THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. AFRIL 25. 1921.
Sitrns Indicate
: Stormy Wiiulup
Of Legislature
Fireworks Expected Over Tax
ation, Appropriation and
Censorship Bills-Labor '
Unions to lie Heard.
Norfolk Builds Modern Hotel for Guests
: Lincoln, April 24. (Special.) All
signs point to trouble tomorrow in
'the closing hours of the session of
the Nebraska legislature and there
, promises to be fireworks from the
." minute the presiding officer's gavel
'falls until the time nervous and ir
ritable members say goodby to Lin-
coin for two years. The bones of
contention in the closing days are:
Senate file 65.
The $25,000,000 appropriation bill
" in which everyone obtained about
' what he wanted excepting Omaha,
who was denied $125,000, for a paved
. road from the Sarpy county line to
.Tort Crook. t
., Movie picture regulation bill.
R. Beecher Howell.
. Hearing of labor unions before
governor McKelvie at 10 tomorrow
for purpose of imploring him to veto
"the Randall-Hascall anti-picketing
;"biii.
:' Interested in Tax Bill.
The biggest money iutercsts in Ne
braska are interested in Senate File
05, the big revenue and taxation bill.
Their lobbyists have been persistent
ly working to defeat the bill ever
".since it was placed on general file in
: the senate. That body, however, gave
them little support in their fight and
.' practically the only opposition of
. ferious dimensions was furnished by
: Senator Walter V. Hoagland.
In the House the democrats saw
' an opportunity to furnish political
' ' capital for the next campaign by op
' posing the bill. .These democrats,
".together with scattering republicans
nd Nonpartisan leaguers, furnished
sufficient-strength to .make, the pas
sage of the bill dubious in the lower
house. '
' The outcome of the attempt of the
' 'republican party to revise the alleged
.antiquated tax system of Nebraska
' and put a tax on intangibles amount
ing to 25 per cent of what the tax on
. tangibles may be was considered
.'doubtful today. There was talk in
"hotel lobbies that an, attempt would
Jbe made to appease the ruffled spirit
jf the Omaha delegation and get
;some of their votes for Senate File
t5 by reincorporating the $125,000
-appropriation for the "Fort Crook
. 'l-oad.
3 : The appropriation bill must go
' through in order to keep the state
government on its feet. What shape
'it will be in when the house and
-enate finally pass it no one knows.
"The conference committee did trim
tit about $200,000, but ' that decrease
lias far from putting the bill back
:Jto the level that the house main
tained when it was passed and before
.'the senate increased house appro
priations $1,000,000. , .
Howell Given Hearing.
J Then, there is R. Beecher Howell,
republican national committeeman,
21io arrived in Lincoln late Satur
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Fine Artesian
Wells Struck
Near Tecumsel
Conventions passed up Norfolk.
Traveling men ignored the city when
spending the night in that territory.
The live wire business men of the
city investigated and learned that
lack of proper hotel accomodations
was the only reason for the city be
ing slighted.
A remedy was at once sought and
a large corporation secured to con
struct a hotel ample to care for the
city's rfeeds. The result a large hole
in the ground the company went
bankrupt.
The reverses did not cause the
citizens of this thriving city of north
Nebraska to become discouraged. A
move was immediately launched to
organize a stock company to take
over the project. ITie necessary
money was subscribed in record
time.
Construction was immediately
started and the building is now near
ing completion. The hospitable
citizens are impatiently waiting its
completion to extend an invitation
to the world to visit the metropolis
of the Elkhorn valley when they can
accommodate them with the most
convenient of. hotel facilities.
Norfolk tells the world they have
the most progressive little city yet
discovered and back up their state
mentby showing the above picture.
day afternoon, claiming that the sen
ate was endeavoring to pass House
Roll No. 2, the waterway project bill,
without giving him a hearing which
he requested. Howell succeeded in
getting the hearing. He claimed that
under the provisions ot House Roll
No. 2, which called for the repeal of
existing statutes on waterway proj
ects, that projects now under way
would be killed or crippled.
The hearing was stormy and the
same Senator Hoagland, who won
much publicity in his opposition to
Senate File 65, was found fighting
against Howell's request. Howell
succeeded in raising sufficient trouble
to keep House Roll No. 2 in commit
tee until 10 tomorrow morning, when
a hearing will be resumed. It prom
ises to be exciting.
Gov. S. R. McKelvie must face
a heavy fire tomorrow from labor
unfcn representatives who have made
an "appointment to meet him in his
office at 10 to discuss tne anti-picket-ing
bll, passed by the house and sen
ate, and which has been the target
of all labor union lobbyists through
out 'the session. So far as is known
Governor McKelvie has never ex
pressed his attitude on this legisla
tion. Because of the presence of tannin
mangrove wood is rot-proof, accord
ing to.' French engineers who experi
mented with it four;years.
Howell Throws
Monkey Wrench
In State Senate
House Roll No, 2, Waterway
. Project Bill, Sent . to Ir
rigation Committee and
Hearing Held.
