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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 12, 1919.
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LAWMAKERS
TO LEARN CHOICE
ONCOflllTTEES
Ellis Good of Nemaha Re
garded as Choice for
Finance, Ways and
Means of House.
(Can tinned frees Fee One.)
ening to put a spoke in the wheels
of their fellows when they favor
certain appointments.
To Bar Members.
"After this, in the interest of har
mony, provision should be made to
bar from appointment as chairman
of any committee a member who
serves on the committee on com
mittees." While it has been facetiously ob
served by Speaker Dalby of the
house, because of the tremendous
republican majority in both branches
of the legislature, that "politics are
adjourned," a majority of the re
publican members of the senate and
house say this will not be the case.
"We will never lose sight of the
fact that this is a republican legis
lature," said Lieutenant Governor
Barrows, president of, the senate,
"and that as such the people will
hold us responsible for all of the
legislation we pass or fail to pass.
We must redeem our platform
pledges and promises and do it as a
republican body.
"We cannot be neutral nor lose
our partisan identity. Our majority
must be kept imbued with its sense
of partisan responsibility to the peo
ple and as republicans we will be
judged by the voters.
"Members who keep this in sight
will act in harmony with the ma
jority and it will prevent the house
and senate republicans from being
split into factions which is the al
ways present menace of a legisla
ture such as this."
41 Are Farmers.
An analysis of the house member
ship by vocations and professions
shows there are 41 who give their
occupations as farmers, stockbreed
ers and ranchmen, and one fruit
growerr There are four bankers, 11
lawyers, one dentist, one detective,
one salesman for an adding machine
company, one broker, one carpenter,
one contractor, one baker, one fore
man of bridge construction, one me
chanic, one auditor, two physicians,
two lumber dealers, one grain mer
chant, one abstractor, one feed,
grain and hay dealer and one auc
tioneer. This shows a total of 26
professions, avocations and business
occupations distributed among the
77 members and is peculiar in that
this is one of the few sessions of
the legislature where the farmers,
rather than the lawyers are in the
majority.
In the senate there are 10 lawyers,
seven farmers, four real estate deal
ers, three editors, four bankers, of
whom two are retired; two insur
ance men, one coal and lumber deal
er, and one horse dealer.
With the assembling of the legis
lature as soon as it is organized for
business will begin the gathering of
those who are interested in certain
classes of legislation.
County Commissioner Harris, Ne
maha, chairman of the legislati e
committee of the State County
Commissioners' association, is al
leady on hand. J. O. Shrover,
Richardson, of the Farmers' union,
has been a familiar figure during the
opening days of the legislature and
will appeal for matters wanted by
his organization. It is not probable
that the telephone and railroad cor
porations, because of government
control, will have lobbyists at this
session, but there are numerous
other interests that are liable to be
affected by proposed legislation that
will have their representatives on
hand.
Good Roads An Issue.
Good roads legislation will come
up as a matter of course. Omaha
organizations will be interested in
the passage of a bill that will have
for its purpose the stopping of
' wholesale automobile thefts. The
new measure may be modeled on the
California law. It is estimated that
the,, loss of automobiles by theft in
this state during the past five years
will approximate more than $3,000,-
m.
State Police Force.
One of the innovations proposed
is a bill for the creation of a state
police force, fashioned after those of
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
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Furniture, House) Fur
nishings, Rugs, Stoves
and Complete Outfits
Continues at Unheard of
Prices. .
If You Need a Complete
OUTFIT
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STATE-FURHTORE CO.
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Connecticut, where such forces are
designated as state constabulary.
The enforcement of the state prohi
bition statute, game laws, roan laws
and other measures make such a
force necessary. Officers of the law
thus created, will have the whole
state for their territory and the ere-
ation of a body of this kind will
make law enforcement possible in
such communities where there is a
lack of efficiency or sympathy on the
part of the local police or municipal
authorities in the enforcement of
certain laws.
