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Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

Cattle Steady-HOGs Weak to Ten
Cents LOMer-Sheep strong.

CHICAGO June 3O.-CATTLE-R Receipts,
5000 head including 500 Texans; market
steady; good to prime steers S5.25a6.25; poor
to medium, So. 10000; stockers and feeders,
81 405J4. 40; cows, $2.5c1450; Gamers, 81 40a
2.30; bulls, 2.25q4.O0; heifers, $2.50Qgi 75;
Texas fed steers, $3.6Oa4.75; calves, $500
625.
tomorrow 1900; market weak to 10c lower;
mixed and butchers, $5.25Q5.50; good to
sHoee E sS St heSSty S b TGHsh OF hede saes
Q5.45.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Recepts, 5000
head; sheep strong; lambs 10c higher; good
to choice wethers $5OOQ5.50; fair to choice
mixed, $4.25GA75; western sheep, A.75q5. 40;
native lambs, including springs, $5.5OQS.6 80;
western lambs, $6.0096.S5.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

ing 10 the holiday in Brazil and the local
market showed practically no feature clos
ing steady, net unchanged to points
higher In response to n late Improvements
ia the German market. Sales we're re-
ported OF about L1JO bags, including sep.
1.10c. Spot. steady; No. Rio, invoice, nc
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
Articles. Open. High. Low. Close. Yes'y


KANSAS CITY, June 30.-WHEAT-
Lower; July. sS1kqSS9sc; September, SOS4c;
December, Sic; cash, No. hard, s6cgl: %;
s3c; No. g. S7q90c; No. 4, 75qS7c. Receipts
60 cars.
CORN-Higher; July, soc: September
mixed, 53I4a5Shc No. 8, 5Sh; No. white,
531s664c; No. 3, 63c.
OATS-Steady; No white, S2Ac; No. ?
mixed, soc.
BUTTER-st Steady; creamery, 151s9ls1so;
packers lic
EGGS-Steady at 1Sc.
RYE-Steady, 65q6Sc.
HAY-Steady; choice timothy, $9.b0Q1000;
choice prairie, $L75qS,00,
EGGS-Steady; Missouri and Kansas, new
No. wildwood cases included, lSc; case
count 12c; cases returned, 1ac less
TTER-Steadyi creamery, l519qlS1Rc;
Receipts. Shipments.
Wheat bu................... $500 1860
Corn ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 264OO $4,000
natg t,, SOFA OOO
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ST. Joaeph Live STOCK NIarket.

ST. JOSEPH, June 30.-CATTLE-Re-
eeipts, Sl5 head. Market steady; natives,
st. stoSseTs and dOEs feeders % s27Sat5o N'O@''0
HOGS-Receipts. S,7I9 head Market was
weak to sc lower light, So 32lsq5. .371k; me-
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts. 65Ol
head. Market strong; Idaho spring lambs.
$3.50; Arizona yearling weathers, $5.2.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
WEATHER IN THE GRAIN BELT
Sh overs in Middle West Continue,
Well as East.

JUlt
During the last twenty-four hours there
has been continuation of the showery
and unsettled weather throughout the cen
tral valleys southern states and along the
eastern slope of the Rocky mountains, and
rain Is falling this morning along the Mis-
sour river Trom Kansas City north into
the Dakotas Conditions continue favorable
for showers in the central valleys tonight
and Saturday, possibly followed by fair
weather Saturday night and Sunday.
Omaha record of temperature ana precipi-
tation compared with the corresponding
1905. 1904 1903. 1902.
Minimum temperature... 6S 80 II 81
Precipitation ............... .05 L .02
Normal temperature for today "a de-
grees,
penciency in precipitation since March J.,
5.36 inches.
Deficiency corresponding period In 1904.
l.90 inches.
Deficiency corresponding period in 1903.
2.B inches.
OMAHA DISTRICT REPORTS
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

