Twenty-Four Bills
Tossed Into House
Hopper First Day
Several Important Problems
Get Early Launching as
Real Work of Ses
sion Opens.
Lincoln, Jan. 8.—(Special.)—Twenty
four MU*, tossed in the lower house
hopper today, embodied some of the
most Important legislative problems
to be considered this year. The Oster
man income tax bill, outlined In The
Bee Friday, was one of the first bills
introduced, and the Gilmore rural
credits bill also found a place In the
hopper.
I. W. Jacoby, Havelock labor leader.
Introduced a rival rural credlta bill.
Other Jacoby bills follow:
Limiting Interest rates on public
bonds to 4 11 per cent and appropri
ating all excess Interest as a license
ux to state.
Provides for Reran.
Constitutional amendment providing
iecall of public officers.
Levying excess profit tax of 10 to
80 per cent on all corporations whose
capital employed In Nebraska exceeds
*25,000 and whose net earnings ex
exceed 10 per cent.
Two drastic bills aimed at telephone,
telegraph and railroad companies were
introduced by C. F. Beuschausen,
Loup City editor. One Beuschausen
bill would require state railway com
mission to fix general schedule of
rates for officers and employes of
telephone companies while the other
provides that railroads, express, tele
phone and telegraph companies, and ,
other public utilities, shall be governed
for rate making purposes by their |
assessed valuation turned Into the
atate for taxation.
Calls for One Ballot.
Another Gilmore hill calls for one
ballot in the primary and would per
mit city as well as rural residents to
vets at primaries without registering
party affiliations.
George Dyball, Omaha, Introduced a
hill which would force superintendents
of asylums to permit inmates to be ■
treated by physicians, healers, osteo- j
paths or anyone else their guardians
desired.
Other house bills were of minor im
portance.
Gov. Bryan Explains
His New Council Plan!
Lincoln, Ian. H.—(Special.)—Gov. |
W. Bryan believes that his plan for
an extensive executive council of con
stitutional officers, replacing the code,
has been misunderstood with respect
to the matter of appointive powers.
For this reason Mr. Bryan called
newspaper men Into conference tbday
and went more fully into details of
his program. Mr. Bryan said that, he
did not Intend It to bo understood that
the governor contemplates appoint
ments in those departments of the
<-ode aBsibned to various state officers
for administration.
The only appointments coming with.
In the powers of the governor are
those chiefs and head of bureaus and
agencies remaining under the gene'ral
direction of the executive council. Mr.
Mr. Bryan said that staffs in the vari
ous agencies under the direction of
constitutional officers would he ap
pointed by the official under whose
supervision they fell.
Mr. Bryan also Indicated for the
first tme that part of the inspec.tlonal
activities conducted by the depart
ment of agriculture might be assigned
to the College of Agriculture for ad
ministration.
Bryan to Discontinue
Mileage Book System
Lincoln, Jan. 8.—(Special.) — Gov
ernor C. W. Bryan today Indicated
that the mileage book system would
be discontinued by state house em
ployes under his direction.
Mr. Bryan requested Purchasing
Agent Cole to furnish him with infor
mation as to the use of mileage books
In the various state departments. The
governor has not fully formulated his
plans of providing transportation for
the use of state employes who are
forced to travel in the performance of
their duties but he has definitely indi
cated that the purchase of mileage
books by the state will be discon
tinued.
Anti-Arbuckle Resolution
Introduced in Legislature
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—
A resolution commending N'ebraska
picture exhibitors for refusing to show
■'Fatty" Arhui'kle films was intro
duced In the lower house today by
Beushausen of Loup City.
Farnutn Meet to Consider
Reduction of Tax Burden
* Scottsbluff, Neb.. Jan. 8.—(Special.)
—The matter of reducing the local tax
burden will be made a subject for a
forum meeting of all the citizens of
Scottsbluff following the action of the
chamber of commerce today in ap
pointing a committee of seven to
make a thorough investigation and
be prepared to report its findings at a
public meeting.
On the comitiittee were named Supt.
E. L,. Rouse, Mayor T. D. Deutseh and
business men. Including J. C. Mc
Creary, Ed Warner, J. H. Graves. S.
K. Warrlek, and a farmer, Neal
Barbour.
•‘Fair exchange Is no robbery."
Swap something you hRve for some- ]
thing you want through a three-line
••Want" Ad In the "SWAP COLUMN"
of The Omaha Bee. NO SWAP—NO
PAT!
