The Frontier
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A Non-Partisan Sample.
11 is only an issue or two since our
beloved contemporary was parading
its broad and all comprehensive politi
cal dimensions and professing great
non-partisan principles. At the same
time it brought out the name of one
of the staunchest partisans in the
county for ottice. A local paragraph
in the last issue of this late non-par
tisan champion gives a further
glimpse of the breadth of its liber
ality and sincereity of purpose. It
reads:
The editor spent a few days with
the Hole county delegation in the
legislature at Lincoln. We found
them all busy and also very much in
evidence at all times. James A.
Donohoe Is easily the big man in the
Senate and enjoys the full confidence
of all his co-workers and he takes an
active interest in all legislation com
ing before that body. In the House
we found H. R. Henry at his post of
duty, watchful and alert and here
again we found a man who held the
coniidence of all and one who is able
and conscientious in all he does.
Holt county has reasons to be proud
of Senator Donohoe and Representa
tive nenry.
Ordinary newspaper courtesy would
include also the mention of the other
member of the legislature from this
county, but the established policy of
this local fusion organ is strictly ad
hered to that the name of no republi
can will appear in its columns unless
in derision or slander. Mr. Allen,
the republican member from this
county who stands with the hopeless
minority down at Lincoln, is probably
not grief stricken that the editor of
the only democratic paper in his
county did not pay him a visit at Lin
coln and omitted his name from the
roll of honor, but the Independent’s
rank partisan conduct gives the lie to
Its professions to the contrary
It was probably a source of greal
satisfaction to George to be able to
see in Mr. Donohoe ihe “big man” in
the Senate and H R Henry the wise
one of the House, but to most every
body else it has appeared that they
amount to about as much as a tooth
pick in a tornado beside Ransom and
«Howell.
The Omaha World-Herald accuses
our own Immaculate Jim Donohoe,
who got up In the Senate and tore
great chunks out of the air In a
speech opposing “tainted money”
when it was proposed to accept of
the Carnegie funds for the state
university, of being made a tool by
the public service corporations and
brands his bill relating to municipal
franchises as an Infamous alfair pre
pared by Omaha and Lincoln corpora
tion interests.
The World Herald gives ahe date of
the meeting in Omaha, the hotel
and the number of the room in
which it was held and the names of
tha men who attended, at which the
Donohoe bill was framed up and the
campaign organized for getting it
through the legislature. This cam
paign, the World-Herald charges, the
expenditure of much money and the
employment of shrewd means to se
cure the support of the anti-corpora
tion element. The corporations pro
fessed to be against tire measure and
Donohoe as an anti-corporationist,
is accused of having been hoodwinked
into Introducing and standing sponsor
for the bill. The World-Herald re
gards the bill as placing into the
hands of a chosen few an entire mon
opoly of water, light and other muni
cipal franchises, these corporations
being thereby enabled to squeeze the
people, for any price they see iir.
Has “Jimmie” fell to the blandish
ments of the corporations? The fore
most democratic paper of the state
says he has.
The Donohoe franchise bill has
stirred up considerable of a fuss.
This paper would not impute any dis
honest motive to the O’Neill senator
for his part in the framing and pas
sage of the bill in the senate and
concede to him the right to his
opinion as to the merits of the prop
osition, but we can not approve of
any measure which places the con
trol of purely local alfairs in the
hands of a state commission. If
rightly understood the Donohoe meas
ure would take the right of grantiug
franchise entirely out of the hands !of
municipalities and place'it with the
three railway commissioners. That
is a wrong'principle. Every (town
should have the right to grant fran
chises as it saw fit and control its own
affairs.
The democratic delegation from
Holt county in the legislature may
be “easily the big men’’ of the session,
but they have failed to get a normal
school for their home town or doing
anything else to hand their names
down to history.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Lincoln, Neb. Mar. 29.—(Special
Correspondence.)—A fight on the
open floor of the House of Represen
tatives between two members of the
democratic majority of that body was
one of the exciting incidents of the
past week, even if it is one in which
the people of the state will take no
particular pride. The pugilistic con
test came off during the discussion of
the bill introduced by Taylor of Cus
ter, giving to women municipal suf
frage. Taylor had introduced the
measure and advocated it in debate
when the bill came up for considera
tion. Judge Shoemaker, a member of
the democratic delegation from Doug
las county opposed the measure, and
in his argument asserted that in the
state of Wyoming, where woman’s
suffrage had prevailed for many years,
open gambling and similar practices
had still continued. Taylor retorted
from his seat near which the Omaha
orator was delivering his address that
this ought to be satisfactory to the
Omaha member. Shoemaker replied
hotly that he was not a gambler, did
not approve of gambling, and that
Taylor’s insinuations were low down,
disrespectful, and had been continued
through the session and that the Cus
ter county member was a falsifier.
