Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1916, Page 1

~ ‘ = addresses of families read The Bee exclusively. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VOL. XLVI—NO. 104/ | NEBRASKANS OUT IN GREAT CROWDS TO HEAR HUGHES Farmers and the ’f'bwnlpoople Alike Voice pproval of Re- pnbllgun Doctrine of Party Nominee for Presidency. "REFUTES WAR ARGUMENT %ells Cheering Hosts He Would Stand for Recognized Rights of Nation, \ ORATIONS Efiou@uons Charles E. Hughes came into Oma- _ha on his special train, expressing i pleasure over thg manner in which he was received, from Falls City last Satgrday morning until he reached Hotel Fonténelle. He made a vigorous effort to set the people of the state right on the issues which ' the democrats have raised. On Saturday his voice did not serve him as well as he would have liked, but after the Sunday rest at Lincoln he started ‘aut yvesterday ) morning determined to finish his Ne- braska itinerary in a manner that would leave no uncertainty as to where he stood on the questions now before the voters. 3 At Fremont Tabernacle. At Fremont, the last stop before reachifig Omaha, he was noticeably keyed up before a crowd of more than 2,000 which jammed into a tabernacle in which the Baptists had been hold- in; a conveg:xon. y “It is.a very severe contrast to af- tempt to address all of the people of the {!flitad States. My voice is some- what worse for wear;but my heart is strong and my" sense of privilege is deep, and it i with the greatest pleas- ure that I come to Fremopt.' I as- sume there are some here not con- nected with the party I represent. I welcome_their interest; I welconle their ‘Co-operation,” stated ~Mr. Hughes. 5 e 3 'I’he audiéice at Fremont was par- - ticularly appreciative. D county was ‘one of the Hughes strongholds in the presidential primaries last spring, 5 T. L. Mathews, president of the Hughes and Fairbanks club, intro- duced the speaker at Fremont. Answers Wilson Shn!\t. « Th?‘rgceptionu during the day at/ * Columbus, Grand Island and Hasnfis re hearty, and in cach instance Mr. %e«ghn commanded c¢lose attention. v The pmiguhr{lx._g w_efature of the the day was his refer- erice to President Wilson's statement of last Saturday that the election of hes meant maintenance of an. in- visible |governnient.. This gave the presidential candidate a target at which to difect sbme of his state- ments, He pointed to his record as governor as gvidence whether he would 'be in-league with any invisible > goyernment. { (On the depot platform'at Columbus\ “iour high schoof"i s were discussing the natioftal situation. One of the ~quartet intimated- that if, Hughes were elected there might be war and she would have to marry a cripple. The other girls explaified the true situa- tion, she accepted a Hughes button and dismissed’ the thought of a crip- pled husband from her mind. Mrs. Hughes remained with her husband at every stopping place, ac- companying him to the wait}ng auto- mobiles and seemingly neyer weary- ing of the part which she holds in the campaign. / Covers the’ Issues. Mr, Hughes reached Omaha some- what' tired_and in poor voice. His day was a busy one, beginning with an address at Hastings in which h assailed the administration for the Adamson and Underwood laws and declared that, “those who are de- claiming to the American public about invisible government had better Ye- member that when I was ih executive responsibility in ‘the stite of New York where there was no invisible government in that state.” > In his speeches tonight the nominee again answered the declaration that a ‘(Continued on Page Two, Column Tive.) The y[@ther For Nebraska—Fair and colder. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday, Degree, Hour, PPN+ o3 PSP gevporreraerrErpe . Comparative 1916. 1945, lll;A 1913, Highest yesterday.... 77 68 6 47 est yesterd: 46 53 42 44| ean tempera 62 60 G4 46 Precipitation 0 .29 .02 .2 .0 Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal at Omaha since and compa-ed with the la; Normal temperature. Excess for tie day.. Total exceds since March 1. Normal precipitation Detictency for the d Total rainfall since M Deficlency since March 1. Deticlefgy for cor. perfod, 1915.. 