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o THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Feb. 18, 1807 1 ! 4 AT win STATE HOUSE TTfcat Our Lawmakers Have Doing the Fast Week. Been la the Howe VPedii6d;r. Gavlord and Jenkins protested against the statements in the World Herald exposition editorial, saying that tney were misrepresenting tneir constii- . uents. . Wooster introduced a resolution for a committee to investigate the alleged sals of liauors in tbe basement of the caDitol. which passed unanimously. A report of the conference committee on H. it. 5, the bill for a recanvass of the vote on the judicial amendment, was adopted by a vote of oil to za. i In the Senate-Wednesday. The report of tho conference committee on 11. H. 5 was agreea to. Joint resolution No. 13, memoralizing 5 congress to pass the joint resolution for a woman suffrage amendment, was , passed. In the Honite Tharadar. The chair, in pursuance to Wooster's resolution of yesterday afternoon for a committee to investigate the report that liquor is being sold in the basement of tbe state capitol, appointed as such committee Messrs. Wooster, Wright and Alderman. A memorial was read from a joint ses siou of the South Dakota legislature embodying a jolntresolution asking con gress to include in the twelfth census a statement of the amount of real estate, stocks, bonds, machinery, etc., in tb United States owned by aliens. Wooster presented a memorial signed by some twenty people asking that the sale or killing of prairie chickens, quail and grouse be prohibited for two years, and such killing is against tbe interests of the rural or laboring clashes and fa vorable to the interests of the "gentle men of leisure or sporting men." Committees submitted favorable re ports on the following bills: II. ii. 42, to enable irrigation districts to discontinue organization. H. R. 95, regulating fees of county surveyors. H. R. 73, regulating the creation J of irrigation districts and the levying of assessments therein. II. It. 281, for relief of Manington Oar ton refunding money paid on illegal ap praisements of school land. tl. U. o& to compel railway compan ies to furnish free transportation to parties accompanying shipments of live stock. - A substitute for H. It. 27, to prevent killing of deer, antelope, prairie chicken, gronse, quail, plover, snipe or curlew, for a term of four years, H, R. 143, requiring the letting of con tracts for state printing in a series of separate lots instead of in a lump. II. R. 241, to amend the law defining a legal newspaper by removing tbe res trictiens against new papers in tbe pub- lication of legal notices. Aa El. R. 130 was a duplicate of 24l,it was reported back for indefinite post ponement. Under third reading of bill the follow ing were passed: H. R. 109, by Rouse, to reimburse one county for expense incurred for care of au insane person whose legal residence is in another county. There were 88 affirmative votes aud none against. The bill provides tbat tbe county caring for tbe person shall be paid by the county cf his residence, and where such person is an inmate 01 a state institution or a non-resident, the state shall settle the bill. 11. R. 140, by Rich, to provide for adoption of minor children, was passed bv a vote of 83 to 0. This bill passed with an emergency clause. H. R. 23, amending the law authoriz ing the issue of negotiable warehouse receipts by parties having meats, spirits, grain, flax seed or linseed oil in store, so us to include chicory root and manufac tured chicory, and prescribing punish , ment for the issue of fraudulent or fic titious receipts. The bill passed by a vote of 79 toO. Wooster of Merrick submitted a peti tion of nearly 100 of his constituents asking him to" vote against an exposi tion appropriation, among them being two of the men quoted by the World Herald as favoring a large appropria '. tion. ' : i' , Sheldon submitted a resolution exactly similar to that introduced in the senate favoring the establishment of a college or university in Lincoln for' instruction of youth in the principles of bimetallism. On committee report, II. R. 115, for commissioning Doane college cadets, and H. R. 238, limiting the compensa tion of clerks of the district court, were recommended to be placed on the general file. - -; ' In committee of the whole H. R. 96, : authorizing assessment companies to insure against sickness, was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 39 to 35. H. R. 131, making hog stealing a fel - ony, met with a similar fate by a vote of 58 to 23. H. R. 72, for an appropriatiqn of $1, 392 to reimburse Burt county for costs of the prosecution of the persons ac cused of tbe murder of Robert Phillips, was reported back for passage. H. R. 211, authorizing boards of su pervisors to establish poor houses, was reported for passage. H. R. 221, to require teaching of vocal music in public schools, was also recom mended to pass. . H, R, 235, Speaker Gaffln s bill to pre vent football playing, consumed two hours of the