FARMERS' UNION
GIVEN RIGHTS TO
OMAHA EXCHANGE
Senate Speeds Up and Passes
22 Bills in Anticipation of
Adjournment in the
" Near Future.
By a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, April 4. The Nebraska
senate speeded up Friday in antici
pation of adjournment within the
next 10 days, and passed 22 tills
with macfiine-like precision.
The only break came when the
Omaha Grain exchange bill was up
for passage. It was necessary to
raise a call of the house to murter
enough votes to pass the bill with
the emergency clause attached, 22
being required. Senate leaders fin
ally secured the sufficient majority
and final roll call revealed 24 sen
ators voting for the bill.
The bill gives the Farmers' union
unrestricted rights on, the Omaha
Grain exchange, with the exclusive
privilege of rebating profits on the
patronage basis.
The roll call on the bill resulted:
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Chappell. Corded, Cronln, Erlckson, Hall,
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Against Bradstreet. Cooper, Good.
Houston, Bobbins, Saunders, Slman and
Tanner I. i
Absent Sears 1.
The senate added one minor
amendment to the bill, but unques
tionably thehouse will concur, and
then it goes to the governor for
signature. Inasmuch as it carries
the emergency clause it will go into
effect immediately.
Provide Detectives.
The senate concurred in amend
ments to S. F. 178, which provides
$500 for a detective for the county
attorney of Lancaster county and
$1,500 for similar services for the
county attorney's office in Douglas
county.
II. R. 236, a bill raising the salary
of the public defender in Omaha
from $2,400 to $3,600, was up on third
reading but a mistake was discovered
and the bill was committed to cor
rect a technical error.
The Douglas county commissioner
election law was another measure
which went through the senate Fri
day and is ready for the governor's
signature. The bill puts the election
back on the old basis of nominating
by districts and voting at large.
H. R. 127, another Omaha bill, was
passed without opposition. It ex
tends the term of judges of the mu
nicipal court in Omaha.
The senate adjourned until 2
o'clock Monday.
Grain Men Silent.
"I have no comment to make at
this time," said F. P. . Manchester,
secretary of the Omaha Grain ex
change. "A meeting of the board
of directors will be called in due
time, when the matter will be dis
cussed exhaustively. Until the
board has passed on the -subject, I
do not feel at liberty to talk about
it."
School Board of Wilber
Elect Teachers for Year
DeWitt, Neb., April 4. (Special.)
The Wilber school board held an
election of teachers for the ensuing
year with the following results:
Superintendent Hopkins was re
elected, also Mrs. Jennings and the
Rev. Mr. Klink. Miss Grimm was
re-elected, but declined to serve an
other year. The Misses Thompson
and Reiher were re-elected.
The following were appointed as
a committee to manage the War
savings stamp campaigns of the
school: Mrs. H. Hein, Mrs. . N.
Luse, Mrs. Stepanek, Mrs. Sherman
Wychoff, Mrs. E. J. Prucha and
Mrs. M. M. Chaloupka.
Wilber Soft Drink Dealers
Must Face Liquor Charge
DeWitt, Neb., April 4. (Special.)
Complaints have been filed in
county court against Tachovsky &
Cvach, of Wilber, and William Rail.
Rudolph Masin and Fred Mace of
Crete, charging them with unlawful
possession of liquor. Defendants
are dealers in soft drinks and the
cause of all the trouble seems to be
that cider has been standing so long
that it developed a kick.
Hay Reaches $40 Per Ton
on the Fremont Market
Fremont. Neb., April 4. (Spe
cial.) Hay has reached a record
price on the Fremont market, the
baled roughness selling for $40 a ton
and dealers say it is hard to get at
that price. Owners of dairy herds
say they are operating at a loss
when they have to sell milk at 13
cents a quart while they feed their
cows $40 hay.
Wymore Woman Dies.
Wymore, Neb., April 4. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Mary J. Burnham, a
resident of Wymore since 1882, died
yesterday at the home of her son,
J. M. Burnham, after an illness of
a few months. Her husband. Cp
tain Burnham, a civil war veteran,
died years ago in Wymore.
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HOUSE REJECTS
AMENDMENTS TO
TRADE MEASURE
Propositions Making Terms of
Bill More Rigid Are
Adopted; Rodman and
Purdy Have Tilt.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, April 4. AU amendments
proposed by the house committee on
manufactures and commerce to Sen
ator Cordeal's trade commission bill,
S. F. 116, taking the blue sky de
partment away from the railway
commission and putting it under the
governor and attorney general with
the appointing power in the hands
of the former official, were rejected
on the floor of the house Friday
afternoon.
Two propositions, making the
terms of the measure more rigid,
were adopted. One, by Mr. Martin,
declares it a felony, instead of a mis
demeanor to refuse to submit to an
examination or to sell securities
without a permit. The bill was ad
vanced for final passage.
