Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1910, Page 1

¢ f | ~. - THE OMAHA BEE admitted to éach and every home. & clean, rellable newspaper that is THE OMAHA DaAILY BEE VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 1 OMAHA, M INDAY MORNING, JANU_ARY 31, 1910. JOINT CABINET President Taft’s IN ENGLAND| Position on House Conservative Papers Propose Minority Made Up of Moderates of Both Parties. TRUCE TFOR TWO Party Questions to Be Iy Government in Meantin T N LIBERALS ARE NOT AGh Having Won Contest, They Propose 1 Exercise It. LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS Indications that Radical in House of Lords or Govern- ment Policies Are Not Wanted. LONDON, Jen. 30.—With Premier quith on the continent and Chancellor Lloyd-George closely following him, the politiclans are all resting on thelr arms, discusd!ng what lince of battie will be taken up in the new Parllament. The moral generally drawn from the elections Is that |,y when Repr the country does not want rad‘®xt changes | aigeour, in the House of Lords or In the Bovern- gu.eq a resol ment policles. The spirit of conciliation, therefore, I8 abroad and schemes for & by the house of a now rul compromise are being debated. The conservative papers propose the most | tached to the Clark resolution by the fact intereating plan: That a joint cabinet be chosen from the most moderate men of both parties to carry on the government for about two vears anj that a truce be declared on party questons in the mean- time. A royal commission to investigate the country's fiscal polley and to make recommendations regarding tariff reform is proposed. The newspaper scheme of coalition gov- ernment 18 not taken serlously by the Wberals who, having won' a victory, even As-| ‘ \ | ‘ Rules Squabble Executive Thinks Revision Should Be Deferred Until Administration Bills Are Disposed Of. s delegation who have undertaken to fon any legislation especially desired "‘m Taft today threw cold water ®oaposition to hold a republican 7the house next week for the pur- ux” eliminating Speaker Cannon from _#%mmittee on rules and Increasing the Mbership of that body. Precident Taft, It Is sald, has made It clear that he does not wish to intrude him- self In the discussion of the house rules and order of business. He was quoted, Changes | Neveriheless, as having expressed the hope that the settlement of the d'spute over this | subject, If 1t was to provoke continued hostilities, might be daferred until import ant administration measures had heen dis posed of by congress The view of the president welght, and it carries great I8 not believed that man of the regular republicans will advocate the holding of a caucus at this time. The many-angled fight In representatives over the house of the question of revis- fon of the rules of that body took a new esentative Champ Clark of the leader of the minority, intro- an just before the close of providing for the election today's sess) fifteen members. Speclal attention is at- that Mr. Clark is a member of the present rules committse. Provision {s made In the resolution to revise, amend, simplify and codify the present rules of the house, and ‘“report to the heuse at the carllest day practicable.” The resolution contains nothing about the removal of Speaker Cannon from the com- e, but the last section of it provides that the “committec on rules appointed by the speaker at the last sesslon of the Six- ty-first congress shall no longer exercise it it is & narrow one, objject to having their | ths power and functions of the rules com- opponents dictate thé program. Rosebery's name was put forward for the | | Lord | mittee." The members of the present committee premiership In the compromise cabinet, but | are Speaker Cannon, Representatives Dal- Rosebery has for a long time refused | zell, Smith of lowa, Clark of Missour! and office, and his popularity now is at a low | Fitzgerala. mark, because of his course on the budget issues. i Reform of the Lords. The reform of the House of Lords seems to be the one thing assured. Both parties support it now., The conservatives and the lords themselves are wiliing to adopt moderate changes immediately, lest re- forms which would knock the foundations from the upper house be carried. The re- sult s likely to be the abolition of the hereditary principle, and no longer shall the second and succeeding generations be given & vote except those who shall prove their fitness to legislate, by service in the House of Commons, in civil office or P e e e LVOR. ved of the power to hold up taxation bills, if| the plan be adopted, whereby nothing ‘which could be considered new legislation shall be included in those bills, The Hberals want to deprive the House of Lords of the power to veto any bill what- soever. Thelr favorite plan would be to compel the lords to ndopt any bill sent to them for the third time by the House of Commons, which, while making the House of Commons consider rejected bills care- fully, would give that body the power to pass any legislation, on which it had de- | termined, ih one session. It