Members of the special session of
1918, as well as those of the regular
session of 1917, who were of the re
publican minority and who assailed
the famous "Von Hindenberg line,"
composed largely of democratic
members of the Douglas county
delegation, in their efforts to break
the defense of the "booze ring," in
favor of, the adoption of the amend
ment ratifying the federal constitu
tional amendment, providing for na
tional prohibition, are now in the
saddle.
There is absolutely no question
but that these republicans with their
newly elected colleagues in both
houses of the legislature will pass,
practically without a dissenting vote,
the resolution of ratification.
As Edgar Howard, in his address
opening the senate said: "The ab
sence of so many familiar faces from
the democratic side of the house and
senate convinces me that the mem
bers of the old "Von Hindenberg
line" immolated themselves on a keg
of beer and the presence of so many
republicans here proves to me that
the people have repudiated the party
that in such a manner committed
political hari-kari."
Contests Election.
An interesting contest is to be de
cided in the senate. W. J. Br oaten,
republican candidate for state sen
ator, who on the face of the returns,
was defeated by "Doc"Tanner, South
Omaha, by a small majority, has
hied a contest against Mr. Tanner's
seat. Mr. Broatch alleges that the
election board committed fraud in
not counting soldier votes that had
been withheld and which should
have gone to him,
Some of the members of the
house are wondering what O.
Schmidt, non-partisan representa
tive, SaundeNt, has up his sleeve.
During the closing hours of the
Thursday session of the house he
asked if it would be possible to add
a new committee to the list of house
standing committees. He was told
the house had the power at any time
to add new committees. When
asked what new committee he had
in mind, Schmidt was non-committal.
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So far the gathering of the legis
lature has not been as productive of
as big a harvest for the hotel men
cf Lincoln as it has in years past.
Governor McKelvie's policy of
making prompt appointments has
clarified the situation so far as pros
pective pie hunters are concerned.
Then the house and senate resolu
tions to keep the number of em
ployes down to the lowest possible
point consistent with efficiency, and
make every one appointed earn their
salaries has had the effect of reduc
ing the horde of office seekers which
at every session throng to Lincoln
and populate the hotels. One gov
ernor, not so many years ago but
the memory of the thing is still
fresh, during his campaign made 20
promises of appointment for every
job. Candidates for places, many of
them dead, certain of a tail hold and
down hill pull on a fat job were kept
in the capital for three or four weeks
only to learn, with grief and
chagrin that the governor could not
keep all of his promises for he was
unable to perform the miracle of
multiplying the loaves and the fishes.
Those who were bitterly disap
pointed never forgot their experi
ences and it helped greatly to de
feat that same governor, when he
ran for United States senator.
"Tin" Stamped Out.
Nome, Jan. 11. The public health
service expedition sent to Alaska
to assist in fighting the Spanish in
fluenza epidemic, particularly among
the natives of the coast, has com
pleted his work and left for Seattle
yesterday. Reports to Gov, Thomas
Riggs' office indicated the epidemic
is about stamped out, and that the
expedition's work has saved the
lives of hundreds of natives.
Crew is Lost.
London, Jan. 11. The entire crew
of the Japanese steamer Nanyo
Maru was lost when the vessel was
sunk off Hokkaido, January 2, ac
cording to a dispatch from Kobe.
The steamer was on its way from
Kobe to Marseilles.
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work done in my of
fice is in itself a guar
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J COMFORT PLATES
i are built with a soft cushion, and are a pleasure to
I wear. There is no hard rubber or metal to touch your
gums, thus insuring you one of the most comfortable
1 sets of teeth ever made. If you will only see them you
will surely believe our statements.
CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK
A crown or bridge under Dr. Brownfield's care
will be placed in your mouth in a clean, sanitary, per-
fect condition, and in as short a time as is possible, ad-
herent to perfect, conscientious work.
1 VAPOR MIST
I Dr. Clark, after many years, has perfected VAPOR MIST
g and we are sincere in saying it is perfect and many hundreds of
H patients have had teeth extracted and prepared for work, and
1 we srateful to Dr. Clark and VAPOR MIST.
V P j Devine has specialized in treating; Pyorrhea and
g has had some yery pronounced results. Your mouth is not in
4 proper condition if your gums bleed freely when brushed.
