unday Bee.
FART ONE
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Nebraska Showers.
For Iowa Fair.
For wpather report sr-e page 3.
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PAGES 1 TO 8
VOL. XXXIX-NO. G.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1901) SIX SECTIONS-THIRTY FAOKS.
SINGLE COPY FIVK CENTS.
The Omaha
FIGHT TO SAVE
DUTYON HIDES
This Question it Making More
Trouble for Conferee, Than
Any Other.
PROBABLY GO ON FREE LIST
Warren and Smoot Make Desperate
Stmjgle for Retention.
HOUSE RULES ARE OBSTACLE
They Do Not Permit of Reopening
Leather Schedule.
ITALE IS URGING PAPER DUTY
Maine Senator Hrfmri to Ktand (or
Any Hrdortlnn Oil to Ue Free
Probable Duty on
Iron Ore.
WASHINGTON. July 14 The hide ques
tion m settled and unsettled today, and
v. Iiile there seems little doubt that event
ually hide will fall among the unpro
tected articles In the tariff bill, the con
test over their status cannot be regarded
as cloned. When the conferees adjourned
for luncheon several of them said that It
had be-n decided that hides should go on
the free list. Tonight the same conferees
declare that hides will be free, but that
the question has not been decided offi
cially.
None of the questions made prominent
throughout the country by President Taft's
Interest in them has been adjusted, al
though the conferees have been In strict
executive session since noon yesterday.
The adjournment tonight waa until 10
o'olock tomorrow.
The conferees expect to spend a large
part of Sunday wrestling with these prob
lems. The Indications are tonight that
the conference rate upon the Important
questions still In dispute will be aa follows
Hides, free; oil, free; lumber, rough, $1 26
A thousand feet, with proportionate dif
ferentials; coal 46 cents a ton. without the
house reciprocal clause; Iron ore, 15 cents
a ton; print paper 13.76 a ton.
Hides Cause Much Trouble.
Practically a full week has been occupied
by the conferees In an effort to settle these
questions. Most of the time has been de
voted to hides. This subject waa compll
cated by reason of statements coming from
boot and shoe Interests that they were
ready to agree to substantial reductions In
the duties of leather goods If hides were
put on the free list. These Interests felt
sure that there could be no reductions on
boots and shoes below IS cents ad valorem,
the house rate, which Is lower than the
senate rate on existing law.
President Taft stated to a number of
his callers that he would Insist upon a
reduction to at least 10 per cent ad va
lorem, with proportionate decreases In the
rates on other leather goods. ' This fur-,
ther complicated the situation.
Reports reached the conference room
late today that Speaker Cannon and Par
liamentarian Hinds had decided It would
be Impossible for the conferees to adopt a
rate on boots 'and shoes lower than the
rate adopted by either branch of congress.
Advocates of protected hides declared
that there must be a proportionate reduc
tion In leather to offset the abolition of
the duty on hides If their votes were to
be counted upon to adopt the conference
report.
This statement came from such men as
Senator arren, who has been one of the
senate stalwarts on tariff matters, and
Senator Sinoot, who was the right hand
man of Chairman Aldrtch In making up
the senate tariff bill. They said similar
views were held by others. Including Sen
ators Carter and Heyburn. They had Just
come from the hlta house, where they had
gone to protest to President Taft upon
his Insistence that hides must be free.
Vltliaatasn Make Difficulty.
As a result of the declaration by the
men Interested In protected hides, which
amounted almost to an ultimatum, some
of those who are looking for an early ad
justment of tariff differences, were filled
with consternation.
Senator Aldrlch was appealed to by
other conferees to learn what chance there
would be for the adoption of a Joint reso
lution authorising the confereea to adopt
rates on leather goods lower than those
fixed by either bill.
Some of the western senators already are
said 'o be greatly dissatisfied with the ac
tion taken by the conferees In decreasing
senate rates on lead and Its products. It
was stated that it would take very little
to Induce them to vote against the con
ference report.
