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ffr Western Pnrsytyni, Oh? and Virginl 'RAIN- OH SNOW, WA 4 ALL TWO CENTS A COPY SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1909. PROMINENT MEMBERS OF PITTSBURGH'S NEW CIVIC COMMISSION. If." re O. rl 7 eV-S 0 Ui Solons Wield Ax On Improvements At City Poor Farm Appropriations Commtitee Cuts CTiarities Bond Items Generous to Fire Bureau.

People's Welfare Is Chief Object Of Commission i -m Pittsburgh's Civic Organization Begins Work of Wide Scope, Hepburn Charges Printing Office Is Mismanaged lowan Makes Vigorous Onslaught on Methods Under Roosevelt Regime. ser -rc7 On I mJW Vi 1 H. MATHEWS, H. L. KREUSLER, T.

M. BILLQUIST, CHARLES F. WELLER, J. W. KINNEAR.

SITTING LEFT TO RIGHT: W. STANDING- LEFT JULIAN KENNEDY. JOHN W. HUNDREDS JOIN IN SONGS OF PRAISE Italian Immigrants, Saved From Earthquake and Sea Disaster, Thank God for Safety on Speeding Train. BEATTY, H.

D. W. ENGLISH, D. P. in the steamship collision, fell upon his knees in one of the coaches and began to sing a song of praise to the Creator, who had delivered them.

A few minutes later others joined in the singmg and in a short time the major portion the S00 immigrants were singing or praying, while the special train was crossing the mountains at a high rate of speed. The praise service continued until the train reached Altoona, where a few members of the party left the train. When the run to Pittsburgh was resumed, the praif-e service was started again and was continued until the train reached the Union station. According to information received in Pittsburgh by railroad officials and steamship representatives, thousands of foreigners will come to this country within a short time. When the depression set in during the last quarter of 1907, many of the foreigners employed in the various industrial centers started for their native lands, the number leaving Pittsburgh being much greater than from any other district.

i Recently there has been a noticeable i lous escapes from death. On one occa-improvement in general business con- gion he fell from the second floor of the TYRANNY BY LABOR UNIONS IS ALLEGED. "Freeze-Out of Non-Union Men Increases Cost," Is Assertion Made. DEBATE ON CENSUS REPORT House Gives Director Power to Place Work With Private Concerns. BY MAURICE SPLAIN.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. Charges of gross mismanagement at the Government printing office under the Roosevelt regime, resulting in disorganization of the forces and heavy increases in the cost of work, were features of a lively debate in the House this afternoon on a proposition to have the printing for the thirteen! census done by private concerns rather than at the Government office. A most significant portion of the debate was a speech by Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, attacking labor unions as tyrannical and charging the great Government printing office was run by a labor union which had a lobby at work about the capital seeking to influence members to vote against the plan to have the printing for the thirteenth census done by private parties, although it was known that if the latter course were adopted about $400,000 would be saved to the people of the country.

"Cost of Printing. The director of the census had originally estimated that the printing for the new census would cost $800,000, but owing.to a subsequent arbitrary increase In the rate for typesetting at the printing office by order of one of Roosevelt's many public printers, it was now found it would cost $1,200,000 to do the census work at the Government office. After the subject of having the censu3 printing done at the Government office, or by private concerns, had been thoroughly threshed out, the House, by a vote of 17 to decided to "accept ths Senate proposition, leaving it to the director of the census to decide where his printing should be done. Colonel Hepburn used some very plain language In his speech on labor unions. Among other things he said: Mr.

Hepburn's Charges. "The Government shop is a closed shop, 95 per cent of the employes there belonging to a union. The union men freeze out the non-union men by unfair methods. Union labor in the United States does not represent labor of the United States. There are 2,000,000 union men bearing the union certificate, assessed to bear the burdens and pay taxes to the union against 24.0O0.O0U other laboring men who belong to no union." I am a mechanic, and have worked with my hands.

I believe In free labor that owns itself. Capital should not own labor. I am not in favor of allowing a class to dominate over others. "The apologists for this printing job take $400,000 out of the treasury for this one class and forget that the labor Is to be done by other American citizens. 1 argue that we should be interested In the 24.000,000 citizens rather than in the 2.000,000 that strive to ostracise the other.

This work should go to others who are not trying" to dominate the Government." SEVERE EARTH SHOCKS TERRIFY THE MESS I NANS. Survivors of Ruined City Obsessed by Idea They Are Doomed to Destruction, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. MESSINA, Jan. 2S. The population felt particular alarm over a number of earth chocks, which occurred to-day, just a month since the great earthquake over-whelmed the city.

