The - Plattsmouth - Journal
crD Published Seml-Weeklj at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'oslofTice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
$1.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE
liarch came In all riylit, but the
question Is, will she go out the same
way!
It i3 not yet a positive fad that
Champ Clark will attend Dryan's
birthday banquet.
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President Taft has set the date for
convening the special session of con
yrwa for April 1, Instead of All Fools'
day.
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f-Ynator Tanner wants the state
work to be shand alike with both
party papers. There ' Is nothing
wrong about that proposition.
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lie he democrat or republican, If
an official has taken money that does
not belong to blm ho should be made
to put It back In short order.
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Consumers are led to believe that
Senator McCunibrr, who demands a
high tariff on farm products, ought
to be railed Senator incumber.
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The Omaha Investigation should
put a damper on Aldrlch and the
Kang who thought they would wake
tip the people of that city In showing
them that Omaha never did hold an
honest election.
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A year ago Attorney General Wlck
rrsham was "reading out of the
party" everyone who did not agree
with the president. Just now the
Fame Mr. Wlckcrsham Is saying that
Canadian reciprocity U a delusion
d a snare.
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About sixty cities have adopted the
'ommlsnlon form of government, but
e,one of less population than 15,000.
We don't know as to whether It
would be a good thing or not for
J'lattsmouth, i
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A bill providing that the question
fif the removal and relocation of the
Mate capital shall be submitted at the
next general election was Introduced
In the Benate Wednesday morning by
Senators Huhrman, Tlbbcts and Hod
Inson. It provides that the location
shall be voted on at the next general
Medio.. )VH
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AfUr reading the report of that
ex-haustlve Investigation of election
renditions In Omaha, It will Boon be
perceived that the governor was de
thirdly mistaken In his charges of
wholesale election frauds In that city
The governor made a great buggaboo
fut of nothing and at a great expense
to tho taxpayers of Nebraska.
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It Is possible to understand the
humiliation of certain senators at the
prospect of belonging to a body that
refuses to exclude Mr. Lorlmcr from
membership. Still, if the senate
wants Lorlmcr It ought to have him.
Only It ought to stop Its chatter about
being "the most august legislative
ldy In the world." Kansas City
Star.
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TIIH IXITI.UTVK.
The World-Herald calls attention
to two defects In the present proposed
amendment to tho initiative and
referendum act now pending In tho
legislature and says they should be
cured at once. It save:
Mr. Gruenther'a objections to a G
per cent referendum seem the moro
forceful and weighty the more they
re studied. A referendum so easily
Invoked does not mean rule by the
people It means denial of the rule of
tho people. It means that a legisla
ture may pass a law In response to
un overwhelming popular domand,
and that thereupon only G per cent of
ho people may tie It up for months
for almost two years, In fact, If the
lcgl.dnfure makes good the demo
cratic platform pledges to provide for
elections only once In two years. It
means that, for a period of almost
two years, ono man Is to be permit
ted to rule twenty men; that 5 per
cent of the citizens are to have the
right to suspend and defy the legalry
enaited will of Do per cent. It gives
to the big corporate and special In
terests such a weapon as never before
has been placed la their hands, and
that Is why we hear not a murmur of
corporation opposition to this feature
of the measure now being considered
by the legislature.
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WHAT IS t.OIMJ OX IX THIS
.NATION.
I!ut they say this is an age of
radicalism. And may I ask, what is
radicalism? An Interesting circum
stance about the radicalism of our
own time Is that It proposes a re
storation. The literary theory of our Institu
tions Is that we are living under a
representative form of government.
The fact Is that we are not living
under a representative form of gov
ernment. People are working now,
not to destroy, but to restore rep
resentative government.
We know what we want, and both
parties promise to give us what we
want. Dut the fact Is we haven't got
what we want.
