence preparatory to going to Eng- land to establish his claim. Hobron's grandfather was a ploneer of Vermilion county, Iilinoils. He died in 1874 His English home was in Devonshire, but ho | camo to America in 185%. Twenty years later his father died in England, leav.ng his property to the son, who had gone to America. The address of the latter, who was Hobson's grandfather, had been lost and no one appeared to claim the estate, which, after years, reverted to the crown. It you desire » clear complexion take Foley's Orino Laxative for constipation and liver trouble, as it will stimi:iate thesw or- gans and thoroughly cleanse your rystem, which Is what everyoue needs in, order i feel well. Sold by all druggists Greenmors Faces Ch NORTH M'GREGOR, la., Nov. 28.—(Spe- cial)—Tracked for four years by federal otficers, Joseph Gr this city with detec arrested at Memphls, Tenn, and brought to Dubuque yesterday afternoon on charge of forgery of a pension check for $24. He endorsed the name of his mother, Mrs. Jane Groemore, to the check, sp it is claimed. Greemore formerly lived at Prairle du Chien, Wis. He will be tried in the federal court in Dubuque. Novelties—I' It R—idih ana es on his trafl, Doa, Dies Vietlm to Duty. ROCKFORD, Ia. Nov —(Speclal )— Contracted while he was attending a p2 tient, typhold fever yesierday caued ihe death of Dr. L. E. Klinefelter, an old and honored physician of this city and north ern Iowa. He earned money his medical education by working In the rallroad gravel pit and with the s:etion gang. He Is survived by his wife and two children Watches—FRENZI™, ~15th and Dodge. lowans Raise Mone OSKALOOSA, la., Nov. 28.—(Specl Twenty-five hundred dollars is the dona- tion for the rellef work of the Cherry, 1L, mine sufferers which the lowa United Mine Workers, with headquarters In thi city, will send. The money Is to be sent at once and more is to follow If it Is needed Diamonds—FRENLSR ~15th and Dodg Distriet Methodist Conference. ACKLEY, la., Nov. 28.—(Special)~The twenty-fifth session of the Marshalltown district of the Upper lIowa Methodist con- forence opens in this city Mondav and continues through Tuesday and Wednes- day. . PILES CURTD ™ & TO 14 DAYS, Pazo Olntment 1a gusranteed 1 cure sny case of Iiching, Biind. Bleeding or Pro- truding Piles in 6 to M4 days or money re- funded e, —e e Bee Want Ads Are (hc Best Business | Boosters, Willlam Hobson of this | more, who fled from | vas | | al to securre | OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBE R 29 | When the smoke of the campalgn battle of 1832 had clegred away It was found that Andrew Jackson had an overwhelming ma- |Jority of the popular vote, and that as against 219 electoral votes for “Old Hiek- ory” Henry Clay could muster but forty- nine. The seven votes of Vermont went (o Willlam Wirt, the anti-Masonic candidate. and the eleven votes of South Carolina, where the electors were chosen by th> les- islature under the domination of Calhoun, were cast for John Fioy his sweeping victory Jackson regarded as a complete vindication of his veto of the blll to F charter ihe Bank of the United States. He firmly and sinoerely belleved that the election had been a battle royal between the common people and the ‘“‘monsier monopoly” of the bank, as representing the money power and the aristociacy. The arietocracy, which had been unhorsed in congress by the revolution of 1801, was now banished from the White House to linger on ouly in the south, where it mbt its po- litioal death at the hands of the farmers' aillance and the free silver movement in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Belleving himselt commissiond by the will of the people to destroy the bank Jack- son los: no time In parley. He resolved not to await the expiration of the charter in 1836, but adopted the suggestion of Amos Kendall of Kentucky, a member of the “kitchen cabine:,” to sever the relations of the government with the bank. Ths charter provided that the government funds were to be deposited in the bank un- less the secreiary of the treasury should otherwise direct. This gave the adminis tration a power which congress could not abridge except by mustering the two-thirds majority necessary to defeat the presi- dent’s veto, Having declded upon the removal of the deposits, Jackson met with determined op- position in his own officlal family. Louls McLane, secretary of the treasury, re- fused to agree with the president in his bellef that the government deposits were not safe in the bank. He resigned under pressure and was succeeded by William J. Duane of Pennsylvania, who was known as an opponent of the bank. But Duane proved to be very independent, and he would not order the.removal of the de- posits, nor would he resign when re- quested to do so. J son was not the man to brook such opposition, so he summarily removed Duane from office and appointed Roger B. Taney, then attorney- general, to be secretary of the treasury. Taney issued the order removing the de- posits. That Is, the funds were with- drawn