Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-12

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compliments.
81 am warmed up observed Mr.. Ken
nedy, turning to Gilbert from Douglas,
who thus charged him; and l want it to go
abroad that when the interest and welfare
OF Omaha, my home city, were at stake,
Kennedy got warmed up. l only regret
that my colleague here, is not warmed up
the same way.
To-day in Omaha a meeting is being
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on record for just what l am pleading here.
They have just wired me to kill this
amendment IL possible. The task is ar
duous. 1 will do my best. They are my
constituents. I am from Omaha and for
Omaha"
Mr.. Kennedy read another extract from
The Bee, showing that II this amendment
passed Omaha would be deprived Of over
$4,000, 900 in assessment value.
When the vote was taken on the Gilbert
amendment 1t was lost.
o. Railroad Taxation Next.
The work Of the day on the revenue bill
had brought the house up to that portion
dealing with railroad taxation. 1t was after
g. O'Clock and as the order had been made
several days ago to hold night sessions
until this bill was disposed of, the rail-
roads scheme was to start in on the pro-
visions of the bill relating to them tonight,
knowing that It could not be wound up,
but would be left incomplete and give them
time during the, night and before the
morning session to accomplish some eff
fect:ve lobbying. But a clever coup, en-
acted by the other side, with Loomis as
the spokesman, prevented this and COM
pletely routed the other side. Loomis made
a motion to adjourn until 0 o'clock Thurs
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fatigued and needed rest.
Speaker Mockett hesitated to put the
motion, maintaining that as the house had
already begun the consideration OF the rev.
enue b4l as a special order and decided
to hold night meetings until that order
was disposed OF, 1t could not thus depart
from the arrangement.
Loomis was prepared for this move, how
ever, and insisted that from a parlia-
mentary standpoint his motion was right.
The result was that, before any except a
few Of the members on the inside knew
what was going on, the house had carried
Loomis' motion.
The friends Of genuine revenue revision,
who are the enemies of this bill in it's
present shape, are greatly encouraged
over this and other proceedings to-
day and believe they have better
chance than ever Of overthrowing the at
tempt of the railroads to prevent legislation
that will compel them to pay their Just
proportion of taxation.
Effort to stop investigation.
When the BARLEY investigation commit
tee meets again Thursday at 1 o'clock it
will have as witnesses United States Dis
trict Attorney W. S. Summers, former At
torney General c. j. Smyth, former State
Representative George Meade and Tom Den
ison Of Omaha, who were subpoenaed to-
day, and others whose names are with
held by request at this time. The COM
mittee is assured Of some vital testimony.
1t is thoroughly understood that that ele-
ment which feels called upon, for obvious
reasons. to exert every effort to suppress
this investigation, is playing to have the
committee vote to discontinue the meet
ings after the hearing tomorrow, but plans
are maturing now which promise to yield
serious distractions to this scheme. Said
a gentleman today who claims to have
something OF interest to say to the COM
mittee:
III the committee adjourns in the face
of the facts that win be set forth. its action
will be indefensible and inexcusable."
1t is not at gil believed that the com
mittee will be prevailed upon to drop this
matter as long as there is the least hope
Of getting at any OF the hidden secrets in
this cigar box scandal.
In connection with this investigation this
article, which appeared In a Lincoln paper
in May, 1902, is OF interest. especially in
view of the fact that the bank books men
toned and letters bearing upon the case
are contained in a certain once in this cts
at present and could be easily obtained, with
the possibility Of being useful in leading Ia
more tangible evidences:
One of the BARLEY Deals.
The First National bank in Harlan
county needed some state money. and II
needed 1t badly, and State Treasurer Bart.
conditions. He wanted to include a little
transaction of his own to help out SONS
Lincoln friends. In 1895 the bank had 800
until November : the books showed a de-
post OF &l5,2l0@ OF state Es0ney. This was
on saturday The next A-Hday the same
over and changed TO. so, zoos, the increase
representing the amount of notes signed by
ties. which notes were. Aowever, held by
BARLEY, as the sequel shows.
The bank was braced up on STATE money
on the direct understanding that fictitious
deposits should be charged on the books
70 cover the amount of the Burns notes
The money did not pass through the bank
whom he was connected.
The notes were originally for ninety
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ley's hands In March. BARLEY was out OF
ONCE, the bank was In a shaky condition
was furnishing two-thirds Of the entire
The president of the bank wrote to Bart.
He needed them TO make he books bal
ance, on the 20 OF March, "as per re-
guest BARLEY forwarded the notes 60 tn
hpank- The amount by this Inns wai