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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, lOOo.- U Telephone IM. Be. February 2S, 1904.' 'Mk ah day a vrltlo on 1 Grand Showing of New Spring Dress Goods A pwp at the counter and you will. think the month of May is here. Fresh, bright, new crisp dres goods. Many of thes have just a rived and the first of the kind to be shown in Omaha.. Ex pect to see dainty novelties, new colors and you will not be disap pointed prices are lower than you 'may think such!. beautiful spring fabrics can be sold for. ;" ,, ' . , : ;;;;;; , " " Special Value in Colored Brilllintine , Mother are telling us we have the pr ettlest material anil flnesl Value In town at the price; for children's dresses and In fact for ladle' sklrta and full aulta, beau tiful rich luster, colors, two shades of ns.vy. brown and gray. Tou would call them fins .ralue at, 5c, our special price SOe a yard. Fine Imported Novelty Brillianllne and Sicilians Right from Bradford, England. A moat magnificent showing of - luVrllne' stripes, changeable and the new printed warp eft acta, with here and there a dainty dot or dash of color scattered orer the surface, all having a most beautiful silk finish, $1,001 M M, I1.M and tl.W a yard. New Parisian Silk and Wool Eoliennes and Crepe de Paris Parte favor them, and by way of change Is choosing things Just off the plain, with tiny pin-head-dot of the same color scattered here' and there," Paris predicts a great, season for these beautiful soft clinging fabrics; tucks, plaits and shirrs equal to chiffon, $1.00, $L25, $1.S0 a yard. , NOTE Sample of the new spring dreas goods are now ready for our out of town customers. ..... 7HQNP3QRRELDEN5.f.d V. HC A. Bulldimc. Cormer Sixtetntk aod Dougfa Streets. (May of Lancaster. It had been reported by the revenue committee for Indefinite postponement McClay moved to lift It from the report and let St go on general file. The bill provided that no mortgage or 'evidence of Indebtedness shall be valid or become evidence In court until It shall have been recorded and' have Indorsed on It the certificate of the county assessor or a deputy, assnssor showing such document has been reported to the asseasor. , Opponents of the bill claimed It contem plated . class legislation. MoClay's motion was lost and the bill left In It tomt). . The following were reported for passage: H. R, 303. by Windham of Cass, respecting an absolute statute relating to masters In chancery. H. R. tu, by Clarke of Imagine To pro vide for the proof of qualification of sure ties on undertakings, bunds and recog nisances before Justices of the peace, mag istrates and police Judges. H. K. m. by Fetry of Furnas Provid ing for the conveyance of the Interest of an Insane wife or husband in lands. H. kV 207, by Clarke-To permit Inter ested parties to be made co-defendants with original defendants In settlement of civil litigation. H. R. la, by Windham of Cass Provides that Judges of district courts may sit In chambers on equity matters now refused to be heard at a regular term of the court.. . . H. R. 213, by Cropsev of Jefferson Gives cities of the second class the right of eminent domain In constructing Sewers. H. R. $48, by Rouse of Hall Permitting executors to give guaranty bonds and col lect premiums for the estate. These- bills exhaust the. third reading file, except 8,- F.' 8,' the county engineer bill. At S p. m. the house adjourned. ' These bills were Introduced Jn the house: 1 Mouse 'roll 373, by' Cassell ' of ' Otoe A bill to prevent sleeping car companies from falling or refusing to furnish accommoda tions. e H. R. 874, by Cassell of Otoe Relating to compensation of clerks and Judges of elec tion. H. R. STB, byflmalser of Sherman A bill to- permit cities of the second class -or villages to levy taxes to maintain a ceme tery. H. R. 378. by Windham of Cftss-A bill re lating to the payment of road tax In coun ties not under township organisations. H. R. 877, by Windham of Caes-A bill to provide for the election of officers in cities of the first class. H. R. 878, by -Windham of Caas-Joint resolution recommending to the electors of the state to vote at the next election of member of the legislature for or against a convention to revise, amend and change the constitution of the state of Nebraska in accordance with section $, article xv, of the constitution of the state of Nebraska. H. R. 879, by Lahners of Jefferson A bill to amend chapter xxxl. Compiled Statutes of 1903. entitled "Fish and Qame." H. R. '$Sf, by Windham A bill granting authority to any city council of any city, or any board of trustees, to establish plants and provide facilities for generating and transmitting heat from one or more central Ph"r. 881, by Detrlck of Tork-A bill mak ing an appropriation for the payment of miscellaneous items of Indebtedness owing by the state of Nebraska. $38,783.0$. H. R. 382, by Marks of Fillmore A bill to prohibit the sale or possession of the ex plosive commonly called "firecrackers" after January 1. 