The Frontier
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Who's the next democrat that will
disclose “What Mullen Did to Me” V
Mr. Taft will have to get over his
habit of “catching the next train out”
after another month.
A little breeze like that last Thurs
day night and Friday will be all right
if the present brand of weather just
continues.
A local democratic contemporary
says “Senator Donohoe’s bill providing
for a non-partisan judiciary is a wise
and thoughtful measure.” Js Jim
taking a shot at his home district?
The great democratic legislature
has been in session one month and
about all they have done is to pass
the salary appropriation bill, so that
the members and their employees
could have a little spare cash.
What do the farmers who bit on
the bank guarantee bait last fall think
of the legislature rangling over the
length of bed sheets and devising
schemes to transfer the state govern
ment from the hands of the people to
democratic politicians, at a cost to
the taxpayers of *5,000 a day.
Governor Shallenberger has issued
a proclamation for the observance of
February 12, which will mark the one
hundreth anniversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln. Other govern
ors have issued similar proclama
tions and the day will be generally
observed throughout the country.
Col. Bryan has found it necessary
to abandon a proposed trip to Cuba
and CQme home to look after the Ne
braska legislature, which in the
absence of the “peerles leader”
threatens to turn down the bank
guarantee proposition, the only one
of the democratic pledges there has
been even a bluff at redeeming. Arn’t
some of the fellows who voted to
repudiate the last splendid body of
legislators and to put the bunch in we
have now getting a little ashamed of
themselves?
Peace has not yet been proclaimed
in the democratic ranks of Holt
county. In fact the breach appears to
be widening. The Democrat last
week made another assault on his
excellency the oil inspector. In a
column article Sherd Simmons, late
aspirant to the throne of deputy
warden of the penitentiary, discloses
“ What Mullen Did to Me.” Simmons
accuses Mullen of double dealing,
saying he promised to help him in his
candidacy for appointment and that
Mullen in his presence dictated a
letter to the governor to that end,
then gave him the double cross, did
not mail the letter bat went to Lin
coln and told Shallenberger not to ap
point Simmons. The democratic
aspirants in this county are getting a
touch of the Mullen methods. Perhaps
they will yet realize what the deposit
ors of the defuncted Elkhorn Valley
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When you tell your doctor about the bad
taste in your mouth, loss of appetite for
breakfast, and frequent headaches, and
when he sees your coated tongue, he will
say, “ You are bilious.” Ayer’s Pills
work well in such cases.
—Mad* by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell,
bank discovered when they undertook
to prosecute the bank wreckers.
TIIE LEGISLATURE.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 1.—(Special Cor
respondence.)—The legislature has
rounded out the month of January
and with it nearly one-third of the
time allotted by law for the entire
session and a review of the work ac
complished up to date is not such as
to inspire the people with much con
fidence that the law-making branch
of the state government, with its
overwhelming democratic majority
in control of every movement, will
enact much legislation sincerly desired
by the people and bids fair at this
time to go down into history as a dila
tory, do-nothing and extravagant ses
sion, intent primarily on the passage
of laws supposed to be of party advan
tage in political campaigns while the
real interest of the citizens of the
state are neglected and permitted to
await the convening of a new body of
law-makers two years hence.
This condition is sutliciently shown
by the fact that with one-third of the
sessslon already passed away the dem
ocratic senate has passed two bills,
one of which is to pay their own sala
ries, the other to pay incidental ex
penses; while the democratic house,
out of 233 bills introduced up to this
time has passed hut 18, two of them
the measures above referred to as
passed by the senate, the remainder
of trivial importance or distinctly of
political color designed to aid the
democratic party at election time,
such as the "Oregon plan” law for the
election of United States senators, a
device by which the followers of Mr.
Bryan hope to land him in the senate
from a republican state.
That legislation desired by the peo
ple is not pressed to passage and is
not even sent along the routine to
ward enactment with reasonable
promptnesss is shown by conditions
existing in the railroads committee of
the house, of which Mr. Henry of Holt
is chairman. This committee has in
its hands a mass of proposed legisla
tion regulating various phases of the
rail-transportation business in the in
terest of the people. A number of
these bills have been in the hands of
the committee since the iirst week of
the session and while the committee
meets twice each week and holds long
sessions, little or nothing comes back
to the house to be passed upon and
enacted. The one bill reported back
from this committee was the bill by
Evans of Hamilton compelling rail
roads to weigh grain when loaded, is
sue a receipt and account for loss and
shrinkage in transit. This bill cover
ing a vital point in a great grain-ship
ping state like Nebraska, on Iirst con
sideration by the committee actually
slated for “indefinite postponement”
and was only saved from that fate by
the strenuous work of its framer and
when finally sent to the house from
the committee was reported “without
recommendation.” Other important
measures are resting quietly in the
tiles of the committee without report
and the question may be fairly asked
whether the democratic majority will
find it possible to “bother” the rail
roads this session with much if any
legislation calculated to conserve the
interests of the people.
