Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1910, Page 1

' A L4 PEACE NEAR IN 'NEWS SECTION PAGES1 TO 10, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. el WEATHER FOREOAST. Nebraska lowa athor For For For Generally fair. enerally fair repori see page XIX 9 OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 1 MINERS' STRIKE Trouble "Will be Settled Within Thirty | Days, Says President Lewis of the Mine Workers, i FEELS NO ALARM OVER OUTCOME | i Says Men Will Win in All Their De- | mands Without Trouble. THE FEELING IS GOOD, ANYHOW | Leader Declares Miners Are Taking Vacation, Not Stziking. \ | ALL THE WORKINGS ARE mm:' Over Three Hundred Thousand Men | Are Out of Werk in Varfous Bi- tuminons FI ings n—Mans Meet- Numero ST, LOULS, April 1.—"Don't be alarmed cver the outcome of this affair; don't be afraid that we will not be able to sign up | an agreement. Tt will all be over within thirty days. Anyhow, this Is good fishing westher."” This was the advice of Thomas L. Lewls. president of the United Mine Workers of America, {n addressing 3,000 of 75,000 Tilinots | mine workers who have quit work, at Belle- | villa this afternoon | ‘It fsn't work we wafit,” he continued. | “We'ra willing to do our part, but we want | a full and complete share of the results of | The fight in the senate has settled around our labor, and we never will be satisfied | an amendment supported by Senators Hale, until we get it | In an interview after his address, Mr.|law with respect to who may bring actlon | fore Towls expressed absolute confidence in the | outeome of the present suspension of work, | Brown Urging Liability Bill ¥ » Measure with Sanction of Administra. tion Comes Up for Discussion in Upper House. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 1.—(Special Te gram.)—Senator Brown, who originally troduced the administration In act, but whose housa measure, ever he bill was laid aside for th is pushing this bill when. ts & chance, and hopes to have ! taken.up and disposed of within a few days. The bill amends the existing employer' lability law in three particulars 1t allows sult to be brought wherever ac tlon arises or where the railroad compan: does business. This amendment was mad Before Senate bill amending | certain features of the employer's lability | 1910—TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. IMANY STATES - | l IN BIG MEET| | Athletioc Competitions of Omaha’s In- door Tournament Bring Together West's Men of Brawn. BRILLIANT AS SOCIAL AFFAIR Elite of Nebraska and Iowa Sea | About Arena, |{LEADERS OF A. A U. ATTEND President Brown and Secretary Sulli- ‘ van Among Officials. t o |HABKE STRIDE FOR AMATEURS| necessary by a decision of the circuit judge In Texas who held that sult brought had its home office. It provides that state and federal court shall have concurrent jurisdiction of th uft, and that 1f the suit is instituted firs in @ state court it shall not be subject t removal to federal courts 1t provides the right of actlon In case of death of employss shall survive to th: widow or husband and the children of th deceased, and If none, then to the next o kin dependent upon the employ: port The bill was prepared In with the preildent, the Department of Jus tice and the Interstate Commerce commis slon, together with representatives of em ployes of different raflroads. haa Balley and Bacon, who desire to modify th In case of the decease of an employe Friends of the bill and the administration | Omaha city schools. to be in the state where the company tor sup- consultation Event Significant in Movement for Formation of New Division of National Org t o The Omaha indoor meet in which more | than 200 athietes representing many of the t | western states and most of the pringdval e | cities of this section competed, was held e | tonight in the Auditorium. The meet f | marked the beginning of a step forward in | amateur athletics In Omaha and jts terrl- tory and is expected by the exponents of the movement to pave the way for - | formation of a new division of the teur Athletic unfon. The meet resulted in the establishment of several records for the competitors from secondary schools, | The first of the competitions began at © e | o'clock and the last was not completed be midnight. The preliminary events | were races between the students of the At 8 o'clock the mee the Ama- and sald the miners will win out in all thelr opopse the amendment, because It would | Proper began. demands within thirty days in all the fields, | open new and serious questions as to th e The athletic meet was much of a soclet with the possiBle exception of Illinols and | constitutionality of the act and might