Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1910, Page 1

’ THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—Iis read by the women-—sells goods for advertisers. THE OMAHA ‘DAILY BEE. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nehraska—Falr, For Towa—Fair, For woather report see page 2. COUNCILS IGNORE | + TROLLEY STI{IKE‘i Philadelphia Officials Will Take No Action Looking to Arbitrating MAYOR ADVISES AGAINST IT | Differences. ‘ | | | Says Law Provides Court for Settling? Such Controversies. i UNION LEADERS ARE INDICTED | Murphy and Pratt Charged with Riot- | ing and Inciting to Riot. | | WILL STRIKE ORDER BE OBEYED? | Dfficials Assert Small Percentage of | Workmen Will Heed the Com- mand to Walk Out Fri- Night. any PHILADELPHIA, h 3—For the first time in five years the citizens were excluded. from the seszions of their chosen representatives this afternoon. An hour before the time of convening the Select and Common counclls, a va owd had gathered on the fourth floor of the city hall, but policemen kept all save the cou climen, reporters and a privileged per- sons outside the gate which leads to the | councll chambers. | The grand jury this afternoon returned | indictments against John J. Murphy, presi- dent of the Central Labor union, and C. O, Pratt, organizer of the car men's union. | Murphy 1s charged with rioting and in- citing to riot; Pratt with ri ng, Incting to rot and conspracy. of the Mayor. | The strike was practically ignored by | both councils. A message from Mayor | Reyburn reviewed the situation briefly and stated his polley of non-interference in | these words: “It I8 not the city's duty, nor yours or | mine, to interfere between the Philadelphia Rapld Transit Company and its employes. | The courts of law are avallable for the re- dress of any real grievances which either | may have against the other. No reason dsts, nor can exist, in proper cases, why | y and all other disputants should not | ubmit thelr differences to the courts or adjust thelr disputes between themselves, | It is of the utmost importance, however, for the good name of our city and for the | safety of its citizens, that no steps should | be taken by your honorable bodies or by | any others which would undo or would in any way or manner interfere with that which has already been done or lead any person to think, or bellebe, that he can by tho aid of the machinery of the executive or legislative branches of the municipal government, enforce any demand not cog- nizable in the courts or voluntarily adjust- abls between the parties. “Any_attempt, hoygyer, E?BE" it may be, v\hichxtendl to draw awa; irom the partiés’| themselyes, or from the judiclary the de- termination of disputes, which under the constitution and laws of the commonwealth entrusted to them, necessarily weakens | impairs our form of government and | in the present case would but tend to pro- long the agitation that will delay the resto- ratlon ‘of full service by the transit com- pany. This the public is entitled to have and I confidently belleve by the continu- ance of present peaceful conditions it will s00n be fully restored. “In bringing about peace and good order 1 rely on tho co-operation and aid of coun- cils and the support of all law ablding oit- izens,"” M Mewsnge | All Petitions Referred. That the councll were In entire accord with the view of the mayor in the fore- gong was made evident by the absence of any mction or discussion relative to the crisis. Beveral pettons from busness men's assoclations and trades unions bearing on thie strike were heard wthout comment. A resoluton from the eCntral Labor unon, slgned by John J. Murphy, the president, requestion arbitration, was introduced in the common council by James Clough, a niember from the Thirtioth ward, “by re- Qi as he explained. It was referred 10 the law committec. In select councll Thomas McFarland pre- sented a resolution instructing Mayor Rey- burn, Willlam H. Carpenter and George H, Warle, the clty's representatives on the Philadelphia Rapld Transit board of di- roetors, to demand the submssion by the colpany to arbitration. Councllman Henry J. Tratnor immedi- ately moved that the resolution be tabled. He sald he was informed that an act of the | eslslature of 158 permitted either party in (- dispute over wages to carry his case to he court of common pleas and that this wave the striking carmen an adequate rem- ody in law. The motion to table was car- ried with only a few dissenting volces, Satire by McFurland, Mr. McFarland twice attempted there- after to gain the privilege of the floor in order to present another resolution, but President Haslett