One of the amendments favored
by the standing committee pro
vided that if a corporation had been
in existence and engaged in active
business for two years it should
not be subject to the control of the
state trade; commission.
Charges Compromise, v
During a tilt between Messrs
Rodman and Purdy, the latter
stated thaT the two-year clause was
a compromise.
"Who made the compromise?"
inquired Rodman.
"It was agreed ' to over in the
senate," replied Purdy.
"Senator Hoaeland told me that
the amendment would be acceptable '
to the senate, remarked Mr. Jacob
son. This was confirmed by Mr.
Reynolds.
"I don't know whether the Hig
gins Packing company or any other
corporation in which senators may
be interested, would come under
this law," he said, "but we need
not assume that the senate will
stand back of what these senators
say."
The next proposal by the stand
ing committee was to knock ouc the
clause in the -senate bill which gives
preferred stock equal voting rights
with common stock.
Again by a one-sided vote, this
amendment was defeated, as was
one allowing IS per cent of the mon
ey derived from stock sales to be
paid as commissions thereon. The
bill as passed by the senate allows
10 per cent.
Table Resolution to Send
Bills to Governor at Once
Lincoln, April 4. (Special.) The
house Friday morning tabled a reso
lution by Mr. Osterman, expressing
the sense of that chamber that bills
should not be held back after pas
sage, but sent without delay to the
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Bills Passed
Senate.
H. R. No. 16 County may collect from
atata fundi coat of killing pralrla Mog-a
on state owned land, appropriate! 12,000
for atate fund to cover.
H. R. No. 445 Give persons, firms or
corporations In Omaha at whose business
garbage collects privilege to sell sume, or
haul through city streets, according to
city ordinance.
H. R. No. 4S7 Appropriati-s iiz.ono to
meet a like appropriation by United States
government as a state social hygiene
fund.
II. R. No. 69 If child lives more than
2'4 miles from school house and la re
fused free transportation to and from
school his district shall pay tuition at any
other school.
H. R. No. 345 Glvea Farmers' union
unrestricted membership on Omaha grain
exchange not subject to exchange rules
against rebating, but right to distribute
profits on basis of patronage.
H. R. No. 321 Raises bond of school
district treasurer from 1500 to $1,000 In
districts having 15 to 60 children of
school ago. '
H. R. No. 416 Lincoln Board of Edu
cation shall be elected in same manner
as city commissioners. School levy in
creased to 50 mills, 2 mill increase to be
used for salaries, 13 mill Increase for
lands and buildings for school purposes.
H. R. 322 Takes off limit that a city
of the second class may issue for Inter
section paving bonds.
H. R. 467 Requires 100 signers In each
congressional district to place candidates
for president on the primary ballot.
H. R. 12 State officials must Issue a
pamphlet Bhowlng all state automobile
registrations, for use of sheriffs and chiefs
of police of cities.
H. R. 676 rrovldes for election In strip
of unorganized territory between Wayne
and Thurston counties to determine their
county status.
H, R. 651 Cities of second class may
compel railroads to construct subways at
street crossings.
H. R. 260 No person appointed or elect
ed to publio office can appoint a relative
to an official position except position pay
ing $600 or less per year.
H. R. 250 Adds a college of dentistry
and college of business administration as
state university colleges.
H. R. 174 Regulates weight and qual
ity of cloth duck or canvas manufactured
or sold in state.
H. R. 31S Provides for building of
county jail in Clay county.
H. R. 166 Douglas county commission
ers are to be nominated by commissioner
districts, but voted on at large.
H. R. 127 Omaha Judges of municipal
court terms made four years instead of
present two-year term. Nbtto apply to
present incumbents.
H. R. 524 If child Uvea near school
house In a district adjoining his own, shall
go to school la the adjoining district, his
own district to pay tuition.
H. R. 188 Declares venereal diseases
cantagious and puts rules regulating same
under supervision of state board of health.
H. R. 630 Gives election Judges right to
challenge voters with the questions: "Are
you a citizen of the U. S. 7" "Are you
native born or naturalized?" "Where and
when did you receive your naturalization
papers?"
H. R. 192 Cities of second class may
sell electric current or other municipal
plant product to any other city or cor
poration outside of city limits and have
right of way to run poles and wires along
publio highways.
German Language Books
Turned Over to Regents
Lincoln, April 4. Rather than
burn German language books in a
huge bonfire, and thus place the
committee in the light of being fa
natics, the house committee appoint
ed to investigate the foreign lan
guage books in the state circulating
library, recommended that all such
books be placed in the hands of the
state library officials with instruc
tions to the latter to weed out all
such books that contain any sedi
tious matter or propaganda.
Members of the committee report
ed that there was only one man on
the body who could read the German
language, therefore the contents of
the books turned over to the state
library could not be ascertained and
that it was deemed advisable to turn
all of the books over to the board
of regents of the state university.