afternoon session. As soon as it came up Jenkins moved to amend by including base ball. He thought the casualties from base ball were about as numerous as those from foot ball. Clark of Lancaster moved to amend by including also swimming and skating and illustrated by incidents the dangers attending these pastimes. Speaker Gaffln declared that these amendments were designed to ridicule the measure. He believed football as deluding-and demoralizing as prizefight, iig, and it it is not prohibited those who refuse to prohibit it, should repeal the w against prizefighting. He had ird co ac hers directing xneir men to fcaock out" tbeir opponents, or to put eir elbows through them.making slug re out of the players. Reliable sta tin show that from 25.to 45 per cent . football players are tbe recipients of criae. The public does not know about tbe injuries received by players which seriously impair their health in after life. He claimed tbat tbe opposition to tbe bill came from the young men of tbe uni versities and from sporting men. Wimberley declared the game the most repulsive be ever saw, but he thought it would be better to correct abuses then to stop the game. He moved to indefinite ly postpone it. Horner declared it the most hideous game he knew anything about, aud that it is not necessary in securing an educa tion. Jenkins, spoke in defense of the game, The drones of tbe university are not found in tbe team. There is an element of patriotism that prompts us to allow youth to develop itself physically, but Gaffln said be could. see no patriotism in a prize tight. Roberts of Douglas spoke against the bill. Roddy thought it should be modi fied. Young of Cass spoke in its behalf, Pollard of Cass, a university graduate, denied the assertion that the brightest boys in the university belong to the footbal team. A defect in tbe bill, how ever, prevented childrent from playing with a football. Demar of Saunders and Roddy of Otoe spoke against the bill, while Bower, Fouke, Gaylord and Eastman favored it, and Speaker Gaffln closed the debate. He evidently leveled his remarks at Clark of Lancaster when he declared that a man makes a fool of himself when he ridicules such a measure. At tbe close of the debate the bill was, on motion of Pollard, recommitted. Tbe bill provides as follows: Sec-1. That if any person shall acta ally ensraire as principal in any game of football within the state of Nebraska every such person so offending shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than $20, nor more than SIOU and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than three months, and pay the costs of prosecu tion, one-half of said fine to go to tbe informer. Sec. 2. If any person shall be con cerned in or attend any such game of football as described in section 1 of this act as backer, umpire, assistant, report er or looker on every such person so offending shall, on 'conviction,, be fined iu any sum not less than $5 nor more than $25 and pay costs of prosecution, one-half of said fine to go to the in former. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that if at any time the sheriff of any county, con stable, marshal or any police officer of any city or incorporated village shall have reason to believe that any person in his bailiwick is about to engage as principal in any game of football as de scribed in section 1 of this act or is in preparation or training to engage as principal in any such football game, he shall forthwith arrest and conduct him before any judge of the district court or before any county judge, magistrate or justice of the peace in his county and upon tbe proper affidavits prosecute the complaint and thereupon the judge or magistrate shall inquire into the truth of the charge and if he shall find it true be shall require tbe accused to enter into a recognizance with suffi cient sureties, residents of the state, to be approved by such judge or magistrate in a sum not less than $100 nor more than f 500, conditioned that the accused will not engage in any game of football within the period of one year from and after the date of such arrest, and in de fault of such recognizance such judge, justice or mayor shall commit the party accused to the jail of the county, there to remain until he give recognizance with sureties. t - Provided, that if after the expiration of one month the person bo confined is unable to enter into such recognizance the county judge of such county may discharge such person on his own recog nizance in the same amount and with the same conditions on proof satisfactory to such judge by the affidavit of the ac cused and other evidence that tbe person so confined will not' engage or be con cerned in any such game within the time limited in said recognizance. In the Senate Thursday. Committees reported favorably upon the following bills: S. F. 145, to require railroads to keep rights of way clear of weeds. H. R. 3, repealing the sugar bounty law; H. R. 31, regulating organ ization of mutual plate glass insurance companies; 8. F. 214, regulating duties of commission merchants;.S. F. 40, pro viding for organization of mutual hail insurance companies; S. F. 78, allowing pupils living at a distance from school houses certain privileges. Action on s. . 