is taken for granted that the House of Lords will pass the budget, since the coun- try has decided against the lords on the face of the election returns, but the cab- inet may be obliged to erase the whisky taxes In order to get thé votes of the Irish members. Cabinet Ch Probable. Beyond the reform of the House of Lords and the passing of the budget, Parllament is not likely to get far with anything. The Irish members probably will obtain the in- troduction of & home tule measure, but the conservatives will oppose that, and a num- ber of liberals are pledged against home rule al Several cabinet changes are probable when the new government is formed. Reginald McKenna, who has been unpopular s first lord of, the Admiralty, Wil likely be dropped. He may be given a peerage. Richard Burton Haldane, retary of state for war, may become head of the navy. John Burns, president of the local government board, will probably sue- ceed Herbert J. Gladstone as home secre- tary. Winston Spencer Churchill will take the place vacated by John Burns, and they Wwill each receives$25,000 {nstead of $12,500 as salaries, both places having been recom- mended by the last Parllament, with the | provision that the occupants should not draw the inerease during their tenure of office, BISHOP. CYRUS D. FOSS DEAD Retired Methodist Churchman Dies in Hospital at Philadelphia of Paralysis. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. %.—Bishop Cy- rus D. Foss, retired of the Methodist Episcopal church, one of the best known | | ville and the body will be exhumed to de- clergymen in the country died at 5:40 o'clock last night in the Hahnemann hospi- tal from a stroke of paralysis, selsed him while riding in & trolley car, January 18. Cyrus David Foss was born in Kingston, N. ¥, In 184, and was graduated from Wesleyan university twenty years lat: After serving In various pastorates the general conference of the Mothodist church in 1880 elected him a bishop. From 1380 to 1888 Bishop Foss made his home in Minneapoils. In 188 he came to Phila- delphia, —— CUPID CARES FOR STRIKERS | Ten Girl Olgar Makers to Be Married sad Others Will Not Turn Down Good Offers, CINCINNATL O, Jan. %.—Not having Wealthy woclety women for patrons, the fitty girl clgarmakers who have been on strike here for some weeks have decided that husbands will do just as well, or bet- ter. The strike promises to find a unique solution through the strikers resolving to make homes instead of clgars. Four of the girls Announced foday that they will be married next week and the engagement of six others has also been made publie. The \M of the ors lssued & manlifesto today u":: o t that “none of us un- married are striking would turn down good offers.” which | | The resolution will g0 to the rules com- mittee, where the Fowler rasolution, intro- duced a couple of days ago, Is now repos- Ing. Whether Mr. Clark will be able to get his resolution reported out of the com- mittes Is a question in relation to which he, himself, declined to speculate, but his membership on the committee Is considered a point in favor of some action. Mr. Clark pointed out tonight that there wera other ways in which he could bring his resolution before the house, and sal that these methods might be employed. ‘Whether a majority of the house can be ‘mustered to amend the rules at this time is a question which cannot be answered. The repyblican insurgents are expected to sup- port the Clurk resolution, with-ene or two exceptions. O S ) {FAREWELL BANOUET TO “JACK” BALLINGER Newspaper Clipping Sayin- to Leave Service {s Placed in Evidence. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The investiga- tion of charges which were made against 8:turdgy before the house committee on ex- general land office by Representative Hitcheock (dem. Nébraska) was resumed today before the house committze on ex- penditures In the Interlor department. Representative Page of North Carolina introduced a newspaper account of a fare- well banquet glven to “Jack™ Ballinger, a relative of the secretary, before he left for the west. It Included a statement that Young Ballinger was leaving the service of the government for the purpose of be- ginning law practice In Seattle with the present Secretary Ballinger. Commissioner Dennet of the general land office who was being Interrogated upon the payment of young Ballinger's traveling ex- penses from Washington to Seattle was asked If a publication of such an account would warrant the allowance to an em- ploye who was about to sever his connec- tion with the government. Mr. Dennett replied that he knew nothing of the ban- quet and reiterated that he did not know young Ballinger was to resign. He sald he was out of the city at the time. PROF. VAUGHN’S BODY WILL BE EXHUMED This Step Was Decided Upon at a Family Conference Saturday Night. MONROE CITY, Mo, Jan. 3.