Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1910, Page 1

y ¢/ - [ N THE OMAHA _SUNDAY BEE! \ o STRIKE ON AT ~ NEW THEATER Three Hundred Union Workmen ., Leave the Job When Non- !IB v union Men Start, CARTER’S FORCE STARTS TROUBLE Efforts of a Subcontractor to Install Nonunion Workers, ANOTHER INJUNCTION ISSUES Judge Sears Restrains All Unions from Interfering with Men. CONFERENCE DURING AFTERNOON Striking Workmen Wili Meet with Superintendent for Construction ompany to Try to Effect Work on the Brandels theater and office bullding, Seventeenth and Douglas streets, came to a standstill Saturday morning when 300 union workmen went out on strike, protesting against the employment of nonunion labor by a contractor. The nonunion men involved are those in the employ of Robert L. Carter, subcontractor work. A meeting of the striking men was called for 2 o'clock In the afterncon at Labor Temple. A Meanwhile the unions involved and cer- tain specified members are restrained, by & temporary order lssued in Judge Sears' division of the district cour: Saturday morning, from Interfering in any way with any worknien employed on the bullding. The ronunion workmen employed by Car- ter went to work for a short time Saturday morning and later left the building. Police Presence Unpleasant. Y The presence of two policemen, who were about the bulldifig for a short time in the morning, was considered unpleasant by some of the union men and the strike followed soon after. The union men re- fuse to work under police surveillance and took the presence of the officers as in response to a request from Mr. Carter. Captain Mostyn, acting chief of police, declared that no detall of officers had been dent to guard the buflding. “Two officers, whose beats join at this point were sent there td look over the situation casually, bug no detail was sent to guard any of the workmen,” said Cap- tain Mostyn. “We had agreed to go on with the work uatll this job was finished,” said a fore- man, “but When the police showed up the men .'.‘/.“L" The workmen were pald at noon Satur- day by the contractors in the regular course of business. The payroll for the bullding force amounted to about $4, ' Sears Issues Injumction. ? The restraining order issued by fudge Boars 1s tusued aguinst Harry H. Farmer, James Kennedy, Rudolph larsen, Fay Fink, "Réd"" Meeks, Hichard Hoye, Andrew Schimitz, John ‘M. Gibbs, Clarence Munn and J. R. Morgan, all of whom are con- nected with the unions represented by the men working on the bullding. The order also includes the local unions of the Amal- gdmated Sheet Metal Workers, the Inter- lonal Brotherhood of Blectrical Work- ers, the Bricklayers' Protective assoclation and the Plumbers' unfon. The order is made returnable In Judge Estelle's court on February 1l This order is issued on the second of in- Junction suits filed by Mr. Carter. The first sult was flled Friday, asking for an in- Junction against the Thompson-Starrett company to prevent the general contractor from dispossessing Carter of his contract. In this sult Carter alleged that he feared the ‘Thompson-Starrett company would scek to put him off the works on the ground that he was not employing work- men of the proper qualification. Injunction Covers Everything. The new Carter sult is for a sweeping Injunction restraining the officers of the urions and members from interfering with or Intimidating Carter's nonunion work- men and all other workmen upon the build- ing, whether Thompson-Starrett company or for any of the sub-contrators. The re- straining order granted by Judge Sears covers all the provisiocs mn the petition and Is as comprehensive as language can possibly make it. Workmen are not to be disturbed at the job, going home from or coming to work, or while at home, and their wives and famllles are not to be visited for intimidating purposes. Judge Estelle’s court room was crowded nearly all morning to the doors, with a con- sidergble overflow into the Lallway and down the stairs to the sixth floor of The | Bee bullding. They stayed untll Judge Bstelle notitied them from the bench thai there would be mothing doing until Tues- day. A large delegation had been in Judge Bears' court room In the court house, and finding nothing of interest going on there, came over o the Estelle court room and swelled the throng. Meantime deputles in the sheriff's office were preparing to serve hotices upon the defendants named in the second petition, which is the one to en- Join the strikers and every one else from Intertering in any way with workers upon *«- bullding. Twenty Men Arve Put