Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
LINCOLN LITERATURE.
PGnped by Our Correspondent
With a View to the POlit-
iCal Situation,
Dark Horses Being Groomed
for the Senatorial Race.
Scrubs, Bronchos and Mi itary Cobs
Brought Into Competition With
Thoroughbreds.


90 dependence Of THE BSs.
| LINCOLN, Neb., January 5.-The
mill is ready and tho grist is large.
The legislative mill has at last finished
the preliminaries and Is ready to 60
to grinding, and the grist of railroad
bills that is ready to be dumped into
the hopper will BE- large n number
and varied in kind. 1t is safe to say
that fully one fourth and perhaps
one. half of the members will be ready
with q contribution of this kind.
A large number of railroad commits.
sioner bills have been prepared both
by the question of the constitutional.
ity of such = law is having the effect
to make all move slowly. The rail-
road attorneys are on the ground, but
it is evident that they are satisfied
that they cannot. stem the tide, and
il they have no hope of trucking the
legislature, they may as well pack
their grip sacks and start for home.
Tho hall Of the house of represen-
tatives was crowded yesterday after
noon to hear the inaugural address of
Governor Dawes, and to do him us
tice it was much better than was K
prcted upon the points which most In.
terest the people of this state. He is
~squarely upon the record as against
the railroad pass 81 sem, and 1t is fair
to presume that after having given the
people of the state to understand that
he considers the taking of q pass as a
species of bribery, that he himself will
pay his fare, but 1t is possible that he
is of that class of doctors who never
take their own medicine. The In
sugural address had never been read
by auy person except himself up to
time of It's delivery by the governor,
so he said, and it must have been as
much of a surprise party to the rail
road lobbyists as it was to the grang.
ers.
Governor Nance in his message
seemed to want to convey the ides
that the railroads were at least hall
owners of Nebraska. He gave Hon
Tom p. Kennard a good send off t.
help him get a claim against the State
but the claim of Pat o. HAYES for th,
same kind of work was given a blacl
eye, and after having used a pocket
full of passes he could do no less thar
say that no thought that railroad pro
perty was properly assessed, especial
ly as he helped do that work himself
and was just going out of tfii 20. A
railroad attorney might have done 9
very little better If he had had the
cheek, but he would not have changed
1t much.
Lieutenant Governor earns tool
every occasion to try to insult Senator
Reynolds, but he did not make very
much Roadway. These two gentle
men were in partnership at time
and the bad blood between them wal
on account of some difference In q set.
: Element and the lieutenant governor
of the state of Nebraska.
played the boy, and he did Il In goot
shape, but Senator Reynolds can at
ford to sit still and smile, for he wa
t. sent here with a majority of nearl,
: nine hundred, after having been op
posed by earns and the entire railroat
crowd of the state, and from the wa,
0 he starts out 1t is evident that he viii
n he heard from before the end of fort,
days.
A man would be perfectly safe Ii
: going into the senate ana calling MI
Brown q liar, for the reason that Their
are four senators who answer to tina
name, to say nothing about the secre
tary, who is blessed III the same way
and each one of them would kno,
that you meant the other fellow.
The committee appointed to max
the standing committees made thei
9 report yesterday afternoon, through
Brown, of Douglas, the chairman
and the opposition did some tall kick
ing. Kick! / should say that the,
did kick. Kicked like a mule. Kicke,
forty feet high, but all to no purpose
The committees were made after a
anti.monopoly pattern, and they ha
to take their medicine. Gov. Butte
was left out, and he pranced aroup
like q steer in the corn, but It did no
, count. Brown, of Lancaster, wa
given the important position of chair
man of the committee on federal re
IL lations. 1t is not the best committe
', in the world, but then Lancaster
not proud.
y IL may astonish some of your Oma
+ ha readers, but it is reported on tn
streets here that Hon. G. III. Dewey
of your city, is a possible csndidat
. for the United States senate; but of a
dark horses the last one heard of
the best, and that is Gen. {
Paul Van Dervoort. 1t Is Sal
Paul has it all fixed. At the props
time In the race, Mr.. Ch~ristopherso
is to desert Gen. Gown and tax
everybody he can, and after that Mi
y lard and Saunders will be ready to Pill
everything into the pot, Paul Is a
!, ready the high-cookalorum of the G
=. A. r and clearly the next step
into the U. S. senate.
In our last letter we intimated tn,
the lieutenant governor would not |
allowed to do anything but presto
over the senate. We were mistske Q,
They did allow him to appoint OF
page, and it was a question at OF
time whether they would do that
not.
The new..Speaker has every appea
ty ance of fairness, and we will miss OF
guess II he does not make the be
presiding officer that body has had f.
'IIS many a long year, AMI we appreher
be that in the formation Of the commi
hI sji tees that he will be guided by h
zeal own good sense and not by corpor
ton attorneys.
Judge Weaver, jim Laird and T.. |
Valentine, ara on the ground, al
rumor has IL that thev have Foroaj