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TI1K NORFOLK WKKKLY NEWS-JOt'KNAL , FRIDAY , MARCI ! 31 , 1911. Tkt NerfOlk Wwkly News-Journal Tbo NnwH , EHtitbllBhed 1881. The Journal. Established 1877. THE HU8E PUDLI8HING COMPANY W. N. UIIBU N. A. 11 imo , 1'ruHldent. Secretary. Svory Friday. Hy mull per ycur , $1.50. Entered ut tlio poatoJllco at Norfolk , Neb. , ( in second clans mutter. TcluphnnuR : Kdltorlnl Uopurtmont No. 22. HiiHint'HH Ofllco and Job HOOIIIB. No. 1122. Wltli u nmn by the ntimc of Spry as governor , the atuto of Utah ought to go Borne. To roclprocato or not to reciprocals thut'H the question thut will soon bo tip to congreBB'for settlement. No horse racing In Now York this season , but no one interferes much In the mad race between the autolsts and death. The pay of the Missouri legislature boa been reduced to $1 a day , and if they take a spurt they may bo able to arn the money. The philosophers who call for sweet ness and light can now Ilnd it by hunt ing up a red haired girl eating the new maple sugar. The effect of the packers' immunity bath has run out. Like the small boy , they find that ono Saturday night doeu not do U once tor all. Dr. Mary Walker would bo the high est mark of statesmanship In the Now York senatorship for many years , with ono or two bright exceptions. After many years , England haa erected a Btatuo to General Wolfe , the bravo and brilliant soldier who won Canada for tlio British in 1759. The supply of broom corn has been turned at Charleston , 111. , but the bald headed end of the favorite kitchen weapon still remains formidable. Tt Is reported that a member of the Now York legislature seconded n mo tion to adjourn for luncheon the other day without asking Charllo Murphy. Governor Wilson of Now Jersey will get his electoral reform bill passed. Ho entertains the obsolete notion that It is the business of a governor to gov ern. Vice President Corral of Mexico goes to Europe for his health. If ho wants a complete rest , ho should come up here and take Vice President Sher man's place. If our soldiers down in Texas could but flnd some way to persuade Senator Bailey to resign for good , wo should pay our bills for the maneuvers with out a murmur. Arbitration with Franco Is now pro posed. Things are getting so plagued friendly that Uncle Sam may never get a chance to use those $10,000,000 armorclad playthings of his. A man at Hethlebem , Pa. , claims the piano playing prize , with a record of thirty hours 15 minutes , but some of the artists in our neighborhood have frequently bested that figure. A Kansas couple who married recently - cently attested to the growing quali ties of the soil of the state. The groom was seven feet four inches tall and the bride six feet five inches. I No war with Mexico unless congress I declares it. As congress won't bother with such trifles until the patronage is carved up , we shall not need to hire a substitute until next fall , anyway. It Is said that J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller have commanded Presi dent Diaz to retire , but ho seems to be one of those men who have no re spect for the constituted authorities. Americans are fast returning from Mexico. It may seem slow for them around here , but you can be reason ably sure that your business olllce won't bo converted into kindling wood at present. They have got gold ore at Washoe , Nov. , worth $20.000 a ton , but the real strike conies when eastern investors pay $20,000 for those handsome litho graphs entitling them to a few square yards of sagebrush. General Ileyes of Mexico laughs at the idea of tlio United States army invading that country and adds , "America will have Japan to reckon with should she get entangled in war with another power. " It is now claimed by some of the war jingoes that there are over 60,000 Japanese in Lower California and that it Is through fear of their influence over Mexico that the American army was mobilized in Texas. The public still buys lower Bleeping car berths , though they cost more. The fathers made money by tolling laboriously across the plains in prairie schooners , the luxurious sons spend it to save a four-foot climb. Fifty million cubic yards of dirt yet to be dug at Panama. Now If the small boys of America would only gn down there and dig their bait for the lolling season , Uncle Sam could get It nil spaded up for nothing. President Tnft IB trying to save the country $300,000,000 a year , but with the pension and public building claim ants clamoring , It Is Bimply changing holes through which the money shall drop. Jack Johnson linn a skull nearly three-quarters of an Inch thick. This must he a line arrangement for any one. The arguments of the people who differ with you would not bother you then. President Taft assures the Jap am bassador that we are good friends of his country. The only thing that could ever persuade Japan to attack us Is the constant display of fear of such an event by seine folks. Champ Clark says that the demo cratlc party presents a united front. The new democratic leader wants to watch very closely lest some ambl tloun statesmen In his own party doesn't start a flre in the rear. The president of a great manufac tuning concern said in a recent address dross : "Men in the mass are easy and cheap to get , but the supply of high priced men men of