Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1910, Page 1

» r* s '1HE OMAHA DAILY BEE. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska— For Towa. Fair and cooler, Falr and cooler, For weather report goo page 2 OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, KS GUARD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH Senator Owen Makes Astounding Declarations in Supporting Bill Aiming at New Department. AMERICANS’ LIVES ARE T0OO SHORT With Proper Sanitation Speaker Says We Can Live Much Longer. IGNORANOCE CAUSES BIG SACRIFICE Six Hundred Thousand Deaths Each Year Unnecessary, He Says. WANTS THE BUREAUS COMBINED Mensare Provi for n Department with Cabimet Officer at Tts Head— Gallinger Retorts that Figures Are All Imagination. WASHINGTON, March 24.—That 600,000 lives are sacrificed annually to the altar of this gountry’s ignorance and negleot of pantary health laws was asserted by Sena- tor Owen in the course of a spesch in the senate today In support of his bill creating @ department of health with a cabinet otficer at its head. Mr. Owen's address was based on the theory that the various health agencles of the government should be consolidated. He declared that with proper attention to the prevention of contagion and to the ‘protection of the people against the use of polluted water and irapure and adulte ated food human life could be greatly ex- tended and Wwith all the safeguards applied the average life might be increased to the extent of twenty-seven years within the century, In addition to the 600,000 cases of fatal fliness annually, Mr. an avernge of 3,000,000 people were con- stantly sick in this country with prevent- able diseasc Hook Worm Plague. Mr. Owen sald h had been informed by @n expert that 0 per cent of the children of one of the southern states were affected with the hook worm. “1 don't care who the expert is" re- marked Mr. Money of Mississippl, “I don’t belleve'a word he says.'” Mr. Owens said the hook worm could be cured by two doses of thymol, at @ cost of 25 cents. Senator Héyburn suggested that there was $1,000,000 “now on tap" for the credioation of hook worms. Mr. Gallinger thought that since it had become known that there was so much money avallable for chasing the mysterl- ous hookworm there would be & corre- sponding increase in the dise ¢+ Mr, Owen charged that there had been vuppression of facts about the bubonic plague in San Francisco a few years ago and he asserted that such a course would not have been pursued if the matter had been fin charge of & health department and not of a mere health bureau. - 3 . i SR TN Tmagtuation. 'm afraid the senator is drawing on his imagination for his facts,’ objected Mr. Gallinger. “I will give the senate the whole record,” the Oklahoma semator retorted, “it the nator Invites it." ; do Invite it,” Mr. Gallinger sald. “You shall have all the facts within two days,” sald Mr. Owen. In conclusion Mr. Owen spoke of ‘:e prevalence of malaria in Oklahoma. o declared that every school teacher should be armed with a pamphlet against' the ravages of poisonous files and mosquitos. Replying to the Oklahoma senutor, Mr. Gallinger expressed the opinion that the government should go slow in establishing a department of health. He thought the public health, marine service hospital and the health departments of the different states wére doing reasonably well. As fo the éontention that the perlod of life could be materially lengthened, he regarded it “a dream, pure and simple.” Natural Resources vs. Life, Senator Owen declared that, while he was' in favor of the conservation of natural refources of the nation, “the conservation of the life of our people 1s of far greater importance, and the conservation of the vigality of our people is a problem of the magnitude, demanding immediate in- ligent attention.” 'ie spoke against the bureau system of 18oking out for the public health, sssert- ing that the question was of such great fmportance that it could not be handled etticlently except by a separate depart- Ment with powers as great as those now @njoyed by a. of the other departments of " bureaus for 100 years, N6 Sald. I, are scattered in eight de- partments. ¥ have been disconnected and without _u-ordination. They ever have Been jealous of ‘each other, the one nulilfy- ing and hampering the work of the other. 'l‘: have been without & responsibly head boceuse of this subdivision and be- ¢ause the chief of the public health and marine hospital service cannot express an opinton or glve information until he has ¢onsulted the secretary of the treasury.” The secretary of the treasury was selected #4°a cubinet officer, he added, “not be- gause of hia knowledge of the public health, But because he was an expert on finance.” 