Lincoln, April 24. (Special Tele
gram.) R. B. Howell, republican
national committeeman, arrived in
Lincoln late Saturday and threw his
monkey wrench in the already per
turbed machinery of the Nebraska
state senate.
Howell, through his spokesmen,
the Omaha senatorial delegation, de
clared that House Roll 2, the water
way project bill, had been pushed to
third reading in the senate without
giving him a hearing.
This resulted in pulling the bill
back to the committee on irrigation,
where Howell was given a hearing.
Howell dtctared that provisions of
the bill, which called for the repeal
of -the present statutes concerning
waterway projects, interfered with
projects already under way.
"I believe it is only fair that j'ou
permit ais to continue our projects
under the existing law by . taking
out the clause repealing the existing
statute and then go ahead and pass
House Roll 2 if you want to," Howell
said.
He pointed to a section of House
Roll 2 whfch provides that if citizens
wished to present petitions calling
a special elccon for a waterway
project those signing the petition
would be obligated to pay the cost
of the election if the project failed
to receive approval of voters at the
polls.
"In nthpr wnrrls " 1 lewi
fclared, "there is a plot underfoot to
deteat extension oi waterway proj
ects in Nebraska."
The' committee postponed a de
cision until Monday,.at 10, when Mr.
Howell and Representative Lundy
of Custer, the owner of a small
waterway project, and otters will be
heard again.
Penn Defeats Harvard
Philadelphia, April 24. Pennsyl
vania, the intercollegiate champions,
defeated Harvard in a track meet on
Franklin field today by the score of
69.1-3 to 472-3. Rain swept the oval
during the meet and left the field
and track boggy and unfit for record
time.
Flow of Water From One of
"Gushers" Believed Suffi
cient to Supply Needs
Of Town.
Tccumeh. Neb., April 24. (Spe
cial.) Splendid artesian wells were
developed ui the northern part of
the county, near the town of Cook,
several years ago, and still furnish
an abundant water flow. It was pre
sumed the wells could be located in
no 'other part of the county, the
nearest one to Tecumseh being some
nine or JO miles distant.
This spring three good wells were
developed in the neighborhood of St.
Mary, northwest of Tecumseh, and
this caused farmers to experiment.
The result was the locating of a fine
artesian well on the farm of J. A.
McFhcrrin, four and one-half miles
northwest of Tecumseh.
Tecumseh business men then hired
a driller to put twro holes down on
the fair grounds, just west of- the
city limits, and solid rock was struck
in both holes, at depths of from 50 to
60 feet. The projects were aban
doned. The drillers then went to the
farm of Paul Schuster, four miles
west and two miles north of Tecum
seh, and they struck a large flow of
water there. It spurted from the
two-inch pipe, to a height of twelve
feet.
This week two fine wells have been
struck, one on the farm of John
Kavanagh, five miles west of town,
and one on the farm of J. O. Peters,
two and three-quarters northwest'of
Tecumseh. The Peters well, one of
the best, is the nearest point to the
town at which water has been struck.
The drillers putting down the wells
have a dozen contracts ahead. In the
Cook section the wells are nearly
100 feet deep. Near St. Mary they
are from 70 to. 80 feet. The Kavan
agh well was developed at a depth of
8M feet. The Peters' well was put
down but 62 feet, and is one of the
best in the county. Tecumseh men
who have visited the Peters' well are
pf the opinion there is a sufficient sup
ply of water from it to take care of
the needs of the city.
Proposed Great Lakes
To Atlantic Waterway
Declared Practical
rhicfo Tribuaa-Omaha Br A I .rated Wire.
Washington, April 24. ThVt the
proposed waterway from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic is feasible and
practical is the opinion of the Amer
ican and Canadian engineers of the
international joint commission.
Members of the senate from the
northwest and along the Great Lakes
have been informed privately to this
effect and Senator Atlee Pohierene
of Ohio has submitted recommenda
tion to the governor of that state for
an appropriation to meet that state's
share of the expenses.
The engineers have prepared a re
port stating that the project can be
constructed at a lower cost than was
first estimated. It has been accepted
as a fact that the waterway will cost
the governments of the United States
and Canada a total of $250,000,000, to
be divided equally between them, but,
while the exact amount estimated, has
not been learned, it is said to be con
siderably less than this.
Britain to Abide
By Paris Stand
On Reparations
Agrees Further Pressure
Should Be Used if Germany
Fails to Meet Obligations.
Equal)
jzation Clause
In Tariff Bill Scored
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bre truoed Wire.
Washington, April 24. Further
attacks upon the exchange equaliza
tion provision of the emergency tariff
bill were made before the senate
finance committcte.
