Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1910, Page 1

o 4 THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerfnl business getter in the west, because it goes to the homes of poor and rich. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Partly cloudy For lowa—Falr; cold, For wenther report see pago . VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 18¢ ). OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1910_TEN PAGES. SENATE TALKS ON IRRIGATION Bill to Issue Thirty Millions Worth of Cettificates is Discussed for Two Hours, | WESTERNERS CHAMPION IT Money Badly Needed to Finish Projects Now We!! = der Way. 5% WILL NOT AF. Funds to Liquidate - Be Paid by 21 "REASURY z ates Will LAND WITHDRAWN INTRY ® Tracts in Wyom ~a Mone tana, Supposed to Contain Coal, Wil Be Examined——Other Tracts Restored. \WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—~For more.than two hours today the senate listened to a discussion of the senate bill authorizing the issuance of $30,000,000 worth of certificates of Indebtedness for the completion of irri- gation projects already begun. The measure was champloned by a num- ber of senators, especlally Messrs. arter and Borah. Mr, Carter said in a number of cases dams had been completed, while the ditches had not been constructed, thus providing for the storage but not for the distribution of water. The effect was to withhold the water from settlers. It was stated that the money would all be repaid by the settlers and that in reality the treasury would not in any way be affected. The fear was voleed by Benators Flint and Crawford that the department might be tempted to enter upon new schemes be- fore the completion of present enterprises and thus soon involve the government in further obligations. It was contended on behalf of the measure that the danger had been averted by the language of the bill. Senator Heyburn charged the shortage of the reclamation fund to be due to the with- Arawal of the public lands from sale. Thus the fund had been starved by the govern- ment and congress had heedlessly per- mitted the process, he sald. He declared it would not be king too much to ask the appropriation of the money necessary | to make good the wrong done. He urged that the 1 "I1:f should not be crimped. The bill 'was under consideration when the sen- ate adjourned. An extensive temporary withdrawal of | lands from the public domain was made | by Secretary Ballinger todqy involving | 2,068,492 mcres reserved from coal entry, | and | 127,122 acres withdrawn from all | forms of disposition. Forty-six thousand | four hundred and thirty-one acres were | restored to settlement. Data recently collected by the geological | survey indicated that the public lands in Wyoming and’ Montana contalned valu able SAencalts (HTLM0aNIANd. to -determine. jhReManLamily [N the Armour Knapp Approves Taft Measure in Committee Statement by Chairman of Commerce Commission Draws Fire from Senator Cummins. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Unqualified ap- proval of the administration raflroad bill in all its essential features was given to- day by Chairman Marlin A. Knapp and Judson C. Clements of the Interstate Com- merce commission at a hearing before the Aenate committes, Some minor amend ments were suggested, however. At the conclusion of the statement by Chalrman Knapp he was asked by Mr. | Elkins whether the commission endorsed | the administration measure in preference to the Cummins bill. Mr. Knapp replied that such an inference could be drawn. “In view of the question asked by Chalr- man Biking, which I belleve to be some- what unfair,” iInterrupted Mr. Cummins, “I should to cross-examine Judge Knapp.” Mr, Elkins hastened to say that he had not Intended to be unfair and he thought the chalrman of the commission had given a guarded answer to which no objection could be made. Mr. Cummins said he found no fault with Mr. Knapp's answer, nor his statements approving the adminls- tratfon bill, but that he was of the opinion that one bill might be approved without condemning another. Mr. Knapp said that there were marty features of the Cummins bill with which the commission was in sympathy The tense situation finally was adjusted by Senator Elkins withdrawing his ques- tion. ‘Armour Says His Meat Prices Are All Competitive President of Kansas City Corporation Denies Representatives of Pack- ers Fix Selling Price. like JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 17— Charles W. Armour, president of the Ar- mour Packing company of