training , ca pacity , character , integrity , industry and ambition is always far short of the demand. " With all the war preparations that are going on at the present time in every one of the great and powerful nations of the earth , it begins to look as If they were all determined that peace should prevail , oven if they are obliged to get into a general scrim mage to bring it about During the past several years the United States has created forest re serves in twenty states , all of which are west of the Mississippi , except Michigan and Florida. The Appala chian mountain reserve gives New England , the middle and southern states a just and deserved share in the benefits of this wise policy. There has been quite a change in Lo , the poor Indian , since the days when Cooper wrote his Leather Stock ing Tales. The Crow Indians , who own fine farms , good horses , modcn : farm machinery and educate their children , now aspire to tungsten lights and have engaged a contractor to build them on electric light plant. The iteration and reiteration o friendship of Japan to the United States by Baron Uchida , the Japanese minister , on the one bond , and that o President Taft telling of the friend ship of the United States for Japan show more clearly than anything else the mutual suspicion of each nation toward the other at the present time The son of the Hungarian states man , Count Apponyi , is to be educatet in an American college , because his father thinks that will surely make i man of him. Let us hope the fathc will not be disappointed. That is wha American colleges are designed to make of their students , but after al much depends on the material in the boy who enters these institutions , as many parents have discovered to their sorrow. The postofllce authorities have gath ered in a fellow named Munroe , who through the medium of circulars mall ed In New York , succeeded in swind ling the public out of large sums o money. Munroo's specialty was "wire less stock" which his circular describ ed as paying heavy dividends , and the suckers jumped in at it end bough the stock in very large blocks. These people deserve very little sympathy as they have been warned by the newspapers time and time again note to indulge in the luxury of throwing away their money in thia way. It la high time that more drasti laws were enacted in the many state of the union regulating the operation of employment agents. There are many unscrupulous men In the largo cities engaged in the employment bus ness who take advantage of every op portunity to rob the laborer lookin for work. Chicago , perhaps , contain more of these swindlers than any othe city in the country. A short time ag some Russian Poles arrived In Omah frora that city. They stated that the had paid $7 apiece for a job to a Ch caf.o labor agent , who told them tha a man would meet them at the Omah depot and furnish them work. Ther was no man there , neither could the tlnd work. This is but ono of Ui many instances which are of dally occurrence currenco throughout the country and the scoundrels who dope the men who are looking for work are rarely pun ished. THE SCHOOL BONDS. Norfolk people are asked' to vote 125,000 school bonds at the coming election , April 4. And it goes without saying that the bonds will carry with a practically unanimous vote. Norfolk never yet has failed to take care of its children by way of adequate schools , and it will not fall now. OKLAHOMA BANK GUARANTY. Just as the Nebraska bank guaranty law is coming into effect , Oklahoma is dealing the law the worst blow it has had. The application of state banks tu that state to bo converted into na tional banks Is greatly increasing , the Bankers declaring that they are being orced to support reckless banking nterprlHOR , to the great expense of outid banking methods. TO IMPROVE COUNTY FAIRS. John Hamilton , farmers' Institute specialist of the United States depart- limit of agriculture , has just prepared a report advocating government helper or county fairs. His ideas are prin cipally along the line of using those airs to demonstrate the results of scientific farming to unprogrcsslvo ng- Iculturlsts. The principal trouble with these airs is not necessarily that vaudeville shows , balloon ascensions and horse rotting are so prominent. After the solemn isolation of cross-roads or hill town life , let the farmer have his hour of fun once a year. The worst of the fairs is their len iency to routine. When the same old cattle from the same old bams from the Bamo old faruiB receive the same old premiums every year , the effect on good farming la not very impressive. What is needed is to make the farm er see that by using the facto of mod ern science , ho can make his &oll and bin domestic animals more productive. CORPORATION INSINCERITY. Managers of the great railroad and other corporations complain bitterly because of the hostile attitude of the public. But what are they doing to make the public believe in their good faith and sincerity ? While the railroad rate decision was pending , the railroad magnates pro dieted the most terrible things as tU result of an adverse decision. What has been the. result measured by the slock market thermometer ? Before the recent decision was made public February 23 , the .average of twenty loading railroad stocks was 119.16. Last Saturday the