Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1910, Page 1

’ ( 5 THE OMAHA BEE & clean, reliable newspaper that s admitted to each and every home. THE OMAHA IAILY WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Fair and cooler, For lowa—Increasing cloudiness, For weather report see page 2, OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, Tt 1 A OVER flRIKF..' Some Progress Made toward Settl, ’k ment of Philadelphia Trouble in All-Night Conference. COMBATTING LEADERS PRESENT Transit Officers, Labor Chiefs and State Senator All There. MEN APPROVE CHIEFS' Motormen and Oonductors in Mass Mecting Endorse Stand. * ACTION SYMPATHETIC STRIKE IS DYING Thirty-Five Thousand Members the Textile Workers' Uni Re- turn te Work-—State Execu- tive Councll Meets, March 23.—Although partielpants In the conference between strike leaders, transit company, directors and politiclans, which were conferred with today, stated no. egréement had been reaclied and that a settlement of the street ar strike WA not yet In sight, it is be- lleved & step toward a settiement of the difficulty has been takén. The conference was held in the residence of George P, Harle, one of the represent- atives of the city on the board of direc- tors for the transit company. For the first time all the prindipal labor leaders wee brought together and discussed with numbers of the board of directors their stand in th controversy between the car men and the transit company. Several of the national officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rallway Employes, as well as the members of the committes of ten which has charge of the local sympathetlo trike were present. State Senator James P. McNichol and Frank Beeney, chiet of the bureau of ele- vator Inspection at city, hall and former _ president of the Central Labor union, was also in attendance. Conference Ifolds L It was after 2 o'clock: before the last of the conferees had left Earle's residence. Every one was reticent in discussing the meeting, slthough Prsident W. D. Mahon, president of the carmen’s union and Sena- tor MeNighol both stated that a settiement is not yet in sight. As the hettlement of the street car men's troubles continue to be delayed, the lcaders of the general ithetlc strike are find- ing it harder to keep their followers in The textile workers fn' Kensington who, together with the members of the allled building trades formed the backbone of the strike, resumed work today. The u-m:,l@ou»umt ‘about 36,000 . per- PHILADELPHIA, leaders and’ A 4 'mifih to” wia ~ the ¢ar men was not a suceessful move. The executive couroll of the state federa- tion of.labor, : will, however, meet at Wilkes-Barre todlay to consider further the question of calithg & state-wide strike. Stand By Leaders. At a mass meeting of the striking motor- men and condugtors, held this afternoon, the stand of their leaders in refusing to ac- cept the proposition made by the company through Mayor Reyburn was endorsed and It was voted not to return to work until the company agreed to give the men back their -0ld runs, thereby preserving thelr rights of senlority. C. 0. Pratt, the natlonal organiger, told the earmen not to worry about the smypa- thetle strikers who were returning to work in such large numbers. He sald it was best for them to go back and give the car- meén their financial support. A special conference of the department ohléfs was held in the mayor's office In the elty hall today at which it was de- oMed to introduce in councils a bill ap- propriating $10,000 to pay the special police- mén who have been on duty since the strike d $100,000 for fucldental expenses in con- nection with the strike. State-Wide Strike Postpomed. WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 23.—Presi- dent Qreenawalt of the State Federation Labor this afterncon gave out a state- » it that there would fke as long as there of a dettiement of the strike In Philadeiphia. President Greenawalt was surprised and somewhat disappointed today when He sald: “Asked what effect the action of the 25,000 textile workers of Philadelphla In voting to g0 back to work would have on the deliberations of the executive committee in this city, Mr, Greenawalt said: None." WINNEBAGD BILL, PASSES Senate Takes Favorable Action on Measure Admitting Them Be- fore Court of Claims. be no state-wide was a possibility street car men's 2 (From a Staft Correspondent.) WABHINGTON, March 2.—(Spécial Tel- &gram.)