Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1910, Page 1

‘ INEWS SECTION ‘ PAGES 1 TO 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1910—-TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE WEATHER FORECAST, For Nebraska-—Generally fair, For lowa—Generally fair, For weather report ses page 2 coPY T™WO C SPLENDID DAY Put in Morning, Afternoon and Nightl Deep in the Details of Their Work. HEAR PERSONALLY FROM ORIENT Half a Dozen Missionaries Fresh from Fields Speak. BRING STORIES OF SOUL INTEREST Tell of Cross in India, Korea, China, | Turkey, Africa. ALL DAY SESSIONS AGAIN TODAY Convention Will End in the Big Mass Meet at the Auditoriom Sun- day Afternoon—Will be n to All, TODAY. 9:30 a. m.—A Conferenmce on Steward- Ship— “Prayer Our Most Effective Method” . W Anderson, India of Stewardship” ....0. W. Allen, Cinoinnati “The Practice of Btewardshi Ay 8. §. Hough, Dayton, O. 'his Convention Under- “What Shall T! ....Report of Co-operating Committes “A Call to Stewardship” ............Charles B, Bradt, Chicage 12:30 to 3 p. m.—Conference by Com- munions, 3:30 p. m.—Mass meeting for Women, Young Women's Christian sssociation suditerium. Speakers: President John E. Merrill, Central Turkey college; Mre. George Bherwood Bddy, Indis. 130 p. m.— “A Call to » Great Advance” ... Momer O. Stunts, New York Oty “The Ownership and Lordship of Ohrist”. .......George Sherwood Bddy DENOMINATIONAL CONFERENCE. Baptist—3:00, Young Men's Christian meciation auditorium, Beventeenth and Harnoy streats. Oongregational—1330, Young Men's Ohristian association suditorium, Seven- | teenth and Harmey. ! Ohristian—12:18, Pirst Christian church, | Twenty-sixth and Marney streets. Episcopal—3:30, Trinity cathedral, Bigh- | teenth ana Capitol avenue. Imtheran—3:30, Kountse Memorial, Twenty-sixth and Farnam strosts. ‘Mothodist—3:00, First Methodist chureh, leoturs room, Twentieth and Davenport. Presbyterian—4:00, First Preshyterian church, Seventeenth and Dodge streets. Reformed—3:00, Reformed ohurch, Bouth Twenty-third and Ceutral boule. vard. 'United Brethren—3:30, Marford Memor- a1 chureh, corner Lothrop and Nineteenth stresta. United Presbyterian—a:30, Ualted Presbyisrian church, fourth and Dodge streets. SUNDAY. . /10130 a, m.—Speakers in Churches. 3180 p. m.—Mass Moeting, Auditorium— “Werld Trinmphs ‘of’ the Gospel”: ’ s .Momer 0. Stunt an Investment’ ...George Bherwood BAdy Central Twenty- Yesterday was a grand day for the Lay- men's Missionary movement. Morning, afternoon and night the convention was in progress. Karnest, eloquent men and women from all quarters of the globe, representing half a dozen forelgn lan 1ands where benighted heathenism calls for the light of Christian ctvilization, told their storles of the cross and its influence upon these strange peoples. And they were storles of amazing truth, The en- thusiasm of these missionaries Is some- thing wonderful and it is as infectious as wonderful, for they simply fire thelr sudieaces with the same zeal. The meetings yesterday were held at First Methodist church. The first order of the day was a brief address from five missionaries from as many of the oriental countries. The meetings today will be held at First Methodist and the grand climax of the conventlon will come Bunday after- noon in a big mass meeting at the Audi- rium. Today denominational conferences will be held at various churches indicated above. Afterncon Seéssion. Introduction of busine canvass of every member of the church for & weekly subscription to missions the whole vear through was the subject of a stron and very entertaining preachment at the Friday afterncon session of the ton- vention, by Dr. M. D. Eubank. He drove his. points home with logic and flluminated them with a humor that was irresistible. He wanted o missionary committes in every church, and as a sample of what such a committee could do showed some charts, Elving results under the old way of yearly collections and the new methods of weekly contributions Critlclsing some of these charts in incisive m, with a plcturesque turn to his lang Dr. Eubank had his audience laughing much of the time. Once he stopped to ¥ “I'm glad you take this thing so good humoredly, for yow're laughing at your- selves. This circle here with more white in it than a mule's eye, with a black wedge stuck down into fit, represents a church that ave much more than the ordinary congregation; and this other circle with the little splinted of black in it at one edge represents what your church gave, men. I want you to laugh at your- selves, If by that means I can get you to realize that at least %0 per cent of the church membership does not give a dollar to