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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
Motto: All The News When 1 1 Is News.
VOL. 21.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913.
NO. 34.
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EXPERTSARENEEDEO
REPRESENTATIVE PAYNE OF N,
Y. INTRODUCES BILL TO CRE
ATE TARIFF BOARD.
WOULD ASSIST PRESIDENT
Chief Executive Would Have Com
mission Aid In Negotiating Reclp
rocal Trade Agreement Wllh For
elgn Countrlea Old Board Dead.
Washington, April 23. Representa
live Payne of Now York, presenting
the necessity for speolal tariff experts
to assist tho president In negotiating
reciprocal trade agreements with for
eign countries, Introduced a bill to
create a tariff commission Mon
day. Avoiding tho chief objections made
by the Democrats to the last tariff
board, Mr. Payne provides in his bill
that tho commission shall make an
nual reports to congress as well as
to tho president and shall mako spe
cial investigations and reports on
tariff schedules at, the direction of
either the house or the senate.
The Republican tariff board, which
tho Democrats permitted to die for
lack of funds, reported direct to the
president and was not under tho con
trol of either the senato or tho house.
Tho broadest kind of reciprocal
agreements are- authorized by the Un
derwood bill, such agreements being
subject onl;r to the ability of tho
president wao negotiates them to get
them ratified by the house and tho
Benate. Ths president has announced
that as soon as possible after the pas
sage of tho bill he will enter into ne
gotiations with foreign countries to
securo the most advantageous trade
relations and tariffs for this country.
The Payne commission is to con
sist of flvo membors, not more than
threo of any one political party, to
. be appointed by the president and
confirmed by the senato. To mako if
a continuing body, the terms of tho
first mewbers shall be two, three,
four, flvo and six years, and there
after all terms shall bo for six years.
The salary of tho chairman will bo
$7,600 antl the other commissioners"
17,000 a year.
Chairman Underwood, of the ways
and means committee, who Monday
Introduced in the houso tho Demo
cratic tsj-lff bill as amended bv tho
Democratic caucus, called tho Repub
lican members of tho committee to
sit Tuesday with the Deraocratlo
members for consideration of and a
vote on the bill. He hopes to bring
the bill up in tho house Wednesday
and to veach his agroement wiih the
Republican leaders for its immediate
consldefatlon and debate.
BELGIAN TRAFFIC PARALYZED
Negroes and Japs Help Load Ameri
can Chips and Soldiers Guard
Docks First Blood of Strike.
Brussels, Belgium, April 23. The
number of persons engaged in tho
general strike for suffrage reform is
Increasing and traffic was paralyzed
Monday, Soldiers and civic guards
protect the docks and tho wood and
petroloiim depots day and night. Ne
groes help to load the ships of the
American line and Japanese sailors
also do the work of dockers.
In th!S city there are 26,000 strikers
and a long procession of the unem
ployed men with their wives and
daughters peacefully patrol tho streets
and central boulevards. Tlra men ap
pear depressed and shabby. Tho wo
men, who are more cheerful, sing
FlemlBh songs.
Fontaine L'Evequo, Delglum, April
23- 'wo Belgian soldiers who were
on guard at a uteel mill protecting tho
property against the possibility of nn
attack by strikers left their posts
Moiflay carrying their rifles. They
WC1" pursued oy a military patrol
which was about to capture them
when both deserters fired, killing one
of the pursuers. The two then es
caped into the adjacent forest
BOY CONFESSES KILLING 3
Herman Coppes, Paroled From Re-
formatory, Slew Mrs. Sleep and
Children and Hid Bodies.
Elgin, III., April 22. Tho nlurder of
Mrs. Maud Sleep and her two babies
was tho work of a child. A boy of
fourteen years shot tho woman to
eath with a revolver, killed tho
babies with an ax, dropped tho bodies
into a cistern under tho kitchen of
I be Sloop farmhouso, near Elgin, and
hen according to an araazPng con
fesslon made Sunday at tho Kano
county Jail, went 0Jt "to feed 21
Tho boy is Herman rnnn
ly paroled from the roformnlory at
St. Charles, whoro ho was sent for
Btea Ing two dollars from a school
teacher. He has been employed by
Manny Sleep as a farm hand under
ontract with tho reformatory.
DeWolf Hopper Divorced.
Mlneola, N. Y., April 23. Ellen I)
Hopper, n comic opora singer, known
pn the stuge as Nella Borgcn, was
pranted a permanont decreo of dl-(-orco
from DeWolf Hopper, actor.