Kansas City, contended before Special Examiner Danfel Dillon in an investigation of the meat packers here today that competition fixed the price at which meats were sold. He | dented that representatives of his firm met with other packers to fix prices. Mr. Armour testified that his firm is a member of the Kansas City Produce ex- change and that the exchange fixed prices by bidding for offerings. Mr. Armour, the first witness, declared | the Armours had no financlal interest In the National Packing company of New Jersey. Mr. Armour told of the holdings of the Packing the question the secretary of the interior | company of New Jersey, Armour & Co. of today withdrew from coal entry 1,208,206 | Illlnols and Armour Co. of West Virginia. acres In the former state and 860,286 in |The latter company sells for the Illnols the latter pending a detalled fleld ex- | company of the same name and reports its awlnation. o | earnings to the Illinois office. Twenty-one thousand, eight hundred and | He also told of the subsidlary corpora- twenty-eight acres located along the Red | jong In which the Armours are interested. Rock lakes in Montana have heen kempn»‘l ) rarily withdrawn from all entry in aid of proposed legislation affecting the m--lThre posal of water power sites on the publle | domaln. A ficld investigation having shown the existence of valuable coal de- | posits on 67,255 acres in Colorado the land has been reserved frem all entry until ¢ Injured by they have been classified and appraised | Oscar Meyers, Smelter Foreman, and | by geologlsts, and 26,002 acres in that| state which are now exempt from coal | entry were today withdrawn from all | forms of disposition, pending their classi- | fication and appralsement Phosphate Lands Restored. n ni1 of proposed leglslation affecting and disposition of phosphate deposits on the public domain the secretary has tem- porarily withdrawn 2,208 acres in Utah from all entry and has restored to lunlm! ment 5 eeres. which were tempo- | rarfly withdrawn in that state on Decem- | ber 9, 1608 A fleld invest'gation proved that the lands which have been restored | di¢ not contain deposits of phosphates. '( The total area covered by withdrawais | for examination an to phosphate deposits | BOW amounts approximately to 2,493,656 | acres, of which about 86,563 are in Utah. | In ald of proposed legislation affecting the use and disposition of petroleum nn‘ the public domain, 9,109 acres of land in | Wyoming have been withdrawn from all | forms of disposal. | | | Two Others Seriously Hurt by Explosion. Oscar Meyers, 1414 Chicago street, and last night at the smelter by the explosion | of a copper converter. in a serious condition and were taken at onee to Clarkson hospital. Meyers is fore- man of work about the converter and has been in the employ of the smelter for eight years, The two men were laborers under him. Brown Proposes River Amendment Nebraska Senator Will Seek to Get i Funds for Missouri Above Indiun Approprintions Lower, . The Indian appropriation bill being pla Kansas City. , before the house today, Representative | . Burke (8, D.), chalrman of the committee | reporting the measure, spoke at length upon | s 3 = WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(Special Tele- the vondition of the Indians In the United | = B introduced States, While the appropriations for the | ST )—Senator Brown ftoday Introduc ! ¢ to the rivers and harbors present flscal year aggregated nearly 13- |20 tmendment to $200,000 200,00, the ggregate of the pending bill was | O'\! Providing an appropriation of far further improvement of the Missouri but $6,378,682, excluding payments to be | 4 wade from trust funds. He said the com- |''YeT above Kansas City. . | Senator Crawford of South Dakota to- From a Statf Correspondent.) mittee would be able at the next session of | Copper Converter| two Austrian laborers wers severely burned | The two men were | congress to reduce still further these appro- priations, Sensation in Paxton Answer Administrator Says Evidence Tends to Show Dr. Hyde Was Double Murderer, KANSAS CITY, Feb. tom, in @& sensational answer filed in the cireult court at Independence today, ac-| cuses Dr. Hyde of bad faith in trylng (o segure evidence In his (Paxton's) posses. sion “tending” the answer reads, ‘to prove that the plaintiff has murdered by the administration of polson Thomas 11 Swope and Chrisman Swope: has also at. tempted to polson Margaret Swope and by the same Rind of treatment had communi. ited 10 the members of the Swope family ‘yphold fever. This was the first time that Dr. Hyde had been openly charged with communi. | “ating typhold fever to the members of the Bwope family, Mr. Paxton's amended answer was filed in connection with & moton filed by Dr. Hyde's attorneys to compel Paxton to Include in bis deposition in a civil suit etters or other communications he had received from Dr. Ludwig Hektoen of “hicago. r hearing the argument in the case John G. Pax- | day was appointed a member of the com- | mittee to investigate the Increased cost In | 1tving. |POWDER MILLS ARE WRECKED | Severnl Reported Dead in Explosion i of Trogent Works in Cal- iforni OAKLAND, Cal,, Feb. 17.