to Work. Taking advantage of the situation pro- duced by the tie-up by restraining orders and the strike, Rober(’Carter rushed a foree of twenty men to work on the metal work of the theater, bullling Saturday aft- ertcon. . "I will try to do all the work possible while the strike is on and before the re- stralning orders are returned to ecourt,” sald Mr. Carter. The strikers held a meeting at Labor Temple late In the afterncon to talk over the strike situation, but they gave no in- timation of their probable aotion I'm enjoined by the court and I ean't talk,”” humorously suggested W. B. W ton, manager for the Thompson-Starrett ' eomipany. will have nothing to do with the meeting at Labor Temble. done nothing to cause trouble.” Mr. Weston, however, did not seem be much disturbed about the situation. arter oxpressed it as his opinion that the bricklayers would go to work Sunday morning, He also said that he understood that others of the workmen might take up thelr work without further action. We have to _ Testing Kansas City Limits. JEFPERSON CITY, Mo, Feb. b. pey Gencral Major filed in the supreme ourt today quo_ warranto proceedings \galnst Kansas Clty to test the legality of the extension of the city limits last ear. City Counsellor Harding flled a re- wrn deovias the wllegations of the infor- —atiouns Ator- for sheet metal guttering and finishing | Sixteen from - == Crawford Are Fined by Court “Cleanup” Cases Ocoupy Attention of the County Judge in Dawes County. CHADRON, Neb., Feb. 5.—(Special Tele- gram.)—County ecourt here has been taken up for several days with the hearing of cases resulting from the recent “‘clean up" arrests in Crawford. So far sixteen men and women have been fined on charges of running houses of ill fame, gambling and violations of the & o'clock and Sunday closing law. Several others have been bound over to the distriet court. Among the most prominent of the de- tendants was John Bruer, city councilman, who was tried before a jury and convicted of selling liquor after 8 o'clock and on Sunday and gambling. He was fined $350 and costs. On charges of Immorai conduct the fol- lowing pleaded guilty: Nathalla Blauson, Sarah Chambers, Pearl Darrah, Theresa Krickboom, Laura Stratton. Abson Hacks, Joe Thompson, Joe Beckle, G. Chambers, Willlam H. Allen also pleaded sullty to gambling and each was fined $100 and | costs. P, L. Krigkboom was fined §25 and costs. Charles Price picaded not gulity and was bound over to district court in the sum of $1,00 on & charge of gambiing and {mmorality. Jay Newcomb pleaded not guilty, was tried by the court and found gullty of gambiing. He was fined 3100 and | costs and appealed to the distriet court. J. MeFarland, on a charge of selling liquor on Sunday, pleaded not gullty, but was found gullty by & jury and fined $100 and | costs. H. Newcomb was tried before a | jury and found gullty of selling liquor on Sunday and after 8 o'clock and was fined $100 and costs. P. G. Cooper, charged with renting & house to be used for immoral purposes, had his case continued thirty days. lilattc River Towns Prepare to Combat Ic Dynamite Sent to North Bend, Where Conditions Are Declared to Be Alarming. FREMONT, Neb.,, Feb. 5.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Preparations are being hastily made along the Platte river to combat high water when the river begins breaking up, which will happen In a few days if the weather continues warm. « . Report of a gorge at North Bend, ap- parently are overdrawn, though the con- ditions are such that when the break up comes there will undoubtedly be trouble of a serlous nature. The ice’ there is re- ‘ported thirty Inches thick and 1t is feared that when the fop begins to move a gorge will be formed at the head of the (sland opposite the southern part of tawn. At the request of North Bend residerns, 200 pounds of dynamite was sent there from here and it will be used to keep a clear water channel around this island. In case gorge should form there the back water would probably flood the lower part of town, which is protected only by the low Union Pacific grade. The unusual thickness of the fce is causing alarm all along the river. Here at Fremont a quality of dynamite Is kept in readiness to be used in keeping clear the channel under the raliroad and wagon bridges. The floods are expected to start as soon as soon as the Loup breaks up and bdgins to pour its ice into the Platte at Cdlumbus. At Union Pacltic offices here it was satd no news had been received as to the con- dition of the ice at Columbus, where the company 18 putting in a new bridge. This is taken to Indlcate conditions as normal, as the raliroad authorities have been Keep- ing a close watch on the river there. Granite Mountain in Wyoming Experts Are Examining Devil’s Tower | with Expectations of Btarting Quarries. . SHERIDAN, Wyo., Feb. b.