66. the stocK yards bill, was deferred until this afternoon to allow submission of a minority and ma jority report. ; - The committee on printing was author ized to have 5,000 copies of the govern or's message printed. Murphy introduced a resolution recit- ing that the national government has appropriated $200,000 for the trans- Mississippi exposition, that sister states have made preliminary appropriations aud are ready to join in this demon stration of western resources and west ern energy, that the proposed exposi tion is a laudable undertaking which is approved by all progressive people without regard to political ambition or party creed; that at a banquet given in Omaha to the state officers the latter openly pledged prompt action and a liberal appropriation by the fusion ma jority in the legislature; that the gov ernor in a public interview through the Associated press gave the assurance that the political party now in control in Nebraska was not a party of retro gression and repudiation, but of pro gress and public spirit; that Senator Allen in his December speech declared that the fusion party will demonstrate that it is not a party of anti-progress, but representing great public spirit and enterprise; that the exposition would be of incalculable value to the state; that the assurances of the governor, Senator Allen and their political associates have ailed to materialize; that the bill has been bandied from one house caucus to another aud other legislatures are seri ously doubting that Nebraska will make any appropriation; that fur ther delay means defeat of the exposi tion, is disappoipting to tbe national government, humiliating to Nebraskans and disastrous in its effect upon the ac tion of other states; that therefore it is resolved to be the sense of tbe senate tbat the bill should be taken up and con sidered at once in the house in commit tee of the whole and disposed of prompt ly in the broad-minded, business-like and public-spirited manner which tbe public expects of its representatives. The resolution went over under the rule. The following concurrent resolution was introduced by Grothan: "Whereas, It is a deplorable fact that many of tbe leading universities of this couutry are dominated by influences that are detrimental to the best inter ests of the great common people, we hereby proclaim our conviction tbat the time has come for tbe establishment of a great school that shall truly represent tbe commonalty of this nation. "Whereas, It is a well known fact that tbe trusts and monolistic influences of this republic are dictating the social and economic utterances of nearly every prominent school of tbe Tand, nearly every teacher of political economy and sociology is the tool of unholy corporate interests, nearly every college library bears the impress of partisanship and nearly every college periodical is,, sub jected to plutocratic censorship. "Whereas, The time for the establish ment of a university in which it will not be a crime to speak out in the interests of a common people is at hand, and tbe young men and women of this country should be brought face to face with the social problems that make for their future weal or woe, and not be compelled to look at all these moment ous questions from tbe view point of cor pc-rate greed Whereas, The time has come when the philanthropists and tbe leaders of the reform movement of this country should give tbeir attention to the great benefits realized by the establishment of a university unshackled by selfish inter ests, therefore be it "Resolved, By tbe house of representa tives, tbe senate concurring, tbat it is the sense of this legislature that there should be establised such a university at the seat of govern ment of this great commonwealth that has furnished the most magnificent leader of financial thoughts of modern times the great teacher of bimetallism, who hails from the city famous as the namesake of the immortal Lincoln; and that we further believe it to be the du'.y of all good citizens of this state to encourage the establishment of such an institution of learning, where the principles'of bimetal lism are taught to the children and youth of the plain people." is. a. denning a legal newspaper and removing the restrictions placed by the present law upon newly established papers, was passed by a vote of 22 to 9. b. r . 