en- | event for Omaha. The box seats and much western Penpsylvania. In these latter flelds, he says, conditions are different than | in the others, and more time may be neces- cary befora hegotiations may be conaluded. |ance of endoreing Senator Brown for the vacaney Vacation for Mine “1 want to say again’ he sald, “that | this is not a strike. IU's just & vacation, and the miners really will enjoy it T do not | look for mny shortage of coal, nor for any | sutfering among the men. The iwines taroughout the country have had a big un for the last four months and hundreds | of thousands of tons of coal In excess of | the usual output are now stored by the op- | craors. | “The men are prosperous, and the uaione, | with very few exceptiops. have large ve- serve funds on hand, 5o 1 fall to see wiere anybody will suffer because of & temporary | shutdown.” = 1 Heveral of the most extensive dperato Iy the eountry already have made off for a settiement, accopding to Mr. Tow but In each instance he ias refused t tie- | gotlate or to pernily them to reopen their | mines, even though promising to pay ine aew waze seale from Apiil 1. “This question must be settled as & gen- era) proposition, @nd not through individual operators,” he said Mr. Lewls spoke tonight at a miners' cel- ebration at Marissa. 11, and departed for | Indianapolis, Where he will spend Saturda Sunday he intends to depart for P!nnnl-l vania fields ANl Conl Mines Ave Idle. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 1.—Celebrat- fPg today the anniversary of the institution of the elght-linur day In tha mines of the, eountry. 300600 bitwminous < coal - miners faced an enforced holday of unknown duvation { In many states two-year wage contracts | pired last midnight and the miners quit | the coul pits, demandingthat their new sontragt must provide foi a wage increase per cent & ton on sereened coal and an equivalent increasé on “run of mine” conl. Conferences betwgen the miners' organ- | izatlons in the sgveral districts and the corresponding operators’ associations have been arranged. _Adjustment of the diffi- culty will be a matter of weeks or da: In the Brazil jblock coal @istrict of In- diana there will mot he a suspension of | work, for late ‘vesterday the operators con- ceded the higher wage demand of th miners. In Ilinols and western Pennsylvania, where the powder cuestion and that of | which party shall pay the shot firers, enter | the controvers prolonged conte: ' In hunlireds of meeiings in large and| small mine communities where the peoble are depending on the industry, assembled | to listén to the speeches of their union | Jeaders, the strike was the subject of ais- | cussion today. ) The national the executive board of the United Mine | Workers of America, Who had been in! | wecret session at their headquarters in this | books and papers, was argued in the fed- city, departed for their péspective districts | eral court here today. James M. Beck for the late last might g Lewis in Enemiy's Country. President Lewls will speak today at Belle- ville, 11, and will fisl\ several towns, in- | cluding East St. Louls. Mr. Lewis thus entered the ‘“‘enemy’s) country.” as he #aid himself before he lefL | this city, meaning not that the 72,000 miners | of Tiinols were not his friends, but that several of theif leaders, including the dis- trict president; John Walker, had antago- nized his course since the opening of the ! miners' natignal convention in Indlanapolis January 10. | Returning to Indlana tomorrow. the | miners’ national president will visit the Okio and; western Pennsylvania districts | next week. He will meet another of his vigorous opponents in Framcls Feehan, | president of the western Pennsylvania dis- | triet, where 60,000 men have quit. The so-called new explosives demanded by the state laws of Pennsylvania break the coal so much finer than the old-fash- foned ‘black powder, the miners maintaln, that & G-cent wage Increase means little to them if they are to be required to use the advanced methods of bringing down the coal. Feehan, in the national convention here, declared that & wage increase of 3 per cent would be only fair and 10 per cent must be the minimum. Prejident Lewis will next go into the Kanawha district of West Virginia to ad- wise fhie 10,00 striking miners there. Thiy is the battle ground of unionlsm In the mires f Becretary-Tressuner Edwin Perry today went to participaie i the conference Mt Des of lowa wminers and Ahe wesult of at which an increase i danger the whole bill. Senator Heyburn of Idaho was busy to day urging upen his colleagues the import on the supreme bench. laughed when told what Senato Brown mighty.good