Senator Aldrtch was of the opinion that
the conference rould reduce rates below
those fixed by either house without the
adoption of a concurrent resolution. He
tased that opinion upon the ground that
there are precedents for such action, but
It waa pointed out today that a point of
order might be raised against such pro
se dure being allowed to stand, and that
the point probably would be sustained In
cither branch.
Mar Ainead Rales.
Therefore a ranvm will be made of the
two bodies to ascertain whether a con
current resolution conferring Jurisdiction
to lower rates below those fixed by either
hnnu could be adopted. Until this In
formation Is at hand It la Improbable that
the question of fixing the duty on hides
or leather goods will be closed.
ttnn ore was taken up at the afternoon
sess'on today, but the rate was not fixed.
A .-epnrt that .the confereea had agreed
urn a duty of SO cents a ton was ac
repted as true by senators and representa
tives from states Interested In the Iron
ore question. Home of the conferees said
tonight they did not think the rata would
be above 15 cents a ton.
Senator Hale Is making a stubborn fight
or the retention of the S4 a ton on print
Jj.aper fixed by the senate. He has figured
out that the difference between the cost
of manufacture In the Vntted State and
Canada, considering transportation, labor
and all other charges. Is fully SX?g a ton
It la generally believed the latter rate will
M named by the .conference report.
Little consideration has been given thus
far to lumber, coal or oil. The senate
conferees are Insisting on SIM on rough
lumber, while the house memo re say thay
wll! hold eut for II lumber. Both 1dea
agree that they may have to split the dlf
ferenoe.
Coal. It la aaid, will be mad dutiable
(Continued on Second Page)
i
Washington
Is Watching
Ncbraskans
Republican State Convention and Its
Platform of Much Interest to
the Statesmen.
(Krom a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. July 24 (Special Tele
gramsThe republican state convention of
Nebraska, which meets in Lincoln next
Tuesday, promisee to have national signifi
cance. It will be the first state convention
of the year, and its action on the tariff
and on the Income tax amendment will b
looked upon as an Indication of the feeling
of the entire middle west on these Impor
tant Issues.
It was Senator Brown of Nebraska who
first proposed to amend the constitution by
giving congress power to tax Incomes.
That this amendment will be endorsed In
the Nebraska convention next Tuesday is
regarded here as very probable. The Ne
braska delegation Is intensely Interested In
the platform that will be adopted.
"I have no doubt the party in Nebraska
will take a positive and open stand on all
live Issues of the day, whether state or
national," Senator Brown said today, when
asked what he expected In the platform of
his party. "On federal Issues, I hope tha ,
convention will reaffirm the national plat
form adopted at Chicago last year. I hope
It will commend President Taft for his
stand on Insisting that the pledge of the
platform for downward revision must be
redeemed at par. I hope that it will en
dorse the Joint resolution submitting the
sixteenth amendment to the constitution,
which, if ratified, will confer upon the fed
eral government power lay and collect
taxes on incomes. I hope the convention
will go so far as to pledge the party In
Nebraska to the ratification of that amend
ment at the first Bession of the legisla
ture." Senator Burkett today had a conference
with Attorney General Wickersham rela
tive to complaint of Scott's Bluff county
farmers regarding their water rights. It
had been generally decided that it Is
against existing law that private Individu
als could co-operate with the government
In digging irrigation ditches. It is the
present Intention of the attorney general
to take up Nebraska co-operative cases
at an early date. He is now waiting arrival
of a letter from a special agent In the
field, setting forth all the facts. Attorney
General Wickersham Is very anxious that
some means may be devised whereby these
ditches may be completed under the ex
isting law. Should no such means be dis
covered, he will favor In his next annual
report an amendment to the present law
which will permit of the continuance of
the socalled co-operative system.
