Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1910, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10. THE OMAHA DAILY BE VOL. XXXIX-NO. OMAHA, SATURDAY ) POWER OF COURTS | “OVER CONGRESS| Buit of Paper Company Raises New! Issue in Relation to Departments of Government. | SUMMONS | | | SENATORS IGNORE !‘mben Take Ground that Their Acts Are Not Subject to Review, HOUSE MEMBERS PRESENT | Their Attorney Makes Plea that Court | Has No Jurisdiction. RESERVES DECISION | - [ Paper Company Suit to Compel Reopening of Award of Contract ‘ —Cnse in of Historic JUDGE Interest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The great ques- tion of the authority of one branch of the government over another was argued today in the supreme court of the Distriet of Folumbla, with preced & dating from the }\ of Chief Justice Marshall. The mere \undamus proceedings of the Valley Paper company of Holyoke, Mass., against the Joint congressional committee on printing evolved into a cecntest of authority be- tween the courts and congress and the foundations were lald In a case as historic as any In the annals of the judieiary ‘Whether or not the printing committee can be compelled by a court to rescind its ac- | tlon on purchases of paper for the puhlu:! printing and take into consideration the | bld of the Valley Peper company is the ! immediate question. Whether congress and | its members In thelr official capacities and | clothed with constitutional immunity are | amenable to the law, will be the ultimate | one, counsel on each side is ready to ad- mit. Senators I ore Order. Today the senators of the printing com- mittes continued in thelr attitude to Ig- nore the summons of the court on the | grounds that it was without jurisdietion | lnv{!nere not present or represented by courlSel. They are Senators Root of New York, Smoot of Utah and Fletcher of Florida. The members of the committee from the house, however, Allen F. Cooper of Pennsylvanla, George C. Sturgiss of West Virginia and David E. Finley of South Carolina, occupled seats in the front row of the spectators and were repre- sented collectively and indlvidually by a battallon of counsel. The Department of Justice, 100, was represented for the first time today, to contest the jurisdiction of the court. | . Contention of Coinmittee. The meat of the committce's plan In answer to the pipér company’s mandamus | was that the company’'s bid was not the “lowest In the best Interests of the gov-| ernment’’ and that it falled to comply with certain legal technlcalities. Uiggn the question of Its relation to the courll however, the graver contention was | made that the members of the printing committes were clothed with the constitu- tional immunity conferred upon them by thelr membership in congress; that they did not act in a ministerial capaelty and that the mandamus, stripped of its primary features, was not a mandamus against the | printing committee at all, but really a| mandamus from the supreme court of the District of Columbia to congress itself. | The committee’s plea was that as a com- | mittee [ts members did the same work which congress could do upon the floor of both houses if it chose to do so. Justice Wright announced he would hand down his decision on Monday. This presents a situation entirely new in American Jurisprudence, the possibill- ties of three United States senators being adjudged in contempt of court and the | possibility of a supreme court Jjustice be- cused of contempt of congress enter JOINT MEETING OF MINERS AND OPERATORS FAILURE flort to Reach Agreement on Wa | Semle in Abandomed for | the Present. | KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. %sAt a joint | convention of the coal miners and opera- tors and mine ownera of the southwest here today the comference committee ap- pointed to consider the wage scale for the n‘ two years reported inability to reach | an® agreement. The committee was dis- | charged and the joint convention ad- | Journed. | Tt is sald that an amicable adjustment of | the controversy Is possible at & subsequent Joint convention. The present wage scale expires April 1 { The conference/ committee had been in sesslon * Tuesday night. The representatives of the miners in- sisted the new wage scale should include an increase of 10 cents a ton and a proe portionate increase in the wages of miners pald by the day, but the representatives of the operators refused to make this conces- | slon which was nded by the United Mine Workers of America at thelr recent convention The miners will continue routine matters today LITTLE GIRL BURNED TO DEATH—PARENTS ARSENT Five-Year-0la Paper to consider and .tomorrow. Vietl nto the Was Stutfing Kitehen MARSHALLTOWN clal Telegram.)