fellow, but was not account able for his position on this question. Lieutenant Governor Hopewell Washington tomorrow as g sentative J. P. Lotta. Pastmosters appointed ars as follows: Nebraska: Rockford, Gage county, Harr: C. King, vice H. G. Day, resigned. South Dakota: Badger, Kingsbury county, | Lottie M. Grove, vice C. Johnson, resigned; Long- Pheba, Stanley county, Addie A. street, vice H. Milton, resigned. Rural carriers appointed: Nebrask Towa: Brooklyn. Route 2, A T carrie Route 2, Roy E. Alder, carrler; no_ subst! Five Street Cars Are Dynamited in Philadelphi Reward Offered for Persons Placing . Explosives on. Track—Women Sympathizers Will Parade. PHILADELPHIA, Aprll 1-—Five car: 3 wera dynamited in the northern section of | to attend the indoor athletic meet, the city during last night and early today. Windows were shattered, but no one wa injured. The company has offered a re | ward of $500'for the arrest and conviction | town to take part in the celebration. | of any one placing explosives on the tracks. John Mitchell,. accomphnied by Denni Hayes, fourth vice president ‘of the Amer- | Penfold of th Ak-Sar-Ben and conducted jean Federation of Labor, went to New |to thelr temporary heedquarters at the York today. It is.rumored that a meetin of labor leaders may be held in that cit; today and another effort made to brin abeut a settlement. Notwithstanding that the police depart | ment has refused to permit for a parade of | the strikers on | women sympathizers of Sunday, prepurations for being made. the march ar there probavly’ will ¢ *INOVEL POINT OF LA WRAISED | Can Corporations he Adjudged Contempt of Court for Falling to Obey Order. EW YORK, April 1.—The novel question | | of whether a corporation could be adjudged | officers and members of |in contempt of court for falling, in its| , to respond | to & subpoena calling for the production of | PArty included President Lafayette Young, | capacity as a corporate entity the sugar company argued against proposition. Judge George Holme: KANSAS CITY, April 1.—George Holmes, Judge of the Jackson county court, diec at his home in this city today, aged years. Judge Holmes was a ploneer liy stock dealer here, and prominent in democratic politics. Heyburn was up to, stating that he (Heyburn) was a of Ne- braska and Mrs. Hopewell will arrive in sts of Repre- Oxford, Route 2 Willlam TI. {Beall. carrier: Early C. Adams. substitute. Gallup, Nar.ha E. Gallyp, substitute. Cloar, | Q |morning. A. A. Stagg of the University of local {of the balcony were filled with cheerins olk on dress parade. The prominent of the city and of Nebraska were seated about | the arena. | | Several bands, foremost among which was the Bixtgenth infantry band from Fort | Crogk, fiFilgied misic for the big event. | Irom the Washington Star. r The vast hall was gay with many flags WARN FICHT ON LAND BILL signal flags of the United States army.|House Committee on Public Lands Long streamers of bunting led to the illum- " ination center high above the judges' stand Wrestles with Problem. Behind the box where sat the Omaha and | CHANGE FOR PICKETT'S MEASURE Des Motnes Commerclal clubs was draped | & mammoth flag which became the motif | of the decorative scheme. | The competitors and the contingents from | Result of Controversy Will Result in the towns and schools which they repre- | Portte sest ponred 1ot tla sity through the: morn. | = PR s ing and the middle of the afternoon found RNt AotSan A no one missing. About headquarters at partment. the Rome the offictal groups gathered to | spend thelr time thers and In the inepec- tion of the track at the Auditorfurh. Jat the boumetcommittes ok 3l The officials from the east were en-|day pulledgand haflled at _imunnuc In their view of the prospects for | tion BM to: Lol pibke Vapts f'the-big" event of “touight, declatifix’ that for convervation purposss. Republicat &ll was in proper trim for the 200 athletes | from public land states, who object (o any. Who are to figure in the competitions of | change in the public land . pelicies and the meet. | republicans who are follqwers of the mod- Everewt C. Brown, president of the Ama- ern conservation program eould fof come teur Athletic unfon, and Secretary Sullivan (to an agreement as bétween twe bifis | | arrivedl ‘4arly In the day and spent their| In the end the democrats denounced botH | time close to the scene of activities In the | measures as being designed to give the present and past administration clean’ bills of health in relation to the conduct of the |land laws. They then Introduced a& bl o {thelr own. The republicans were dividec {In support of the bill introduced in the | senate by "Mr. Nejson, which