Senator Gamble today received a letter
from Secretary of the Navy Meyer in
which he grants permission for the "loan"
of the figurehead from the U. 8. 8. Cruiser
Yankton, to the city of Tankton. The
Yankton Is a converted yacht, form
erly owned by J. Plerpont Mor
gan, who sold It to the United States
at tha outbreak of the Spanish-. crlcan
war. The figurehead, which, through the
efforts of Senator Gamble may be secured
as a park adornment by the city of Yank
ton, Is modeled In the form of a bust of
"Penelope," the original name of the ves
sel. Representative Oeorge W. Norrls of Mc
Cook, was today re-elected a member of
the executive committee of the Interna
tional parliamentary arbitration union
and Congressman John A. Magulre of Lin
coln waa also chosen a member of the com
mittee.
Young Man Dies
of Broken Neck
Victor J. Remington of Beverly, Neb.,
Expires Saturday Morning at
Immanuel Hospital.
Victor J. Remmlngton of Beverly, Neb.,
tiled at S o'clock Saturday morning at the
Immanuel hospital In this city from the
effect of an accident which fractured a
cervical vertebra.
Tha accident happened several days ago
near the Remmlngton home. The young
man waa swimming In a small lake and
Jumped from a spring board Into shallow
water, striking the bottom and breaking
bla neck,
Ha was brought to Omaha for treatment,
but without avail. His father will arrive
thla morning, when arrangements for the
funeral will be made. The body is held at
the Swanson undertaking rooms and it
probably will be shipped back to Beverly
this morning.
WOMAN'S BODY EXHUMED
Husband of Mrs. Henry Johnson,
Who Died Three Months Aaro,
Is Arrested.
STAUNTON. 111., July 24 The body of
Mrs. Henry Johnson was disinterred this
week after having been burled nearly three
months and an autopsy found the wom
an's skull had been fractured, one eye
blackened and cuts on her hands and
arm. Following this finding. Henry John
son was arrested oh a warrant charging
murder, and yesterday he was held to
the grand Jury. He was released on
110,000 bond.
Mrs. Johnson was found dead April 10.
A coroner's Inquest at that time resulted
In a verdict of death from unknown
causes. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rosenthal,
parents of Mrs. Johnson, caused the dis
interment. Johnson and his wife lived
near New Douglass and Johnson Is rich.
He said he found bis wife dead in bed.
London Thousands Cheer
Budget of Lloyd-George
LONDON, July K-No Hyde park
demonstration of recant years has been able
to boast of suoh an array of members of
Parliament as spoke thla afternoon from
the platforms erected in London's great
open air meeting place In support of Chan
cellor of tha Exchequer Lloyd-George's
budget. The crowd In the park approxi
mated 6 000 people.
Tbs demonstrations which have been in
the course of preparation for several weeks
drew mammoth crowds frcm all parte of
the country and luimeat: enthusiasm
HIGH OFFICIAL
CAUGHT IN NET
Inspector McCann of Chicago Fc
Indicted by Grand Jury
for Grafting.
ALLEGED TRIBUTE FROM VICE
Charge Against Him Follows Indict
ment of His Subordinate.
IS ALL BASED ON CONFESSION
Half a Dozen Witnesses Testify to
Extortion of Police.
ACCUSED MAN MAKES DENIAL
Declares that Evidence Given Against
Him Is Part of Plot by Vicious
Element to Ruin
Him.
CHICAGO, July 24. Police Inspector
Edward C. McCann was indicted today,
charged with malfeasance In office In the
allege collection of "protection" money
from Illegal establishments of the "tender
loin." McCann's predicament was foreshadowed
yesterday, when an Indictment was re
turned against Detective Sergeant Jeremiah
Griffin, alleged to have been the collection
agent working out of McCann's office.
Half a doien witnesses testified before
the grand Jury that Griffin harvested aa
high as i),000 a month, most of which went
to men "higher up." The aggregate col
lected under this system Is said to be
JlM.OOO. Vice of every sort Is said to have
been protected.