—(Speclal.)— | The Devil's Tower, a mountain of granite, located about twenty-five miles west of Sundance, in Crook county, Wyoming, Is soon to be the subject of an Interesting investigation, the result of which may vltimately have an important bearing on the great granite industry of the United | States and especially in the west. Alderman Charles E. Morey and Robert Holland of this eity expect to leave in & few days for Devil's Tower. They will be accompanied by Nerl Woods, formerly dep- uty sheriff of Sheridan county, and a re- fred stockman, and upon their arrival here will be met by Mr. Morey's brother- In-law, ‘an' expert granite man, who has had thirty years' experience in the famous granite quarries of Vermont. The Vermonter, who I8 now en route to Wyoming, will spend several days making a thorough inspection of the granite moun- | o postal MORE ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT| Senator Aldrich Reports Bill for Permanent Commission on Business Methods. CONSISTS OF NINE MEMBERS Three from Each House and Three Appointed by President. OBJECTION FROM ELKINS West Virginian Prevents Immediate Consideration of Matter, WILL BE CALLED UP MONDAY Opposition Based on Fear th Might Interfere with Funetio of Committeen of Con- toae wress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—From the com- mittee on public expenditures Senator Ald- rich today reported a bill providing for the creation of a permanent commission on business methods In the .government. He sald the bill had the unanimous sanction of the expenditures committee and sought to obtain immediate consideration. In this request he was antagonized by Senator Klkins, who sald he desired oppor- tunity to determine whether the commis- sion would Interfere with the functions of congressional committees. Accordingly the bill went over, but Mr. Aldrich gave notice that he would call it up again Monday. The bill provides that the proposed com- mission S members, three of which are to be members of the senate, three members of the house, and three to be appointd by the president. The measure grows out of the efforts of the public expenditures committee to reduce government expenditures. si tst of nine DEBATE ON POSTAL BANKS Senators Burton and Smith Raise ! Number of Points. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The responsi- bility of the government for the payment savings deposits was discussed in the sendte today during the consideration of the postal savings bank bill. Senator Burton of Ohlo, asked Mr. Carter, in charge of the measure, whether the gov- ernment weuld bear the relation of trustee or that of debtor to the postal depositor. Mr. Canter replied that the relationship would be that of creditor and debtor, but he had no doubt that the demand of de- positors on the banks would be so promptly met by the banks as to avold embar- rassment to the government. “But suppose,”’ persisted the Ohioan, “that In the end the money should not be paid over?” “Then responded the Montana senator, “The government would be liable.” Mr. Burton wanted vo kpow if it was not possible that in times of stress the funds of the banks would be unavailable to depositors. Mr. Carter thought, however, that the postal funds wolld 'be subject to check at all times for any of the pur- poses outlined by the bill and he con- sidered any other contingency as very remote. “If the banks of one state fall to meet the demand then they can get funds from other states,”! he sald, “If the banks in ail the states should fail then the depositor would fall back on the government.” When Mr. Burton sought to ascertain whether a proper measure had been pro- vided to meet this contingency, Mr. Carter sald that a provision looking to that end was being gradually perfected, and he ex- pressed confidence that a proper method would be found. Senator Smith of Michigan expressed ap- prehension lest the effect of the measure would be to attract to the banks the money, which might otherwise might be employed more advantageously In commerce and dwelt at some length upon the evil effects of enticing people from methods of busi- ness, which d encourage them to de- pend upop-thielr own powers of Initlative. SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL LANDS Senator Gamble Explains Pine Ridge Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—In