would give the president absojute authority to with draw public lands ior conservation purpose or classification, and the bill introducec {in the house by Mr. Pickett of Towa. whick | would accomplish the same purpose and in |madition validate all past withdrawals. { Both measures would provide that the with- {drawals should remain in force until re: | Yoked by the president or by act of con- | Bress. | | | WASHINGTON, April L—Three tactions lie lands tos A Chicago was also on the ground eariy. Dr. R. G. Clapp, University of Nebraska, and Dr. F. B. Modesitt, Sioux City Young |Men's Christian association, reached Omaha just before noon. Des Moines Club Here. Des, Mofnes sent a delegation from two of 1ts most important civic club® to Omaha Mem- bers of the Des Moines Commercial club and seventeen of those who belong to the “Greater Des Moines" committee were in The members of the “Greater Des Molnes” s | committes wer by S £ et by Secretary M. J.17.fter the democrats on’the commiitee assailed the mttitude of both factions of the republicans the latter made an effort to reach an agreement and it was re- ported tonfght that Mr. Pickett would con- sent to the elimination of that portion of his bill which specifically would validate | past withdrawals made by the Interior department The latter clause, It is sald, was intended to validate certain withdrawals that were made under the Roosevelt administration. It had becn charged in debates on the floor of both houses that many of those withdrawals were wtihout authority of law. That contention was rejected by the senate committee on public lands fnd the validation of past acts therefore was declared to be unnecessary. HENRY \SAIR__lS RELEASED Alleged White Slaver Who Served Thirteen Months Gets Liberty on Writ of Habeas Corp % | Loyal hotel. The visitors were taken in y | automobiles and whirled about the town & | in order that they might have a chance to |see what a progressive city Omaha really is. Visits were made “to the Country Fleld clubs and everything was running smoothly until one of the machines was discovered to have a flat tire not far from the South Omaha stock yards. Captain George P. White of the Sixth cavairy, sta- tioned at Fort Des Moines; Vice President Gilger B. MacKimnon of the Mechanics Savings bank at Des Moines and Manager M. Eugene Sherman of the Des Moines Drug company were forced -to leave the car and plle Into another which happened along at the physicological moment. The “Greater Des Molnes” committee | ana o) Jr.; Secretary Lucius E. Wilson, W. G | Agar, A. C. Miller, B. F. Kauffman, H. H | Polk, former Governor F. D. Jackson, M. | E. Sherman, F. T. Parriit, Jansen Haines, | P. B. Sawyer, N. T. Guernsey, G. M. Van | )| Evera, Charles A. Rawson, G. E. MacKin- | non, Captain George P. White and Ii. .| t('h..e. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., April L.—Henry Lair of San Franciséo, after serving thir- teen months of A two-year sentence In the fnderal peenitentiary here, imposed by |Judge Landis of Chicago, for engaging |in the whits slave traffic, was reieased | today on a writ of habeas corpus, issued by Judge John F. Philllps of the federal a Dinner to Visitors. | Members of the Omaha Commercial club ald they were highly complimented (Continued on Eighth Page.) Threatens Life While Upon | a Charge of Wife Beating| Discouraged by Place by his domestic startied county threatening to George ficlals court commit “Guess 1'll take this and end it all." “Let's see it blad, clerk of county court, ylelded up the pill which was not returne to him, Place 1s a former lawyer, who of on a charge of beating his wife. It has been some years since Place actively practised law, for he gav the profession up (0 Taise chickens for him to recall to memory cause Mr. Flace was in county court t answer @ charge of wife beatihg. Place con- ducted his own case. Mrs. Place and a sister-in-law gave the prineipal testimony against Place and he himeelf was his own only witness. Th troubles, of- suicide. Taking a pill from his pocket, Place cried craftily said Clyde Sun- and Place late sing chickens in Dunace. When he made the suicide threat he was grieving because he had just been fined $10 George in Dundee. But it became necessary Friday | the law of | evidence and other matters of procedure, be- | court. Judge Phillips in his decision sus- tained the coutention of Lair's attorneys | that Judge Landis had no jurisdiction in | the case. Gold Shipped to England. NEW YORK, April 1.