—The senate committee on Indian bffairs today made a tavorable report on Benafor Brown’s bill groting the Winne- bago Indlans in Nebraska the right to take thelr claims against the general govern- ment to the court of claims. ‘The senate today passed Senator Brown's bill_providing that lands owned by the ‘Omaha Indlans in Nebraska chiefly lying ih Thurston - county shall hereafter be pluced on the county tax list and subject to the same rate of taxation as may be m‘ from white owners of realty. carriers @ppointed are as follow: " man, carrier; Eva G. Blakeman, substitute, + Bouth Dakota—Watertown, route 8, John W. Marston, carrier; Antonla L. Marston, - substitute. Exeelsior Springs Bursiug. | KANSAS CITY, March 2 —Excelslor Mo, the famous watering place, twenty-six miles northeast of hers, is re- 1o be in danger of destruction by “Phirtest bulldings have already ———— _ Farmer Commits Suletd MITOMBLL, .l-.D-. March 2. —(Speclal.)— farmer, resident bf this ot T N %.Dr. Cook Brc;kc, -, kX Funds All Gone, \Also His Health / ——_—— _¢lorer Coming to New York, Writes His Wife, and Will Lead Simple Life, BELLINGHAM, W March 28.-Dr. Willlam H. Axtell, a personal friend of Frederick A. Cook, today received a letter from Mrs. Cook, dated Valparaiso, Chile, In which she says the explorer is broken in health, without funds and unable to continue his fight to ostablish his claim that he discovered the pole. Dr. Axtell sald today: “Mrs. Cook tells me in her leitef that Cook made considerable money out of his trip when he first arrived in New For! but that he spent it In defending himseif against bitter attacks from his enemies before the Copenhagen decision was mada public. “Cook left New York later to escape critictsm, says Mrs. Cook, and to go betore the Moard of inquiry st Copenhagen as his own representative. Then Mrs. Cook fol- lowed him, met him in England, where she found him @ nervous wreck and very il “She writes that it was her fault that Cook did not appear publicly &t the time he was unfavorably reported on. She took him to Holland, France, Italy, and then to Spain, where they embarked for ‘Buenos Ayres. “From Buenos Ayres they went around Cape Horn to Chile. Cook s still very il and will be In no condition to make the fight for the honors which, he says, should have been his. Dr. Axtell added that, according to the letter, the explorer and his family will af- rive quietly in New York tomorrow and will settie down for & quiet lfe Mrs. Cook says, he continued, “that her husband has no fuhds with which to go to the Arctic regions atter the proofs re- quired by the University of Copenhagen, and that If he had the necessary cash, he knows of no one he could trust to do the work for him. tS1xty Thousand Loss at North Bend Fire Started by High Wind Takes Elevator, Lumber Yard and Other Buildings. FREMONT, Neb, March 2:.—(Special Telegram.)—A bad fire broke out at North Bend shortly before noon today and before it was finally under control, at 4 p. m., bulldings and their: contents of the value of 360,00 were destroyed.. The fire caught presumably from a spark from a locomo- tive in Dowling & Purcell's elevator near the southeast cormer of the town and, driven by the south wind which. was blow- M‘l‘\wl:fl'cm, roey & Wat- son lumber yards and coal sheds, which were soon on fire, It then croksed the street and wiped out a row of frame buil Jigs geoupled hy, Tom I on as s hofel nz.a restaurant.and the North Bend bowl- ihg Twa storage buildings and o were also burned, Chearney big {mplement warehouse was saved with hard work. The First Natlonal ‘bank bullding, Hearst's furniture store and & number of the principal business bulldings of the town were on fire & number of times, but were saved. The occupants of & good many bulldings began preparations to move out | what they could. The Fremont fire de- partment arrived at 1:30 with additional {equipment and twenty-five men and did g00d work. The heaviest losers are Dowl- ing. & Purcell and Chearney & Watson. The loss is estimated at $60,000. The total ‘insurance s sald to be about $0.000, but the exact amotint cannot be learned. | Engine Starts Prairie Fire Sparks from Locomotive Near Cairo, Neb., Cause Big Damage from Blaze. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., March 23.—(Spe- | clal Telegram.)