11, requiring county attorneys to give counsel to county commission ers without fee, was also passed and the senate took a recess until 2 p. m. The stock yards bill was reported bv the committee on agriculture with a ma jority report signed by Miller, Osborne, Kitcnie ana rieapy, ana a minority re port by Johnson, Feltz and Farrell. The majority report makes a material reduc tion in the stock yards charges for weighing and yarding, and the limit of 50 cents a bushel is put on corn and 50 cents a hundred above market price on hay. , In the Senate Friday. Senators Murphy and Ransom en gaged in a somewat heated debate this morning. It arose over a recommenda tion to indefinitely postpone S. F. 30, a valued policy law made applicable to personal property, as well as real prop" erty, as at present. Senator Murphy moved to place it on tbe general tile, and supported bis mo tion with an argument wherein he point ed out that the people were entitled to relief in this matter, and the insurance trust was the most gigantic trust in Nebraska. Ransom replied with some feeling. He wanted to know why Mr. Murphy as county attorney and a republican attor ney general bad not brought an action to break up this trust. This bill was a scheme to so amend the valued policy law as to make it unpopular and thus finally secure the repeal of the valued policy law, or its defeat in the supreme court.' .' . Feltz wanted the senate to under stand that the bill had been carefully considered by the committee. Murphy replied with some feeling. He declared the gentlemen who were oppos' tug this bill had disclosed a peculiar knowledge of the insurance trust. That he, as county attorney, had broken up the insurance trust in Gage county, and secured insurance at lower rates, and he intimated rather broadly that Ransom was actfng in the capacity of counsel for the corporations. He directed attention to the declaration in the republican platform iu favor of the valued policy law, and maintained that he was friend of that measure and would be found fighting for it from start to fin ish. Ransom warmed up considerably when he replied, and he directed his re marks to Murphy, referriug to him bluntly as "you" and pointing all kinds of fingers at him. He protested that he had voted with a party last fall that bad voted for the interests of this state and against the interests of the corpora tions, while "you voted with a party that voted against the interests of the state aud along with , the corporations. Ransom said the trusts had done all they could in Douglas county to defeat him, aud he did not intend that Murphy should by implication charge that he was working in the interests of a trust He referred sarcastically to Murphy's assertion that the latter had dissolved the insurance trust in Gage county, and said that if, in his individual capacity and unaided, he could break up a trust, "in the name of God what could he not do in that line with the machinery of the law behind him?" Senntor Caldwell declared that the re publican party had declared in favor of the valued policy law, aud the one pledge he had made his constituents was that he would sustain it. He touched up Ransom a little by declaring that the trouble with the republican party was that it had had a lot of barnacles cling ing to it, but now that they had been shaken off, the party will redeem itself grandly. At the close of the debate Murphy's motion to put the bill on general file was defeated, being supported only by Cona way, Haller, Heapy, Miller and Murphy, and the measure was indefinitely post poned. The committee on privileges and elec tions submitted a report on the Doug las county contest. It was against Con testant Jeffcoat and favored retaining Con testee Evans in his seat. , After some discussion a motion to defer action on the report until next Fri day was agreed to by a vote of 17 to 7. The following bills were reported back favorably: S. F. 61, providing for the government of the industrial borne; 73, to prevent members of a saloon license board from soliciting or receiving favors from an applicant for liquor license; 111, to repeal sectious4 and 10, of chapter 28: 85, to more severely punish public obscenity and isdent exposure; 226, to protect grazing lands from stock of non residents; 142, to repeal eight sections of the law regulating marks and brands of live stock; 72, to fix commissions for selling live stock; 175, fixing boundaries of lands; 99, to commission Doane col lege cadets. Mutz called up his resolution directing the state auditor to ascertain and re port tbe amount of unpaid wild animal bounty claims, and it was agreed to. Mutz also introduced a resolution directing the auditor to furnish a state ment of all prisoners sent to the peniten tiary during 1895 and 1896, all fees paid sheriffs and assistants, to whom paid and all expenses of the state for caring for and bringing prisoners to the penitentiary. The resolution was agreed to, and after twenty minutes spent in an effort to adjourn until Tuesday a recess was taken until 2 p. in. , After the noon recess yesterday the senate took up and passed S. F, 194, Beat's bill for the creation of new coun ties by consolidation of counties now existing. S. F. 173, Johnson's bill levying a tax of one-half of 1 per cent on state bank deposits to create a fund for security of depositors, which has excited more dis cussion than any other bill that has claimed the attention of the sena tors, was passed by a vote of 17 .to 12. Howea 01 Douglas