~The long-expected flow of gold 1o England to replenish the reserves of the Bank of England had its | inception today, when $730,000 in gold coin was engaged for shipment on Saturday. women told quite & tale of brutal atiack, but Judge Leslie was disposed to discount it somewhat and let the defendant off g Lok | Sunday’s want ads. ba nsinints ik toas et Phione - Doung: 1 238 today if you can’t over the custody of 11-year-old | daughter, Minerv come down to the | office. “She's all I have in the world," said| Place, weeping, when he declared that Mrs. | A cheerfn] staff will take your wants over the phone. Place planning to get evidence of non-support against him. Don't Don't hesitate, County Attorney English, who was prose- cuting, took an unsympathetic view, You want something haven't, or you don't “You have two other children by former wify he asked Place. something that you ha Use the Bee want ads for it. “They ure grown up,” replied ness, In general 20 cents will do the work the a @) ! the wit- wall; “And custody of them was awarded your former wite?" pursued the inquisitor. Place wept afresh. “That has nothing o do with this mat- ter hie declared in plaintive tones. After the imposition of the 410 fine, Place made the telephone wires husz for some- time before he found a friend who would come to the rescue that you care for o e R il il | iy EEIL g I I m I \ 1\ . More Montana Lands Are Open To Homeseeksrs Large Tract is Declared Available Under the Enlarged Homestead Act by Secretary Ballinger. l WASHIN April 1—Approximately 4,555 acres of land in Montana were today ddaignated by Secretary Ballinger for set- Qlement under the eniarged homestead act. and. 1t wald, was not susceptible tecéstul fry/gation at a ressoriible cost Ny kuowh Kource of water supply. % makes n fotal of 288,240 acres in Montana whicl have been designated for settlement under that act. In aid of- proposed lemisiation; affecting the s, publie domain, Secrefary Bailinger tempo- #arlly withdrew from all forms of disposi- tion 58238 acres of land along the Lemhi viver, 1daho, and 417 acres along the Columbia river, Washington. Coal land withdrawals from tge public domain, it was announced, indicate large areas within unopened Indian and military rencrvations. As such withdrawels are aithout effect. Secretary .Ballinger has cancelléd-them. for the purpose of clearing ihe record. These lands'were alréady re- served from entry by reason: of the fact that they were within Indian or reserves and their inclusion within coal [1ana’ withdrawals was in effeét a duplica- | tion of their reservation. ) MORTON JOINS D. E. THOMPSON | Prestdent and Vice President of Pa American Railrond Together at Mexica: City. MEXICO CITY, April-1.—Paul Morton of New York arrived today. He Is the guest of David’' B. Thompson, formerly am- {bassador to Mexico and now president .of the Pan-American railroad. Mr. Morton was regently appointed vice president of the PanAmerlcan road. ~He expects to take atrip over the system before return- | Ing to the United States. |HOMESTEADER'S BOY FROZEN | Six-Year-01d« Child. Wanders Away im Sheriden County and is | Found Dead. | RUSHVILLE, Neb. April 1—During | tive blizzard of Tuesday the 6-year-old boy \»r Nicholas Kozala, a homesteader, wan- ‘dered from home and was frozen to death. | The body was found today on the prairie. 1 of’ water power’ sites on the, hilitary | NELSON AND BRANDELS CLAS Senator Accuses Attorney of Conceal- ing Facts from Committee. QUARREL LASTS NEARLY HOUR Democratic Memhers Demand that hairman Retract Charge, but He Refuses — To, Testifies for Ballluger. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The most serl- ous clash that has yet occurred among vestigating committee marked the sitting today. The quarrel, whiehs continued for the democratic &nd republican members of the committee and was taken by many o mean the hopelcasness of a Agreament of any eont. The row. was precipitated by Chairman senting the “prosecution, decelve or conceal something from the committee. The attorney, flushed with anger, jumped to his feet and demanded that the chalrman’s remark he withdrawn. Demoeratic members of the committec were quick to take up the defense of the attorney and Representative Graham of Minois moved that the chalrman be directed to withdraw the imputation. ' Representa- tive ' James seconded the motion. followed a general alscussion, in every member of the committee took part and stated his personal vi number of repéblicans sald they agree with Senator Nelson that Mr. Bran- dels was attempting concealment of a sort, but at, the same time they would not vote to compel the chairman to withdraw. Called Personal Matter. of attempting to which present v, A | the fnsurgent member, that the chairman |in maidng his remark reflected only hix |personal view and in nowise committed any other