-Sparks from a Burlington engine set fire to the prairie three miles northwest of Cairo this afternoon and in a short. time the fire was beyond apparent control. While this is In the sandhill re- glon and the country is not so thickly settled, considerable damage is belleved to have been done. At 4 o'clock all effort to head off the fire' was useless and the efforts of the people of the vicinity were confined to keeping the fire from spread- Ing east and west. It was feared that it would cover the ‘entire territory to the Loup river, five miles distant, but at § o'clock it was reported’ from Catro that no reflection in the sky is visible and the fire Is believed to have burned ftself out. Two barns and one house are said to have been destroyed, together with quite a number of statks of ha: A territory three by burned. LITTLE GIRL BURNS TO DEATN. Cremated in Home—Mother and Two Others Narrowly Escape. » GARDEN CITY, Kan.,, March #3.—Ida, the 16-year-old daughter of W. H. Brown, was burned to death and two other children and {their mother had narrow eseapes from death in & fire that destroxed the Stiver Moon restaurant buflding herd today. The weman and Rer three children were sieep- ing upstairs whei the fire broke out. five miles was Chil GRAFT SCANDAL STILL GROWING Nine More Take “Immunity Baths” in Pittshurg Conspiracy Case, | Involving Twenty-nine Men. |ONE PENITENT WEEPS LIKE CHILD Wasson Breaks Down and “Captain” Klein Tries to Sooth Him, HEARING SLATED FOR MONDAY Indicted Ones to Receive Early Trial Following Confessions. ANTI-JURY FIXING CRUSADE Peteotives Alert to Catch Persons Bribery Money and Five Suse pects Are Ousted from t © rt House. <PITTSBURG, March 23.—Nine morn mén, consclence-stricken over taking money for their votes, appeared before Judge R. . Frazer today, and, telling all they knew of the councilmanic graft conspiracy, had sentence postponed. Besides these nine, Willlam Brand, former president of the common councll and one of the ringleaders, according to those who confessed, has also made & confession, which s In the hands of the district at- torney. J. C. Wasson, who is In the peni- tentlary, made his confession to the grand jury today. He wept like a child during his recital, while John F. Kiéin, the arch confessor, tried to sooth him. 5 With complete statements from Brand, ‘Wasson ahd Kleln, who were the principals the conspiracy, according to their own atements, it is sald the district attorney is ready to proceed against the bribé glvers and although no names are given out, Wasson's statement Is sald to implicate some prominent men. Trial Set for Monday. The opportunity to confess voluntarily and recelve postponed sentences or ‘‘im- munity” has passed for those that have not come forward. Those that have been indicted will be brought to trial. The first trial will begin Monday. Already an anti-jury fixing crusade has been started by the district attorney. To- day five men were literally yanked from the court room by county detectives. It Is =ald they were busy with bribery money for jurors about the court house corridors. Bech man was put through a severe ex- emiration and arrests are predicted of a number .of others known' about the court house to be jury fixers. 4 No indlotments were handed down by the grand jury today, although they - have sufficlent evidence, for “true bills ngatnst more ‘than: halt a hundred. These will éome along, according to the assidtant dvfiletments, 1t is saMd,. wul bring into the graft crusade bankers, real estate men and manufacturers.” Twenty-nine “Batha” Given. At noon today twenty-nine, former and sixty members of the municipal legislative machine of the city of Greater Pittsburg had recelved immunity at the hands of a Judge and the prosecuting attornéys. Those caught in the public prosecutor's dragnet from now on, it 1s sald, will be DProsecuted to the fullest extent of the law. With the full confession of two of the ring leaders of the graft councils of 19°8 and the confession of Willlam Brand, ormer president of the common counclls, expected hourly, material is m the hands of the dlstrict attorney to indiet many mere persons for grafting. Joseph C. Wasson, now & conviot and formerly a select councilman; Captain John Klein, formerly councllman and now under penitentiary sentence, and ‘Willlam Brand, also a convicted grafter, are the men on whom the district attorney is relying for his final probe into munieipal rottenness. Labpr Leader v Asked to Leave City Council of Franklin, N, H., Tal New Method to Prevent Strike of Paper Makers. FRANKLIN, N. H., March 23.—The ma- chinery of the city government was em- ployed today to prevent a strike of the In- ternational Paper Mill employes here. The city councll requested John H. Malin, pres!