—Following a conference of relatives and friends of the | fate Prof. J. T. Vaughn tonight, Including his widow, It was announced by J. H. Whitecotton, attorney for Mrs. Vaughn, that her husband's body will be exhumed next week. The viscera will be removed by Dr. C. W. Dixon of Fulton, Mo, and a Kirksville physician, yet to be decided upon. Vaughn died last October at Kirks- termine whether he dled from polsoning or from natural causes. les committee of | .usually gay boulevards were wrapped in PARIS IN SILENCE | AND DARKNESS River Scine Drops Fifteen Inches, but | There is Little Improvement | in Eituation. | s | SEEMS WORSE IN PLACES, ety | Stream Twelve Feet Deep Rush Through Streets of Colombes, i JYUNDREDS WITHOUT FO0D | Provisions Are Taken to Homes of | Many Boats, ! STRICT WATCH FOR LOOTERS | Danger 18 Great, an it ix Known | that Prench Habitaolly Keep | Thelr Valuables at Home. PARIS, Jan. 3).--While the qmosi Im- | minent peril js past, the fall of\the Seife| since yesterday morning has only meas-) ured 183 Inches. At this rate it would | require . fortnight for the river to reach Its normal level. Fortunately, tidings from the flooded sections above Parls givé hope | of a more rapid subsidence after tomorrow. | In the meantime the situation In Paris| and in many places throughout the coun- try shows little improvement. Indecd, the | ravages of the flood within the city scemed | actually to increase today. The water | was higher in some of the streets, while the situation at the inundated towns be- | tween Paris and St. Germain was dis- | tinctly graver. A stream of water twelve | feet deep was rushing through Connevil- liers and Colombes, making the work of | rescue and succor more difficult even than yesterday. Several of the houses collapsed | and many persons were taken off the roofs of thelr homes, where they had been | clinging for days. Hundreds are reported without food or shelter, and all day an army of troops and civilians worked relentlessly in the flooded territory, bringing succor to the distressed and distributing provisions by boats to the thousands of victims sur- rounded by water, who refused to quit their homes Within the city itself are great throngs of sight-see: The Champs-Elyseese, ordinarlly & path- way of brilllant light, tonight had hand lanterns strung along the curbs. The sllence and darkness, The restaurants and cafes were reduced to dlm candles and ofl lamps. . Most of the theaters were closed, but tho Comedie Francaise, with both its elec- qu,wi;lvt gone, was open, Jules Claretfe, manager,~ éxplaining to the meager audlence before the curtain rose that he considered that the National theater of France should not close its doors. “We will glve a performance,” he sald, “with candles, as in the days of Mollere, and show the world that Parls can be as herole as in the time of the revolution.” Although there s no Intention on the part of the government to declare martial law, the completely submerged (districts, such as Javel, are in the hands of the military, to prevent plllaging. The soldiers have orders to give short shrift to crim- inals caught In the act of looting. Thus far there have been no such cases within the city, but the danger is great, as the French usually keep their money and valu- ables in their homes. Two Plllagers Killed. Outside of Paris, however; many deplor- able instances of looting have been re- ported. A band of thleves have been at work in the vicinity of Charenton, but the soldiers have been shooting them at sight. The zouaves last night killed two of the pillagers and at Ivry and two at Brie, These ghouls have now transferred their operations to the devastated region below Parls, many attempts to pillage the de- serted villages and homes being reported. The papers recount many deeds of herolsm of priests at Alfortville, who con- tinued the work of rescue between mid- night and daylight, when the soliders, Jackies and firemen, after several days without rest had become axhausted. Sisters of charity rowed to houses, glving sistance In several cases of starvation. Besldes the ald distributed directly by the government and the municipality, more than $20,000 from the fund raised by the newspapers has been handed over to the various rellef socleties and th local au- thorities of the various towns and villages near Paris. The press refers gratefully to the spontaneous help coming from abroad, and makes particular mention of the evi- dences of sympathy in the United States Village Washed Away. A pitiable feature of the flood in Gene- valllers is the plight of the colony of 6,000 ragpickers, a fourth of whom are children, They are the poorest of all the Paris poor and early each morning they eross the Seine to sort the refuse barrels of the great city. Their village was a cluster of miser- able hovels of plaster and earth flanked with heaps of bones, rags, iron and odds and ende. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Cloudy; warmer. For Towa—Unsettled For weather report see page 2 In the Land of the S From the Minneapolig Journal. phinx—The Power of A ssociation. Ny PRICES OF CATILE HIGHER Mr. Wadsworth Replies to Statement | Made by Seeretary Wilson. VALUES OF CROPS INCREASE Producer is Getting Muach Better Returns Than He Did Twelve Years Ago—Some Figures Quoted, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—(Special.)