1.18 Inches Deticlendy for cor, period, 1914..1.83 inches Re) From Statlons at 7 P. M Station and State Temp. High- Rain- of “Weather, est. fall Cheyenne; , clear. 62, 0 . Davenport, part 74 .00 Denver, clear. . [ .00 Des - Moines, clear 6 00 Dodge City, cle Lander, clear North Platte, Omaha, clear Pueblo, clear Rapid City, ¢ Sloux City, clea ‘Valentine, - clear. ., LA MdOmah Throng ‘Packs Tenth Street Viaduct and Depot to ° Greet and Escort - the Guest. ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE OUT Charles. Evans Hughes, rcAublx’tm candjdate for president of the United thusiastic and patriotic when he arrived in Omaha late yes- terday aiternoon. “Tremendously en- thusiastic” is right. Demonstrative thousands packing the viaduct .on the street level near the Union station cheered him' as he emerged from the automobile en- trance ' after threading his way through a mass of humanity unde the train shed and in the huge wa ing room; thousands more lined the streets as the motor carrying Mr. Hughes and others, and a big truck with a band, headed the long caravan of hundreds of cars which proceedad slowly from the station to the Hotel Fontenelle, where the republican can- didate's party “had dinner and pre- pared for the evening meeting at the Auditorium. Thousands Waiting for Him, Mr. and Mrs,. Hughes “and the thirty eight members of the party ar- rived; in Cmaha on the Hughes’ spe- cial ‘from Fremm&ihortly after 5:45 o'clock. * A receptiol’committee of in Thousands CheerHughes on Arrival; Omaha Gives Leader-Noisy Welcome States, received a tremendously en- f reception_ rteandidate for president of the United | | arge tommittee of local women an thousands of Omahans from all wal! of life were among those-who grees the former associate justice off tically a solid, double-lafie of parked cars, most of them flying American flags in profusion. Limousines jostled express wagons and fllvvers; begrimmed railroaders, overalled factory hands and plaim looking individuals rubbed elbows | with fashiamably-attired women and carefully. groomed men, all with a common and highly anticipated desire —to catch a glimse of_the republican States. ; A scries of staccato cheers which boomed into a roar of approval and welcome wentup from the thousands the neighborhood of 400 persons, al o permanently on exhibition at the Museum of Peaceful Arts in New York. THE OMAHA DALY BEE OMAHA, TUEDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1916 —TEN PAGES. Hotels ete, B “DADDY” OF ALL SUBMARINES TO BE PRESERVED AS A RELIC—Here is the original submarine, named the Holland 9, after its inventor, John P, Holland, photographed just be- fore being cut into sections to be shipped from Philadelphia to New York, where it will be THE WEATHER - TAIR SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ANOTHER POINT "FOR RAILROADS "IN RATE FIGHT Nebraska State Railway 60m~ mission Loses First'Round of Battle to Sustain Now Famous ‘Order No. 19." \ INJUNCTION IS GRANTEI‘) S Federal Court Allows Roads te Temporarily Maintain Higher Schednle of Charges. SOME PROVISIONS MADE Anothier point in Nebraska's noted freight rate case was decided in favor of the railroads in operation in this state late westerday afternoon, when, lin places of vantage when Mr. Hughes in the United States district court for stepped into the car of Chairman N, P. Dodge, jr., of the §lughes’ Alliance, which carried, besides the republican candidate, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Dodge, Charles ‘W, .Farngm, manager of the $pecial, and two Secret service men. The remainder of the thirty-eight members of the Hughes party were whisked into cars owned by G. W. Wattles, Gould Dietz, W. G. Ure, W, Farnam Smith and other members of (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) OMARA CROWDED BY HUGHES FOLLOWERS Hundreds Come to See Omaha’s Distinguished Guest and the *Hotels Send™@ut 8. 0. 