Uondoy. Thero was no dofecso.
Cashier Gets Ten Years.
ban Francisco, April 23, Charlon
F. Baker, defaulting assistant cashier
" the Crocker National bank, was
lentenced In tho United States dls
rict court Monday to servo ten years
n San Quentln peultentlary,
MRS. JOHN W. KERN
Mrs. John W. Kern Is the wife of
the senator from Indiana. She Is well
known both In Indianapolis, where
she lives and In Washington, where
she has been a frequent visitor. This
la her latest photograph. ' .
UPHOLDS ALIEN BILLS
GOV. JOHNSON DEFENDS RIGHT
TO ENACT LAND LAWS.
Secretary of State Bryan Shows
How One Measure Would Injure
People of Orient.
Sacramento, Cal., April 23. Gov.
Hiram W. Johnson on Monday lBsued
a statement In which ho upholds the
right of California to dictate tho terms
oa which aliens can hold land within
the state. Tho governor showed that
the federal government, by statute,
has provided that no alien who has
not declared his intention of becom
ing a citizen of the United States can
acquire or hold property. Ho also
showed that several states, Including
Illinois, have enncted almost Identical
laws.
Governor Johnson also cited tho
fact that Japan, until 1910, had an
absolute law against alien land own-
erslitp, and added that "in effect it
has it yet."
Washington, April 22. Secretary
Bryan on Saturday telegraphed to Gov
ernor Johnbon of California request
ing him to withhold his signature
from any anti-alien land leglslatipn
which might bo in violation of treaties
between the United States and Japan.
"The president desireB mo to say,"
Mr. Bryan's message read, "that,
while he fully recognizes the right of
tho people of California to leglslato
according to their judgment on tho
subject of lnnd tenure, ho feels it his
duty to urge a recognition of the In
ternational character of such legisla
tion. "Being anxious to preserve and
strengthen the long-standing friendly
relations existing between this coun
try and the nations of the Orient, ho
very respectfully, but most earnestly,
advises against the use of tho words
'Ineligible to citizenship.' Ho asks
that you bring this view to tho atten
tion of the legislature.
"He believes the senate bill, as tele
graphed to the department of state. Is
greatly to bo preferred. That bill
limited ownership to citizens and to
those who had declared their Inten
tion to become citizens.
The telegrams and other Informa
tion from official circles Indicate
clearly that the provisions In the as
sembly bill by which aliens "Ineligible
to citizenship" would be prohibited
from owning land were regarded us a
distinct discrimination against Jap
anese, who are denied the right of
naturalization. The lunguugo of tho
senate bill restricting ownorshlp of
land to citizens of tho United States or
"aliens who have declared their in
tention of becoming citizens" Is ap
proved by the president, as ho has
discovered that this is the phraseol
ogy of statutes In force In Now York,
Delawaro, Kansas, Minnesota, Ken
tucky, "Washington, Missouri and the
District of Columbia.
All these laws make It Impossible
for Japanese to own land until they
are ablo to declare their Intention of
ui-i-umiiiK uiiixuiiH, a privnugu which
tho lower courts havo not glen them, j
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14,000 Fall to See President.
Washington, April 22. More than
1-1,000 fellow cltizons and cltlzonesses
of President Wilson, intent upon greet
ing their illustrious former governor,
left Washington Sunday with their
mission unfulfilled.
!
Surgeon Makes New Hand.
Washington, April 22 - A new left
hand, mad ffom a portion of his
bark by a prominent New York sur
gum, was d'rplayrj hero Sunday as
u narul by Lu 'oux Raymond of this
rltl.
SON'S PARI LARGEST
WILL OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN
DISPOSES OF $20,000,000, BAL-
ANCE TO CHILD.
WIDOW IS GIVEN $3,000,000
Three Daughters Receive In the Ag
gregate $9,000,000; Others Bequest!
Are to Relatives, Friends, Servants,
Churches and to Charity.
New York, April 22. "Having re
deemed it and washed it in his most
precious blood, I commit my soul Into
tho hands of my Saviour In full con
fidence that he will present it fault
less beforo the throne of my heavenly
Father; and I entreat my children to
maintain and defend, at all hazard
and at any cost of personal sacrifice
the blessed doctrlno of tho complete
atonement for sin through tho blood
of Jesus Christ, onco offered, and
through that alone."