NEW YORK, June 30.-MONEY-On call
Market strong and higher at sos per cent:
closing bid, 3. offered at 311. Time loans:
Market steady and dull; sixty days, 2%gS
per cent. ninety days, SqSh per cent; six
months, 3& per cent - ...
PRIME MERCANTILE PAPER-3hqih
per cent.
tual business i'm bankers bills at S4.S695Q
4S7O5 for demand and at $4S510G4S5l5 for
slxty-day bills; posted rates, $.S6Q4SS; conf
mercial bills, AS47sq4.S5.
sILVER-Bar, 5shc; Mexican dollars.
45hc.
BONDs-Government. steady; railroad,
irregular.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
siou1 City Live stock Mnrket.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, June SO.--(Special Tele-
gram. m.)-CATTLE-Receipts 600 head. Mar
ket easy; stoekers steady beeves. $4,000
SIS; cows and heifers $2.75qA5O; stockers
lings, $3 3OO6l3S5.
HoGs-Receipts, $500 head. Market 5q
lOc lower, selling at S5.l0q5.9; bulk OF
sales, S. l2h.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
Minneapolis Grain Market

MINNEAPOLIS, June 30.-WHEAT-No.
l hard. Nl3A; No. northern, A.ll4 No. 2
northern, N.07%; July, HOS%; September,
S5Ac; December, 9lAc.
FLoUR-First patents, $6lOQ6.20; second
patents, $5.9OQ6.06; first clears, AOOQ4.lO;
second clears, $2.75q2S5
BRAN-In bulk, $275.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

PHILADELPHIA, June 30.-BUTTER-
Steady; extra western creamery, 2hc;
extra nearby prints, 2c,
EGGS-Firm; nearby fresh, 17lkc, loss off
nearby fresh, 161zc, at mark; western fresh
I1Gl7lhC at mark.
HEESE-Steady; New York full creams.
fancy new 1OLc; New York full creams,
fair TO good, new, 9hal0ci domestic Swiss,
1lQ14c.
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LiyerpoOI Drain Market.

LIVERPOOL, June S0.-WHEAT-Spot
nominal; futures, hrm; July, IS lllsd; Sep
tember, Is l04sd; December, 6s lOl4d.
CORN-Spot steady; American mixed,
SIS Id, futures, dull; July, Is S&d; septem-
ber, As SAd.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
Bank CIenrInEs.


OMAHA, June S0-Bank clearings for
today were 81 4S6, 6,64490 and for the coTrs-
spending date last year 1896, 434.S9.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
AIiI,rnnI.nr GrnIn MnrI.eI.

MILWAUKEE, June 3O.-WHEAT-Firm;
No, 1 northern, Ali; No; northern AO7a
lily; September, SAsqS9s4c asked.
RYE-Firm; No. !, SIC.
BARLEY-Firm; No. 2, SIC; sample, 40q
CoRN-Firm: No. s. 55,sqSslsc; septem-
her. b4AC asked.
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London stock Market.
M L. = 4 l..

SIl4VER-Bar, steady. 26 13-16d per ounce.
MONEY-2129S per cent.
The rate Oh discount IN the open market
for short bills is 2q2 1-16 per cent; for three
months bills, 2GI2 l-16 per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
stock In sight.
Receipts of live stock at the six principal
Cnnee Mnrhet

NEW YORK, June 3O-COFFEE-The
market for coffee futures opened steady at
good prices following steady European
cables. There was no particular news ow-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Deeds filed for record June 80, 1906 as fur
nlshed by the Midland guarantee ana
Farnam street, for The Bee:
Harry Hopkins ct al to j. Pelican,
part of sublot 3, In taxlot Z, in Sec.
Benson Land company to Mary b.
Hungate, lots ana IS, block 70.
he9SEm iSm and wife 10 G Neve part 0''
of lots l and 2, Haskalls subdiv.. 800
Z. NJ. Slater TO Emily Z. Hood, part
Hulda e. Thompson and husband to
II. Steiner, part of lots and 4,
block /, Reed list ...:......,...;;;;;..;. $50
c. A. Irimble, executor, 10 w. X.
Paul, part of lot SO, Redlck's I'd ....
w. II. Paul ct al to w. F. label, 80.
same property ......;......;'.;:'';,...' L'VS
ris, part of lot s, block 10. e. V, ara
''h M Hiatt to Dundee Realty com. -'-''
property in Dundee Place .......,...
c. c. George to NJ. II. Haver, lot %, ,.,,
F. r. Brookwater and wife to Mar
tina c. Haver, lot "a, block 2 stevens orr
p s e. Iier to Omaha Electric Light
company. sublot 10, government lot ~ ma
3, in sec, 23-l5-l3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ROOO
NJ. A. Hall, trustee, to the s. ID. Mer-
Ger company, lot 5, block 2, West
Mary j. Ryan to NJ. A. Hall, trustee, +,
G. sGae Story ptGpaI ct al 70 M x. Hail. trustee.
lot 6, block l2, Walnut Hin .....,.... $50
NJ. A. Hall, trustee, to s. ID. Mercer ,,-
company, same property ........... lbS
Mary A. Hall. trustee, to s. d. Mer-
Ger company, lots Is to p, block T.
Walnut Hill .,...,......,....'..s'..'','
]. C. Gown and wife TO same, lots
II and 12, block q Walnut Hill 49,. 1
| j. A. McShane, guardian TO Mary A.
| Hall, trustee, lots IS to 20, block 4,
Walnut Hill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lV0
| Pauline Croft and husband TO w. J.
| kierstead' part OF taxiot ls' IN Sec on
3-lb-l3 ..........ss..ss..s.. wv
| J. Newman and wife to Flora Prince,
| part Of lots Il and i3. block 3,
| Annie NJ Lewis TO e, NJ. Earle, part
| of lot /, block l, Patrick's add -. loo
w. f. Flemming and wife to X. B.
| Flemming, undIv. n of part Of sublot
| !, In lot 2, In sec. S-l6-l3 ..............
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

