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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, 'APRIL 1, 1904.
Clark Makes Charges
Against Reformers.
LAND LOBBY IS PERSISTENT
ling Senator Declares
Man Boasts of Work.
tERSON ASKS HIS NAME
I'vomlnn Senator Tells Him He
Knows Personnel of Rlng--CoIo-
radan Declares the State
ment Wholly Untrue.
WASHINGTON, March 3L The atten
3cm of the Senate was divided today be
tween the bill for the repeal of the desert
land, the timber and stono and the home
stead commutation laws and the postofflce
appropriation bill.
The repeal bill was taken up only for
the purpose of discussion, and Clark, of
Wyoming was the principal speaker. He
contested the position taken by Gibson,
that there have been great frauds in the
administration of the land laws of the
West. He declared there is a lobby in
"Washington In the interest of the repeal
bill, and engaged in a short colloquy with
Patterson, during which each character
ized the statoment of the other as untrue.
The general debate on the postofflce bill
was confined largely to a speech by Mc
Creary and interruptions by Republican
Senators. McCreary charged in the main
that the policy of an early adjournment
of Congress had been adopted in order to
avoid legislation not desired by the Re
publican leaders.
The Senate bill also prssed providing for
the appointment of members of the board
cf managers of the National Soldiers'
Home: Martin T. McMahon, New York;
John M. Holey, "Wisconsin; William
Ward, Missouri; Henry W. Markham,
California; Henry E. Palmer, Nebraska,
and Franklin Murphy, New Jersey.
Clark, of Wyoming, then began his ad
dress on the bill repealing the desert land
and other laws. He took issue with the
statements of Gibson, charging fraud In
the administration of the land laws. He
expressed the opinion that if the bill
Ehould become a law, it would absolutely
stop the development of the semi-arid
region.
Frauds Not Fault of the Law.
Clark criticized the operation of the for
est reserve law, saying that under it two
thirds of the area of his own county had
been withdrawn from entry. This was
not the fault of the law. nor were the
frauds committed under the desert land
law or the timber and stone act charge
able to the law.
He admitted the great benefit of the
homestead act in the .past, but contended
that, unaided by other laws, this could
n.ot-iw uudai: a. vobielG-or-tfae settlement
of the arid region. Clark spoke of the
ed on Mr. Bristow's report, which was J
a great tribute to the Integrity of the
department.
Patterson Interrupted that the inves
tigations recommended by Conrad and
Bonaparte had not been undertaken.
Dclllver contended, however, that they
had been made by the department in fulL
The conference report on the agricul
tural appropriation bill was agreed to,
and niter a brief executive session the
Senate, at 5:15, adjourned.
ECHO OF GREAT TRUST CASES
Williams Wants to Know If Knox Is
Prosecuting Parties Thereto.
WASHINGTON. March 31. Representa
tive Williams, of Mississippi, Introduced
two resolutions of Inquiry addressed to
the Department of Justice. One requires
information as to whether any criminal
prosecutions have been instituted by the
department against the individuals or
corporations who were adjudged guilty
recently by the Supreme Court of the
United States, as in the Northern Secu
rities case, of having" violated the laws
of' the "United States, by entering Into
unlawful combines in restraint of Inter
state commerce, "and to send to the
House all papers and documents and
other Information bearing upon the pros
ecutions Inaugurated or about to be in
augurated in that behalf."
The other resolution requests Informa
tion as to whether any investigation was
ever had at the suggestion of the Attorney-General,
or by the Department of
Justice at the suggestion of anyone else,
of the so-called anthracite coal trust con
sisting of tho anthracite-carrying rail
roads doing an Interstate business,
whether any report was ever made of
such investigation, and if 60 to send to
the House the report and all papers and
documents and information bearing upon
the same.
Protection to Fur Seals.
WASHINGTON, March 31. The House
committee on foreign affairs today au
thorized a favorable report on a Senate
resolution requesting the President to ne
gotiate with the government of Great
Britain for the revision of the regulations
governing the taking of fur seals in
Alaskan waters for the purpose of pre
venting pelagic sealing. The resolution
also requested the President to secure
the adherence of Russia and Japan to
such an agreement.