1906. H. R. 383. by Marks Bill providing for the appointment of a deputy assessor In each ward of a city, and that each deputy must confine his work to his respective ward. H. R. 384) by - Andersen of Douglas Omaha charter bill. H. R. 386, by Andersen of Douglas Mak ing It unlawful for any person to give or receive any aum or sums ot money or any other bribe, present or reward for the pur pose of securing signatures or signing pe titions designating material to be used In the paving. ,. H. R. , by Andersen of Douglas Bulk sales law. II. R. 887, by Lee of Douglas A bill to abolish the office of register of deeds in Douglas county and provides for the per formance of the. work by the oounty clerk. H. R. 888, by Hand of Cass A bill to en able city councils to establish standards for and regulate water, gas and electrlo light meters. H. R. 889, by Lee of Douglas A bill cre ating the ofllce of county comptroller in any county including within Its boundaries a city of the metropolitan class. H. R. 90, by Foster of Douglas A bill to fix the salaries of all city officers in Omaha same as are fixed by the city charter bill, to be operative In case the charter Is de feated. H. R. 391, by Kyd of Oage To make the term of office of oounty clerks four years. H R. 392. by Perkins of Fillmore A bill to require. county clerks to keep a record of purchases. H. R. 383, by Hand of Cass A bill to pro vide for municipal Inspection of water, gas and electrlo meters. H. R. 894, by Cunningham and Anderson of Hamilton A : bill to provide that for failure of horticultural societies property shall revert to counties. If. R. 896, by Perry of Furnas A bill to regulate railroads, prevent unjust discrim inations, provide for a state railway com mission and define Its duties; reinstates old board of transportation law and makes the board composed of attorney general, state treasurer and land commissioner. H. R. 896. by Kaley A bt". making' all cities, towns and villages of from 1,000 to 5,000 population, cities of the second class. H. R. 897, by Kyd of Oage A bill . to pro vide for the proper handling of stationery and supplies of state officers,!' DOINGS OF THE .... LEGISLATORS Some History of the -Musty, Ktssard Claim. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 28. (Special.) Notwith standing the supreme court of the state has twice decided that Thomas Kennard has no valid claim against the state and the some dsclnion has been rendered by the United States supreme court,- the house has passed the bill allowing him $10,000 and the measure is now before the senate. The game claim has been before many other legislatures, but it remained for this house of representative to set aside the Judgment of the state supreme court and the United states supreme court.- Inasmuch as It has been so many years since the claim was first presented to the legislature, many of the members of the present legislature know, little of Its merits, and for that rea son some record taken from- the Fifty sixth Nebraska report is given here that members of the senate may. vote intelli gently on the proposition, . The legislature of 1873 passed a Joint res olution authorising the governor' to appoint an agent to prosecute to a, final decision before congress, a claim of 5 per cent due the state because of land disposed of by Indian reservations and by the location of military land warrant and land scrip Is sued for military service In the wars of the United States and for the agricultural college scrip and railroad lands. The Joint resolution provided that the S per cent cash school fund accruing to the stat -3 should In no wise be considered, Ken nard, It is claimed, collected through con gress $37,000, which, however, It was held THERE JS MONEY M IT Omaha real estate was never a better investment' than right now. The city has maintained a gradual and substantial growth since the panic and at present is on a sounder; "basis than ever before. Real estate values have not increased commensurate with the city's growth, therefore money invested now in Omaha realty is bound to yield 'good returns..' Following are some special bargains advertised in The Bee Real Estate columns today: Hastings & Heyden advertise vacant lots in the north part of the city from f.650 to $735. , , p. V. Sholes Company advertise a brick building which cost f0,000, and is bringing in big rental, for $15,0001 ' ' Harrison & Morton advertise a new modern, house, located one-half block from' the Barnard apartment house, which is a bargain at $4,000. ' JV.Farnani Smith & Co. advertise a 7-room house, in fine condition, at southeast corner 30tb and Mason, for only $3,500. ' The Byron Reed Co. advertise a big list of vacant lots from $250 to $750. Geo. P. Bemis advertises a 40-acre farm, twenty fire miles north from Council Bluffs, for. $3,000. F. D. Wead advertises a nobby cottage