Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
WADINC THROUGH THE BILLS
Governor Mickey Has Disposed Of All but
Eight at the Present Time.
NO CHANGE IN THE APPROPRIATIONS
chief Executive Names Members of
His s~tan-BIshop MRkes
Denial of story eEard
ing visit 60 Rome.
CFrom a Stan Correspondent

blNCOA4Ns april
ernor Mickey has worked faithfully today
on the bills passed by the late legislature,
and as a consequence has only eight more
bills upon which to stamp his approval or
disapproyal. These will be acted upon
Monday. This afternoon he signed the APP
preparation bills without cutting out a
single item. The governor went over the
items carefully with Senator Anderson be-
fore ahixing his signature to the measures.
At one time he thought to veto the appro-
priation Of $4,000 to pay for the Cobbey
statutes, but did not do 80.
THE legislature passed the measure
over my Veto" said the governor, and
therefore 1 signed It. Had l refused to
sign the bill 1t would look as though /
was taking advantage of the members who
voted for It, as they would have no redress
this year"
One bill has been lost out in the shufie.
This is the $1,000 appropriation for the
Lincoln monument. The bill waS at one
time killed in the senate by indefinite
postponement and the record was made on
the face OF 1t. Later 1t was recalled from
the house and passed. Upon its return to
the house it was placed with the "indeh-
nitely postponed bills by a clerk and not
resurrected until yesterday afternoon.
That was too late for Speaker Mockett to
sign II. AS the appropriation was consti-
t%utional that the city Of Lincoln raise an
equal amount for the erection Of the mon
ument, probably the losing of the bill
makes little difference, as the city of Lin
coin has a few troubles Of its own at the
present writing.
Part of Exposition Commission
In conformity with the appropriation of
935, 900 for the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
tim IN ha hald IN Of IOuia Governor
Mickey today appointed on the commission
G. II. Morrill, OF Lincoln and @. w. Wat
ties Of Omaha. The third member Of the
commission has not yet been appointed.
Governor Mickey was in Omaha last night
and rendered the place to Mr.. Wattles and
1t was accepted.
ArbOr Day Program.
The state officers will observe Arbor day
by planting a tree each in the state house
yard. Governor Mickey probably will call
a meeting Of the officers as soon as the
rush Of bill signing is over and a program
for the day will be arranged. A. Waite OF
the Department of State. who has had the
matter in charge, is in receipt Of a commu-
nication from Joy Morton of Chicago, stat
ing that the officers will be furnished trees
from Arbor lodge. The forester at that
place will select the trees and they will
be shipped to Lincoln by the AID. The
various state departments will keep the
trees in a healthy condition. or try to, and
each succeeding chief. of a department is
expected to see to It that the gold work
Is continued.
BOnacum Enters Denial.
RI. Rev. Bishop Bonacum of Lincoln de-
mics that he has been cited to appear in
Rome for a discussion of the Bonacum-
Murphy trouble. as stated yesterday. And
the bishop WAKES warm In a discussion of
the matter. Today his; private secretary
gave out the following statement concern
ing the dispatches:
I am directed by the right reverend. the
bishop of Lincoln. to say that the dis
patches which appear In some of the Ne
come from Rome and stating that the
bishop of Lincoln has been cited before
in the Murphy case are nothing but fake
dispatches and sent out for the purpose OF
AS far as the Catholic church is con-
cerned, II is all over with the priest Muir
ply. His case was finally determined in
Rome two years ago and ever since tina
time the bishop Of lincoln has been trying
TO obtain possession of the church property
OF Murphy and his attorneys the case has
been put back from time TO time. IT comes
Seward county next Monday and think
/ can promise the readers of The Bee thai
there will be no further postponement III
the matter. GEORGE AGIUS.
Secretary.
Governor Names stan.
The names OF the men who will wear the
blue and gold and stand beside the gov
ernor in his receptions. junkets and du'
ties military were announced today. ThC
stan as named in an order issued by Ad'
jutant General Culver is as follows:
On General ~Staf-Colonel George e
Jenkins, q~uartermaster and commissary
general Fairbury; Colonel Carroll D.. Ev'
ans, surgeon general, Columbus; Colone
Charles ]. Bills. inspector general, Fair
bury; Colonel John A. Ehrhardt, Judge ad
Vocate, Stanton.
Neutrality-suspicious. q. H. Tracy
Norfolk; Colonel C. e. Adams, Superior
Colonel G. A. Miles. Hastings; Colonel ia
cob Dew, Tecumseh; Colonel Wilson Chase
Twenty-hrst infantry, U. S. A., Lincoln
Colonel w. r. Mclaughlin. Beatrice; Colo
mel s. M. Melick. Lincoln; Colonel J. W
Thomas, Omaha; Colonel H. p. Shumway
Wakefield; Colonel C. w. Haley. Red Cloud
The ofhcers will take rank from Januar
8, 1908. and will be obeyed and respecte
accordingly.
The order states that lowing to the pas
sage OF the new law by congress to pro