~Word has been recelved from San Lorenzo that the Trogent Powder works has been wrecked by an explosion. Several persons are reported dead. | (COLDEST DAY OF THE WINTER |Record for Many Years Broken by | Low Temperatures in South- | west and West. { . |SLEET OVER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Thermometer is Below Freezing a ‘ Brownsville, Texas. |DEEP SNOW ALONG THE OHIO Miles an Hour. |TRAINS ~LATE EVERYWHERE Disturbance Will Be Cent: | Points Along the Atlantic | Const This Morn- | ing. WASHINGTON, which Feb. 17.—Gentle spring, ventured abroad !n tha Atlantie lstates yesterday and today was running for cover by tonight, ahead of a snow and sleet storm which has tuxen a flying start over the eastern mulf states and fs mov- ing northeast. rapidly. The eastern Atlantic states will be under its influence by to- morrow morning at the atest, the weather bureau forecasters say. This morning at Brownsville, Tex., at the mouth of the Rio Grande, the temperature is below freezing and the mercury is re- ) gistering 20 and 9 below in the northwest. A sleet storm is central over the Missis- sippl valley and snow is falling over the Ohlo valley. Gale in Northern Ohlo. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 17.—A gale rang- ing in elocity from forty to sixty miles an hour and bearing with it a heavy snow has demoralized traffic in northern Ohio. tral and Pennsylvania lines are running two to four hours late. Suburban cars are reported stalled west and south of here and local traffic is spasmodic. Practically no frejght trains are moving, thousands of cars being held here, at Buffalo, Youngstown and varfous division points. Coldest of Winter. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 17.—The coldest weather of the winter prevailed In western Kansas, Colorado and parts of Wyoming today. The cold also was very severe in Oklahoma. Texas and other portions of the southwest. The Kansas temperatures ranged from 10 degrees above to 4 below. In Colorado some of .the mountain districts report as much as 30 degrees below zero. In the Colorado lowlands zero temperature with snow made the day exceedingly uncom- fortable. Colorado Springs had the coldest weather in ten years—10 below zero. At Corono, a little hamlet on the summit of the divide, it wag 30 below. with the wind hewling through the hills at the rate of fifty-two miles an hour. In Oklahoma, sotuhern Kansas and the Texas Panhandle nearly two inches of snow fell during the night. Sleet and Snow in South. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 1.—A com- bination of sleet, snow and high winds during last night shut off wire communi- cation to the south today. The sleet throughout southern Indiana, lower Illi- nols and parts of Kentucky and Tennes- see practically put telegraph companles out was covered during the night by four inches of snow and it Is still snowing. MEMPHIS, Feb. 17.—On the heels springlike wenther the central south and southwest today Is covered with sleet and snow. In Memphis two Inches of sleet fell during the night and it was still snow- ing today. In north Mississippt kansas practically the same conditions prevail, while the extreme northwestern section of Arkansas reports a snowfall of ten inches. ' In southwestern Texas the weather is clearing but cold. Oklahoma points report the coldest weather In years, NEW RICHMOND, Wis., Feb, 17.—This is the coldest day of the season, 24 degrees below zero, Death in Ohio Storm. CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 17.—One death and numerous minor aceidents were charged and central Ar- section yesterday and continued today. Heavy drifts of snow packed hard by a | stinging north wind, blocked suburban trol. ley lines and steam roads and impeded the | operation of street cars in this and sur- rounding cities. Herman Havrkamp, 13% Clay street, was found unconscious in & snowdrift at Twelfth and Vine streets and dled later, Heavy Snow in Seattle, SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 17.