—Li rison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Harrl living fiye miles from here, was burned to death last night while stuffing pape the kitchen stove. - The parents were ab- sent from the house at the time. Returning | to the house, they found thelr daughter dead on the floor, ! [} ¥ du Belle Flain Marder Case Frees Detective Suspect 0la Crime, VINTON, Ia, Feb. 3=The jury in the ase of George Eddy, indicted with Fran- cemoo Guthrie for the alleged murder of Mrs. Gut at Belle Plain, ten years ago, returned verdiet this morming of not gullity. ot §0DY 1S FOUND NOT GUILTY| Insurgents Not for Taft Reform Railroad Bill | | |Clapp and Cummins Both Against Measure Which is Favorably Reported to Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb, of the administration bill to create a court of commerce and amend the inter- state commerce laws was concluded today by the senate committee on commerce and it was ordered The vote was 6 to 4. The majority report will recommend passage of the bill in form practically it was revised by Attorney General Wick- ersham. The minority aiso will report There were three absentees when committee met. They Tillman of South Carolina, Fi and Taylor of Tepnesses. absent the result w sion, resulting as follows: For the administration kins (W. Va.), Cullom (111), Kean (N. J), Crane (M (Nev). Against—Clapp (Minn.), Cu Newlands (Nev.), and Hughe The bill, which was reported to the sen ate by Mr. Elkins after that body ied, is the was Introduced nuary 11 in senate by Elkins and in the h Representative Townsend of Michigan, amendments suggested by Attorney General Wicker sham on February 24 and by Messrs. El- kins and Townsend re-introduced lGamblc Gets Cash for Sioux Falls —Consideration reported the were »ster of Loulsiana With these demc a foregone conclu bill—-Senator Aldrich (R. ss.), and mins (Towa), (Cola.) soon cony same as the nato se by with South Dakota Senator Succeeds in Getting Favorable Report on Appropriation Bill, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Senator Gamble today secured a tavorable report on his bill increasing the lmit of cost for improvement and exten- slon of the federal building at Sloux Falls from $100,000 to $190,000. The president sent to the senate today ! nominations of the following postmasters Nebraska—Albion, Elmwood, Willlam Towa—Clinton, E. Lauren B. Hulse; rin; Sloux Ranids, Lucy B. Smith; Mamsburg, Harry B. Hull, South Dakota—Flandreau, Leola, Frank D. Lowry. Rural carriers have been appolnted as follows: Nebraska—Havelock, route 8, Joseph L. Wood, carrler; no substitute; Rulo, route 1, Fred Jondrow, earrier; no substitute, Towa—Fort Dodge, route 1, Stephen K. Hartnett, carrier; no substitute; Hender- son, route 1, K. P. Duysen, carrfer; J. H. Parker, substitute; Keystone, route 1, Jullus Klapphols, carrier; Emma Klapp- holz, substitute; St. Charles, route 1, Henry R. Hurlbut, carrier; Krnest E. Huribut, substitute. South Dakota—Wagner, route 2, Will W, Townsend, jr., carrfer; W. W. Townsend, sr., substitute. { Postmasters appointed are as follows Nebraska—Minatare, Scott's Bluff county, W. B. Swindell, vice O. G. Pieront, moved. Iowa—Hoprlg, Emmet county, Charles Blair, vice O. L. Paugh, resigned; Prole, Warren county, Ernest M. Burkhead, vice W. J. Slinker, resigned South Dakot. heffield, Beadle county, John A. York, vice C. C. Ersted, declined Libel Decision to Be Appealed George W. K. Sargent. L. Martindale; Monroe, Henry Williams; Keota, A. Per- Wil- E. C. Akam; | Cabinet Takss Action in Case Against New York World Recently Dismissed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—As a result of the cabinet meeting, Attorney General Wickersham today telegraphed to Distriet Attorney Wise at New York to note an appeal from the decision of Judge Hough, dismissing, for want of jurlsdiction, the Indictment against the Press Publishing company (New York World) on the charge of libel In eonnection witk the Panama canal case EW YORK, Feb. 2.