— Former Congressman James W. Wads- worth, who for ten years was chairman of | the committee on’ agriculture of the house of representatives, disagrees with Secre: tary Wilson upon the subject of “Who gets the advance on account of the present hi price of food." Mr. Wilson, in his testimony before the committee a day or two ago asserted that the farmer is not recelving any of the In- crease of price and he further added that 2-year-old steers are bringing no more to- day than they did’ twelve years ago. Commenting upon the sacretary's testi- mony, Mr. Wadsworth sald today: “It Is absurd to eay that the farmer s not re- celving any of the additional money which is being paid for food products. I have been in the cattle business ever since my early manhood and I am recelving higher prices for my range fed cattle than at any time since the civil war, with the single exception of one occasion, when there was a sudden call for steers fn Boston which Increased the price in ‘wésidrn. New York. I am speaking now’ 0% ocattle ‘that have never had a pound of garin fed to them. My recent sales netted me $5.80 per 100 pounds for such stock, which s consider- ably higher than' I have been able to ob- tain before in the last thirty years. Then, too, feeder lambs are bringing 6% cents per pound, which Is very much higher than the average price for the last ten years. I am not speaking now of fancy fatted lambs, but what are commerclally known as “feeders.” In the village of Geneseo, in which 1 live, baled hay is selling at $17.50 per ton, which means net to the farmer $15. Baled straw brings $15, or net $12. What wheat I had to sell last fall brought $1.25 a bushel, while white beans, which are the staple money crop of several of the countics of western New York, will bring $2.% a bushel. “Secretary Wilson asserts that 2-year-old steers bring no more today than they did twelve years ago. I am willing to enter into a bond tb buy 10,000 head of those ani- mals at the same price as my books show T paid twelve years ago, and in addition will pay the secretary a commission of & per head, or $50,000 in all, If he can obtain the animals for me at the price prevalling in 1896, There are enumerable causes for the in- crease In price of all food products, con- | tinued Mr. Wadsworth, and it may be true that the farmer is not receiving propor- tionately as much more for his products as he should when comparisons are made with the retall prices, but the secretary is care- less when he makes the assertion credited to him, for everyone who know the agri- cultural conditions of this country knows that the farmer today is recelving much better prices than he has ever done before. Take one item, continued Mr. Wadsworth, which shows how some of the farm prod- ucts have advanced In recent years, and that is the item of cheese. The ruling price for New York factory cheese in the cheese centers of the state (and New York is admitted to be the greatest cheese state in the union) today is in the neighborhood of 17 cents per pound. In 1570 and '71 the price ruled from b cents to 8 cents, and so far as my recollection goes there never was a time when cheese brought the price it is bringing today. Cheese Is made di- rectly for the farmer. They carry the milk of their herds to the factory where it is made into cheese at a uniform price rang ing from $1.50 to $1.70 per 100 pounds. It is (Continued on Second Page.) CHERRY, I, Jan. 30—Nearly every woman In Cherry ls drawing her heart- strings tight to undergo the ordeal of ex- humatlon this week, following the prom- ised unsealing tomorrow or Tuesday of the St. Paul mine, in'which more than 200 coal minars have lain entombed since November 12, when fire caused the death of some 330 men. With a snowstorm beating over the prairie and the helmet men not yet arrived {from the University of Ilinols, the pros- pects are that the mine, tightly closed for two months, will not be unsealed before Tuesday. As It is not certain that the fire in the mine Is extinguished nothing definite towards the revovery of the bodles will be planned until experts, protected with oxy- &en helmets, have explored the shaft. Tt is thought that about forty bodies floating on the water in the bottom of the mine. More than 200 other corpses are sald 10 be huddied in the second level ‘Mine at Cherry Will Be Unsealed This Week The condition of the bodies Is causing as much concern as are the engineering prob- lems attendant on the uncapping of the mine and the cleaning of the debris from the subteranean passages. It has been suggested that much of the grewsomeness of the situation could be avolded by de- streying the cadavers In the mine galleries with chemicals. This proposal, unofficially mwade, has met with bitter opposition on the part of the widows, mothers and children of the dead miners. They contend that all they now hope for is tc look once more on the form of a beloved relative, to give that body a Christlan burial and to recoyer some personal token of the decedent, such as & watch or a