witnarew his opposi tion to the bill, but before doing so made a statement in which he said that friends of the measure had feared that if it were recommitted for amendment the bill might be killed, but they had pledged themselves to see it amended in the house so as to permit of national banks receiving deposits of public funds. How ell stated that be made this public state ment in advance so that friends of the bill will be on record in regard to the amendment he desires made in the house. This amendment provides that from such banks as shall have comolied with the provisions of the act, no other security for the return of public funds shall be required and that such national banks as in addition to the bonds now required, shall deposit as se curity with the state treasurer govern ment binds or state, county, city, township or school district warrants or bonds of this state for the full amount of the moneys to be deposited in such bank, and upon the certificate of the state treasurer of the receipt of such deposit running to the officer or manager of such bank, then it shall be lawful for the officer or officers having tne custody ot public money to deposit such money in such national bank, not exceeding in amount the value of the security for such deposits, and in case of tbe failure of any of the national banks of the state having on deposit such public money, it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to collect the money on securities so deposited with him, or sell such securities and pay the proceeds to such officer or officers, or such part thereof as may be necessary to make good the losses that the might otherwise have sustained. On the call of the roll those voting aye were Heal, tanadoy, Dearing, Farrell. Feltz, Grothan, Heapy, Howell, John son, Lee, ftlurny, Mutz, Osborne, Ran som, Sykes and Watson 17. rnose voting against tne bill were Caldwell, Conaway, Dundas, Evans, fritz, Haller, Miller, Murphy, Kitchie. Steele, i albot and weller 12. Absent and not voting: Gondrine. Graham, McGann and Spencer. Senator Murphy's resolution callme for immediate action on the exposition bill was called us. As introduced this resolution was as follows: "Whereas, The national government at Washington has shown its apprecia tion of the trans-Mississippi region and its confidence in the business integrity and public spirit of Nebraska by appro priating $aou,uou to the trans-Missis-sippi exposition, and "Whereas, Many of our sister sta-tes have already made preliminary appro priations with the assurance of large appropriations later, and "Whereas, A number of other states are ready to join Nebraska in this great demonstration of western resources and western energy, and ' "Whereas, The proposed trans-Mississippi exposition is an undertaking laud able and worthy, and is earnestly de sired by all progressive people of this state, regardless of political ambition or party creed; and "Whereas, At a banquet given by the people of Omaha to the governor of this state and other newly elected state of ficials recently, they did openly promise and pledge prompt action and a liberal appropriation by the fusion majority in control of this legislature; and, "Whereas, The governor of this state, in a public interview sent through the Associated press, gave to the country at large the assurance that the political party now in control of this state, was not a party of retrogression and repudi ation, but a party of progress and pub lic spirit; and, "Whereas, Hon. W. V. Allen, the lead er of the fusion party of this state, in the United States senate, in a public speech in the senate on December 14, 1896, declared that the fusion party in Nebraska would demonstrate that it was not a party of anti-progress, but a party representing great public spirit and enterprise; and "Whereas, We believe that the trans Mississippi exposition, to be held in our proud metropolis, the great central gate way to the west, where the world can behold all the products, industries and civilization of the states west of the Mississippi river, would be of great value, not only to the trans-Mississippi states in general, but would be of incal culable value to the great state of Ne braska in particular; and. Whereas, These assurances of the governor, the senior United States sen ator of this state and their political associates have failed to materialize up to this time; and. - Whereas, Instead of acting promptly in a Dusiness-iiKe manner, ana passing the appropriation bill now before tbe legislature within the first two weeks of this session, the whole matter has been bandied from one house caucus to an other, and thereby held in abeyance, and other states whose legislatures are now in session and will soon adjourn are seri ously doubting whether Nebraska in tends to make any 'appropriation for said exposition, and "Whereas, we. believe turtner aeiay menus defeat to the success of said expo sition, is disappointing to the national government, humiliating to the people of Nebraska generally, and disastrous in the