—District Attorney Wise will at once begin preparation of the appeal In the Panama lfbel case to the United States supreme court. The defend- ants have recently asked that an appeal be taken that the question of whether the | indtctment was authorized or not by the | statute should be finally determined by the court of last resort. MRS. FLAGLER KILLED BY CARS Widow of Struck General in by Express—Two Others Hurt. 3 NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Feb. 25.—Mrs, Benjamin Flagler, widow of General Flag- ler, was killed, Mrs. George F. Nye was fatally Injured and her daughter, Miss Nye, was serlously hurt today when a New York Central express train struck the auto- | moblle in which they were riding. All we residents of Nelagara Falls. interstate | re- | Automobile | \BILLS AGAINST MEAT COMBINE New Jersey Grand Jury Inydin‘*:' Six Big Corporations_sad® oY Ona-" WG | o § et ) ALL CHAJ canait P10 ‘Actn Limitig" Supply of Meats and| Poultry Alleged. | | LIST | BIG MEN ARE ON Armour, Swift, Morris and Hammond | | Companies Named. OFFENSE s EXTRADITABLE Prosecutor cted Do Not He Win tions for Their Arrest. Gaven Says if Men Appear for Trial Secure Nequisi- NEW YORK of the United packing companies g Feb. 25.- States, The Beeftr embracing [ nd twenty-one pack soveral of them multi-millionaires, soclally and industrially prominent, were indicted thy a grand jury in Hudson county, New Jersay, today, charged with conspiracy In limiting the supply of meat and poultry. The indletment s drawn under the law New J which provides upon con ion @ maximum penalty of three penitentiary or a §1,000 fine offense is extraditable, which practically that the meat barons either successfully resist extradition, come to Jersey City for trial Plerre Garven, the publie prosecutor Hudson county anounced tonlght that would forthwith notify the defendants their indictment, and would be ready to force extradition in h case where the Individual concerned is not willing to face trial voluntarily. List of Defendants. The defendants as named are as follows: Corporations The National Armour & Co. Swift and company. Morris & Co. Hammond Pucking G. H. Hammond & Individuals. L. AJ. Ogden ArmurThomas J A, “Watson Armour. F. A Louls F. Swift. L. H dward F. Swift Ji & Charles 1 Swift. Gec 2dward Morris, Frederick B. Cooper. Ira N. Morri: D. E. Hartwell. Arthur Meel Henry B. Darlington. Edward Tilden. A. A, Fuller L. A. Carton, Lemuel C, P ersol Thomas E. Wilson i i The Indictment, which bristles in its | | arralgnment of the men named, also refers | to “divers others” as being responsible. These latter, however, are not specified. Rexult of Price Probe, The list of names, it will be seen, repre- sents the backbone of the great packing | Industry of this country, containing as it | does two Armours, three Swifts and two | Morrises, most of them residents of Chi- cago, together with less important figures in the packing world. Their indictment brings to a climax the first conce rted effort in the east to fix responsibility for the pre vailing abnormally high price of modities. Jerse, a1 eat of vie in tl The ersey, years both means mu; or of he of Packing company. Ampany. Co. Conners. Fowler. Heyma Bathgate, jr. ge J. Edwards. com- City is @ cold storage center where the packing, companies of the west main- | taln vast warehouses in which countle | thousands of pounds of meat and poultry are stored proved a fruitful source of in- vestigation. More than a month ago the | Inquiry by the grand jury was started, col storage plants were inspected, witnesses were examined afid today the indlctment was handed up in the supreume court before | Pustices Blair and C ‘arey, CANE STRIKERS PILLAGING FARMS AND KILLING ANIMALS Forelgn Consultes In Guadaloupe Are Guarded by Police and { Cruisers on Way, | POINT-A-PETRE, Guadaloupe, Feb, 2%.— | Forces of police have gone to St. Francols to protect the natives there, several of whom have been killed during the disturb- ances arising from the strike of sugar cane cutters. The strikers have gathered | In large numbers at St. Francols and are | plilaging the surrounding country and killing domestic animals for food | The “’"CB," consulates are guarded by the | police. Several sugar grinding factorles | have been burned. Governor Gautret today announced the | arrival of reinforcements of troops from | Martinique and that the French armored cryisers Victor Hugo was on the way here | to ald In preserving order, NAGEL WANTS FUNDS TO HELP | STAMP OUT WHITE SLAVERY Secretary Tells Committee $100,000 