refused to recognize him, | This resolution satirically ealled upon | vour peerless leader, Contractor James P, | MeNicoll, who is now sojourning In sunny Florida under the sheltering palms, in com- Dany with certain Influential republican and | democratic members of the councils, and | the founders of the Workingmen League party to immediately return and issue the mocessary orders to Rey ohange their belliger Falllng to bring this resolution officfally 10 the atientlon of the council, Mr. McFar- land disiributed typewritten coples to his colleagues after adjournment Dirdetor of Public Safety Clay today Wrote the president of the Bullders' ex- ehange directing that all bullding materlals near places under course of construction be moved from the streets by tomorrow night. This fs to prevent riotous persons from securing missiles for use against the pollce and trolley cars. The director also issued an officlal no- ties to Industrial establishments througa- out the ity calling attention to the “duty of proventing the strees from being filled wih grea crowds, which may be influenced 0 acts of disorder and lawlessness by irr- sponsible persons. Company Scouts Arbitration. ' Arbitration has been scouted by the PRil- delphia Rapld Transit company officlals, e city's representatives on the board of tireotors of the company, and, in faet, by Dractieally all persons connceted in gn officlal capacity With the transit company. The action taken at the meeting of the Central Labor unfon last night, when that ofganization made final preparations to ©Arry ‘the threatened sympathetle strike (Continued on Secona Pa U | Parker Sercomb, will refuse to retain his OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING | Cummins-Clapp | Make Report on Railroad Bil ubers pof Committee ce Court and Other Taft Measure, WA the ad palr the effick and that the ¢ merce which th yrch 2.—Declaring that liroad bill would im- | jthe existing statute | of a court of com- | are involves would | mean an exper t'wholly unneces- sary,” Senators ¢ and Clapp today submitted the minority report of the sen- ate Interstate commerco committee. The report holds that the creation of a | court, the sole work of which would be | to try rallroad cases, would be fundamen- tally wrong and reminds the senate of “‘the tremendous Influences which will inevita- bly surround the selection of such a tri- | bunal.” In the last three and a half years, | the minority report asserts, there have been Just twenty-six cases in which such a court would have had jurisdiction. In pointing out some of the things the senators think make the bill ineffective, they declare it should include all corpora- tion common carrlers and that there is nothing to prevent a holding corporataion from issuing all the stocks and bonds it | may please What is termed the most ‘“objectionable | and harmful feature,” is the proposed de- parture from the method of defending suits brought by carrlers to make inoperative the orders of the commission. The minority senators ¢faim that the section to govern consolldation of rallway lines would permit water and rall routes to consolldate; would allow a rgllroad to buy up a competitive steamship line and that in effect all the railroads in the aited States could be merged under a ingle corporation, provided they would be operated by electric power. Senators Cummins and Clapp reported to further amend the existing law to make all holding corporations come under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce ommission and would make the term ‘common carrier" embrace all corporations | having a controlling Interest In a common carrler. Court Upholds Elevation Fee in Pcavey Case Judge Sanborn Enjoins Order Prohib- iting Roads from Making Allow- ance to Elevators, KANSBAS CITY, March 3.—In & decision handed down here today the United States cireult court permanently enjoined the In- terstate .Commerce commission from en- forcing an order prohibiting railroads and other carriers from allowing compensation to owners and operators of elévators for elevation and transfer of grain in transit. The decislon was given by Judge Sang born and was concurred in by Judges Hook and Adams. The Injunction sult was filed In 8t. Louls by the Peavey Elevator company, which was supported in Its petition by commer- clal bodles of Kansas City, Omaha and other cltles In the middle west. The Interstate Commerce commission Issued the order prohibiting the owners of elevators from recelving compensation for the elevation and transfer of gran in tran- sit on the theory that such action amounted to a rebate. The order had, it was alleged, been most detrimental to the business of elevators, the total value of which is millions of dol- lars, The decision today says that “the order of the Interstate Commerce commission which prohibits the allowance or payment by carriers of all compensation to owners | and operators of elevators for the elevation and transfer of grain in transit is beyond the delegated power of the commission."” PROF. ROSS’ FRIENDS THINK HIM SCAPEGOAT Visit of Emma Goldman to Madison Creates Biggest Kind of Uni- versity Sensation. MADISON, Wis., March 3.