We want liberty. Rut what Is
liberty? IJberty consists In the best
adjustment possible In society. It
doesn't consist In having our own
way; nor In any class having Its own
way; but In the reasonable and most
equitable adjustment of all the In
terests of the country with each
other. In order to have
the people brought Into the game
again, we've got to sweep something
aside. We need not eliminate or
ganizations. I believe In organiza
tion. But we must sweep aside that
organization which Is not dependent
upon the people for Its existence.
If ua pnn'f tnf It ua will
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have the Initiative and referendum.
If our representatives do
not represent us they will be dis
pensed with. We are not thus doing
away with representative govern
ment. We are simply making sure
that we are going to have rep
resentative government. From
Woodrow Wilson's Philadelphia
Speech.
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Now Is the time to drag the roads.
Don't wait till tho busy season and
then you won't have time.
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There are moments, Indeed, when
telephone subscribers are almost per
suaded that one 'phone Is too many.
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February made something or a
record In crowding llfty-seven
varieties of weather Into twenty-eight
days.
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March hasn't been a bad month bo
far, but there has been only two days
of It passed. We have twenty-nine
yet to come.
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There Is much public eagerness to
know what effect this week's Bnow
etorm In California will have on the
prune crop.
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Carter Harrison has been nom
inated for mayor of Chicago by the
democrats and his election Is already
conceded.
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A Cheerful Thought for Today
The average citizen has only one
chance In twenty-four thousand to
Hve to be 100 years old.
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Or, perhaps, Senator McCumber,
who Is demanding a high tariff on
graden truck, ought to bo known as
Senator Cucumber.
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It Is very evident that Victor nose-
water Is very mad at Norrls Brown
for bringing about Cadet Taylor's ap
pointment after Victor fcad said that
Cadet shouldn't have It. Victor inti
mates reflectively about the "In
gratitude sting."
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On February 1 the treasury aults
contain! d tie enormous sum of 1,121
million dollars In gold, by far the
greatest store of precious metals ever
accuumulated in the bls'ory of the
world. More than a billion dollars
of thl3 treasure Is In coin and most
of it Is represented In circulation by
gold certificates.
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The pres of the country, irres
pective of party, condemn the acquit
tal of Lorlmer as one of the greatest
outrages that was ever perpetrated
upon the people. His guilt was
proven, and his retention in the Unit
ed States senate Is not only an out
rage upon the people of Illinois, but
It Is a disgrace to the country at
large.
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The Lorlmcr Investigation was
simply a fake. It was never intended
from start to finish to remove him.
Some of those senators who defended
him perhaps felt that they were not
entirely Innocent of the same charge,
as they no doubut are. The western
senators mostly voted to expel the
branded senator, and we are pleased
to know that both of the Nebraska
senators were among them.
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Representative Macon of Arkansas
characterized Peary as an adventurer,
a fur trader, an Idle loafer and a man
unworthy of belief, ?:Len speaking on
the matter of the promotion asked for
In the bill presented by Represent
ative Dates of Pennsylvania. He eald
that while Peary was collecting ma
terial for his book he was "loafing
around In northern latitudes collect
ing furs to sell and bestow upon
members of the society of Washing
ton that accepted his discovery of the
pole before examining his proofs
while drawing his pay from the gov
ernment with great regularity." This
ought to give the Washington office
holder a hunch to keep his fur coat
out of sight for the balance of the
season. Representative .Macon also
hopped onto the newspaper editors
who had criticised him by declaring
them to be "pea-eyed, pin-headed and
putrid-tongued lnflnltesslmal." This
Is calling upon alliteration's artful
aid to a degree. It Is a question
whether the representative Is to be
regarded as a Joke or as a man who
Is not afraid to express his honest
convictions. Sometimes the dividing
line between the two Is hard to dis
tinguish. My, my, but this "pin
headed" business! What an un
fortunate simile! Does Mr. Macon
not know that editors have come
down In history as exemplars of the
morning after?
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At the close of the fortieth day,
the time allotted for the Introduction
of bills In the legislature, finds a
total of 39C bills in the senate, or 11
less than was Introduced two years
ago. In the house the total number
of bills Introduced is 702, or 125
more than was Introduced two years
ago, making a total of 1,075, one-
third or which win probaoiy go
through.