ST. LOUIS June S0-WHEAT-Higher
No. 2 red. cash, elevator, 93c; track, $50
e!lsei new, :Jqly. S5hei September. S5e;
coRN-Iiigher; No. cash. 5iJkc track,
b5Ac; July 54lso; December. 4Ie.
OArS--Higher No. 2 cash. 3lhc; track,
s2hc; July, axe September, sohc; No. ?
white, S3Ac.
FLoUR-steady; red winter patents. $s5
@6lO; extra fancy and straight, SL75a4.9o;
clear, S. 9OG40O.
SEED-Timothy. steady; s2.OO@24O
RNMEAL--Steady $3.50.
BRAN-Steady; sacked, east track, 7S4
7Io.
s600G950
IRON COTTON TIEs-s9c.
BAGGING-Skc.
HEMP TWINE-6hc.
PROVISIONS-Pork, easier; tobbng,
$3.50. Lard, easier; prime steam,
S670 Dry salt meats, steady; boxed extra
shorts, S.62n; clear ribs, $7.75; short clears,
$500 Bacon, steady; boxed extra shorts,
1881; clear ribs SS.621a short clears, $S.S7la.
POULTRY Steady; chickens. 9lsc;
springs, ltalbc; turkeys, lie; ducks. 9qlOc;
BUTTER-ouiet; creamery. lsa2le; dai-
ries. l6Gi17c.
EGGS-Steady; lie, case count
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

WASHINGTON. d. c., June SO.-Today' 8
statement OF the treasury balances in the
general fund exclusive OF the $50, 600, ,0O0
gold reserve In the division OF redemption
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

northern. d1i7s: No. northern. S.037s;
July, N.uh; September. new, 9Oc; Septem-
Der, old, 95Ac.
OATs--To arrive and on track, S22sc.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

On the ErUQuCe exchange To-Day lne Dul-
ter market was steady; creameries, 1G@20c;
dairies, 15qlsc. Eggs, firmer; at mark,
cases included, l3c; ttrsts, 14c; prime hrsts,
15kc; extras, 17hC. Cheese, firm, 9A4lO12c.
Kansas City Grain and Provisions.
The range of prices paid in Kansas City,
as reported by the Edwards-Wood COM
pany l1O-ll1 Board of Trade, was:
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CnriOt Receipts,

Minneapolis Grain Market.
The range of prices paid in Minneapolis
as reported by the Edwards Wood com.
pany, nOIll board OF Trade. was:
Articles Open. High. Low. Close. Yes y.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
ToIeao Seed BInrket.