Gravity (la.) Child
Has Heart on Right
Side, Liver on Left
Atlantic, la., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—One
of the pranks which nature some
times plays pn humans was unearth
ed here Saturday when C. R. Jones,
a local surgeon, preparing to operate
on the J-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Keller of Gravity, la., dis
covered the child's heart is on the
right side of the chest and the liver
and appendix on the left side.
The aurgeon sensed the condition
before the operation, and avoided
opening what would, in the case, have
been the wrong side. ,
Legislators in Caricature
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C/tAPLA^3
■REV. J.G.Stanard
C©.Anderson
^£*G6mt of- vSt^t-e.
°*‘V /^r 7y^s
chief Justice- w
Andrew "PMorriSSEY
WHO administered
THE. oath
Committee Lists
0. K.’d by Legislature
(Continued From Pago Ono.)
George S. Collins, manufacturers and
commerce, Allan, Strehlow.
Committees elect their chairmen in
the lower house.
Following are senate and house ap
pointments complete:
SENATE.
Accounts and expenditure#
Wllkens, Bliss, Kroh.
Agriculture.
Johnson, Warner, Barr, Wlltse. Behrens,
Banning, Shellenbarger.
Apportionment.
Banning, Hastings, Reed, Behrens. John
son, Allen, Chambers, Osborne, Thlelan.
Hanks and Currency.
Bliss, Anderson, Hastings, Warner, Al
len. Saunders. Rickard, Smrha, Reifenrath,
Thlelan.
Child Welfare.
Barr, Anderson, Rickard, Good, Mc
Gowan, Sturdevant, Wilkins, Meacham,,
Larkin, Tomek, Purcell, Reifenrath.
Claim* and Deficiencies.
Meach&n, Wlltse, Reed, Fries, Purcell.
Constitutional Amendments and Federal
Relations.
Wlltse, Cooper, Barr. Kroh, Thlelan, I
Purcell.
Drainage.
Reifenrath, Behrens, Larkin, McGowan,
Gumb, Osborne.
Education, University and Normal Schools
and Library.
Rickard, Reed. Anderson. Kroh. Good,
Sturdevant, Smrha, Fries, Reifenrath.
Engrossed and Enrolled Bills.
Kroh, Sturdevant. Chambers.
Fee* and Salaries.
Wlltse, Reed, Bliss, Wilkins, Cooper,
Gumb, Reifenrath.
Finance, Ways and Means.
Reed, Anderson, lllian, Saunders, Bliss,
Rickard, Hastings, Purcell, Banning.
Fish and Game.
Gumb, Warner, Bliss, McGowan, Good,
Saunders, Retd, lllian, Fries.
Highways, Bridges and Ferries.
Good, Rickard. Wlltse, Kroh. McGowan,
lllian. Cooper, Banning, Gumb, Smrha,
Shellenbarger.
Insurance.
Warner. Rickard, Robbins, Barr, Cham
bers, Wilkins, Banning, Osborne, Reifen
rath.
Irrigation and Wafer Power.
Allen, Bliss, Kroh, Robbins, Barr, Os
borne. Fries.
Judiciary* •
Cooper, Hastings, Wlltse, Allen, Rob
bins, Wilkins, Warner, Tomek, Thielen.
labor.
McGowan, Chambers, Sturdevant, Smrha,
Fries.
Livestock and Gracing.
Fries, Good Barr, Kroh, Larkin, Shel
lenbarger.
Manufacturers. Retail and Commerce.
Larkin, Chambers, Meacham, Gumb,
Purls ii*
Medical Societies.
Osborne, Reed, Cooper, McGowan,
Sturdevant, Shellenbarger, Thielen.
Miscellaneous Corporations.
Chambers, Warner, Wlltse, Allen,
Behrens, Wilkins, Tomek. Gumb, Smrha.
Miscellaneous Subjects.
Hastings, Saunders, Reed, Cooper, Rob.
bins, Warner, Wilkins, Purcell, Reifenrath.
'Municipal Affaire.
Robbins. Anderson. Johhson, Larkin,
Wlltee, Thlelen. Tomek.
Privileges and Flections.
Purcell, Saunders, Johnson, Allen, Illian,
Thlelen, Osborne.
Public Institutions.
Behrens, Johnson, Meacham, Sturdevant,
Purcell, Fries, Smrha.
Railroads.
Stiydevant, Warner, Cooper, Larkin,
Hastings, Meachatn, Gumb, Shellenbarger,
Tomek.
Revenue and Taxation.
Anderson, Rickard, Robbins, Illian,
Haunders. Hastings, Meacham, Wilkins,
Bliss, Fries. Thielen, Osborne, Reifenrath.
Rules.