This is the extraordinary and strik
ing utterancn which begins tho last
will and testament of John Plcrpont
Morgan, who died in Rome on March
31, and whoso body, heaped with flow
ers from the crowned heads of Eu
rope, was brought back to his own
InDd, and was borne to Its last resting
place at Hartford on April 14.
Mr. Morgan's will was filed for pro
bate Monday.
The will leaves tho relatively Insig
nificant amount of $700,000 to public
and charitable purposes half a mil
lion of this sum going to a Protestant
Episcopal church St. George's of
New York. A summnry of the distri
bution is as follows:
To his wife 1100,000 u yenr
To his three daughters $9,000,00!
To other relatives 2,100,000
To friends (approximately).. 1,750,000
To servants (approximately) 450,000
To charity C00.000
To his son All tho rest
(The residue of tho estate Is esti
mated from $100,000,000 to $200,000,
000, but this Is purely guesswork)
The amount of bequests and trusts,
named by specific sums, Is under $20,
000,000, and the entire residue of the
estate is left to J. P. Morgan, Jr., who
Is designated by his father to become
tho chief heir not only to his fortune,
but to his many charitable and artis
tic activities.
I IMPORTANT NEWS 1
I ITEMS I
Berlin, April 19. Tho king and
queen of Italy have decided to attend
the wedding of Princess Victoria
Luise, daughter of the German em
peror and empress, to Princess Er
nest August of Cumberland. Tho
wedding is to take place in Berlin on
May 24.
New York, April 19. Rowland Buck
stone, one of the best-known actors In
comedy parts In America and for tho
lust 25 years a member of the Edward
H. Sothern company, was taken from
the Players' club to the Bellevuo hos
pital pliychopathic ward. Worry oc
casioned by the recent death of his
wlfo Is assigned as tho cause of his
collapse.
Noisy Le Grand, Franco, April 19.
Ono of the most terrible accidents to
a spherical balloon la inuny years oc
curred hero Thursday. The mllitury
balloon Zodiac collapsed at a' height
of about 050 feet and fell to the
ground with Hh live occupants, all or
whom were killed.
Chicago, April 19. John E. W. Way
man, former stuto's attorney, shot
himself at his homo Thursday within
hearing of his "wife and three children,
who were on the (lour below. Hu died
some three hours afterward.
CHURCHILL LOSES HIS PURSE
England's Lord of the Admiralty Vic
tim of Aristocratic Gang
of Bunco Men.
London, April 23 Winston Church
Ill, first lord of tho admiralty, was
considerably worried Monday over the
loss of a pocketbook, confidential
naval data, and also $2,500, which he
won at cards at the Hlvlora. Ho haH
put Scotland Yard sleuths on tho
trail of members of an aristocratic
gang whom ho suspects of buncoing
him. Members of this gang had Just
arrived In London.
CLARK-BRYAN FEUD IS OVER
Event Brought About at Banquet Given
by Newspaper Editor In Wash
ington City.
Washington, A pi 11 21 The sensa
tion of tho day In Washington was
tho banquet given Friday night by Ira
n. Muiiiiiiii, tumor oi (no Washington
Post, to celebrate tho political, If not
personal reconciliation of Champ
Clark and William Jennings Bo an.
Upton Sinclair Wedded.
Fredericksburg. Va., April 23. Up
ton Sinclair of Bussum, Holland, au
thor of "The Jungle," claimed Miss
.Mary Craig Klmbrough, daughter of
Judge and Mrs. A. McG. Klmbrough of
Greenwood, Miss., ub bride Momlav.
Investigates Harvester Strike.
Auburn, N Y , April 19 Statu La
bor Commissioner John Williams, ac
companied by several other state of.
flclalB, arrived here Thhrsduy and be
gan an Investigation into tho Interna
tional Harvester company strike
JOSEPH BRUCKER
HSHRMWNriH , iff
Joseph Brucker, formerly ef Chi
sago, Is attempting to cross tho At
lantic In a dirigible balloon. He'
makes his start from Lao Palmas,
Canary Islands.
WILSON NAMES MANY
IOWA MAN TO FILL VACANCY ON
BOARD OF APPRAISERS OF N. Y.
W. J. Harris, Director of Cenitus; R.
W. Woolley, H. C. Brcckcnrldge,
Assistant Secretary cf War.