BLOT ON THE STATE
Bell of California Criticises
Soldiers' Home Methods.
ARE ROBBED BY CANTEENJ
Draft of River and Harbor BUI.
WASHINGTON, March 3L The House
committee on rivers and harbors today
completed its draft of an appropriation
bill carrying approximately $3,OW.O00" to
continue existing contracts for river and
harbor work.
Decision in Merger Case Printed.
WASHINGTON, March 31. The Son
ate today passed a joint resolution pro
viding for the printing of 12,000 copies of
the record of the Northern Securities
merger case in the Supreme Court for
free distribution.
Smoot Inquiry Postponed.
WASHINGTON, ' March 31. Subpenaes
havo been sent out for witnesses to ap
pear before the Senate committee on
privileges and election in the Smoot in
quiry on April 20, a postponement being
made from April 12.
SHOULD NOT BE REAPPOINTED
Knox, However, Would Let Hawaiian
Judge Complete His Term.
HONOLULU. March 3L Governor Car
ter has received from Washington the
report of the Department of Justice on
the charges against Judge Kalua, of the
Second Circuit Court. The report does
not recommend that he be removed 'from
office at present, but declares he should
not be reappointed at the expiration of his
term, which is Juno 5.-
The charges against Kalua included cor
ruption. Intoxication on the bench, incom
petency and Improper political activity.
The renort savs Kalua admits lie nt tlmi
work of the commission recently sent into 1 takes something to drink and that he pos-
the West to investigate the operations of I sibly was indiscreet while under the infiu-
land laws and commended the President
for bis course in the matter.
He charged the agitation for a repeal of
.he land laws to the owners of large bod
ies of railroad grant lands in the West.
The effect of the repeal, he said, would
be to take out of the market every acre
of public land. But the public lands still
would be sold, Clarksaid, and he outlined
a system of substitution by means of for
est reserve scrip, secured through the dis
position of railroad lands in forest re
serves for other lands, saying if Gibson's
bill should become a law the value of all
this land would be doubled. He added:
"Never in the history of land legisla
tion has there been such a determined,
such a barefaced lobby as is behind this
legislation, and which has been pressing
it for the past three years. It is no secret
that one of the largest holders of these
-lands recently boasted at a public ban
quet that he had contributed $25,000 for
!the purpose of this bill."
Gibson and Patterson both demanded the
piame of the man in question, but Clark
lecllncd to give It to the Senate, saying he
rould not enter Into personalities of that
character in the Senate, but ho would
Sive the name to any Senator who might
rtsn it.
Should Be Branded Throughout Land
"I think," said Patterson, "that the
,'namo should be given here; that man
should be known and should be branded
throughout the country."
Proceeding. Patterson demanded that
Clark should say who constitutes .the
lobby here in the Interest of the lepeal
Ibill. Clark again declined, but said the
Senator from Colorado knew who con
stituted the lobby.
l Patterson replied promntlv: "When
pe Senator from Wyoming says that I
low who constitutes the lobby of which
complains, he speaks hastily and
lithout justification. There Is not one
ford of truth in that statement."
Clark replied he had meant merely to
ly mat .rauerson must have observed
Ithe lobby, and he withdrew the state-
fment that the Colorado Senator had had
positive knowledge of its existence.
Replying, Patterson admitted his sym
pathy with a movement for the repeal of
the land laws, and said this sympathy
was due to tho fact that he lives in a
public land state, and had had an oppor
tunity to observe the operations of these
laws. He expressed the opinion that
eight out of ten acres of land in Colorado
and Wyoming had been secured through
fraudulent means.
Clark I know nothing about condi-
tions in Colorado, but what the Senator
says about Wyoming is unqualifiedly un
true. With this the incident closed.
McCreary Criticises Republicans.
The postoffico appropriation bill -was
taken up. McCreary read from the
message, of the President in regard to the
First Assistant Postmaster-Genej-al's of
iico and the Indictments against
Beaver, Machen, Tyncr and other offi
cials to show conditions in the depart
ment, which he said warranted and made
necessary an Investigation.