TOLEDO. June SO.-sEEDs-Clover. cash.
| S7.4O; Octob9r. $3.50. Alisike. priIne. $40.
| Timothy prime, N-o5.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

mo. 2. aOld. bNeW.

mo. 2 aOId. bNeW.
Casn quOt..tlous we're as follows:
FLOUR-Steady; winter patents, &.SO
Q4.40; straights, $4.O0Q420; spring patents,
SOUVt5.IO; sttale nts, $o.'v4J.UVi Ud-le.s,' oh
Q3.6U.
spring, $1.O0Ql10; No. red, $1O5.
CORNING. 2, 56a56lzc; No. yellow,
5614 Q56nc.
No. white, 32AQ54c.
RYE-No. 2, 79QS0c.
SAM. ---lloU,. leeding, 42q44c; fair to
choice mailing, 47Q4Sc.
SEEDS-No. flax, $1.25; No. l northwest
ern, Sl.43 Prime timothy, S3.2o@S.l0. Glover,
contract grade Sl2. 25Ql30O
PROVISIONS-Mess pork, per bbl., $12 80
Q12G5. Lard, per 100 lbs, $L25qL2719. Short
ribs sides Qoose) ST. 77Od7S0 Short clear
sides (boed) S75Q7S712.
Receipts ana silpnetts OF grain and -four
ri
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RULIS.

HOGS-There was steady advance noted
In hog prices from Wednesday OF last week,
the Ast, till Wednesday OF this week, when
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
c, case count.


PEORIA. June SO-CoRN-Highers No. 8
yellow, 55Ac; No. 3, SSl4e; No. 4. AAo; no
oATs~Firm; No, white. ssHci No. 1
white. sic.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
New York Money Market.

shows: Available cash balance, silo 1924;
gold, S6665S,S96
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DuIuth Grain NIarAet.

DULUTH, June so.-wHEA'r-To arrive;
No. northern, H.nNi on track, No.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

BOSTON, June 3O.-Call loans, 3Q4 per
cent; time loans, 312q41z per cent Official
quotations on stocks and bonds were
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
DISTRICT AVERAGES.
81 Louia CrnernI NnrI,et

I, a. " bLSH,
Local Forecaster. Weather Bureau
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New York Mining stocks

Total sales for the day. 5OllOO shares.
EX-diVidend.
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The following table shows the average
price or hogs at SodJn Omaha for the last
several days with comparisons:
Date. 1906. 1850 I1soa. l1sO2 .1sOl 1895. 1Sss
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NEW YORK, June SO.-Closing quotations
IN mining stocks We're.
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SOUTH OMAHA. June 80. 1906.

RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR TO DATE.
The following table shows the receipts of
cattle. hogs and sheep at South Omaha for
the year to date, compared with last year:
Cattle .......... 49,, $40 453, ,329 ...... 20oo9
Hogs ...........1, ,299 705 1,355,942 ...... 56,Sl
Sheep ..,....... 739, 7I6 694,6I3 45073 ....
The official number of cars of stock
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.

rFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Somehow we feel sorry for the son OF
a painfully neat woman
Every man thinks that his discipline Of
his children is perfect, and that his VIE
is too weak.
It sometimes happens that after a man
has carved the turkey it really looks as
if it had been Whitfield.
It is a good idea to visit in the country
in winter in order that you may pc con
tented next summer with living III town.
Putting money into Il daughters voice
is often as costly and doubtful an invest
ment as putting it into j race horse.
We have card clubs and mems social
clubs, but thank heaven there IS one thing
beyond AtchisOn: A yachting club
There seems to be an impression
around every neighborhoOd that when
father scolds there IS nothing to seold
about.
If a boy is active and lively his mother
discovers every day that there are new
ways in which a boy could be killed.
The great trouble is that when a man
sows his wild oats some innocent member
of his family has to help gather the crop.
When a country boy visits in a big city
he notices how few barns there are and
wonders where the fathers take their
boys to whip them.
It often occurs to a man whose daugh-
ters demand pretty dresses and tickets
that the Quakers frowned on all amuse-
ments partly from economic reasons.
There is this usually to the credit of a
woman who scOlds q great deal: She can
make the broom and the scrubbing brush
move faster than any woman in the
neighborhood.
One way to compliment a woman is to
ask her at the dinner table what brand
of coffee she uses: The question may
mean that it IS not good coffee, but she
viii not take it that way.
An Atchison boy of five has the whoop-
ing cough and when the neighbOrs run
over to sec how he is, he proceeds to
whooD to show them that he IS a very
sick boy. His mother has discovered that
when the neighbors don't come in. he
does very little coughing, and some days
doesn't WhOop all day. but when there is
an audience he will whoop till he is black
in the face That boy is growing up to
be q man like the kind every woman
knows.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A girl should never be colorless if she is
we'll read
If charity begins at home it would
probably get no farther.
We generally pay more for experience
than it is really worth.
The length Of d honeymoon depends up
on the depth of the pocket
Some men make money by sticking at
it, and others by sticking to it,
One-half of a. football game doesn't
know how the other half will turn out
When two women indulge in a quiet lif
tie chat you can generally hear il q mile
off. ---itS
Woman is a perverse creature. She viii
often cry at wedding and laugh at q
funeral
If a stout woman is rich we snea,- oe
her embonpoint. If she is poor she II
simply fat -
The failure of the peach crop na,-o.
seems to interfere with the suppiv ~
chorus girls. u
Other people never know half o,,r 4r,,
bies' but it isn't because we haven't trie.7
to tell them. SAisu
When fellow disappears tbro,,94,
pawn shop door ne is keeping 1ID aT,1,-..,' .
ances by his disappearanees. SS'sl-
Nell-Maud is a perfect wonder v,,l,... -
comes 10 the economy of Dress F5eIIo se't II
Yes. she's the only girl know vy,r ne ne
get go worth of satisfaction out of , 4 a5
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
CrI.rrRE At DODGE.