—Last night's snowfall was the heaviest of the winter in Seattle and the country north and east. Here more than an inch fell and fourteen miles northeast there was a fall of four- teen inches. LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 17.—A minimum recorded here last night. ) Insurance Ament Killed, : CRESTON, Ia., Feb. 17.—(Special Tele- gram.)—J. E. Glass, an insurance agent, | whose home is at Atlantic, was killea at Shannon City this morning while walting for a north bound train. On its approach he stepped In front of the engine, suppos- edly by mistake. Death was instantaneous A pecullar case has come to the surface through the Investigation of the pension department relative to the status of certain marriages performed In Omaha, where the licenses were procured in Council Blutf: It appears that in this particular case the colored couple wag married by a colored minister in South Omaha on & licen bought In Council Biuffs. The marriage took place in 194 and now the question Is up to the valldity of the marriage. The man being dead, Wis wife 1s an applicant for a pension as his widow. It has been the general poliey of the pension depart- ment to recognize the validity of common law marriages and it will doubtless do so in this particular case. thdPourt overruled the motion filed by Hyde's attorneys ] the pension Marry in Omaha With ‘ Cheap_(llg Iowa License marriages of this charact4r are performed by colored ministers in Omaha, and that at least twenty of such marriages are known in South Omaha, with a larger number in Omaha. The excuse of the parties for going to Council Bluffs for license was that they could be procured cheaper over there than In Omaha. The marrying parsons made thelr returns to Council Bluffs, although performing the ceremony in Omaha or South Omana. Under the Nebraska laws the parties thus married are held gulltiess, and while the marriage may be recognised as & common law marriage, the person performing such marriages 1s amenable to the law and the license Is not worth the paper it s written It was developed during the hearing in investigation that numerous | upon. Neither is the record of such mar- riage of any legal value. | Traffic Demoralized by Gale of Sixty Passenger trains on the New York Cen- | of commission except to the east and north, | In Loulsville an Inch or more of sleet | of | to the blizsard which descended upon this | temperature of 8 degrees below zero was | u:a‘_lmm Ang From the Washington Star. d iy Miss Democracy’s Quest. SINGLE COPY TWO C M) TAFT STIRS UP SENATORS Leaders Getting Ready to Push Ad- ministration Measures. FIGHT THE INCORPORATION BILL This and Alaska Legislative Act Are m Greatest Danger of Defeat in the Upper House of Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1f.—Arrangements having been made by republican leaders of the senate to smooth out the creases In the administ; piesy for the enactment of postal sevings bshk- legislation, stock is now being taken. of other bills numbered among the Taft,policies to aseertain what may be their chances for passage. So far as the senate Is concerned, all of the ad- ministration bills appear to be ‘In good condition, except the federal incorporation measure and that to create a legislative | council for Alaska. The fact that Senator Beveridge, Who is sponsor for the Alaska bill, has agreed to allow It to be displaced as the *unfinished business'’ indicates that he is not entirely sanguine of Its success. There has developed in the senate a very pronounced objection to denying the people of Alaska the right of suffage as would | be done by a bill permitting the president to appoint a legislative body. Many senatovs believe it would be better to permit present conditions to continue until the territory | becomes more thickly populated. Congress, | they argue, it in position to exercise control over the mineral deposits so as to pre- vent any monopoly from galning a foot- hold. The Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill will have early attention. Tt will be {amended by the senate committee on ter- ritorles In accordance with the plan re- cently agreed upon between the congres- sional leaders and the administration ed- visers. In that form it is likely to pass the senate and It is probable it will be accepted by the house. This plan looks to the. separation of votes in two territories on the acceptance of a constitution and the