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Keep on boosting! majority over Bryan forty thouwnd! Make Taft's in Nebraska Speaking of "get-rich-quick" schemes, running for president appears to be about the quickest If Jim Latta only spent $o50 in his primary campaign, then there is a big hunch of cheap skate Democrats in this congressional district. As an editor and presidential can didate Mr. Bryan should take the lead in demanding a law to guarantee newspaicrs against loss from delin quent subscribers. George W. Berge got what every one expected he would get. The Bryanites never had any use for a populist except his vote to boost Democrats into office. Candidate Tail is going to tour the country and will probably speak in Nebraska. Later on "Teddy" is ex pected to get into the game. Then the political pot will boil. If Mr. Bryan approves the methods adopted in this congressional district to secure the nomination of Latta, then Guify should le commended for his "fine work" in Pennsylvania. Dan V. Stephens says, "Senator Latta can help Bryan carry the state." Check Book Jim's success in securing a congressional nomination appears to have strengthened Stephens' faith in the barrel. Geo. W. Berge received the Popu list nomination for Governor and Banker Shalleuberger is the choice of the Democrats. Now what will Berge do remain in the field, or withdraw at the dictation of Bryau? Jim Dahlmau has his knife out and it is surmised that when he gets ready to use it, it will be used on some one higher up in the ranks of the party than Congressman Hitchcock. Jim comes from a breed of cow boys that never forgets a wrong or forgives an injury. In 1896, John Barrett, now editor of the Verdigre Citizen, spent $750 out of his own pocket to assist in carrying Knox county for Bryan. Wonder how much John is going to put into the political pot this year to boost the Great Repudiator of Para mount Issues. Mr. Bryan's statement at Peoria, 111., last Thursday that he is worth $150,000, does not correspond with the assessor's books of Lancaster county, which indicates that he is worth only $87,000. Possibly Mr. Bryan neg lected to list with the assessor $63,000 of the property he actually owns. From the date of George Washing ton's inauguration as president up to the present time the American people have never been humiliated by the spectacle of a candidate for the great office of president, either begging or accepting contributions for the furth erance of his campaign. To what depth has Bryan brought us. Silver Creek Sand. That old, old story, that has been used against every Republican candi date for President since 1872, has arrived. It was a little late, owing to its' great age and infirmities in reach ing here this time, but it has put in its appearance at last Here it is: "Tail says a dollar a day is enough for any laboring man." Of course Candidate Taft never made any such statement. With the Republican, Democratic, Independent, Prohibition and Socialist candidates for President touring the country in palace cars, the rails of transportation hot with rolling trains and the average price of farm products the highest the country has ever seen in time of peace, times, my country men, are not as bad as Mr. Bryan is attempting to make the voters believe. LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. When. the Democratic party was in full control of the government during the second administration of Grover Cleveland, and when Mr. Bryen was a member of the House, did he intro duce bills to incorporate into law any of the various alleged reforms he now advocates? With the single exception of tariff reform, or rather an attempt on his part to have a bill reported by the Ways and Means committee along the lines of free trade, he made no effort to introduce any of the other hobbies he is now howling about. He was silent on government ownership, guarantee of bauk deposits and every other question he now pretends to favor. It will be remembered that in his speech in favor of the Wilson Bryan tariff bill, before the senate had so altered that measure that it looked like a crazy quilt, he illustrated his remarks by alluding to a drummer boy in the French army. At the bat tle of Marengo, when the contest look ed dark for the French and the Aus trian were pressing them hard, Napo leon ordered a drummer boy (so Bryan said) to beat a retreat In response to the order tho boy said he had never been taught to beat a retreat, and then there rolled forth from his drum the order for a charge. The command issued from the drum was obeyed. The French army advanced and the enemy was swept from the field. Mr. Bryan meant to infer by this allusion to the Drummer Boy of Marengo that he never retreated in the face of the enrmy or abandoned the field until victory had been achieved. Mr. Bryan's record since that 8eech has not been in harmony with the patriotic