missions.” Clinches Point with Charts. By his charts and bis sharp remarks, often very eacnest, Dr. Eubank worked his audience up to a sense of his meaning; then he iterated and reiterated his main points—more money needed, to be secured in & business way every week in the year— until he made sure, by a series of ques- tions, that his points had gone home. “So you see.” he.concluded, “the speech in the charts and what they show.” the Second Presbyterian chureh, coln, severely criticised what he called he dreary round of church conventions." system and the | Roosevelt Gives Out Itinerary | Through Europe He Expects to Reach Home April 3 and Will Visit Paris, Berlin and London in Order Named | | ARDHAMED, Sudan, March 18.—Colonel | Roosevelt's European itinerary has been | definitely determined upon with as much exactness as it is possible to make in | advance and was first announced today. The former president will arrive in Rome May 8, and in London on the followin 15th or 17th. He will spend a week in Parls, a week | in Beriin, four days in Rome, three days each in Genoa, Vienna and Budapest; two days in Brussels, The Hague and Chris- tianla, and a day in Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm { The speetal train bearing Colonel Roose- velt, Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit and Miss Ethel and others-of their immediate party is due at Wady Halfa, 676 miles from Khartum, late .tonight. Here a special steamer, the Ibls, will be taken for Shellal. A visit will be made to Assouan and Luxor. At the latter place the train de luxe on the government rallway will be taken for Cairo, where the party is due | on Thursday. Colonel Roosevelt and party arrived | here this forenoon in a special car over |the Sudan government rallway. Most of the trip thus far from Khar- {tum was made In the night, but the | early hours of today afforded a sight of & considerable stretch Colonel Roosevelt expressed himself as astonished at the luxury of raflway trav- eling through a desert and spoke of the raflroad system as a monument to Brit- ish enterprise in colonization, which was able to conquer all difficulties. jobbers Battle For Lower Rates From Southwest Traders of Chicago and Missouri River Points Allege Unfair Rate from Gulf States. KANSAS CITY, March 18.—Contending that the present schedule of rafiroad treight rates from the Gulf of Mexico to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,' New Mex'co and Colorado discriminates against the shippers in that territory, the Southwestern Shippers' Traffic: assoclation today filed a petition with the Interstate Commerce Commission that those rates be reduced. Commissioner Charles A. Prouty, presided at the hearing. All the railroads entering " the southwest weré represented by ‘coufisel 'to’ bppose’ the ‘petition. ~ Shippers of Chi- cago, St. Louls and Missourl river cities ‘were represented by attorneys supporting the opposition. John L. Powell, a merchant of Wichita, Kan,, and president of the assoclation that flled the petition, told the commissioner it costs no more to ship freight from the Guif of Mexico to a city in the southwest based on the cost on service. than from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri river.' Jidge Prouty asked Mr. Powell if he thought the commission would be justi- fied in reducing the Texas northbound to such an extent was to be less than the Texas southbound rate, which seems to be satisfactory to the Texas rallroad com- mission. Mr. Poweil replied he aid not #sk the commission to make unreasonable rates In favor of his territory, but desired that the commission make Its declsion after a careful Investigation of the merits of his contention. The witness would not admit the rail- roads were responsible for the develop- ment of the southwest. He said the portion of Oklahoma that was not supplied with railroad facllities for a long time, de- veloped as rapidly as the remainder of the state. He sald railroads merely facilitated the development of & new country. Alleged Big Oleo Fraud in New York Four Men Are Accused of Defrauding Government Out of $5,000 Daily. | | NEW YORK, March 18.—Accused of hav- ing defrauded the federal government out | ot approximately $500 daily for some time | past, four men connected with the Hudson | Butterine company of Hoboken, N. J., were arrested today. The men arrested | were Frank G. Person, president; Harry J. Brown, treasurer; Adam Tinborn, chemist, and Henry Larsen, assistant chemist. The prisoners were taken before United States Commissioner Rowe in Jersey City and held for a hearing. | |SENATOR DANIEL IS NO BETTER Restful Night, but is U to Recogmize Amy- one. DAYTONA, Fla, March 18.