Saunders, Anderson, Banning.
School land* and Funds.
Illian, Good. Kroh. Meacham. Robbins,
Behrens, Tomek, Gumb, Shellenbarger.
house.
Finance, Ways and Means.
J. Reid Green, Oswin Keifer. A. O.
Burk.*, H. R. Essam, Grant Mears. W. T.
Gould. W. M. Barbour. Henry Bock. Paul
M. Dennis. R. C. Regan. M. E. Schnerin
ger.
Hanks and Banking.
Troy L Da via, H. M Bsldrige, Thomas
Stlbal, O." C. Hueftle, J. F. Egger, James
Autcn. A. M. Keyes, A. T. Gordon. B. S.
Keck.
Claims and Deficiencies.
Ralph P. Wilson. James Allan. H. R.
Essam. Scott Reynolds, R. R. Vance, W.
T Gould. F. W. Ball, Charles Kautsky,
C. W. Orr. M. E. Hyde. J. F. Rourke.
Fish and Game.
Frank Bidding. N. M. Nelson. John P.
Wise. W. A. McCain. C. F. Beuahausen.
i P. B. Neff. John Thomssen.
Livestock and erasing.
W. T. Parklnron, J. R. Hughee. c. 8.
Reece, Ernest Peterson, E. E. Auxler, F.
M. Broome
Privileges and Election*.
J, W Lundy. 4. w. Hall, C. F Han*en,
Rose Amapoker, George S. Collin*, John
P. I)avl», A. P. Gordon.
Railroad*.
J F. Kendall, E. P. Bailey, A. C. Col
man. George Pyball, William Wingett,
Henry Bock, Theodore Osterman, I. W.
Jacoby, Obed Raasch.
Telegraph and Telephone.
E. J. Lamb, H. C. Timtne, A. G. Burke,
Charles Miner. C. F. Donnelly, D. F.
Beusbauaag. D. C. Heffernan, J. H. John
son, F. 8. Welle.
.Indicia ry.
T. B. Dysart, Ralph Wilson, H. M. Bat
drige. L. D Densmore, D, 8. Hardin, Roes
Amspoker, Donald Gallagher, , A. M.
Keyes, John Morgan, C. W. Orr. A, M.
Elsaeser.
Agrlculturo.
Ernest Peterson. E. P. Wilson, Elwell
Johnston. E. P. Bailey, Oswin Kelfer, J.
C Gilmore. C F. Donnelly, W. R. Mitch
ell. William Moor*, C. F, Ottetnan, J. E.
Quinn.
title* abd Towns.
Georg* Dyball. W. T. Gould, F. C. Bet
ding, Ed A. Smith, George F. Staats,
Jame* Allan, R. R. Vance, F. M. Broome,
George B. Collins. R. C. Regan, J. F.
Rourke
Constitutional Amendment.
D. 8 Hardin, E. P. Wilson, O. F. Han
sen, J. M. Pollard, E. E. Auxler, W. R.
Mitchell, A. W. Elsasser.
Education.
i Reid Green, Troy L. Davia, J. F. Ken
dall, E. B. Smiley, E. I. Whitehead.
Charles Miner, J. K. Ward, F. M Broome,
W. H. O'Gara. E. L. Kemper, C. L.
Yochum.
Insurance.
Grant Mears, Ralph Wilson. H. C.
Tlmme, Thomas Stibal. Daniel Garber,
George 8. Collins, George W. O'Malley,
P. M. Dennis, D. C. Heffernan.
Irrigation, Water Power and Draining.
J. R. Hughes. W. F. Wood, W. M. Bar
hour, J. W. Lundy, L. R. North, Soott
Reynolds, A. C. Colman, P. B. Neff,
George A. Ernst, M. E. Hyde, F. S. Wells.
Labor.
Robert Strehlow, John 3. Wise. Donald
Gallagher, A. G. Burke, Charles Kautsky.
C. R. Dutcher, Thomas Axtell.
Revenue and Taxation.
T. B. Dysart, William Wingett, L. D. i
Densmore, A. W. Hall, W. A. McCain. R. j
E. Harrington, E. J. Lamb, William Moore,
John Morgan, Theodore Ostorman, C. B. 1
Svoboda.
School Taniln and Funds.
El well Johnston, W. T. Farktnson. A. B.
Thatcher. G. C. Hueftle. W. A. Brown.
J. H. Johnson, L. G. Yochum.
State Institutions.
J. F Egger, C. F. Hanspn, A. C. Col
mnn, J. C, Gilmore. Charles Miner, J. M.
