Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-08
THREE OFFICES OVERLOOKED
Railroad Commissioner to Be Chusr at
the Election Next Fall.
TERM DEPENDS ON AMENDMENT CARRYING
senator Cady Points out Necessity of
People Being Awake 10 Prevent
Body Falling Under Control
Of Railroads.
lErnm a stan Correspondent.l

C'rom a stan Correspondent
LINCOLN. Jan. 7.--(Special) THE fact
seems 20 have escaped general attention
that at the next election three members
OF the proposed railroad commission must
be elected Nobody up at the state house
had thought about It until tho other day,
when Senator Cady was in town and began
TO ask questions about who was being
talked Of as republican candidates. lie
found no one had been suggested at ALL
The senator was very emphatic in the
declaration that If the republicans OF the
state did not want to see this commission
pass at once into the hands Of or under
the control OF the railroads it would be
necessary to be developing some candi-
dacies at once. Whoever Is nominated this
fall accepts only as a contingent candi-
date, his election being good only In the
event that the amendment carries.
The railroad agents have not been as
inactive. however. as the politicians. The
program. as II has been suggested by
Burlington man. is that the republican
convention ought to select business man.
a lawyer and railroad man. Their argu-
ment is that a business man will under
stand fully the conditions under which
rho roads operate and being shipper
will represent that interest An attorney
II IetIeu nc SAYS. 50 Nlidl lit N'llllllloSl''i
will not have to be at loss how to pro-
coed in emergencies when to consult legal
advice elsewhere IL to waste much valuable
time. A man with full knowledge Of rail
road rates. he insists is necessary in
order that the commission makes no breaks
and orders no reduction that it cannot
sustain in the courts
Some talk has been heard OF Treasurer
Mortensen being put forward for this place
but the treasurer deprecates the tendency
of some persons to run him FOR office
without his knowledge consent.
warner to Retire.
Around the hotels here the belief obtains
that State Chairman Warner will shortly
resign head OF the state committee and
allow somebody else to take up the burden
Of directing the campaigns of the future
Mr. Warner has no personal dislike for the
work, in fact he likes it, but he is some
what chary about holding onto a political
position while serving the United States.
lie has been canvassing the matter among
his friends, and they have advised him
that the best way to settle the matter is to
write TO Washington and find out IL the
department objects TO his serving as head
of the state committee. 1t is understood
he has done so.
Secretary Allen is spoken of as a possible
successor, as also City Treaurer Hennings
OF Omaha.
Trouble In Church.
The annual meeting of Mount Zion Bap-
list church. a colored congregation, was
held the other evening with an officer
present to act as peacemaker. The ses-
sion lasted seven hours, and the officer
was compelled to threaten several mem
bers at different times, At one time a
colored brother came at the officer. The
latter drew his stick and the colored
brother ra IN. down the isle. The officers
pursuit OF him was somewhat impeded by
the fact that four or five colored women
had hold of his coat and trousers.
The former pastor Of the church, ]. o.
Underwood, a cultured southerner. retired
under cloud months ago. The
members who had withdrawn because of
the charges against him returned under the
pastorate of Rev. James Thomas, but they
opposed calling Thomas again because he
did not share their views about Underwood.
Tho Thomas faction was outvoted at the
meeting, and the pastor says his resigna-
ton is ready just soon as the church
pays up the $50 coming to him.
Lincoln Has Prosperous Yenr.
Nebraska's capital city has enjoyed pros
perity in a marked degree during the year
Just ended. An annual review published
today by one of the local newspapers
shows that s2.440,OOO was expended during
the year on new buildings and public inn
provementst while forecast based on
announcements already made indica ties
that much greater sum is to be spent
during the year OF 1906 The building per-
nit record for the last year shows that
over N,9ooOoo was spent on new buildings
most OF them residences the number OF tho
point 1905 was the most prosperous year In
Lihcoln's history.
Battieship Builder Was Here.
Frank G.. Moran, the junior member OF
the firm of Moran Bros, the Seattle shil
builders. who only recently completed the
construction Of the battleship Nebraska
spent the day lin Lincoln. Mr. Moran
denied himself 10 intervewers, declaring
that he was away from home for recre,
alton and wished to forget all about bust.
ness. He confessed however. that the con
struction OF the Nebraska was the mos
formidable contract ever undertaken b,
his firm, hut that he and his brother
We're sanguine that the big ship wouIt
be worthy accession to Uncle Sam.
navy and a vessel of which every Iowa
Nebraskan might be proud.
Burlington Surveyors i'm Field.
The recent activity of Burlington rairoa,
surveyors between Friend and MILFORD
points, In the judgment Of local official,
Of that system. to the construction OF q
now line to connect those two points