This aroused the ire of the Custer
county man to such a degree that
he stepped forward and struck
the Omaha member, who is an older
man than himself, a blow on the face
with his clenched fist. Before hos
tilities could be further continued,
nearby members and employes of the
House had rushed between the angry
men and succeeded in subduing the
impending difficulty. Al the close of
the morning session, Taylor offered
the House a serious apology for hit
loss of temper and resulting conduct.
Shoemaker also following suit with
an apology. Thus doth the demo
cratic majority legislate on the im
portant matters affecting the inter
ests of all the people of the state.
From incidents such as these and the
lack of needed legislation, curbing the
corporate interests of the state, will
the people draw their conclusion as to
the value of a democratic legislature,
when to its kindly care is given the
Important interests of all the people.
Governor Shallenberger has sent his
first veto message to a bill passed by
the present session of the legislalure.
The bill was directed to II. R. 00 by
Gates of Sarpy, the bill repealing the
law passed by the session of two years
ago, which abolished saloons in the
town of Fort Crook near the U. S.
military post of that name, and made
a “dry” town of Fort Crook for the
past two years. The Gates bill re
pealed this law and although it was
vigorously opposed by the temperance
sentiment in both Senate and House,
Mr. Gates was able to pass it through
both bodies and it went to the gover
nor for hissignature. The governor re
turned the bill with a veto message
which said in part, “The war depart
ment does not permit the sale of
liquor at any army post and congress
has forbidden it by law. To permit
its sale at the very border of a mili
tary reservation, as would occur if
this bill becomes a law, is, in my
judgement, to nullify the purpose of
the war department in isolating army
posts from the cities and making fu
tile the act of congress forbidding
the canteen.”
A distinct difference of opinion ex
ists as to the governor’s motives in
finding occosion to veto this partic
ular bill. Some see in it a leaning of
the governor towards temperance leg
islation, while other astute observers
classify it as mere politics and cite
the fact that the bill refers to one
isolated spot in Nebraska where the
general liquor interests of the state
will find no objection to a closed sea
son, and at the same time the demo
cratic politicians can point out to
the temperance element of the state
that the governor actually vetoed a
bill permitting a saloon somewhere.
Final adjournment and the elimina
tion of a mass of legislation now
pending in both houses, and which it
is impossible to reach, and yet to sift
out the party obligations and enact
them into law, are the items that
trouble the dreams of the democratic
majority in the legislature at this
time. Sifting committees have been
it work in both Senate and House for
a week, but even this makeshift'was
not sufficient to sift proposed legisla
tion close enough to make any possi
bility of a nearby final adjournment.
A committee of three was appointed
both in the House and the Senate to
reach a further agreement for the
elimination of many of the pending
bills in process of incubation. This
committee reported to the House and
Senate a scheme whereby, after
March 24th, the |Senate was to con
sider only House bills and the House
only Senate Dills, in this way reduc
ing the actual work to bills already
passed by the other house. The Sen
ate agreed to the arrangement, but
the House would have none of it,
leaving the matter hanging in the
air, and tire consideration of bills pre
sented by the sifting committee goes
merrily on. The joint committee on
final adjournment rendered a report
agreeing on March 30th as the date
of final adjournment. This was ac
ceptable to the House, but the Sen
ate has as yet refused to adopt it,
leaving even the date of final adjourn
ment as yet undecided. The anxiety
of many of the farmer members to
get home to the spring work indi
cates, however, that adjournment will
be had somewhere near the first of
April, and at farthest probably not
later than the third.
The democratic majority is having
an endless amount of trouble with its
platform pledge which promised to
the people the physical valuation of
railways of the state S. F. 133 by
Ollis of Valley was introduced in the
Senate many weeks ago and was
framed to carry out this party prom
ise. Its provisions were in the main
for the physical valuation of the
steam railways. The bill was passed
by the Senate and sent to the House,
where the radical element, who desire
great reforms to be accomplished in
a day, added to the bill the South
Omaha Stock Yards, the Stock Yards
Railway, the street car systems of the
state, and other matters, making an
enormous voL"'ae of work for the
state railway commission. With
these amendments, tne bill was re
turned to the Senate and under the
lead of Senator Ollis wtio framed the
bill, the Senate unanimously refused
to concur in the House amendments.