8. MANY PROMINENT VISITORS “I'm sorry folks, but we haven’t got a room left in the Motel! And we've rented the last of the cots we placed in the halls! No., the Ak-Sar-Ben fes- tival is over, but the reason we're so crowded is that there are sa - many visitors in. Omaha who .want to see and hear Mr. Hughes.” ' If you hyd been standing near the desk in' the lobby of any of the Oma- ha hotels yesterday, you would have heard the foregoing, not once, but many times. K 3 “sold out” completely, so great was the rush for rooms. Most of the ho- houses and other ‘places ‘where the visitors could secure lodgings and furdished accommodations way. 5 Jam Streets Early. Hughes visitors commenced to ar- rive early, every incoming train de- positing a‘load of humanity at the various depot platforms, and long be- fore the eminent speaker himself ar- rived, the streets were jammed with crowds. Hundreds sought Weds in Councif Bluffs, while others streets. . | A / Restaurants everywhere operated at full speed, and at* 6' o'clock several down-town restaurants had long lines of hungry patrons waiting outside un- til the crowd inside had been fed and urged outside. Some of Prominent. Among the promifient visitors seen around the hotels and elsewhere on “Hughes day” were: walked the legislature from O’Neil; George Hill, Winnebago; E. R. King, Madison; August Weiss, Madison; Henry and Frank Holmstedt, Fullerton; Peter Jepsen, Curtis; Martin Jepsen, Curtis; F. R. Carlisle, Norfolk; H. V. Stan- field, Kimball; *L(J. Dunn, Lincoln; J. D. Hull, Dunlap, Ia.; G. E. Ander- son, Red Oak, Ia.; W. L. Rase, Fuller- ton; W. S. Glover, Gordon, Neb.; P. R. Hull, Gordon; Roy F. Clifford, El- gin; H.\C. Elwood, Creighton; A. A. Sulzmer, Lincoln; R. B. Lamphere, Lincoln; H. E. Shaifer, Greenfield, Ia; R. S. Hill and T, C. Koll, Colum- bus; Sergeant E. P. Clements, Ord; F. H. Brandew and J. L. ehne, Hastings and E. J. Hainer, Lincoln. Early yesterday afternoon automo- bile parties from Cass, Sarpy apd Saunders counties, were arriving, in this city and at the garages it was reported that there were a great many farmer voters in the city to hear Mr, Hughes. Crisis in Oil Plant Strike Expected Today “ Bayonne, N. J,, Oct. 16.—A crisis in the strike of about 11,000 workers in the oil plants and other manufae- tories at Constable Hook was reached today when the Tidewater Oil com- pany; opened its doors and invited the strikers totretdrn to work. A nteeting of the 3,000 skilled work- ers who claimed they-were forced to join the strike against their ire vas held this morning. } The” men planned to march back to the plant, of the Standard Oil company in . body in the belief that their action would break the strike. Another meeting of those who have takeny a most active part in the strike was | held to d(?ide whether\it should be declared off. Nebraska Baptists Meet in Fremont Fremont, Neb, Oct. 16.—With an attendance of over 500 delegates, the Nebraska state convention of the Bap- (tist ch reh op | in Fremont today fop a four days! sessign. A pastoral conference and a conference of the Woman's Missionary society were held’ today. The convention proper begins tonight. All of the hotels satly in the day,| tels dug” up their list of rooming in. this, Denny Cronin, former/ member of BIG AUDITORION IS JKMNED BY PEOPLE Immense Hall Packéd Long Be- fore Hour for Hughes to Open His Address. | it OROWDS CHEER ON STREETS 7 d Doors at the big municipal audi- torium were opened at 7 o'clowk, but long before that time both Fifteénth and Howard streets were jammed with people, waiting to be admitted to the hall. As soon as the doors were opened, the rush began, and long before the hour for the speak- ing to commence the great audi- torium was packed. Other thousands lined the streets, waiting for the distingyished visitor 1to arrive from the hotel, and when the police Qushed a way for his car through the'crowd he was escorted ol the stage door by a cheering mul‘i- % old Lied Hall he said rde of.those who-sould-nok gain au-(farmer, Lgmember thag when I waal fb 4 ll‘h:l: 13 ndcessal »-gr‘ imclr man B kr‘"“' 3,)2('{“’: m:g’e.ly ‘i:?nnt'om;rfl::mf }c,l:%i)}bia.‘lo stand firm and thus sil “"Hy 'flm Crowd Inside Inspiring. Seats on theistage had already been | filled by’ those who wete fortunate chough to secure tickets. Tlie pom- mittee having Phis in charge' had been ‘besieged all ‘day, long after tlre last of the tickeéts were gone, by in- dividuals who sought this favor, It was not to be had, though, for the stage at.the Auditorium will not hold all, “and some had to sit down in front. 