market for the same stocks closed at 116.86. Stock market authorities would be more likely to attribute even this slight fluctuation to uncertainty about what the new congress will do , than to this decision. With these lamentable prediction so thoroughly set at naught , is it any wonder that people want to have their bill for railroad transportation read over to them before they pay it ? SECTIONAL TARIFF MAKING. The success of the democrats in winning so nearly a complete control of congress for the first time In six teen years , raises the question wheth er they will be able to avoid making a sectional tariff. Historically the democratic party used to present a fairly united front on tariff making. Their congressmen represented largely sections of conn try where manufacturing industries were not well developed , and where the benelits of protection were indi rect rather than direct. The scattering of cotton and other mills all over the south , however , has crealed a lot of protectionist senti ment in that section. It remains to bo seen whether any of the democrats if so , how many , are willing to bo influenced fluonced by considerations other than the demands or needs of their own dis tricts. Just as this country could never re main half slave and half free , so you never can create a lasting tariff thai hands out favors to one state or dls trict and leaves its next door neigh bor exposed to the cold blast of low cost labor competition. Fervid fountains of eloquence gusl up from the hearts and mouths of our democratic chieftains over the crimes of Schedule K. Does any one believe however , that if woolen mills were as common in the democratic slates as cotton mills are , that there would be very much said from this quarter about the wool duties ? The people want this tariff business settled just as the railroad rate ques tion was settled , by an impartial tri bunal. They are sick of having highly protected manufacturers dictate terms to committees of politicians who do not know , or who do not take the pains to get at , the true bottom facia of produclion cost But on the othe hand , they believe that the produce is entitled to equal treatment with the consumer , regardless of how his dis trict votes election day. LOANING MONEY TO CHINA. The agreement of China to giv American bankers a one-fourth slmn of the $50,000,000 loan for its new uni form system of coinage , industrial and banking enterprises in Manchuria etc. , is another step in the. growing Influence of America in Chinese af fairs. fairs.The The straightforward , if "shirt-sleeve diplomacy , " by which two years ago we became a factor in financing China's now development , was a shoe ! to the slippery ana secretive diplo macy of Europe. As one Chines scholar expressed it , "When the Amer leans drink wine they do not talk tea when they drink tea , they talk tea when they drink wine , they talk wine. The average American IB eomewha mystified why the loaning of $12,500 000 to China causes such passional fooling and such throbbing of the tc egraph wires. Seemingly it is o scarcely more importance than th financing of some branch railroad tha is dismissed by a two line item. But the control of trade along new highways of commerce into the rlc heart of the Orient , the powers o financial and political control given I case of default of obligations , has aused an ardent scramble for this rlvlloge of credltorshlp. I'p to 1909 Great Britain , Germany nd Franco shared these privileges ex- luslvoly. Conditions were usually rc- ulrcd making the now railroad prac- Ically a foreign lino. China bound and and foot to pay ItH debtH. Our claim for a share In the1909 oiut was based on an agreement of 903 , for an equal share In Himnelng ho now lines out of Han-Kow , China's ; roatest Industrial center. The bitter- loss with which the three European governments referred to our partlcl- mtion as the "hold-up of a highway- nan , " continued the belief that there vas more In the game than appeared m the face of the table. And when 'resident Taft shocked Chinese and diplomatic otlquot by a telegram of irotest dlroct to the Chinese regent , ho dust of centuries ( lew out of the rod tape. The signing of an agreement May J3 , 1910 , for nn equal share for our bankers in the original Han-Kow loan , established a valuable precedent The equal share for us in the agreement announced this week came consequent- y with less difficulty. MEXICO'S CHRONIC UNREST. The purpose of the administration n sending troops to Texas now be- cornea fairly clear. American lives and property were In danger , it was felt , and our soldiers should be where congress could move them promptly f necessary. The present revolt is partly a na- ural uprising of democratic aspira tion against a despotism. But some thing more than democratic aspiration s needed to malm life and property safe. safe.One One observer said of Mexico's orig- nal independence , "Tho Mexicans fought like demons for freedom , and then did not know what to do with it when they got it. " Superficially a Mexican city bears the appearance of a highly civilized community , with handsome public archlteclure , trolleys , water supply , ight systems. But underneath there R a racial stock from Spanish and In dian origins that lacks any prepara tion for self government. The people are not interesled in