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—There is a growing bellef here that Prof. Ross, who camg to Wisconsin from Nebraska university and who was yester- cay censured for his connection with the visits to Madison of Emma Goldman and place on the faculty in the face of the re- proof of the Board of Regents. His friends are outspoken in the belief that he is belng made a scapegoat for the entire affair, He is no more to blame, they belleve, for the visit of Emma Goldman than any other member of the faculty and his friends re- sent the censure, saying that the report of the Board of Visitors, which Investigated the entlire affair, was so framed as to be- come a whitewash of the university itself, and that Prof. Ross was censured so that the sentiment in the state resulting from | the affair might be satistied by some sacri- fice, In other words, rPof. Ross' friends | belleve that he 1§ carrying the burden which should have fallen to President Van Hise as head of the university. Ty Cobb ’s Salary Nine Thousand. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 3.—Tyrus Cobb | recelved and signed his contract with the Detroit American league ball club yester day. Cobb's contract calls for a saiary of $9,000 annually for three years. | testimony, did so without any hope of leniency. scribed methods used to ers,” which was organized in 1907. || asslgned him WILL LOOK INTO OLEO INDUSTRY Judge Landis Orders Federal Grand Jury in Chicago to Make Investigation. IS Moonshiners in Chicago Had Organi- zation to Maintain Prices. TESTIMONY STARTLING RATE CUTTER IS SLUGGED Association Refused to Reimburse Witness Who Paid Thug. MOXLEY’'S NAME MENTIONED Congressman from Sixth Ilinofs Dis- trict and Other Prominent Makers Are Mentionea the Testimony. CHICAGO, March 3.—Federal grand jury Investigation of the oleomargarine industry In this city was ordered by Judge K. M. Landls in the United States district court Iate this afternoon, after the court had listened to testimony given by three men Wwho had pleaded gullty to charges of violating the internal revenue law relating to the coloring of oleomargarine. The name of Willlam J. Moxley, congressman from the Sixth Illinols district, as well as those of other prominent manufacturers of the product figured In the hearing. The testimony upon this astion was based, was given by Samuel Driesbach, Danfel Bortz and Willlam Broadwell, dealers in oleomargarine in this city. Broadwell yas sentenced to six years in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth and fined $15000 by Judge Landls 6n Monday, but after hearing the story of the three men, the court di- | rected United States Marshal Hoy not to execute the sentence until further notice. The sentence of Driesbach and Bortz was deferred, Kour Thousand Pounds a Day. Broadwell, who gave the most startling appeared as a witness on his own account and acknowledged that he He told of purchasing the white oleomargarine from manufacturers, who, he said, furnished him with the coloring, and of his selling the illegally colored product to restaurant keepers, hospitals and hotels. More than half of the total output of the oleomargar- Ine factorles in Chicago fs sold to *“moon- shiners,” according to the testimony of Broadwell. Pays for Slugging. Samuel Driesbach told the court in de- tail the course pursued by him and others In mixing and selling oleomargarine. He declared that in 1906 he mixed oleomargar- ine n different places on the west side of this bity, principaliy in barns. He sald that he went under the name of Jersey Creamery Company and mixed about ten tubs & day. At one polnt fn the story he told of be- ing in a barn mixing the produet when the place was raided and he escaped by means Of a sacret stairway which had ben buflt for that emergency. Driesbach sald that the oleomargarine ‘‘moonshiners” had an arganization to maintain high prices and that one of the members had been “'slugged” because he out prices. The wit- ness complained that he had paid the sluggers and had not been able to get ve. imbursements from the “‘moonshiners’ as- soclation, The witness declared that in the