THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
MARCH 28, 1907.
LEGISLATIVE 1
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These warm days make the mem
bers of the legislature restive. They
look at the swelling buds and the fresh
ening lawn outside and begin to think
of farm work and the spring trade.
Some of them want to adjourn next
week, but they will find that impossi
ble. It will require until the middle or
the end of week after next to put aU
the business through in, a style that
will be a credit to "the best legislature
since the state was founded."
At the office of the state railway com
mission a comparative tabulation of the
present rates on live stock for varying
distances up to 400 miles with those
which will prevail if the maximum rate
bill which has passed the senate should
become a law. and also with existing
Iowa rater for identical distances. The
Nebraska rates are computed per - ICO
pounds from specified towns in the state
to the South Omaha market, as follows:
25 miles (Arlington):
en rate .... .......7.5 7
Iowa rate
f0 miles (Nickerson):
Present rate 9.5 JZ-B
New rate 8.8 10.6
Iowa rate vs.os .tu
75 miles West Point): .
Present rate -
New rate 9-35 12.B
Iowa rate .". 101b
100 miles (Pilger): ,
present rate i3.5 i'-5
Now rate 11.48 14.78
Iowa rate 11.33 10.9b
200 miles (ONetll):
Present rate ..16.5 22.
New rate 14. 18.7
Iowa rate 15.53 i.o
300 miles (Thatcher) :
I'resent rate 21.6 28.
New rate 18.25 23.8
Iowa rate 20.26 19.
400 miles (Gordon); .
Present rate '.2.5 31.
New rate 1.68 26.35
Tnnra rata ..22.89 .21. ..
The Iowa state commision nas receunj
ordered a reduction of rates on cattle
and sheep amounting to 18 per cent, ef
fective April 1.
The house members are becoming
anxious for the home going time and
ve.sterdav named a committee consist
ing of Whitham of Johnson, Farley of
Hamilton and Van Housen of Colfax to
wnfer with a senate committee to
agree upon the time of flnal adjourn
rnent. - ""'
10.
9.5
8.8
12.
11.
9.35
14.--v
13.5
11.48
16.
18.5
14.
22.
21.5
18.25
25.9
25.5
21.68
30.
Thfl terminal taxation bill is fast
nearing.the desk. of Governor. Sheldon.
Yesterday the senate adopted tne re
port of a conference committee and the
house will take up tne same repun
this moraine at 9 o'clock. The comer
ence committee made little change in
hp. house amendments. The bill is &
P. No. 261, by Thomas of Douglas. As
amended by the house and the confer
ence committee It provides that local
nsspssnrs shall return to the state
bnnf-ri the value of local tangible prop
rtv of railroads. The state board will
-then value the rolling.. stock and the
intaaigibie property, Including the tran
chise value, and distribute this to cities
and villages under the unit system fc
that each city and village will get the
value per mile in accordance with the
mileage within the corporate limits.
Ashton of Hall, who voted against
the adoption of the report in the sen
ate, said the report was in the right di
rection, but that it gives Omaha the
best -of the bargain in the matter of
local taxation. The local assessors are
required to return to the state board a
description and total length of main
line and all right of way in each city
and village within "the jurisdiction of
the assessor and the value thereof.
good as' it should be.
Jones of Richardson combatted this
statement with the declaration that a
great deal of the Kansas twine is used
in his county and gives good satis
faction. In response to a question, he
said: "Yes, sir, I use it on my own
farm." ' "
Eller of Washington told the house
he was not an agriculturist, but he
thought $200,000 was a good deal of
morfey to sink in a new venture like
the one proposed. As a member of
the special tommitiee named to inves
tigate the matter, Eller stated that he
had seen reports from the state plants
of Minnesota, Kansas and South Da
kota. He thought that the profits in
Minnesota, about which a good deal
had been said, were largely on paper
only. i "
A speech was made by JNoyes oi
Cass in favor of the bill. He said:
"The convicts in the Nebraska pen
itentiary are now employed on con
tract with the Lee Broom Duster
concern, and the state gets GO cents
a day each for their services. I under
stand that in six years this company
has grown from nothing to a valuation
of a million dollars. This looks as
though the state could do something
worth while for itself instead of help
ing to build up a private corporation."
Thiessen of Jefferson said the cheap
convict labor employed in making
brooms did not benefit the people by
giving them any lower prices on the
product, while it enabled the broom
trust to kill all competition, lie had
heard that Kansas, with nearly 1,000
convicts, finds employment for them
the year round in making binding
twine, and that the output; even then
is not enough to supply the farmers
of that state.
This statement was contradicted by
Eller, who said only 150 of the con
victs in Kansas are so employed. De
bate closed at this point and the vote
was taken, resulting in the bill being
sent to the cemetery.
Managers of the trans-continental
railroads running through the state
of Washington will raise the rates
on lumber as a punishment for pass
ing a reciprocal demurrage raw. The
effect of this will be the same as if
the states east were to levy a tariff
on Washington lumber in order to
deprive the people of that state of a
market. It is almost past belief that
the railroad managers think by an
ill-tempered display of arbitrary
power over the commerce of a state
to convince the public - that railroad
regulation is a bad thing.