- dent of the Internationel Sulphite Paper and Paper Mill Workers' union to leave town. RUMFORD FALLS, Me, March 23— George J. Schnelder, vice presldent of the International Brotherhood of Paper Work- ers, who with president John H. Malin, of the International Sulphite Pulp and Paper Ml Workers’, was ‘‘deported" recently by a committee of .citizens, returned today. He was accompanied by Mr. Burns, who was said to be a lawyer and to represent the American Federation of Labor. STOCK TAW AND TERMINALS Judge Riner of St. Loud View of the Twe: Hour Aect. ST. LOUIS, March 28.—Judge Riner of the Unfted States court of appeals today held a federal twenty-elght-hour food and water law relating to the shipments of live stock does not hold against a terminal rallroad company, unless the terminal company de- lays the shipment the full time on its own tracks. " y-Eight- Death in Bélgian Cloister Enriches Poor Omaha Family Five years Mra. Margaret Cousin has been tolling for the support of her five little ohlldren, striving to keep up the home at 80, Firemen have left here to fIRht| magi South Sixth street, whete thelr father died, leaving them through the desth in of Almee Jean Cousin, a relative, that Rene Cousin had never mentioned to his Wwife, they recelved a ‘legacy of $6,000. Now there will be shoes and school books in plenty for Jedn and music lessons for Marie. 5 A Rene Colisih hever told hfs family in Omaha of his life In Europe, and the peo- ple he had left behind him. Aunt Aimee, the nun in Belgian, was not known to her nefees and nephews In Omaha until she became their benefactor at her death in February In the clolster at Brussels. Life has been & hard struggle for Mrs, Cousin. At times she has worked out by day. When the care of her children would not permit her leaving home, she took in washings. Under no conditions would she give up her children or aliow them to be separated. Now the task will be an easler one. T WEILVE PAGES. SINGLE HM‘ attdrdoy, betore the end of the Takes New ! From the Clonl.l& leer. (CONGER A SOCIAL SUICIDE fow York State Senator Called This in Lawyer's Address. BRIBERY CASE GOES TO JURY Alld’s Fate Rests with Forty-nine Fellow Representatives—Juror Warned Against Negléoting Publie Opinton, ALBANY, N. Y., March 38.—~"A hero, a martyr, a political. and social sulcide for the good of his country. This was the wreath placed upon the head of Senator Benn Conger today by his chiet counsel, James W. Ofborne, when concluding his summing up in the senate's investigation of Conger's bribery charges against Senator Allds, and left his. cllent’s case In the hands of the jury of forty-nine senators. Conger sat. with his wife and his son beside bim. JPve heard some say that Benn Conger i as bad as Joe “Mr. Osborne be- . Now n of our race, But Is there of yousthat has got the courage Congerhas—one of ¥ou, Who would do what Conger bas done? Not one. 1 wouldn't. ' “Would I leavé for my children and for my children's children the stain)he's bound to leave upon them for all time? Think of it ‘and tell me why did Conger:do it? Conger got nothing out of /it but sorrow and misery and all that he'll ever feel is the, thorns that press down on his head. He belleved that his country's cause and his country’s good was greater than any- thing he might sacrifice. No matter what happens to Allds, Conger has committed an’ act of suielde, politically and soclally, for his country’s g00d.” Both Osborne and Judge Augusta Van Wyck, ‘who delivered the first half of the closing argument for Conger this morning, warned the senators against neglecting pub- lie opinion. “Public indignation cannot be kept out of this court room,” asserted Osborne. “Throughout the length of this United States I-see a revival of public conosclence, I see it in Washington, I see it In Albany; thank God, 1 even see it In that last ex- Pittsburg." ere was some talk today of a change in the program, the senate still plans not to vote on the question of sus- taining the Conger charges until Tuesday, March 29. PRINCETON MEN-IN A MUSICAL COMEDY University Triangle Club Will Give Entertalnment in Cities Middle Staten. PRINCETON, N. J.,.March 28.—The Tri- angle club of Princeton university left here in private cars today for an extended west- ern trip with seventy-five undergraduates, constituting the cast, chorus, orchestra, electricians, stage director, ete., of “His Honor, The Sultan,” a musical comedy. The play will be presented tonight in Newark, tomorrow at Washington, Friday at Indianapolls, Saturday at St. Louls, Monday at Chicago and Tuesday at Pitts- burg, under the auspices of the varlous alumni associations. The libretto was writ- ten by Cyrus MeCormick 1912, a son of Cyrus H. MecCormick '™ of Chicago. The music is the composition 4t E. Paul Nevin, 1912 of New York, & #on of the late Albert Nevin, the comppser. At Bt. Louis on Saturday, the club will participate in the program of the Western Assoclation of Princeton clubs, which meets there. President being the chief speaker of the convention, Lowses in Wall Street Cause Suleide, PHILADELPHIA, March 23.