LADY ATTENDANT. X-RAY.
U Wednesday Evenings Until 8 P. M.
Red 1201.
Banquet? . You Bet! But Guest of Honor
Failed to Appear
Elaborate Preparations for Feed in Honor of Will C.
Israel, House Chief Clerk, Had Been Made; But
They Forgot to Send Him an Invitation.
By J. H. KEARNES
(Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Jan." 11. A banquet with
out the guest of honor being present
was given by the newly elected
county officers of Lancaster at the
Lincoln hotel the other night.
Will C. Israel, chief clerk of tTie
house, was former chairman of the
Lancaster county central commit
tee. As a testimonial of his effi
cient work in the late campaign it
was decided by the successful office
seekers to give him a blow-out. ft
took place all right, but when the
company had all assembled around
the- banquet board it was found that
a'fataf mistake had been ,made.
The guest of honor failed to ap
He was blissfully ignorant
of the honor being done him and
was luxuriating behind the evening
newspapers at his home at Have
lock. The officers-elect and legis
lators present began to make inquir
ies and it was found that no one
had invited him to the feed. To
keep the food from going to waste,
as a means of conservation, the
guests demolished the viands and
then said good things about the ab
sent guest of honor, behind his
back.
Governor Mclelvie is oje of the
most democratic and congenial of
men.
Because of his congeniality a
oeculiar incident, one that brought
some embarrassment to W. J. Tay
lor, senator and nonpartisan leader,
of Merna, took place.
Mr. Taylor was in- the lobby of
the Lindell hotel and was talking to
Senator Terry Reed, who represents
the counties of York, Hamilton and
Greeley, when McKelvie approached.
"How do you do, Senator Reedl"
evrlaimed the eovernor. extending
his hand in friendly greeting, sena
tor Reed took the prottered nana ana
shook it; then Governor McKelvie
turned to Taylor and said: "How are
you, senator?"
"I'm senator ail rtgnt, remarKea
Taylor, "but who are you?"
"Oh, nobody but the next govern
or." smilingly remarked McKelvie
as he turned away. ,
"Hell, I must be in my dotage,
grumbled Taylor to Reed as he
viatrhcH the form of the new execu
tive fade into an adjoining crowd.
"I guess I will have to pair with
Jenkins," remarked Representative
George E. Tracewell, Valentine, to
a couple of friends in the house
before the adjournment of the ses
sion. "Jenkins, whose home is at
Haigler. is stone deaf, and I am al
most blind. Each of us can supply
a faculty missing in the other and
between us we could make one
grand complete representative. I
think it is an ideal solution of an
embarrassing situation. We can
make up a committee of the whole
between us on any legislation in
which we are interested."
It looked fbr a time that Lieuten
ant Governor Barrows would not
be able to perform the functions of
his office as president of the senate'.
Lancaster county claimed a prior
right to his services. Mr. Barrows,
r.kke Your StQonh
Your Best Friend
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Digest
the Food, Proven Sourness
and Make You Feel
Fine All Over.
If you feel any distress after esting
take a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tsblet. You
will then have a good steady friend in
your stomach. For no matter what you
eat there will be no sras,no sour risings,
no lump in your throat, no biliousness, no
dark brown tast in the morning. And
should you now be troubled, eat a tablet
as soon as possible and relief will come
promptly. These tablets correct at once
the faults of a weak or overworked stom
ach, they do the work while the stomach
rests and recovers itself. Particularly ef
fective are they for banqueters and those
whose environment brings them in con
tact with the rich food most apt to cause
stomach derangement. Relief in these
eases always brings the glad smile. Get a
box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, SO cents
in any drug store. Be good to your stom
ach. Adv.
in RmtlP Dr. Brownfield
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DR. J. C. CLARK
THE PAINLESS DENTIST
608-10 Paxton Block,
16th and Farnam, Omaha.
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who is now addressed as "your ex
cellency" by some of his many
friends, was drawn as a member of
the petit jury for the January term
of the , Lancaster county district
court. '
He had to appear before the pre
siding judge like any other humble
citizen and beg to he excused be-
cause of the pressing demands for . sentatives, appointed to "investi
his semces as one of the ch.ef ex- te. aud it now the clerk,s
ccutives of the state.