Carry the news to Alfred Henry
Lewis! Whisper it gently to Mr.. Bat
Mastersont Dodge City, once the
rendezvous Of the COW puncher and the
''bad man. is, by the grace of Andrew
Carnegie, to attain the heights of cul-
ture represented by a public library
costing something like ten thousand
dollars
The pictures of Dodge portrayed by
the exceeding graphic pen of Mr..
Lewis, and the character of its inhab-
itants as told in the stories of the
sturdy and strong Mr. Masterson, are
not true of the Dodge of today. During
the stone age Dodge was the rem
devious of the plains gambler and the
all-around tough. 1t was by no means
unusual for its citizens to die with their
boots on. The advocate of culture and
refinement in those days in Dodge
would have exposed himself to ridicule
if not to a rope with u moose in the
business end.
But those days are far gone AIr.
Lewis and Mr.. 8Iasterson are no longer
citizens Of Dodge but are residents OF
the enete east, the one entertaining
and edifying the American people with
his virile pen-or typewriter=the 9th
er an officer OF the law in the nations
metropolis. Dodge today is quiet and
peaceabie. The average intelligence of
its people is probably considerably
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07

with such curves! Why, it looked al
most warm.
The professor leaned back in lns re-
voiving chair and looked around his
room-dim save for the desks circling
light. The room seemed empty in spite
OF its furnishings Great cases Of books,
rugs, antlers, a favOrite gun and a gen
erous pipe-rack-and in the midst OF a
circle of light, a lonely man and a
suede slipper.
Yes, the professor felt lonely. He
picked up the slipper. turning it over
and over Suddenly he cried;
Nv hy there's K. G. just as plain,
right on the lining, in silver letters!"
Prince shifted at this illuminating dis
covery.
Next day. as the professor was pass
mrs. Barnes place, he saw a dainty
little figure in white at the gate. She
raised her lovely tired eyes in recogni-
Would you mind inauirins for nv
mai q she asked. Both her naaner
man r. she asked. Both her manner
simplicity. Miss Graham is my name
kitty Graham
Miss Graham-Kitty Graham = re-
peated he gravely, with a courtly bow
Ihen he stopped short, and REGARDED
the girl with absorption. wonder
growing in his eyes. Miss Graham. .
sald ne, do you ever wear slippers ?''
W hat question to ask q. eirIf''
iauShed Kitty, some weeks later. And
ship q
Copyright. 1905. by E. c. Parcers9
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
JAYHA WKER .JOTS