4his government officer, he thought, should L, direct government activities in fight- .4 Olwcase. He deglared that in the case . s reports on the bubonic plague s #acific coast “the bureau dealing yublic health was easily suppressed . .merclalism and its supposed inter- esls, putting in Jeopardy the national Legith, the natlonal interests and the na- todal wealrs and wi quired to with- 46la and suppress the truth in viclation of s.ction 4 of the quaraatine laws.” Combat Against Disease. Under a subordinute bureau co-operation Iy \he fight against disease is impractic- able, he declared. The bureau has not Wufficlent dignity or power in an emerg- ency, hé continued. It has no national Manding. It cannot take the Initiative, but must always stand subject to the orders Of & secvotary too greatly influenced by mers apparent commorcial und fiacal to- terest, ' L The 'Bjil Intfoduced by Senator Owen would co-ordinate into one working body all gt the varlous health agencies of the It proposes no new officers, the secretary and his assistant, and no new appropriation aside from of the secretari At wiil pro- vide & pumber of efficlencies, said ocuator Owen, 'by preventing duplication. A commercial nation, he sald, “showd ———— (Continued on Second Page., Owen asserted that; instructing | Clty of Des Moines Loses Fight for Rate Reduction Interstate Commerce Commision Re- fuses to Order Lower Tariffs to Points in Dakotas. WABHINGTON, March 24.~The eity of Des Moines today lost its fight for a readjustment of frelght rates from that ity to points in western Minnesota and North and Bouth Dakota, when the Inter- state Commerce commission announced its dectsion on the complaint of the Kreater D” Molnes committee, | ™ ‘bittes contended that because L. . was nearer the territory In Chicago, 8t. Louls, Dubuque, inton, Muscatine and Bur- § n advantage in rates. Com- e in twenty-two tariffs of i ying the territory. don,” says the opinion 8 by Commissioner Cock- n so Important & mat- 31 Lansider the whole field when lucq!v,v- Bal rate adjustment Is undertakeny" . eught to be made by the cnmnnfir’. ‘and must carefully con- sider what probably would be the effect upon other points not involved in the spe- cific complaint under consideration.” “Upon fyll consideration,” continues the opinlon, “dur conclusions are that this ocomplaint has not been sustained and that there have not been shown facts sufflclent to justify this commission change in the present rate adjustment and in attempting to establish & new rate ad- Justment which would be in consonance with the basis sought by the complainant.” Commissioner Lane dissented from the finding on the ground that the committee “had made out a case” and because he thought the rates unfair, DES MOINES, March .—(Special Tele- gram.)—There was much disappointment here today over the news from Washing- ton that the rate case brought by Des Moines jobbers for a readjustment of rates to the northwest had been lost. This is the proceeding in which, since the filing of the complaint, the raflroads have by amendments reduced the rates into Minne- sota and the Dakotas. “The commissioners stopped us when we had put on nineteen witnesses, and I have hopes that they will permit us to complete the case we were making when we were interrupted,” said E. G. Wylie, for Des Moines. “There 18 no appeal, but I am hopetul that Lane's dissenting opinion will permit us to reopen the case.” Hoosiers Give Glad Hand to Mr. Fairbanks Indiana State Welcomes Home Former Vice President from Trip +* Around World, G il PR INDIANAPOLIS, March 24.—Indfanapolis and Indiana today welcomed former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks home from a year's trip around the world. \ The demonstration in henor of Mr. and !Mrs. Fairbanks was & notable ope. They were met at the Union station this after- noon by the committee in charge of the reception and escorted to the Soldlers’ and Sallors’ monument by soldlers from Fort Benjamin Harrison and by many citizens in automoblles, ' There Wwere great crowds alon gtho line of march and at the post- office bullding were gathered thousands of school children. The former viee president spoke to these briefly and proceeded to Monument place, where the formal address of welcome was delivered by Governor Thomas R. Mar- shall. “For one full year this distinguished cit- izen of Indiana has been encircling the globe,” sald the governor. “He has visited all lands and everywhere he has maintained the dignity of American citizenship. He comes back to us, marvelously, as it may seem, without the blood of man or beast upon his hand Mr. Tairbanks spoke feelingly of the re- ception which had been tendered him. He awelt patricularly on his pleasure on re- turning to his home and only once did he refer to conditions which he had found abroad, especially In