connection with the consideration by the senate of a bill vpening to settlement the lands of the Pine River Indian reservation in South Dakota, which was passed, Sena- tor Bacon declared that the state of South Dakota was about to receive from the national treasury, for school purposes, sum approximating §700,000 for the pur- chase of Indian lands, The Pine Ridge bill calls for only $126,- 000; but measures previously passed pro- viding for the opening of the Rosebud and Cheyenne and Standing Rock agencles make up the total sum, Senator Gamble explained that the pur- chases were in accordance with the act admitting the to the union, which provides for the use of sections 36 of each township for the benefit of the pub- lic schools. In the acculsition of the | school lands it becomes necessary to pay | the Indlans for them and in pursuance of its contract with the state the govern- ment pays for the school sections and then gives them to the state. SENATOR _FLINT _TO RETIRE | —— Californian Annou; that He Will Not Seck Re-slection. WASHINGTON, Feb, b. Lacking the taln in Crook county, assisted by Me; Morey, Holland ard Woods. (Continued on Second Page.) Assistant Gas Commissioner Joe Butler and Sam Rothwell are taking up & purse 10 be presented to Tom Flynn, boss of the Dahlman Demoeracy. They want him to| %0 to Excelsior Springs for two or three | weeks to take treatment for bis hair. All three of the committee gathering the purse have lost about all thelr hair, and with it considerdble of thelr cunning. ‘I find that since becoming bald my bump | of political wisdom ls not of much use,” | sald Butler. “Those who ars wise in such | matters have told me that the hirsute cov- ering Is necessary to protect the important | bumps. Now, we can afford, perhaps, to| 80 into the discard as politieal workers, | but we cannot atford to lose Flynn. He| lu the big wheel in the machine, and since Colonel Fanning went away o blow him-| Flynn, Like Samson, Has His Power in His Hair self In Egypt and Italy his dutles have been made doubly onerous. Fiynn has ost now all the hair we think he can aad ve- tain his grasp of the work to be done, 8> we are going to give him a substantial chunk of dough and urge him {0 Ko to the | Springs. We have word from friends thero | that Mayor Dahlman s beginning to grow & new crop of hair, and if that is possible Flynn can very likely stop the falling out of what hair he has left. “"There Is another considevation, too. We feel It would not look well later on to pro- sent a row of leaders and boosters whose heads are all bald. And we remember the old Bible story of Samson losing his power when he lost his halr. We need Flynn, and we figure Flynn needs his halr to re- taln his political cunning” PANAMA CANAL hington Star. EVIDENCE 1§ TWO BUNDLES Documents in Ballinger Case Sub- mitted to the Attorneys. SHORT SESSION OF COMMITTEE Gifford Pinchot Announces New Attorney and Says He Will Tell Story of His Part in Conservation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—An sanéxpegted publidfaiision of the Balth.ger-Plnchot con- &r r-l%" mal inyestfgating commitiee was held follow!fig the recelpt from the In- @epartment of two bundigs of doou- Ary evidence called .for by Mr. Eran- dels; the attorney representing Louls R. Glavis. Mr. Brandels had complained yesterday of the delay of the Interior department in forwarding these papers, and the commit- tee declded this morning to dispose of them at onee by fixing rules under which they could be examined by counsel. Following an executive sesslon of an hour, Chairman Nelson announced that the committee had adopted a resolution provid- ing that the papers should remain in the custody of the elerk, who would make a complete schedule of them and allow the attorneys to inspect them in his presence 50 a8 to determine which should be offered in evidence. Mr. Brandels remarked that he had but a few hours to remain In the city and would Iike to begin inspection of the papers at once. Chairman Nelson sald it would be necessary for the clerk first to make the schedule. A compromise was arranged and as fast as the papers were scheduled they were turned over to the attorneys, but the attorneys alone hcd access to the papers. No oné else was permitted in the rocm while they were examining them. The committee adhered to Its purpose to resume the hearings Friday The brief sesston today was marked by two interesting incidents, Gitford Pinchot making his first apnouncement in the case, and John J. Vertrees of Nashville making his first appearance ag chief