"It has been a strange spectacle," said
McCreary, "when members of the House
of Representatives wno nave demanded
Ian investigation and reform have been
-omDelled to abandon that request them
selves have bad to go before an lnvesti-
Igating committee."
The noiicy oi me xiupuuucan party in
i-pinrd to Immigration and statehood of
Arizora, New Mexico and Oklahoma was
severely "ritlclsea Dy .vicureary, wno said
Republican pledges naa Been broken.
The reasons, saia jucureary, arc mat
Ith'' Republicans are peiung ignorant
reign votes, ana lear mey win not got
ie vtes of tne new states u tney are
Admitted. . .
DolIicr spoke or tne cnarges oi cor-
Lmiion Which-the Domoarats wore mak
ing. All these, he said, had been found-
ence of liquor on election day. but that his
denials of the other charges against hint
are satisfactory. It continues as follows:
"It is the general policy of the Govern
ment to permit natives in our new pos
sessions to hold office if they are reason
ably fit, and not to fix too high a stand
ard by which to test them or permit local
political feeling to oust them."
Cruiser Denver on Trial Trip.
BOSTON, March 3L Tho protected
cruiser Denver was given a second Gov
ernment speed trial test over the Cape
Ann course .today, and again failed to
reach her contract requirements of 17
miles an hour, her average speed being
16.70 knots.
Tidal corrections may add slightly to
the speed taken on the ship, and suffi
ciently, the contractors, Neefc & Levy,
say, to bring her speed up to contract re
quirements. The weather and wind conditions were
almost perfect, there being scarcely any
wind and no roll. The Denver made 16.2S
knots on her first trial trip.
Nation Wins Point in Land Frauds.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3L The Gov
ernment won Its second important point
III the technical battle over the alleged
land fraud case today, when Commission
er Heacock denied the motion of the de
fendants, F. A. Hyde and Henry P. Dl
mond to dismiss tho complaint and dis
charge them. Commissioner Heacock in
deciding dgalnst the contention of the de
fendants, said that the certified copy of
the indictment established a prima facie
case against Hyde and Dlmond and that
the competency of the Washington," D.
C, court had beoa proved.
Nebraska District Attorney Chosen.
WASHINGTON, March 3L Senators
Millard and Dietrich and United States
Minister to Brazil Thompson, all of Ne
braska, had a conference with the Presi
dent today concerning the District Attor
neyship of Nebraska. At the conclusion
of the interview it was announced that
Irving J. Baxter, of Omaha, would be ap
pointed to succeed District Attorney Will
lam S. Summers. It was Attorney Sum
mers who prosecuted the recent indict
ment against Senator Dietrich.
House Passes Resolution to Stop
Their Being Paid in Such Checks
Democrats Prevent Vote on
the Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, March 31. Considera
tion of the sundry civil appropriation bill
was concluded In the House today, and the
bill was about to bo passed, when Sulzer
(Dem., N. Y.) forced a'rollcall on a mo
tion to recommit the bill with instructions
to strike out tho paragraph appropriating
5136,000 for the rental of the New York
Custom-House. Tho vote showed a quorum
was not present, and adjournment was
tak-n until tomorrow.
Tha right of boards of receivers of state
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers to
retain certain portions of pension money
Tepelved by the inmates was discussed at
length.
Bell (Dem., CaL) assailed his own state
for permitting a canteen to be established
in the California State Home, and charged
that the old soldiers were allowed to draw
their pension money from the Home In
most instances only through canteen
checks. After extended debate, an amend
ment by Bell to correct the evils com
plained of was adopted.
Referring to the Home In his own state.
Bell said Its officials had degraded tho
state to the position of conducting a saloon
and grog shop. Under the rule now ex
isting, he declared the officials compel the
soldier to surrender his pension and then
pay it back to him In canteen checks.
"I am ashamed of any state that would
do that," remarked Hemenway (Ind.). in
charge of the bill.