ring. ‘With grief so long drawn ont, the women of Cherry are awaiting the last ordes! Tentative arrangements are already mak- ing for a funera! and burials. Men haye been engaged to Aig & row of graves nearly & quarter of a mile ng With the Automo- bile Show nearly here, interest in automobiles is at its height. Besides pushing their 1910 mod- els, dealers are making some at- tractive offerings in used machines to move them quickly, On the first want ad page today, under the classification “AUTOMOBILES" is a large list of bargains offered by Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers. : Have you read the want ads to- day? Switchmen Will Resume Work Week Monday Future Pay and Status of Men in Northwest to Be Determined by Chicago Scale, MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 30. One week from next Monday the switchmen of the northwest, who have been on strike since November 30, will return to work. Prao- tically all the strikers will be in their old places. They will resume work with the wage question unsettled, but they will be governed by the figures agreed upop in the Chicago compromise conference. ! This Information comes this afternoon from the source close to the heads of the Switchmen's union. Unless there should be a hitch next week the program will go through. ‘But, In the language of one who s well acquainted with the situation and the negotiations, now in process, “everything s cnt and dried” and there will be no hiteh. TARIFF AND FOOD PRICES Congressman Fordney Discusses Topic in Address at Pittsburg. MUCH MISINFORMATION AFLOAT Dutles on Cured and Dressed Meats Are Reduced by Payne Bill— Senator Dick Also Speaks. ¢ PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 30.—Amid the cheers and plaudits of over 400 members of the Young Men's Republican Tariff club, flanked by hundreds of clusters of carnations, Senator Charles Dick of Ohio and Congressman J. W. Fordney of Mich- fgan eulogized Willlam McKinley at the banquet held tonight, the anniversary of the martyred president's birth, and then addressed themselves to the tariff policy of the present administration. Senator Dick said, in part: ‘““This is not the first time the republican party has been under assault, nor is it the first time that men prominent in its coun- clls have been misrepresented and held up State Board Lowers Rates South Dakota Commissioners Adopt New Schedule of Freight Charges. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Jan. 30.—(8pecial.) —Governor Vessey and residents of the western half of South Dakota have won out before the State Board of Rallroad Commissioners in their demand for a re- duction of coal rates to points west of the Missour! river. The commissioners, after holding a hearing at their headquarters in this city, have adopted a new and reduced schedule of rates, officlally known as a coal commodity Ql’lufld rate, applying on traffic west of the Missouri river, and have ordered that the new rate shall go into effect February 15. Among those who appeared before the board and argued for a retluction In the old rate were Governor Vessey and L. L. Schaaf, representing the Plerre Commercial club; Messrs. Robertson and Mellette, rep- resenting the Commercial club of Fort Plerre; Grenville Jones of Chamberlain, former secretary of the State Federation of Commerclal Clubs, and C. E. McKin- ney of Sioux Falls, representing the State Federation of Commercial Clubs. The new schedule is based on five, ten and twenty-mile distances. The following extracts from the schedule will give an idea of the extent of reduction made by the new schedule: B —Per Ton— —Per 100 Lbs— Miles. Old. New. Old. New. 5 $.60 5 .00 $0.030 .03 50 160 120 0.080 0060 100, 2,60, 190 0130 0.085 160, 310" 2320 010 0.110 200 400 2580 020 0.140 250 440 310 0220 0.1% 200 5.00 350 0280 0.175 400. 430 0305 0.215 500 470 0380 - 0.23 520 0 480 0.3 0.240 The greatest distance provided in the new schedule is 520 miles, which will cover all points west of the Missouri river. The rallroad commiesion also took Im- portant action in reference to the bridge charge for crossing frelght at Plerre. Here- tofore a charge of 35 cents per ton has been made for freight going west of the Missourl river and 60 cents per ton for frelght going east across the river. The rallroad commission has ordered that in future a fixed rate of 2 cents per ton shall be made, going both east and west. ) Jeff Davis Likes Taft, WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Benator Jeffer- son Davis of Arkansas pald his first visit to the White House toaay. TIhe senator said he had never met President Taft be- fore. “I llke him,” he added; “he s a fine man.” in a false light to the public gaze, and the distorted imagination of those permit- ting their prejudices to be played upon for the accomplishment of sinister pur- poses gravely inimical to the general wel- fare. “Once again comes the question, is the republican party blg enough and strong enough to withstand the assault of foes | within and foes without? 