THE BEE: OMAITA, TTTTRSTDAY, JF?sTK
5",
1913.
PROGRESS ONCITY CHARTER
unaptcr of New Code of Laws.
PENALTIES AND PUNISHMENTS
ProTlitp Method of DenllnK ttHH
Those Who Misuse Pnbllo
Fund or Knlfttf- the
necoriln.
President Victor Rosewater of the city
charter convention, as chairman of the
general committee of five which will
draft the charter, at the meeting of the
convention yesterday afternoon sub
mitted the first chapter of the new char
ter. It is a chapter on "Penalties" and
(irovides for the punishment of offenders
with a fine of 11,000, or less, and a Jail
term of not more than one year for vio
lating the following provisions:
Misuse of public funds: To fall to re
port to the city treasurer, or to convert
to private use, any moneys collected
from any source for performing any
service as an official; to conceal any
personal Interest to the detriment of the
olty; to mutilate or falsify any public
record; to be Interested In any contract
with the city, or to havo any Inte'rcst
In the wages of a city employe; to ac
cept money from 'itractors; to solicit
political contrlbutloi ; to make threats
of reprisal; to attempt to brlbb officials,
purchase of petition signatures, to sign
false signatures to petitions.
This chapter of the charter, If adopted,
strikes a new note In prohibiting the
acceptancs of fees for services performed
as public officials. In procuring false
signatures to paving petitions. Initiative
and other petitions, In signing falBe
names to such petitions, and In prohibit
ing combinations of bidders,
if Over One AVeelf.
The report of the committee, at the re
quest of the chairman, was laid over for
a week. In tho meantime each member
of the committee will be given a copy
of It. Members will be permitted to
suggest amendments.
John Reagan, chairman of the com
mittee on publlo affairs, submitted, as
the report of his committee, a compre
hensive plan for municipal civil service,
the report being referred to the general
committee.
Reagan's report calls for the appoint
ment of a civil service commission of
three, to serve for six years at a salary
of $1,000 each per year. The commis
sion Bhall be appointed by the mayor.
The examinations shall bo open and
free and competitive, nonpartisan and
non-sectarian. The following officers
are excepted from tho civil service:
City attorney and his assistants, chief
of police, chief of fire department, city
physician and library trustees. The city
commission Is given power to extend Uie
civil service to other officers.
Chairman Harry J. Hackett, of the
committee on police and sanitation, made
a report for his committee In which It
was recommended that the city physi
cian be thosen at the same election at
which commissioners were elected, In
stead of appointed. It gives the com
mission power to Issue certain bonds for
Improvements and emergencies and fixes
tho maximum amount which the police
department may spend at $100,000 a year
and the maximum Annual expenditure lor
garbage removal at $50,000 a year.
Chairman Dan Horrlsnn of the com
mittee on public Improvements recom
mended that tho larger' part of the
present charter relating to publics lm-r
provements be "Incorporated In -the -new
charter, with tho following changes:
Power to City Council.
Giving the city council power to order;
Improvements, providing" there Is no pro
test from a majority of the property
owners. This power Is to be exercised
within a circle the radius of which is
7,000 feet from the city hall.
The council Is given power to tax cost
(of Improvements to the property bene
fited, exclusive of street and alley Inter. -sections,
and excepting repavlng, when
not 'more than half of the cost can be
bo taxed. The present plan Is de
nounced -as an 'Intolerable burden upon
property owners."
Abolishing tho paving promoter by the
creation of the office of city paving
agent, whose duty it is to help property
owners select paving material they de
Eire. "Open" paving specifications, giving
all bidders on any kind of material an
equal chance.
Power is given the city council to issue
bonds for the purpose of paying the cost
of extending tho systems of main sewers.
Cost of opening and extending streets
Is borne by the whole city under the
plan submitted by the committee.
At tho conclusion of the reading of
tho report. Member C. U Shamp wanted
to know what had become of some of !
Iho propositions he had advocated. Hor- j
rigan told him the committee had been
unfavorable to them. Then arose a dis
cussion whether the several committees
Bhould report on all matters, for, or
against, and the sentiment was against
such procedure.
Another meeting Is to be held next
Tuesday, when It is probable all reports
of subcommittees will be submitted
Within the two or three weeks following,
the general committee will harmonize
these reports and submit them to the
whole committee of fifteen for approval.
Children Supply is
, JNotLquaUo Demand
SPRINGFIELD, III., June .The com
mlttee Investigating home finding insti
tutions In Illinois, reported to the lower
house of the legislature today. The re
port says In part:
"In most of the home finding institu
tions, the demand for children has been
greater than the supply. The societies
started out to find homes for homeless
children, but they now are seeking chil
dren for childless homes."