iast vear he had assisted in disposing of about 4,000 pounds of unlawfully colored oleomargarine cally. Dodging Revenue Collectors, ‘Willlam Broadwell, who gave the most Important testimony, occupled the stand during the afternon session. After telling how he happened to get into the business of coloring oleomargarine, witness de- “dodge” revenue collectors.”” At one time he sald he had fifteen tubs' of oleomargarine stored at the Moxley plant and when the revenue collector made & rald of his place he had the stuff shifted around from place place. The witness sald he was president of the Assoclation of “Oleomargarine Moonshin- The or- concerning their to ganization kept books dealings, but finally the members decided to have the books burned. Broadwell testified an employe of the Moxley concern showed him how to use the coloring, It is expected the grand jury investiga- tion will begin on Monday. CHARGED WITH THEFT OF LARGE SUM FROM ESTATE Moses Levine of Los Angeles Found Living with Russion Family in Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, S. D., March 3.—(Special | Telegram.)—Moses Levine, arrested here by | Deputy Sheriff Shaffer and Deputy United | States Marshal McVeigh on an embezzle- | ment charge at the request of authorities | at Los Angeles, Cal, will be held pending the arrival of requisition from Californa. Levine 1s accused of stealing $11,00 from a Californla estate of which he was recelver, He came here last Sunday and registered at the Ward hotel. He clalmed the room was not good enough and left. The officers later located him with a Russian family In the suburbs of the city. Upon confirmation of the description of Levine with the Aberdeen man, he was arrested. Noisy Solons Plan to Get Two'Jobs and Knife Shally Trenmore Cone of Saunders county andrequest E. B. Quackenbush of Nemaba county, belligerent fusionists in the house of the 1907 legislature, are said to be in a com- bine against the re-election of Governor Shallenberger, which, Incidentally, con- lemplates their own elevation to office. Cone would be state rallway commissioner and Quackenbush attorney general. Cone is quoted as saying that he secured a majority of the members of the house and senate petitioning the governor to convene the legislature In speelal stssion to enact the Initiative and referendum and that despite the fact that Shallenberger had faithfully promised to issue the call it & majority of the lexislators made this “he back-tracked when we took the petition to him, and that fsn't the first time he has double-crossed u So Cone amd Quackenbush and thelr friends don’'t care if Shallenberger ‘gets It in the neck.” They have a man for governor In thelr little combine, but ti are not disclosing his name. Cone admits, however, that this man is not one of the essentlal spokes in the wheel of political fortune by which he and Quackenbush ex- pect to roll into the state house. “Shallenberger has fooled the people as cleverly as a man could, but he can't fool them again,” is Cone's avowed bellef, “We know he is lined up with the corporations and liquor trade and he can't hoodwink us any moreH | | { | north entrance of the St. { will be removed tomorrow. SRS o V‘ 0 I From the Minnvapolis Journal. poane MARCH 4, e — RN Wl ; (e IR x,\\\gi.,}\f‘\\u {1 P\ SN AND A Natural History Study. INTHE UL S. RAILROAD BEADS T0 CUTHRIE Oklahoma Will Call Sixteen of Most Prominent Into Court. WOULD LEARN List Ineludes Gould, Ripley, Winchell, wdge and Many kesser Offi- Clale of Bines Jiunning Into Stete. . VALUATIONS GUTHRIE, Mar¢h 3—Sixteen rallway of- ficlals, including weveral of the most prom- inent in the United States, are to be served with subpoenaes issued this morning by the corporation commission of Oklahoma, | demanaing their presence in Guthrie March 15, as witnesses In the freight rate dnves- tigation now in progress here, The list includes George J. Gould, presi- dent St. Louls, Iron Mountain & Southern rallway, New York; J. A. Edsor, president of the Kansas City Southern rallway, Kan- sas City; E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & §:ma Fe - rallway, Chicago; B. L. Winche®, president of the. St. Louls & San Franclsco rallway, St. Louis; H. U. Mudge, president of the Rock Island lines, Chicago; George H. Crosby, vice president, secretary and treasurer, Rock Island lines, Chicago; F. H. Hamll- ton, secretary and treasurer, St. Louls & Ban Francisco rafiway, St. Louls; C. N. Whitehead, secretary and treasurer, Mis- sourl, Kaneas & Texas railway; E. L. Cope- land, secretary and treasurer, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Topeka, Kan.; A. C. Torbert, secretary and