Besides McCann and Griffin, four others
are under Indictment. They are Louis
Frank, said to be a millionaire, who has
always been politically potent In the "levee''
districts of the west side; Michael Heltler,
otherwise known as "Mike the Pike;"
Morris Shats, who Is said to have con
fessed astounding details of the alleged
"graft," and M. A. Sanches, who Is charged
with collecting money on the pretext that
he would secure protection.
Inspector McCann has been with the
police department for a generation, rising
from the ranks to his present position. He
declares that the charges come from a
powerf il clique which, despairing of forctng
him to protect vice, has determined aa a
last resort to ruin him.
Inspeotor McCann was arrested following
tha grand Jury's action and soon after
gave bonds for J20.0UO and was released.
He went at once to the office of Acting
Chief of Police Schuettler, and handed in
his star. Later Schuettler ordered his
formal suspension, saying that no police
man under indictment could work on the
force until after the charges were dis
missed. Train Hits Auto;
Three Are Killed
Michigan Banker, His Wife and
Niece Are Struck by North
western Passenger.
MENOMINB. Mich., July 24. Three peo
ple were killed at Birch Creek today and
four miraculously escaped without serious
Injury, when the automobile of Ole Erlck-
aen, president of the State bank of
Kscanaba, was struck at a grade crossing
by a northbound Chicago & Northwestern
passenger train. The dead:
OLE ERICKSEN, owner of the auto
mobile. MRS. OLE ERICKSEN.
MISS BELLE ERICKSEN, 17 years old,
a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Erlcksen.
The others In the automobile were Ed
ward Erlcksen, brother of Miss Belle;
Chauffeur James O'Donnell, and Edward
Erlcksen and daughter, Bertha, not rela
tives of the banker.
The automobile was within three feet of
the tracka when the party sighted the train
coming around a curve. The machine had
too much headway to be stopped in time
and its momentum drove It almost across
the tracks. The train struck the rear of
the automobile with crushing force and
picked the car up on the pilot, where It
was carried fifty feet.
Tha four survivors succeeded in Jumping
from the automobile without Injury, but
tha bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Erlcksen
were terribly mangled and scattered along
tha railroad right-of-way. Miss Belle Erlck
sen was Instantly killed, though her body
was not dismembered by the wheels.
Ole Erlcksen was 68 years old and a
native of Norway. He was prominent as
a republican politician, was mayor of
Escanaba two terms and served two terms
In the lower bouse of tha Michigan legisla
ture. LOCKER CLUBS TO HAVE TEST
Two Salts Are Filed Asralnat Fash
loaablo Toprka Organi
sation. TOPE K A, Kan., July .-Two sulta were
filed against the Topeka club, tha most
fashionable club In the state today to test
tha right to keep liquors in lockers at the
club house. The purpose is to test this
feature of the new absolute prohibition
law.
One of the suits, an ouster proceeding,
was filed by Attorney General Jackson in
the state supreme court and the other by
County Attorney Scheneck In the district
court.
narked tha proceedings. Prior to the
speeches a part of a great procession esti
mated at SOO.MO persons formed at .ha
Vic tor a embankment with Its ranks extend
ing from Charing Cross to Black Friars
bridge and marched through the principal
thoroughfares of tha city to the park.
Ninety bands and thousands of banners
enlivened the march. "Tbs Earth Is .he
Lord's," "Land for the Landless," "Abolish
Poverty," 'The Commons Must Rule" snd
'Tax the Land and Not Food" were typical
raottoa Inscribed on the banners.
2 "'''fS 'Jy
SEE THE CONQUERING AERO
Going Away on a Vacation in the Near
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
FORTY-ONE KNOWN DEATHS
Such is Harvest of Fierce Hurricane
on Gulf Coast.
WHOLE FAMILY BLOTTED OUT
Husband, Wife, Six Children and
Negro Servant Are Drowned
Additional Reports Being;
Received Constantly.