on 40th St. for $4,250. George & Co. advertise 40 acres, 12 miles southwest of South Omaha 3 miles from Papillion, for $4,500. by the supreme court, we the B per cent cash school fund accruing. He brought suit In the Lancaster district court, having been given permission to sue the state, and secured Judgment for 60 per cent of this amount, that being the fee he was to have received. The Judgment was overruled by the supreme court as was a motion for a rehearing and then Kennard' lawyers took the matter into the federal court, where again he was defeated. In writing his opinion, reversing the de cision of the Lancaster court, Judge Ryan of the supreme court said In his syllabus: The facts In this cflse examined, end held to show that the allowance of the claim of defendant In error against the state was Improper because of the fact that In the joint resolution of the legislature, under which the defendant In error was employed as agent, there was an Inhibition of the employment of an asnt to collect the 5 per cent cash school fund accruing to the State. When Kennard brought suit against the state in the Lancaster district court, he alleged In his petition that he had prose cuted the claims of the state for 6 per cent due the state on account of Indian reserva tion lands and that by reason of his prose cution he had secured to the state the 6 per cent because of the. sale of lands known as the Pawnee Indian reservation. In answer to this the attorney general held that the enabling act of the constitu tion by which Nebraska was made a state contained a provision that E per cent of the sale of all public lands In the state should become a part of the common school fund. Attorneys for Kennard held that this Indian land was not publlo land, and on this question the case went to the United Btates supreme court and the con tention of the attorney general was upheld. Senator Thomas of Douglas cotinty Intro duced a Joint resolution in the senate this afternoon which If It ever becomes a part of the state constitution will give home rule to every city In the state over 5.00Q, In that It will allow these cities to make and amend their own charters. The bill provides that a board of twenty one freeholders, all of whom shall have been for at least five years qualified electors of the city, to be olocted by the voters. This board shall draft a charter and It shall be come operative when a majority of the electors shall have voted to ratify it. After .the board has prepared the charter It shall be returned to the mayor and coun cil and shall be published In two dally or weekly papers for at least twenty days, after which It shall be voted upon. The charter may be amended by the legislative authority of euch city submitting the amendments to a vote of the people at a general or a special election. The amend ments must be submitted when 10 per cent of the voters petition the legislative au thority. A chHrter convention of twenty one members shall be selected at any time upon a petition of 10 per cent of the voters, whose duty It will be to prepare a new charter for submission to the voters for ratification or rejection. The bill introduced by Thomas of Douglns county today to Increase the salaries of Omaha city officials Increases the salaries of these officials to amounts as follows: Mayor, $3,000; city clerk. $2.B00; assistant city clerk, $2,000: city attorney, $3,000; city councilman, $1,500 each; city engineer, $3,000. The lieutenant governor has brought down some criticism of himself for referring to the Judiciary committee 'the claim of Thomas Kennard. Following precedent the bill should have been sent to the claims committee. Lieutenant dovernor McQIlton this afternoon said he sent the bill to the Judiciary' committee because he had been Informed that It Involved merely a legal question and that he had not been Informed that the claim had twice been declared void by the supreme court of the state and once by the United States supreme court. Sena tor Cady,.who.ls chairman of the cla-lms committee, killed the same bill In 18&9. ' A hill which- will secure much support In the senate Is that Introduced by Dlmery of Seward to abolish the Soldiers' Home visit ing board. Even a number of the old sol diers have lined up to favor the passage of the bill. It has been charged that the visit Ing boards have always been a source of annoyance and have done more harm than good as aids to the management of the Sol diers' Home. One of the duties of the. board Is to check up the bills and accounts of the commanders of the homes. In the office of the secretary of state ifre a num ber of accounts O K'd by the visiting board which are greatly In excess of the charges In the contract with thoBe who furnish sup piles. Of course these little discrepancies were caught by the secretary of state and now allowed, but It goes to show the use tessnesS of a visiting board. The farmers of the house declare that when the