—While & train on which he was & passenger was iling Into the station here foday Willlam B Swanberger, advertising manager of a big Chestnut street depariment store, shat and killed himself, A letter addressed to his wife stated that he had met with re- verses In Wall street speculation. “This is moving and house cleaning sza- son, You are interested in it in one way or another. It is made easy by those dealers in that line. Read the ¢olumn todayJ Moving and House Cleaning. It will help you to do what you are thinking of doing. Phone Douglas 233 and an accommodating staff will at- tend to you in a jiffy. Woodrow Wilson | | \ | THE NEW WAY! Two More Wreck Victims Are Dead at Marshalltown Total Number of Fatalities in Rock Island Disaster is Now Forty-Nine. MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, March 23.—Two victims of the wreck of the Rock Island “Twin City Express” dled in Marshalltown hospltals today, Increasing the list of fatalities to forty-nine. Additional dead: A. H. HARGEL, Waterloo, wire chief Towa Telephone company. CHARLES E. DAVIS, Minneapolis. Additional 1dentified dead: MRS. ANNIE HOUSTMAN. MRS, MARY E. PARRISH, Sedalfa, Mo. Milton Parrish, her husband, first iden- tified a5 G. W. Blair, Sedaila, also.is among the dead. A card bearing Blair's name was found on the body, but dentitication seems Quite pomtive as that of Parrish and bls wite. i Partial identificationt has been made of Mra. Arthur Nolta, Muscatine. The body of one woman remains uniden- tifled, of which the following is a descrip- tion: Height about five feet six inches, weight about 160 pounds; age from 50 to 6 years, gray halr, large mole on right side of neck. L. M. Wallin, Washburn, N. D. is in & serfous condition and death is expected. He Is suffering from a fractured skull Harness Makers Wait on Bosses Secretary of United Brotherhood Says Strikers Will Meet Employ- ers Half Way. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 2.-1. J. Preiffer, secretary of the United Brother- hood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods, announced today that he had recelved re- ports from Waco, Tex., and Denver that a number of union men had been re-em- ployed in those cities today by leather manufacturers who have granted the de- mands of the union. Secretary Pfelffer said that the strikers half-way in an effort to settle the strike. ““We are waiting for the National Sad- dlery Manufacturers’ assoclation to make a reasonable proposition,” he satd. POULTRY DEALERS INDICTED Against Members of Alleged Combine that Fixes Prices for Live Fowla. NEW YORK, March 23.—Thirty to thirty- five Indictments have been found agafnst the head of the poultry trade in this eity by the graend jury, which has been in- | vestigating the charges that the live poul- try dealers fixed prices. were willing to meet: the manufacturers | GENERAL BELL BADLY HURT Auto in Which Chief of Staff is Rid- ing ‘is Hit by Trolley Car. MRS. HERBERT J. SLOCUM KILLED Wite of Junlor Inspector Gemeral of Department of Rast Orushed to Denth—Husbund is Nephew of Mrs, Sage, WASHINGTON,™ March B.—Major Gen eral Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the United States army, who was injured to- day in an automobile accident in which Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum, wite of Major Sloum, U. B. A., was killed, was reported tonight to be resting comfortably. One of his ribs was broken and he suffered some scalp wounds, but no internal injuries have been discovered and no complications of ahy sort have set in. Magor Slocum, -who 15 & member of the Béventeenth cavalry and now stationed at Governor's Island, New York, arrived to- night, with his wons, ‘Fetmane; ‘who is also ‘Governor's Islantl, and Theodore, a stu- lerit at Prifdeton tnlversity, He was met at the train by Inspector General Garling- ton, almost a life-long friend, and Colonel Crowder, of the judge advocate general's office, and Lieutenant Colonel Kean, an as- sistant to the surgeon general. No further arrangements have been made for the funeral of Mrs, Slocum than that the body. will be taken after the Inquest tomorrow to the home of her birth, Ossin- ning, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, the latter a sister of Mrs. Slocum, and Miss Robinson of New York also arrived here tonight. Gemeral Wood is Shocked. NEW YORK, March 25.