3 [ And- those who did sit down. m front made a wonderful sight for the speaker, to overlook. The. capacity of the’ great hall was again tested and. whether it be 7,000 or 8,000 that it holds, they were all there. Flags and bunting and palms decorateg the.| immense room, and with the trefiend- ous crowd formed a most inspiring piéture.“The band kept,the people amused until Mr. Hughes and his party arrived, and then the music was drowned by the huge roar of welcome that went up from the crowd. Welcome Never More Hearty. < No visitor to Omaha ever received a more spontaneous nor hearty\dem- [onslration in greeting than was ac- corded Mr. Hughes. Every form aof voeal approval and encouragement | was brought into play," and the can- didate 'was made to know he was among friends,-when he came to the front of the stage with,his escort, to begin his closing, talk of his tour through Nebraskal g p by A s S0 L Rock Island Train Derailed and Dozen Cars Are Piled Up Fairbury, Neb., Oct. -16.—(Special Telegram.)—Fast east bound freight No. 94 on the Rock Island, en route to\Council Bluffs, 1a., was derailed in the DeWitt yards and thirteen cars of fruit, bullion, grain, etc., scattered over the - tracks. Engineer Feed Chase jand Conductor F. H, Stafford of this city were in charge of the train at the time of the accident. \ . It is asserted the train was travel-l g " His message, dated 8 a. m.|” Cut Out Isaac and Rebecca. ng at'twenty-five miles an hour. The Sunday, read: ~ 3 ! It jalso was proposed to expunge ccidént happened at the bottom of | " “iai6 not seen any submarine. | the expression, “as Isaac and Rebecca a long grade, down into the Big Blue valleyr at DeWitt. The main line| of the Rock Island was completely blocked for twelve hours and it was necessary to clear up the house track and” slowly move all passenger and freight trains by the wrecked cars. Division = Superintendent H. E. Allen hastefied from this point to De- Witt and took personal charge of the | wrecked train. Noné€ of the crew was/ injured. The thirteen cars were completely demolished. It will take a special crew of car men several days to clear away the wreckage. An investigation will be held by operating officials at this point, to assertain the cause of this delail- | ment. ‘Wilson Sends Greetings to ~ The Philippine Legislature Washington, Oct.” 16—~President | Wilson and Secrctary of War Baker | tcday cabled Governor General Har- | vison of the Philippines asking him | | to convey their greetings to the Fil- ipino people on the occasion of the convening of the first Philippine leg- islature, composed entirely anAu‘ves. Hughe—s Much Imp;essed as He_;’;iews The Magnificent Farms of Nebraska : ~ He Recalls His Boyhood Days, | concerning the recem{ungc of the Adamson law: Which Were La.rgely sPent “Now there was a great protest on On the Farm of His ehalf of farmers they were not rep- resented in this discussion, if you can doubt, Grandfather, call it such; they were not represent- ed in this surrender, they were on the FARMERS NOT CONSULTED |outside with others of the public. 1 - 4 have here a copy of the telegram By EDWARD BLACK. *Hastings, Neb., Oct, 16.=~(Special Telegram.)—In his address before a r ery n large crowd at this place, Mr. Hughes arm‘:,\s with respect to this matter, placed stress upon his answer to President Wilson's referente to in- cm(l;r}";lleé:l:m“)'_N}?:],l ?;;n:s—t—o(:l?c; visible government in event of the dny of oto ooak Hughes. ' County election of Hughes,” He was forceful Chynirman fo Egge, S. R. Barfon in his declaration that no invisible . YA i v : = f A, E. Cady, jr., and Monte Jarvis led government existed during his ad- ed hall. whieh ministration as_governor, and none the pgm%‘ l‘;‘l“;cg'::a"‘;e ):rr'i\xl‘tu} wouia exist under his presidential ad- :‘}"'s t 'Igh (s greeted Me ministration. ' This statement, deliv- "a l\li‘r Y'H h°“sa‘]’ Efl; 1ink: of ered with all the force of ‘his being, | 2™ b "b 1“3 l.