from the bank In the regular busi- ness of disbursements and no new de- posits were made. This herolc action, the audacity of which had never been dreamed of by the opposition, put the whole coun- try Into a turmoil and inaugurated the bank war which was to continue for years, The public moneys were then deposited in state banks, selected by the administra- tion, which came to be known as ‘Pet Banks.” Jackson began his agitation for the extinction of the debt and the distribu. tion of the public funds to the several states. The finances of. the country were plunged into & chaotic condition. But in the stress of this storm, Amos Kendall, of the ‘*kitchen cabinet,” later postmaster- general, devised the independent treasury bill, which was passed, and which organ- ized the treasury department on a basis independent of all banks. The tréasury today is conducted practically upon the Kendall plan, the best that can be de- Vised M the absence of' a central national bank. On March 25, 184, Henry Clay, offered in the senate a resolution of censure con- demning the sotion {of the president In removing deposits. The resolution was bit- terly oPpe by Thomas H. Benton, but it was atibfell by a vote of 26 to 20. Jack- son sent a message of protest, requesting that It be be entered in the journal of the senate. (220'IA8 request was refused by a vote of 27.to 16 Benton at once gave notice of his inten- tion to offer a resolution to expunge the resolution of censure from the journal, and he declared that he would fight for that resolution untll he was successful. He kept his promise and for three years led the hitterest fight in the history of the | American congress. Benton and Jackson had been friends In their early youth, but Quring the was of 1512 had become enemies Jackson acted as second to Willam Car- roll in & cuel ‘with Jesse Benton at Nash- ville while the latter's brother, Thomas H. Benton, was In Washington trying to save Jackson from bankruptcy. When the older Benton returnéd to Tennessee he was furfous and vowed to whip Jackson on ght. They met on the balcony of a hotel in Nashville and engaged in & general | fient m which Jackson was severely wounded by Jesse Benton. Thomas Ben- ton took Jackson's sword and broke it on the pubic square In Nashville and de- nounced Jackson as a coward. It 1s one of | the wonders of history that two such men should have reconclled such a quarrel. But | when Jackson came to the senate In 1523 | he found Benton there representing the new state of Missourl. Jackson was given & seat next to Benton. One morning Jack- son spoke to Benton as if nothing had hap- pened, and inquired about the health of | Mrs. Benton. That evening the Bentons called on the Jacksons, and the quarrel was ended. Years afterwardé when Benton was the | ehamplon of Jacksen in the senate he went to the White House and was denled ad- Some Things You Want to Know | The American Congress—Jackson Versus The Senate. mittance. The servant explained that the surgeons were cutting a bullet out of the president's arm. “Then I'll go tn and see ft. T was present when the bullet went in,' sald Benton, striding past the servant and into the house. Clay, supported by Webster and Ca‘houn, fought Benton to the bitter end. Once Benton was persuaded to permit the amend- ment of his resolution by striking word ‘“expunge’ and Inserting reverse and make null and vold.” Webster then made the mistake of gloating er this amendment as an anti-Jackson victor: Webster's speech renewed Benton's courage and determination and he immediately of- fered the resolution In its original form with the objectionable word in its old place. The fight was on again. The issue before the country was to ex- punge or not to expunge. Legislatures elected senators with that question in mind, and gradually the Jackson forces became stronger and etronger. The Bank war was carrled on Into the rext presidential cam- paign, when Jackson practically ordered the people to elect Martin Van Buren in his stead. The Whigs were demoralized and the Jackson forces again swept the country in pite of the effort to stem the tide with another war hero—General Willlam Henry Harrison. The election over, Benton re- newed his battle In the senate. It was ap- parent that the hour of victory had come, the three great chiefs, Clay, Calhoun and Webster, fought on. Seriators came to the capitol armed, In anticipatic of violence. Washington was practically divided into two armed camps, bank men and Jackson men. But the winning eloquence of Clay, the fey loglc of Calhoun and the profound reasoning of Webster wero not equal to the popularity of Jackson marshalled under the admirable captalney of Benton. On January 16, 1637, the resolution to ex- punge was adopted by a vote of twenty- four to nineteen. The secretary of the senate produced the fournal, and in the open senate In the presence of the demo- crats, nearly all the whigs had left the chamber, He drew a series of broad, black lines around the resolution of censure, and wrote across its