action of the Drummer Boy of Marengo. When he charged with his free silver army in 1896, he was crushed and humiliated, but man aged to organize another mob in 1900 and hurl it against the well disciplined and trained soldiers commanded by General Mark Hanna, and this time he was completely subdued, and after mourning over the corpse of free silver the Democratic party interred the remains at St. Louis four years later with the crown of thorns on its coffin, and erected a cross of gold over its resting place. Mr. .Bryan has abandoned, after being thoroughly licked, nearly every ism he has brought forward as a para mount issue. Four years hence the things he now advocates will have been abandoned and something new intro duced in the attempt to hoodwink and befog the minds of the voters. The people of this country are not yet ready to turn over the affairs of the nation to an experimentalist who has been discredited in the past and whose elevation to the presidential chair would turn back the dial of time to the midnight of commercial depresr sion and business stagnation. Let well enough alone! The Methodists of the Danville, (III.) congressional district, assisted by President Gomphers of the Federation of Labor, are fighting the re-election of Uncle Joe Cannon. This is not the first instance where the Methodists have attempted to defeat the election of a congressional candidate in an Illinois district In 1846 Abraham .Lincoln was nominated for congress by the Whigs. The Democratic can didate was Peter Cartwright, an elo quent Methodist preacher, and a man who believed in the slavery of the negro. The fight against Lincoln was one of the most bitter ever waged against a candidate in Illinois. Lin coln was called an Infidel and a Black Abolitionist by Cartwright and his Methodist followers. Lincoln was overwhelmingly elected, being the only Whig candidate on the Illinois delegation who made good at the polls that year. The chances are that Can non, too, will receive the endorsement of his constituents at the polls. When any particular church enters politics and attempts to dictate the election of a candidate on religious grounds it usually creates sympathy for the can didate assailed, and sympathy means votes. Why is it that a Democratic politi cian is always talking about "buytng things cheaper." If free trade makes things cheaper, it necessarily follows that wages will be cheaper, corn cheaper, wheat cheaper and meat cheaper. If you are in favor of cheaper farm products, vote for the cheap can didate of the cheap party that is always whining for a reduction in everything except the salary received for holding office. A Columbus man, whose business brings him in contact with the farmers of Platte county, reports that three- fourths of our German citizens living in the country are opposed to Bryan and Bryanism and will vote for Taft. The farmers of Nebraska are not doing much talking, but lots of thinking, and the more they think the stronger they grow in their determination to vote for the Republican candidate. THAT TIB 6 Dl The Question Is-"Where Did Tou Get It, Mr. William Jennings Bryan?" Two weeks ago Mr. Norman E. Mack, national manager for Mr. Bryan, and per incident, a parsonage on uneasy vera cities, was discovered by the nonary handed ones about him to be officially in possession of three hundred thousand dollars. Id explaining these riches Mr. Maok was so fatuous as to say that "It was left over from the Parker management of 1904" a management whose name was bankruptcy and un psidjbills from itscradel to its grave. The Examiner was at prompt pains to explode the foolish story put forward by Mr. Mack in accounting for his posses sion of the three hundred thousand. It wasn't difficult to explode, since no one believed it. Angered by the gauzy weakness of the Maok explanation, Mr. Bryan called that unguarded gentleman to Omaha and re buked him. Thereupon the humbled Mr. Mack came forth and said that the three hundred thousand was not 'left over by the Parker management of 1904;" and later, Mr. Bryan, by way of emphas is, himself repeated the statement. Since Mr. Mack was the only one who ever gave "the Parker management of 1904," as the source of that three hund red thousand; and since no one believed him when he eaid it; and since the Ex aminer plainly showed the statement to be false, these double denials by Mr. Mack and Mr. Bryan were as unnecess ary as on Mr. Mack's part they were inconsistent Nota Bate: On that Omaha occasion both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Maok were at pains not to deny Mr. Mack's possession of the the three hundred thousand dollars. Likewise they most carefully omitted anything resembling a reply to the Ex aminer's question: "Where did you get "Let the people rule" was not coined by Mr. Bryan. Like the "cross of gold" and the "crown of thorns" it is not original with