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The Nebraska Independent
SEPTEMBER 13, 1906
tion?" Why did it resort to doubtful
language in so important a law as
this? Why did it not write the lan
guage clear and direct? Or was it the
intention of that legislature that pow
er to fix rates should not be con
ferred upon the commission? It may
be that the republican platform will
throw light upon this subject. That
platform dees not ask that the legis
lature confer power to prevent dis
crimination, etc. Is there a design
here all the way through to fool the
people once more? Is it possible that
again the "people are to be misled?
Are we to look hopefully to this
amendment for years and in the end
be disappointed again?
But what shall we do about it on
election day? I favor its adoption be
cause it gives us three commissioners.
"The people, however, must know that
'beyond ; this they are "not getting any
thing. Before we can get relief we
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iutely free from railroad influence. If
we elect that kind of a legislature,
then that legislature can confer, the
proper powers upon this commission.
These powers must include the power
to fix rates. If the legislature shall
confer power to fix rates and if it is
ascertained that this amendment is
restrictive ' and that no power to fix
rates can be conferred upon the com
mission, under the amendment, as it
now is then we must further amend
the constitution so that this commis
sion may be clothed fully with the
ummary
President Roosevelt, in an address
at Oyster Bay, declares religion, not
sectarian but aiming at the better
ment of all humanity, the hope of the
nation.
A liner arrived in New York with
famine aboard, all champagne, ginger
ale and matches having been exhaust
ed by a gay cabin crowd.
W. J. Bryan and Governor Folk are
expected to stump Wisconsin this fall
in the interets of J. A. Aylward, dem
ocratic nominee for governor.
Forecast of the report of the Iowa
life insurance commission indicates
that no requirement of the annual dis
tribution of dividends will be urged.
Senator LaFollette maintains si
lence regarding the result of the Wis
consin republican primaries and his
friends fear that this, following his
defeat at the polls, will injure his
prestige.
Result of primary elections in Mich
igan for candidates for the legislature
shows many nominees open to con--yi.Giion
on the question of senatorship.
Senator LaFollette is severely
scored by Senator Long of Kansas,
who makes scathing reply to recent
attacks on his course in regard to
rate legislation.
A battle for the. survival cf the
strongest among the factions of the
Illinois democracy, and an attack on
Bryan's presidential candidacy are ex
pected to result from the Sullivan
Bryan controversy.
Daniel O'Connor of Australia pre
dicts that Irishmen will eventually be
supreme in countries of their adoption.
Cash losses aggregating $16,400,000
are reported by the New York asso
ciated banks, the reserve disappear
ing. Attorney General Mayer of New
York reverses several rulings made by
him some time ago regarding the
workings of the Armstrong insurance
laws.
Looted Real Estate Trust company
of Philadelphia will be reorganized
soon, says Receiver Earle, who de
clines to become president of the in
stitution. Roger Sullivan makes a bitter an
swer to the attacks of WTilliam J.
Bryan, giving him the lie as' to state
ments made in his Jefferson club
speech in Chicago, and challenging
power to fix rates. It is just the best
we can do under all the circumstances.
I blame the last legislature for giving
us such a doubtful measure. That
legislature was overwhelmingly repub
lican. There were only nine fusion
members in that body. The respon
sibility for not giving us a better
amendment rests wholly with the re
publican party of this state. We have
the right to question the good faith
and sincerity of any party that will
propose no better mendment than
this one. As a rebuke to this further
trifling with the people I say that
the republican legislature should be
defeated.
Let me go a step farther and say
that no candidate who aspires to the
legislature, whether he be upon the
republican or fusion ticket should be
elected this year unless he is right
upon all these questions. I suggest
that the people in every county in
this state make their candidates stand
up and specifically and unequivocally
pledge themselves to confer ample
powers upon this commission which
shall include the power to fix rates.
Also every candidate should be
pledged specifically upon every other
measure and reform the people are de
manding. If he further refuses to
state his position plainly, no matter
to what party he belongs, he should
be defeated. Let us have done with
simply playing the game of politics,
but let us make it the serious business
that it really is.
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him to submit the issue to the dele
gates to the state convention of 1904,
one or the other to retire from politi
cal leadership according to the result
of such a poll.
As her husband dies in a Boston
hospital, woman shoots herself, falling
dead over his body, believing she will
free her spirit to accompany that of
her spouse.
Secretary Shaw notifies government
depositories that funds of the govern
ment must not be sent to Wall street
to be loaned to speculators.
United States Minister Gummere at
Tanglier has turned the bank wrecker,
Paul O. Stensland, over to Assistant
States Attorney Olson, who, fearing
his prisoner may escape or commit
suicide, will return to Chicago as
quickly as possible.