—After pass- ing & fafrly ‘restfol night, United States Senator -Danlel -of Virginla is. in practl- cally the.same condition e last night and 1s still unable to recornize anyone. Produce Exchange to Close. NEW YORK, March 15.—The produce ex- change here will be closed March 2, Good Friday. JURY WILL GET | MABRAY TODAY ierchants and Farmers of Iows About to Have Their Tr= o % the T v fl':\:‘“ s f y WILL BE GIV: Oratory of Passionate Kind Flowed All of Friday. {on April 3; in Paris April 21; in Beriin | IT CONSUMED TEN LONG HOURS Defense Bases Its Arguments Entirely | on Law Points. STICKS TO GRAND OLD TECHNIQUE Mabray's Counsel Admits He in Sorry of His Course, But Deny He Used the Mails to Detraud. The fate of John C. Mabray and his twelve fellow defendants on trial in United States' court at Council Bluffs will be given to the jury to determine this afternoon. Judge Smith B. MecPherson will deliver his instructions to the jury at 2 o'clock. The case will then immedlately be taken up by the jury. The arguments vere clceed by Colonel Marcellus L. Temple, disurict attorney, last night, ending & day occupled entirely with the oratorical appeals of tho trial. Ten hours of argument devoled to the discus- sion of law and evidenze in the case marked the close, The arguments bore largely on the tech- | nical lssue of the case, whether or not there was a conspiracy to defraud between the members of the big store gang. The Stars and Stripes, the Golden rule, the decalogue, dark dungeons, deprivation of human liberty and sundry other well known staples of appeal were invoked by C. A. Irwin of Denver in making the open- ing address for the defense. Decuments of Mabray’s. Irwin maintained that the . documents taken from the residence of Mabray could e used gs evidence against him alone in the copgideration of the case. Elmer L. McCold of Keokuk, Ia., ¢losed the' argument for the defense. He, too, discussed the evidence entirely on tchnical grounds. He was preceeded by Emmett Tniley. “No one recognizes better the mistakes that he has made, the wrong of it all than John C. Mabray, but, gentlemen, he did npt at any time contemplate the use of the United States malls,” sald Mr. Me- Cold. “There is no evidence In this case to show that he did, by word or act him- s@lf, know of any use of the mails that may have taken place, “The evidence in this case has shown that there was a dircot avoidance of the use of the malls; that the so-called show letters’ were written on the spot by the steerers as thy needed them.” At the close of McCold's address at 6 o'clock last night a recess was taken to 17:90, when Colonel Temple opened his clos- ing argument. The instructions are under consideration by Judge McPherson. He will devote this morning to their preparation for delivery at 2 o'cloek. Stewart Opens for Defense. George B, Stewart, assistant district at- torney, opened for the defense in an art- tully humorous review of the work of the gang and its operations as directly con- cerned with the use of the mails. ally he unfolded the forces of the prize fights, wrestling matches and races threw in & word of sympathy for Leo," the Mabray horse, which never won a race, thereby delivering upwards of $250,000 to the “Milllonaires.” A brigade of speclal officers, secret ser- vico men and policemen from many cities is lingering for the close of the trial rests are to be made In the event of an acquittal of certain of the defendants, Scores of Indictments on state offenses stand against the mikers and are yet to be satistied in the numerous courts having Jurisdiction. Ed Rice, a race horse man whose radlus | of gyration swings about Denver, took the stand Friday morning as the third and last of the alibi witnesses put on in behalf of Willlam Powell. A cancelled race ticket, drawn on a book- maker at the “rabbit” races In Havana, Cuba, held by EQ Rice and marked | “‘busted,” denoting loss, was Introduced as “Exhibit 30." Rice swears that Powell was with him at Havana. The contentlon (s that the defendant race horse man was in | Havana at the time he is charged with riding “big store” races as Tom Rogers. Accounts for the Scar. Rice convenlently accounted for the scar which Powell wears by an accident eight | years ago. John H. Sizer, miked at Los Angeles, testified that Powell got the mark | when he threw a “blg store race" which | cost $8,500. “It seems to me to have been a comb- | nation of all the different groups in the cities whero the stores operated. I do not know whether or not it was a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act,” declared Stewart, opeming fire. “Who do we find in this combination? Ed. C. Moore, R. B. Harriman, Frank Brown, and Mabray—Mabray, that gentle man, who sat with twinkling eyes and smiles as the mikes told their stories. His face lighted up as (helr testlmony re- called to him the funny things that hap- (Continued on Fourth Cigar Restores The war clouds which have heen lowering over Judge Sears’ court room in district court have been somewhat dissipated and {Judge Sears and his balliff, Charles F. M. Morgan, are once more on good terms. The trouble came because Judi Sears— not a smoker for the last ten years—put an officlal kibosh on the balliff's smoking a pipe in the court room before and after sessions of the court. He was alluding to the dead spirit found in %0 many congregations. 