For the past few days the people seemed to have become possessed with the idea that there would be a repetition of the earth's movement, perhaps even in more serious form. Terrific rainstorms have prevailed and the downpour has caused a suspension of work. The American relief ship Celtic landed such a great quantity of meat cere that General Mazza was obliged to distribute it In part to the soldiers, but he ordered the military commissariat, later to return to the people an equal auantity out of the soldiers provisions. BLACK, A. J.

KELLY, JR. Elevator Accidents Claim Two Victims In Office' Buildings Skyscraper Employe Killed and Barber in Precarious Condition at THIRD ESCAPE OF LIFETIME, One man is dead and another probably fatally injured as a result of elevator accidents in downtown office buildings yes terday afternoon. Joseph Goldner, 52 years old, of 49 California avenue, tripping over a chair fell 20 feet down an elevator shaft in the Frick building at 5 o'clock, and died three hours afterwards in the Homeopathic hospital. He was a brother and employe of Chief Engineer C. A.

Goldner, of the Frick building. The third of a series of remarkable accidents befell Peter Geisberger, 49 years old, a barber, when he was caught between an elevator door and a floor in the Ferguson building. He is in a precarious condition at the Homeopathic hospital. Within two years he has had two miracu- Ferguson building and on another was struck by a street car. Monument Proposed To Memory of Yictims Of Magazine Explosion Lawrence'vilie Board of Trade Plans to Lay Corner-Stone on Decoration Day.

Inauguration of a movement to erect a monument in Arsenal park, to the memory of the 1(3 killed and wounded by the terrific magazine explosion in the United States arsenal in 1862, was the feature of the Lawrenceville board of trade meeting in Frecker's hall, 3S0S Butler street, last night. Projects to enforce the repairing of the Thirty-third street railroad bridge because of danger to persons passing under it, and to place green blinds on school building windows to protect pupils eyes were other snbjects considered prior to the annual election of officers. Plans were suggested by which the corner-stone of the proposed monument would be laid on Memorial day, May 30, and to dedicate it in connection with the Fourth of July celebration. Money for it will be raised by sale of medals made from an old brass cannon, a relic of the Civil war. The election of officers resulted as follows: President.

Dr. A. L. Lewin; first vice president, M. C.

Oskamp; second vice-president. C. A. Wetzel; secretary, Joseph It. Smith, treasurer, Samuel Bauersmith; solicitor, E.

J. I. Gannon; directors, Frank Limpert, A. V. Simon, Thomas Mooney.

Joseph Petgen, Joseph Etsessor, R. J. Smith, George J. Rev. E.

M. -McKeever, and Edward Eichenlaub. ROYAL SPILL IN ROME. ROME, Jan. 2S.

An automobile in which Princess Alice of Bourbon, youngest daughter of Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, and several companions were driving was wrecked in an accident near the Vie Reggio to-day. The princess and her friends were thrown out of the machine, but were not Injured. RECOMMEND NEW JOBS. Councils committee on appropriations got busy with the pruning knife last night. Several big improvements for the city poor farm at Marshalsea, which it was proposed to pay for by bond issues, were eliminated and the estimate for this purpose was cut from $295,000 to $41,000.

The proposed improvements which were stricken from tha schedule of the charities department included $20,000 for a dairy barn; $4,000 for cows; $20,000 for a sewage disposal plant; $35,000 for a new wing on the hospital at Marshalsea and $190,000 for a new cottage building for male insane patients. Charities Director Shaw did not object to the elimination of an item of $30,000 to purchase land for a municipal hospital. The committee cut from the list a new stable to cost $15,000, an electric light plant to cost $8,000 and a new ambulance to cost $1,200. The estimate for new furniture was reduced from $2,000 to $1,500. The committee was generously inclined toward the safety department, especially in the bureau of fire.

Final recommendations were made as to the expenditures of this bureau and several others of the safety department. Engineers' Salaries Raised. An increase of $600 was made in the salary of the chief engineer of the fire bureau and $300 to the salary of the deputy engineer. Four matrons, seven captains, 10 lieutenants, six engineers, 17 drivers and 43 hosemen were added to the payroll, entailing a boost In expenditures for salaries of $68,535 beyond what was asked for by the department. There was also added $26,100 for apparatus and $10,000 for hose and couplings.