the east, when he sald: . “America is at peace with the world, There is nothing that can mar the peace- ful relations 0f the United States to the | other nations of the world except our own {nconcelvable folly.” A reception at the Fairbanks home imme- Qistely after the public reception dnd a theater party tonight closed the demon- stration for Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks. BETHEA PROBABLY INSANE Man Wio Killed Two Men at Wile mington Visited Johns Hopkins al, BALTIMORE, March 24—J. H. Bethea, the South Carolinian who shot to death a conductor and & porter on a Baltimore & Ohlo passenger traig and for an hour kept at bay a posse of policemen and armed cltizens at Wilmizgton, Del., last evening, passed some time at the Johns Hopkins hospital here yesterday morning. His ac- tions convinead the hospital officlals that he was mentaliy unbalanced. He left and nothing more was heard of him by the hospital attaches until this morning when they read the account of his tragic end. in ordering a | PRAIRIE ABLAZE; MAY GET RESERVE Sweeping Fire Starting Near Weir Threatens Great Loss in Thomas County. ALREADY RUNS NINETY MILES Government Officers Call on People for Help. TRAINLOAD OF FIGHTERS GOES Entire Region Responds to Stamp Out Leaping Flames. FIRE FRONT OF FIFTEEN MILES High Wind Drives Blazing Destruc- tion and Blaze Is Now Entering a Thiekly Populated Dis- trict of State. HECLA, Neb., March 24.—(Special Tele- sram.)—A prairie fire that had its origin four miles west of here yesterday morning |1n the vicinity of the district school near Meir, was still burning fiercely at a late hour tonight In and around Dunning, nearly | ninety miles distant. The forest reserve officers at Halsey to- day called for help from the Burlington |rallway company. An eastbound traln [plekea up volunteers at Thedford and took {them to Halsey, where they relieved the worn out fire fighters, who were protect- ing the reserve, and who had been working all through the night and day. The damage to range fences and hay will be heavy, as the fire front extends nearly fifteen miles and is driven by a very high wind. Unless the wind goes down tonight the damage will be very great, as it 18 now éntering & more thickly populated country. 4 Considerable hay was destroyed in the vienity of Hecla and it 1s reported that the entire form Improvements on the Gordon place, four miles south of Seneca. were destroyed. The territory covered is so large and /the call for relfef so demanding that it s aifficult to get much information as to damage. : Halsey, the center station of the Dismal river forest reserve, Is in Thomas county, elghteen miles southeast of Thedford. The government for several years has been making experiments to proove that pine trees when once started will flourish in the sand hill region. The work I3 success- tully under way and should tho growth of young trees that has boen ‘started with such diffieulty, aimost with hotfiouse care, be destroyed, the loss would be keenly felt. PRAIRIE FIRES IN KANSAS Many Farms Are Burned Over in the Vicinity of ‘Abilene a Ogallah. ABILINE, Kan.,, March 24.—A prairie fire that started vesterday afternoon near the reilroad tracks four miles west of Ablilne and bumed north was checked by farmers early today, hut mot till nine farms had been swopt clean and much small stock killed. The loss will reach $0,000. The farmers In the burned area are left without tools or seed for spring work and with orchards and gardens destroyed. OGALLAH, Kan, March 2.—A terrific prairie fire raged for several hours in Trego county last night, burning over fifty square miles and destroying thousands of dollars' worth of farm property. Ogallah and several other small towns were endangered and were saved only after a large force of fire fighters had made a herole fight against tho flames, which were fanned by a high wind. HOUSE COMMITTEE CHANGES Mr, Foster of Vermont Mr. ucceeds Late Perkins as Chairman of Foreign Affatrs, WASHINGTON, March 24.—Speaker Can- non announced the appointment of Repre- sentative Foster (republican, Vermont), to succeed the late Representative Perkins of New York as chairman of the commit- tee on forelgn affairs. The chairmanship of the committee on expenditures in the Department of Com- merce and Labor, made vacant by promo- tion of Mr. Foster, was glven to Mr. Gardner of' Michigan, & staunch regular. Both Mr. Foster and Mr. Gardner were entitled by reason of seniority to the re- spective chairmanships. Mr. Bennett of New York was appointed & member of the committee of forelgn af- fairs to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Lovering of Massachusetts. CALL FOR CATTLE RAISERS Se: te Committee on Food Prices Will Take Testimony of Live Stock Men. WASHINGTON, March 2. — Having heard retailers and packers of meat in an effort to fix the responsibility for the pre- valling high prices, the senate committee making an investigation of this subject has arranged to take the testimony of cat- cle raisers at a hearing next Tuesday. Brother of Ed P. Smith on the Housc_: Rules Committee Sylvester C, Smith, chosen by the repub- Moan caucus as & member of the new com- mittee on rules in the natlonal houss of representatives, 1s & brother of Ed P. Smith of Omaha. He has visited in Omahs sov- eral times and is quite well known to a §00d many Omaha people, Mr. Smjth i now serving his third term In congress. Ed P. Smith was asked what he thought of the election of his brother by the regu-| lar republicans. 