polilics. They do not gather at the corner grocery ind spread knowledge of public prob- ems to the remotest cross-roads , while village orators make the cracker bar rels rattle. Instead , when men gather at their cafes and lounging places , they dis cuss the Iheater and personal gossip. Desiring to test their political information mation , a traveler asked a hotel waiter as to who was mayor of the City of Mexico. "Poriflrio Diaz. " was the re ply. "No , hb's president , " said the tourist. "Is he , I'll go ask , " said the waiter. He then brought back the name of a man who was not mayor , but president of the federal district. A similar inquiry in other restaurants brought equally ignorant replies. When President Taft and President Diaz met at El Paso , It was believed by many of the common people that Diaz had sold Mexico to the Ameri cans. Prices and details were given. With thia popular ignorance , It looks aa If the present unrest might be chronic. Shall our army be kept on guard indefinitely along the fron tier , if thia threat of trouble continues ? But perhaps a skillful distribution of office among the leaders of the insur rection will satisfy them. Then the rank and file might go back to their cafes and cigarettes and lose interest in politics. DIVORCES WHILE YOU WAIT. The way to the divorce court is made broad by Nevada's now law , and many there will be who will go in thereat. Governor Oddle of that state has the past week signed the "time lock" act , providing as the solo requi site for jurisdiction that the plaintiff shall have been for six months within the county whore the action Is brought Aa absences for emergency reasons are permitted , the smart set may find these six months rigors much softened by brief flittings to New York for the requisite high jinks. The divorce law guide books , fre quently bethumbed among the smart set , must now give Nevada squarely the lead in the business of manufac turing divorces while you wall. Ne braska has long fallen behind , on account - count of prohlbllion of remarriage within a year. A heartless legislature in South Dakota recently passed a law that required a year's residence. So the kind and .sympathetic . Judges , the divorce lawyers with the signs omni present , the theaters , grill rooms and automobiles of that state's colony , must eventually sink back into the palo monotony of the Dakota prairie. Idaho still remains , where but six months' residence is also required , and nothing Is sold about remarrying. But Idaho sounds even more barbarous and bushy than Reno. The divorce business was a great industry in South Dakota , and it will be even more BO in Nevada. There one will see French maids jostling el bows with greasy Mexicans and black bearded miners. Money will bo sown broadcast in order to make existence liveable at so great a distance from the Great White Way. The divorcee clement will bo more at home than it ever was in South Da kota. In the latter , the towns had for background the substantial industry of the American farmer. The poodle carrying and fluffy hobble sklrtod col ony always seemed nn exotic wholly foreign to its setting. Reno's gamb ling joints , its high play tit cards , Its atmosphere of the quick spending of easily gotten money , will seem strong ly reminiscent of the Tenderloin and Monte Carlo. The divorce colony has come to Its own. AROUND TOWN. Another sign of spring : The flies are here. Swat 'cm. And remember this : Every fly you swat NO\V , means exterminating many millions of the little pests for later in the season. The quicker you gel the screens on. the less HwnttliiK you'll have to do. Wo were going to remark that .spring chickens are another sign of spring , but they're not. You can get spring chickens on the dining ears , any season of the year. The chickens are a sign of one thing , though. They're a sign that you've just planted grass seed and thai II won't stay more than an hour or so where it was planted. Now the question is , how do those otherwise stupid chickens know just where you've planted each little grass seed ? And what good can the seed do , planted in their craws ? Why don't they let the lawn grow whore it was designed to grow ? And what possible advantage , when II comes to market ing , do Ihey Ihlnk a grass-seed-fcd chicken woujd possess ? Of course the chickens solve one problem. You won't have to hlro a boy to mow the lawn If the chickens do their duty when the seeds are planted. It's a dull day when there isn'.t a bank robbery or a train robbery in Kansas. We're a little ashamed and just a Htlle sorry for calling attention earlier in the month , to tlio fact that there hadn't been any March winds. At least , we regret we didn't knock on wood. What's become of the promise to build a new Union Pacific depot by June 1 , 1910 ? Didn't that promise mean anything ? Take down the storm door. We thought the furnace golf season was over , till we- had to buy another ton of furnace golf balls Saturday. Those March winds can lei up any old lime they want to , for all we care. And we do hope they'll quit before the teachers get here for the teachers - ors * sake. ( No , Iherc's no stJng in that remark. ) Three years ago we got into trouble with the teachers by an ill timed line , and we hope nothing that is printed in this column this year will be taken by the visitors