In the bureau of police $500 was added to the assistant superintendent's salary and inspectors were raised $-v a year each. The sum of $500 to buy gasoline for the new police automobile was not allowed. The total estimates submitted by the bureau of electricity were cut from 868 to $55,134, but this reduction was entirely on items for the extension of the city's underground wire system, which it was proposed to finance by bonds. The items cut out were those for Franks-town avenue, Penn avenue, Butler street and Forbes street. Other Officers Want More Pay.

Estimates of the health bureau were finally approved until the committee struck an item of salaries for 14 dump watchmen In addition to 21 sanitary policemen. The dump watchmen sent a letter to the committee askine for a. raise in pay, stating they were often detailed as sanitary officers. Action on the request was postponed until to-night, when Health Superintendent Edward-i will be asked to appear before the committee and explain the matter. The committee finally approved Items for meeting interest and sinking fund charges pn the city's bonded debt.

Mill Foreman Shot And Badly Wounded Presumably in Revenge Discharged Workmen in Custody, Charged With the Crime, SPECIAL. TO THE PITTSBURGH POST. MO-N'ACA, Jan. 28. His body filled with shots, fired, it is said, by one of a party of angry foreigners, Harry Nut-tall, 39 years old, of Pittsburgh, night foreman of the Pittsburgh Tube Company, of South Monaca, was taken to the Beaver County General hospital at Rochester in a critical condition.

Xuttall was at work late to-night in the rolling department of the mill, and, without warning, the contents of a double-barreled shotgun were fired through a window at him. His right knee cap was torn off and his right arm, chest and neck were terribly lacerated. Mike Miller, John and Joe Jurkovick and Joe Imareg are in the lockup charged with knowledge of the shooting. All but the last named foreigner were last Friday discharged by Nuttall, and when told they could not receive their pay until Saturday they raised a disturbance which caused their arrest. CLASH IN CALHOUN TEIAL.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. Prosecution and defense in the trial of Patrick Calhoun clashed again to-day, when the wisdom and sincerity of the prosecution's course was questioned by a juror under examination. Walter E. Buck, an employe of the Associated Oil Company, replying to a question by Stanley Moore, of the defense, declared he did not believe the situation warranted the grant of immunity to all the alleged bribe-taking supervisors of the Schmitz administration.

signatories of the Berlin treaty. In this circular, Russia proposes to make common representations to both Sofia and Constantinople against any change being made in the frontier line which would endanger European peace, and urging both governments to refrain from a military movement. According to a -Sofia dispatch. Great Britain has advised Turkey to accept an indemnity of $20,000,000, and Bulgaria is inclined to pay this sum provided Turkey abandons her claim for rectification of the frontier. Negotiations between Austria-Hungary and Turkey are still dragging, owing to the fact that the Turkish government has not yet succeeded in putting an end to the Austrian boycott- MANY GREAT BENEFITS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW.

ij Officers Are Chosen and Committees Named to Arrange Details. IACTIVE SUPPORT ASSURED, Andrew Carnegie, Frick and Henry Phipps Enthu- siastic About It, Pittsburgh's civic commission, recently appointed by Mayor Guthrie, held its first meeting yesterday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The work of the meeting was only preliminary to that which the commission was created to do. D. P.

Black was elected first vice president; John W. Beatty, art director of Carnegie institute, second vice president, and J. J. Donnell, treasurer. These, with H.

D. W. English, who was made president of the commission by Mayor Guthrie, form the official organization. A committee was named to select a permanent secretary and to find a meeting place. The scope of the work which the commission will undertake to do is large, it w-ill make a study of every condition that concerns the welfare of the city and its people.

Special committees will have charge of certain kinds of work and will act in conjunction with an advisory board to which will be elected from time to time prominent men from different sections of the country. Outline of Committees Work. The commission Is composed of 12 committees. An outline of the work of each i committee follows: Public health and sanitation. Julian Kennedy, chairman.

To cons'der public hygiene and sanitation and to help increase the power and efficiency of local health officers. Also secure the co-operation of mill operatives and citizens and show. what could be done In improving sanitary conditions. Rapid transit. D.

P. chairman. To make an intensive study of the traction situation, surface and subway lines. Also make a rigorous legal investigation into franchipes, fhe present status of the rights of the city with respect to its streets, taxation of public service corporations, etc. Lower court? of justice, W.