NEW ORLEANS, July 24. With definite
reports today of thirteen deaths not here
tofore recorded In the hurricane, which
swept portions of Texas and Louisiana last
Wednesday, the death list tonight totals
forty-one, with six persons pOvlouriy re
ported missing still unaccounted for.
Dlspatcvhea today from Angelton, Texas,
confirmed the reports that Maurice P.
Wolfe, bla wife, six children and a negro
servant had . been . drowned at Christmas
Bayou. Added to these nine were Captain
J. K. Glasscoch, who died at Angleton,
Texas, from shock and exposure and Co
lumbia Maddox, believed to have lost his
life near Angleton. His body has not been
found. Rock Island, Tex., swelled the list
to thirteen late today with the deaths of
John Flnley and David Jarvls, farmers,
who lost thler lives when their homes
were wrecked.
Those still missing are: C. H. 'Dally,
circulation manager of the Galveston Trib
une; Onezeme Hebert of Orsola, La., and
four members of the crew of the schooner,
Columbus, blown out of to sea from
Qulntantate, Tex. Practically all hope for
the rescue of Mr. Dally has been aband
oned SIOUX GO T0 NICARAGUA
Chief Little Bison Secure Vnsettled
Tract and Will Move Hun.
dred Families.
NEW ORLEANS. La., July 24.-That a
colony of Sioux Indians will remove from
tha Dakotas to an unsettled tract of land
In Nicaragua Is declared by Little Bison,
a Sioux chief, who reached New Orleans
from Blueflelds yesterday. He went to
Nicaragua to arrange for the concession
of the land with President Zelaya. Little
Bison declares he will Immediately take
100 Indian families to Nicaragua and that
his colony will soon be increased by the
addition of several hundred other families
of North American Indians.
PERU AND BOLIVIA AT PEACE
Report Diplomatic Relations
Broken Off Is Officially
Denied.
Are
LIMA, Peru, July 24. The report pub
lished yesterday that diplomatic relations
between Peru and Bolivia had been broken
off and that Benor Polo, the Peruvian
minister, was preparing to leave LaPax,
was denied In reliable quarters here today.
United States Minister Combs and
Foreign Minister Perras yesterday signed
a naturalization convention.
Omaha is grow
ing fast; therefore
Omaha real estate
is a safe, sure in
vestment. The Ileal Estate pages today
tell the story of what is of
fered on the market. It will
pay you to read them care
fully. No one, who has money to In
vest, can do better than to place his
money at home where he can watch
It. This refers to Investments not
to speculation. Buy with the Idea
of paying for property and there Is
no better, sati Investment for the
man with thousands, or the man
who will make payments from bla
savings.
Have you read the want ads yet
today J
LETTERS OF TRAVEL
Ily Rov. Adolf Halt, Pa tor Swed
ish Lutheran Immanuel
Church.
Hy special arrangement, Rev.
Unit, who is touring Europe, Is
writing his observations and pers
onal experiences for the edification
of his many friends at home, to
whom they will be given through
The Sunday Dee.
First letter Sunday, August 1.
Gore Would Help
Elect Anti-Cannon
Members to House
Oklahoma Senator Says Democrats
Should Not Nominate Candidates
Against Insurgents.
KANSAS CITT. July 24. Thomas
Gore, Oklahoma'a blind aenator, In
p.
an
interview at the Union station here today,
is quoted as declaring that the democratic
party ought not to nominate candidatea
for congress against the anti-Cannon re
publicans In the house of representatives.
"And I suppose there will be those who
will cry aloud 'treason,' " Senator Gore
said, "but If that be treason let them make
the most pf it. I place my country above
my party.
"Murdock of Kansas, and those men from
Iowa all the anti-Cannon twelve there
should be no democratic candidates against
them in their districts. We ought at least
to give them our moral Influence and help
them to defeat the Cannon atand-pat re
publicans."