“ “"}3 i Getlteat impressed a crowd estimated conser- | March. Delegations l’ A 4 ,"l‘ vatively at 6,000, Qlty came on _ special trains. he C. J. Miles, former mayor, intro- Young Men's Republican club was duced the speaken, referring to -his | led by President Cady. Flags, ban- vision and high ideals. A platform | Bers and bands gave a’real holiday had been erected a short distance | 2ppearance. Many clamored ‘for ae- from the depot. A bougquet of roses | Mittance to the hall, but the room was presented to Mrs, Hughes, who | filled early, Mr. H“l‘,l‘f! was_intro- sat at the side of Mr, Miles during |duced by County Chaifman Egge. the address. ! 5 NG Charlotte Ahpciu and Pczgydwtfit- Remembers His Trip. morc,v tiny girls, presente T, Hughes referred .to Hastl‘;ga as a H.‘fghé' l‘ bouquet - of roses amid bright spot_in his\memory. “As I|wild applause. ; ‘ came anmss the state this morning, | - Mr. Hughes was in company o yoking out on these wonderful fields, | many friends when he “r"“"d him- was_ thinking of the life of the [self on the tariff, He raised the roof whigh was Sent t&* the president by M;}L N. Pope, the president of the State Farmers’ union of Texas, which ut briefly the demand of the “There: has losses.” larea.’ w‘ln vespect\of all the world. “We are a_powerfyl and peaceful nation” brought another outburst. MINORITY REPORT 0UTS OUT “OBEY” Changes Proposed in Marriage Ceremony by Part.of Epis- conal\committee. : B SUBMITTED TO DEPUTIES father’s farm,” said Mr. Hughes. | Mr. Hughes ‘commanded close at- tentien when he continued as follows HUGHES' TRAIN HELD | FOR HAND SHAKING Meetfig with Splendid Recep- tion’ On_His Second Day’s Trip Over the State. | TRAIN ON SCHEDULE TIME -~ By EDWARD BLACK. Grand Island, Neb,, Oct. 16.—(Spe- cial . Telegram.)—Mr, and ‘Mrs. Huyghes started their second day of the Nebraska itinerary. ifi good spir- its following Sunday's rest. The train was held ten ginutes at Hastings after the address of Mr. Hughes to permit many to shake hands with the candidate. Mrs. Hughes was pleased with attentions of women at Hastings. A stop was made at Harvard to pefmit John L. Kennedy to leave the party and to proceed on his tour. The train is arriving at each point exactly on scheduled time, Added interest in the stop at Grand Island was due to Hall county’s plur- ality for Hughes at the presidential primary. No Submarine Seen By Holst While On e : The Voyage Home | ussion o the wordss cand wit ¥ all my” worldy goods I thee endow,” in the gervice. An argument ad- vanced was that the expression “en- dow” is a relic of old English law, under which the dower rights of wom- en were guaranteed, and today the question involved is a civil one, to be taken for granted. galleries, holding 2,500 dier,” St. Louis, Oct. 16.—Elimirfation of the word,“gbey” in the promise of the woman in the mgrriage service was recommended in a minority report of the joint committee, submitted to the house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal general convention here to- day, . The house of deputies referred back to the committee on prayer book all proposed” changes in the marriage ceremony, in the catechism and in the institution of clergymen, « These matters cannot come before the general committee again Tor three years, : PhraseologyChanged. The minority report recommended that the present injunction, “Wilt thou obey him and serve him?” be changed to “Wilt thou love him, com-| fort him;"honor and keep him, . in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee unly unto him so long as ye shall live?" | ators, ed up. deal passes, terror.” . New York, Oct. 16.—In a wireless message from the Danish steamship Hellig Olav, received here today by agents of the Scandinavian-American line, Captain Holst, master of the ship, /stated ‘that no submarine had been sighted “during the voyage so lived faithfully together,” etc., and merely say, “living faithfully to- gether.” Many regard the teference to those Biblical personages as out of date, others declare that there is no rdason why Isaac and his wife should”be re- garded as models, when there were many other hushands -and wives equally faithful. ( “Both the majority and the minority reporls were presented to the house by the Rew. Edward L. Parsons of Nothing true in the story.” Observers aboard the White Star line steamship, Bovic, on the steam- er's arrival here Saturday, reported they had seen the periscope of a sub+ marine Friday