L. chairman. To consider measures to re- I'eve present public dissatisfaction with aldermanic court system, having In view, if necessary, constitutional amendment, and possibly bring about municipal court system similar to Chicago. Also to take up salary loan abuse, probation system, juvenile eou-t system, etc. C'ty and district housing design.

T. E. Bfllqutet. chairman. To act in conjunction with committee on c'ty planning, municipal art and design and housing.

Take up problem of materials and design for low-cost houses for workingmen in suburban districts and for mill towns In steel district. To Improve Tenement Houses. City and district housing. II. L.

Kreus-ler. chairman. Co-operate In campaign for proper legislation to make effective sanitary regulations for housing In the c'ty, changes in tenement house restrictions, etc. Co-operate with board of health in its tenement house improvement campaign. Town planninsr.

H. J. Heinz, chairman. Application of European town planning standards to the development of local suburban areas. Development of Impressive civic centers for downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland districts, comprehensive enough to take care of city as a whole for next 55 years.

Municipal art and design, John" W. Beatty. chairman. To keep in touch with all public work being done looking towards the betterment of the architecture of all public buildings in Pittsburgh. This to include bridges and all public work in' parks, with a view to creating public sentiment for good architecture to enhance the beauty of the municipality.

District improvement, O. H. Allerton, chairman. Neighborhood Improvement, parking of present unoccupied spaces in the city, playgrounds, etc. Charitable institutions.

Charles F. Wel-Ier, chairman. Co-operation with associated charities. Municipal publication, Lee S. Smith, chairman.

Publication and distribution and thus carry on educational work of CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE. his father-in-law, the President, will be listened to with the keenest interest. Senator Foraker to-day gave notice that he would again call up his bill to re-enlist the soldiers of the Twenty-firth regiment, who were discharged without honor on account of the shooting up of V' Brownsville, August, 13-14, 1906, In the hope of getting action on it. It was asserted on the floor of the Senate to-day that all of the Republican members of this body would support the compromise Brownsville amendment if Senator Foraker succeeds in getting this question taken up to-morrow. There will be considerable opposition to the amendment on the Democratic side of the chamber, and many sharp colloquies are anticipated over the race question.

The amendment proposes that any of the discharged negro soldiers may bd' restored to service in the army If, after investigation by a commission of five general officers of the army, to be appointed by the secretary of war, no evidence is found proving that they wtxd involved in the Brownsville affray. 1 Porch Climbers Make Haul While Kaufmann Family Calmly Dines Forbes Street Residence Is Ransacked and Valuable Jewelry Is Taken, FIRST FOR A LONG TIME. Porch climbers made a haul at the residence of Isaac Kaufmann, 5135 Forbes utreet, at 7 o'clock last evening. It is the first time in many months that this particular brand of criminals has gotten busy in this city, and special efforts are being made by the police to land them. Mr.

Kaufmann and family were at dinner when the thieves entered the house and began work. Some members of the family heard a noise, but no investigation was made. It was thought that some of the servants were moving around upstairs. Later, when someone chanced to enter an upstairs room, it was discovered that a robbery had been committed. Drawers had been pulled out, trunks opened and articles of all description scattered around the room.

The thieves got away with much jewelry, but the police are reticent as to the exact amount. As soon as Mr. Kaufmann notified headquarters of the robbery. Captain of Detectives William Klmore detailed Ietec-tive Howard Robinson on the case. Freedom a Chimera Accordicg to In Venezuela, Anyway Discredited Ex-President Declines to Essay Role of "Liberator." PY ASSOCIATED TRESS.

BERLIN. Jan. 2S. Ciprlano Castro, the former president of Venezuela, was interviewed in this city to-day regarding certain reports recently made public to the effect that he was planning a counter revolution in Venezuela and that it was his ambition to become the "new liberator" of the people of Venezuela. Senor Castro received his questioner, seated at a desk He wore a black skull cap decorated with gold braid, and he was still looking rather weak as a result of the confinement that followed his recent operation.

He said: "I cannot accept the role of liberator of the Venezuelan people assigned to me, because my experience of nine years as president has taught me that true freedom is a chimera, and when we believe we are about to attain it the people's ideas of liberty degenerate into license. Unhappily, it seems that new nationalities, like Venezuela, are doomed to be the slaves oT the passions of their own sons, or the slaves of another nation. "I am convinced more than ever to-day of the wisdom of the words of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, when he was about to die: 'I have sown in the sea. These were prophetic words whose meaning repeatedly has been proved true, "I repeat what I said on another occasion; I do not complain of anything or anybody. What I desire most is peace and retirement." Senor Castro will leave the private hospital where he now Is on Saturday and return to the Hotel Esplanade.