'astors must be misslonary pastors to t anywhere,” sald Dr. Bradt. “Our sem- Inaries ought to be closed up unless they ean teach pestors to have the missionary (Continued on Bixth Page) Now Mr. Morgan has been smoking a plpe for a good many years. He I8 now 82 or 53 years of age and he was smoking a pipe when he went through Nebrasks with the John C. Fremont expeditions as one of Fremont's scouts, But his pipe does make a cloud of vil- lainous swoke and Judge Sears finally de- Peace that Old Pipe Had Destroyed cided he could stand it no longer. He is- sued a firmly worded order and the pipe went out. But relations thereupon became strained. No more did the old ballitf's cheery “‘Good morning, your honor,” greet the court's ears when he entered the court rgom. Judge Sears liked this as little as he aid the smoke. It was a puzzling problem and when a solution offered itself the court eagerly grasped at It. A friend, calling, tendered Judge Sears a clgar. “Don't smoke,"” sald Judge Sears. he added In & hurry: that clgar after all!" The clgar has now been tendered as a poace offering to the balliff and all is once more sunny and serene In the court room. Then “Hold on; give me Graphie- | He | “Red | Ar- | | whether it is right and whether we ought | to vote for it regardiess of Its origin.” From the Washington Herald CUMMINS CLOSES PROITEST Towa Senator Completes Four-Day Speech Against Railroad Bill. SENA'Z THEN ADJOURNS IN PEACE Many Members Congratulate Hawk- eye Man on Attitude—Main Com- plaint on Raflway Consolida- tion Clause. WASHINGTON, March 18.—After holding | the floor for four days Senator Cummins | today completed his speech in opposition | to the administration railroad bill and the | senate adjourned until Monday next. The Towa senator's discussion today | dealt principally with the provision regu- lating the consolidation of rallroads and with this provision he found much. fault. Polnting out ‘that the regulation extends to ‘railropds alone, he declared that in the omission of water Jines there was possi- bility of great abuse. He referred to the prospective completion of the Panama canal and sald it would be impossible to pre- vent the transcontinental railroads from acquiring the water lines, thus cutting out all competition. He also called attention to the fact that {electric lines were _specifically = excluded ‘from the provision and declared it would be possible for an electric line to gain con- trol of all the railroads in the country. Kicks on Many Features. Mr. Cummins also criticised the words directly competitive” as defining the lines which may consolidate. He sald such |1anguage would afford much margin and it was doubtful whether many lines would be found to come within the elastic prohibi- tion. Mr. Cummins engaged In a colloquy with Senator Elkins during which he declared: “I want to prevent competing lines from | consolidating.” “That 1s what we all want” responded Mr. Elkins. “I am glad to see that the senator from Towa is bringing himself into substantial accord with his committee." “You mean that the committee s belng driven gradually to accept my position,” retorted Mr. Cummins. Mr. Aldrich interpreted this statement as an' ultimatum and remarked that it scemed to be one of several ultimatums | which that senator had undertaken to lay down. Mr. Cummins disavowed any such | purpose. Senator Nelson suggested the striking out of the entire provision regarding rail- road mergers, leaving the anti-trust law to control in such cases. “If we adopt this sectlon it will be folly to carry on further the prosecution of the Unlon Pacific merger,” he sald. New Court of Commerce, Mr. Cummins took up the provision plac- ing the approval or disapproval of con- solidation agreements in the discretion of the proposed court of commerce and de- clared it to be extraordinary and uncon- stitutional, because, as he contended, It delegated legislative authority to the court Senator Borah inquired who was the author | of the