1 am golng'to write him a I'na today,’ #ald the Omaba Jacksonian. “telilng him that eince the election in Massachusetts and his appointment on the rules commit- tee, democratic supremacy (s assured, after ihe next general election.” Congressman Smith is the editor and owner of the Bakersfield Echo, a lively morning paper, published at the metropolis of the great Kern river valley, in which the most prolific petroleum oll wells of California are located. His s the largest district In the United States, save one in Texas. In'order to reach the eastern part | of his district, in Inyo county, where Death valley lies, he must leave the state of California and go by train out into Nevada and then approach his eastern con- stituents on horseback, or burro. Another unique feature about Congress- man Smith is that he is the only republican in & \arge tamily of boys. 1910—-TWELVE PAGES. From the New York Herald. % “I Have Gotten You Beaten To a Frazzle, Andy.” ENTRIES WILE BE]LLOWED Where Protest Is Lacking. BIG BOON TO PEOPLE IN WEST Calling In of Special Field Agents Left Many Mattera Pending Which This Win Settle. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Marth M.—(Special Tele- gram.)—A decision "of 'much interest and importance .to entrymen under the Ne- braska one-section homestead act, known as the Kinkald act, was made this morning by Mr. Dennett, commil#sioner of the gen- eral land office. The North Platte district land office called called the attentlon of Congressman Kinkaid to the fact that the fleld agents of the general land office, for the want of funds to pay thelr salaries, had been called in and that there were 300 proofs in these agents, thus resulting in much dis- satisfaction, {nfonv:nience and probable sacrifice to those who had offered thelr final proof. Besldes, there are five United es district land offices In'westérn Ne- ka in the Sixth al district, and it Is presymed 40 that described at Nortti'Platte exists tn each of the other pffices. To relleve this situation, Congressman Kinlgid urged upon the commissioner that the final certificates be fssued to entrymen except where com- plaint or protest is made, and Commis- cloner Dennett has concluded to adopt such recommendation, Subsistence for Clerkw. Following his proposed amendment to grant & thirty-day leave of absence with pay to employes of postoffices of the coun- try enjoying clity delivery, Senator Burkett today introduced an amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill, which pro- vides, all rallway mail clerks shall be re- imbursed for all necessary expenses in- curred by them while away from home on duty. to have rallway postal clerks given thelr expenses while away from home on duty, and he made one of the most interesting Epeeches on this subject heard In the Sixtieth congress. At that time Senator Penrose, chairman of the postoffice and pest roads committee, practicaily sald that mail clerks sould be relmbursed for all | necessary expenses incurred by them while on duty. But Senator Burkett, not wiiling to take any chances as to promises of a year ago, introduced the amendment so it may be brought to the attention of the postoffice and post road committes when the postoffice appropriation bill is pending. Strange as It seems, jt is a fact rallway mall clerks have to provide their own sub- slstance while away from home and on duty, although every other employe of the government who 1s detalled on business for the government has subsistance provided for him. Appropriation Bill Passes. Senator Burkett, who with Senator War- ren of Wyoming, virtually prepared the legiglative, executive and judicial bill, had the pleasure of seeing the bill with which he had been Intimately connveted as a member of the appropriation committee pass the senate today without serlous trou- ble. Indian Resolution. The senate today passed a joint resolu- tion amending a resolution approved Janu- ary 10, 1910, which authorized the seeretary of the interfor to pay to the Winnebago tribe of Indlans interest acerued since June 13, 1909, 0 as to authorize the