I THE WORLD
jfgfl) ROPPING prices tending to a
J panic in Wall street produced
little or no perceptible effect on the
general business situation. The sit
uation eased early in the week, after
nearly a billion dollars of value had
been squeezed out of exchange stocks.
Not a single business failure in or
out of the street resulted.
..." Judge Speer of the Georgia federal
bench has sustained the employers'
liability law enacted J)y. the last con
gress. The point at issue is whether
such an act finds warrant in the
authority , of congress to regulate in
terstate commerce. This is the fourth
decision in federal district court on
the point since the law was enacted
To date the score is a tie. Two have
sustained the law, and two have pro
nounced it unconstitutional. The
"rubber" will " be played ' in the su
preme court at an early date, efois
having already been taken to that
purpose. ' v '
Railroad presidents continued how
ever to complain. The four who had
proposed to visit the president after
J. Pierpoint Morgan had gained the
president's consent to a conference,
decided that nothing could be gained
by going and only one, President Mel
len of a New. England road visited
the white house. President Ripley
of the Santa Fe voiced their views,
saying: "I can see no good to come
from a meeting with President Roose
velt such as has been proposed by
J. P. Morgan if the press dispatches
on the subject are correct. The pres
ident must be held responsible for
having started a brush fire that now
apparently has become a conflagra
tion, and while I always have felt
his good oftices to be of the best, to
me it appears to be too late to stop
the fire that is now pretty nearly
burned out. Getting back to the sub
ject of the apparent public hostility
to railroad corporations, there is no
doubt that alone to this feeling must
be charged up the flurry in the New
York financial disaster, and while I
have ho desire to pose as a pessimist so
far as the Santa Fe is concerned we
are prepared to draw in. The Belen
cutoff is nearly completed, and will be
ready for all kinds of railway service
in about three months, and the double
tracking of our lines between Chicago
and Kansas City will not be inter
rupted. Other work of importance,
however, must wait until such time as
money conditions . are more propitious
than they appear to be at present."
The president has not been affected
by these views to the extent of ex
pressing a willingness to forego his
proposed effort to secure an official
physical valuation of the railroads of
the country In order to establish a
basis for rates.
No binding twine plant for the state
penitentiary and no "bucking the har
vester trust" with convict labor.
Kansas and Minnesota may compete
with the octopus, if they wish, but
Nebraska will not tackle the proposi
tion right now.
In the house of representatives yes
terday the Quackenbush bill, appro
priating 5200,000 for construction,
equipment and marketing the product
of a state binding twine factory, was
indefinitely postponed on a close vote.
The measure. H. R. No.' 516. received
a good deal of support from the rural
members, but did not, command their
undivided following anu ior mai rea.
son was beaten. Tho motion in com
mittee of the whole for indefinite
ToHtnonemcnt. made by Ramos of
Douelas. carrkd by u vote of 32 to 29
yuackenbush attempted to reverse
this rcetnmonimtion wnen me com
mittee reported, by moving not to con
Mir. Tho friends of binding twin leg
islation viv.ro ngaln outvoted on this
test of strength.
Hanson of Merrick, who has a far
mer constituency, waa against the bill
He assorted that tho Nebraska cll
mat k too dry for raising hernp of
th rlirht quality, and that th fiber
produced by the product grow.i In this
tat is not strong enough. Tho iam
trouble, he wild, was experienced In
Knnn. where a state binding twine
ninnt is maintained. Tho twrlne, hs
aid, Is a little cheaper, but &
All of the bank.s in the United States
together, according to recent compila
tions, represent a total capitalization,
of $1,700,000,000. They nave besides a
surplus of $1,600,000,000. Their deposits
were $14,000,000,000, making an aggre
gate strength of $17,300,000,000, or one
sixth the total valuation of the country.
All of the other banks in the world to
gether represent but $5,000,000,000 more
than the banks of the United' Statea
alone. Despite the tumbling stocks of
Wall street there seems to be material
for long continued prosperity here,
granting only that it be kept in shape
to be put to prosperity making uses
A little of the old time French
anti-German fervor is proclaimed in
the present touchiness over Morocco.
The Algeciras conference which set
tled, happily as everybody on the out
side supposed, the issues between
France and Germany which threat
ened the peace for a time, did not
after all end the . Moroccan trouble.
Several weeks ago a French journal
ist published some alleged secrets
concerning the Algeciras settlement,
among other things representing Em
peror William as having tried to en
list the United States with him against
France In determining the question
of who should have authority to keep
the Moroccans In order. A German
writer responds with alleged official
records showing the French story to
be entirely without truth. Such dis
cussions have tended to arouse hos
tility. When Dr. Manchamp Is killed
In Morocco It is then as easy for a
Fre nchman to suspect the Germans
of plotting the act as It whs for
American to "remember, the Maine."