Pollard, George B. Collins, B. 3. Keck,
C. B. Svoboda. John Thomssen, C. I,.
Yochum.
Corporations.
George Dyball, C. S. Reece, E J. T.amh,
William Wlngott, George 8. Collins. H. L.
Kemper, C. I*. Yochutn, Obed Raasch.
Fees and Salaries.
Danlol Garber, E. P. Wilson, E. A.
Smith, J. F. Kendall, John P. Davis, A.
W. Elsasser, 1. W. Jacoby.
Manufacture and Commerce.
Scott Reynold*. Thomas Stibal, .Tames
Allan, Robert " ntrehlow, W. A. Brown,
George F. Otteman.
Medical Societies.
Troy L. Davis. Elwell Johnston. W. T.
Parkinson, George A. Ernst, M. E.
Schneringer.
Miscellaneous Subjects.
E. T. Whitehead. E. B. Smiley, C. F.
Donnelly, L. R. North. F. W. Ball. George
B. Collins, W. H. O'Gara, C. K. Dutcher,
Thomas Axtell
Roads and Bridges.
George F. Staats, W. F. Wood. E. P
Bailey. N.' M. Nelson, J. R. Hughes. J.
W. Lundy, Rk E. Harrington, James Auten,
(J. W. O’Malley, J. E. Quinn, L. G.
Yochum.
Accounts and Expenditures.
8cott Reynolds, G. C. Hueftle. C. 8.
Reece, C. K. Dutcher, E. L. Kemper.
Arrangement and Phraseology.
H. M. Baldrlge,’ Grant Mears. D. 8. Har
din, Theo. Oatertnan, James Auten.
Engrossed and Enrolled Hills.
H. R. Essam, J. K. Ward, Henry Bock.
Rules and Regulations.
Mr. Speaker, T. B. Dysart, J. Reid
Green. C. W. Orr, W. II. O'Gara.
Senate Bills
8. F. 1—Ueed. Reduces salaries of
code secretaries who now receive $5,000
per year. Makes secretary of finance
and secretary of agriculture $3,000, secre
tary of labor and secretary of welfare,
$2,500, secretary of trade and commerce,
$4,000.
Stl. F. 2—Reed. Code secretaries may be
regularly elected executive state officials
or the governor may appoint any other
citlsen.
S. F. 3—Bliss. Persons fraudulently In
duced to sell or exchange property shall
be entitled to damages for the difference
between the value of his former property
and the value of that which he received,
actions now pending excepted.
8. F. 4—Reed. Increases term of county
superintendent from two to four years and
excludes from voting for county superin
tendent persons living in cities not under
supervision of county superintendent.
8. F. 6—Wlltse. Fixes salaries of county
clerks and their assistants. Counties of
not more than 6,500 population shall re
ceive salary of $1,800. Counties having
more than 6,500 and less than 26,000,
$2,000. County board to fix salary of
deputy county clerk, which shall not ex
ceed in counties of not more than 6.600,
$1,000. Counties 6,500 to 25,000, $1,200.
8. F. 6—Wlltse. County boards may
require deputies and clerks of any county
officer to assist any other county officer.
S. F. 7—Wlltse. Authorizes county
board to loan public building tax funds
when such funds have accumulated in the
county treasury.
S F. 8—Wlltse. Graduate Inheritance
tax.’ Heirs of first degree, $10,000 to
$20,000 1 per cent; $20,000 to $40,000, 2
per cent; $40,000 to $100,000, 3 per cent;
over $100,000, 4 per cent. Heirs second
degree, $l.ooo to $5,000. 2 per cent;
$6,000 to $10,000, 3 per cent; $10,000 to
$20,000. 4 per cent; $20,000 to $50,000, 6
per cent; over $50,000, 6 per cent. In all
other cases. $500 to $5,000. 2 per cent;
$6,000 to $10,000, 4 per cent; $10,000 to
$20,000, 6 per cent: $20,000 to $50,000, 8
per cent; over $50,000, 10 per cent.
S. F. 9—Wlltse. if any number of
persons In a county protest the hiring of
a county agent, after petition hae been
filed by 300 farmers asking for such
agent, the county board may submit the
proposition to the voters of the county
before making appropriation.
8. F. 10—Thielen. State Income tax.
Persons report to county treasurer amount
of Income tax paid to federal govern
ment ard same amount to be paid to
state less taxes psid on personal and real
property.
Two Fillmore County
Theaters Bar Arbuckle
Geneva, Neb., an. 8.—(Special.)—
Two Fillmore county motion picture
show managers have announced they
will not show on their screens any
picture in which “Fatty” Arbuckls
has a part. P. G. Held of the Fair
mont theater is out with an emphatic
statement that he bars the comedian
and that he is against he reurn of
Arbuckle to the screen.