secretary of the interlor to reserve from the interest of the Winnebagoes In Ncbraska a suffl- clent amount to pay thelr proportion of the necessary expenses of the Omaha and Winnebago agency. Building Permit Edward Schleiter, 3103 South Eighteenth, frame dwelling, $2400; Frank L. Willtany 122 Spring, frame dwelling, $1.700; A. F. Rasp, 3038 Fowler, fsame dweliing, $2,000; Chrletian Businger, 2470 Sough Fifth, frame dwelling, $1,000. This is moving and house cleaning sea- son, You are interested in it in one way or another. It Is made easy by those dealers in that line. Read the column today, Moving and House Cleaning. It will help you to do what you are thinking of doing. Ph,ne Douglas 233 and an accommodating staff will at- tend tq you in a jiffy, Commissioner Dennett Makes Ruling that office awaiting the examination of conditien| A year ago Senator Burkett endeavored' Bribe Taker Faints While Confessing Indictment of Men Who Supplied the Money for Corruption in Pitts- birg Delayed Another Day. PITTSBURG, March 24—Five former ! counctimen faced Judge Frazer in the com- | mitting court today and confessed to hav- ing received graft money. All were given suspended sentences. While telling his part In the recelving of bribes one of the former counciimen fainted and was carrigd from the court room. Several former and pres- ent councilmen indicted Monday gave bail for their appearance later. Uncompleted statements on the part of geveral former councilmen yesterday re- sulted In the grand jury holding over in- dictments until today. These indictments are reported to bear the names of some of Pittsburg’s represenative bankers and men of affairs, The immunity process instituted by the district attorney has been extended gn- a suspended sentence upon confession of municipal wrongdoing will not, however, apply to the men who “supplied the money for eivie, cerruption.” “‘Bribé ‘glvers. are barred;’’. sald: the district attoney. Out of 'the present exposure a political upheaval {5 predicted. Agitation yesterday has already been started for the formation of a commission form of government such as have proven a success in western citles and is now In partial usage in Boston. Dozen Indicted For Attacking the Cairo Jail Twelve Men, Many Prominent, Held for Rioting During Race Troubles in Illinois. CAIRO, ML, March 24.—Twelve Indict- ments for rigting were returned this after- noon by & special grand jury that has been investigating the actack on the Alexapder county jail February 17, during which one man in the mob was killed and several injured by the sheriff's special deputies. Those indicted are: George P. Walker, newspaper man; Frank Gorman, an alder- man; James Davidge, a constable; C. O. Foster, former deputy circuit clerk; Lee Watson, stock dealer; Samuel Wessinger, special agent of the Big Four rallroad and deputy sheriff; W. H. Simpson, man- ager of a lumber company; James Casey, former policeman; J. B. Scott, blacksmith; W. C. Charles, iveryman; O. P. Hurd, Jr., president of a lumber company, and John Maloney, wagon manufacturer, The twelve were Immedlately arrested and released on bords. Their trial hus been set for May 9, and funds for their defense will be raised by popular subscrip- tlon. The indictments caused a sensation, as no such drastic action was anticipated. A fine of $50 and six months' imprisonment is possible in cases of conviction. The mob was repulsed while trylng to take John Pratt, a negro purse snatcher, from jall to lynch him, The grand jury is not through with its investigation and further indictments may be returned BIG FIRE IN WEST VIRGINIA Ouly Four Buildings Left in Mount Hope—Damage Quarter Mil- llon Dollars. CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 24—Only four buildings are left standing in Mount Hope, forty-five miles southwest of here in Fayette county, as the result of a fire which practically wiped out the town early today. The loss is roughly estimated at $260,000. FLAMES LICK UP PROPERTY| Three Fires Start at Same Time in Widely Separated Sections. ———————— - — NEBRASKA ELECTRIC SUFFERS Damage to Extent of $20,000 Done at 1207 Harney—Lumber Yard Loss is $2,000 and Dry Cleaner's Fire Costs $3,000 More, Three fires broke out almost simul- taneously yesterday afternoon between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock in as many sec- | tions of the city, and so widely apart that | the fire department had all 1t couid do to respond to the calls and quench the flames threatening thousands of dollars' worth of property. An alarm was turned in from Twelfth and Harney streets at 2:45. The Nebraska Blec- trig company, which occupled the four floors at 1207 Harney, was found ablaze. The fire had originated on the fourth floor of the buliding, and by the time the de- partment arrived threatened