Weekly trade reviews report a sea
sonable expansion of business and an
encouraging industrial outlook.
James Gibbons, a farmer living near
Bloomington, ill., is shot to death in
his bed.
Woman suffrage as a cure of the ills
of the body politic is advocated by
Lewis Emery, Jr., nominee for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, in a speech op
ening the state campaign at Carlisle.
New York supreme court holds the
Equitable Life Assurance society must
defend suit brought by the state at
torney general for an accounting of
the management of the funds.
Thomas J. Kernan of Baton Rouge,
La., in an address before the Ameri
can Bar association at St. Paul de
fines the code of lawlessness as law
defiance that he says is made a com
mon rule.
Governor Davidson, winner of the
republican gubernatorial nomination
in Wisconsin by 40,000 votes, will re
ceive the support of Lenroot, his op
ponent. District Attorney Jerome of New
York says, at a democratic confer
ence in Albany, that party leadership
has given way to demagogy and radi
calism, and that the first need is not
new laws, but good men.
Divorced' wife of John C. Pulner of
Danville, Va remains in the home as
cook when' he weds an attractive
young teacher, cooking the marriage
feast.
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from his auto-biography, written un
der the "systemless system," in which
the "past and present are brought
face to face" and in which he declares
that he had more than one ancestor.
New York commissioner of chari
ties declares the hospitals of the city
are in a shocking condition.
President Roosevelts forest reserve
policy is bitterly attacked by Senator
Heyburn in an address to the National
Irrigation congress in Boise.
Earnings of the American Smelting
and Refining company for the year
ended April 30 exceed 10 per cent on
the common stock after deductions
for repairs and the payment of the 7
per cent dividend on the preferred
stock. j
A. B. Stickney, president of the Chi
cago Great Western road, abandons
his plan for publication of a complete
tariff.
Senator LaFollette receives his first
severe check from the voters when
Governor Davidson, whom he op
posed, is victorious at the primaries
in Wisconsin.
Republican ticket is elected in Ver
mont with a plurality below the nor
mal, F. D. Proctor being chos3n gov
ernor. Governor Johnson of Minnesota is
renominated by the democratic state
convention at Minneapolis and de
clared to be the logical running mate
for Bryan in 1908.
Clarence K. Wooster, third vice
president of the Peoples Gas and Coke
company of Chicago, committed sui
cide. Secret memoranda covering illegal
transactions in the Stensland hank in
Chicago, by both Paul O. Stensland
and Hnry W. Hering are - found
among the effects of Frank Kowalskl,
the teller, who committed r.uicide after
the collapse.
A woman who says she Is a grand
daughter of the illustrious Patrick
Henry expects to be evicted from her
shabby Armour avenue home in Chi
cago. Consular reports from Germany and
France show that a large and profit
able field for American farmers is
opened by the free denatured alcohol
act.
Rev. R. A. White of Chicago de
clares the Christian church has so
far neglected its opportunities and
lost its prestige that, considering its
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cost, it has become the most useless
organization now being supported by;
the public.
Senator Bailey postpones his attack
on Bryan's government ownership pol
icy until after "the congressional elec
tions. ,
Governor Higgins, still withholding
any intimation as to his attitude on
the question of his renomination, is-.
sues a statement in which he warns
the republicans of New York against
the danger of a return of boss con
trol. FOREIGN NEWS
Hundreds are killed or wounded in
Siedlce, Russian Poland, by police
and troops in retaliation for an at
tack by terrorists.
Cambridge defeats Harvard by two
lengths in the international rowing
race on the Thames river. The Amer
icans make a game struggle, but are
handicapped by their unfamiliarity
with the course and the loss of the
choice position.
Walter Wellman leaves Spitzbergen
ahd arrives at Tromsoe on his way to
Paris, where his airship will be re
constructed for the polar trip next
spring.
Russian ministers take steps to fi
nance gifts of lands to peasants.
A large force of rebels is reported
south and west of Havana, and pre
cautions against attack are taken.
Francis Xavier Wernz, a German, is
elected general of the Society of
Jesus at the meeting in Rome.
Heat wave proves a calamity to
London, almost 1,000 children dying in
a fortnight from summer ills.
Premier Stolypin plans a liberal re
form measure to aid Russian Jews,
but the failure of the measure is fore
seen unless it places them on an equal
footing with all others.
Rabbit coursing, the most cruel and
degrading of sports, is popular in Eng
land, and the law does not interfere
to save the animals from death.
Hungarians demand many sweeping
changes, including a separate army
and tariff system, as the price of con
tinuing the common government with
Austria.
Automobile omnibuses are received
in Paris with growing favor, although
the high speed at which they are driv
en through the streets leads to the
, fear that serious accidents may result.