Albert Beams, manager of the
Grand theater, at Geneva, canceled
five bookings featuring Arbuckle. He
does not intend to use any Arbuckle
films at Geneva.
Queen Mary of England maintains
a staff of 50 maids at Buckingham
palace
Communists Burn
Effigy of Christ;
Mock Religions
Russian Students Take Part
in Grotesque Carnival
Procession; Songs Are
Jeering Parodies.
Moscow, Jan. 8.—(By A. P.)—The
young communists, observing the
Christmas of the Julian calendar yes
terday, launched their widely heralded
"attack upon heaven" In a grotesque
carnival procession that was a mock
ery of the world's great religions.
As American college boys make mer
ry after a football victory, so thou*
sands of Russian students did u. gigan
tic snake danos around a great bon
fire. the kindling of which before one
of the principal railway stations,
brought the day of revelry to a close.
The climax of the celebration came
when the young people gleefully
tossed into the flames straw and paper
figures representing the deities of the
Christian. Mohammedan, Jewish and
Buddist religions.
Mockery of Yulefide.
The Russian Christmas had been
especially chosen by the young com
munists as the occasion for mockery
of the ancient Yuletlde story and of
the traditions which their organiza
tion halls as "religious myths," hence
the procession that threaded the
streets of Moscow Sunday held few re
minders of the old-time Christmas
celebrations of the Russian church.
Flaring stars of red, burlesques of the
star of Bethlehem, were borne aloft at
the head of the parade, followed by
posters and banners upon which were
daubed cartoons of deities and saints.
No reminders of the church proces
eions that In the past have marked
the advent of the Christmas festival
were in evidence.
There wus music and singing aplen
ty, but the songs were jeering paro
dies of the splendid carols of chantf
of the Russian church.
Burlesques of Gods.
Goblin-like burlesques of the godk
of all peoples alternated with motor
trucks upon which rode students and
young women dressed as carclcatures
of religious dignitaries, placards pro
claimed such communist doctrines as
‘‘religion is the opiate of tho people”
and “man made God in man’s image,
not God man in his.” One truck car
ried an infant wearing a red cap. He
was placarded as "young commun
ism.”
. Host in their long coats and army
caps, young children from the orphan
ages and institutions tramped
through the snow led by their teach
ers, to watch the bonfire which their
commvjnist elders had decreed should
take the place of the chimney-side
vigil in wait for Santa Claus.
There were no disorders; neither
was there any attempt to prevent reg
ular Christmas services. But here and
there a street beggar, evidently ob
livious of tho travesty, wandered j
through the crowds whispering ‘‘alms,
in the name of Christ on Christmas
day.”
Murder Charge Filed
Against Beatrice Trio
Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—
Information charging Frank Stewart,
George Warren and Francis Soutli
with the murder of Charles Wolf, who
was slugged and robbed here the night
of November 27, was filed In district
court this afternoon.
The men were recently bound over
and held without hail at their pre
liminary examination, when they en
tered pleas of not guilty.
Stewart and Warren, officers say.
have confessed, but South refuses to
talk concerning the case.
Authorities here have received in
formation to the effect that Stewart
was arrested at Taylorsville, III., a
few years ago, for the murder of a
man found in the railroad yards there,
but evidence was lacking to connect
him with the crime and he was re
leased.
Omaha Company Takes Over
Lincoln Lighting Plants
Lincoln, Nel>., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—
Final payment on the option of the
Continental Gas & Electric corpora
tion of Omaha for the purchase of
the Lincoln Gas & Electric Light
company of this city has been made,
according to announcement here to
day by President Rufas Lee, of the
Omaha corporation. The Omaha com
pany took over active control of the
affairs of the local concern today.
Rufus E. Lee of Omaha is presi
dent of the local company, and Frank
H. Brooks, of Omaha, vice president.
Jack B. Hill of Iowa City becomes
general manager, succeeding J. E.
Harsh, who will return to the Do
herty syndicate. Mr. Hill has been
connected with the University of
Iowa and with a large number of
private enterprises.
Boy’s Hand Blown Off
in Hunting Accident
Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—
Oliver Register, 14, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. Register of this city, accident
ally blew off his right hand with a
shotgun while hunting Bouthwest of
town yesterday.
Ilia condition Is reported serious at
a local hospital.