the wholo structure. Quick action on the part of the department, Which responded to a general other twenty-four hours. The promise of |®larm, soon got the flames under control and the adjoining bulldings were saved. ‘The cause of the fire is unknown. On the floor on which it started was stored a quantity of electrical supplies, such an in- Jsulated wire, yardarms, brackets and other res, But there was nothing in the room @s far as Manager A. J. Munroe of the company knows, that could have caused the. blaze. Mr. Munro of the Nebraska Blectric com- pany expressed himself as puzzled. “I cannot understand how the fire origi- nated,” he sald. “‘Someone from the street came running into the office shortly after 2 o'clock and told us that smoke was pour- ing out of the windows on the fourth floor. About the time we got out on the street to see for ourselves the fire department was at hand. I would estimate the loss at about $20,00, for everything im the building 1s ruined by either smoke or water. The loss 15 fully covered by insurance.” While the firemen were fighting the flames in the rear of the bullding the smoke became 80 dense that two of the firemen were nearly overcome and had to grope thelr way to the windows and breathe deep draughts of fresh air before they could re- sume thelr work. Lumber Yard Blaze Starts. While most of the fire department from the downtown district was &t work subdu- Ing the flames at Twelfth and Harney treets, ‘& second alarm was sent in from 1501 Military avenue, and when those com- panies that could be spared reached the place it was found that the Keys-Bullard lumber yard was on fire. Several streams were played upon the flames and they were soon checked. The fire 18”thbught to have resulted from a spark from @ locomotive which passed shortl¥ béfore on the Belt Line tracks and ignited dry grass and rubbish. The little tongue of flame spread, reaching the lumber yard and threatened the whole place. Two carloads of lumber and a car- loall of posts were burned. The loes Is placed at about $2,000. While the fire department was divided and fighting fires in the extreme ends of the city a third alarm was sounded. This call came from Twenty-fourth and Davenport and when two companies & rived it was fourid that the building at 212, 215 and 217 Nofth Twenty-fourth street was In flames. The bullding was occupled by the Elephant Faultless Cleaners and Dyers and the portion at No. 213 was com- pletely destroyed. Sam Bobatzky, the proprietor, was badly burned on the hands when he attempted to extinguish the flames. Bensine for Cleaning Explodes. How the fire started is not known. The proprietor and a helpsr wero at work clean- ing clothes, using benzine. They can only account for an @xplosion from the fact that a pile of rubblsh was burning several feet from the open door of the bullding. Suddenly an explosion occurred and al- most immediately the entire interlor of the place was & mass of flames. It s est)- (Contipued on Second Page.) Liabilit WASHINGTON, March 4.—In Spain when a laborer is injured while doing his work and tempurarily (ncapacitated his employer pays an indemnity equal to half the dally .| wage. In case the incapacity s permanent the employer pays two years' salary and pays also for drugs and medicines. If the man dies the employer Is liable for $15 funeral expenses and an indemnity to the relatives, fixed upon a set scale. Those &re the practical provisions of Provisions of Employers’ y Law in Spain the employers’ liabllity law as it is re- ported to the bureau of manufacturers by Consul. erll Hill at Barcelona. There Is very Mttle liugation about it, the consul says, The question of what effect such law nn.?‘x wage scale scems to have soly f in Spatn, for the mecretary of the Assoclation for the Encouragement of National Industry declared to Consul Hil that the payment of indemmities has had no effect on. the wages paid, COPY TWO CENTY PARTIES ELECT RULES MEMBERS Republicans in_mcm Wedncsday Evening Selccted Six Regulars Without Discension, FRIENDLY RIVALRY EVIDENT Dalzell, Lawrence, Fassett, Boutell and the Two Bmiths Chosen. CANNON VOTED WITH OTHERS Speaker, However, Not Present Dur- ing Early Part of Evening, | DEMOCRATS TO MEET TONIGHT Clark of Missourl, Underwood of Ala. bama, Fitzgerald of New York and Dixon of Indians Wil Represent Minority. NEW COMMITTZIE ON RULES. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Chairman. Swith of Towa. Tawrercs of Massachusstts, Fossott of New York. Smith of Oalifornis. Boutell of Illinols. Clark of Missouri, Undorwood of .Alabama. | Fitzgerald of Now York. Dixon of ‘:diaui WASHIN 'ON March 24.