the Great Repudiator of His Own Theories. In 1824, when Jackson was a candidate for President the first time, he shouted on the stump, probably as loud as Bryan does now, "Let the people rule!" And the peo ple did rule. They defeated Jackson and elected John Quincy Adams. Four years later, the people ruled again, and elected Jackson. Then the rule of the people ceased for eight years and Jackson ruled. During his administration he proclaimed what has since become dear to every Democratic heart,"to the victor belongs the spoils." That's why Democrats always cele brate the birthday of "Old Hickory." Jackson, not Jefferson, was the real founder of the Democratic party. It was not until after the civil war that Jefferson was alluded to with respect by Democrats especially southern Democrats who regarded him as an abolitionist and a foe of slavery and the slave traffic. When a- Democratic orator desires to strengthen any question he attempts to discuss he frequently quotes, or misquotes, Abraham Lincoln. Just now there comes from Democratic sources the statement that Lincoln was not a protectionist, but favored a tariff for revenue only. Those who are reasonably familiar with the polit ical history of Lincoln before the War of the Rebellion know that his tariff views have been misstated by the Bryanites. On March 1, 1843, at a Whig meeting held in Springfield, Lincoln introduced several resolutions; one of them related to the tariff, and was as follows: Resolved, That a tariff of dnties on imported goods, producing sufficient revenue for the payment of the neces sary expenditures of the National Gov ernment, and so adjusted as to protect American industry, is indispensably necessary to the prosperity of the Amer ican people. Doesn't read like the tariff plank in the Denver platform, does it? When Uncle Joe Cannon casually remarked that Candidate Bryan was something of a plutocrat himself, the Nebraskan became indignant and denied the charge, stating that he was not worth more than $150,000. Yet with this large amount at his com mand Mr. Bryan's Platte county ad mirers are passing the hat around in the rural districts begging for money to help "Poor Bill." A month ago $10.50 was reported as having been raised for Bryan in Platte county. Since that time C. A. Whaley and Findley Howard have chipped in, raising the amount to $16.50. Who says that Platte is the banner Demo cratic county of Nebraska? The retail merchants of Lincoln have registered a kick because country visitors who attended the state fair did not "buy more." The fair is a state institution, supported by state money and was not intended as a trade boost ing project for Lincoln business men. Perhaps it would be just as well if the next legislature refused to vote money to the fair association. If Lincoln wants a state fair let the business men of that city pay for it, and not tax every county in the state for something that benefits Lincoln exclusively. BED TKUO it, Mr. Bryan J" Yesterday Mr. Mack -whose bragging weakness ia to talk emerged from those thickets of sileooe and mendacity in which, since the Bryan rebuke of a fort night ago, he has beea biding, and began boasting afresh of the eampaign riches in his hands. The original discovery, he admitted, was true; he did have that three hundred thousand. Mr. Ryan ia far away in Europe. He would like to be in New York for the Bryau campaign; but the street railway ontrsges of anti-transfer sort now in pro gress, outrages by which he is pillaging the pnblic to fill his pockets, render bis absence in Europe most highly advisa ble. Mr. Ryan is away, but Mr. Bryan's many jackals and many millions remain. Also, Mr. Ryan's anxiety to add the White House to what pieces of politcal real estate the New York City Hall and Albany State House, for example he already owns is quite as keen as when he put forward his now attorney, Mr. Parker, for the Presidency a short four years ai;o. Mr. Ryau has been ever one who made money talk. Wanting a President, be, would expect to pay the price. Indeed, since bis wisdom begins and ends at money he wonld know no other way in which to get a President. Once, too, he gave Mr. Bryan fifteen thousands dollars by way of a Senate boost. Wherefore, remembering all these Bryan-Ryan things, and hearing that glad yesterday cry from Mr. Mack re commending his possession of that vexed three hundred thousand, the Examiner is constrained to ask again and this time it hopes no evasion will be resorted to where did yon get it, Mr. Bryan? Chicago Examiner. THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF. Mr. Bryan, in his tour of the state fairs, at which the American farmers are making the greatest exhibitions in history and showing a prosperity more abundant than has come to the agri cultural population of any other coun try, is making a determined effort to convince the farmers that they are really