SideStepping by Taft On Negro Appointment, Is Washington Story Nomination Rushed in -Order That Embarrassing Legacy Would Not Be Left. SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURGH WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S. An interesting story went the rounds of the Senate to-day in connection with the action of the committee on commerce in reporting with a favorable recommendation the nomination of Dr. William T.

Cruni to be collector of customs of Charleston, S. C. Dr. Crum is a negro, and the story was that the action of the commerce committee was taken at the instance of President-elect Taft; who, it was -said, wanted Dr. Crum confirmed before the Roosevelt administration expired so that the embarrassing legacy would not be left to Mr.

Taft of determining whether Dr. Crum or a white man should be nominated for the place. The story obtained circulation, but lacks authoritative confirmation. A bitter fight has been made against Dr. Crum's confirmation for several sessions.

SHOT BY HIGHWAYMEN. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 2S.

Two highwaymen in a buggy to-night held up three men in the northwestern part of the city and killed one of their victims. Louis H. Jobusch was the second man who was stopped, and when he started to run one of the robbers shot him in the back. Jcbusch died soon after Several suspects are under arrest. TO! RIGHT: O.

H. ALLERTON, After devoting several hours to praise i service on a special train on the Pennsylvania railroad, running at high speed, nearly S00 immigrants, the majority of whom had a narrow escape from death in the earthquake at Messina and the collision of the Republic and Florida, last Saturday, arrived in Pittsburgh yesterday morning. Of this number 105 will remain in Pittsburgh. 338 expect to find employment in the manufacturing districts of Allegheny county and the remainder left for the West during the afternoon. The train was composed 13 coaches filled with immigrants, the largest single immigrant train to come to Pittsburgh in the last' 17 months.

About 600 of the immigrants were passengers on the Florida, when the collision occurred, while the remainder came over on the steamer Furnessa. the same day. Joe Nathanson, the veteran railroad interpreter, who accompanied the party on the special train, satd that many of the foreigners were dazed and almost crazed as a result of the two disasters through which they had passed. Shortly after the special train left Harrlsburg one of the Italians, who had lost both friends and property as a result of the earthquake and who figured Fifteen Serionsly Hurt In Sonthern Road Wreck; Bad Rail at End of Tunnel Babe, Thrown Through Window, Lands Unhurt on 'Soft Mud, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. LOUISVILLE, Jan.

2S -Fifteen persons were seriously injured and a score of other passengers more or less bruised today by the derailment of a portion of train No. 9 on the Southern railway, bound from Evansville, to Louisville. Pierce of MUUown, is believed to be fatally injured. The train had just emerged from a long tunnel, one and one-half miles west of New Albany, when It struck a defective rail. The smoking car was turned completely over and three other coaches were tipped over on their sides before the train was brought to a stop.

Seriously Hurt. PIERCE WALTZ, treasurer of Crawford county. Milltown, probably fatally. E. E.

KUNKEL, Detroit, Mich. L. M. O'BANNON, editor of the "Democrat," Corydon, back wrenched. JESSE B.

HARMON, Georgetown, back wrenched and cut. GEORGE SOULMAN. traveling man, Chicago, head cut and hurt internally. A two-year-old child, who was talking to its mother just before the wreck, was thrown through a window and landed unhurt in the soft mud of a creek. INJUNCTION SUIT ORDER CRITICISED BY G0MPERS.

Labor Leader Attacks Interpretation of Sherman Law. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK, Jan. 28. "As good men have been in jail as any of the three of us. If they want their pound of flesh they may have it, but they'll find no yellow streaks in it." Samuel Gompers, of the Federation of Labor told the Ethical Social league -this at a meeting to-night, at the East Side Parish Church's hall, and the audience cheered.

"Is it not absurd to say that that there is -'no difference between combinations of capital and combinations of men and women?" Mr. Gompers asked. "We have been trying to get legislation that will treat men and women 'differently from coal and pork and they accuse us of wanting class and special legislation. The words come with poor grace considering the class and special legislation of this last half century. See how easily a great gets rid of a fine.