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Even should fair and equitable leg
islation regulating corporations pass
in the house such measures will have
a rocky road to travel in the senate
toward enactment into law. At the
head of the democratic majority in
the senate and up to this time under
his control and sway, stands Senator
Frank T. Ransom of Omaha, the well
known corporation attorney, astute
lawyer and politician and experienced
legislator. If any measure objection
able to or repressive of the Icorporate
interests of the state passes the sen
ate without mutilation of its vital
intent and effectiveness, the public
may be congratulated in witnessing a
result now totally unexpected by the
closest students of the legislative
game.
Among the phases of legislation
“for the exclusive benefit of the demo
cratic party” and its political leaders
may be mentioned the proposed law
to select U. S. senators by the “Ore
gon plan” which passed the house dur
ing the week. The bill is so worded
that unless a republican candidate for
the legislature is willing to take a
long chance on casting Ms vote for a
democrat for senator his name may
appear on the primary election Iballot
followed by the words, “will not
promise to vote for people’s choice for
United States senator,” an unfair
designation for a candidate willing to
abide by the choice of the people com
posing his own party and representing
the political principles in which he
believes. But this is “democratic
politics” of which a large grist is to
be unloaded on the people by the pres
ent legislature.
Some more “politics” may be ob
served in the effort, of Ransom to leg
islate out of office the comptroller of
Omaha who happens to be a republi
can. Senator Howell’s effort to repeal
the “Sackett” law passed at the last
session which gives the governor the
authority to remove from office any
officer who does not do his duty, the
attack on the salary of the
clerk of the supreme court,
who is a republican, and the
proposed law to take the publication
of amendments from republican news
papers. No thought of legislating for
the people enters into any of these
democratic proposals and while the
statd waits for progressive legislation
to supplement the good work of the
last session under republican control
the democratic leaders play politics
to retain control of public offices and
cherish a hope that the people will
not distinguish their schemes from
the real article of sound and progress
ive legislation.
Half a hundred new bills offered in
the senate and close on to a full hun
dred in the house is the history of the
past week in that branch of the law
makers’ activity. The proposed new
laws touch upon a wide range of sub
jects [as did those of the preceding
weeKS and if there are many issues in
the daily lives and experience of Ne
braskans which are not represented
in some form in the proposed measures
it would be most interesting to know
what the item may be as they seem to
touch on everything. The affairs of
cities and towns, road and school dis
tricts, drainage, secret societies, tax
ation, pure food, constitutional
amendments, public officers, pensions
for police and firemen in large cities,
pure paints and oils and a hundred]
other subjects are covered by the pro
posed legislation of one or the other
house. One of the most striking pro
posals of the week is the bill offered
by Fuller of Seward, Senate File 183,
which prohibits almost every public
officer in the state from appointing to
office his family relatives “within the
third degree of consanguinity,” which
would put a line over beyond second
cousins, grandparents, granduncles
and aunts. The penalty for violation
is a line and removal from the office
held. If this bill becomes a law the
“relatives” will have to find some
other employment and the office
holder cannot hearafter appoint his
family to the “good things” that have
fallen in his way by reason of his
election. The law is very broad and
would cut out a “school teacher”
where a relative was a member of the
district board. _
So many changes are proposed in
the road laws, the school laws, and
the revenue laws that unless the leg
islation works along those lines with
great care there will result a jumble
which will make a frightful tangle.
One of the new ideas in the house this
week is to require a beer delivery
wagon to have a license similar to a
saloon though the price named is not
so high A number of farm experi
ment stations are asked for and the
House seems in a mood to distribute
these desirable institutions through
out the state, two bills one for west
ern and one for northwestern Ne
braska, eacli carrying $15,000 were
recommended for passage during the
week. Many bills carrying heavy ap
propriations are before the house and
should a good part of them pass this
will not be known as an "economical”
session. The general appropriation
bills for the maintenance of the state
government are not even prepared as
yet.