Jealous Woman
Kills Husband
Dr. R. A. M. Collins is
and Killed by Wife at
i Portland.
Shot
PORTLAND, Ore., July 24 Dr. R. A. M.
Collins, a prominent physician was shot
and killed by his wife today at the home
of Captain J. H. Sladen, whose house they
were to occupy for the summer. Jealousy
was the cause.
Mrs. Collins' Jealousy of her husband,
it Is said, was so great that she Is alleged
frequently to have threatened his life.
Both Dr. Collins and his wife had been
married and divorced and it Is alleged that
the firBt Mrs. Collins arrived here re
cently from Pt. Louis.
Dr. Collins was a graduate of the Medi
cal department of Drake university, Des
Moines, and of the fit. Louis Medical col
lege, after which he served as an Interne
at the St. Louis hospital. He came to
Portland about two years ago.
Mts. Collins Is some years his senior.
I'ntll her marriage to Collins, she con
ducted a dressmaking business, her
cllentle including some of the most fash
ionable women in the oity. A son by her
first marrluge was killed in the Philippines
during the Spanish-American war.
Head of New York Police
Objects to Salome Dance
NEW YORK, July 24.-A campaign
against questionable theatrical productions
the first by tha new police head. Com
missioner Baker was started today.
The arrest of Gertrude Hoffman, the
Salorue dancer, last night was the begin
ning of the movement. When she was
arraigned In court today, charged with
giving a. performance "offensive to public
decency," It became known that tha order
for her arrest came from tha head of the
police department. Hsr case waa adjourned
until next Tuesday. Other 'arrests are to
be made, aas Ue commissioner, uule
COMES
Bye and Bye
ADVISES SUIT ON STATE TAX
Commercial Club Committee Makes
Report on Law.
DECLARES IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Points on Which the Law Mar Be
Attacked Are Enumerated and
Payment Tinder Protest
Sna vested.
After Investigation of the act passed by
the Nebraska legislature at Ita late session,
providing for an occupation fee upon cor
porations and known as senate file No. 10,
the Judiciary committee of the Commercial
club yesterday Issued Its report, addressing
it to the executive committee of the club.
ine report was mailed to members of ".he
club and other people directly interested in
the law.
The committee In its Investigation finds'
the law Is unconstitutional on several
counts, and declares It might be attacked
In several ways.
The first point brought out to show the
law Is unconstitutional Is that the state
has no power to levy an occupation tax
which the fee in the senate file really Is,
and even is called In the act Itself an "nc
cupatlon fee."
Here the committee basea Its assertions
on the provision of the constitution of 1S7B.
Article 9 of the constitution names certain
occupations, which shall be taxed and the
report holds "by the general rule of ex
clusion It (the constitution) excludes every
one not of the class directly mentioned.
Under this rule corporatlona generally are
excluded; In other words the constitution,
having expressly provided what classes of
occupations or business shall be subject to
the payment of the occupation tax, every
other business not Included In, nor falling
within the provisions are directly excluded.
Beyond the Legislature's Power.
"In our Judgment," the report then con
tinues, "the legislature had no power to
pass auch an act. There la no other atate,
as far as we can find, which has such a
section In Its constitution exactly Ilka the
section referred to. Other statea have de
clared acts of the legislature providing for
occupation taxes upon corporatlona to be
constitutional, but none of said states has
a constitutional section like that of Ne
braska, with the exception of Illinois, and
the question as to the constitutionality of
such an act as this has not been passed on
by the supreme court of that state."
The committee says there Is further ob
jection to the act In that It "excludes bank
ing, Insurance and building and loan as
sociation corporations and all corporations
which are not organised for pecuniary pro
fits. This may or may not be a proper
classification. We are Inclined to think
that the constitutionality of this act de
pends first, upon the fact that It Is nothing
more or less than an occupation tax, and
second, that under the section quoted the
legislature has no power to fix an oc
cupation tax upon any business or cor
poration, except such aa are expressly
mentioned In the constitution Itself."