proviston. “‘Search replied Senator Clapp. Mr. Cummins suggested the attorney gen- eral as the real author and intimated that he believed the president to be responsible for the original suggestion. “It is plain,” interjected Senator Nelson, | “that the bill is an orphan.” Mr. Overman did not agree with him in view of Senator Cummins statement and enator Elkins thought its “paternity” un- important. “It I8 here,” he said, “and the question is | Senator Borah sald he did not belleve (Continued on Second Page.) About the house is something you do not use. Doesn’t has value. It is worth money to some one. Some one will'be glad to get It. They are reading The Bee every day to find it. ‘What is it? Write a description of it and phone 238 and you will find a theerful staff to take your order, matter what it Is—Iit Some one wants it. | night Half Million Dollars Paid tor Painting Picture of Family by Franz Hals is Sold to Otto Kahn for Rec- ord Price. NEW YORK, March 18.—Half a million dollars—a record price for a paintingwwas pald today for the celebrated portralt of Franz Hals, the Dutch painter, and his family, painted by himself. The purchaser was Otto Kahn, the banker, who secured the portrait from the Duveen brothers. J. P. Morgan bld between $350,000 and $400,000 for the ploture. ‘Gov. Haskell Is Exonerated GUTHRIE, OKL, March 18.—Governor Charles N. Haskell was exonerated of the charge of misappropriation and ‘misman- agement of state funds in a report filed in the leglslature here today by the house committee composed of five democrats and two republicans. COVERNOR WILLTAKE OPTION Nebraska Executive Says He Will be for It if Party PLAYING FOR BRYAN SUPPORT Previous Declarations Were Always Against {t, but He Has Experi- enced Change of Heart—W., H. Thompson Also. (From a Staff Corerspondent.) LINCOLN, March 18.—(Spectal.)—Gov- crnor Shallenberger is for county option 1 fthe democratic party is for it. He is against county optlon If the democratic party Is opposed to It. Governor Shal- lenberger will make the race if nomi- nated on any old platform the democratic conyention. fixes up for him. ' In this connection this morning he sald: “I am opposed fo county eption, but If thegdemocratic party in its platform de- cu&f:r 1t 1 shall abide by that plat- for hatever the party does will sult me.” This s considered by some democrats the democratic party will in Its platform convention declare for county option, The only democratic candidate so far an- nounced who 15 opposed to county option is Mayor Dahlman of Omaha, but even here as making it almost a certainty that | CANNON FIGHT STANDS AT DRAW House Adjourns Until Today, Neither Side Willing to Concede Advantage, COMMITTEES PLAN COMPROMISE |Suggestion of Change in Rules Body With Speaker Eliminated. IPR IDING OFFICER STAYS FIRM Speaker Cannon Refuses to Accept His Elimination. MEMBERS STOP FROM EXHAUSTION Proposition (‘nn:lt:;l by Rew Name Champ Clark Speaker Nather than Elect Definnt Republican, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 18.—(Special Tele- gram)—Shall Speaker Cannon hold his kplace on the committee of rules is the ques- tion which still faces the house of repre- sentatives. For thirty hours, in one of the | most extraordinary sessions of the body's | history, members of the lower branch of i the natlonal legislature debated | tlon, finally at 448 p. m. adjourning untth | tomorrow at i1 o'clock out of sheer physical exhaustion. During the a the ques- ¥'s fight, when It became apparent the struggle was to be to the |finish, some of the regular republicans in‘rlullxfll) considered electing Champ Clark, minority leader, speaker, on the theory they would rather follow a democrat In | preterence to a republican who defies the majority of his party; this, of course, con- | tingent on the defeat of the organization. | Speaker Cannon let it be known he would | not accept elimination from the committee, Fight One to Finish. When Representative Norris of Nebraska introduced his resolution of yesterday, creating a rules commlittee of fifteen, he ! proposed a plan which In the judgment of a dispassionate lookeron can have but one result—the elimination of Speaker Cannon, For hours the legislators debated, some sit- ting sullenly by watching the Insurgents | and democrats make ready to take away from the speaker the right he has had under the rules for a century and a quar- | ter—to be a member of the rules committes land therefore one of the steering commit- tee, for that, after all, is what the rules committee fs. After a ling fight spent in fruitless har-, |rangulngs, in which now and then some- thing ludicrous, something pathetic or a flash of