county engineer bill comes up again tomorrow for passage It will be de feated and that Representative Dodge may be blamed for It. He la for the bill end the farmers are sitting up nights for opportuni ties to get even with him for declaring In a speech that they were tax shirkers. Mr. Dodge Is concerned In another mat ter which, though he has succeeded In get ting It past the house, may give him oc casion for some exercise when the matter reaches the senate. H. R. 129, on Its face,, appears to be a harmless affair. The Bee editorially re cently had something to say on the lack of virtue of this bill. One of the strongest members of the house today came to a correspondent for The Bee and said he was positively convinced the measure was Introduced at the request of the railroads and In fact drawn up by them. This mem ber, at the last moment, did his best to scatter this Information among his col leagues and form a nuclues to defeat the bill, but it was too late. It passed. How ever, now that the "nigger "In the wood pile" has been exposed It I hoped to kill the bill in the senate. Ostensibly this bill provides that un platted land not used for city purposes may be detached from corporate limits by petition to the district court of a ma jority of the residents on the land or by petition Of the owner or owners. Here Is where the Ingenuity of the thing comes In. The railroads are the owners and often section hands and other railroad employes the residents. ' It has been admitted, to be the most Ingenulously framed bill that has com before tHe house this session. In detaching such land from the limits of city It would, of course, be exempt from local taxes. And that Is the milk In the cocoanut. As the member already men tioned pointed out, the railroads own a great deal of land which would fall under the provision of this act. For Instance, about a mile of land on which are tracks and other railroad property lies Just out side of Kearney. And throughout the state such land may be found. It would mean big thing to the railroads to have all this property exempted from local taxe. And In this connection this member di rect special attention to the fact that though this bill, a it Introducer labor iously explains, Is applied only to smaller cities and not to Omaha, Mr. Dodge resides In Omaha and ordinarily would not be ex pected to take the Initiative In such legis lation. There Is a rumor that when the bill get to the senate an attempt will be made to amend It so as to apply to Omaha and Lincoln and South Omaha, but Mr. Dodge o forcibly denied any such Inten tion In the first place that this rumor Is not entirely accredited. One bill to abolish the office of register of deeds In Douglas county and another to create the office of county comptroller were introduced this afternoon In the house by Lee of Douglas. ' The county comptroller shall be elective HEALTHY KIDNEYS III OLD AGE Maintained by tbe Use of Warner's Safo Guro Unless Your Kidneys Ar Healthy Your Entlr System Be come Diseased. The following testimonial from sn aged lady, near the century mark, shows the wonderful curative powers of SAKE CURL. "I NEVER HAVE A PAIN." "Gentlemen: I had a great deal of back ache and sickness, and did not know that It was caused by the diseased condition of my kidneys and liver. 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The comptroller's term of office shall.be two years and his annual salary $1,600 for his services In the county office and . $1,500 in the city. He shall have a deputy, whose annual salary shall be $1,500. . . The bill abolishing the office of county register of deeds confers the functions of that office' on. the. .county clerk. The pro visions of the act are to go Into effect upon the expiration of the present county reg ister's term of office. . If the house railroad committee was not thoroughly convinced tonight that the rail roads of Nebraska have an Impressive and eloquent set of attorneys and 'officials It never will be. 1 An array of dignitaries from the Burlington, ynlon pacific and North western appeared before the committee and argued the whya and why nots of the com modity freight jrate and the Caldwell maxi mum freight rate bl!s. The speaker were General Charles . F. Manderson, General Manager Holdrege, "General Freight Agrpt Ives of the Uurlington, John.N. Buldwln, Assistant, Oeqcral Freight Agent Lane of the Union Pacific; and Ben T.. White of the North Western, all having come down Jrom Omaha for th (Purpose. Lee Spratlen and J. H,,Rrr ot vthfc' Burlington, , Bob Clancy of the Un,lon Pnc.Pc and Bob McGlnnls of the Northwestern" . were presont. After recovering ' from khelr awe-struck silence Representatives 'Caldwell and Junkln man aged to soy a "few words. The general trend of argument by the railroad men wa that freight rates In Nebraska were low enough now and that anyway the legisla ture had no business tampering with the rates. Mr. Baldwin said no