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Till: PHOPI.K WILL AVIV.
The United States senate has again
refused to allow senators to be
elected by a direct vote of tho peo
ple, and, by a majority of six, has
given Its sanction to the election of
senators in the manner in which
Lorlmer of Illinois was elected.
This may be the senate's notion of
the way to promote good government
and safeguard republican Institutions
but It distinctly Is not the notion of
the American people, 90 per cent of
whom would vote for the popular
election of senators and against re'
talnlng In the senate a member elect
ed as a result of legislative bribery.
This makes an Issue between the
senate and the people, and Is only an
other view of the kaleidoscopic
spectacle that 1 as been presented by
tho mutiny of the present congress
against the authority and orders of
the people. It Is an Issue that will
have to be fought to a fiulsh, and It
can finish in but one possible way.
The piople will win. Their will is
going to prevail.
It may be said that a large ma
jority of the senators voted with the
people on the constitutional amend
ment for the direct election of sen
ators, the vcte s'andlng 51 for and
33 against, lacking only four votc3 of
the required two-thirds majority,
that is true but deceptive. For among
those voting in the affirmative were a
good many republican senators who
are against direet election, but lack
the courage to say so. Not daring to
vote against it they plotted its
cowardly defeat by tying the Suther
land amendment millstone about Its
neck. That amendment turned nine
democratic votes against the bill
which otherwise were and would have
been for It. Every southern state
has what Is In effect the popular elec
tion of senators now. No southern
senator can be elected unless lie first
presents his case to the people of his
state and"wins their support. The
southern senators, therefore," were a
unit for the bill until Us enemies,
open and covert, tacked onto it a
provision calling for federal control
of state elections. It was with that
amendment the bill was killed. As
Senator Uorah, the author of the bill,
said, "The responsibility for defeat
will be placed upon those who voted
for the Sutherland amendment,"
among whom, we might mention, was
Mr. Burkett of Nebraska.
As It was, 21 democrats and 33 re
publicans voted for direct election of
senators, and 9 democrats and 24 re
publicans voted against it.
The Lorlmer vote stood 11 demo-
rats for Lorlmer and 19 against him,
and 35 republicans for Lorlmer and
1 against him.
Stated In percentages, 58 per cent
f the republicans voted for direct
lection of senators and 70 per cent
f the democrats voted for It; 62V6
per cent of the republicans voted for
Ixrlmer and 37 -per cent of the demo-
rats voted for him.
It Is plain that both parties need to
ndulge In a bousecleaning In the
senate, but the republican party, the
party that Is in power and has the
responsibility, needs It the worse.
The democrats voted more than two
to one to let the people elect the sen
ators, even with the Sutherland
mendaient In the bill, and they voted
lmost two to one to unseat Lorlmer.
lad the senate been democratic the
result would have been directly op
poslte to what It was In both in-
tances.
The next senate will come a good
deal nearer to being democratic than
Is the present senate. And In the
next senate, we are convinced, even
with Lorlmer In his Beat and voting,
the cause of popular election of sen
ators will win Its victory. The people
are going to rule World-Herald.
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SECURE AN EXPERT
AT
Mr. R. M. Schlaes, manager of the
Majestic, went to Omaha yesterday
and secured Mr. Davidson, an expert
operator, who will have charge of the
moving picture machine. Mr. David
son Is a man of long experience In
handling such work and the patrons
of the Majestic will now enjoy the
best of service. There will be no
more unnecessary delays, as the ma
chine will be kept in first class con
dition and a No. 1 service Is guar
anteed. Manager Schlaes has spared
no expense to make the exhibitions of
the first rank and the additional ex
pense of a first class operator will be
cheerfully met by him so long as It
will be appreciated by the theater
going public.
Mrs. Sophia Schulter of Murdock
arrived today to visit her Bister, Mrs.