He was excused.
Ex-Secretary of State Charley
Pool will not live in the Sixth con
gressional district, where he had
established his home and been de
feated in his race for congress by
the redoubtable "Uncle Mse" Kin
kaid.' -
Whether because of the sting of
ingratitude, or some other reason,
Pool has decided to remain in Lin
coln where he will engage in the
real estate business.
Employes of his office force, be
fore his retirement, presented Mr.
Pool with a framed enlarged por
trait of himself,' to be left in the
office of the secretary of state as
an addition to the portrait gallery
of former secretaries of state, dat
ing back to territorial days.
"The unlooked for dissipations of
a legislative session keeps one up
late," remarked a country member
of the house to a veteran legisla
tor, last week.
"It was nearly midnight when I
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retired last night and I slept late
this morning. It was 7 o'clock,
when I got up."
The veteran legislator, harking
back to the good old days, asked,
as a feeler:
"What kept you up?"
"I went to a picture show," an
swered the rural member with a
rather blase air.
The carpet, removed from the
floor of the office of the chief clerk
of the house, and secreted in the
basement, of the capitol building by
Fire Commissioner Ridgell, was
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office,
"But the house had to pay for it,"
said Mr. Ridgell, grimly, as he
watched the carpet being laid on
the floor from which it had been re
moved. Mr. Ridgetl occupied a peculiar
position during the incumbencv of
his office. During his term the su
preme court decided that the state
fire insurance commissioner had ab
solute control of the fees of his of
fice, and did not have to account
for them to the state treasurer or
any other official than the governor,
who by a device o,f the law is ex-of-ficio
fire insurance commissioner.
The salary of the office is not paid
by the state but by the fire insur
ance companies, and during his term
Ridgell acted as though he were in
dependent of the state and its laws.
He refused to make a report in ac
cordance with the state budget law
to the state auditor until compelled
to do so by Governor Neville,
He also had his annual report
printed without the authority of the
state printing commissioner, al
though the latter had awarded the
Its First Showing--A Light Weight Quality Car
Next TIiiifs
Motorists will have their first sight of the Essex next Thursday,
January 16th.
It is the car which motor papers have mentioned so frequently
during the past year as a new solution of automobile transportation.
Automobiles have been developed along two widely different
lines. One has been toward a cheap, light car. Economy and
low first cost have been its chief advantages.
The other has been toward luxury, comfort and endurance,
has meant high first cost and heavy maintenance expense.
The Essex combines the advantages of these two types. It
moderately priced, and economical in operation. It has no use
less .weight. Its performance, comfort and finish, to the minutest
detail, is comparable to that which you could get only in high
priced cars;
Be One of the First to Ride in It
" We begin public demonstrations of the Essex
on Thursday. Hundreds of other dealers in all
parts of the country are making their first show
in of the Essex on that day.
If you will come in on Thursday, or better still,
telephone that you will be on hand, we will ar
range to demonstrate theEssex to you so that you
can be one of the first in this community to ride
in this new car.
The Essex is to do its own advertising.
Whatever you hear of it in the future will be
whatever people choose to say about it.
No descriptions are to be advertised until hun
dreds of thousands of motorists have said what
they think of the Essex.
It is to be sold on the merits of its performance
and not by what we or the makers may
claim for it ,
That is the way the Essex was in
troduced to us.
We were invited to the factory. A
lot of conjecture had been advanced
about the Essex, but the makers would
give us no particulars.
contract of the report at a lower
rate. The former state printing
commissioner has declined to allow
the claim of the printer of the re
port and the latter may have to go
without his money.
"That was a wise and courageous
act, remarked a friend to uovernor
McKelvie to the latter, on hearing
that Mr, McKelvie had withdrawn
the appointment of his brother,
when being charged with nepotism.
"I made a mistake," said the gov
ernor, "and I tried to correct it as
soon as I realized it. That will be
my policy in the future as it has
always been. When I make a mis
take and realize it, I will be honest
enough to confess it and will rem
edy it as soon as possible."