oratorical brilllancy made the sloepy legislators sit up and rub their | eyes, the night brought no solution of the | contest. { Today there was a measure of compro- {mise in the air and a rccess was taken trom 2 until 4 o'clock. The Insurgents, rep- resented by a committes led by Messrs. Norrls of Nebraska, Hayes of Califorala, Gardner of Massachusetts and Lenroot of Wisconsin, met a self-constituted commit- {tee of regulars—Payne of New York, Dal- | zell of Pennsylvania, Mann of Illinols and Walter I, Smith of Iowa—to arrange a | compromise, it possible. While there were | bitter feelings In evidence, these members § The committee held In each instance that | N9 MO8t ardent supporfers doubt that met fn conference with bitterness buried there had been no misappropriation, inas- ' much as the services paid for by each dif- terent individual by the governor had ac- tually been performed and there could be no misappropriation In the absence of theft. BALLINGER-PINCHOT INQUIRY GOES OVER Committee is Unable to Secure n Quorum Becnuse of Condition Prevalling in the House. WASHINGTON, March 18.~Owing to the conditions prevailing In the house it was impossible to secure & quorum of the Bal- linger-Pinchot investlgating committee this morning and adjournment taken until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. With a singular devotion to duty that challenged a demonstration, Representa- tive Madison of Kansas, the “Insurgent” | member dragged his weary feet from. the house end of the capitol over to the senate | office building and poked his head into| the room where the committee was in conference with the lawyers, just as both had given up hope of obtaining a quorum. “I haven't had any sleep, but I guess I can stay a little while,” announced Mr. Madison. Aftr a further conference it was declded that fnasmuch as it would be practically | impussible for Madison to remain in the | hearing an adjournment until tomorrow | would be advisable THREE MEN KILLED IN MINE Death from Dlack Damp Follows Ex- plosion in Workings at Pittsburs, Kan. PITTSBURG, Kan, March 18.—Three | men were killed today In an explosion in mine No, 2, Wear Coal company, near here, The dead GEORC JOHN OV CHARL DIDEED Rescurers hurried to the mine ani| ought out all the other men uninjured. | The vietims were not burned, but smoth- | SINKFORD. MAN | | | clsm or endorsement. he can control a state convention with !Willlam J. Bryan atcively asalnst his. virtually agreed to a {principlees and Governor Shallenberger | gentative Martin of willing to stand on any platform. Friends of the executive who oppose county option had an idea that Governor Shallenberger would refuse to accept a nomination at the hands of the demo- cratic party if the convention declared for county optioy, but Instead would man and the fact that he has come out in an interview that he will run on any platform the party promulgates has caused a new lineup of forces in Lincoln and among a lot of working democrats Dahlman stock has gone up materlally. Little Giant Following Sult. Governor Shallenberger's present posi- tion Is taken as the first answer to the program of C. W. Bryan published some time ago. It 1s told on the most rellable authority that W. H. Thompson, candidate date for the democratic nomination for United States senator, 1s also erady to come Into the Bryan camp at the first opportunity on a county option platform. Former Mayor F. W. Brown of Lincoln, who has been sclicited to run for lieu- tenant governor to boost the Shallen- berger campalgn, is opposed to county option and his friends believe it will not be possible for Mr. Bryan o rany other democrat to get him to take the same stand as Governor Shallenberger, Mr. Brown felt very kindly to the candl- dacy of the governor, btu there is evi- dence at hand to show that he will never make a combination wtih the present ex- ecutive on the platform proposed. Mr | Brown has always, whenever a candidate for office, say his friends, made his plat- form and stood on it regardles of criti- For that reason it is talked arcund Lincoln that if the for- mer meyor does get busy In this campaign be and Mayor Dahlman will be closer to- gether than will he and the governor, Three Persons Burn to Death, WILSON, Kan. March 18.