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Amentiments to Omaha Bills
at Lincoln Predicted to
Meet Objections of the
Property Owners.
Lincoln, Neb.;' April 4. (Special
Telegram. A hearing before the
committee on cities and towns was
held last night in the house chamber
on the Omaha charter and paving
bills. -
' Strong speeches were made,
against certain provisions of the
paving bill by Howard Baldrige and
others. They declared 'the bill was
vicious in its nature and warned the
committee against its passage in the
initial form.
City Commissioner Towle spoke
in favor of the bill.
The hearing, which was a lengthy
one, was largely attended.
The committee has taken no for
mal action. It is predicted that the
two measures will be amended so as
to eliminate features which are
strenuously objected to by Omaha
property owners.
Speculation Rife as to
Appointments at Fremont
Fremont, Neb., April 4. (Spe
cial.) Much speculation is being
indulged in as to the probable ap
pointees of Mayor-elect Guy Hin
man, the "write-in" candidate who
was elected by the largest plurality
ever recorded in the history of the
city. It is conceded that W. M.
Cain, a democrat, will be the city
attorney to succeed J. E. Rohn;
Wallace Wilson, former chief state
booze hound under Governor Ne
ville, and L. D. Wright are men
tioned for the job of city light and
water commissioner. Tom Adams,
former restaurant and railroad i..an,
is favorite for chief of police.
Mayor-elect Hinman says he is
not ready to announce his appoint
ments. Hinman is a republican, but
was elected on an independent
ticket on a platform of a more open
town. He is a wealthy bachelor.
Legislature of 1917 Is
Responsible for Mixup
Lincoln, April 4. (Special.)
Failure of the Nebraska" legislature
of 1917, overwhelmingly democratic,
to extend the soldiers voting law to
give the soldiers a right to vote at
special elections is responsible for
the present mixup on the constitu
tional convention, friends of the bill
explained Friday.
The law now limits the soldiers'
vote to general or primary elections.
As the selection of the delegates for
the constitutional convention is a
special election, there will be no
soldier vote to delay the certifica
tion of delegates to the convention,
it is claimed.
Flu at Rapid City. "
Rapid City, S. D April 4. (Spe
cial.) Reports from Hot Springs
state that Spanish influenza is for
the second time raging in that vi
cinity with a death a day for the
last three days from the disease.
Week
Senate Adopts Report
of Finance Committee
for New Improvements
By a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, April 4. The state sen
ate Friday adopted the report of the
senate finance committee on II. R.
580, covering the appropriations for
improvements and new buildings at
the various state institutions.
The senate raised the amount for
wells, water mains and machinery
at the Institution for Feeble-minded
at Beatrice from $13,000 to $16,000.
The house appropriation of $1,000
for a silo at the Grand Island Sol
diers' home was increased to $2,000,
but the committee knocked out an
appropriation of $15,000 for a tun
nel connecting the dining rooms at
the institution.
It added $7,000 for a dairy barn
and silo at the Boys' Industrial
school at Kearney and $10,000 for
a dairy barn and silo at the Lin-
; coin Insane asylum.
It also reported out II. K. 58A
introduced by the governor, appro
priating $25,000 to welcome home
the soldiers, changing it so the
money could be expended at any
port where the sailors arrive.
-A new school redisricting bill was
introduced in the senate Friday, re
placing the measure which was
killed in the house; The bill was
changed to meet the principal ob
jections raised in the lower branch.
Anti-Nepotism Measure
Now Goes to Governor
Lincoln, Neb., April 4. The anti
nepotism bill introduced in the house
by Representative Foster, prohibit
ing the appointment by office hold
ers of any person related by ties of
blood or kin to any subordinate posi
tion or office where the yearly com
pensation is greater than $800, pass
ed the senate today.
The measure had the emergency
clause attached and now only re
quires the signature of the governor
to be the law of the state. It prac
tically passes in the same form as it
came from the house and by a
unanimous vote.
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Ex-Governor Holcomb
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to Recover Coal Excess
From a Staff Correspondent
Lincoln, April 4. In the joint leg
islative inquiry into the Stat Board
of Control, today, former Governor
Holcomb told the committee that
he had made a formal demand upon
the attorney general to proceed to
obtain a refund of $4,500 he alleges
is due the state from the Victor
American Fuel company of Denver.
The $4,500 represents the differ
ence between the price of coal sold
to state institutions, fixed by the
federal fuel administration, and that
fixed in the contract with the state
by the coal company.
Commissioner Gerdes stated to
the investigating committee that he
thought the state was obligated
morally to pay the full price of the
coal named in the contract with the
Victor American Fuel company, de-
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obligation on the part of the coal
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University Gets Books.
Lincoln, April 4. (Special.)--Twelve
hundred volumes of foreign
language books in the traveling
libraries of the state under the di
rection of the state library commis
sion will be turned over to the state
university, the house committee in
vestigating the matter reported today.
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