election of officors and provides for a general federal scrutiny of constitutions that may be adopted. This accords with the president’s plan and it Is asserted he will be thoroughly satisfied with such an adjustment. Strong Influences are at work to get the raflroad bill out of committee at the earli- est possible moment and some of the senate |leaders have given their promise that it | will be reported next week, if not this. | Tt was announced today that the special committee of western senators of whic! | Senator Smoot Is chalrman to which the | administration conservation bills will be referred, expects to hold day and night sessions for the purpose of expeditiing !t work, The conference of republican leaders o the senate, which was agreed upon yester | day, for the purpose of harmonizing con | fileting amendments to the postal savings bank bill, 1% to be held today after the sen- ate adjourns. 3 1 Mullah on War Path. ADEN, Arabla. Feb. 17.—Mohammed Ab- dullah of Somaliland, the “Mad Mullah," is again on the warpath. A big force of dervishes has raided the sultanate of the Mijertins, killing and burning. The slaugh- ter of the tribesmen was very heavy. One | whole town was gutted by fire and 14,000 camels taken by the dervishes. This week a man sold a sewing ma- chine, that he hadn’'t been able to give away, by advertising it once in The Bee 'For Sale Columns. The machine was allright, but none of his friends or their friends could find use for it. ‘The Bee Want Ads will sell any- thing under the Sun—And they will do it quickly. It you pay rent on a phone it will be all right to call. Doug, 238—Want Ad Department, Rest of People Lett on Lima Are Rescued Eighty-Eight Passengers Who Re- mained on Wreck Saved by Chilean Cruiser, QUELLON, Chile, Feb. 17.—The Chilean tugboat Plsagua arriving here reports that the Chilean cruiser Ministre Zenteno has rescued the elghty-elght persons who had been left on the wreck of the British steamer Lima, in the Huablin passage, Strait of Magellan. . . WASHINGTON, Fev, A1l hope th which left Norfolk February 6 bound to Boston with thirty-two persons aboard, s still for the Nina, were ordered to discontinue their hunt. Laborites at War with Ministry President of Party Says Veto Must Be Dealt with Before Budget. LONDON, Feb. 17.—George M. Barnes, member of Parliament for Glasgow, Black- friars division, who two days ago was elected chalrman of the labor party in Parliament, threw a bombshell into the political arene this afternoon in the shape of a manifesto, which If acted upon, means the severance of the ties which heretofore have united the liberals and the laborites. “I learn,” writes Mr. Barnes, “that Pre- mier Asquith is to hold office without as- surances from the king with regard to the veto and that the veto Is to be dealt with after the budget. “That, of course, will not be acceptable to the labor party.” This manifesto is, generally accepted as an ultimatum that in the event of this protest being disregarded the laborites will vote against the government. ADMITS ~HE KILLED IOWAN Joseph Hainor Hanged for Murder of Aléex Frawer, Champion Wiug Shot. REGINA, Saskatchewan, Feb. 17.—Joseph Hainor was hanged In the jail yard here today. Last night he confessed to Captain Lankin of the Salvation army that he had Kkilled his employer, Alexander Fraser, be- cause he owed him twd years' wages as a farm laborer. Fraser was from Iowa where he was known as a champlon wing shot. ‘ Roo GONDOKORO, On the Upper Nile, Feb, 11.—Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt and the other members of the Smithsonian African scientific expedition arrived here today. All are well Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the other hunters and scientists constituting the ex- pedition sent out by the Smithsonian In- stitution at Washington h passed through the most trying stage of their African journey snd from now on will be In close touch with the outside world. For the last ten days they have been practically isolated In & wilderncss where the only communication between the scat- tered villages was through native runmers, At Gondokoro & brick house has been placed at the disposal of Mr. Roosevelt. In the town there are a few shops belonging 10 Greeks and Indians and a few traders make thelr headquarters there. The steam- boats owned by the Sudan governmnt call onee & month for passengers and the malls tor Khartum. The American party will embark on the ~irdar's launch probably tomorrow and proceed down the Nile to Khartum, where the missing United States navy tug Nina, | afloat .has been abandoned by the | Navy department and today the warships | which, for five days have been searching | ‘of Owen, sponsor of the bill, with a busi- JEFF DAVIS FLAYS OWEN Arkansan Charges Oklahoman with Being Rockefeller Tool. WISHES JOHN D. IN HADES Makes Senate Characteristic Speech and Bill He Opposes with Only His Dissenfing Vote. Passes WASHINGTON, | Feb. 17.