Conference Committees were appoint
ed both in the House and Senate to
adjust these conflicting views, and
readied a conclusion that the House
should recede from its effort to amend
the Senate bill and permit the bill to
become a law in the form in which it
was originally passed by the Senate
The difference between the Senate
and the House on this issue have as
yet failed of adjustment. The proba
bilities are that the House will ac
cept the mutilated bill rather than
lose physical valuation altogether, but
only the final action of i he House «ill
indicate the temper of those wlic
wanted a bill which would value tin
public service corporations of tin
state without exception of that sec
tion which comes next to the rail
road, the closest to the interests of
the farmers and stock raisers of the
state, viz: the Union Stock Yards and
its railroad.
The governor has signed H. R. 428,
the famous “guarantee of deposits”
banking bill, and In due time ttie bill
will become a law. As finally passed
and accepted, the bill is little more
than a miserable makeshift with
which to fulfill the promises made b)
the democrats in the last campaign
The democratic promises were to so
guarantee the deposits in bank’s that
under any and all circumstances the
depositor should have his money any
minute he asked for it. Under this
law, as enacted by a democratic legis
lature, no such a result is attained.
While weakening the entire banking
system of the state in several ways,
it does not provide for that immedi
ate payment of depositors which was
so glibly promised by democratic cam
paign orators. Some conception of
what the bill does in the way of guar
antee of deposits may be gained from
a slight review of one item. The
total deposits of the state banks of
Nebraska range around sixty-five
million dollars. To guarantee this
enormous sum, the democratic guar
antee bill proceeds to raise a fund of
a little more than half a million dol
lars at the end of the coming two
years. In other words, the guarantee
law will be in existence two years
before the fund, without any with
drawals from it, amounts to a sum in
excess of one-half million. With this
“30 cents” of a reserve fund accumu
lated in twenty-four months, the
democratic mathematicians pretend
to stand ready to pay the losses that
might occur in a total of sixty-five
million dollars, for which the guar
antee fund must stand responsible.
This might do very well in times of
continued prosperity, when no losses
occur, but in a period of business de
pression the decidedly false conclusion
of the democratic plan as provided in
this law will become sadly apparent.
The democrats themselves, many of
whom helped to enact the law, admit
privately that the law would be of
little use in a period of business
disaster, and furthermore, that it is
not by any means a fulltiilment of the
party promise made to the people,
when they were asked to elect a
democratic legislature.
Governor Shallenberger attempted
i political stroke during the past
week and broke into the legislative
limelight by sending a special mes
sage to the legislature accompanied
by a bill for a proposed law, as he has
a right onder the constitution to do.
There is a well founded belief that
in this undertaking the governor is
playing to the grandstand, as a care
ful examination of the situation at
the time the governor sent in the bill
shows that similar measures are not
only pending before both bodies, but
i hat less than an hour before the
receipt of the message and bill a very
similar and comprehensive law that
has been pending before the Senate
for weeks was passed by that body.
After the fortieth day of the session,
no member is priveleged to introduce
a new bill, that right being conferred
by the constitution upon the gover
nor alone, who sends his message and
suggests the act. This was the pro
vision under which Governor Shallen
berger acted, and the fact that similar
measures were pendidg in both houses
gives good color to the belief that the
governor’s play was made distinctly
to the galleries. This is further sup
ported by the character of the pro
posed law transmitted by the gover
nor. The title of the bill is, “For an
act regulating the issuance of stocks,
bonds and other forms of indebted
ness of common carriers and public
service corporations and providing
penalties therefor.”
Stated briefly, the bill provides ^
that any obligations issued by a com
mon carrier to run over a greater
period than twelve months may be
issued only on the order of the State
Railway commission after a thorough
knowledge of the facts. The bill pro
vides further that the obligations is
sued by common carriers for shorter
term than twelve months, must not
be refunded by an issue of bonds, ex
cept by the consent of the railway
commission. The merger of seperate
corporations is also covered and a pro
vision of the proposed act is in effect
that the merger of two corporations
must not result in a capital stock ex
ceeding the capital stock of the cor
porations so consolidated and at the
par value thereof.
Penalties of $5000 for each offense
is provided and every violation is to
be considered a distinct offense. In
case of persistent violation of the act,
each day it continues to be counted a
seperate offense. The penalty for an
officer or agent of the carrier becom
ing a party to the violation of the act
is declared a felony and subjects the
offender to imprisonment for any
period from one to ten years.
In the tiles of the House and long
awaiting passage is the bill by Stoeck
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