n | Year Would Be Well Spent in Campaign, WASHINGTON, Feb. The expendi- | ture of $100,00 a year in stamping out the “white slave" traffic would be money well | | spent, sald Secretary Nagel In submitting| | to the house a recommendation that the | | total estimute for regulating jmn igration | be increased from $2,400,000 to $2,560,000. Mr.. Nagel says the enforcement of the ‘white s ' traffic bill, now in confer- ence between the two houses and expected to become a law In a few days, wil| cost $100,000 and that the work will have to be prosecuted differently than the immigration law enforcement, ave' ording | Kids’ Saturm;lrivarat Dad’s Expense Preparing for a high old time at the ex- pe of the stepfather of of them was what three boys and two girls were doing when Officers Maloney, Van Deusen and Murphy walked a at 401 orth Sixteenth street There was champagne and cigars and plenty to eat, while the room was furnished with a quantity of nicknacks evidently the result of a despolling expedition into some person's drawing room. A rifle was also part of the booty. Where it came from the officers proceeded to Investigate, and on the way to the station one of the chil- dren confessed “It came from the father,” s:id Jay Wyman, Investigation proved the truth of this, and the discovery of the further fact that se one into a room house of my step- Nipped in Budj no one was In was made. Wyman, when not elsewhere, claims the | residence as his home, and thither, about 4 o'clock Thursday afterncon, according to the police story, he took Wilber o8 North Twenty-third streot, him to carry away the spolle, The other youth arvested Bolster, 124 Cass street, just dropped Into the room home from work. The two girls, Marie Sears and Maud Miley, are from Council Bluffs, All are charged with entering the Saun. ders home at 1622 Maple street. Floyd Bolster was discharged at the Fri- day session of police court. The other meinbers of the joyous party will be given | | a hearing on Monday | the house when the raid who helped | ‘ on his | corn e Commercial | heit [TORNING, l"ICHRI';\R\T 26, 1910—SIXTEEN PA( LAY B ifi\fi%} - & O SRNeNG %%BQ = = L, Uz In the Newspaper Composing Room—Murphy, get up this headline, Blocks the Way.”” W) WEATHER FORECAST. or Nebraska—Partly cloudy lowa Partly cloudy. For weather report see pa TWO CENTS. 'RATSE IN RATES | STIRS SHIPPERS , COPY Scheme of the Railroads to Squeeze | Greater Revenue Out of Omaha Arouses Many Trades, |TAKES IN VAST LINE OF GOODS Likely to Increase Cost of Living, if Carried Out. RANKEST DISCRIMINATION | 18 |Means Differential in Favor of Other Missouri River Cities, jBU’RLNGTON WHOLE HOG OR NONE :lllll - Ont Line Now More Revenue of Omaha Than Any Other St 1t De- mands More. Gets Town and Omaha shippers are intensely aroused by the plans of the Chicago-Omaha raiiroads to make a general increase of commodity rates as set forth by The Bee. Realizing what such & move means to the commeroial ial life of Omaha. shippers pro- pose to resist the action In some organized and effective manner. They see In the move nothing more than rank discrimination against Ov ha for the one purpose of swelling the already gigantic revenucs of the rallronds. Many of the blg jobbers would not be- lleve that the rallroads expected to raise the rates of some of the commodities b cause of the ample revenue they are al- ready recelving “In the absence of any detall I don't understand how it is possible for the rall- roads to raise the rate on coal,” said J. A, Sunderland. “The rallroads are now re- |ceiving as much for hauling coal and | cement as they have received at any time in the last twenty years. Their earnings {on these commodities must be greatly in excess of what they were formerly when the maximum carload was twenty tons Now It is fifty tons and the trains are soveral times as long."” Goods 1 ommodity Class. These goods are carried under the com- and keep it set. ‘‘Congress From the §t. Paul Ploneer Press SEED CORN PULPIT THEME Prof. Holden Appeals to Iowa Min- isters to Preach It. NEBRASKA NOW ALIVE TO DANGER Prof. to Montgomery Lincoln to Make Commereial Appeal Club Today — Farmers Are Waking Up. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. %.