—Senator Jeffer- son Davis of Arkansas startled the senate today with the declaration that he would “lke to see John. D. Roekefeller consigaed | to perdition and burned in flames caused by the consumption of the products of the Standard Ofl company. He spoke in oppoeition to a-bill authoriz- ing an oll and gas pipe line across the public lands of Arkansas. Accusing Sena- ness connection with the Standard with that senator. The bill had been passed at a previous session of the senate and was recalled by Mr. Owen to accom- modate Mr. Davis. In the course of his speech, Mr. Davis contended that the admission of the pipe line into Arkansas would violate the antl- trust laws of his state and saying that hell was the only place he would be will- | Ing to see the Standard Oll company's pipe line enter, and he added that he would also be glad to see Mr. Rockefeller “in- cinerated in the flames caused by his own ofl." Mr. Owen denfed all connection with the Staridard Oil company and safd that the ofl in Oklahoma could be taken out only through pipe lines crossing Arkansas. On the passage of the bill Mr. Davis cast the only negative vote. What Mr. Davis Satd, Mr. Davis asserted that the bill was in the Interest of the Prairie Creek company, whigh he sald, was a branch of the Standard Oll company. Believing this to bo the truth, he said he could not sit idly by and allow to be passed a bill, which was in direct conflict with the anti-trust law of his state. This law, he sald, had proved to be ef- fective, while the Sherman anti-trust law had done absolutely nothing to check the grasp and greed of the Standard Oil com- pany. 000,000, he said, but that the frost before the sun. had vanished as Hence, he concluded that the provision requiring com- | pliance with the Sherman law op to catch the votes of would not openly cast their votes in favor of the set Of thleves and robbers which onstitutes the Btandard Oll company.” as “a mere senators, who oil | company, he engaged in a spirited colloquy | He had not forgotten the verdict for | GRAIN EXCHANGES UNDERTHE PROBE House Committee Investigation Switches from Cotton to Wheat and Corn Today. BROKERS OPPOSE PENDING BILLS | Men from Chicago, Duluth and Min- | neapolis Will Be Heard. |BURLESON CLOSES FOR COTTON | | He Says New York Confesses i Longer Spot Market. is No EXCHANGE LOSES ITS FUNCTION Institation Does Not Serve as Medinm for Bringing Growers and Pro- ducers Together—Only Wig Gambling Concern, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The Investiga- tlon of transactions in futures an ex- {changes and on boards of trades, which has been proceeding before the hoouse | committee on agriculture, swung tonight |from the cotton exchanges to the grain marts. Both sides on the uestion of pro- posed legislation to abolish the specula- tive operations in the New York Cotton exchange closed today and tomorrow dele- gates from the graln ferums of Chicago, Philadelphia, Duluth and Minneapolis will volce thelr opposition to the pending bill Both the New York Stock exchange and the white slave traffic evil were drawn {on by L. Mandelbaum, a member of the | New York Cotton exchange ,as instances where the Interference of the law could overstep its bounds In certain particu- |lars. He portrayed the exchange was gen- erally without blemish, Former President Hubbard traced the exchange's evolution. Burleson Prefers Bucketshopw. Representative Burleson of Texas, a | producer of cotton and as a representative |of cotton producing interests, declared | the bucket shops were Infinitely prefer- |able to the exchange, with its manipula- ! tions of prices, and that the exchange by | comparison with bucket shops wag as | Monte Carlo and its roulette and monthly record of suicide to the game of craps the pickaninnies pluy in the back alleys | He arraigned what he stamped as con- | fessions of the exchange itself. He sald | New York had ceased to be u spot market, |and when Representative Cocks of New | York asked, “Where s there a spot mar- | ket then? replied that they were in the | south. The producers and spinners, he in- | sisted, were ‘united in the demand