Learning to Drive
Oar KiUs Man; Held
For Manslaughter
BRIDGEPORT. Conn., June 4.-Charged
with homicide. Mrs. S. I Woodford,
wife of the former United States ambas
sador to Spain, was arrested today and
placed under $2,(00 bonds, because the
automobile she was learning to drive,
ran down and killed William Stanhouser,
a laborer In Fairfield, near here, Mrs.
Woodford and her chauffeur will be given
a hearing Juno 9.
EXPLAINS ELECTION LAWS
Harley 0. Moorhead Tells About
New Voting Methods.
SAYS HE'S FOR SQUARE DEAL
In Address Before Uconomlc IjenKne
New CommUstoner Promises lie
Will Conduct Office Ile
Knrillcnn of rnrtlsanahlp.
ANSWER FM HITCHCOCK j
Former Postmaster General Declares
Treasury Figures Are Correct.
ACTION OF CONGRESS CITED
o.
on
K. of Democratic. House IMnccd
Conduct of 11 1 Dcpnrtment
UourlioiiM Are n Mnr to
Kroiiomy.
Harley G. Moorhead, newly appointed
election commissioner, spoke last night
to an assembly of twenty-two members
of the Economic league presided over by
Chairman C. O. Cunningham on "A
Square Election Deal." An explanation
of the relief the state legislature hoped
to accomplish with the laws recently In
stituted was given. He told briefly of
redlstrlctlng the precincts, limiting each
to not moro than 300 voters, making
eighty-six In Omaha where there were
sixty-four and soventeen In South Omaha
where there were fourteen.
In hlB opinion he believed tho cost of
the office of commissioner would be
moro Khan Baved In ten years' time and
that after that It would be a source of
economy.
Knch Voter Tnhneil.
According to the new laws each voter
will be registered with a detailed descrip
tion of himself, Including physical ap
pearances and data regarding birth.
Duplicates will be kept, ono In tho gen
eral office at, the court house and an
other In the precinct where tho voter
casts his ballot. He will thus be Identi
fied at the time of voting and ho may
register at any time In the year. The
registration books will be open on any
legal business day, but new registration
will have to be made ton days prior to
any election. Only one registration Is
necessary, however, and unless a man
should move Into another precinct will
hold contlnously.
It will fall upon the new commissioner's
lot to appoint the Inspectors' judges and
clerks, some 600 In all, for the election
places and In choosing these he Is not
restricted to any particular party of the
county, but may pick men according to
his discretion, All will bo under oath
and will be subject to prosecution If
they do not follow the letter of the law.
Preserving Order.
In any place he may see fit, he may
appoint not to exceed two peace officers
to keep order. The old election laws
prevail whero they are not over-ruled by
the new ones and In the event of
Illiterate voters, a voter can be helped
If he states the man hu wishes to vote
for. In such cases a Judge and a clerk
of opposite party will assist the Illiterate.
Mr. Moorhead said ho stood for a
square deal, regardless of partisanship.
The charter committee report of the
Economic league was continued under the
order of unfinished business and was ap
proved by the league to be presented by
the committee to the charter convention.
South Omaha Given
Second Night at Den
Next Monday night will bo South
Omaha night at the Ak-Sar-Ben Den. A
big time Is being planned, and South
Omaha p expected to turn out In great
numbers to see the big show.
SILVER CITY, N. M., June S.-On ar
riving at Sliver City today from tho
Mogollon mountains, where ho has bcon
spending some weeks, former Postmaster
General Frank H. Hitchcock was shown
for the first time tho statement Issued a
few days ago by Postmaster General
Durleson attacking his administration of
tho Postofflco department. After read
Ing the charges Mr. Hitchcock Issued the
following statement:
"A committee, composed In the main
of newly appointed assistants, having
less than three months' experience In
postofflce business, attempts In a re
port to the present head of tho depart
ment to discredit the financial showing
made by tho postal scrvlco under Presi
dent Taft's administration. After re
porting alleged discrepancies that arc
Insignificant when compared with the
great sums known to have been saved
by their predecessors, this committee of
novitiates proceeds In Its published state
ment to enlighten the American people,
as to tho character of .the postal scrvlco
they have been receiving.
Declared Mtntement Innccurnte.
"Their statement Is as Inaccurate as It
Is gratuitous, for the publlo well knows
that never was tho postal service con
ducted moro efficiently, or mall handled
with greater precision and despatch,
than In tho closing years of . tho Taft
administration. In that administration
nearly 5,000 new postoftlces wero estab
lished, delivery letter carriers were pro
vided In about 300 additional cities, and
over 3,000 new rural routes, aggregating
about 7B.000 miles, wero authorized.