It is a fine sidelight to his charac
ter, is the opinion of his friends.
"Doc" Tanner, one of the three
lone democrats in the senate, and a
member of the Douglas county dele
gation, was on his way ,to the capi
tol building on one of the opening
days of the session, when he was
approached by a negro.
"Say, captain," said the colored
man, "is you all one of de guv'
ment?" "I'm a senator." replied Doc.
"I'se lookin' fo a state house
job," remarked the colored man,
who drew some papers from his
pocket.- "I done got de endohsment
of de Omaha Colored Republican
club."
"No use pulling them on me," ex
claimed Tanner, "I'm a democrat."
"Oh, dat's all right, cap,"observed
the dark colored pie seeker, as he
drew another bunch of paper from
another pocket, "I'se done got de
endohsment of de Omaha Andrew
Jackson Colored Democratic club,
too.
Harry S. Byrne, republican state
central committeeman, is an ardent
friend of Governor McKelvie. He
represents an indemnity bond com
pany at Omaha, and wrote most of
the bonds for the new state officers.
Among them was the bond of the
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GUY L. SMITH
"Service First"
governor and Harry was so en
thusiastic that he wrote the date
of the termination of the bond, Jan
uary7, 1921. This would give the
governor one more day of office
than he would be entitled to under
the law, as his term of office will
expire the day before, or January
6. The mistake was discovered in
time to make a correction, and now
Harry carries a perpetual calendar
to provide against such mistakes in
the future.
Speaking of mistakes in the dates
on bonds one was made in the bond
of Former State Treasurer George.
As a' result, for three days
the $10,500,000 of investment bonds
belonging to the state, and which
were in his custody, were without
indemnity protection. The bond
was written to date from January
6, 1917 to January 6, 1919. His term
of office did not expire until Jan
uary .9, 1919, and for three days this
vast treasure was protected only
by the personal integrity of the
state treasurer, and the fact that
yeggmen have dropped their call
ing for automobile stealing.
Turk Leader Says Germans
Intrigued Turks Into War
Geneve, Jan. 11. (By Associated
Press.) German intrigue and the
political machinations of the young
Turk party put Turkey by the side
of tile central powers in the war
"against the interests and traditions
of cur people," according to Prince
Sabah Eddine, nephew of the pres
ent sultan and leader of the Turkish
liberal opposition party, who is here
on his way to Constantinople.
"I was exiled from Turkey for
many years before I wished to es
tablish a liberal, honest and just
government for all of my country
men, without distinction as to race
or religion," the prince said today.
"I have never ceased my endeavors
to realize this ideal, to be attained
in harmony with the Anglo-Saxon
nations."
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. Had we not known the Essex builders a well
as we do, through years of dealing with them, wa
might have been less confident of a car about
which so little information was vouchsafed.
AH they said was that it would meet the de
mand for a light weight, moderate priced, high
quality automobile of unusual performance, lux
ury and stability.
But coming from them that meant more than
volumes of claims. , v
The pleasure of our surprise, even with the
knowledge we had of how temperate the Essex
people are in what they say of their product, was
so complete, we want you to receive the same kind
of surprise. '
If our own experience and that of hundreds
of the most successful of automobile
dealers in the country, is a criterion,
you will be both surprised and enthu
siastic about the Essex.
May we expect you to ride
Thursday?
Every motorist is invited.
Phone Douglas 1970.
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SLED RUNS INTO
CURB, LAD DIES
OF IIISJJURIES
Lincoln Taylor, 10 Years Old,
Turns to Avoid Colliding
With Automobile and
Meets Death.
Lincoln Taylor, 10 years of s
living in 6lyi North Twenty-first
strict, died in the Lister hospital
from injuries received when his sled
ran into a curb while coasting Sat
urday morning. He turned the sled
into the curb to avoid colliding with
an automobile.
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Lovers of Freedom
'' are Invited to attend the
Mass Meeting
For Irish Self Determination
Auditorium
Sunday Jan. 12 at 3 p. m.
Congressman Jefferis
will bo the orator.
Archbishop Harty will preside
Admission Free
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