extreme in its effect upon tbe action of our sister states: therefore, be it "Resolved, As tbe sense of this body, tbat house roll No. 93, which is the ex position bill, should be taken up and considered at once in tbe bouse by the committee of the whole end disposed of promptly in that broad-minded, business-like and public-spirited manner which the public, both in and out of the state, have a right to expect of this leg islature.'' Murphy spoke at length upon tbe res olution, urging tbat other states are awaiting the action of the Nebraska leg islature, and that legislative action in other states will depend largely on the course of the legislature here at home. At the close of his remarks the lieu tenant governor called him forward and was for some time engaged in conversa tion with him, and when Beat objected to the resolution because it embodied an unwarranted criticism of the house, the lieutenant governor announced . that Murphy proposed to eliminate the parts referriug to the action of the house. This announcement was not satisfac tory to Beal, who - moved that it be re ferred to the committee on labor. Ransom, chairman of that committee, sain me resolution came as a inenaiy act toward the exposition and he was satisfied with it in its original form. lalbot protested against leferring it to a committee to have it sent back as a partisan measure. He thought the sen ate bad the right to criticise the action of the house, any person or any body of people on earth, the governor or any Drancn ot tne government. uunuas intimated that Talbot was taking "arnica." and Talbot replied that plain truths and facts are some times worse than "arnica." Ileal asked if the speaker ' thought i proper tor a senate to criticise the supreme court, to which Talbot respond ed, ies. Is that more 'arnica' for you." A motion by Graham to table the res olution was defeatad by 17 to 11 and the bill was referred to the committee on labor. i The senate adjourned until 2 Monday. FACTS WITH POINTS. in Everyone of These Statements Absolutely True. Mr. A. W. Sharper, 61, Prospect St. Indianapolis, Ind., says: "Gratitude prompts me to write that Stuart's Dys pepsia 1 ablets completely ured me of Nervous Dyspepsia from which I had suffered for the last four years. I had tried many remedies without results, but am now cured and have gained in flesh sleep well and have none but words of praise for Stuart's Tablets," Mrs. Sarah A. Skeels, LynnviUe, Iowa It has been six months since I took Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets and am fully cured. Have not had a particle of dis tress or difficulty since. This is in the face of the fact that I had suffered from stomach trouble for twenty-five years and was pronounced incurable bv the aoctors. James Newmestes, Eau Claire, Wiscon sin, says: "Iwo 50 cent packages of Btuart s JUjspepsia Tablets did me more good than any remedy I had ever used before. They hit the spot with me and I once-more have an appetite and can eat what I please without fear of distress and bloating afterward." . Dr. Harlandson relates the case of Miss Helen Shoels of Nashville, who was cured of dypspepsia and gained 18 pounds in weight after suffering from stomach trouble for eight years. The doctor uses them in all stomach troubles because they are not a secret pateut medicine, out contain pure pepsin Diastase, fruit acids, and valuable di gestive principles needed by every weak stomach add a whole box would not hurt a child, being absolutely harmless All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia 1 ablets at ou cents per package. Send to Stuart Co., .Marshall, Mich., lor little boofc on symptoms and treat ment of stomach troubles. CHARITY WORKERS CONFER. Annual Conference Held in University Chapel Yesterday. The Nebraska state conference of char ities at its annual meeting in this city yesterday elected the following perma nent officers for 1897: President, Gov ernor b. A. Uolcomb; vice president. Professor J. A. Gillespie; secretary, A W. Clark; treasurer J. P. Hebard; en rolling secretary, Burwell Spurlock. rhe executive committee consists of tbe president, secretary, treasurer and in addition, Chancellor MacLean and Mrs. T. H. Leavitt of this city. Yesterday afternoon the members lis tened to an excellent program along the lines of charity work. Among' the per sons taking part were Mrs. F. M. Will iams, superintendent of the home for the friendless, Rev. A. W. Clark of Om, aha, Rev. Luther P. Ludden, Miss Mary Fairbrother of Omaha, Mrs. S. A. Latta of the woman's associated charities of Nebraska, Burwell Spurlock, superin tendent of the mother's jewels home. and Colonel Alexander Hogeland. It is the purpose of the promoters of. the con- ierence to maKe tne organizatiou a per manent one. f oiitics will be eschewed and the entire object of the work will be to promote and assist charity orga gizations and work in Nebraska. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all Its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. ; Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood aad mucuous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda tion of the disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up theeon stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith incite curative powers, that- they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case tbat it fails to cure. Send for list of Tes timonials. , , Address, F. J. Cheney, & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. Dr. Clyde Davis, dentist, Richards Blk. Ripans Tabulee cure biliousness. JUNKETING EXPEDITIOUS Mr. Hart of St. Paul Thinks Legis lative Investigating Com mittees a Farce. The state conference of charities con cluded tbeir work Thursday by listening to an address by H. If. Hart of St. Paul, Minn., general secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. The members' desks i n representative hall were well filled when Governor Hol comb rose to introduce the speaker. In a few preliminary remarks the governor said he was pleased to see such an active interest taken in the subject of organ ized charity and believed much good would result therefrom. In beginning his remarks Mr. Hart said Nebraska should be proud of tbe record she had made as a new state. Ne braska has only one-balf as many crim inals in proportion as does the United States. In tha matter of insane, the ttn hn leas in proportion to it pop ulation than other states. Mr. Hart believed that it should be a matter of very much consideration where state institutions are located. Towns should not be asked to give donations to secure the location of any of the state buildings, and they should not be con sidered in the light of objects to be knocked off to the highest bidder. When a city makes a donation of ten or twen ty thousand dollars to secure an insti tution it forever afterwards considers itself to have a lease on its management and location. Careful attention should be paid to the erection of state buildings so that they may be fully adequate to the needs of a growing state. The in stitutions of Nebraska have a national reputation. When people speak of Ne braska's institutions, two speak of the deaf institute, where the rest are men tioned but once. It has a national repu tation for efficacy. This cannot be main tained if salaries are reduced. Iu Ohio during the past fifteen years they have driven out by a pernicious system of partisanship men whom it cost the state thousands of dollars to educate. Ne braska must pay dearly foi; the educa tion of the managers of the state insti tutions. The speaker said he had been for fourteen years an officer of the state of Minnesota and knew that it took three years for him to really be able to properly serve the state's interests. He contended tbat partisan politics should not enter into the management of state institutions. During the furteen years of his official life in Minnesota he has never worked for a candidate nor paid a political as sessment.In this state the board of pub lic lands and buildings is composed of state officers. This should not be. Their time cannot and should not be iriven for this purpose. About all the supervision they can give the institutions is to audit tbeaceounts. The committees appointed by the legislature to inspect state insti tutions are generally junketing expedi tions, furnishing the members an onnor. tunity to give "their wives and children and wife's relations a trip at state ex pense. ihey arrive when evervthi pared for their cominir. eat a snleiiflifl dinner, look at the scenery and leave in the evening having enjoyed a picnic, but knowing no more about the real affairs of the institution than they did before they came. Sometimes the chairman of one of these committees takes a trip on Saturday night, and unexpectedly drops in upon the superintendent. He then finds , the true condition of affairs. He goes into the kitchen and sees if the food He looks into the swill barrel! fl.nri nan tell at a glance if any extravagance is going on. He probes into one corner and into another and then he has some what of an intelligent idea of what is going on. , All of this work of inspecting these in stitutions should be placed in the hands of a board of charities aud corrections, as is now tbe case in twelve states. Keep this board out of politics and let them inspect thes9 institutions as to the real facts of the management. auci, mem wm ue iess iraua and mis management. Mr. Hart was aware of the conatiH,- tional difficulty in - Nebraska as to the appointment or election of new boards or officers, but believed the rfiffinni could be overcome by having a state charities aid association organized and given power by the legislature to nisnect all state institutions and reoort. to ' thrf governor their findings as to the needs and deficiencies of them. At the conclusion of the adrlroao a vote of thanks was unanimnnaiir 'at tended to Mr. Hart for his able effort and for the sacrifice of time and money he had made to be present. 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