"Notwithstanding these great exten
sions of service and the heavy Increase
In expenditures they required, the Post
office department was placed on a self
sustaining basis, and that was Its con
dition when, on the fourth of March, It
passed Into the hands of newly appointed
officers, who seem thus far to have
been exhausting their time and their
energy In a vain attempt to detract from
the record mado by the devoted publlo
servants they succeeded.
"The postal committee of a democratic
house of congress endeavored last year
In a similar manner to attack the audited
accounts of the postal service, but after
Investigation that committee was fair
enough to admit that tho department had
become self-sustaining. Tho returns as
to surplus or deficit arc made up not
by the Postofflce department, but by
the Treasury department, where all
postal income Is received and all postal
accounts finally audited.
Treasury Ileportcd Deficit Gone.
"The secretary of tho treasury reported
the wiping out of the postal deficit and
the record thus certified to In his fiscal
report Is likely to stand In history. If
the Postofflce department could havo re
ceived a proper allownnco for tho cost of
carrying franked mall, tho postal surplus
would havo been much larger than that
recorded, and this Is true after deducting
the expense incurred on account of the
postal service by the Treasury depart
ment for the free quartering of certain
postofflce.") In federal buildings, an ex
pense that Is less than half' .the cost of
tho franking privilege. In tho fiscal year
1812 more than 300,000,000 pieces of mall,
having an aggregate weight of about
61,000,000 pounds, wero carried free of
charge under tho franks of congressmen
and of the various government establish
ments. If postage at tho usual rates had
been paid on this matter It Is estimated
that tho postal revenues would hava in
creased by moro than fc,C00.000.
"In tho last administration we appealed
In vain to a democratic house for legisla
tion abolishing tho franking abuse. It is
a subject that tho present postal manage
ment might well consider for It affords
an opportunity to save tho department
millions of dollars a year Rut Judging
from the committee's report, as published
In tho press, tho gentlemen now In charge
of postal destinies seem moro Interested
In disclosing the fact that during the four
years preceding March I an average of
thirty-four clerkships per annum re
mained vacant In tho department.
Ulnar at Illinium Omnnlintlnn.
"The United Slate postal scrvlco com
prises altogether more than 300,000 offices
and men. It Is tho largest business or
ganisation In the world. It exponds an
nually about $350,000,000 and now takes In
approximately that amount In postal re
ceipts. It requires a high order of bust
ness ability and tho closest kind of ap
plication on the part of tho various offi
cers In charge to conduct successfully
a public service so extensive and so
Intricate.
"The question very nnturally may pre
sent Itself In the publlo mind as to why
the present officers of tho department In
stead of consuming all this time In an
endeavor to discredit tho good work of
the men they succeeded, nro not devoting
themselves more attentively to the Im
portant branches of the service entrusted
to their care, oven If they aro thus ttir
unable In their inexperience to map out
and execute a constructive postal pro
gram so an. to broaden still further the
usefulness of tho postofflco. They doubt
less will find It a considerable task and
ono requiring their strict attention to
maintain throughout our vast country tho
efficiency of tho postal service aa de
veloped and extended by their predeces
sors and particularly of those great
branches of tho scrvlcu recently estab
lished for tho benefit of tho people by n
republican administration, the postal av- j
Ings bank and tho parcel post.
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IHiHlSSaS!iHiIQH.KiiOHHHSi
The Entire Surplus Stocks of
RUGS
From two well known eastern mills
will go on sale next Monday at
Brandeis
Stores
AUTO BULLETINS AS TO THE
CONDITION OF THE ROADS
"The Nebraska State Automobile as
sociation with headquarters at the notel
Rome will In the future have bulletins
posted relative to the condition' of the
roads leading out of Omaha to the north,
south and west," says Harry Lawrle,
secretary.
"For tho Information and guidance of
automoblllsts the association is prepared
to furnish to the members additional In
formation regarding road conditions on
special Inquiry. Any communications to
! telephone Douglas 2376 will receive
prompt atontion In regard to tho fore
going matters."
W. E. JOHNSON INJURED
BY PASSING AUTOMOBILE
W. E. Johnson, traveling salesman re
siding at B023 Davenport street, was run
over by nn automobllo Tuesday evening
at Carroll, la. Ho was standing on the
curbing at tho sldo of tho street when the
car, driven by Mr. Pond of Ralston, la.,
ran Into him, knocked him down and
two wheels passed over his hips. The In
jured man was resting enslly at his hotel
and It Is thought that nothing more seri
ous than bruises will result.
jPijre Wool
Blue Serge
Ask to sco No. 1502
It's a medium
t.1. -1 L
MADE to ORDER WClglll, Cieitr CUt,
pure wool, noa-indiug Blue
Serge.