Washington, April 19. President
Wilson consulted Sonators James and
Bradley and Henry Clay Bieckcnrldgo
of Lexington, Ky., was selected for as
sistant secrotnry of war, Tho noml
nation was sent to the senato Thurs
day. Jerry B. Sullivan, a Democratic
leader In Iowa, was nominated for ap
pointment to tho board Of United
States general appraisers at Now
York.
Willlaw W. Roper of Philadelphia,
former Princeton footbnll coach and
a Democrat, was named by tho presi
dent for appraiser of customs nt Phil
adelphia. President Wilson consulted
Senators Penrose- and Olhfir about
this appointment.
William J. Harris of Georgia was
nominated for director of the census.
Among President Wilson's other
nominations sent to tho senate were:
Auditor for the Interior department,
Robert W. Woolley of Virginia.
Assistant attorney general of the
United States Ix.foro tho court of
claims, Samuel Houston, Thompson,
Jr., of Denver, Colo.
Collector of Internal revenue. Her
bert H. Mansen, Second district Wis
consin. Judges of the district courf. of Alas
ka, division No. 1, Hoberf . Jen
nings of Alaska.
United States district attorney for
the district of Oregon, Clarence- L.
Realties.
United States marshal, eastorn dis
trict of Texas, Benjamin P. Shorrell.
Register of the land olllco at Kalls
poll, Mont , Frank o Williams.
Recorder of thu general "land of
fice, Lucius Q. C. Lamar.
Receiver of public moneys at Chey
enne, Wyo., Luke Voorheeds.
MRS. STORY HEADS D. A. R,
- ,
ew York Woman Wins by Majority
or iui Mrs. Horton la
Second.
Washington, April 21. Mrs. Wil
Ham Cummlngs Story of Now York,
head of thu cuuservativo faction, wns
elected president general of tho so
ciety or tho Daughters of tho Ameri
can Revolution, defeating Mrs. John
Miller Horton of Buffalo, the adminis
tration candidate, on thu third ballot.
Tho vote stood Mrs Story COO, Mrs
Horton 119.
Seven vice-presidents general wore
alho elected including Mrs, Thomas
Kite of Ohio, Mrs. RhettOoodo of Ala
bama, Mrs. Bon Gray of Missouri,
Miss Harriett Lake of lown, Mrs. John
Swift or California and Mrs. John Din
wlddlo or Indiana.
The election came aor threo days
ui coiiHiaiu nairnting during which
tlmo Mrs. Story gained steudlly on
sacli ballot.
Illlnors Centenarian Dies.
Peoria, 111., April 22 Joromo Sloan,
ged 100, Ib dead In Akron township.
Sentence Airto Bandits,
New York. April 21. -George and
Robert McVoity. Charles Clark and
Patrick Bolger, four momborH of .
Kang of taxlcab bandits, wore sen
tenced to servo a maximum of 21
voara In Sing Sing Friday.
Four Hurt In Auto Crash.
Hammond, Ind., April 21. Pour
men wero Injured, two fatally, In an
automobile accident near Odon when
a machlno driven by Calhoun Miller
of Llnora plungod into a ditch and un
set Friday. r
COMMISSION GETS
GLEAN GILL
APPROVAL OF BOND ISSUES IS
SATISFACTORY TO COMMITTEE.
THE MOTIVE OF HIGH HONOR
Report Says Members Actuated by
Highest Honor and Integrity In
Dealing With Matters.
Lincoln The state- rullwuy commis
sion was guilty of no impropriety in
Its approval of various public utility
etock and bond isBites during tho two
years ending January 1, 1913, accord
ing to, tho report of a special Inves
tigating commltteo of tho houso ol
representatives recent!,? filed,
Tho report Is brlof. with a lengthy
appendix containing a transcript ot
tho testimony at a half dozen hear
ings. ,It'a essence Is contained In this
paragraph:
"Your committee- found nothing In
tho course ot Its work to indicate or
suggost In any way that tho members
of tho atato railway commission have
not been actuated by motives of the
highest honor and Integrity In dcnllng
with the matters entrusted to them."
Tho Investigation was on resolution
of Representative Scott and had Its
foundation on various criticisms ot
tho conduct of Commissioners Win
nott and Clarko by Commissioner
Thomas Hall. Mr. Hall had repeated
ly charged his fellows with approving
security Issues in cases of public utili
ty mergers, which were not justified
by tho assets. Mr. Hall told tho in
vestigating committee that ho Is now
in accord with Commissioners Clarke
and Tnylor, Iho latter Dr. Wlnncll'o
successor, on most of the formerly
disputed points.