treasurer, Gulf Raflroad & Santa Fe, Galveston, Tex.; Frank Kell, president Wichita Falls & Northwestern rallway, Wichita Falls, Tex,; A. H. Caley, secretary and treasurer, St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern, New York; G. C. Hand, secretary and transter agent, Kansas City Southern, New York; A. A. Allen, president. Missourl, Kansas & Texas rallway, St. Louls; F. G. Pettibone, vice president and general manager, Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe, Galveston, Tex.; (. A. Morse, former chief engineer, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rallway, Topeka, Kan, The presence of these officials is de- manded by the state of Oklahoma in an ef- fort to get responsible officials on record as to the valuation of the various proper- tles in Oklahoma which they represent. The state wants this information in perfect- ing its refutation of the findings forming the basis for the recent federal injunction Issued by Judge Hook In Bt. Louls, restrain- ing the Oklahoma corporation commission from enforcing the freight rates that have been established in Oklahoma during the last twenty-two months. FIFTY MORE_BODIES FOUND Corpses Will Be Removed from St. Paul Mine at Cherry, IIL, Today. PEORIA, March 3.-Mine Inspecto~ Richard Newsam in & telephone message trom Cherry, Ill., late today said fifty o~ sixty bodies have been found in the m: Easter is in sight. It is not too early to begin to prepare for it. There will be hundreds of things necessary. Mundreds of dealers have received Easter finery and are ready to display it. In the ‘‘For Easter Column’’ in the Want Ad Page, will be found their announcements. About everything required is listed there. Have you looked them over? Paul mine and | Sixty Killed by Explosion in Alaska Mine Twenty-Three Bodies Have Already Been Recovered—Many Others Are Injured. .1UNEA!;,a Alaska, March 3.-Sixty are dead and many Injured as the result of a magazine explosion In the main shaft of the Treadwell mine today. Twenty-three bodles have been recovered. Man y Towns at Pierre Meeting South Dakota Navigation Convention | Will Draw Delegates from All Along River. PIERRE, 8. D., Mareh 3.—(Speclal)—The commyttecs In charge of the work of pro- motion of the state meeting of deep water- ways, which will be held at this city March 2 and 31 has been busy sinco its solection, and Is recelving a great deal of encouragement. C. E. DeLand, who was | selected to secure speakers for the ocea- | slon has recelved 'assurance from tho Omaha Commerclal club, that it will have representatives at the meeting. The of- | ficers of the Mississippl Valley Transporta- | tlon company, with headquarters at St | Louls have notified Mr. DeLand of th intention to be represented. Commerelal * clubs at Kansas City, Sloux City and other river towns say they will be represented, and a representative of the Natlonal Rivers and Harbors congress will be in attendance. Besides the lone question of navigation, |other matters closely connected with move- |ment of frelght by water are being In- | vestigated, and will be discussed among th | possibilitics of benefits from rlver naviga. Ition. One of these is the proper handling of the lignite coals which are obtainable all along the river. {CLEMENCY ASKE DFOR [ | BY DAKOTA PARDON BOARD State Body Asks that Charles Haynes Be Not Hanged, but Given Life Term. PIERRE, 8. D, March 3.—(Spectal Tele- gram,)—The State Pardon board today rec- jommended clemency in the case of Charles | Hayes, sentenced to be hanged in Lawrence county on March 18, recommending a com- | mutation to life imprisonment. They recom- | mended pardors for Leroy Nath, sentenced on a burglary charge; for Marvin Stanley, sentenced from Lincoln county on an arson charge. They recommended a transfer from the penitentlary to the reform school of |Joe Dunn, sent from Lincoln county on an rson charge. NO CHOICE FOR ‘Mr., publican | while there, | @ full and free expression o fthe republic- | crossing on the lce. TAFT 0N OHIO POLITICS President Disclaims All Interference with Affairs at Home. GOVERNOR Ellls Released at Request Lenders and with Understanding t Te Doen Not Repre- #ent Prestdent. of CLEVELAND, 0., March 3.