4 for one, he- Yeye It 1s, I belfeve that it loyal republi- cans will do thelr ‘duty, present misun- derstandings resulting from misrepresentas tion will go for naught, and as the broad- minded policles of the administration are better understood the country will stand by President Taft, upholding his hands in his honest and patriotic endeavors for the, weltare of his people and the country at large.” Much Misinformation Afloat. Mr. Fordney said: *‘Mueh, at present, is being said about the new tarlff law having an effect on the cost- of living and so forth, but such com- plaint comes wholly through misinforma- tlon, There wera practically no increased duties on agricultural products. On the other hard, there were several reductions, The duty on hams, bacons and meats in general was slightly lowered. “In fact the average man at his meals can look over the table and find little or nothing on which the new tariff bill has imposed additional dutles; but, it at the dinner we choose to serve high priced wines and enjoy & cigarette, we can point to two items, at least, on which the dutles were increased, but these are luxurfes that the poor man seldom partakes of.| \ “I am quite willing to ndmit that it was generally desired that the duty on some articles of consumption should be lowered, but such a desire came from those of our cltizens not well Informed as to the rav- ages free trade would have on American institutions. Tarlff and Trusts. mother of trusts. I do not belleve any corporation In the country owes its exist- ence to the protective principles, except that protection fosters home Industries. The only unlawful trusts,in the country are those that control prices to such an extent as to destroy competition, and exact from the people higher prices than will vield to the producer a reasonable and fair profit for his labor and for capital invested. “I would no more attempt to arrange our tariff laws with & view of destroying cor- porations than I would burn the wheat bin in order to destroy the rats, “‘We notice in England a great struggle for supremacy by the liberals and the unionists. The people of that country are beginning to be convinced that a protective tariff would bring to them greater pros- perity. Without doubt, sooner or later England will adopt our protective policy. Friction at Princeton ! Over Quadrangle Plan NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—There Is a widen- In June, 1908, Dr. Wilson gained the quali- ing breach between Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university, and the graduate body over Dr. Wilson's plan to embody certain portions of English life into Princeton social life. A body of the older alumni {ssued tonight a statement, in part, as follows: “The statement that the president of Princeton and the vast majority of the alumni have been at variance for two years in regard to the proposed plan for soclally revolutionizing the university, obliterating the old Princeton lite and destroying the ol Princeton traditions, Is not overstated. “The plan in question, known later as the “quad” system, was proposed by Dr. Wii- son two years ago last June and it is not too much ¢o say that it has been a bone of contention and a center of disorganiza- tion ever since, It Is unfortunately true that the alumni's loyalty has been seriously shalen by the persistent shadow of what most of them regard as an undesirable and perilous experiment.” fled approval of the trustees for his plan for the quadrangle system of soclal life among the students. In the fall the plan was adopted at @ faculty meeting where the votes of the perceptors, newly ap- polnted, carried the measure against the protest of the older members. Perceptors at Princeton occupy & place analogous to that of the Oxford and Cambridge tutors and have no counterpart in other American universities. GARRIT ~ FORT _ PROMOTED' Former Omaba Raillroad Man M General Passenger Agent of New York Central. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. — Garrit Fort was today appointed general passenger agent of the New York Central lines to succeed J. F. Fairlamb, tratsferred o the auditor's department “I will not’ admit that the tariff is the | CONGRESS MAKES LITTLE HEADWAY Legislation Demanded by the Presi- dent Has Made Small Progress Toward Enaotment, TWO MONTHS OF SESSION GONE Leaders Realize that Administration | Will Insist on Action, CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD Bills on Program Will Be Arranged in Order of Importance, INQUIRIES CAUSING DELAY Number of Investigations in Progrers Take Attention of Others nt Home Lookinsg After Fenees. Membe Fa—— Jan, . WASHINGTON. Little heady has been made In tyo months, cengress has been in session toward the enactmert of Important legislation demanded by l’ri’alll\nt Taft; yet on every side are heard { predictlons of an early adjournment. Thoughtful members of congress are ask- ing each other -what kind of reception they will mect if they o to thé White House on April 15 to May 1, with plans to quit work for the summer. If the ad- ministration program s unfullfified. The question is one which