In conclusion the report advises that the
tax be paid under protest and suit then be
brought to test the constitutionality of
the act.
American Dies on Liner.
ANTWFRP. July 34 Mrs. Maria Rook
an American, aged 42. dropped dead on
hoard the Red Star line steamer Kroon
land as the vessel was leaving this port
today for New York.
certain performances, particularly the
dances, now being given In the city are
decidedly reformed.
"I am going to take drastic action," aaid
the commissioner today, "and owners.
lessees and managers must obey the law
Court developments today showed that
the charge In the Hoffman case hinges
upon the definition of "tights."
"I will let tne show go on," said Police
Magistrate Stelnert, "provided the young
women wear tig bla,
Miss Hoffman protested that she did
wear Ughta, but their knee leugius waa
wbat caused police crlUUaut,
BOTH PARTIES
PICK DELEGATES
Selections Made to Represent Douglas
County in Platform Conven
tion at Lincoln.
REPUBLICANS DO WORK SPEEDILY
Harmony of Thought and Action
Mark Meeting.
DEMOCRATS HAVE MUCH FRICTION
Program Upset in Many Places by
Persistent Kicking.
REAGAN DONS FLYNN'S MANTLE
Old Bona Steps Down from Hlh IMace)
at Head of Connty Organisation
and Lets New Man
Stnrt.
Nlnoty-flve delegates to the state re
publican convention at Lincoln were chosen
by the Douglas county republican conven
tion which met at the court house yester
day afternoon. This and the naming of a
committee, which, with the candidates
named in the primary, will name the new
county central committee, were the prin
cipal acts of the county convention.
The state convention delegates were rec
ommended by a committee of seven named
by Frank Crawford, chairman of the con
vention on motion of J. G. Kuhn. A mo
tion by T. F. Holllster taking the naming
of this committee away from the chairman
was lost by an overwhelming vote. The
committee appointed Included W. A. Fos
ter, C. A. Saunders, Louis Burmeister,
John Schultx, J. G. Kuhn, E. L. Piatt and
Frank Shotwell.
While the committee was preparing Its
list H. H. Claiborne offered a motion that
the delegation to Lincoln vote as a unit
on all propositions. A motion by T. W.
Blackburn to table Claiborne's motion
prevailed practically unanimously.
List of DeleaTates Chose a.
The committee's report on delegates
was unaiilntously
named;
W. W. Bingham.
K. Y . baiiiiuauiur.
adopted, these being
J. C. Lynch.
J. C KUisler.
John Hunker.
C. 1'. Kuuntxe.
Frank ivouisay.
C. J. Karbaca.
C. H. Kubat.
E. J. McVann.
John Mclntyre.
Frank Mahoney.
John McAidle.
C. F. McUrew.
C. G. McDonald.
E. M. Morsman,
E. Q. McGllton.
Clinton trvme.
Fred Biuinng.
T. W. Uluckuurn.
Harry P. Byrne.
J. P. Bieen.
C. W. Lirltt.
F. A. Brogan.
A. H. Burnett.
J. F. Behm.
Ben BrKcr.
M. O. Cunningham.
Frank Crawford.
W. W. Cole.
J. M. Calabria.
K. W. Crook.
F. J. Cooley.
W. J. Connell.
J. O. Detweller.
Luther Drake.
A. J. Donohue.
J. T. Dillon.
O. 8. F.rwln.
C. E. Foster.
W. A. Foster.
Harry Fischer.
W. M. Glass.
L. G. Gibson.
B. F. Grimes.
C. W. Haller.
Fred H - Hoye.
W. J. Hunter.
William Hartman.
C. E. Herring.
T. A. Holllster.
R. B. Howell.
A. W. .tefferls.
jr.