"And Lam ashamed to say my state doe3
it," Mr. Bell declared, "and I am here to
stop It,"
Hemenway replied that he would be
ashamed to represent a state that robbed
old soldiers.
Ashamed-of Board,-
. Bell protested that he was proud of his
state but ashamed of the Board of Gov
ernors of the Home.
A point of order by Hemenway against
the amendment was overruled.
Taking the floor again. Bell vigorously
protested against the canteen at the Cali
fornia State Home and urged the adoption
of his amendment. The amendment pro
vided that no part of the appropriation
of the state or territorial homes for -disabled
soldiers shall be apportioned until
they all have conformed to the rules and
regulations prescribed by the act of
March, 1SS3, pertaining to the National
Home at Washington, D. C, but they
shall not apply to any state or terri
torial home to which the wives or widows
of soldiers were admitted and maintained.
"Nor shall any part of It be appropriated
to any state or territorial home that main
tains a bar or canteen where intoxicating
liquors are sold."
Sherley (Dem., Ky.) offered an amend
ment to the amendment, ftrlking out the
canteen feature. He was, he said, as
greatly grieved over the condition of af
fairs in the California Home as was Bell,
but he emphatically declared against "that
species of paternalism which undertakes
to legislate the morals of people." He
was, he said, opposed to any anti-canteen
law.
The Sherley amendment in favor of the
canteen was voted down. The Bell amend
ment was then agreed to by a rising vote,
39 to 37.
Hitchcock (Dem., Neb.) made an un
successful attempt to amend the sundry
civil appropriation bill by providing that
no salaries shall be paid to United States
District Attorneys who for six months
after the passage of the bill shall fall
to proceed by suit In equity or criminal
prosecution against persons, firms or cor
porations violating the anti-trust law.
Benton (Dem., Mo.) interrupted the
reading of the bill to call attention to
the remarks of himself and Hemenway
regarding the appropriation for furnish
ing the White House. He said he did not
want to be put In the attitude of having
suggested that a $60,000 While House sta
ble was desired when there was no foun
dation for the statement. He then asked
for the estlmato of the Secretary of the
Treasury which Includes $60,000 for a
White House stable, and read from the
testimony of Colonel T. W. Symon, super
intendent of public buildings and
grounds, calling attention to the deplor
able condition of the present stable. He
also referred to a supplemental estimate
of $30,000 for the purchase of land upon
which to erect the stable. .
Mann (Dem., 111.) made a point of order
which was sustained against the last
paragraph in the bill, providing that
Government carriages used for public
purposes shall have painted thereon the
name of the department to which they
belong.
Hemenway (Ind.) got around the point
by offering a substitute slightly different
in language, but preserving the require
ment of the original paragraph. The
substitute was agreed to.
The use or public carriages for private
purposes Baker (Dem., N. Y.) character
ized as "graft."
Coast Survey Board Criticised.
The House then reverted to the portion
Still Arguing Land-Fraud Cases.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 31. Argu
ments m the case of F. A. Hyde and
H. P. Dlmond, accused of fraudulently
obtaining Government land, were con
tinued today before United States Com
missioner Heacock. The attorneys for
the defense resist the extradition of their
clients to Washington, D. C, where they
were Indicted, on the ground that they
should be tried where the alleged offenses
were committed.
When the head feels dull and heavy, the
skin appears sallow and greasy, and the
stomach refuses food, take Carter's Little
Liver Pills. Don't forget this.
Get one cake of it.
Nobody ever stops at a
cake.
Pears7, soap for toilet,
bath and shaving.
Sold all OTtr Ihe world.
rvS
"This may be the ore
piano opportunity of
your life."
A WORD TO
Piano Contestants
But a short time remains for you
to take advantage of the prices
quoted you on your price slip. Your
special credit letter Is good any
time BEFORE SEPTEMBER 1.
BEAR IN MIND, however, that
your special price slips are to bo
canceled on the day the. sale closes,
after which regular prices will pre
vail. The end is comingsooner than we
expected. We supposed when the
sale star tod that our enormous
stock of pianos would be able to
supply any demand mads upon It,
but we reckoned without a host,
for never In the whole history of
our house has such a demand for
LUDWIG. KINGSBURY and HAM
ILTON Pianos confronted us. For
this reason we must close the sale
In a few days.,
Alien & Gilbert
Ramaker Co.