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Ministers of Iowa have been for- mally asked by Prof. Holden, xpert, to preach sermons on the sub- Ject of sced corn and the immense Im- portance of taking care to plant good seed that the crop may be good. He suggests a number of appropriate texts which would tend to stir up the people to the immi- nent danger of famine from a crop failure in Iowa. This with the being done by commercial and farm organizatiol worle it 1s belleved, will have good effect. LINCOLN TO HEL CORN TEST Club There Co-operates th Omnaba in the Crusade. The Lincoln Commercial club, in co-oper- ation with the Omaha Commercial club, has decided to take up the matter of pub- licity to induce the farmers of the state to use great care in the selection of their seed corn, espoclally for this year, w it has been demonstrated that but 2 per cent of the corn will grow. E. G. Mont- | gomery, head of the agromony mental department of the University of Nebraska, will address the Commercial club of Lincoln Saturday. He has already reported to the Omaha Commerclal club that there is cause for alarm. By one of the most interesting tests ever made the publicity bureau of the Com- merclal club has demonstrated that corn containing from 21 to 25 per cent molsture, after freezing, or being exposed to low tem- peratures, will not germinate, This test is intended to show the corn left in the fields had bester be tested before it is planted, for if it con- talned an excessive amount of moisture it will not grow. Some corn that tested § per cent before It was soaked and made to contain 22 per cent molsture tested but 25 per cent after 1t had heen exposed for seventy-six hours to temperature 20 degrees Fahren- Another ear testing 91 per cent be- fore the molsture was added and the cold applied, fell to 46 per cent when it was put In the germination box Thix Corn. The corn was obtaincd from J Blair, the § winners a tional Corn exposition. When it last week it was about the highest germi- nating corn in the box. The ten cars we then used for the molsture and freezing ex- periment. The corn was found to contain but 1§ per cent moisture, s0 some had to be added. Two were soaked about four hours and they then contained 22.5 per cent moisture. They were taken to the refrigerating plant of a creamery and kept experl that even below is Prize hn Aye at the Na- as tested one of fze ears (Continued on Second Page,) A few days ago a man sold a sewing machine, that he hadn't been able to give always, by advertising it once in The Bee For Sale Columns, The machine was all right, 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, If you pay rent on a 'phone it will be all right to call Doug. 238— Want Ad Departw the state | Oregon Roads in Merger Inquiry Vice President of Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Tells Why Lines Were Abandoned. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Rival railroad enterprises in Oregon were the subjeot of ingiliry “tdday at the hearing In the gov ernment’s Union Pacific-Southern Paclfic | merger diss@lution suit Vice President J. I. O'Brien of the |Oregan Rallway and Navigation company |one of the merged lines testified today. Asked about the branch line which the Oregon Raflway and Navigation compan: |began to build out of Goose Bay,-Oregon in 1907, but which was subsequently abandoned, Mr. O'Brien admitted that the | company refusea to complete this line be- |cause the people of Goose Bay would not guarantee it 4 per cent on the investment over and above the cost of maintenance |ana operation. |“Prof. Astro” is Shot by Posse Man Who Broke Jail at Hot Springs, Ark., Recaptured After a Fight. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Feb. Conlin, alias H. & Daniels, | known as “Prof. Astro, the Handcufl | King,” who, with sixtecn other prisoners, broke jail the night of February 12, was run to earth today. i In attempting to escape from a pursuing | posse in the mountains near Okolona, Clark county, Conlin was shot, but the degree of his Injury is not known. Only meager de- tails of his capture were received here by Sheriff Houpt by telephone and it will be impossible to bring Coniln back until to- morrow. | Conlin is wanted in San Francisce to | answer a charge of grand larceny. After his arrest he decl ‘d he would never' go back to face the charge and his broth announced that he would spend $50,000 in resisting extradition. INICK IGNORANT _ OF | (o] sometimes here PLOT | of Roosevelt-Foraker Scheme | in Ohio. | wasmINGTO | worth, representative fr | In-law ex-President Rool | dentea that 1 any kno | “hellish plot,” as he called it | Prestdent Roosevelt, for Foraker and It to carry Ohio f the republican ticket, naming himself for pvernor and Foraker for senator. Nicholas Long- and son velt, today ledge of th between ex- ator him ¥ | High Notch | CHICAGC 2%.