counsel for Secretary Ballinger. Mr. Pinchot arose and asked that Nathan A. Smythe of New York be ddded to the 1ist of counsel as his personal representa- tive and that he be permitted to examine the papers. Representative Denby questioned Mr, Pin- chot as to what angle of the case his testi- mony would be directed. “The story I have to toll,” replied Mr, Pinchot, “is my connection with conserva- tion." “And that includes the Alaska coal land cases and water pewer sites?” Interjected Senator Sutherland, rest The committee ggreed that Mr. Pinchot would not be called until after the cross- cxamipation of My, Glavis was concluded, and adjournment was taken untll Friday. (Continued _on Sccond Page.) 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. A few firms also offer unlimited facilities for the overhaullng and repairing your auto. On the first want ad page today, under the classification “AUTOMOBILES’ is also a large list of bargains offered by Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers, Have you read the want ads to- day? OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1910--SIX SECTIONS—FORTY PAGES. WEATHER FORBOAST. For Nebraska-—Generally fair. For lowa—Generally fair, For weather report see page 2 SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Mr. Roosevelt Will Be as Strenuous as Ever, When He Returns, According, .» His Friends. As A ColLeur PRESIDENT Another Mine Explosien, with 12 Men Buried Cavein Caused by Dynamite and Res- cue Parties Are Now at Work. INDIANA, Pa, Feb. 5.—An explosion, twelve men in the lower levels of Mine No. 2, at Ernest, five miles north of here. Several men were taken from the mine burned and injured. Rescue parties have as yet failed to reach the entombed miners. First reports sald that 100 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. Outside reports say thirty men are yet entombed in the mine. A rescue party headed by state mine inspectors entered the mine at 10 o'clock this morning and has not been heard from. Thelr safety is teared for. The mine ordinarily of 170. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa, Feb. 5.—Presl- dent Clark of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal company of which the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron company 18 a sub- sldlary concern, has announced that an explosion occurred In a remote part of mine No. 2 at Brnst today, where several men were at work. Three or four of the miners had been brought out burned and otherwise Injured. President Clark sald but twelve men were in the mine. Rescue parties are at work, but have been unable to reach the entombed miner: IStrike Spreads in Bethlehem Plant Sixteen Thousand Men in Big Steel Corporation Are Now Involved. has a day shift SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Feb. 65— More than 1600 men at the plant’of the Bethlehem Steel corporation are now in- volved in the strike of the machinists who are demanding time and a half for extra werk. Several hundred men today joined the machinists who struck yesterday. The strikers are not organized, but the leaders favor the formation of a union and have telegraphed Samuel Gompers of tho American Federation of Labor to come to .thelr ald. HANGS HERSELF BECAUSE SON COMMITTED SUICIDE an Woman Hevolutioniat Fol- lows Fourteen-Year-01d Boy to Grave. 5 PARIS, Feb. 5.—Mme. Elizabeth Bffron, for many years a prominent Russian revo- lutionist, hanged herself today upon the discovery that her l4-year-old son had com- mitted suicide after being reprimanded in school. Mme, Effron was the daughter of the former governor gemeral of Moscow, M. Dueinovo. Ru coused, it 1s reported, by dynamite, burled | | her husband throughout the trial, was in SCOTT CLEARED DY JURORS Second Alleged Mabray Man Acquitted of Larceny. ] 18 | OTHER CASES LIKELY TO FALL | County Attorney Hess Applies for Increase of Bond, but Judge | Thornell Declines to Take This Action. That Frank Scott of Pender, Neb, al- for the J. C. Mabray gang | " swindlers was not gullty ! as charged of the larceny of the $,000 which John Hermelbrecht, a farmer of Bangroft, Neb., clainéd to have been bur- coed out of by a fake horse race fn Coun- cil Bluffs on April 24, 108, was the verdict of the Jury In the district court yesterday afternoon. ~ The trial was begun last Monday and the case went to the jury at 6:30 o'clock Friday evening. The verdict was returned | at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. i Scott immediately after the announce- | ment of the verdict in_the state court was taken into custody by Deputy United