econgressional leaders admit is glving them deep con- cern. The absence of unanimity of thought on almost every one of the prosident's measures is such as to make exce:ding'y ditficult the work mapped out for those who have the bills In charge. Bills to create a court of commerce and amend the, rallroad rate laws, to establish postal savings banks, to validate withdrawals of public lands wanted for conservation pur- poses and to legalize national charters for corporations doing interstate businces which have been placed at the head of the “White House schedule’ have all met with determined opposition. Inquiries Causing Delay, From a political point of v republi- can waters seemingly are becoming muddled by the several investigations, which are in progress, and the minority members apear not unwilling to let this proceedure continue Indefinitely. Inquiries such as that belng made into the affairs of the Interfor department and the forest service naturally are having some effect upon plans to amend Jand laws and enact legislation for Alaska and even bear to some extent upon the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill. Other Investigations, such as those relating to second class mall matter and the postoffice deficit, and the causes of the Increased cost of living, all tend to minimize the chances for a complete redemption of republican camp- algn pledges: Ltiws it A confererice” of republican }'film s now belng considered and probably will be held soon alftér Senator Aldrieh returns from Florida, as he s expected to do this week, whetlier he went a week ago to recuperate from a severe cold. Whether this will be held at the White House, so as to enable Mr. Taft to particlpate or at the capitol, has not been decided. It has been settled that it will include the more prominent members of both branches of congress and that vigorous means will be advocated to restore to some semblance of order the chaotic conditions now existing. Rearrangement of Prices. The plan most In favor with such repub- lican leaders as are now In Washington is for a rearrangement of the Taft policies, placing them In order of executive prefer- ence or in such sequence as it Is thought would most benefit the majority party. It has been declared that no progress will be made 80 long as some of the leaders are pushing interstate commerce legislation, others conservation policies, still others postal savings banks,/federal incorporation laws or other of the numerous measures on the calendar. N At the present time the house is occupied with appropriation bills and in the senate thero are two administration measures— the postal savings bank bill and the Alas- kan legislative council bili—being played against each other, Opposition has de- veloped against both bills and republican | leaders say that the present tactics atféct the chances of both. The statehood bill | also 1s ready for consideration, and In addi- tion the army appropriftien bill will be reported tomorrow. Rules Measure in House, The several propositions befots the house more or less avowedly designed for the elimination of Speaker Cannon from the committee on rules for the enlargement of the committee 80 s to make it more repee- sentative of the whole membership of the house, or both, form the basis of informal discussion. No one Is willing to predict when the questions inyolved in thesé resolu- tions will come to a “show dow) There are various waye in which the matter could be brqught up on the fioor and it may be precipitated suddenly of deferred for weeks. At present theré are many members of the house absent on acdount of approaching primaries in thélr alstpicts. Committees of both branches of eongress expect a busy week. Béveral important hearings will be continued in the house. They include that In relation to the post- office deficit, interstate commerce blils, in- cluding the administration bill, wilch, by the way, will receive attention by the senate committes as wel of ex- travagance made by Representative Hitch- cock (Neb.) agalnst Secretary Bellinger, as well as the joint hearing In relation to the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. Meeteetse FPapers Joined, v MEBTEETSE, Wyo., Jan. 30,—(8pecial.y— It was announced today that Frank H Barrow, one of the oldest newspaper men in Wyoming in polnt of contiuous service, has bought the newspaper plants of the Meeteetse News and the Meetoetss Index, both published here, and will cohsolidate them into one weekly newspaper, to be known as the Meeteetse News-Index. Its | politics will be stralght republican, The News Is one of the oldest newspapers In the Big Horn basin, and has been & prom- inent factor in politics In northern Wyom- ing. Mr. Barrow was formerly editor of the News during Its fight against Superin- tendent A. A. Anderson of the Yellowstone national forest reserve, as well 88 its ed- itor during & later campalgn against cer- tain acts of ex-Chief Forester Gifford Piu- chot. It is asserted negotiations are now on for several other newspapers in northe ern Wyoming and one or two in southern Wyoming. @