—In a letter to H. D. Davis, Uhited States marshal here, President Taft denles any responsi- bility for the recent election of former assistant to the attorney general, Wade H. Ellis, as chairman of the Ohlo re- executive committee. The letter rocelved today follows: *“The White Hous ruary 2, 1910, “My Dear My, Davh Washington, Feb- 1 have your letter of February 26, in which you refer to eriti- clsms of me for interfering in Ohio poli- ties by suggesting the selection of Wade H. Bllis as chairmdn of the republican executive commiittes of Ohio. “I am glad to have the opportunity of assuring you ‘hat I dm not in the slightest degree responsibls for the sclection of Wads H. Ellis a8 chairman of the repub- | lican executive comuittee of Ohio. “The natonal comhitteeman, Mr. oVrys, and the head of the central committoe, Mr. rBown, and ME Willlams, who was chaitman of the'exedutive commitiee, came to Washington, and after what 1 assumed was B canvass of the state, notified me that for the general goed of the party I should release Mr. Wade H. Ellls from his | Justice | (where he was doing excellent work) and | position in the Department of allow him to leave the government ser- vico' In order to suécecd Mr. Willams as head of the exceutive commi:tee, “Most reluctantly did I do this and I a1d it also with the express understanding that T aid not desire to Interfere wth local poltgs .n_ Oho; that I had no choce for governor, and that, though Mr. Eilis might succeed to the chalrmanship, he would not, represent me or act upon my suggestions.” “What I am most anxlous about is that the republicans of Ohio shall have full and free expression with respect to the plat- form that they shall adopt and also as to the dandidates to be selected. “I do not think that theer s now in the state any Influence of an organized character that would seek to prevent such ans, Certainly 1 shall nelther have power nor the inclluation myself to ex any Influence of this kind. Sincer “WILLIAM H. Missourl Ice Shaky. PIERRE, 8. D.,, March 3.—(Special Tele- the ert y you! A gram.)—The fce on the Missourl river be- pay thelr falr proportion of the cost. came so shaky today that hacks stopped | therefore Bad river has broken | open and is plling fce out onto the Mis sourl, forming a dam at the mouth of the smaller stream. Roosevelt Give City of Lond March 3.—~The court of common council today unanimously adopted a reso- lution conferring the honorary. freedom of the city on Theodore Roosevelt, in recogni- tlon of the “distinguished manner In which he filled the office of president of the United States and for the eminent service which he rendered tie cause of elviliz tion and the promotiun of amicable rela- tions between forelgn nations.” Mr. Roosevelt will vifit London the mid- dle of May. KHARTUM, Sudan, March '3.—Colonel Roosevelt and his party left Mongalla to- day for Lake No, wheré Colonel Roosevelt may take a shot at ths antelopes of that vieinity, ( | | from Colonel Roosevelt awalting them. n Ffe>edom of on by Council| The party is due here, according to the local understanding, on March 17. NAPLES, M| velt and Miss Ethel, returning from an ex- cursion to Capri today, found a message The message stated that Colonel Roosevelt had made no change in his plans. He expects to arrive here during the first week of April and will go to Rome to eall on King Victor Emmanuel and the pope. He will then proceed to Paris, where he s due on April 15. GENEVA, Switzerland, March 3.—Former | Presidemt Roosevelt and Brutas J. Clay, former American minister to Switzerland, weie today appointed corresponding mem- bers of the Geneva National Institute. ch 3.+-Mrs. Theodore Roose- | WO CENTS. ROADS OPPOSED TO INSPECTION |Railway Men .nT-me to Federal | Inquiry Into Condition of | Locomotive Boilers. |BURKETT'S MEASURE MAKES STIR {Many Objections to Provisions of Second Draft. CHANCE FOR IRRIGATION WORK | |Bill for Thirty Million Certificates | in House, OMAHA RESOLUTIONS PUT IN Congress for Grab Stake Money to Stop Hea Tomestend Appent aw and for Encroacl ment of Missourl, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 3.—(Special Telo- gram.)—Interest In amended Burkett biil providing for federal inspection of locomo- tive bollers shown by a large number of persons present at today's hearing of the subcommittee of the Interstate commerce committee over which Senator Cummins of Towa presided. It s possible that the new bill introduced by Senator Burkett with the advice of the attorney general may have been responsible for the large attendance, but railroad officials and thelr attorneys were there in large numbers and the way these attorneys went after things indicated that they didn't like the new bill any more than they &8id the first measure, which Senator Burkett {utroduced, The time was too short for finlshing statements of the subcommittee by various railroads and the hearing was continued until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The railroads in their statement followed tho same general line of argument as to suf- ficiency of inspection already given the locomotives