that { the tricubus of the exchange be removed, }mu its revistion committee was vested !with power that no committee should Ihave and that the fixed differences sys- | tem mignt castly become the vehicle of Qisaster. | “Fe dectarea that the low. grades and the “overs' the “rOTusd-EraQes mostly were sent to the New York warchouses that the cotton exchange had not performed its | function of bringing the producers and the spinners together and referred facetiously to the members of the exchange as “mer- | chants, I will not say gamblers.” | Not Responsible for Anything. The consumption of cotton would con- tinue even of the New York and New Orleans exhanges were abollshed and he declared that bread riots would follow in Manchester it the spindles there were stopped. Asked if he would hold the New | York cotton exchange responsible for such | possible riots he sarcastically suggested | that he did not hold it responsible for any- thing. “It's the only commercial body In the world, save two,” he claimed, “that can arbitrarily by committee repeal the law of supply and demand.” | The producers and spinners, he urged, | have a right to expect congress to lift from | the shoulders the burden of the exchange, whose representatives in the “branch ex- | changes” in Texas had been ‘dragged from their confines,”” and shut out of the | state, “Yhere are more creeping, flying, boring {insects preying on cotton than on any other plant in the world and is it possible, he asked, “that you are going to leave this tender plant to the mercles of the worst pests of all, the bulls and tie bea: Guaranty Law in Supreme Court tutionality Taken on Appeal to ‘Washington Tribunal, | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The question ot [ the constitutionallty of the, Nebraska statute passed March 25, 1908, limiting bank- ing In that state to corporations aud pro- viding for a guarantee fund for depositors Challenges Minority to Ata B, |0 State banks, was brought today to the chelt Party Reachés Gondokoro; All Are Well| | between He declared the bill to be one that no senator could afford to support and chal- (Continued on Second Page.) they will be due about March 6. Three days will be spent at Kbartum when the trip to Cairo will be begun. Mrs, Roosevelt fs expected to meet her husband and son at Khartum, CHICAGO, of the Feb, 17.~Frederick Q. Denver Post left Chicago for New York today his way to Khartum to meet former President Roosevelt Mr Bonfils, who carries with him credentials from almost every chamber of commerce Kansas City and the FPacific o t, will urge Mr, Roosevelt to return to this country through Russia and the Philippines, making his entry at San Fran- cisco. The program which is to be suggested to Mr. Roosevelt will not Interfers with his present arrangements In Europe, but he will be asked, after the conclusion of his lectures In England, to turn toward the east agaln for the purpose of visiting Japan and the Philippinek, in order to acquaint himself thoroughly with the existing con- ditlons In the Pacific. Mr, Bontils will sall from New York on Saturday. He will be accompanied by George Creel, & member of his Denver stal Ronfils on | supreme court of the United States. The case In which the question arises was that begun In the clreult court of the United States for the district of Nebraska by the First State bank of Holsteln against Gov- ervor Shallenberger and other state offi. Is. The court enjolned the officials trom enforcing the law on the ground that it is unconstitutional, ¥rom thig decision the state of Nebraska appealed to the supreme court of the United Staes. NO CHANGE IN CONGO METHODS Belgian Chamber of Depaties ¥ Badget with 0la Form of Ralsing Revenue, i \ ‘ ‘ | BRUSSELS, Feb, 17.—The Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 70 to 40 today passed the Congo budget. It provides for no change in the system of raising revenue by compulsory labor. M. Lorand refused to vote, explaining that the debate on the budket had proven that no effective control was exerclsed over the Belgian administration of Belglan Congo. MORE LANDS IN RESERVE Seeretary Ballinger Withdraws Twe Milllon Aeres from Entry. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—An extensive temporary withdrawal of lands from the public domain was made by Becretary Bal- Mnger today involving 2,065,402 acres re- served from coal entry, and 118,016 acres withdrawn from all forms of disposition. Forty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-one acres were restored (o settie- ment.