face the words: “Ex- punged by order of the senate this, the 16th day of January, 1897." That page Is one of the most interesting things to be seen In the capitol today, and the slip on which the roll call was noted by the clerks Is on exhibition In a glass case at the library of congress. This was complete vindication of Jack- son by congress for his action in defying the will of congress, but it did not end the bank war. Van Buren falled of re-election, Leing defeated by the whig hero, General Harrison, whom he had defeated four years earlier. Clay considered himself the leader of the whig party, however, hold- ing to the old notion that congress was supreme. Harrison, unfortunately for the Whig plans, lived but a month and was succeeded by John Tyier, whom the whigs had nominated for vice president in the hope of conclllating the old ‘“nullifier” element. Clay made the mistake of ignor- ing Tyler, and set himself up to lead and rule the party and to dictate to the presl- dent. Tyler was Incensed with Clay, and he listened to promises of re-election from men who surrounded him. Congress passed a bill to charter a bank and another re- pealing the Independent treasury act. Tyler signed the treasury repeal bill and vetoed the bank’ charter. He pointed oul his ob- Jectlons carefully In his veto message. The whig congress, led by the enraged Clay, passed another bill, meeting Tyler's ob- jections. But Tyler vetoed it also. The influence of Andrew Jackson was strong in Washington then, and that in- fluence supported a president who was openly despised by the leader of the whigs, Tyler vetoed the bank bill to be revenged on Clay. Thus, for the second time, Clay had delivered a body blow to the national bank by overestimating his own powers and underéstimating those of his chiet enemy. In the tragic record of the defeat of Clay's ambitions it is a remarkable fact that It was Clay's specch against the re- charter of the first bank of he United States, dellvered in 1811, which caused Jackson to question the constitutionality of the bank in his first message to con- gress That Clay was right in the main features of his contention for the necessity of the bank is now generally admitted, But he was most unfortunate in the con- Quet of his campaign for his cause. The second veto by Tyler ended the bank war as a live Issue. A greater question had come to the front, and the country was about to be plunged into the strife of the struggie over slavery. Jackson domination of congress, and he nominated and elected Polk president. His organiza- tion was compact, &nd the whigs wer never able to successfully wage war against it, although they did once ciect a president. But the bank was dead and it is only now, more than a half cen- tury sinee “Old Hickory's” death, that a serious proposal has been made to establish & national bank. Senator Aldrich Is now fighting the ghost of Andrew Jackson The issue of the battie is for the future to reveal. By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Tomorrow—THE AMERICAN GRESS—Tho Grest Slavery Battle. CcON- Sick Recluse Loosens Horse " toSummon Aid |01d Man Living Alone Dies of Poison- | ing and Woman Claims Estate. OKEN BOW, Neb., Nov. 25.—(Special.) ers, a weli-to-do farmer and 1y man, about years old, living o on his farm near Milburn, died some during Thanksgiving afternoon fromn what probably ptomaine polsoning. The old gentleman, realizing that he was in & dangerous condition and not being able | to eommunicate with any one crawled to the stable, turned his horses loose na | allowed them to wander to a neighhoring farm, thinking it would attract attention, which it did. When assistance arrived, he was discovered sitting i the dopr sunning Fimself. A doctor was summoned from Ansslmo, but could vender no relef. Cor- oner Cole teok charge of the body and brought it to Broken Bow. A son and daughter of the deceased arrived from | Oceola, Ta., today and will try to arrange about settling up their father's estats, | which they may find some difficulty in do- | ing, inasmuch a8 a Mrs. Mason of Kearney is alleged to have laid claims to havihg marrled the deceased elght years ago. As the legitimate wife of Sanders has besn dead only three years this would seem to complicate matters not & little. A J. Bowers, an undertaker of Kearney, Is | authority that Mrs. Mason has been loves- was tan tigating the amount of property that San- ders possessed. DEATH OF WELL KNOWN FARMER corge Pearson, Passes Away at + His Home. TECUMSEH, N Nov. Telegram.)—George son, known farmer of this county, home three mliles south of this city Satur- day afternoon, aged 83 years. Mr. Pearson was born in Germary and was married to Miss Flizabeth Wake in that country. The family home has been on the farm south of Tecumseh for twenty years. Besides the widow, Mr. Pearson four rons, William, George, Robert and John Pearson of this county, and three daughters, Mrs, J. E. Cornell of Saratoga, Wyo., Mrs Arna Biggs of Senlake, Tex., and Mrs. J H. Biggs of Alberta, Canada. Mr. Pearson was one of Johnson county’s best Known and most influential farmers. The funeral will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church here Tuesday afternoon at 3 a'elock corducted by the pastor, Rev. R. Pearson and burial wili be in the Tecumsch ceme tery. 2 —(Speclal sr died at his a leaves Administrator After Twenty Yea KRARNEY, Neb, Nov, %.