by their Inspectors and urged again that there was no necessity for federal inspection. Vice President Kendrick of the Santa Fe rallway was on the stand the great part of | the time, and later a representative of the Missour] Pacific raliroad testified as to the Inepection followedon their lines. Some of his statements were rather sharply eriti- clzed by members of the subcommittee, ane admission Ih particular, that their bollers were often inspected only after flues had blown out. In all testimony glven there was a gen- eral tone of criticlsm as (o the present draft of the bill. After the hearing was over one of the senators had a little im- promptu conference with the raflroad offi- clals and urged them to draw a bill that did satisgy them It they were not entirely pleased with the present measure. It was gathered from this conference, however, that no bill providing for federal inspec- tion of botlera woul 1y -katlstac- tory to the rallroads. They are opposcd to federal Inspection, though they admitted that in all probabils ity they would have to submit to it. Irrigation Bill Under Way. The bill providing for an Issuance of $30,000,000 bonds, chargable to the Irrigation fund, to carry to completion various pro- Jects which have been started by the reclamation service and not yet completed will this week be taken up before the ways and means committee, to whom the * bill was: referred today by a committee of fifteen, headed by Representative Mondell of Wyoming. This committee i& composed of one representative In the house of rep- | resentatives from each of fifteen states where irrigation or reclamatlon projects {have been started and where buccessful completion of such profects I8 sought. There will be a preliminary meeting of this committee in a few days to frame up a mode of procedure as to the most ef- fective methods to be adopted to convince the ways and m«-an-’ committee that the | proposed bond Issue {s a good Ahd whole- some thing. From a preliminary canvass {of the situation, Representativé Kinkald of Nebraska today said he belleved ob- Jections which some members of the ways and means committee have openly avowed to the bond issue for reclamation projects will be overcome. Cost of Drainage. Senator Brown from the committee on Indian affalrs today reported favorably a blll of Senator Burkett Increasing the cost [of drainage of lands In dralnage distriot | No. 1, Thurston county, Nebraska, from |$7 to $9.50 per acre. This dralnage Alstrict was created four years ago through the efforts of Mr. Burkett and Ineludes land In the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians In {Richardson county, provision being made that the cost of drainage should be as- sesved against the lands benefited. | It was found that the original blll which | provided for $7 an acre assessment would | not quite cover the amount necessary for | proper execution of the project, and it was | therefore found necessary to increase the | cost to $9.50 per acre. In his report Senator | Brown referred to a letter of recommenda- |tion from the secretary of the interlor fa- | voring the increased cost. The secretary ’fl(&l\'ll that it will be highly Important to | the Indians as well as to thelr white neigh- bors that this drainage projec should be | constructea at an early dats and that the department belleved that Indians- should ' He commended passage of the hill, Senator Burkctt sald he expécted to have !the bill passed within & day or two. Grub Stake Homenteads. Senator Durkett filed resolutions this | morning from Central/ Labor unions of | Omaha and Lincoln urging the passage of | th grub-stake homestead” bil) which the | senator introduced last week. Great inter- est Is taken In this measure by various labor organizations of the country and they are gending petitions to senators and con- gressmen from all parts of the United States favoring Its passage, The senators flled also resolutions from the Leather Workers union of Fremont, Neb, asking that the elght hour law be extendent to Include all work On govern- ment contracts, It 1s stated In the r lutions that some contractors or sub-con- | tractors who have governmerit contracts, | require twelve and in some Instances four- tesn hours & day from their employes en- gaged on government contracts, and the pasage of the senate bill is urged to en- force the elght hour regulation for all government work, The settlers on government land In the North Platte reclamation project have wilt- ten to Senator Burkett that they favor proposed $30,00,000 bond lssue to complote the irrigation project under way, and ask- ing also that they be granted patents after