"I have said and hope I may retain my sanity to repeat again and again," continued the speaker impressively, "that when it comes to a choice between obeying a court order that infringes the constitution, I shall have no hesitation in upholding the constitutional guarantee. Freedom of speech and of the press is a natural right. We shall continue to uphold that right, and if some men' have to bear the consequences, there are others." FREE BOOK ON CANCER. An eminent specialist has written a book on the best method of treating Cancer. It should be read by every person who has Cancer.

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dltions and the number of foreigners coming to this country has been gradually increasing for the last month. Houses Are Demolished By 60-Mile Gale Which Sweeps Through West Roof of Opera House Is Blown Block Stores Are Wrecked. BY ASSOCIATED GUTHRIE. Jan. 28.

With a gale blowing at 60 miles an hour and the air filled with dust, Northern Oklahoma this afternoon endured the most severe wind and sand storm of the last fie years. Reports indicate that the full fury of the storm was centered in Alfalfa county, where the towns of Carmen and Goltry suffered considerable property damage, several buildings being damaged and serious loss sustained by telephone companies. Guthrie has suffered some loss by the destruction of small houses and smashing of plate glass. LAMONTE. Jan.

2S. A windstorm from the Southwest this evening swept a path through this town, demolishing the opera house building, a two-story structure, and wrecking the stocks of the merchants occupying the first floors. The opera house roof was blown against a freight train standing a block away. OMAHA, Neb. Jan.

2S. A severe wind, rain and sleet storm raged in a huge circle around Omaha to-night. The wind reached a velocity of 58 -miles an hour. Ban on Santa Clauses; Bean Eaters Object to Picturesque Costumes Too Many of Them on Boston Streets, Says Police Commissioner. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BOSTON, Jan. 2S. The Salvation Army lassies and Volunteers of America "Santa Clauses," who for years have made the streets of the city bright and picturesque by their costumes and red boxes during the holiday season, cannot hereafter solicit funds on the street for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the poor, according to Police Commissioner Stephen O'Meara, who issued his annual report to-day. While such solicitation was confined to a few religious and benevolent organizations it was tolerated by the police, says the report, but the custom has grown to such an extent that annually more than 50 different organizations seek the privilege of soliciting aid, and the commissioner declares that as the law strictly forbids such a practice the regulation will be enforced to the letter. LONDON BLIGHTED EY FOG.

LONDON, Jan. 2S. This is the third day that London lias been hidden in a pall of yellow fog which has caused complete disorganization of traffic and business of all kinds. Pleasure resorts are practically deserted and shopkeepers and the restaurants are suffering heavy losses. The theaters are doing 'only a small fraction of the customary business and there have been several serious jewelry and other robberies.

$90,000 BLAZE IN CINCINNATI. CfeNCINNA'TI, Jan. 2S. A spectacular fire to-night destroyed the planing mills of C. Brandstetner and the Morrison-Le Roy Planing Mill Company.

The loss is estimated at NICK IS TO DEFEND HIS FA THER-IN-LA "Doings" in the House of Represent tatives for To-Day Another Speech by Rainey Is Anticipated. i BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. WAR CLOUDS LOWER OVER THE NEAR EAST European Powers Greatly Concerned and JointPressure for Peace Upon Turkey and Bulgaria Is Mooted. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. WASHINGTON, Jan.

28. There will be doings In the House of Representatives to-morrow' that may not be important, but they will be interesting to the galleries, for Nick Longworth will appear in the role of defender of his father-in-law, the President, and Representative Rainey, of Illinois, will contribute another chapter on Panama, which will include a telegram from the brother of the President-elect, Charles P. Taft, denying the truth of the story that he is in any way connected with the syndicate, which, it is charged, is seeking a concession for a railroad and very valuable timber lands in the republic of Panama. It is said Mr. Rainey will offset the denial of Charles P.

Taft by reading documents in his possession tending to support the charge he made the other day that the brother of the President-elect was a member of the syndicate which is seeking very valuable concessions from the republic of Panama. But the headliner of the day's bill will he Nick Longworth and his defense of IjONDON, Jan. 2S. The Balkan situation is again causing some anxiety at the European capitals. Bulgaria's action in galling out her reserves is apparently explained by Turkey's attempts to secure a rectification of the existing frontier as a condition for reducing her monetary demands from Bulgaria.

Noting the danger of trouble between Turkey and Bulgaria, the powers are again resorting to negotiations to bring about ipint pressure in favor of a peaceful settlement. It is reported that Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, ha3 sounded the powers on this subject and St. Petersburg dispatch announces s-ml-officially that Russia has already dresa a circular uityan-Li.