Oldest, Largest, Strongest
Cor, Sixth and Morrison Sts.
Opposite Postofflce.
Good goods only. Quality considered, our prices are always lowest.
First Agency
of Butterick
Patterns.
Lipman, Wolfe & Go.
Greatest
Northwestern
Mail-Order House.
Sole agents Parker & Finn Tailor-made Waists, Robinson
fousse Kid Gloves, Artistic Picture Framing, Custom Shade
& Wells' and Burgesser Hats, Tre-
Work, Latest Musical Hits.
&
SPRING TERM
NIGHT SCHOOL
Next Monday night another
term opens in the Y. M. 0. A.
Night School. Here is another op
portunity for young men to make
themselves more efficient. A list
of classes and the term fee is given
below:
Fee to
CLASS. June 4.
Algebra $2.00
Architectural Drawing 3.00
Arithmetic 1.50
Bookkeeping 3.00
Carpentry 3.00
Clay Modeling 4.00
English Grammar...: 1.50
Expert Accounting : 8.00
Geometry 2.00
Manual Training. . '. 3.00
Mechanical Drawing 3.00
Penmanship 1.50
Plumbing 3.00
Reading and Spelling 1.50
Shorthand ....'... 3.00
Sign Card Writing 5.00
Telegraphy 8.00
Typewriting 3.00
Wood Carving 4.00
Working Boys' English
Course 3.00
CALL OR SEND FOR FREE IL
LUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
of the bill which was temporarily passed
over, relating to the coast and geodetic
surveys. Robinson (Dem.. Ind.) openly
charged malfeasance In the conduct of
this office, which he said had approached
a scandal. He offered an amendment re
quiring that the allowance shall not be
made unless supported by properly au
thenticated vouchers. Robinson's amend
ment was disagreed to.
Under a point of order, the proviso pre
scribing the method of appointment and
allowances for special agents and others
in connection with timber depredations,
was stricken out. as also was the proviso
to the paragraph for transcripts of rec
ords and plats in the General Land Of
fice, restricting compensation of clerks to
$2 a day and providing that only one
twelfth of the appropriation shall be
spent In any one month.
An amendment was agreed to appropri
ating 500,000 for new machinery, furni
ture, etc., to complete the equipment nec
essary to Inaugurate a coinage press at
Denver.
The bill was about to be passed when
Sulzer (Dem., N. Y.) forced a roll-call
on a motion to recommit with Instruc
tions to strike out the paragraph relating
to the appropriation of $136,000 for rent of
the New York Custom House, which par
agraph he assailed. Tho call resulted,
S4 yeas, 93 nays and seven "present,"
eight less than a quorum. Williams
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Morrison
Street
An Easter Offering
During this week we will offer to ev
ery purchaser of one of our handsome
Tailor-made Suits valued at 20.00 or
more an elegant
$2,50 WHITE
SHIRTWAIST
FREE
This is an extraordinary offer, as the
exclusive style, perfect construction and
reasonable values of our Suits have won
the admiration and gained us the confi
dence of Portland's best dressers.
NEW NECKWEAR
All the latest and daintiest
of exclusive creations. Priced
most reasonably low.
FURS ARE NOW
REDUCED
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Visitors to the Millinery Salon will find in readiness for
their inspection magnificent values in
Trimmed Hats at $2.95, $3.95
and $4.95
These lines are positively the best values you have ever
seen at the pricesthe variety is large all the leading shapes
chiffon, straw braids, lace, malines and silks used in mak
ing flowers, fruit, foliage and ribbons used as trimmings.
Equally good values being shown at 7.95, 9.95 and
up to 35.00.
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It's not often that you can buy the fashionable
sorts of ribbons at prices like this:
35c Satin Taffeta Ribbon 20
The soft, pliable kind that ties so nicely into
bows, all silk, 44 inches wide, black and all
colors.