—Major Genersl Leonard Wood, in command of the De- partment of the East gnd who Is slated to succeed Genmeral Belf as chief of staff of the army on April 22, was deeply shocked today when Informed of the acci- dent at Washington. It s probable that General Wood, in the event of General Bell being incapaci- tated, will g0 to Washington immediately and assume the admintstration of the army, Mrs, Slocum, who was killed, was the wife of Major Slocum of the Seventh cavalry, and he has been statiooned here on Governor's lsland as junior inspector general of the Department of the East. Major Slocum s & brother of Major Stephen L. H. Slocum, United States mili- tary attache at St. Petersburg, and a nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage. Thelr father, Mrs, Sage's brother, is an admin- istrator of the Russell Sage Mrs, Stephen Blocum is now w Sage, but they are on therr way home. “Mrs. Herbert Slocum went to Wash- ington only a few ddys ugo to visit Gen- eral Bell and hi Wood today. “She\took her two little sons with her. She whs a Miss Brandreth of the New York famlly. The entire army will regret her death. She was one of thd finest and (most lovable womcn I ever knew, und she enjoyed tne esteem of all” Stock Exchange Will Close, NEW YORK, March 28.—The New York tock cxchange will be closed on Good Fri- Jay and Saturday of this week. LUXOR, Upper Egypt, March 23.—Colonel Roosevelt was asked today whether it was true, as reported from Washington, that he had summoned Gifford Pinchot, the de- posed chlet forester of the United Stat to meet him at Naples or some other Eu- ropean point for a conference concerning the Ballinger-Pinchot -controversy and th present conservation policy of the adminis. tration The inquiry, however, brought no re- ponse other than Mr. Roosevelt was con- sistently holding to his determination, an- nounced as he emerged from the jungle, not to answer any questions on any matter personal or political Cable advices received here state that Mr. Pinchot will reach Hamburg on the steamer President Grant next Monday. 1t is also stated that Mr. Pinchot salled for Europe at, the request of Mr. Roosevelt and that the latter proposes to learn first hand how his friend became involved in the quarrel with Secretary Ballinger, which #plit the conservation forces into two fae- tions, the one opposed to Mr. Pinchot re- celving the support of President Taft. These calie advi were lald before Colonel Roosevelt, but while there s rea- sou to belleve he was interested in them Roosovele Wikl of Rumqrs About Pinchot Not Talk they elicited no word indicating the atti- tude of the former president in the matter or whéther he would concern himself with & matter of such moment to the adminis- tration of President Taft and the repub- lican party, As the time approaches for Colonel Roose- of the. police arrangements for his safety and convenlence. With characteristic as- surance of being able to take care of him- selt the colonel does not desire police pro- tection, the idea of which is not at all to his liking. However, the British authori- ties have prepared for any eventality and do not propose that their distinguished guest shall be subjected to any inconven- lence or annoyance. This morning the Roosevelt's visited the temples of Luxor and Karnak, and this af- ternoon Mr. Roosevelt planned to address the American mission school. Mr. Roose- velt was much interested in the tombs of the kings visited. Last night's dance at the winter palace was an efijfovable affalr. Kermit Roose- velt and Miss Ethel participated. The indlcations are that Colonel Roose- velt will recelve a splendid welcome at Cairo tamily,” said General | = TWO CENTS. WORK BEGINS IN HOUSE CAUCUS Republicans Get Together First om Rules Committee Election, with Most All Insurgents Present, COPY TENTATIVE SELECTIONS ALL MADH Dalzell, Smith, Fassett, Longworth, Laurence and Kahn Favored. INSURGENTS APPEAR PLEASED Little Hostile Talk Heard in Repub- lican Ranks During Day. Representative Fitsgerald the Done of Contention for Place on Rules Committee—Discontent Ap parent Among Leaders. | WASHINGTON, Mar¢h 23.