morning when about 200 miles out and th.t the submarine was apparently in pursuit of the Hel- lig Olay, eastward bound. Represen- tatives of the Scandinavian-American line here sent a wireless message to Captain Holst of the Hellig Olav, ad- vising him of the report and asking | Berlin for details. -~ Be;kclcy, Cal. Numerous changes T B were sxggcs(:dhm the maj}:)ril);‘ re- port. mong them were the short- Hughes Wlll Come ening of the ten commandments as aged heavily, B kt W t A in. ! read in the communion services; the ac 0 es galn\ elimination of a specific prayer for 4 — Jews and Turks, it being argued that [ New - York, Oct. 16.—William R.!the present prayer for Jews and Turks Willeox, chairman of the republican in.connection with infidels is disre- national commiteee, announcéd t«»,?!"’“f"l and ingccurate, “because it day that Charles E. Hughes would |is clear. Mohamtuedans is meant in- probably make another presidential | stead of Turks. | campaign journey info the middle “Damriation” \Doesn’t Stand. | west adter the close of his present| A proposal substituting the word, tour, While the new trip is expec “condemnation” for, “damnation” in to take the candidate into Indjaha | the epistle for the fourth Sunday after and Ohio, the itinerary hag not'yet| _____ been arranged. { (Contf Berlin, on Pag retreat in haste, a panicky flight, ing September, compiled by the German militar; | thorities, says 'wo, Column Two,) | gency statement, tile aeroplanes, of wl were French and fifty-three British, were shot down by the Gerraans dur- according to a list an |GERMANS REPULSED ALONG THE SOMME Teutons Attack Schwaben Pe- but Are Driven Back with Big Loss. ROUMANIANS IN RETREAT —— London, Oct;"16.—The last nigh(\nb de a heavy attack on the newly won positions of the British in the vicinity of Schwaben redodbt, on the Somme front. The war office an- nounced today that the Germans were repulsed - with héavy losses. The statement reads: been ; heavy hostile chelling south of the Ancre. An im- pestantéattack near the Schwaben re- doubt was repulsed with heavy enemy ) After the British got the first half of the redoubt the Germans made counter attacks{o recover possession of it and for the last week there had been no cesgation of the fighting. Now the British look down all along | the valley to trandecourt and it is impossible apparently ‘for the Ger-|Rq; mans to maintain batteries in that \ | Come and Go Like Wood Chucks. Between the new British positions and the river along the fortifications Cfihgln in trenches, going and comin, chucks through their A German | ports that in this ‘neighbor! is a record size dugout capable nien. “They do hate to leave their happy homed, Which they have been .?v% years: building,” said a British sol- Roumanians Lose Heavily. Berlin, @ct. 16.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—"The Roym army in its retreat in Transylvania lost - approximately “two division: says the Overseas agency. | Roumartian first army ax:g the largi part of the second army have bees virtually annihilated. “When the successful attack was made op the first arm: stadt by the Austro-German troops the Roumanians planned to sen! tge second army to its assistanse. was learned from reports of avi- The second army advanced too far to the west and was Prced to Its retreat became October 13 isolated detachments were stillsbéing round- Captured officers say the army was completely disorganized, It would have been annihilated if Rou- magian forces had not been hurried in through the Torsbur ews “Transylvania tgday is clear of the Roumaniang except for small secti near the border, <At the sa the Roumanians’ hope of ol assistance from the sylvania_have been entire - Transylvania population and the better Roumanian efement feel they have been delivered from a nightmare, as the Roumanians have been expelled after a short reigh of cople of rustrated, Action on Struma_Front. London, Oct. 16.