to mean anything not anything at all. A news item says : "Doctor kills two men. " "Thai's nothing , " a Norfolk man says , "I know a doctor who has killed hundreds. " Wo took ours off lasl week our storm windows and drew a blizzard. But we DID beat tbo flies to it. Pulling up screens saves swatting 'em. It's been going oul like a lion , all right All of which proves that this col umn was right a month ago when it remarked that the entrance was lamb like. Another sign of spring : The teach ers are back. The teachers and the robins and the blue birds and the ducks always come back at the some time of year , and when they arrive wo begin to look around for a new straw hat We're always glad to see fcho robins when they get here , but Oh , you school ma'ams ! There's this difference , too , between the teachers and the robins : The rob ins never change , bul Ihe teachers grow better looking every year of their lives. You're welcome. Keep the change. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. The only thing some people will borrow Is trouble. A man who does lots of talking also does a lot of explaining. Some men are a long lime gelling anywhere , no malter where. Do your duty without fear or favor , and become known as a knocker. A woman sharpens a pencil as awk wardly as a man threads n needle. When people are straggling to keep up appearances everyone knows about it. You are not as good as you thinker or as bad as your enemies consider you. Homely men are often flattered by being told that they have good pro files. That Santa Clans Htory Isn't the only ono put over on the children ; a smart farmer can convince his prog eny that burning corn stalks nt night is n pastime Instead of overt Imo. Somehow wo never had the lionrt to joke men when now babies arrive it their homes. Some women can say " 1 don't euro ! " In a tone that plainly Indicates they care a great deal. In every town there are some wom en whom grocery clerks dread to BOO oino In the storo. No ono who uses them seems to lake very qooil care of typewriters or farm Implements. It IK a reasonably safe bet that tlio devil Isn't leading all the people who follow him around. CoiiHldering UH much uclvoi lined modesty , the llrsl violet attracts a good deal of attention. An AtohlBon woman's proud boast ! K that she never glances * In when passing a barber .shop. After a boy passed fifteen he occa sionally complimontH something be sides something to eat. What has become * of the old-fash ioned woman who used to talk about "breaking in" a corset ? A man who can drive eight horses in ono team , naturally feels pretty proud of the achievement. Women never run oul of something to talk about ; probably for the reason that they don't need much. Ever know a disagreeable old man who always begun the day by com plaining about the weather ? People are such good detectives that there Isn't much difference between character and reputation. Most of the recipes for living to be a hundred years old don't give ono time to do much of anything else. What has become of the old-fash ioned party who argued that no pitch er could throw a "curve ball ? " Suggestion to the moving picture makers : Why not introduce a few Indians and phoney cowboys ? No branch line was ever so excellent that it failed to get the contempt of people living on the main stem. Speaking of contempt , have you ever heard of a Poland China hog man finding fault with Duroc-.Ter.seys ? The man who gambles , plays craps or the board of trade. Is always tell ing his friends how unlucky he is. Although a good many men are charged with perjury , very few arc convicted. What does that prove ? It is considered indelieato to say tea a widow , still in weeds , that you have heard she is to bu married again. Some country towns are so dull that n baptism in the nearby creek is count ed something of a sporting event. When a man deserves both barrels , and gets them , ho shouldn't try to convince the public he is a martyr. It is well lo remember that there is just as much competition in any other business as there Is in your business. A bartender's idea of fashion is most anything which will afford \ suitable background for his diamonds. Lettuce , not being particularly pal atable or nourishing , is something al most any amateur gardner can raise. Saying you are as good as any body else doesn't get you a great many invitations or salary increases. A good many men have fooled them selves when they thought they could fool the public and make money at it. Although it may be true that money cannot win love , it seems to be able to try-out a large line of samples in that line. It may be said of the gradualo of Iho Keeley instllute that he doesn't wear his class colors on his hat band. What you do is agood deal more convincing than what you say , re gardless of your reputation for ver aeity. In a small country town , aristocracy is usually judged by the class of people ple who stop at a two dollar a day hotel. The average woman Is wholly un able to understand why a train should leave at 3:58 : instead of exactly 4 o'clock. I Some men don't hunt because they are too lazy to hunt anything but Iho sunny side of the street or the shady side , according to conditions of the weather. An Atchlson man Is laklng a cor respondence COUTBO In dolecllvo work. In America educallonal facllllics are