Former Bank Head
Returned for Trial
.. «
Kearney, Neb., Jan. 7.—(Special.)—
H. S .Morse, former president of the
American State bank, wanted by the
state hanking board on a charge of
embezzling $12,500, was brought back
last night from California by Deputy
State Sheriff Hedges and turned over
to the sheriff here.
Morse insists that he is not guilty
of any intentional wrongdoing and In
timates he is the victim of a frameup
Referring to bad loans made, which
are said to have aggregated more than
$50,000, the former bank president as
serts tljat during his term as president
of the American State bank here he
did not loan $26,000, all told.
He refused to make any statement
as to the specific charges filed against
him, 16 In all.
Morse has no knowledge as to what
may have been done In the case cf
his brother and brother-tnlaw. both
of whom have been mentioned In con
nection with the charges. Ills father,
according to the accused man, has re
fused to Interest himself in his behalf.
The hearings are expected to take
place in the district court here dur
ing the January term.
Five Deserters
Executed in Erin
Men Convicted of Leaving
National Army Shot by Or
der of Free State.
Dublin, Jan. 8.—(By A. P.)—Kivo
soldiers, convicted of desertion from
the national army were executed in
Dublin today by order of the free
state government. It was announced
that the men were found fighting on
the side of the Irregulars.
The men executed were Corp. Leo.
Dovllng of the Curragh camp; Corp.
Sylvester Heaney of Dlllonstown,
Louth; Private Lawrence Sheepy,
Braytown, Meath; Private Anthony
O'Reilly, Simonstown, Kildare, and
Private Terence Brady, Wllkinstown,
Meath.
It was not until 8 o'clock this eve
ning that general headquarters is
sued an official announcement to the
effect that the five men had been exe
cuted. They were convicted by court
martial in Kllmainan Jail, December
'12, on charges of "first, treachery on
the first of December in assisting at
Leixlep, certain armed persons In
using force against national troops,
and, second, for treacherously com
municating and consulting with said
armed persons."
The announcement added that the
court found all the men guilty of both
charges; the sentences were .duly
confirmed and they were shot at
8 this morning.
Revision of Iowa Code
Proposed in Legislature
Des Moines, Jan. S.—The fortieth
general assembly which convened to
day, will decide immediately whether
to undertake revision of the Iowa
code at this regular session. Governor
Kendall is expected to urge such action
in his biennial message at a joint ses
sion tomorrow.
Representative Edson, of Buena
Vista, Introduced a concurrent reso
lution which directs the presiding of
ficers of both houses to appoint a
joint committee of 16 to consider codo
revision procedure immediately and
to have recommendations ready by
next Monday.
The resolution wras passed by the
house unaminously and without de
bate and probably will come up In
the senate before final adjournment
today.
Falls From Tree Limb
on Visit Home—May Die
Falls City, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special.)
—The visit of William Palmer, jr., of
Portland, Ore., at the home of his
parents ended disastrously here to
day when he slipped from the limb of
a tree which he was trimming and
fell 15 feet, receiving injuries which
may prove fatal. His condition was
regarded so serious by his physician
that he could not be moved to the
hospital.
Farm Shipping Association •
in 40lh Annual Meeting
Superior, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special.)—
Andrew Gilchrist was re-elected man
ager of the Farmers’ Shipping associa
tion at the fortieth annual meeting
held here Saturday.
During the year, the association
shipped 125 cars of livestock valued
at $201,720, reports showed. The or
ganization is one of the oldest of its
sort in the state. It was organized
in 1883.
Joffre Invited to Direct
Russ Army Reorganization
Paris. Jan. 8.—An invitation to send
Marshal Joffro as the head of a
French mission to reorganize the
soviet red army and the Russian mili
tary service has been addressed to the
French government by the soviet gov
ernment, according to an announce
ment made by Le Matin.
Poison gas, so deadly that one-tenth
of one per cent of it in the atmosphere
would be fatal, has been used suc
cessfully in clearing a ship of rats
and vermin.
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THE THINKING FELLOW CALLS A YELLOW
Schools at Bassett
Close for Funeral
of Former Teacher
Auditorium Packed at Serv
ices for Victim of Illegal Op
eration— Friends Travel
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30 Miles to Attend.
Bassett, Neb., Jan. 8.—(Special).—
School* and business firms here were
closed today during the funeral
services for Miss Doretta McDermott,
who died in Omaha and for who*)
death Dr. J. T. Mathews of Omaha
has been arrested.
Former pupils of Miss McDermott
at district school No. 14, eight miles
south of here, attended the services In
a body, as did all the Bassett school
children.