The central Kansas teachers will
meet at Mcpherson next Thanksgiv-
ing.
Just think of q town with the name
of Parsons protesting because the
freight rate on whisky has been
raised.
Henry Allen expresses a curiosity
to know how the smell of hot soap
suds got mixed up with the chrys-
anthemum.
The north central Kansas teachers
Will make Abilene a real good visit
next Thanksgiving, to make up for
not going there this year.
Colonel-or, to be exact-Lieuten-
ant Colonel Frank Travis, of lola, is
said to be harboring a boom for su-
perintendent of insurance about his
person.
Japan will charge Russia $4,000
for feeding prisoners" says the Nc
Pherson Republican. Russia doubt
less wishes the Republicans state
ment were true.
Mabel Chilcott-Amrine in the Coun-
ell Grove Guard: A kiss is better than
a smile. The greatest dlsap-
pointment in marriage is a bad cook
If any one besides an edlloi
earns his money, a doctor does.
Most men know as little about fashions
as W0men do about business.
Men who have lots of gold in their
teeth do not always have it in the
bank. A man never knows real
happiness until he nlarries, and then II
is too late . Every town has
man like a drunken Irishman so tunny
he is tiresome. 1t is hard to
tell which looks the worst on windy
dav. the fat or thin women
If you want to know how tidy house
keeper woman is, inspect her bread
hpc
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07

above that of the average New Eng
land village of its size. It knows
Shakespeare and economics. The pu-
pills in its schools read of the cam
paigns of Caesars Iegfons and learn
the rules of rhetoric. And now it is to
have Carnegie library!
Dodge is rearing a citizenship today
that viii doubtless be as great a credit
to it as that which it has sent forth in
the past. Its future citizenship will be
more conventional and in some ways
it win be less masterful than that Of
old. Perhaps we have lost something
of value in the passing Of the old
Dodge. But the new Dodge, with its
Carnegie library and its culture away
out where the Short Grass grows, is
something Kansas is truly proud of.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
IoHN sHARP WTLITAMs' IDEA.

1t is with considerable indignation,
feigned or otherwise, that Congress
man John Sharp Williams, who
marches at the head of the minority in
the lower house of congress, denies
that he is following President RoOse-
Welt in the matter of railroad regula-
ton. On the contrary he expresses the
idea that President Roosevelt is follow
ing him.
In other words, the brilliant con-
gresham from the sunny south seems
to think that he is heading the pro-
cession. Perhaps he is-like the cow
catcher But the eow-catcher. YOU
know would never get anywhere We're
it not for the force and energy and
power that comes behind it. If it Will
give him any satisfaction there will
probably be no objection to consider
ing John Sharp Williams the cow
catcher of the rate regulation move
ment,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07
THE RoosEVEIlT BII-II.

While the rate regulation measure
that was introduced in the lower house
of congress Wednesday by Congress
man Townsend is said to be the Esch
Townsend bill revised, it follows SO
closely the recommendation and IDEAS
of President Roosevelt as to be in toto
a Roosevelt bill. 1t seems to be, and
undoubtedly is, purely an admiaistra-
ton measure.
In addition to following closely the
ideas and recommendations OF the
president, the new bill supplies the de-
tails which the president did not sug-
gest in his message, but left to the
judgment of congress to formulate for
itself. The president did not specify
whether the commission to which
should be given the power regulating
rates should be the interstate COM
meree commission or some other, but
he insisted that it should be a purely
administrative body. The new bill
gives the power to the interstate com
merce commission. but increases its
membership to seven ana makes their
salaries $4,000 a year. This, it.
is believed, will be high enough to Sc
cure the services Of the best rate ex-
perts in the country, and that is what
the commission needs. The length Of
the terms OF the members Of the COM
mission is also increased to seven
years. so that there will not be a con-
stant change in the policy of the COM
mission
Another feature. perhaps one OF the
most important. is the provision for
expediting the business of the commits
sion and deciding controverted rates as
speedily as possible. At present the
commission is sometimes two or three
years in reaching a decision, and if the
railroads desire they can delay the
operation of its findings two or three
years longer by appealing to the
courts, no matter how just the findings
may be.
The new bill provides that the COM
mission shall investigate rates alleged
to be unjust and render decision
within ninety days and if they estab-
lish a new rate, that rate shall become
effective within thirty days thereafter.
This would give a shipper relief within
four months from the date of his COM
plant.
Provision is made for carrying
rate into the federal courts. and when
this is done an expedition court.
composed of three federal judges, shaIl
hear the appeal as soon as possible.
From their decision appeals can be
carried to the United States supreme
court. But in the meantime the rate
as fixed by the commission shall re-
main in force unless it is enjoined by
the court, and the courts viii probably
be extremely careful about enjoining,
ex parte. rate that a commission of
experts has decided is just and rea-
sonable.
Among other things the bill provides
against a railroad giving some favored
a tip that q. low emergency
rate Will be established at a certain
time and allowing that shipper to
make preparations therefore.