peerless. When a woman has only a few ad jectives , she makes Ihem work hard enough to make up for the lack of numbers. Once in awhllo an unusual investi gating committee surprises the world by finding oul something the world didn't know before the investigation began. Among the various Installment en terprises , you may have observed that some men go broke that way , while others keep broke by the tmmo pro cess. Women have no monopoly on cur iosity , as you can fliui out by keeping a secret from u man after ho coin ft dark hint. Thirty dollars a month probably , doesn't look iw large to anyone ulno- la the world as It does to Homo country/ school boards. An out-of-town man OWOH Count. Mcto\vau ( Homo money. "I'm tired otl waiting HO I'm going to have the bank send him a 'slight draft. ' " mild thu count thin morning. After reading the nmga/.lnoH some inonthK , ono IM Inclined to wnndor what IH their hurry to arrive Hovoral weeks ahead of tltuu. If the parsnip didn't have the ad vantage of reporting for duty at a time when other vegetables are scarcu It would probably become extinct When a man with plenty of curb hair says ho wishes his hair wan straight , that Is his way of tryiun ; not to be proud of his crown of glory * Daughter's education in froquontlr acqulrod in n manner which doesn't , give her much of a show to accumu late a little common sense along will * It. llelonglng to the army has its din- advantagoH , but there IH always Homo amusement for the soldlor ; thn militia always atlraotK more or attention. Adam was the first bum sport , but ] there have boon a good many men like him since , given to blaming tholn trouble on the women after they were found out Every man knows that the millinery opening and housecleaning come in the spring , although many are too busy to keep tab on the vlolot and the bluebird. "First Lessons in English. " an taught in the schools , are not profane , ' . as one might infer from a Mexican \ track laborer's early efforts to con quer our language. Burned Doctor Was from Ewing. Ewing , Neb. , March 29. Special to The News : Dr. 1) . E. Morris , u promi nent physician of Aurora , Mo. , who with his four children were burned to death In their dwelling early Monday morning on account of which appear ed in The News telegraphic column * yesterday , was the second son of D. T. Morris of Ewing. The sad news reached hero In a tele gram to Mr. Morris. It appears that the family woke up only to find that the flames had out off all avenues of escape. A mattress was quickly thrown to the ground by the husband and the mother and daughter lowered in safety. Succeeding in this the doc tor frantically rushed to nn adjoin ing room to roscno hiH other four chil dren when the floor gave way and all wont down In the seething hell of flame. Mr. Morris has the genulnn sympathy of the entire communlly in his sad extreiuily. I hi lefl on this morning's early train for Iho homo of. his lamented son. Think Boys Killed Cohn. Omaha , March 29. Thrco boys , al ( giving their ago as 17 years , were nr- rrsted last night charged with petit larceny and evidence unearthed later makes the police bellevo they are the murderers of Herman II. Cohn , who- J was killed near his homo last Satur day night , and also the perpetrators of a number of hold-ups in the north ern part of the city during the last few weeks. The boys are Lemuel Tiggs , alias L. Andrews ; Carl Deland and Henry Stclngger and they all came from St. Louis , Mo. , wheru according to a let ter from Tiggs to Deland , written in January , they belonged to a gang of thieves and murderers. Considerable plunder which they ad mit was stolen was found In their room at 3171 , " North Fifteenth street. They give conflicting accounts or their actions on Saturday night andi in a general way they answer the de scription of the Corn murderers. The police are subjecting them to a rigid examination. The Commission Plan is Beaten. Lincoln , March 29. Efforts to reconsider consider and rescind thu action of the house in passing the $100,000 appro priation for a state medical school at Omaha failed after the house had spout half the forenoon In considering ; It. The representatives took the atti tude that It was too late to fight it over again. The senate passed H. R. 86 , appro priating $50,000 for a wing for the Kearney normal school. The bill is now ready for the governor. In committee of Iho whole Ihc senate - ate indefinitely postponed Skilos' II. R. 935 , providing a commission form of government for cities of 5,000 or over. Quackenbush's Pet Bill Killed. In the house II. R. 402 , by Quacken- bush , providing for the election of supreme premo judges by dlslricls and Iho se- locllon of a chief jusllco by the jus tices was lost by 48 lo 48. It required a constitutional amendment and there fore 60 votes , to past ) . The general county assessors' bill , fixing salaries in conformity with the late census and making it optional with tha counties whether they have the office of assessor was passed lu the house this morning by 7C to 10. Placek's Bill Goes Over. Placok's re-apportionment ball came up in the senate yesterday and at the end of a period of discussion was put over for a day. The senate passed 8. F. 308 , by Tib- bottH , providing that salaries of vil lage trustees shall bo $50 a year. Want-advertise in The Newu.