States Marshal W. A. Gronwog of this city on a warrant under the indictment re- turned in the Mabray cases by the fed- eral grand jury in Councll Bluffs last Sep- tember. His bond under this Indictment had been placed at $3,00 and later in the afternoon Scott furnished a bond In the needed amount with Elmer L. Fehr and Wallacé Benjamin of this city as sureties. | These same parties were suretles on the bond furnished by Scott In the state court. May Escape Entirely. | Attorney General H. W. Bvers was not | present in court when the verdict was an- | aounced, as he had returned to Des Moines early Saturday morning. County Attorney | Hess offcred a motion immediately after | the verdict was entered that Scott's bond in the other case against him for eon- | spiracy in connection with the alleged | fleeeing of Farmer Hermelbrecht be raised from $1,000 to $5,000. The bond at the time | the indictment was returned was placed | at $5,000, but was reduced to $1,00 when | Scott furnished a bond in the sum of $5,000 under the larceny charge. H Judge Thornell, however, declined to| raise the bond in the conspiracy case, and intimated that acquittal in the larceny case carried the conspiracy case with it. He will decide this question later, after argu- ment. The general opinion around _the court house yesterday afterroon was that Scott would not be brought to trial on t conspiracy charge. Mrs. Scott, who had set by the side of | court when the verdict of the jury was ennounced. For a brief space of a few | seconds she lost her composure and cried, but wiping away the tears she arose from | her chair as the jurymen left their seats on belng excused by the judge, advanced | towards them as they filed out, thanked | them and shook hands with several of | them. { Scott, although showing pleasure, it not | surprise, at the verdlct, took the matter apparently quite calmly and merely owed (Contlnued on Setcond Page) | KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. s—Further complications developed today In the tan- gle growing out of the efforts of the at- torneys on both sides of the Swope case to secure an advantage in the taking of de- positions in the suit brought last week by Dr. B. C. Hyde for $00,00 damages for al- leged slander. Cireult Judge Bramback, who on Thurs- day issued a temporary order restraining the lawyers from taking depositions, dise that he had lacked jurisdiction. Then Frank P. WWalsh, representing Hyde, secured an Injunction from Juds Powell at Independence restraining the op- posing attorneys from taking depositions. In the meantime a number of subpoena Maze of Injunctions in - Swope Case at Independence | Logan 0. Bwope at Independence in an ef- |fort to.get service on the members of the | They had been trying to serve the papers | [for three days, and up to this afternoon were still unsuccessful. ‘T)\umll H. Swope. It had been supposed solved the injunction today on the ground that the jury originally summcaed would servers swarmed about the house of Mrs, family who we wanted as witnesses, It was stated today that the coroner’s In- quest Wil summon & new jury for the in- quest next week over the body of Colonel continue to sel PARIS, Mo, Feb. 5.~The jurs containing| the brain, stomach and Mver of the late Prof.. J. T. Vaughn were glven to State | lle interest concerning the Incurgerts and | shoot, CONGRESSMAN -+ HEARSFROMHOME Judge Norris Gets Letter Inl;;mi“ Him of Way People Feel in Fifth, WANT TO SEE SOMETHING DONE Would Prefer Their Representative to Push Taft Policies. ANSWERS HE IS IN GREAT FIGHT Must Keep on as He Has Begun, and Will Do So. SENATORS CALL ON PRESIDENT Interview Chief Executive About Order for Troops at Omahn Tours nament—~Pardon Asked for A. B, Toad. WASHINGTON, Feb gram.)—Representative G, Norris to- day made public some correspcndeice which Is quite apropos in view of the pub- Tele- w regulars among the republicane, Judge Norris is In receipt of a le'ter trom an old friend in the Fifty-elghth dls- trict who takes Norris to task for his position on some of thé vital questions now confronting his houre membership, The following is an extract from the let- ter “Few of your constituents have rejolced more over your -rise in polities than I have. This, perhaps, because 1 have watched you from the beginning, and I would be shirking my duty If T @id not tell you that I fear for your political future In this distriet. “There Is quite a change In the attitude of the farmers of my acquain‘ance who have Leretofcre always been enthusiastic for you as champlon of thelr Intercsts. Boiled down, this is