The “faithful” democrats desire to
hear Mr. Ilryan speak and a resolution
passed in both senate and house dur
ing the week asking the peerless
leader to favor a joint session of the
legislature with an address. The
committee has placed the date on
February 17 as that is the first date
Mr. Bryan will again be In Lincoln,
he having recently left on a lecturing
tour. He will no doubt accept the
date set and a crowded house is
anticipated. The speaking will be in
the hall of the House of Representa
tives. _
Many amendments to the game laws
of the state have been offered at this
session though none have passed
either house. During the week the
senate bill by King .of ;rolk was dis
cussed in the senate and finally rec
ommended for passage after many
amendmedts. The provision pro
hibiting shooting from blinds in the
riverbeds which referred more par
ticularly to conditions along the
Platte river,was stricken from the bill
as was the section prohibiting the use
of waders. There was quite a little
opposition from the “city hunters” to
the bill in its original form and the
objections developed in the amend
ments offered._
One of the strenuous debates of the
week in the senate was that on
Senator King’s bill limiting the hours
for the sale of liquor under any license
issued in this state to the time from
7 a. m. to 7 p. m. The tight on the
bill was led by Ransom of Omaha
backed up by the other Douglas
county senators and others. They
succeeded in killing the bill by order
ing its indefinite postponement by a
vote of 10 to 21. This is not consid
ered a test vote on other phases of
temperance legislation to come before
the senate as several senators who
voted against the bill have other
ideas of handling the liquor traffic.
The work of the legislature so far
lias been slow and is of a preliminary
and routine character to a great de
gree, each house so far as it has pro
ceeded having considered only its own
bills except the two appropriation
bills passed for salaries and expenses.
The real test of the character of legis
lation to be had from this session will
begin to show in the near future
when each house has before it the
measures originating in the other
and passed by the other body. Such
bills require only the approval of the
governor to make the laws and when
that stage of the journey is reached
as it will be soon the evidence will
be at hand as to what may be ex
pected from this session. The politi
cal bias and intentions of the major
ity are already displayed and the
test of the business intentions need
not be long awaited.
One of the real days of the week
was last Friday when Ollis of Valley
and Howell of Douglas had a lively
debate over the pay of employes in
which the Omaha senator got much
the worst of the debate.
It was a “family quarrel,” both of
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
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PUBLIC SALE
[Wednesday, Feb.
BEGINNING AT 10 O’CLOCK A. M.
Free Lunch at Noon S
On acbove da^te I will sell a.t my place 2 miles west and Em
5 miles south of O’Neill the following property: i||
46-Head «f Cattle-46 1
15 two-year-old heifers, 13 milch cows, 8 three-year-old heifers, 7 Tl
7 yearling steers, 2 two-year-old steers, 1 White Face bull. U'
Head of H< >rses f
/ sorrel horse, weight 1300, age 5; 1 bay horse, weight 1300, age 4; 11
/ black mare, weight 1200, age 4; 1 roan mare, weight 1000, age 4;
1 bay mare, weight 950, age 3; 1 bay mare, weight 800, age 2: 1 11
black mare, weight 900, age 2: 1 span drivers, weight 1600, ages 5 |J
and 6: 1 span gray horses, weight 2800, ages 10 and 12. f|
MACHINERY-—/ corn planter, 1 seeder, 1 disc, 1 gang plow, 1 m
walking plow, 3 riding cultivators, 1 hay stacker nearly new, 3 six- m
foot McCormick mowers, 2 twelve-foot hay rakes, 2 hay sweeps, 1 m
Lightning hay press, 2 wide tire and 1 narrow tire wagon, 1 top bug• ffi
gy, 1 spring wagon, 3 hay beds, 1 man's saddle, 1 side saddle, 3 sets §1
double work harness, 1 set double driving harness, 1 single driving [g
harness, 1 corn shelter nearly new, 1 U. S. cream separator. U
Household furniture, Majestic range, soft coal heater, 2 bedroom gf
suites, 2 bedsteads, 1 Netzow organ as good as new, etc., etc. If
TERMS—Sums of $10 and under cash. Twelve month’s time at 10 per cent on sums exceeding H
$10, bankable notes. flf
I MRS. DELLA SHAW, Owner. 1 1
^ J. A. COWPERTHWAITE, Auct. ED F. GALLAGHER, Clerk F W*