Drossy, Serviceable and Economical
The sort of fabric that will
anchor your trado to Nicoll
permanently.
Modestly Priced at $25
NICOLL The Tailor
. WD Jen-ems' Sons .
209-11 South 15th Btrset.
At Just About Half the Prices These Rugs
Would Sell For At Regular Prices
Watch Daily Papers for Particulars. See Our Window Displaye
r5
a
HOSPE DOLLAR WINDOW"
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5TH
Savo money on graduation nrosonU. wedding gifts, club prizes and art objects for the homo.
Somo competitor has. kindly stated that early comers can get good bargains at the "Hospo Dollar
Window" sales, but that after tho first half hour, tho bargains run out. Our friend, tho competitor, is
partially in error and let us asBuro you that you can get JuBt as good bargains any tlmo during tho day as
you can tho first thing In tho morning. Attend this sale and boo.
Read tho bargain list. Why not havo your dollar graduation proaonts, club prlxes, etc., amount to
something.
3 Electric Library Lamps, 112.00 valuo,
at $1.00
25 16x20 Gold Frames that usually boII
from $5.00 to $7.00 $1.00
18 Solid Dross Jardinieres, $2.50 valuo,
at 91.00
85 Imported Japaneso Mahogany Bas
kets, the snnip kind that caused so
much excltoment last week, valim
to $7.00 ;.$1.00
10 Large Mahogany Trays, Just tho
thing for tho dining room, worth
$3.60, at 91.00
17 Gold Trayia for my ladles boudoir,
worth $3.50, at $1.00
18 Lovo Lamps, nice on banquot tables,
at $1.00
19 Largo Solid Brass Baskets, tho $2.50
kind, at $1.00
21 Carbon Plcturos of old mostors, with
antique gold frames, big values at
$3.50 $1.00
14 Pramors Craft Shop Standard
Frames. You know tho kind that
stand up on mantels, dressers, pi
anos or tables, rogular $4.50 valuos,
at $1.00
12 Largo Landscapes, In heavy gold
frames, value $4,00 .....$1.00
Hundreds of nrtlclos that any ono
would bo glad to have will bo placed In
tho window as fast as theao articles
are sold.
Stores oponB at 8 A. M salo starts at 9 A. M.
store (llko in a barber shop). No goodB laid aBldo,
articles aro purchased.
Numbers given out to early comers, as you enter tho
no tolephone orders, no deliveries, except whero tiro
Framers Craft Shop jj HOSPE CO. 1513"15 Douglas St.
If you don't got "Framers Craft Shop" frames on your pictures you aro not getting tho best.
Concentrate your advertising in The Bee.
There is a Bee in almost every home.
You're never at a loss for entertainment
when there is a Victrola in your home.
The following Omaha and Council Waffs dealers carry com
plete lines of VICTOK VICTROLAS, and all of the Into Victor
Records as fast as issued. You are cordially Invited to Inspect
the stocks at any of these establishments:
Schmoller6l Mueller
311-1315 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb.
Victor Department on Plain Floor
Any Victor dealer in
any city in the world
will gladly play any
music you wish to hear.
Victor-Victrolaa
$15 to $200
Victors, $10 to $100
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J.
Industrial Workers
On "Hunger Strike"
1?' ni" Juna 4-A "mrawr
strike Is the latest weapon to bo used
by the Industrial Workers of the World,
a number of whom are In the city Jail on
charges of disorderly conduct and Inciting
a riot. Since Monday at breakfast the
prisoners have refused to eat, breaking
their dishes by striking them against the
toars.
A Cruel UliiiL-n
Is to neglect a cold or courh. Dr. Kln-
uiscuvery ourea mem and may pre
Tent consumption. SCo and JL For sale
by Beaton Drug- Co. Adrertisement
The Persistent and Jumcious Ub at
Newspaper Advertising Is the Road to
Slg Re turns.
Branch at
334 BROADWAY
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Cor. 15th and f 1 fi
Harney, Omaha vO.
Geo. E. Nickel, Mgr.
Brandeis Stores
Talking Machine Department
in the Pompeian Room
. nospe Co.
1S13-15 Douglas St., Omaha, and
497 West Broadway, .... Council Bluffs
Orkin Bros.
Victor Department
Third Floor
Cor. 16th and Harney Sts.
Victor-Vkfarola X
Mahogany or oak
With Victor record albums, $85
Without albums, $75