state had ever enacted a law regulating railroad rate that stood the teat of the courts and Gen eral Manderson declared that rate regula tion On a commodity basis was utterly im possible so far as giving satisfaction to the public and doing Justice to the Railroads was concerned. General Manderson also de. clared that rates In the United Btates were lower than In any other country and the service better, but this did not exactly seem to solve the problem, "Why rate In Nebraska should not be lowerod." Mr. Junkln read from the railroad's own records to show the average freight rate tn Nebraska was 31 per cent higher than throughout the United States and 36 per cent -higher than In the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. These states were thus grouped under the interstate commerce act. Nebraska was grouped with Wyoming, Montana, Colorado north of Denver and North and South Da kota east of the Missouri river, and of these states the record from which Mr. Junkln read Nebraska was paying a higher rate for freight transportation. The railroad men, particularly Mr. Bald win and General Manderson, deeply Im pressed the legislators w ith their eloquence and affability, but apparently did not clinch their arguments with Indisputable facts. The railroad officials urged the committee that In making rates the cost of transpor tation, of labor, material and equipment, the heft of rolling stock and the conse quent expense of repairing rails and bridges, stocks and bonds, and the uncer tainty of crops all should be taken into consideration. Chairman Jones of the Norfolk asylum Investigating committee says his report will be made Saturday. He Is compiling It now. The Investigation Is taking much the same course with reference to the state architect as' that of the subcommittee of the claims commute, that Is trying to show extrsvagance on the part of the state architect. Lahners of Jefferson Introduced a bill in the house today which make automo billets laugh. It provides that no automo bile run by steam or gasoline shall travel on a street where runs an electrlo car. "For fear of scaring the car?" asked an Omaha autolst tonight. Lee of Douglas today Introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquor within ten miles (of an Indan reservation. Enacted Into law, the bill would put an end to Illicit traffics on the reservation, by which Indians are debauched. Andersen of Douglas Introduced the bulk sale bill, which, was defeated the other day In the senate. Andersen' bill, how ever, does not carry the penalty clause which the senate bill had. Oratorical winner at Mitchell. MITCHELL. S. D., Feb. 28,-(8peclal Telegram.) The' local oratorical contest last night of Dakota Wesleyan university was won by Burton Tanner, his subject being "Robert Burns." J. D. Evans was second. Mr. Tanner will represent the col lege at the state contest at Huron In May. Always. Remember tb full fcaxfttive Jjromo Quinine Qiroa.CoM la Om Day. CtteUi 3 Day oavrj box. 33o TYLER'S CLAIM IS HELD UP Claims Committee Tsksi Time to Investi gate 8ome of Its Items. CHARGES OF FAVORITISM ARE MADE Bill as Reported to the House Con tain l.ess Than Half the Amount tarried at tbe Session Two Years Ago. (From a 8taff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 28. (Special.) The claim committee bill came in among the last measures In the house today, carrying a total appropriation of $30,7S3.90, as com pared to $62.P00 two years ago. Some 600 Items comprise this bill and back of the measure, which does not contain the claim of the state architect. James Tyler, Jr.. are circumstances which promise to lead to a sensation resulting In the abolition of the office of state architect and a standing denial of Representative Jackson's declara tion that legislative Investigations are in variably farefs at best. Tyler submitted a claim for the period of eighteen months, the time which his office has existed for $3,636.82. The beat the committee has been able to figure only brings the total up to $8,000 and a little more. The committee finds that Tyler had employed a stenographer, his sister and an extra draughtsman for which he had no warrant, and after probing further Into the matter determined to cut out $7,Oj4.79 of his claim until a complete investigation could be made. A subcommittee consisting of Bartoo of Valley, Llvengood of Franklin and Thompson of Cuming, wa appointed by the claims committee to go to the bot tom of this whole affair. The committee begun Its work today and Dr. Bartoo thinks possibly It will take ten days to com plete it. The Items embraced In the rejected claims of Tyler's are: Salary for himself, $1,458, $1,250, $U25, $025, $208; salary for Ethel M. Tyler, his sister, $1,190, $280; traveling ex penses, Tyler, $87.41, Morris, draughtsman, $100, Rudge & Ouensel, $131.25, Eugene Dtetzgen & Company, $404.80. R. S. Pot tlnger $30. Charges Against Tyler, That the office of state architect will