about what they say: ‘Why don't he do something for the Roosevelt poiicjes and along the line of the promlses In the republican platform?' ‘We don’t care for Cannon. What we want is a worker for our distriet, ete." “I have had these questions put to me often in the last few months by those who were always enthusiastic in your support. I give It to you for what it is worth. I trust_you will be able, notwithstanding vour © embarrassing position with the speaker, to let your light shine so that the voters, who are the sinews of our sup- port, may see that you lave their inte:- ests at heamt and proposs to fight for them to the last ditch.” Judge Norris' Reply. To this letter Judge Norris has veplied as follows “I have noticed your mild critolsm of my course, I take it not 8o much as erfteism on your part as an expression of your feel- Ing that my course may bring about my defeat at the next election. I regret very much that the farmers of your vielnity seem to be opposed to the course which I am pursuing. If you were at the head of an army, marching to meet an enemy, and your course was blocked by a stream which you could not ford, the probabllities ai that you would construct a bridge over which you could transport your army, These men who critclse me for fighting Cannon would, It they were in your army, rebel If you attempted to bulld the bridge. They would say that they did not enlist as bridge carpenters, but as eoldiers, and that while they were willing to fight and they were not willing to act as bridge bullders. “Our fight is reallly to make the house of representatives of the people as our forefathers intended it should be. We fight on a road blocked with Canonlsm, Such rules have been adopted as make It impossible for members of the house te represent their constituents or country, In the palm of his hand thé speaker cone trols the situation by the very power given bim by these rules. We must fight him before we can reach the goal. It will do us no good to sit down saying that we are In favor of a measure described by the people when he holds the'key to the sit- uation that will prevent any action being taken. Says Fight Great One. “We might talk until we are hoar about measures we desire, bubt unless some act cculd be taken we would me- complish practically nothing. The fight that we are making here fs the greatest before the American people. It la & fight for principle and Involves the very frees dom of the representatives, It must be fought and won before reforms you- speak of can be even reached for progressive consideration and action. I regret ex- ceedingly that my course does not meet with the approval of my former friends. I should, of course,.dislike very much to be defeated, but I would a great deal rather be-right and have the satisfaction of knowing that T am right than to retain my present position. I dislike to. receive the censure of my old friends, but I will 1 must surrender my consclentious con- victions of right, “I can afford to be defeated and forgot- ten, but I cannot face the American peo- ple with a gullty conscience, and {f defeat comes, as I realize it may, I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that I did what I conscientiously belleved to be right, and what will be to me far greater satisfaction, and a greater reward than any honor bestowed upon mi Semntors See President. Sanators Burkett and Brown took up & number of matters with the president this morning, thelr call pricipally being to cure an executive order for the detall of troops ‘after the Des Molnes tournament to Omaba in conjunction with the Ak-Sar-Ben festival. The senators told President Taft of the splendld work accomplished for the state by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and insisted that Omaha ought to have a mill- tary tournament like Des Moines; that it had been tacitly agreed upon by the mill- tary authorities, but the Captain Hull, chalrman of milttary affairs of the house, had stolen a march on the Omaha “boost- ers” and had secured the promise of & mill- tary tournament at Des Moincs simliar to the one held in that city last year. The senators said they had no desire whatever to Interfere with the Des Moinéy tournament, but thought Omaha should have like consideration. While the president ald not definitely give his sanction to the matter the senators came away from the White House feeling reasonably sure that Chemiist Schweltzer at Columbla today by Sheriff Nolan, . the troops to be assembled at Des Moinew will be ordered tu Omaha at the clese of not try to avold that censure if to do it *