In part tho commlttoo reports:
"Your commltteo furthor finds thnt
thero havo boon differences of opinion
on tho part of tho members of thu
state railway commission with refer
enco to tho proceduro of that body In
regard to questions tqwhlch refer
enco is herein made, but that tho.so
differences havo boon adjusted to
a largo oxtent, and tho commission
Is now working harmoniously. Not
only has tho commission dealt with
many vexatious prubluuin, but In sov
eral instances it has been obliged to
mark a path through hitherto untrod
den fields and during all that timo the
volume or business lias ucen enor
mous, requiring groat Industry to
properly dlsposo of the same.
Tho work of tho commission being
In comparatively now fields, In which
tho proceduro and tho law governing
tho samo Is yet In a formulatlvo
slato, and Iheio lining constnnt Im
provement In tho methods employed,
your committee does not doom It ad
vlsablo at thiB tlmo to entor Into any
oxtonded recommendation In rol'or
onco thereto." -
Reavls Wins Lawsuit.
Falls City. C. Frank Reavls, a well
known local attornoy, lias received no
tice from the. clork of tho supremo
court of Kansas at Topeka that ho has
won a $40,000 law suit In that court.
Spanish War Veterans.
Omaha. United Spanish Wnr Vet.
crans will gather In Omaha. April 27
and 28 to attend tho aiimml reunion
of tho organization, This year's moot
ing promises to bo one of thn largest
in the hlBtory of tho organization.
The various nampB in the stato aro
planning to send representative dclo
gallons, which will participate In the
two days' session.
Tho commltteo on ontertalnmont
has requested that all members of tho
nRHnr.lnttfin ni.ikft mi pffnrf in trwlnrn
the other veterans to attend tho meet.
lags and to Join tho association. An
effort Is being made to get the name
or flvory Spanish war votoran In the
Ftate to swell tho membership list.
The Bureau or Publicity ban sent
out invitations to fifteen hundred
Spanish war veterans urging them to
attend tho meeting.
State School Land Sold.
Lincoln. -Under certain provisions
the Board of Public Iands Is allowed
to sell tlo public school lands of tho
stato and acting under that law they
havo disposed ot thu following:
Cuming futility, 10 acres, ?280; Cum
ing county, 21J) ucroM, $1,000; Cuming
county, 80 ncres, $5(;o- Cuming county,
100 acres, $1,120; Dlxou county, 80
acres, $0t0; Custer county, 100 acres,
$1,120; Lancaster county, 35 nores,
$815; Lancaster county 100
acres,
acres,
acres,
acres,
acres,
$1,120; Nuckolls
$1,480; Harlan
county,
county,
county,
county,
010
10
100
100
$?00:
$1,000;
$1,920.
Greeley
Greeley
State League Games.
Grand Island. Tho olllclul schedule
of games to lo pin veil by the teams lu
tho Nebraska State league for the
bavehall season of 1913, has huou is
lined by President Felt, In accordance
with tho ngreemont reached by thn
schudulo committee.
Thu opening ut homo dates woro ra
vened from tho schedulo of lust year
ami fjuperlor will oum at Fremont.
York at Koarnoy, Seward at Columbus,
and Hastings at Grand Isluud on
May 10.
NEBRASKA'S POTATO CROP.
Statement Issued by Department ol
Agricultural Extension.
Lincoln. In Nebraska, thero aro 98,
800 acres planted to potatoes annual
ly, yielding 0,448,000 bunhels and
worth $5,660,400.
It will bo soon by tho abovo that
tho potato Industry in. Nebraska,
whllo not so extcnBlvo as other In
dustries, Is ot a great deal of Import
ance Nearly every farmer has a
pmall patch of potatoes in tho control
and eastom part of tho stato and
when tho western part of Nebraska
Is rcachod tho industry has become a
very largo ono.
Work haB been dono at a number of
experiment stations on solectlon of
potatoes for Bocd. At tho Nebraska.
Experiment station, Professor Emor
son has found that by growing tho po
tatoes under mulch seed Ib produced
which has higher yielding powers
than soed grown In tho ordinary way.
Ho haH also found that tho selection
of seed from tho hills which yield
tho largest number of good potatooa
will furnish seed which will ylold but
tor tho next year.