member. Representative James argued that the matter Mr. Brandels was | accused of concealing was on record before | | the committee and consequent!y there could | be no deccption if the committee members | patd attention The matter finally was disposed of by & (motion from Representative Olmstead to !lay on the table. This was carried by a vote of 6 to 3. | Two witnesses were offered today I haif of Mr. Balinger. ! Attorney Elmer F. Todd of Seattle and | United States Marshal H. K. Love of | Alaska, Mr. Love was formerly a special agent of the land office. Both witnesses declared that statements made by Special |—= on be- They were District (Conunued on Page Twc.) 1 |Canada is Hustling for . Farmers and Farm Laborers | WASHINGTON, April ‘ mmigrants whose 1.—Canada wants purpose enter igricultural pursuits, either as land tenants and laborers, and desires to exclude those immigrants whose presence would tend to the congestion of towns and cities. This Is probably the most import- ent statement made in a report submitted to congress today by Senator Diliingham, chalrman of the joint immigration commis- slon, in regard to the immigration situ- ation in Canada Another striking feature of the comparison of is to own- rs, the report is immigration into into the United States. This shows that while 70 per cent of Canada's immigrants during that period came from northern and western Europe and only 3 per cent from southern and eastern Europe, the reverse was true in regard to the Immigrants entering the United States. The report that “no effort is made to secure mmi- grants from southern and western Kurope and unless it is the purpose of sugh Im- migrants to enter agricultural pursults, tieir admission to Canada is doubtful On the other hand, it is polnted out, affort is made through salaried agents of the Canadian Immigration department, alded by sub-agents, to whom & bonus or commission is paid, and by means of ad- vertising to secure Immigrants flom the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Hol- land, Germany, Denmark, lceland, Fin- Canada during the past decade with that | ,Jand, Norway, Sweden. Switzerland and the United States. | Of the total number of im |ing from the United States to ing the past three years elghths were classed as farmers or farm laboreis. Probably no other considerabl | movement of population from one country |to another, says the reports, at the present time s %o largely composed of agricul- tural people. From 180 to 1910, in western Canad | 235,690 homesteads were entered, more than |# per cent of the entries being by fm- migrants, divided as follow English 20.32 per cent; Scoteh, 5,20 per icent; Irish 18 per cent; Continental Europeans, 27.67 per cent, and Americans |49 per cent. Canada gives great | ministrative authorities the matter of | rejection or admisstons and allows its | officials substantial freedom in the matter |of deportation. All persons who becomt public charges within two years after land- ing may be deported. No one is debarred |trom Canada, because of previous ar- | rangements made for securing employment The dominion maintalns free information or employment bureaus in the principal centérs both for the benefit of employers of labor and of Immigrants seeking em- ployment In dealing with Oriental immigration Canads has adopted a policy which prac tically excludes Asiatic labor, igrants go- anada dur- more than seven- Iberty in to its ad- the members of the Ballinger-Pinchot in-| +n hour or fmore, was mdded evidence ot | Of Tliinofs, the growing feeling’ of partisanship amons | unanimous | Nelson's accusing Attorney Brandeis, repre- | There | aia not! It was argued by Representative Mad!son, | TAX LAW STIRS HORNET'S NEST Corporation Provision Aiming at Pub- licity of Returns Virtually Passes Aler Struggle in House, |PRESIDENT GIVEN MORE POWER Privilege Restricted to Him to Give Out Companies’ Reports. {VOTE WILL BE TAKEN LATER Only Slight Alteration Made in the | Original Amendment. PUBLIC'S INTEREST CONSIDERED ra In Corporations’ Lives Are to awpection Only at the Order of Chiet Executive. WASHINGTON poration tax law strict the ture was the previously April 1.—That the cor will be amended to of its publicity assured today nded a the senate re fen when provision that operation virtuaily louse slightly adopted by for purpos A8 passed the house today the lnw ng on this subject provides that “all poration tax returns shall bs open to inepe only upon the order of the president, under rules and regulations to | be prescribed by the secretary of the treas {ury and approved by the president.’ As previously provided by the such corporation tax reports were “to be made publle when hy resolution of the senate or house of representatives or by order of the president when he deems it for the public interest."” The senate and house conferces soon will get together In an effort to agree upon a publicity amendment in which the views i of both branches will he harmonized Fafla at Dircet Vote, Juset before the subject w disposed of Mr. Fitzgerald of New York attempted to | wet a atrect on a motlon mit the bill under consideration etructi for the committee on appropria- tions to report it with an amendment re- pealing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law By by tion senate vote to recom- with in- Mr. Mann Underwood of Alabama and of Georgia, particlpated In General opposition to that ed on the democratic side, %o thé People May Know. | Un@er the terms of his amendment, Mr. Gillett said, he thought the president would rule that records of corporations of use and value to the public would be made publie. He sald he thought the majority of ' corporation returns ought mot to be made public, as they should not be open to the inspection of their rivals Mr. Fitzgerald, combating the amendment, =ald was In favor of the fullest publicity of all corporation affairs {ana otfered an amendment providing simply | that reports required by the corporation {tax law “shall be open to public Inspection’ lana appropriating $0,000 or more to classity | such reports, etc | “This amendment,” said Mr. Clark of Missouri, referring to the Gillett provision ! “should be entitled ‘an amendment to g the republican party out of a hole. Under this provision no one will have access to | these reports of corporations except theg president and bis adyjsers and that is a dangerous proppsition. Human nature has | been the same gince the time when Adam and Eve were dFiven from Paradise, and in the course of tfme somebody might use thix information for a political purpose,’” Mr. ne sald publicity should not accorded In response to.mere curlosity of !the people and he belleved the lett amendment would accomplish all desirable pubticity. Hitcheock Talks Politios. Mr. Hiteh:ock of Nebraska suggested that {the head of the deptment in which in- formation in regard to the corporations had been gathered had become the head of the republican campalgn committec two yeur ago, and “the great, great trust buster of | Ohlo, Wade Ellls, had been taken from the prosecution of corporations and placed in » of the campaign in Ohlo." Those examples of activity in politics of men who possessed Information regarding corporations, he sald, should be remem bered when it was proposed to pass the pending legislation. Mr. Sherley of Kentucky parted company with bis assoclates in declaring t(hat tho publicity feature the corporation tax law could not be defended. Mr. Harrison of New York house that, although the present occupan of the White House was "a benign prek dent,” the (ime might come when he {be “a malign president {danger of trusting to him public these seen, | a striot party vote of 150 to 116, in which | the Insurgents were found side by side { with the republicans, a point of order | against Mr. Fitzgerald's motion was sus- | tained. | The senate amendment to the legislative, 1rxrcuu\-a and judicial appropriation bill, providiiug for publicity concerning the af- fairs of corporations, stirred up a ‘‘hornets’ { nest” when it came to the house for action | today fn connection with a conferencs re- port. | Mr. Gillett of Massachusetts, A Mr. Bartlett the ‘discusston. [ provision devel Gillett ) be reminded the would then (he to mak wouid and alone matters corporation e ) CARNEGIE REACHES PITTSBURG I pu. i, | Steer o 7 i King Refuses to Further His Defense of Speaker ) Cannoun. | PITTSBURG, April L.—Andre Carnegin and party arrived here f Chieago ‘clock this morning and were taken {in automobiles the Hotel Hehenl where they will remain during their days' stay in this city As Mr. Carnegie stepped from his private ear In the Unlon station he was besleged by reporters and photographers., Asked for |a statement on his reported interview in ] hicago yesterday, in which he is quoted as detending Speaker Cannon of the house of representatives, Mr. Carnegle sald “I have been stormed by reporters ever since I left for the west coast, and I think you Pittsburgers might let me have my rest here without wanting me to talk all the time. H Mr, Carnegle shunned the photographers lawking to. be excused from posing bofore | the camera battery. Mr. Carnesle said in regmrd 1o the present Braft crusade in Pitisburg: “Bverywhere 1 go in glaring letwars 1| tave had to read of Pittsburg's shame. Pitisburg's graft. 1 have been humilpied Dine »m o four |