be abolished seems probable from the fact that a bill providing for such a thing has passed the senate and one has been fav orably acted on In the house. Senator Ep person I the author of the senate bill. In his argument for the bill Senator Epper son brought out the statement that Tyler had exercised favoritism In the matter of contracts for material In the construction of the new buildings at Norfolk. For Instance he asserted that the plana which the archi tect drew up specified that Model hot water boilers should be used; Nazareth cement. Twin City press brick, tiling from the Caa slnl Mosaic & Tile company, and other such specified materials calculated as the sena tor contended, to throttle competition. All these matters will be Investigated by the committee. Further In his argument Senator Epper son disclosed these facts and figures ex tracted from state records: What Records Show. The records In the office of the auditor show the state architect made plana for work, superintended1 the work or passed on work, as follows: Mllford Soldiers' Home Hospital $20,000 Appropriated for general repairs, fix ing waterworks ond Installing elec trical apparatus 13,500 Total $33,500 At Grand Island Commissary building $ 4,000 Laundry 2,000 Appropriated for general repairs, such . as painting, fixing roof and other repairs 15,000 Total $21,000 Hastings Insane Hospital For barn $ 5,000 One dynamo S.498 Appropriated, general repairs 10,000 Total .'. $18,49S Plans for steps at state capltol costing $2,906. I. Lincoln Insane Hospital' Burn costing...., $5,ono Greenhouse 1.000 Total $6,000 The report of the state architect gives that officer credit for drawing the plans for the steel cells recently Instalhtd at the state penitentiary. As a matter of fact, the plans for 156 cells were drawn by Architect Grant before the office of state architect was created. The present officer drew the plans for the lost eighty four cells and put In and approved the steam plant that wa put In at a cost of $700. Norfolk asylum, now being Investigated. $100,000. Feeble Minded Youth Institution Cold storage plant $2 sno Kitchen 1,000 Total $3,500 Girls' Industrial School Appropriated for general repairs $1,500 Boys' Industrial School General repairs $2,500 Not counting the penitentiary cells and the $700 Item, the records show the state architect has had something to do with the expenditure of $1S9,403. He either drew the plans, superintended the work, passed on the work or merely approved the voucher. Plans for the following buildings were drawn by architects other than the state architect, and the work on them was su perintended by special architect em ployed by the state: Normal school at Kearney $ 60000 Chapel at Peru Normal school 43' 500 Physics building at university tsooo Buildings at state farm 100 000 Administration building at uni versity 35,000 Total .iO3.50 Expenses of the Office of the State Architect-Salary of architect for two years $5,000 Salary of assistant architect two years 400 8alary of stenographer two years 1,'S0 Total ; tti.OHO According to the report of the architect, the cost of maintaining the office, Includ ing salaries, furniture and office fixtures p to November SO, 1904, has been $8,004.88. In his report the architect claims to have supervised work, drawn plans, or both, for construction and repairs amounting to $273,000, which the report claims would have coat the state $12,600. The architect docs not enumerate the Items that go to make up the $273,000. At 3 per cent work could have been done for $6,K2.09. The claim of T. P. Kennard, $10,000, was not Included In the claims bill, but pre sented to the house some time ago In a separate measure. The largest Item of the claims bill Is the State Journal printing bill of about $4,000. The other Item are mall. AKDERSEN'S AXD IKE'S VIEWS Both Make Statements on the Omaha C harter Bill. LINCOLN, Feb. 2$.-(8peclal.)-Wlth ref erence to the Omaha city charter bill which he Introduced Representative Ander sen says: "I Introduced the revised ctiar-er as the combined Work of the whole delegation, not my own. The bill which I originally Intro duced known as If. R. 107, stood for many thing which I believe were In the Interest of good government. My proposed charter has been cut up and cut out until there Is but little left of It. "There are many sections In thls'charter which I do not endorse. I do not believe In them, but I am told that most all new charters are compromises at best. The new document provides for spring election a heretofore, for twelve councllmen to be elected at large, cuts the salary of the city comptroller to $2,500 and Increase those of the city engineer, mayor and city attor ney to $3.01X1, and of the city councllmen to $1,600. The consolidation o' the city and county treasurers offices Is provided for with city taxes payable at the same date as at present. The bill abolishes the city tax commissioner and provides for the