downtrodden and suffering untold ills on account of the oppress ive burdens placed upon them by the Dingley tariff. In his speech at the North Dakota state fair Mr. Bryan promised, if elected, to call an extra session of congress to revise the tariff and relieve them of its exacting bur den. The fact that he could accom plish nothing in the way of tariff revision at an extra session is immate rial. In his speech at Des Moines at the Iowa state fair he said: But the whole system is vicious. Business should not be built upon legislation; it should stand upon its own merit, and when it does stand upon its own merit we shall not only have purer politics, but we shall have less fluctuation in business conditions and a more equitable distribution of the proceeds of toil. Mr. Bryan persistently endeavors to make it appear that the tariff sched ules are levied against manufactured articles only and that the farmer is subjected to competition with the agri cultural products of other nations. His declaration that the tariff is "vicious" will not appeal much to the intelligent farmers, who understand that practically every product of the American farm is protected by the Dingley schedules "from unjust com petition with the products of other countries. There is a tariff of from $2 to $14 a head on cattle imported. Does the farmer suffer from that? There is a duty of $1.50 a head on swine. Does that hurt the farmer? There is a duty of $30 a head on horses and mules. Does that hurt the farmer? The duty on sheep is from 75 cents to $1.50 a head. Is the farmer in jured by that? There is a duty of 30 cents a bushel on barley and barley products; 15 cents a bushel on buckwheat; 15 cents a bushel on corn; 10 cents a bushel on rye; 25 cents a bushel on wheat; 25 per cent advalorem on flour; 6 cents a pound on cheese, butter and butter substitutes; 2 cents a gallon on milk; 45 cents a bushel on beans; 3 cents each on cabbages; 5 cents a dozen on eggs; $4 a ton on hay; 20 cents a gal lon on honey; 40 cents a bushel on peas and onions; 25 cents a bushel on potatoes; 12 cents a pound on hops; 25 per cent advalorem on vegetables; 5 cents a pound on bacon and ham and 2 cents a pound on fresh beef, veal, mutton and pork; 11 cents a pound on wool, and similar duties on lard, pre served fruits and everything produced on the American farms. Do the farm ers feel the burden of those tariff duties? In 1907. in snite of these tariff schedules, farm products to the value of more than $748,000,000 were brought to the United States from for eign countries. . The removal of the tariff would give foreign competitors a big slice of the Americas market for CHOICE South Dakota Farms in the Famous JAMES RIVER VALLEY. We are offering on the market a great many beautiful farms; also several thousand acres of unimproved rands in quarters, half-sections and larger tracts, all of which are located in Spink County, South Dakota. These lands are all tributary to good towns and produce all kinds of small grains and corn. aaaaaMalslsWaWaaTaeaawrr7gK. ." -Q "-tAZg:JrJV -ZJ.ZZi . . v "V,",US -A - m s. rl'Tl - , . " . - .Tll fBaBaBaBaBaBaMi33.w.-A:'r7" , i-c v- " ."- . .AeBssssssssssssssss1 Cviir:..--- V.sm VvT' HI ll"','sT''''Lnsssssssssssssssssl SaaaaaaaMfcsiaaA-laV.. .CbbbW" H ' nnsssssssssssssssssnl bbbbbbbbbbbbbHbF'JB ' .BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSYAjr I BssssssssssssssssBsi SCENE ON THE FARM OF FRED HOWELL, 5 MILFS SOUTHEAST OF REDFIELD, S. D. Our Mr. W. J. Else is now in Nebraska and will be pleased to call on you whenever possible and give any infor mation desired. Should you desire to consult him, write us at once, so that we can ask him to call on you at the earliest possible moment. Our Redfield office will also gladly furnish information, lists of lands and free booklet upon request. Inasmuch as these lands are selling rapidly, and that the best tracts will go first, we urgently request that you arrange at the very earliest moment to make a trip to Spink County on the next excursion. EXCURSIONS every first and third Tuesday of each month. ELSb LAND 60.. Redfield and Poland. S. D. farm products, to the detriment of the farmer. Democratic leaders have always been unfortunate in their discussions of the tariff and the millionaire farmer of Fairview, Neb., seems to be no ex ception to the rule. Omaha Bee. TRYING TO "FIND" MR. BRYAN. The real Democrat is in a quandry these days. He would like to believe that his party has not drifted -from its moorings, but he cannot. He would like to believe that Mr. Bryan is lead ing the party along traditional lines, but he cannot. And even if he be lieves in making departures when departures are necessary to meet changed conditions, he is puzzled to knaw just what these departures should be. If he looks to Mr. Bryan for enlightenment he has difficulty in determining just what Mr. Bryan's Democracy is. - In other