—(Special)—A petition for the admintstration of the estate of Lydia E. Thatcher of Shelton was filsd in the Buffalo county court Saturday by her son, R. W. Thatcher. Mrs. Thatcher dled in 187, but no move towards the administration of her estate was made until & few weeks ago. Recently her father dled and she was joint heir, 50 It necessi- tated the administration of her estate be- fore the other heirs of her father's estate could come into possession of their pro- perty. Bee want-ads are busmess boosters regained | again | well | TROUBLEBREWS FOR COCKLIN Grand Island Man Alleged to Have Committed Bigamy. LEGAL SPOUSE WANTS A DIVORCE This Secured, She In Counted on to | in Wotion for Pure mishing Man Who Floated Her, powe He leaves a widow, two daughters, one of this city, while the othen resides at Was% Ington. The body will bo sent to Chicago next Tuesday for Interment Child Scalded to Death. PERU, Neb. Nov. 3.«(Epeclal)—An ac- cident which culminated in the death cf the 2year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Fred Nelson at the e In London precines, sccurred last Wodnesday afternoon. Ths child was playing In the kitchen with a toy wagon, and was backing along tho floor with 1t and watching 1t, when he backed and foll into a bucket of scalding water. The little fellow's scrnms brousht Eimer F. Cocklin | merly of Omaha, is in some pending lit court of Douglas county for d In fact, on the ground that he contracted a bigamous marriage with Anna Gustafson of Grand Island. Whea the dlvorce case Is done the f Mra, | Cocklin Is in the mood, It is said, to pros- ecute him for bigamy. A copy of the second marriaze licenss sccured by Cooklin has been secured by D. M. Vinsonhaler, attorney for Mrs. Cock- lin the first, and it sets forth that August 1900, a permit to wed was lssued to Slmer Cocklin and Miss Gustatson by J. | H. Mullin as county judge of Hall county. Also there is at hand a copy of the cer- | tificate of marriage of the two by Rev. | John J. G. Grahama, who marricd them September 2. Judge Mullin makes affida vit that copies of the license and the wedding certificate are true and correct Cocklin and Mrs, Cocklin No. 2 are known to have been living together subsequent 1o the date of the alleged second marriase, There is no known possibility of -a divorce from Mrs. Cocklin No. 1. The plight attributed to Cocklin is du- plicated in some measure by that of Wal- |ter Blackett of Omaha, who will hear from the lips of Judge Estelle Tuesday whether he is legally a bigamist or not. For the court will then decide, he says, the question whether Mrs. Blackett No. petition to vacate a decree of divorce shall be granted. Blackett obtained a decree. | Later Mrs. Blackett filed the petition to vacate and before it was heard Blackett contracted his second alllance. If the court shall rule against Blackett | he will be in the position of being married to the first wife and not married to the second, and Mrs. Blackett No. 1 has said she will prosecute him for bigamy. LINCOLN BARBER SHOOTS WIFE AND TRIES SUICIDE T. Robinson, a Barber, Apparently Insane, Tries to Kill Woman He Drove from Home. of G sure for- or sied m in r'e! He susd and Island, to be In th voree, F. BEATRICE, Neb., Nov. 28.—(Special Tel- egram)—F. T. Robinson, a barber from Lincoln, this afternoon shot his wife three times, and then turned the weapon upon himself, recelving & wound under the heart The shooting occurred in the Penner block, at 3 o'clock. Both are alfve, but it s be- lieved they cannot live. Robinson recently drove his wife and three children, the oldest 7 and the young- est 2 year of age, away from their home at Lincoln, and since that time Mrs. Rob- | inson has been making her home in the| Penner block here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Folden. Robinson yis- ited them here Thanksgiving day, and re- turned to Lincoln. He returned today and calling his wife into the hall, shot her three times. One ball entered the right side, the other the left cheek and the third passed through the hand. He then shot himself just below the heart. Robinson i& 20 years of age and his wife 2. He has | been acting strangely. of late and s belleved | to be insane. His parents reside at Eagle, | and formerly operated a hotel at Plymouth. | Neb. Mrs. Robinson s the daughter o,'i Charles Folden, who was killed west of this city seven years ago by golng through a bridge with a threshing machine. Celebrates Silver Wedding. BROKEN BOW, Neb., Nov. 25.