work to be done by the county assessor. For this work on the part of the county the city is to pay one-half of the percent of all city taxes. "It Is a big Job to write a new chnrter. and doubtless after this one Is printed many errors will have to be corrected by the committees on cities nnd towns, but the whole delegation has agreed upon the main questions. As to paving the sections In my charter were retained by almost a unanimous vote of the delega tion, giving the right of petition calling for open bids, giving the widest latitude for competition and giving property own ers thirty day In which to select the material they want after bids are open. The fairness of these propositions to all contractors and to the people. It seems to me, cannot be questioned. A section was adopted which Is called the "Denver Joker," which looks like an attempt to cut out ome bidders, but I am not posted as to such technical matters and must refer anyone who wants to know to the city engineer for an explanation." Representative Lee had this to say on the charter: "The present city charter Introduced Is different from any others In the fact that It Is a complete charter. The rearrange ments of the subjects comprised In the charter are In a manner that they can be more easily found than In any of tho oth ers, which were pretty badly mixed up. The main features of the charter are the consolidation of the treasury and the as sessment departments, which will be fol lowed by the bill Introduced by me for consolidation of the comptroller's depart ment of the city and county, all of which will be a great saving to the city and a great convenience to the public. "Another most Important feature Is the abolition of the Board of Public Works and Advisory board and placing the dirties of those boards on the mayor and council, the city engineer and street commissioner. One Important feature regarding public works Is that the council shall be the deciding power In any contest that may coma up be tween the contractors and the city engineer, so that there will be no possibility of a blockade In public works unless it should be by Injunctions. "A very Important feature Is that no city council shall have the right to make a con tract to extend over ten years with any person or corporation; that such contract shall be void. "The question of paving1 specifications was discussed at great length and finally decided that the property owners would have an opportunity to select any pave ment they desire at the price that It Is offered to the public, which means that all pavement, shall be described specifically, but all of which will have to be up to a standard established by the tests provided In the law on such subjects. "The councllmanlc question Is for twelve councllmen, nominated and elected at large, each of which mutt be a resident -of each of the twelve wards. A' provision la also inserted that they shall each be a free holder of the city and a resident of each ward. The salaries of councllmen were In creased to $1,500 per annum because of the Increased amount of the duties they are ex pected to perform, . It Is expected and hoped that they will keep themselves thor oughly posted on all public works and be able to judge Intelligently on any question that may arise with regard to the enforce ment of the specification either in paving, sewering, grading or any other public works. . .. . - ' "The salary of mayor has been increased to $3,000, the city engineer to $3,000 and the city attorney to $3,000. The assistant city engineer' salary Is fixed at $2,000 and the assistant city attorney at the same figure. "The main object of the delegation all the way through, while ihey differed on details, was to throw every safeguard thut could be possibly thrown around the Interests of the city of .Omaha; that the government should not be more expensive, and that the rights of the people should be protected as much as possible. "Without any unnecessary Interference with corporations which have a large amount of money Invested In their enter prises and from whom hundreds and thou sands of families In Omaha receive their daily bread, there was a truly liberal spirit animating the entire delegation, and we hope that they will go down Into history as one of the most useful, honest. Industrious delegations that Douglas county ha ever sent to the capltol of Nebraska. To Prevent the Grip, Laxative Brorao Quinine, the world wide Cold and Grip remedy, remove the cause. Call for the full name and look for signa ture of E. W. Grove. 25c. College Bolldlng- Bold, HOT SPRINGS, 8. D., Feb. 28.-(8peclal.) L. S. Cull has closed a deal for the Black Hills college property (building and twenty-acre campus) to an eastern syndi cate, the purchase price being $18,000. It was hoped that when the property changed hands It would be. for educational purposes and particularly for a seminary or college. 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