words, speak ing politically, it is a mighty hard thing to "locate Mr. Bryan." In 1896 Mr. Bryan put free silver above every other consideration, going so far as to declare that unless that issue was accepted and applied the country would go to ruin that there never would be another celebration of the Fourth of July. In 1900 Mr. Bryan adhered to his silver policy, but made "imperialism" the paramount issue, attempting to frighten the country with a phantom of monarchial aggression. Accom panying this issue was that of "mili tarism," another monster of frightful mien, according to Mr. Bryan's draw ings. In 1904 Mr. Bryan was not respon sible for the platform, but he support ed a ticket he knew was nominated and backed by Wall street, a ticket more completely subject to the Special Interests than any the Republican party ever put in the field. At one time or another Mr. Bryan has declared for government owner ship of railroads and for national ini tiative and referendum. And yet in the present campaign he is running on a platform that does not mention any of the issues here enumerated. And this, too, in spite of the fact that Mr. Bryan has said that a man worthy to lead a great cause should be willing to die for it The question with the sincere Dem ocrat is this: Does Mr. Bryan seize new and ill-considered issues merely to catch votes before these issues are digested by the people, and then drop them merely to hold enlightened mem bers of his party in line? Another question naturally arises: If Mr. Bryan is sincere, and if he has dropped his old issues merely as a matter of party expediency, would he not take them up again if he were elected? It is submitted, with due respect to the Democratic party and its leader, that the great problem of this cam paign is: Find Mr. Bryan. Kansas City Star. NOT YET PURIFIED. I admit that I have protested against the shameful course Chairman Steph ens has pursued from the beginning of this primary campaign, and if that protest has created any party discord, it is not my fault. Had Chairman Stephens played the part of an honor able chairman, then there had been no occasion for party discord. I am still protesting against the betrayal of a party trust by our congressional com mitte chairman, but in this protest where have I been wrong? When Chairman Guffey sold the democratic party in Pennsylvania to, Standard Oil his conduct was denounced by Mr. Bryan. Was Mr. Bryan wrong in denouncing Guffey? If so, then I am wrong in denouncing Chairman Steph ens. Mr. Bryan believes the democ racy of Pennsylvania will be purified by the downfall of Guffey methods. I believe the democracy of the Third district will be purified by the down fall of Stephens methods. Edgar Howard, August 26, 1908. TAFT ON DEPOSIT GUARANTY. Although the question of guarantee ing bank deposits a policy indorsed by the democratic national convention and zealously espoused by Mr. Bryan, has not attracted national attention, much lees reached tbe proportions of a real is sue in the general campaign, it has aroused interest in some localities. Mr. Taft has promptly taken up this ques tion and informed tbe country that he is unalterably opposed to the guaranty of bank deposits on the plan proposed by tbe democratic platform. And sound reasons are given for this opposition. Although superficially attractive, the policy is fundamentally dangerous. The idea that a sound, conservative bank should be taxed to insure deposi tors of an unsound and reckless bank is in itself repugnant to the common con ception of fair play and justice. That snch insurance of depositors would en courage unprincipled bankers to engage in more reckless speculation is quite conceivable. The answer to this is that if all banks were responsible for each bank, tbe allied banks wonld enforce their own regulations against bad bank ing. But wonld private regulation be more effective than state or national re gulation? The final test of tbe guaranty system cannot be made until a general depres sion is experienced. If a great panic should come and all banks he put under a strain, would not the public realize that even the strongest were weakened by their responsiblity for the weakest in crease the distrust of all depositors. Mr. Taft is undoubtedly in favor of safer banking or belter security for de positors. No man wonld be readier to urge sound banking reforms. The sys tem of examinations, the restrictions, placed on banking methods, the rights and privileges of stockholders in the field of speculation, all need to lie modfi ed to make the banks more secure and to strengthen public confidence. And one step along this line is that proposed by the republican platform and urged by Mr. Taft tbe establishment of postal savings banks for small depositors. Such banks would give the depositors absolute security, would give them a rate of interest on their money, wonld keep tbe deposits in circulation and would keep the deposits in circulation and would help the regular banks at times when the small depositors are apt to dis oredit even sound bankB by their timid ity. And the competition that such banks would establish would be an in centive to tbe regular banks to adopt stricter regulations, but within the scope of individual responsibility as op posed to collective responsibility. Kan sas City Star. PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The following- proposed amendment to the coastltntlOB of the State of We braska, as hereinafter set foith in fall. Is submitted to the electors of the State of Nebraska, to be voted upon at th? general election t '-:ld Tuesday, November 3rd, A. 9. 