25c All-Silk Taffeta Ribbon i3
All pure silk, soft, brilliant, black as well as
colors, ?l inches wide.
65c Liberty Satin Ribbon 50
For bows also well adapted for children's
sashes all pure silk, extra heavy, black and all
colors, 5 inches wide.
News of Neckwear
Many new things in the neckwear store all
of them pretty, all of them cheap enough to
tempt any one.
Fifth Avenue Ribbon Bows, all colors 3S
Fifth Avenue Linen Collars, with white, colored
or Bulgarian embroidery 50
$1.25 Venise Lace Stock Collars at 75
Accordion Pleated Sleeve Ruching. .S5 to 3
Hand-made Collar and Cuff Sets at, set
2.00, 3.25, S4.00 and 5.00
Hand-made Collars at 2.50 and 3.50
White and Colored Silk Stock Collars, with
stole ends, lace and bead trimmed 1.25
Lace and Bead Trimmed Stole End Stocks...
... 1.00
Hosiery
At 27c
Women's Fast
Black Ingrain
(that means dyed in the yarn)
Hosiery, choice of plain or
Richelieu Ribbed; our regular
35c quality.
Women's Stock
ings, in seven dis
tinct varieties all our lace
and lace boot patterns lace
boot with silk embroidery
plain lisle with embroidered
boot plain lisle with silk
clockings. These all in fast
black. Then there are gray
lisle with silk clockings, white;
lisle with embroidered silk
fronts, plain black gauze lisle
with garter tops. Positive best
50 d values obtainable in the
city. See Third-street window
display.
Two days more of the Easter Bible Sale. "Sir Mortimer," by
Mary Johnston, author of 'To Have and to Hold," beautifully
illustrated. Publisher's price $1.50; our price Sl.OS.
4- 7 W omens All
h M. Linen TTanrl ker
chief s, worth 15c two hun
dred dozen of them plain
white, hemstitched; choice of
and J-inch hems; regularly
15c. Today only at 7
Af !? f Women's Hand
t oW embroidered, Ini
tial, All Pure Linen Handker
chiefs, laundered and unlaund
ered, hemstitched ; regularly
35c. Today only 23d
$1.00 Veils 73c.
"Ready" Veils, tuxedo and
chiffon nets, two-toned and
plain. Latest ideas.
$1.50 Bags 98e
As a special: Women's Leather-handle
Hand Bags, walrus,
seal and alligator grain,
black, tan, brown and gray;
some have inside pocket,
others inside card case and
coin purse; regularly $1.50.
Today at 9Sd
$1,56 Petticoats
at 93c
Made of fancy striped outing
flannel of good quality,
double embroidered ruffle ;
regularly $1.50. Special. .SS
Druggists Sundries
25c Japanese Cleaning Compound 17
10c Castile Soap, with wash rag 7
39c Hind's Honey and Almond Cream 28
25c Bourgeois' Rice Powder, all tints 19d
45c Fancy Shaving 'Mirrors 25
59c No. 471 1 Toilet Water, assorted odors. .39d
15c Florida Water (Ponce De Leon) 9
9c Rubber Chick in Egg at 7
ioc Kirk's "Iris" Perfumed Soap at 7
ioc Sachet Envelopes, assorted odors, at 5
50c 4711 and Hilbert's Extracts, all odors. .25
It is our pleasant promise to offer today's shop
pers these opportunities for substantial sav
ing. LINEN COSTUME CLOTH, 36 inches
wide, light blue, medium blue, champagne,
tan, pink, green and gray, a product of Ire
land; KNOB SUITING, one of the season's
most favored washable materials; BOU
TONNE SUITING, a fabric peculiarly adapt
ed for shirtwaist suits, in the newest color
ings. All of these sell regularly at 35c. Spe
cial for today only 25
Waists; Petticoat
At $1.19
At $1.25
Women's White Waists,
of extra fine brocaded Ox
ford, tailor made, six side pleats in front, two
bias pleats in back, full flare sleeves, fancy stock
collar; real value $1.75. Today 1.19
Women's Tailor - made
Petticoats, of fine quality
black mercerized sateen, made with deep
flounce, trimmed with six narrow ruffles,
at 1.25
Women's Petticoats, of
fine black mercerized sat
een, made in the new umbrella shape with three
'shirred ruffles; each ruffle finished with a tuck
in center and hemstitched on bottom 2.50
s; Splendid S
II At $2.98
Women's White Vaists,
of fine imported brocade
damask, new shirred yoke effect, side pleated
front, French back, pouch sleeves, fancy stock
collar, novelty cuffs; real value is $4.50. To
day 2.98
At "1 O Women's Petticoats, of
l tpLUy fine black mercerized sa
teen, made with deep flounce and thcee rows o!