The board of arhitriWlon sitting to mt
Just the differences between the South
ern Faclne company sml the rallruad
telegraphers toUy heard tho U.-U ( tho
testimony tnt ml iy tne miernpyn tor
the teletmphem In support t their can.
The Southern 1 atiilo Mitornryu will neu
cemwenre to submit their uJi.u.
The appearance, of Vice President
Fairbanks ' in' Chicago 'Was maile the
occasion for talk of his nomination
for president, and this started discus
sion of possible presidential situations
next year. Mr. Fairbanks is- an
avowed candidate. The legislative
committee of the American medical
association, in pursuit of an object
of their own made inquiry of physi
cians over a large part of the United
States as to the presidential prefer
ences of the people 'in both parties.
According to the Spring-field Repub
lican Dr. Reed, the head of the com
mittee reports that "the trend of opin
ion goes to show that Secretary Tart
is the only distinctively national can
didate of the republican party. Other
candidates have their local followings,
but Taft is heard of from every sec
tion of the United States." Dr. Reed's
correspondents report whole counties
in Indiana and Illinois solid for Taft.
"Senator DaFollctte is mentioned from
Wisconsin, but Trom no other section
of the country. Secretary Root has
a few supporters in New York, but
not outside of that state. Senator
Foraker and all the remainder of those
who have been spoken of in connec
tion with the presidency were only
incidentally mentioned by the doctors
in answer to the circular. William
II. s Taft is the national republican
candidate for president." Here is a
"straw" that is worthy of notice. As
for the democratic side, Dr. Reed savs:
"There doesn't seem to be any demo
crat in the United States except Wil
liam J. Bryan. His was about the only
name mentioned by democratic cor
respondents. Governor Folk of Mis
souri was mentioned, and so was Con
gressman Williams of Mississippi, but
not outside of their respective states."
Other candidates mentioned, largely,
it is supposed, as compliments to lo
cal leaders are Senator Craneof
Massachusetts, Senator Warner of
Missouri, Governor Hughes of New
York and Senator Knox f Pennsyl
vania. Graft disclosures suddenly gave the
news columns the appearance of
"muckraking" days. A grand Jury re
port in San Francisco presented fur
ther exposures of the deeds of the
Uuef political ring operating In that
city. Of the seventeen supervisors of
San Francisco county sixteen wire In
dlctol for taking brlbrs. Franchises
h.ido been fold to railroads, gas ninl
telephone companies, Ituef dividing
the proceeds with tho supervisors but
keeping tho lions share for himself.
A prlise ring monopoly had Item
tTUtU d to u u.iln IndM JuuU f r $-0,-
Mothers! Mothers!! Mothers!!!
firs. Wi lslow's Soothing Syrup
has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MIIv
UONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
While TEETHING, with PERFECT SCCCESSi
It SOOTHES the CHII.D, SOFTENS the GUMS,
AIXAYS sll PAIN ; CURES WIND COIJC, and
is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure
and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothin? Syrup,"
and take no other kind. Twenty-five cts. a bottle.
000. Ruef continued to fight against
being brought to trial, and the trial
had not yet begun at the end of the
week. The trial of ex-Congressman
Binger Hermann of Oregon for com
plicity in land frauds committed while
commissioner of the general land of
fice brought put further striking dis
closures of graft methods. The at
tempted bribing of grand jurors, the
payment of cash to Senator Mitchell
and to an agent of the land depart
ment were acts described by S. A. D.
Puter, a witness who is himself-serving
a term in prison for a part in
land frauds. S. E. Howell, a former
president of the Omaha coal exchange,
an association of local retail dealers,.
was convicted of violating the Ne-,
braska anti-trust laws by his part in
conducting th'j organization, and was
sentenced to six months iiu prison.
Ex-Senator Burton of Kansas com
pleted his term in the Ironton, Mo.,
jail.
Damage from the Ohio river floods
exceeded the early estimates, the loss
in the vicinity of Pittsburg alone
totaling more than five million , dol
lars. While the flood was subsiding"
President Roosevelt announced the
appointment of a commission to pre
pare a comprehensive plan for the
improvement of American waterways
with a view to making them of great
er service is mediums of trans-pjt ty -tion.
The coimn'f s-ion is comprised cf
Chairman Burton of Ohio of the house
committee on rivers and harbors. Sen
ators Newlands . of Nevada and War
ner of Missouri, ex-Congressman
Bankhead of Alabama, General Alex
ander Mackenzie, F. H. Newell, Gif
ford Pinchot and Herbert Knox
Smith. "In creating this commission,"
wrote the president, "I am influenced
by broad considei-ations of national
policy. The control of our navigable
waterways lies with the federal gov
ernment, and carries with it corres
ponding responsibilities ;?,ncJ obliga
tions. The energy of our people has
hitherto been largely directed toward
industrial development connected with
field and forest and with coal and
irojn, and some of these sources of ma
terial and power are already largely
depleted, while our inland waterways
as a whole have thus far received scant
attention. It is becoming clear tl.u
stTeams should be considered and con-
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digestion
The action of diges
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