Louis Dose, who has been suffering
from a slight attack of pneumonia
since last Monday. Mrs. Dose was
slightly better this morning.
Mr. M. Hawk spent a few hours In
the metropolis today, going on the
early train this morning.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bo"ghl
Dears the
ft &ffi&t&
BlKUHtum
SENATE TO VOTE
ON TARIFF BOARD
Upper H3JS3 Essies ConsiJ
cratlcn cl CI!.
APPROPtl'ATION ELLS RUSHED.
Senator Owen Insists on Formal Read
ing of Measures to Kill Time, but
Clerk Makes Rapid Progress Bills
Quickly Passed.
Washington, March 3. The senate
has agreed to vote on the permanent
tariff board bill tomorrow. It is un
derstood that the appropriation bills
will be passed prior to that time.
The senate resumed consideration of
the tariff board bill at 12:30 o'clock
this morning. Until that hour the
night session was occupied with the
postofiice appropriation bill, laid aside
in an uncompleted state shortly alter
midnight. A contest was Immediate
ly stinted between Senator Hale, who
watiteel the senate to proceed with
the naval appropriation bill, and Sena
tor Beveiidge, who, pressed for consid
eration of the tariff Loard measure.
It required a roll call to decide the
Issue in favor of Senator Beveridge,
tho senate declining to proceed wit'-i
the naval bi.l by a vote of 20 to 37.
Pension Bill is Passed.
McCumber called up tlie pension ap
propriation bill.' This had the effect
of laying aside the tariff board bi.l
temporarily.
The Democrats offered no objection
to the pension bill, carrying $153,000,
000, until Senator Scott attempted to
put the Sulloway general service peti
tion bill on the appropriation measure
as a rider. The Sulloway bill would
add about $50,000,000 to the annual
roll and would grant pensions to all
veterans of the civil war who had
served ninety days and had reached
the age of sixty-two years.
Senator Lodge saw trouble coming
and had made a point of order on the
amendment, declaring it to be an at
tempt to put general legislation on an
appropriation bill.
Vice President Sherman sustained
the point of order and the regular ap
propriation bill then was passed.
Bills Quickly Passed.
Following the disposition of the
pension ;jI I, the senate took up and
quickly disposed of the diplomatic and
consular bill, carrying about $4,000,000,
and the fortifications bill, carrying $5,-
000,000. It had required Just fifteen
minutes to get these three supply
measures out of the way. This- was
too rapid work to suit the plana ot
Senator Owen, and when the military
academy appropriation bill, carrying
$1,800,000, was taken up he began a
little filibuster. He first insisted that
he would not consent to dispense with
the first formal reading of the bill cov
ering thirty-four pages. Several sena
tors, Democratic and Republican,
gathered about the senator's desk and
pleaded with him not to stand in the
way of the supply bills.
"I want to force an extra session,"
he told them. "This congress has no
moral right to pass these measures."
While the senator was engaged in
explaining his attitude the reading
clerk, "through pure Inadvertence,"
overlooked about fifteen pages of the
bill and the first thing Senator Owen
knew the bill was being read a sec
ond time for amendments.
Owen Obstructs Progress.
When the postofflce appropriation
bill was taken up at the night session
Senator Owen Indicated he would con
tinue obstructive tactics. Under his
demand the postofflce bill was ordered
read. He tried also to obtain an ex
planation of the various Items, but
Vice President Sherman said he had
no power to compel members to make
speeches.
"The senator from Oklahoma Is a
member of the postofflce committee
and it he is not familiar with the bill
It is his own fault," sharply interposed
Chairman Penrose, who was In charge
of the measure.
The reading continued and when
Owen's attention was taken by con
venation with one of his colleagues,
the clerk managed to get through
about thirty pages In less than five
minutes. When Owen learned of tho
clerk's rapid progress he looked skep
tical, but apparently he realized that
an objection would be useless.
CANADIANS SCORE TREATY
Indication That Debate Will Last Far
Into Summer.