19081 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION to propose an Amendment to Section 0. Article 3 of the Constitution of the Slate of Ne braska: Be It Besolved and Enacted By tae Mature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. (Amendment.) That at the general election for state and hislaMv officers to be held on the Tae. '. ly uc ceeding the first Monday in November. 1908, the followlnc pnvi" s" p-o-1 and submitted to the electors of the State as an amendment. t a.i i -n . At cle 8 of the constitution of the State of Nebraska: . - Section 9. (Educational Funds. Invest Bent.) All funds belonging to the state for educational purposes, the interest and Income whereof only are to be u"m1. shall be deemed trust funds held by the state, and the state shall supply all lose-i thereof that mav in any manner accru so that the same shall remain fn-vt -Inviolate and undiminished; and shall not be Invested or loaned except on t niu-d States or state securities; or registered county bonds of this state, or rrsistered school district bonds of this stat and such other securities as the lecislatur may from time to time direct. And such funds with the Interest and Income there of are hereby solemnly pledged for th purposes for which they are granted and set apart, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses. Section 2. (Ballots; Adoption.) That at said election in the year iw. on tne ballot of each elector voting thrat thre shall be printed or written the words: "For proposed amendment to th i - ? tlon with reference to tli imw'wn' the permanent school fund " and "against said proposed amendment to the constitu tion with reference to the investment of the permanent school fund.' And if a majority of all voters :t said election shall be for such amendment, the same hall be deemed to be adopted. Approved April 5. VPrt. T. Geo. C. Junfcin. SM:retarv of State. of the State of Nebraska, do hereby cer tify that the forecoinir proposed amend ment to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska Is a true and correct cony of the original enrolled and enjrrossed bill. a. passed by the Thirtieth session of the legislature of the State of Nebraska, as anpeam from said original bill on file In this office, and that said proposed amendment Is submitted to the qualified roters of the State of Nebraska for their adoption or rejection at the general elec tion to be held on Tuesday, the Sd day of November. A. T. 1!is. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lin coln, this lith day of July. In the vear of our lrd One Thousand Nine Hun dred and Ktght. and of the Independence ef the United States the One Hundred and Thirty-third, and of this State the Forty-secoaeV OTO. C. JTJNKTIf. Veal) lecrttarjr ef State. WHERE IHEBXAB STANDS. Approves Legislation to Improve the Conditions ef Labor. (From Sherman's Speech of Accept ance.) Tbe Republican party believe la the equality of all man before the law; believes In granting labor's every re quest that does not seek to accord right to one man denied to another. Fair-minded labor aaka no mon aft lt6S. and approves the record of the Republican party because of that pat ty's acts. I have helped to make my party's record la the enactment of the Eight Hour law. the Employers' Liability act. the statutes to minimise the haz ard of railroad employes, the Child Labor law for the District ef Oeluiubla and other enactments designed especial ly to Isapreve the loailtle of labor. I cannot hope to better state say posi tion on Injunctions than by a speelfl? endorsement of Mr. Taft's Cincinnati deelnrntion on that subject. That en dorsement I make. Mr. Bryun criticises Mr. Taft for adding to the Republican platforsa. In the meantime the number of "para mount Issues" which Mr. Bryan sub tracted from the Democratic platform would fill several large volumes. Omaha Bee. Honors are easy again. Every .iiue Mr. Taft buys a new hone Mr. Bryan mounts a new hobby. Omaha Bee. PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The following proposed augment to the constitution of the Stat ox Ke bra&ka, aa hereinafter aet forth la full. Is submitted to the elector of the State of Behraaka. to ho voted uuon at tit general election to a said Tuesday, No vember 3rd, A. 9. 