Funeral services were held in the
town auditorium with the Rev. Father
Barro officiating. The auditorium
was filled to capacity. Pallbearers
were five brothers of the dead girl and
Irvin Merritt, a close friend of the
family.
Friends of the family came as far
as 30 miles from Bassett to attend
the funeral, but the man alleged to
have been named In the girl's dying
statement was not seen at tho
services.
Dr. John T. Mathews, accused of
murder by an Illegal operation upon
Miss Loretta McDermott, 25, school
teacher of Bassett, Neb., w’aived pre
liminary examination in central police
court yesterday and was held to trial
in the district court under $5,000 bond.
Attorneys Lloyd Magney and John
C. Wharton, counsel for the physician,
pleaded not guilty for him. They re
fused to permit him to make any
statement following the arraignment.
County Attorney Henry Beal, who
appeared for the state, declared im
mediately after the hearing, that the
prosecution would be ready for trial
within 30 days.
British to Pay Debt
to U. S. to Last Cent
(Continued From Face One.)
will determine the condition and ma
terial welfare of the great mass of
wage earners in Great Britain and the
United States. Their wives and chil
dren. I do not, I believe exaggerate.
1 state this as my deliberate opinion
after having given the subject mature
consideration.
“The payment of our debt to you
will impose upon ua tho necessity of
levying heavy taxes to meet those
payments. From the beginning of the
war we were«4he heaviest taxed na
tion in the world. We financed our
military operations to a greater de
gree than of any other nation by
making the present generation pay.
It is our way to pay as we go so far
as we can. From that fixed prin
ciple we have no intention now to
depart. The total annual per capita
taxation in Great Britain Is today still
greater than that of any other people.
It amounts to more than $100 per
head of the population.
"I invite you to consider my views
as to what this moans and how I fr-ar
It will affect your own wage-earners
no less Ilian ours. Further taxation
would decrease the purchasing power
of the British working man and re
duce our consumption of American
products. There would bo a dimin
ished export demand for American
cereals, cottons, meats and other prod
ucts of the soil, the mine and the
factory. Desirous as we arc to main
tain the social scale of our own
worker, the effect of additional taxa
tion would he inevitably to depress
it. From the consequences of that I
do not see how America can escape.
"The social condition of the Amer
ican working man, raised (o its pres
ent level in some measure as a result
of the war, la now the highest in the
world, hut If we are unable to pur
chase from you, if we are forced by
stern necessity to economize still fur
ther, to buy from you only those
things we must have, blit oven th«se
in greatly reduced quantities, the
American farmer as weli,as the Amer
ican working man will feel the pinch.
He likewise will be compelled to econ
omize; he will have Jo do with less;
he will he brought down to a lower
standard of living.
Economic Isolation.
"Our modern civilization does not
permit of economic Isolation. Speak
ing broadly, If I may use the phrase,
‘spotted prosperity' is impossible. If
on the economic map of the world
there is a spot of prosp»rlty surround
ed by distress, that spot will not
spread to bring health, but It. will he
wiped out by. the poverty and misery
that surround It.
"In this spirit I sddress myself to
the task before us.
“Had it been possible to find in the
world a nugget of gold worth $4,000,
000,000 we would have spared 110 sac
rifice to secure it, and wo would have
brought it with us; but unfortunately
the limitations of nature put such
a simple method of payment out of
tho question and we have to explore
other means.
Money Spent In United States.
“This debt is not a debt for dollars
sent to Europe. The money was all
expended here, most of it for cotton,
wheat, food products and munitions
of war. American labor received the i
wages; American capitalists the prof
its; the United States treasury the
taxatjon Imposed on these profits.
"At the time these goods were
bought we were associates in a great
war. Out of $7,000,000,000 of gools
bought after the United States came
into the war, wo paid for $3,000,000,
000 worth, leaving $4,000,000,000 worth
were supplied on credit. Now, see
ing that the debt is a debt for goods
supplied, it would he natural to ask
'why not rfepay with goods?’
"A moment’s consideration is suf
ficient to answer that question. These
goods were supplied in wartime at
war prices. Prices have fallen so
far that to repay $4,000,000,000 Great
Britain would have to send to America
a far greater bulk of goods than she
originally purchased with tho money
loaned and, laying aside all considera
tion of the tariff barrier, would it be
possible for America to accept repay
ment in coal, Iron, steel, manufacture
ed cotton goods and so forth. ...Hi
method of payment which would af- i
feet the employment of her people for
years to come?
Immediate Repayment Impossible.
