Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-02

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penalty for the owner Of any animal affected
with a contagious disease who permits the
animal to run at large. 1t is suggested that
the owner Of the animal permit IT to be
killed and a reasonable appraisement be
made.
The governor has appointed the following
/ delegates to the twenty-sixth national con-
ference OF Charities and Corrections to be
held at Cincinnati, May IL to 90: w. F. Por-
ter. J. V. Wolfe, J. B.. Meserve, c. J..
Smyth, DR.. w. NJ. Hindman, Lincoln; Rev.
f. l.. Wharton, Lincoln; George Kirby,
Hastings; Walter Nye, Kearney; II. c..
Hodgetts, Norfolk; NJ. D. Welsh, Lincoln;
@. w. Leidigh, Lancaster; w. P. Ayles-
worth, Bethany.
To Fight the Social Evil.
Quite a number of prominent business
men of this city have organized what is
known as the Citizens committee, the OBJ
ject OF which is to stamp out the social
evil and to do away with the reservation
established several years ago by Mayor
Graham, when that gentleman was elected
and supported by those who at the time
were in favor of a more liberal admins
tration of the city's affairs than had been
given up to that time. The committee was
organized several weeks ago, but owing to
a change in the different city offices moth
ing in the way of reform was attempted
until recently. A mass meeting was held
in st. Paul's church yesterday afternoon
in the interests of the work. Rev. j. Q.
A. Henry of Chicago was imported for the
occasion and he spoke yesterday against the
social evil, calling it the sins OF all sins,
the crime of history and the apotheosls of
all degradation.
In the course OF his remarks DR.. Henry
said there were eighteen or twenty houses
in Lincoln which were dedicated to the
goddess of lust. There are perhaps forty
or fifty women" continued the speaker,
why ply their nefarious trade within the
limits of this reservation. Outside of this
l am told there are eight or ten houses
scattered through the city where women
hold forth and even the blocks around the
town are infested with women who drag
down the youth of the land and carry on
their terrible work in the very heart of
the city. l am told that these women go
out upon the streets of Lincoln and solicit
men. Why, 1t is even told me that they
go on the campus of your university and
try to get the students to come to their
rooms"
Denied by MacLean.
Chancellor MacLean, who was sitting near
SAS SpN'hNA = pNN DhF tiShhy INV ~
MED that there was any truth in the
statement. To this the speaker replied that
he had not made the assertion upon his
own personal knowledge but upon informa-
ton furnished him by ministers and lay
men.
DR.. Henry further stated that the reason
the city had a reservation set apart was
because of criminal negligence upon the
part of ex-city officials. On motion of
Judge Greenlee 1t was declared the sense
OF the meeting that the state and munich
pal laws relating to the social evil be en-
forced to the letter. A committee Of three,
Messrs. Greenlee, Lowrie and Rev. Lewis
Gregory, was appointed to wait upon the
city officials and to insist that the avs be
enforced.
Mayor Winnett has endorsed the move
ment and has promised to stand by the
committee in it's work. Several unsuccess-
full attempts to rid the city of undesirable
characters have been made within the past
two or three years, but those back of the
present movement assert that they will ac-
complish what they have undertaken.
The May term Of the district court opened
today and will continue about two months. |
One Of the cases of state interest to be
heard will probably come up tomorrow. 1t
is the suit by the state against the bonds
men of the defunct Merchants bank. In the
bank failure the state lost about $4,000, the
deposit having been increased somewhat just
before the collapse. One Of the principal
bondsmen is William Fullerton, president of
the bank, who pleads that his name was
forged to the bond.
A. o. U. w. Decision.
f. ]. Burkett received today from H. C. |
Sessions, supreme master workman of the
Order of United Workmen, a copy
of his decision in the matter relating to
the number of delegates for the next ses-
sion of the grand lodge of Nebraska.
Two years ago the grand lodge attempted
to reduce the number of delegates to the
session of the grand lodge by limiting each
lodge to one delegate. Heretofore the law
had been that each lodge was entitled to one
delegate and one additional delegate for
every fifty members over fifty, or major
fraction thereof. The larger lodges of the
state, by the amendment, were reduced very
much in representation.
Mr.. Burkett went to Sioux City Friday
and argued the objection to the law before
the supreme master workman, and the deci-
sion rendered by Mr.. Sessions s~ustains Mr..
objections and gives to the lodges
representations as heretofore. A part of the
decision is as follows:
L lHtIclOlc hOlu III utClue tudt the
reported in document 81 were
not adopted, and their submission to the
subordinate lodges and the supreme lodge
for approval was irregular, and the subordi-
nate lodges in the jurisdiction of Nebraska
are entitled to representation the same as
though such amendment had never been
The reasons assigned by Mr.. Sessions for
the opinion were that the amendment had
never been voted upon, that the adoption of
the committee report recommending the law
did not adopt the law.
The Board of Managers OF the state fair
held a meeting tonight to arrange details
FOR the holding of the fair. Nothing definite
accomplished and a further conference
viii be held tomorrow.
Replies TO bishops Letter.
COLON, Neb., May Ito the Editor OF
The Bee: l have just read the article pub
ished in The Bee of the Goth inst. The
same was simultaneously published in the
Lincoln State Journal over the signature
IF Bishop Bonacum. | beg to inform the
leaders of both dailies and the general pub
ic that until | have a fair canonical trial
here is no power in a bishop, apostolic dele
gate, or in the church to depose, dismiss or
communicate me. To this day | have NOT