M. Milder.
J. C. Peilerson.
Victor Kosewater.
J. J. Ryder.
W. E. Rhoadea.
'G. W. Roberta.
T. G. Rice,
John Stevena.
Frank Stone.
E. G. Solomon.
F. J. Sutcliffe.
N. P. Swanson.
E. W. Slmerial.
- Arthur K. Smith,
6. A. Searle.
Dave Shanahan.
F. L. Smith.
J 'in Stevens.
C. L. Saunders.
Arthur C. Thomas.
George Tunlson.
B. F. Thomaa.
P. J. Tratnor.
A. W. Johnson
F. S. Tucker.
Oeorge J. H. Johnson W. G. t re.
M L. learned.
W. F. Wapnlch.
Mike Lee
O. W. Wattles.
V.. n. Westerfleld.
F. H. Woodland.
Charles E. Walte.
Frank Whltmore,
.T. Whltlock.
Harry Zlmman.
Thomas F. Lee.
John Larson.
.1. I .Tacnbson.
C. R. Little.
oto Lentln.
Martin Ijinirdon.
Henrv Lesvitt
Decline to Inetrnct Deleaates.
Following the naming of O.elcgatee a mo
tion was offered by Harry B. Zlmman that
the convention recommend to the delega
tion M. L. Learned, C. L. Saunders and
Otto Iptln as the Douglas county mem
bers of the state central committee. Several
rpeskers opposed the motion, declaring that
they themselves were In favor of the threa
men named, but objected to taking the
matter In any way out of the hands of
the delegation. A motion to table prevailed.
The committee named by Chairman Craw
ford to meet with candidatea and select
the county central committee Is aa follows;
First ward, Clyde Sunblad; Second, D. L,
Shanahan; Third. C. H. Kubat; Fourth,
Thomas Lamb; Fifth, C. It. Saunders;
Sixth, W. G. Hhrlver; Seventh, J. O. Kuhn;
Eighth. J. H. Hummel; Ninth. J. C. Peder
son; Tenth, Sam Pollock; Eleventh, C. O.
McDonald; Twelfth, W. J. Hunter; Pouth
Omaha, Frank Koutsky, Louis Etter,
George Hotismsn; Florence, E. L. Flats;
Waterloo, R. E. Neltsel.
C. H. T. Rlepen was secretary of the
convention.
DEMOCRATS SIAKK SELECTIONS
Convention Marred by Some PVIctlon,
bot Boaaea Triumph.
Warring factions In the democratic party
met In county convention at the Paxton
hotel Saturday afternoon and, though they
threw harmony to the four winds of
heaven, managed to select members of
the new county committee and delegates
to the atate convention, to be held Tues
day at Lincoln. They also paid their re
spects to the state supreme court and
resolved not to let the county option forces
ssy anything In the state platform anent
prohibition.
Mayor Dahlman waa placid, but Tom
Flynn, boss of the local democracy and
retiring chairman; Joe Butler, John J,
Mahoney, Claude Boasle and some South
Omaha delegates "stirred up the animals'
with their heated remarka and the chair
man waa compelled to rap for order re
peatedly. Mahoney was the first to disturb the
peaceful harmony for which tha democrats
are supposed to be noted. Tha chair had
been Instructed to appoint a committee to
select the county committeemen, and aa
he proceeded to read off the names of
those to compose this selection committee
It was seen that be had Invariably ap
polnted men of Irish nationality. Mahoney
is an Irishman, but he protested against
the slighting of other nationalities and
exacted a promise from the chair that a
few Americans and a German or two would
be appointed.
Mahoney then subsided, but not for long.
The next motion was one empowering the
chair to appoint a committee of five to
select delegates to the state convention.
Then he was wroth, Indeed.
Why Mshoney lloireree.
"What have we got thla convention for
If five men are to aoleet the delegates to
the state convention T" ha Ingulfed la thua
duriiig Luuea. "1 object to this deapoUg)