Tbo yield of potatoes Is not tho
only thing which Is of interest to tho
farmur. Tho storage nnd marketing
is of groat Importance. Thero Is ono
enemy of tho potnto In storago which
has been investigated by Professor
Wilcox of tho Nebraska station. This
Is dry rot. Its treatment Is fully de
scribed In a now bullotln recently Is
sued by tho Nebraska station known
ns bullotln No. 134. All of those In
terested la tho growing of potatoos
should nlso send for Extension bullo
tln No. 12 by Professor Cooper. This
covers tho points of soloctlon ot
ground, selection of seed an,d cultiva
tion. Any of these bulletins can bo
ecoured freo by addressing Nobraska
Experiment Station, University Farm,
Lincoln, Neb.
Increasing the Yield of Winter Wheat.
Can tho averago Nebraska farmer
ecuro llvo bushels moro wheat per
aero each year by somo simple, treat
ment that Ib rather inexpensive? If ho
could, thoro Is no question but what
ho would give his wheat field that
treatment.
At tho Nebraska Experiment sta
tion at Lincoln, the rolling of winter
wheat has been tested for a number
of years, and has given on an avor
go over llvo bushels per year. Har
rowing did not pay in moat Instances
and rolling- to bo tho best must bo
done by n heavy corrugated roller.
In Press Bulletin No. 30, Issued by
Iho Nebraska station, which will bo
tient freo to any address, tho following
otutoment Is found: "Rolling winter
wheat In the spring hus not fallod to
give an increased ylold, tho averago
Increaso being 5.1 bushelB per acre.
Tho rolling was given early in the
spring, soon after tho frost waa out
and about tho tlmo growth started."
Agricultural Week In the University.
Tho week beginning April 7th wns
known as Agricultural Week in our
state university. During this week
tho several hundred students in tho
Collego of Agriculture woro tho colors
of tho collego (purple and gold en
circling a largo letter A). Tho object
of tho wool; was to let tho rest of the
university know that something is do
ing along agricultural lines and to get
tho students ot tho colleen hotter ac
quainted. Tho badges appeared on Monday.
On Tuesday a special agricultural con
rocatlon was hold at which Dean Bur
nett presided. On Wednesday a speci
al trip to Omaha was ltuulo by all stu
donts of tho college. Tho boys studied
llvo stock In tho Stock Yards, and car
casses In tho packing houses, whllo
tho girls viewed mothods of cutting
meat In tho packing houses, and
mothods of baking In tho largo bak
eries located in Omaha. Friday was
set aside as picnic day, at which timo
tho University Fnrm Grove was util
ized by tho "farmers."
It was only a fow years ago that tho
oung man or woman, who register in
rho Agricultural College, was some
times ashamed to admit tho fact, bo
cause of the Jeers which wer5 shot
his way by tho students of tho other
colleges. No "Ag" studont Is ufrald
now to tell to what colego ho belongs
and at tho closo of Agricultural Week
many students In pther colleges felt
that thoy had mado a mistake In not
chooFlng tho agricultural course.
Bills Signed By Governor.
H. It. 020, by Brain and Losey: Es
tnblUhca a minimum wage commis
sion. H. 11. 171, by Anderson of Boyd: In
creases tho penalty for failure to
provide adequato facilities for stock
shippers.
H. R. 818, by Stephons: Fuctorles to
provide seats for fomale workers.
If. It. 22, by El wood: Vlllago t'rus
teos to orgunlo on last Tuesday In
April.
II. It. 888, by governor: Appro,
priates $00,000 for Improvements at
tho pen.
II. R. 022. by Anderson of Kearney:
Provides that school hoards may In
siio warrants against 85 per rent of
funds boforu levy Is collected.
H. It. 501, by Foster: Railroad salo
or unclaimed or reruncd property.
II. It. 281, by Searle: Transfers au
thority In return of distress warrants
to tho sheriff.
H. It. 53, by Chuppoll- Judicial up.
poitlouiuont affecting only Brown
county.
II. It. 340, by Jackson: Itolates to
records of rnncolliitlon of bonds.
II. It. 19, by Buscli Felony to de
stroy moro than ?35 worth of prop
erty. H. R. 17, by Tlusch: Mladomeanor
to destroy less than ?35 worth of
proporty,
KILLS CIVIL SERVICE
CONFERENCE RE8ULTS IN VETO
OF KECKLEY BILL.