1908: A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Sec tions two (2). four (4). five (!",). six ( and thirteen (12) of Article six (') of the Constitution of the State of Ne braska, relating to Judicial Towers. Be it Besolved by the legislature of tho State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment proposed. That Section two (2) of Article mx (C) of thi Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows; bVction 2. (Supreme court: judges; Jurisdiction.) The Supreme Court shall consist of seven (7) judges: and a ma jority of all elected and qualified judges shall be necessary to constitute a quorum or pronounce a decision. Thu Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction In all cases relating to the revenue, civil cases in which the state Is a party, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas- corpu-t. and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided by law. Section 2. (Amendment proposed.) That Section four (4) of Article six ') of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 4. (Supreme court, Judges, election, term, residence.) The Judges of the Supreme Court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large; and their terms of office, except as hereinafter provided, shall be six years. And said Supreme Court Judges shall during their term of office reside at the place where the court is holden. Section 3. (Amendment proposed.) That Section five (5) of Article six (C) of tho Constitution of the State of Nebraska bo amended to read as follows: Section 5. (Supreme court. Judges, election, term; chief Justice.) That at the general election to be held in tho state of Nebraska In the year 1909. a each six years thereafter, there shall b elected three (3) judges of the Supremo Court, who shall hold their office for the period of six years; that at the general election to be held In the state of Ne braska in the year 1911. and each sl.c years thereafter, there shall be elected three (3) judges of the Supreme Court, who shall hold their office for the period of six years: ami at the gener-il election to be held in the state of Nebraska In the year 1913. and each six year.- Hi. rc after, there shall be elected a Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court, who shall hold his office for the period of six years. Provided that the membT of tho Supreme Court whose term of office ex pires in January. 1914. shall be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during that time until the expiration of his term of office. And. provided further, that upon the adoption of the-e am-ftmenti hv electors of the State, the Governor shall, Immediately upon isuin?: ins proclama tion declaring said amendments adopted, appoint four (4) judges of the Supreme Court, two (2) of whom shall be ap pointed to hold said office until their successors shall be elected at the general election In 1909. and have qualified; and the other two (2) thall hold thMr office until their successors shall be elected at the general election held in 1911. and have qualified. Section 4. (Amendment proposed.) That Section six (6) of Article sir r.) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, be mended to read a-s follows: Section 6. (Chief Justice.) The Chler Justice shall serve as such during all the term for which he was elected. He shall preside at all terms of the Supreme Court, and In his absence the Judse present shall select one of their number to preside temporarily. Sections. (Amendment proposed.) That Section thirteen (13) of Article six (C) of the Constitution of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 13. (Judges, salaries.) That Judges of the Supreme Court shall each receive a salary of $4,500. and the Judges of the District Court shall each recelvo a salary of $3,000 per annum, payable quarterly. Approved April 8. 1907. I. Geo. C. Junkin. Secretarr nf State. ef the State of Nebraska, do hereby certify that the foregoing proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska Is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled and en grossed bill, as passed by the Thirtieth session of the legislature of the State of Nebraska, as appears from sa!d original bill on file In this office, and that said proposed amendment is submitted to the qualified voters of the state of Nebraska for their adoption or reaction at the general election to be held on Tuesday. the 3d day of November. A. D. 1908. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal ef the State of Nebraska. Done at Un coln. this 15th dav of July. In the vear f our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eight, and of the Independence of" the United States the One Hundred and Thirty-third, and of this State the Fnrty secon. GEO. C. JUNKIN. t t l N - i 1 State, i