“We have now seen that immediate
repayment by gold is impossible and
that an equivalent transaction In re
payment by goods Is full of dlffteul.
tic's, so wo shall have to explore whnl
remaining method of International
payments are presented by the mar
kets of the world. . . ’*'
‘ Hero attention will have t° '
paid to several considerations ^ •
lent large s, Vs to and established
large credits for our European allies
so that while we are dealing with our
liabilities wo find a large proportion
of our assets temporarily frozen. If
balance our annual accounts, in tiroes,
of unexampled difficultly we hn\e
made great sacrifices, we are affected
by an economic situation in Europe
and aro passing through the worst
period of unemployment In our his
tory. s*
“1 have already referred to the
weight of our taxation which with
the prolonged unemployment is al
teady bearing cruelly on our women
and children. So far from the wat
having left us richer by the acquisi
tion of new territory, the acceptance,
of mandates in some of the most db *■
imbed parts of the world has In
voiced us In vast unproductive expen.
ditures in policing and patrolling ter
tttories in which wo have no economic *
rights which are not open equally to*
other nations.
Open-Handed Charity.
“Having regard to all these circum
stances, the Hritish government has
to consider very carefully the terms
of the liquidation of the debt lest
an annual obligation be assumed
which It might Ire impossible to meet
In years of brad trade and falling
revenue.
"In common with the rest or tin
world we have watched with admira
tion the open handed charity ot
America to the stricken countries ol
Europe, to the peoples of Belgluu
of France and of Russia. The getfl’n
rosity of America is proverbial, bin
wo are not here to ask for favors or
to impose on genoroslty. We want
on such terms ns will produce tin
least possible disturbance In the trad*
relations of the two countries a fail
business settlement—a square deal, *
settlement that will secure for Ameri->
ca the repayment to the last cent ot'
these credits which the United States
government established for us, their
associates In the war.
Hope and Confidence.
"Our wish is to approach the dis
cussion as business men seeking a
business solution of what is funda:.
mentally a, business problem. May T
put it In this way? We intend to pay
hut how best can international credit
lie made* liquid when the creditor na
tion is unwilling to permit liquidation
through the direct delivery of goods,
and is also unwilling to see the cur
rent sale of her products to the debtor
nations interrupted, and when the
debtor nations are unwilling to be
put in the position of being unable to
buy the products of the creditor na
tion?
"The cordial and prompt agreement
of the greatest democracies. of the
world on a question of this lntericaey
and magnitude will be an example to
the nations and a long step forward
in effecting a solution of tlya economic^
troubles of Europe. Let us never for
get that until these troubles are
solved there can be no general re
vival of international trade.
"B’or myself, I look forward to the
meeting of the commission witli
hope and confidence. I believe thalj
shall not he disappointed.”
Obomjson .Cdtien & Co.
Now is the Time to
Buy Fine Linens
•
The January sales offer the last chance to buy
Thompson, Belden quality linens for such low prices.
A direct importation from Ireland and Scotland be
fore the tariff went into effect enables us to offer
this advantage to you now.
Towels and Toweling
Very Low in Price
All Linen Huck Towels
Hemmed, are reduced to 39c,
50c and 59c.
Hemstitched linen hucks with
damask borders are reduced to
$1.00 and $1.25.
All Linen Crash Toweling
Brown linen at 29c a yard.
Bleached linen crash, in two
qualities, 29c and 45c.
Turkish Towels Reduced
17 by 32 inches, Tuesday, 19c
17 by 37 inches, Tuesday, 25c
22 by 45 inches, Tuesday, 42c
24 by 46 inches, Tuesday, 50c
24 by 48 blue bordered, 59c
26 by 50 inches, of a very fine
quality, 79c.
Turkish Wash Cloths, reduced
to 5c, 8V3C, 10c and 15c.
All Linen Glass Toweling of a
most substantial quality, 45c
and 50c a yard.
All Fancy Linens are 25%
less than regular prices.
Plain White Linens
and White Cottons
Priced Lower
Long cloth, dimity, flaxon, luna
lawn, checked lawn, plain Eng
lish voiles, batiste, checked mull,
phantom cloth, all widths or
round thread linen and linen
sheeting in 72, 81 and 90-inch
widths.
Exceptionally Fine Values
Irish and Scotch
Linen Table Cloths
and Napkins
Greatly Reduced
2 by 2-yard cloths in several
beautiful qualities, reduced to
$5, $7.38, $12.89.
2 by 2 V-'-yard cloths are reduced
to $6.38, $9.75, $15.89.
• 2 by 3-yard cloths for $7.50,
$12.89, $17.89, $25.
» Napkins to match any of
these cloths are priced
at proportionate savings.