strapping and trimmed with wide knife plaiting
with tucks and ruffles, at 1.50
At S"i T Women's Petticoats, of
ZTZLir pJUA 4 fine black mercerized sa
teen, made with graduated knife plaited ruffle
with two tucked and shirred ruffles at bottom
and deep dust ruffle, at l'.75
(Dem., Miss.) then moved to adjourn,
which was carried.
Amid applause on the Democratic side,
the House at 5:40 adjourned until tomorrow.
Nevada Landc WIthdravn.
WASHINGTON. March 31. The In
terior Department has directed the tem
porary withdrawal of 48G.520 acres of
acant public lands partially unsurveyed
In the Carson City, Nov., land district,
from all forms of disposal except under
the" mineral laws. The withdrawal is for
forestry purposes .
JUSTICE HAS BUNGLED.
Chicago Carbarn Bandits Will Not
Be Hanged at Ones.
CHICAGO, March 31. Seemingly a bad
bungle in the sentence of the carbarn
bandits, Marx, Neldermcler and Vandine,
confronted the State's Attorney's office
today. Instead of speeJy hanging for the
trio, a long legal battle seemed In pros
pect. The Illinois statute provides that
tho date set for hanging must not be
earlier than the tenth day of the next
term of the Supreme Court, nor later than
tho 23th. April 22, the date on which, ac
cording to the sentence, the bandits were
to be hanged, will be the 27th day of the
Supreme Court's term. Application was
made today for writs of habeas corpus in
behalf of the bandits. The writs were is
sued by Judge ChJtraus. and were made
returnable Monday.
Moyer Gets Writ of Habeas Corpus.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.. March 31.
District Judge Theron Stevens has is
sued a writ of habeas corpus for Charles
H. Moyer, president of Uie Western Fcd-
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eration of Miners, who is being held as a
prisoner by the military at Telluride. The
writ 13 directed to' Adjutant-General
Sherman M. Eell and Captain Bulkley
Wells. The only reason given for tho
confinement of Mr. Moyer is "military
necessity."
MNEES NOT LIKELY TO YIELD
Iowa Operators' Proposal for Arbi
tration Comes Up Today.
DES MOINES, March 31. Propositions
for a settlement of the strike in the Iowa
mines were submitted tonight by both tha
operators and the miners. Both propose
a board of three operators, one to be a
miner, the other an operator and the third
a disinterested party selected by the two.
The miners propose the question of
wages and the scale, which is to be arbi
trated. The operators propose that the
ratification of he Indianapolis scale be
the only question arbitrated, so the bodies
are still at variance on this point. The
two propositions will be formally presented
In the morning, with the indications point
ing to a continuation of the deadlock.
The number of men out todty is 13,34).
Telegrams were sent John Mitchell torfay
asking him to come to Des Moines and
aid in a readjustment of the difficulties.
Miners Defer Action on Strike.
LOUISVILLE, March 31. The miners
have decided to defer definite action in
the matter of a strike until Wednesday.
April 6, the present scale to continue in
effect until that time. The ultimate re
sult of the conference will affect 40S0
miners. ,
Twice Lord Mayor of Dublin.
DUBLIN, March 31. Valentine B. Dil
lon, twice Lord Mayor of Dublin. lel
today. He attained prominence as solici
tor for many leaders of the Irln Lund
League, including the late Hon. ParnelL