Ottawa, Ont., March 3. Further lib
eral denunciation of the pending reel
proclty agreement with the United
States characterized the program Id
parliament.
Indications continue to point to a
protracted debate and long session
As viewed today the coronation is
the only thing that will prevent parlla
ment from sitting all summer and It
is predicted that even that event will
not bring tho end of the reciprocity
debate in Bight.
Sir Wilfrid I.nurler will lave for
England about May 12 to attend tha
imperial conference and tho corona
lion. It Is said that Mr. Drodur, the
naval minister, and Sir Frederick Dor
den, the militia minister, probably will
accompany Sir Wilfrid and that Minis
ters Fielding, Graham and Sir Alan
Aylesworth may be In the pnrty.
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SIR HIRAM MAXIM CfJ hCRK
Englishman Tells Countrymen How to
Cook It With Beans.
London, Marcb.3. Sir Hiram Maxim
in a letter to tiie Daily Express ad
mitting that fat pork is indigestible
tells ot a visit which he received from
several English women who after try
ing the great American dish, pork and
beans, asked where the pork was.
The combination they ate consisted
of one pound of pork to two pounds
of beans.
Sir Hiram says that when the pork
In a raw state is finely minced and
thoroughly mixed with the beans it
apparently disappears in the baking
process. The pork then is as easily
digested as a piece of lean steak and,
though very rich in everything the
system requires, is easily assimilated.
MONTANA ELECTS
MYERS SENATOR
On Sercnly-Nintli Ballot He Re
ceives All Democratic Votes.
Helena, Mont.,' March 3. Henry L.
Myers (Dem of Ravalli county waa
elected United States senator to suc
ceed Senator Carter on the seventy
ninth Joint legislative bal'ot.
A continuous joint session of seven
and half hours was held by the legis
lature, twreaty seven ballots being
taken. Myers' name was, not men
tioned until the last ballot, on which
he received all the Democratic votes,
before the result was announced. He
was not ao avowed candidate. Sena
tor elect Myers' home Is at Hamilton,
where he is judge of the district cenirt.
Henry L. Myers was born Oct. 9,
1862, at Booneville, Ma, where he be
gan his scholastic training in the pub
lic schools and finished at an acad
emy. He worked on his father s farm,
taught school, became a newspaper
man and finally a lawyer. He was ad
mitted to practice in the supreme
court of Missouri at the age of twenty-
three and practiced for some time at
Doonevllle and West Plains. In 1803
Mr. Myers came to Montana and lo
cated at Hamilton.
CROW OPENING BILL FAILS
House Believes It Would Give Few
Men Control of Water Supply.
Washington, March 3. The house,
by a vote of 146 to 134, failed to pass
the bill to open 1,500,000 acres of sur
plus lands In the Crow Indian reser
vation in Montana. The bill had
passed the senate.
Opposition to the measure developed
on the ground that the opening of the
additional lands would give a few peo
ple a chance to gain control of the
water supply and would operate In the
Interests of certain cnttlemen In Mon
tana. Though It received a large majority
of votes the measure failed because it
c"ld not have the two thirds necessary
to Its passage.
BELL STOLEN FROM CHURCH
Thieves About to Sell It to Junk Shop
In Kansas City When Arrested.
Kansas City, March 3. A 500 pound
bell, purchased by small subscriptions
by the? parishioners of the Ho'y Name
Catholic church of Rosednlo, Kan., a
suburb of this city, was stolen from
the church yard, where It lay wnitlng
to be hoisted to the new belfry. The
thieves were arresti-d as they were
about to dlspeiso of the bell at a Junk
shop In this city.
Daylight Robber Gets Forty Years.
Kansas City, March 3. Andy Spauld
Ing, famed In police circles as a
"daylight robber," was sentenced to
forty years In prison by Judge Ijit
shaw. His rrline was robbing a house
of Jewels valued at $110.
French Cabinet Completed.
Paris, March 3 The new French
i cabinet, bead ivl by Premier Mouls, has
' been completed.
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