—Another slight ad vance today mark:d ‘the upward trend of llve hog prices at the stock wards, the {animals’ selling at $9.70 & hundred welght Hogs nx WASHINGTON, Feb, 2%.~The United States leads the world as an exporter of | tobacco and is the second leading markel of the world for imported tobacco, accord- {ing to statistics of the | Commerce and Labor. | Last year the United States supplied | 41,000,000 In a total of approximately I 000,000 worth of tobacco and tobaceo manu- factures which entered international mar- kets. More than §1.000,000,000 worth of tobacea and the manufactured tobacco have passed through ports of the United States since 1890, the value of the exports in that period having aggregated 3646,000.000 and the im- ports into the United States $356,000,000. These figures are exclusive of trade pass- ing between this country and its mnon- Department | Son-in-Law Sayx He Knows Nothing | of modity classification: Coal, soap, cement, sewer pipe, agricultural implements, w gons, engines, asphalt, bags and bagging, brick, hollow bullding tile, beer, butter and egks, poultry, pitch and tar, cooperage, | harness and saddlery, iron and steel, meats and ofl. The raise, therefore, would have |a wide, sweeping effect, The claim is made that an advance of 10 per cent In all these products would m I tevlally add to the cost of living, for al- |though the advance might be smail per pound on goods that are retailed, the re- taller would have to pay more and he would advance the price to the consumer. Grain men and lumber dealers are now engaged in tangles with the railroads over rates, and, It the meat fight is but a starter for the general raise contemplated by the reilroads, the transportation companies il soon be mixing with many lines of | Industry. Some of the jobbers say they think It is up to the rallroads to protect Omaha aganst any differentials which may exist in favor of Kansas City or any other city. The Burlington receives more money from Omaha than from any other city on fts g entire line, and last year mearly onc- Mol ;i‘Jnevemh of the revenues of the company Number of depositors increased. 8,307 | were pald into the coffers at Omaha and e mereaseq LY, CmE omt omtw om | vet this 18 one of the lines that is starting Deposits increased . 113 7's84.872.52 | the trouble by insisting on its right to @et Loans increased $10,500,350.20 | the long haul on the live stock from the AvSrase dabomt 108 Sal depo west instead of letting It stop at Omaha Average per-capita’ iand then have to take a chance with the Bta10 DANKS ©ovvervrrennes { other Omaha-Chicago lines. Averago deposit to cach . The question of rates from Omaha (o bank % Chicago on dressed beef is taking on ® AVELERS Dthositagt more interesting phase. It now appears | Average capltal of state banks. | that this s but the curtain raiser to the Average capital of all bank: main performance which Is soon to be- AVOraRs upter Tbes et gin. For many months the raliroads have ™ anol s state: Bank. i ok o e been talking of a general revision of ratés, Averige number of peopie to all and now, so well-informed traffic men banks, state and national.......... |assert, the show is about to open. The D ane vy oane 1. all banks, o .47 |Announcement from Chicago in the tale- Increase of deposits in all banks, = |&ram published in The Bee on Thursday state and natlonal ....$18,464,270.47 | that the rallroads there contering were Ration’of oaplial (B dopasits fn |10oking at other rates with the intention of Ratlo of capital ta' depoits in Iraising them Is interpreted to mean that all banks is... a general boost on commodity rates of all The repo says: kinds 1s at hand. This will not be confined State Banks Arve Safe. |to packing house products, but to every. thing that is hauled between the Missourl Chicago on dressed beef Is taking on a more Interesting phase. It now appeirs that this {8 but the curtain raiser to the |main performance which s soon to be- {rlver and the lakes The rafiroads have “A careful examination of the contents of this report will show the banks In this |determined to get greater revenue from the traffic. That s all. state as a rule both prosperous and safe. Discrimination is Op NO BANK FAILURE IN YEAR, Nebraska's Financial Institutions Are on Sound Basis, REPORT OF SECRETARY ROYSE Executive Head of State Department Says 1t Would 'fake Cyclonie Money Disturbance Imperil Sitoation. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 2.~(Special.)—Secretary Royse of the State Banking Board has sent to tho printers the copy for his annual report of the state banks for the last year. His report will show that not a single tailure has occurred during the year which the report covers. The following figures show the increases compared with the re- port of a year ago: Total resources increased..... Number of banks increased deposit’in n all 110,700 210,975.07 3 $ $ $ i $ o to .10 6.0 ...1105.81 one it year will show the supervision and not a dollar of loss a (Continued on Second Page.) and this department meet with very ready r reason that remodial measures Were | one that rested equally on all But it will prevent insolvency first and loss after- | the Wabash holding out, the new rate the Wabash can to a depositor. While the department as - Buffalo, thus glving |Kkets of the east, where While the foregolng is certainly gratifying mpelition with |80 the present discrimination gy eph an ad vantage, The spirit and letter of the banking law is generally complied with in a satisfactory sponse upon the part of the banks. "“'\'"‘\‘;’ the “‘:' ol Hishe- hove ""‘"[ In the present case of the packing house some Instances of mismanagement, but no |yae little complaint would be heard from promptly and efficiently applied. established so far as Omaha and Sloux Your secretary belleves that it is the | City are concerned, but it is not operative province of this department to prevent |so far as St. Joseph and Kansas Clty are wards. | amounts to a 5-cent difterential in favor “The records of the last lof tho packing towns down the river. It not a single afilure under than that in reality, for | proaucts as far clalms some credit for this showing !t 1s (that line & claim on the freight for 1,00 only fair to state that it fs a tribute to |Instead of 50 milps, and a consequently the high class of bank management that to the my {must be sent for sale in ¢ - ithe meats dressed In Chicago. Omaha jdreascd meat does not tigure on the mar- u east of there It does 4 b s Kansza City 8t. Jo in obacco | but also favors Chicago in the i ’ i amount, or even more for the ul- timate Windy City manner and the rules and regulations of serlous conscquences have followed, for the [ ¢he packers and live stock men if It were bank failures by such close supervision as ! involved. With the Chicago & Alton and amounts to more of this department haul the packing houso {larger proportional of the rate generally prevalls in the banks of the state. the Omahs mint ket at Chicago, but not only same Jiew beyond the market Action of Roads a al traffie men whi the rate was ek have conviction that uenle been In Chi- unced by The come back with the the Chicago-Omaha lines are golng after the higher rate In earnest, regardless of its effeoct on local business. They are at a loss to account for the action of the Illinols Ce ntral, the Milwaukee and the Great Westsrrn, roads that terminate in Omaha, in entering on the crusade, Some power nbove the rate making authorities In Chlcago have taken an active Interest In matter | order to bring about clear and coin. world's ieading markets, the former im-| Peling an understanding ar appears te porting $25,000,000 worth last year end the| exist. The course of the Groat Westerr United States §30,00,000 worth, of which | Is partly accounted for by the situation 26,000,000 worth was raw materlal already explained in The Bee. In order The tobacco crop of the United States in | to bring this disturber of rates to s re 1908 was 718,000,000 pounds valued at §74,- | lzation of its position, the other Chicas 000000, | roads turned over to It & lot of unrouled Lo have since last contiguous t 1 *hipinents and Po Second ritories and ¢ which showed 1n r tobacco brought 1 Porto Rico valued at $5,750,000 and | of tobace Alaska, Hawall | Rico valued at nearly 3200005, | to the United Stetes in exporta- | tion of tobacco last year was Cuba, which | shipped §31,500.000 worth and the Duteh | Fast Indies ranked third with $23,000,000 | and the United Kingdom fourth with $7,- 000,000, Germany and the United States are must the the 50