IN THE LEGISLATIVE BUDGET
The Work Being Done. In Both House
by the Lawmakers of t
Nebraska. -JjtAJJ7
Governor Morehead's veto of tho,
Kockloy civil service bill came us a,
direct result of a conference wltb,
hcada of thirteen of tho stato's lnBti
unions, Not ono of these men fa
vored tho operation of Btich a law and
board ot control members ns well who
wero present at the conference op
posed its provisions. Tho chief ob
Jectlon to the bill at this time is that
it encroached seriously upon tho do
main just allotted to tho members of
tho board of control. Until tho work
of this board, could be given an oppor
tunity to prove Itself efficient or in
efficient It wbb doomed best to offer
not nidB or hindrances to tho general
conduct ot tho business affairs of the-Institutions.
Legislative Clock Stops. )''
Tho liouso Wednesday wont through
tho usual closing formality of ro
cesslng for ten minutes. Tho speaketf
announced that ho would hold tho;
gavel In nbeyanco until 10 a. m. Ten'
minutes lator, aflor tho houso had
adjourned, a watchman was on- o(
laddor stopping tho clock which haa
falthtully ground out tho hours slnca
tho opening of tho sosslon, and incl
dentally turning It back ten minutes
to tho point when tho recess wa&
taken.
Will Investigate Irregularities.
After tho legislature adjourns Gover
nor Morehead will Investigate what
ho considers1 casos of gross irregulari
ties alleged to havo taken place at
stale institutions prior to tho timo
his fippolntcoo took charge. Ho will'
pajrtho expenses of tho Investigation.
II is charged that at ono Institution
tho superintendent who was displaced
by Govornor Morehead bought 4001
palre of shoes just before ho retired
from dlllco mid that tho shoes -wera.
delivered In tho night and. were lm
fact not needed. It is reported that
somo morchundlso bought for state
Institutions was removed therefrom
and Is now In tho possession of others.
An Investigation will bo mado of tho
roport that one small institution'
bought ?32,O0O worth of dry goods andv
clothing In two years.
Douglas County Tornado Bill.
Tho million 'dollar bond bill provid
ing for aid In tho restoration of Doug
1sb county's tornado-swept district
passed tho sonnto without an oppos
ing vote. This has already passed
the houso arid so goes to the gov
ornor. As ho had tho bill introduced,
thero in no question about hls signing
It. The bill provides ior nn election
to voto bonds. Tho money will be
used In restoration work, tho plan be
ing to loan it at small Interest.
Rushing the Bills. I
Undor the spur or approaching final' )
adjournment, which Is expected tc
tako placo tho latter part of this week,,
tho houso Saturday afternoon struck
a race horso gait and racod through,
nenrly a score or bills. One month,
ago It would havo taken at least
threo days to get over the samo meaa-
tires, but as always happens at tho
tall end of a legislative session the-
bills went 'through In one, two, threo
order.
Railroads Want Uniform Packages.
Uniform packing of eggs at the
point of origin is wanted by the
creameries and big commission con
cerns of Nebraska, who Tuesday
asked the railway commission for an.
order, compelling tho transportation
companies (o accept for shipment
only such uulfoini packages.
School For Deaf Gets $100,000.
On third reading tho scuato Tues-"
day passed sixteen bills Including a.
bunch of small appropriation measures,
and tho bill allowing tho Omaha,
school for the deaf $100,000 for the
erection of three new buildings at that
institution.
Legislators at Banquet Board.
Fifty or sixty members of tho two-
hotiBes of the legislature wore guests;
nt a banquet at tho Lincoln hotel'
Tuesday evening. Eight courses wero,
Darl'.lrl InAlilfllnir inlintni. n . .1 n..nT.
Chnmpagno, coffee" and smokcablcs. i
mado up tho remainder of tho feast.
Tho majority of tho membors who
havo led various fights In elthor houso-
of tho legislature wero present, ecv- '
rral state officers, a number of lobby
ists and others Interested In tho work
of tho session. Henry Richmond pre
sided as toastmaster.
Workmen's Compensation Bill.
Tho senate has put It up to tho
house to pass a workman's compen
sation bill, vory similar to the ono
rejected a month ago by tho house,
and tho house, from Indications, is go
ing to pass tho bill, amended some
what from tho way It camo from tho
seuato so as to placate tho farmers,
but essentlully tho same measure. Tho
senate amended the defeated houso
bill so as to exclude not ouly tho farm
oro and domestic servants, but raer
chants employing fewer than five per
Bons.