B. A. Levett, representing the New
York Merchants association, urged
that' the provision which limits de
preciation of foreign currency in
assessing import duties to 66 2-3 per
cent Jelow normal be eliminated en
tirely from the bill. Mr. Levett also
criticised the anti-dumping sections
of the bill, declaring that little dump
ing is going on and that there seems
to be no need for such legislation;1
Plans Under Way
For Next Year's
Building Show
Several Prizes to Be An
nounced This Week; Man
agers of Exhibit to Stage
Display at Kansas City.
The interest in the Complete Build
ing show which closed last night
at the Auditorium under the super
fision of Robert C. Mitchell and
Charles A. Franke, is far from be
ing on the wane.
A great majority of the exhibitors
have already expressed their willing
ness to participate in next year's ex
hibition. W. M. Bunting, heading a dele
gation of big business men from Kan
sas City, Mo., called on Mitchell and
Franke at the Auditorium and made
an agreement with the local promo
ters to go to Kansas City this week
and sign a contract for a 'similar
show at that place next January.
Hughes & Thomas, painting
contractors, 2611 "Fort street, an
nounced the successful ticket which
entitles the holder to SO per cent
reduction on the price of painting a
house. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass
company gave away another mirror
valued at $30.
.The following named exhibitors
will announce ' the prize winners on
the designated days thi week:
Shuler & Carey, realtors, $1,00')
lot some time this week.
Foster-Barker. $1U,000 worth of
insurance, Tuesday.
Milton Rogers Hardware com
pany, $65 gas range, Saturday aft
ernoon at 3:30. t
Modern Electric company, .Thir
tieth and Leavenworth streets, din
ing room Jight, valued at $70, Sun
day afternoon.
By The AMorlatcd rrr.
Lympne, England. April 24. It
is Great Britain's intention to abide
by the provisions of the agreement
arrived at in Paris last January with
regard to what steps should be taken
to coerce Germany into meeting her
reparations debt; it agrees that
failure by Germany to meet its ob
ligations in this respect should be
met with further pressure.
This became known in the course
of the meeting between Premiers
Briand and Lloyd George, who came
here to confer on the situation aris
inar from Germauv's stand on the
J reparations questions and what is to
be done if it continues its recal
citrant attitude.
M. Briand, at his own request, ex-.
plained to the British premier at a
conference which occupied the best
part of this afternoon and evening,
the French proposals for setting up
an economic administration in part
of Westphalia, including the Ruhr
coal basin, should the Germans tail
to pay the reparations due May 1.
The proceeds of this administration,
such as taxation on coal exports and
excess profits duties levied on Ger
man industrial establishments,
would, under the French plan, be
placed in a pool, where the repara
tions would be paid the allies.
During the afternoon word reached
Lympne from Berlin that the German
cabinet was discussing French pro
posals which it was reported might
reach here before the conference
breaks up Monday and M. Briand
returns to Paris. M. Jaspar, the
Belgian foreign minister, will visit
London Tuesday to discuss the
reparations matter with Mr. Lloyd j
George.
Thief on Way to Pen Few
Hours After His Capture
Headed tqward the Fort Madison
penitentiary for a two-year term at
hard labor, within a few hours of the
time he was caught stealing chick
ens on the farm of George Kruger.
near Oakland. Ia., was the fate of
Kristian Kristcnscn of Council
Bluffs.
When discovered by the irate
farmer, Kris "was forced to "make a
hurried exit, minus Ford car and
chicken' coops. Arrest followed
when he reported to an insurance
agency the loss of his car.
He pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced yesterday by Judge Wheeler.
Gage County Sheriff
Under Fire on Liquor
Charges Resigns
Beatrice, Neb., April 24. (Spe
cial Telegram.) John 1.. Scheek,
against whom ouster proceedings
were tiled recently by J. W. McKis
sick, former member of the Irgis
ture, who alleged the illegal sale of
intoxicating liquors, extortion and
the taking of money from Fred Yah
boskirk for protection from arrest,
submitted his resignation . as sherillf
to County Clerk Mumford.
The sheriff had until Monday to
file his answer to the complaint re
cently tiled by Attorney General
Clarence Davis upon instruction
from Governor McKelvie. The
governor was informed of Scheek's
resignation by the county clerk.'
. Scheek's resignation is brief, ak
ing the board of supervisors to ac
ccpt .the same, effective at once.
The sheriff, who was serving his
third term, was ousted by Governor
McKelvie temporarily some weeks
ago, following the tiling of the Mc
Kissick charges. J. ('. Wery is act
ing as sheriff, having been ap
yoiutcd for the term hv District
udge L. W. Colby.
More Propositions
Askedfor Elks' Site
More propositions lor sites for
the new Elks' home in Omaha arc
desired by the new building com
mittee of the lodge, according to an
announcement made following tiie
second meeting of the committee
at the Chamber of Commerce yes
Saturday noon. All propositions for
suitable sites will be submitted in
coinprchen?ie form to the commit
tee at the next meeting Saturday,
May 7. at the Chamber of Com
merce. Propositions should be sent
to Otto Nielsen, secretary of the
Klks club. No sites presented after
May 7 will be considered.
paidf
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