=The rules | committee of the house, enlarged under the terms of the Norris resolution, will, if last night's republican caucus selections ars Wratified and expectations of minority lead- ers at tonight's democratic caucus are ful- filled consist of the above slate, The interest of the house membership today centered on the final makeup of the committee. Leaders on both sides ex- pect great things of the committes. Regu- Iar republicans—some of them at least—con- cede that the auginentation of the mem- bers of he committea s o step in the right direction and already there is talk of Increasing the numbe- of members to eleven 80 as to provide on odd number to avold tle votes. Dalzcii Veteran on Rules. Dalzell's selection as chairman, is ex- pected because of his seniority of service {on the committes. While cne of the most |intimate friends and stauncl supporters |of Bpeaker Cannon, he was orlginally |appointed to the committee ., Mr. Can- {non. He was an inheritance of Speaker | Cannon on the committee, his selection dat- ing back to Speaker Reed. Mr. Dalzell is credited with being the best parllament- arlan on the republican side, next to t speaker, himself, “The rules committee,' publican member today, of roses.”” The elction of an insurgent republl:an member would have made its wark more difficult. Many members would bave ag counted thelr inclusion on the co ..ulttee suggested a 1 - 'will have no b.d | because of the artl-rides feells in their | districts, and #n ifisurgent menler of the committse while at times lLoiding the {balance of power between ti other five republicans and the four denii.rais, would be held accountable for whatever actlon the committee might take. Next Move by Haugen. Representative Haugen of lowa may make the next move on the Insurgent checker board. Haugen was the one who placed Norris of Nobraska, the author.of the rules committee enlargement resolu- tion in nomination at last night's caucus, Norris) however, received only seven votes, the insurgent vote golng almost altogether |to Gardner of Massachusets. Haugen is strongly in favor of party harmony, but he is determined to press ]Ilhl resolution for a committee on com- mittees at the first opportunity. The rules committee will now for the first time have to get A committee room. For ‘years past, with the speaker a mem- ber, the committee has had no quarter of its own, but has met in the speake sanctum. Furthermore, it has had no regular attaches, and the speaker's secre- tary has served as Its ex-officlo clerk, keeping the docket and the minutes of ity meetings. Cnucus of Republicans, With only the friendliest sort of rivalry, although arousing keen interest, the repub- lican caucus last night selected the six members of the rules committee appor- tioned to the republican majority of the house. All are members of the ‘regular’ wing of the party, The vote was as follows: Smith of lowa, 168 votes; Dalzell, 146; Lawrence, 12; Fas- sett, 113; Smith of California, 18; Boutell, 108 Two ballots were taken, the four first named recelving a majority of the votes cast on the first ballot and the two last named being chosen on the second ballot. The six members named represent a slate prepared by Representative Tawney of Minnesota during the day, after numerous conferences with both ‘“regulars’ and “in- surgents." The vote in the caucus tonight was taken by written ballot, each member writing the names of six men for whom he desired to vote. There were nineteen names placed in nomination and @ large number besides these recelved complimentary votes, Repre- sentative Gardner of Massachusetts re- cefved thirty-three votes, the highest num- ber cast for any ‘“Insurgent. Towa Insurgent Object The only incident to produce anything approaching excitement was when Repre- sentative Tawney arose, soon after th meeting began, and offered & resolution proposing the list of six men, &s named, Immediately there was objection from an “fmsurgent”’ from lowa to the Festricted nominations and an informal nominating ballot was proposed. To this Mr. Tawney demurred, and Rep- resentative McCall of Massachusetts, told the former that in New England, when a slate was brought into' a convention, that it was generally considered not a very democratic way of doing things. He be- Ifeved there should be an open ballot. Rep- resentative Payne of New York, the ma- Jority leader, settled the controversy by declaring, amid applause, in favor of an informal ballot. Mr, Tawney withdrew his Tesolution and list. is slate nevertheless proved successful on the ballots which fol- lowed. Following was the first vote: Smith of Towa, 168; Dalzell, 146; Lawrende, 125; Fas- sett, 113; Smith of California, 92 Bouteil, 8; Kahn, 6; Longworth, 33; Gardner, 33; Gaines, 20; Stevens of Minnesota, 16; Me- Call, 16; Malby; 16; Lowden, 14; Hamilton, 12; Parsons, 12, Denby, 12; Martin, 9, and a number of wcattering votes. Murdock as a-direct bid for a defeat at L polia . .