—Republicans met In conference at 8 o'clock tonlght to | choose their members of the new rules committee. Practically all the insurgents were present. Speaker Cannon was In the room at the time, but it Is understood will not participate in the caucus. Indications show that there will be lttle or no con- tost. From all sources it seemed to be the general opinion that the following repub- {licans would be named: Dalgell (Pa.), Smith Y.), Longworth (0., Kahn (Cal). The tentative selections are arranged in the order of thelr probable cholce. There is no doubt about the first two, who are members of the present rules committee Fassett and Longworth are practically cer- tain. Lawrence and Kahn are more in doubt, but If they are not chosen the Iplacce may be filled by McCall of Mass- |achusetts and Smith of California. The latter is not satisfactory to the Insurgents, however. Insurgents Well Pleased, The insurgents today see:ed falrly well pleased with the outlook. The personnel of the above-named committee |s satisfac- tory to most of them. ‘wnere was little hostile talke among them today. Unexpected signs of fevolt have appeared in the democratic camp. Representatve IMitzgerald of New York is the bone of con- tention. He led the band of twenty-thres democrate off “the reservation’ at the bee ginning of the present session of congress, when they left the deadership of Champ Clark and voted with the republicans for the adoption of the present rules. Now that it is proposed to ullow Mr, Fitzgerald to retain his place on the new committee by electing him in the demo- eratic caucus Thursday night, slgns of dis- content are making thelr appearance. Fitsgeralid's Place. (The fact that Fitzgerald voted with the party consistently during the recent ture moil has greatly mitigated what was re- warded s his ‘fornror lense. In the eyes of the Clark lofluwerfi.' Representative A. Mitehell: Palmer of Pefinsylvania has besn mentioned’ os & posaibility for Fitzgerald's {geat on the commiltted. » When reports were circulated about the house that a “slate” had been prepared for tonight's caucus there were som¢ emphatio expressions of disapproval from regular re- publicans, “I want to tell you that no slate will go then,” sald Representative Maddeh of Il nols. Representative Kronmiller, also a ‘“regu- lar,” was somewhat Wroth over any sug- geation of a slate, “I am opposed to any such move,"” sald, “and will fight it." A conferencé of the republidan repure- sentatives of the border stat4s, including Kentucky, Tenhesseé, Maryland, West ir- Iginia and other states, was called for 4 o'clock this afternoon to determine upon their action In tonight's caucus, (Ia.), Lawrence( Fassett (N, Mass.), he KENYON SUCCBEDS ELLIS Iowa Man’s No; tion to Be Assiste ant Attorney General Confirmed. WASHINGTON, March 28.—The senate | today confirmed the nomination of Willlam | 8. Kenyon of lowa, to be assistant to the attorney general. Oxiord Wins Boat Race by Three Lengths Cambridge Rowers Defeated in Hol- low Fashion in Time Slower Than Last Year. PUTNEY, Bngland, March 2.—Oxford defeated Cambridge in the annual elght- oared rowing race over the championship course from Putney to Northlake in hollow fashion today by three lengths. The time was 20 minutes, 14 seconds. Last year Ox- ford won by three and one-half lengths, in 19 minutes and 60 secopds. For the Mrst mile the light blues put up a good fight and flattered their adherents for a few minutes, but tnereafter the race was @ procession, the only question being how far ahead tha favorites would be at the winning point. The inter-varsity race was never rowed under more favorable weather conditions. It was a perfect spring day, the sun shin- ing brilliantly while there was hardly w ripple on the Thames. There was practi- cally no cholce in stations, Despite the early hour of the start and the fact that the contest was on Wednesday instead of on a Saturday as has been usual, the crowd in attendance was quite up to the usual standard. At points along the river from which even & glimpse of the passing boats could be obtained, were lined with pectators, while, as a a float of launches and pleasure craft followed in the * wake of the shells. The Oxonians remained strong favorites among the riverside men, and in the betting had the advantage of thirty-five pounds in welght; but undaunted by these facts and lack of popular confidence in their repre- sentatives, the Cambridgites turned out in force and cheered encouragement to the wearers of the light blue. The officlal time of the winning crew at the fous points on the coudse wi as follow Start 12:26; first fle 4 minutes, 19 sec- ‘onds; Hegiromith beagh L minutes 4 uconz Bc.hl.'ubflzh“r :. fll"l\lzl. 2 seconds; rnes e, utes, " Onds; finish, 3 minutes, 14 seconds. According to the Hoglish practice the time of the defeated crew Was not taken.