—(Speclal —County Clerk Pigman and wife celebra.ed their sflver wedding Saturday night at thelr cozy residence on the south side. About sixty intimate friends were present and brought with them many handsome and valuable souvenirs for the occasion Mr. Pigman first came to Nebraska in '84 from | Bloomfield, Ind., and took up a homestsad | near Kearney. Here he met Miss Hattle | George, whom he married the same year | In 1889 he moved to Custer county and se:. iw-d in Loup township where he farm> | | | | and taught school. In 191, he was ap- pointed deputy county clerk under Georgs Dewey and at tho expiratidn of the term | was clectbd to that office, which he has | held for the last four years. r. Pigman l1s a strong supporter of the republican | party and is ex-chairman of e republican county committee. Beginning with new year he will take up his new duties as census director of the Sixth Congres slonal district the Thieves Canght with Goods. STANTON, Neb, Nov. 2.—(Special. Tuesday afternoon three strange men were seen near the depot In an Intoxfcated con- dition and one of the men carried a good- sized package. City Marshall White locked the three men in jall for disorderly con- Quet, and then the package was examined. It contalned one overcoat (worn several| days), B\ new palr men's trousers and | two suits of men's clothing. When ques- tioned as to where thay got the goods they could glve no satisfactory answers. The officers then had the merchants examine the clothes and it was found that the two suits belonged to August Loebe and the six pair of trousers belohged to F. A.| F. A. Raabe, but no one here claimed the | overcoat. Nelther cne of the merchants }h-a missed the clothing, but Mr. Loebe | | thinks the clothes were taken from his store while one of the clerks was asked | {to grind coffee for one of the partles in the adjoining room. | Burlington Rebuilding Ra | PERU, Neb, Nov. 3.—(Special)~The| steam shovel which Is to make the new | | roadbed for the Burlington rallway at the | sink below town, arrived Tucsday and be- gan work Thursday cutting back Into the | high bluff for the new track. The en: gine ix a monster machine and s cipable | of handiing an immense amount of rock and earth in a day. It is estimated that it will be engaged in this work for some weeks, poss®ily all winter. The new grade [ which is being made for the track in the vicinity of Barney, is progressing rapidiy. This track Is to be laid back nearer the | bluffs, making & change of nearly a mile |and a half at one place. These two pairs to the track will amount to the re | buflding of a goodly section of the Burling- ton road near here. Arlington Ploncer Drops Dea ARLINGTON, Neb., Nov. 28.—(Special.)— L. B. Sheppard an old resident of this city | dropped dead Friday at 2:30 p. m. of heart | | Ethel | store. | court. | rider were | caped dangerous wounds, members of the family to the 10, but it was too Iate, &8 he had A badly uoalded aboul the body. Dr. Tyler was summoned and did w)l he could to allevinte the suffering of the child, but in spite of all his efforts the little one died on Thurs- day ‘of his burns. Nebreaska News Notes. HUMBOLDT=Luther Burow and Mies Hchuits, Well known young people of his section, were upited in marriage Wednesday by Rev. Mr. Nanninga of Falis City . KIEARNEY-~The olaim Baley f 1 $£2000 against the Melsner e tate of Sheldon, was disposed of in coun.y court and sottlement made in the sum of $40. KEARNE of Charles 8. ~The county judge of Buffalo county lssued a marriage Heense to Fred L. Hazzard and Miss Ruby G. Robbins, both of Miller, and the young people were married in that town Saturday afternoon. KEARNBY—Arthur Nichols of Odessy was taken to the insane asylum at Has ings Saturddy morning, he having become v.olently insiane. This Is the second time Nichols has been confined in that institus tion. HUMBOLDT—The local Odd F lodge has botght a 1ot east of the on the south side of the square, and expect to erect a two-story brick bullding thereon, the upper floor to be used as a lodgoe room. GUID ROCHK home of Mr. a daughter, Mix llows' Sterni ~Thanksgiving day at the a Mrs. Willlam Pettit, thelr me Amy T Pettit, was ma ried to Wobert €. Ferguson by Rav. G. W. Pool. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson will make thelr home at West Chester, la NORTH PLATTE—A new firm begins businers in North Platte this morning, that of Derivberry & Forbes, which succeeds the firm of Workman & Derryberry, T firm will continue the implement and fu; nitire store heretofore conducted by the old firm. KEARNBY—The trinl docket of the dls- trict court for the December term has just been published, and shows twenty-nine civil jury cases and seven crimingl cases. This 1s the smallest number #f cfvil sul'm that have appeared in any one term of Besides these, there were thirtys three cases of equity. HUMBOLDT-Wilbur Bullls. a former Humboldt boy, was badly injured this week at Neodosha, Kan. by eoming around a curve {n his motor buggy just in time to collide with an encine. Both vehicle and carrled some distance asd dlteh. Fortunately he es- unless internal thrown finto a injury was pustained. 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