—Mrs. Doran, aged 35, the wife of a liv and her two young sons, from burns rocelved last night when oil lamp exploded, setting fire to home. The mother man an d by black damp. save the children .Presiéent ;l'afit Reads News of Fight in House ASHTABULA, O, March 18—On his| way from Chicago to Rochester, where he | Is to speak before the Chamber of Com- merce tonight, President Taft made a brief stop here early today. Up to the time of leaving Chicago last the president had ree meager news of the fight agal Cannon, This had come partly dispatches from the White House and partly from newspaper bulletins that were given to Mr. Taft The president read the morning papers put aboard his train at Cleveland, but would not comment on the matter in any way. He felt that his information was not complete enough for this, but it was doubt- ful that he would say anything under the circumastances even if he were in Washing- ton. At any rate, it was sald the develop- ments in the house would in no way alter the president's plans for his trip. The president all along has let it be known that he would not interfere with any fight the insurgents might make on the sheaker or on the rules of the house. He has Insisted, however, that the insur- gents give the administration’'s bllls loy: support 1t they are still to be regarded as republicans and desire to share in the pat- ronage that a republican president can give. Bo far the Insurgency in the house has not extended to any of the president's measures recommended In fulfillment of party pledges. In fact, many of the in- surgents have pledged him their support and untll they show some dlsposition to break this pledge the president will keep “hands off.” work for the nomination of Mayor Dahl- ! It has been the general bellef here that | Lewis | died early ‘today | their | was burned trying to| as much as possible, and as a result they suggestion of Repre- South Dakota, that the rules committec shall consist of ten members, six republicans and four demo- crats, to be chosen by the house, but that the speaker shall not be eligible to a place thereon. Regulars Make Coneession. The regulars, realizing they were up lagainst the fight of thelr lives, conceded | the former proposition, but could not agree that the speaker should be completely elim- inated, and that his right as a representa~ tive in congress should be abrogated by {reason of his speakership. That is where | they stand tonight It is possible that these representatives of the regulars and insurgents may have a meeting later further to consider the situ- | ation, but Judge Smith and Representative Dalzell, and even Representative Norrls, tired and exhausted as they were, insisted that a night's rest might clear thelr brains and in the light of another day the appar- ently Impossible agreement might become | poesible. When Judge Norris left the chamber at the 6 o'clock hour, the house had ad- | journed until noon tomorrow. On the vote | to adjourn, there was a number of changes, | Hinshaw and Kinkaid *voting for both | recess ana adjournment, seelng the fultility | of longer strain upon physical endurance. Some of the members of the Iowa dele- | gation who are classed among the insur- | gents also voted to terminate the struggle for a few hours, for it looks as if it will | be a real struggle, should the committees fall to reach an agreement. Judge Norris, |leader of the insurgents, was not par- tcularly hopeful tonight that such an agreement could be reached | The result s nothing more nor less than |a drawn battle. When the final roll call came 184 republicans voted to postpone further action on the Norrls amendment until tomorrow and 150 democrats and in- | surgents republicans voted to continue. With the regular republicans voted, four- teen of the insurgent following of Norris of Nebraska, who left him and sided with the majority for a postponement. The re- sult,’ they sa!d conveyed slgnificanca and meant anything else than that they had deserted the insurgent cause The lull in the long battle came with ap- parent welcome to both sides, although |there was not a cheer of victory from ¢ither. When the speaker put the motion to adjourn a general chorus of ayes came from the republican side. The democrats mido no protest and there was no answer to the call for the nayes Almost Full Membership. The house for the first time in the pres- ent session had almost its full membership on the floor. When the speakers gave the eount the members rose wearily from the seats and passed out through the literated alsles and In five minutes the scene of the recs breaking endurance struggle was cleared of its 400 princi the galleries were emptied of the hundreds of spectators who have occupled them constantly for nearly thirty hours and only a score or so of janitors moved about cleaning up the evidence of the fray. No such series of scenes have nessed in & congress In recent years. The performance embraced every ele nt from the serlous traglo effort to wrest from the speaker the chlef source of his power to the songs, jokes and ribald jest that the been wit-