—British forces on the Struma front in Macedonia are active on the left flank of their line east of the river and have pyslied their outposts furtlier-northeast™in the dir rection of Demir-Hissar, according to today’s official announcement of the operationg of the Saloniki army. The village of* Bursuk, eight/miles south- west of Demir-Hissar, has been en- tered by British patrols, who drove back Bulgarian detachments, i ki i British and Italian . Warships Battle Oct. 16—(By Wireless S:\yvillefi—“A\ British and an Italian warship, in consequence of a collided i the Messina channel (be- tween the mainland of Italy and the island of Sicily),” Amsterdam reports say, “says an item givep out by the Overseas News agegey. The shelled each other and one wa A British | arifored cruiser was t6wéd to Naples. are yet unavailable.” Germans Shoot Down 74 ieroplages ]During Overseas Germans anian second at Hérmann- ger and Pre- i v e b aining Details September nty-four hos- h twenty-one the Omaha division, Federal Judges J. ' W. Woodrough, Walter I. Smith and James D. Elliott of Sioux Falls,- issued an injunction. which, in effeet, will permit the carriers to maintain, temporarily, at least, a schedule of rates promulgated July 3 by the Inter- state Comimerce. commtission. These Fates are much in excess of those ordered in fotce by the State Railway, commission in its now fa- mous “Order No. 19,” the bone of contenl'%y in litigation which, began two.years ago and>which promises to contifiue some time. Argumepts on behalf of both the tailwayy and Staté Railway commis- sion were submitted to the court yes- terday morning‘and after three hours of deliberation yesterday afternoon, the judges issued the injunction. The point involved in the proceedings” dates back to the i?wmce of Order N i d material reduc- tions in freight rates in this state and which latér caused shippers of Conn- cil Bluffs, Sioux City, Kansas C?s, St Joseplr and other “east, baa! towns” to institute before ‘the 'Inter.- state Commerce commission an ac- tion to have the rates held discrim- inatory. State s Restrained. In deciding the case in favor of the shippers the commission issued what it contended t6 be a reasongble sched- ule of tariffs tohe charged by the rail- Subsequently the railway com- ) filed suit .t‘g n‘qtrfin t‘l‘i‘: State way commission from tal y action to prevent the pefitbpm.fig ; complying with the order of the terstate merce commissiol to restrain the state cnmmiuiol\_ ) > (e way! ahies ¢ No.' which was tempo case. he: ol _crfigwmhor‘b ‘of | Junction, shall be: mad| Cettain provisions were made the judges in the order. Among™th are that the rates promulgated by "&mmeru' Interstate n i b from. “ lli, cities” to points Nebraska be maintained until the is_permanently settled and that uil‘:v,:yl keep. their books Gpen ‘lu‘z y to show how, m&cll has been collected “4reight rates in excess of those proe vided ih Order No, 19, t! un_fi to be held in trust until the termi of the action, It is also provided that . the railways shall be liable to persons for any amount paid in excess of those provided in Srde No. 19 if the injunction is held to have béen im- properly granted. In addition the various ¢omipanies are required to fur-- nish bonds of $50,000 each to insure the, payment of ,any damages any shipper may suffer, 4 State Has Protests, At first the Interstate Commerce commission set'September 25, 1916, as J|the date on which the schedule of -« rates should go into effect, but sub- sequently it ordered that the rates go into effect October 25, It was con« tended-by Attorney General Willis E. Reed that since tit time nymerous protests have been filed against:the = proposed rates and that these prds tests cannot be passed upon pritir ¢ the <f y The + This ons me Tran- The October 25. He argued that unti protests are passed upon the schedule of rates filed by the petitioners is in- operative and may not become the tariff of rates allowed. No date for a #pal hearing on the injunction was fixed, but it is ex- pected that it will be at an early date, At this hearing the merits of the case * will be argued and it will be de-' termined whether or not the injuncs > tion shall be made permanent. s Figures Which “ , ~ Speak Volumes \ ~ 1270 MORE : = PAID Want-Adsin The Bee last wgek ¢ than same period last year. ol 42,906 MORE PAID Want-Adsin: . = The Bee first nine . months of 1916~ than in same per- iod last year. - T to fog, ships am- An average gain of oyer v 1000 PAID ADS per week. ews ) >