Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
SLATEMARERS LAYING OFF
Lincoln Politicians Go Through Week
Without Bleoting Speaker,
VISITING LEGISLATORS ARE SILENT
w. J. Bryan Delivers Memorial Ad-
dress ut Exercises Held by
the Lincoln Lodge
of EIks.
(From a stan Correspondent)


named any more Of the appointees of
Governor-elect George l.. Sheldon. 1t is /
generally believed Ed Royce at present |
secretary Of the state banking board, will |
hold over for another two years, not only /
because he is popular with the banking
board, but because no one else has ap-
piled The new banking board is composed |
of Attorney General Thompson, Treasurer 1
Brian and Auditor Searle who is at pres
ent member
Few OF the legislators visiting Lincoln |
have expressed themselves on speaker and /
no one other than Clyde Barnard has been |
mentioned for chief clerk. John WALL |
who had held this position for a number |
of years, has not said whether he will ask
for 1t again, but it is understood he is not |
a candidate.
Nearly all of the legislators however, |
have expressed themselves as being in
favor of the platform pledges and each has |
said he would stand by those pledges. It
seems to be the general sentiment that by !
placing his approval upon any measure |
George Sheldon can get it passed II the
Legislators show a disposition to balk on
any Of the pledges.
In the meantime the suggestion Of The |
Bee that the outgoing and incoming govern /
ors and the outgoing and ingoing attorneys
general get together on the bills to cover
the platform, meets with favor. The Off .
cers here are willing to do all they can
to facilitate the carrying out of the plat
form pledges If it can be done without
seeming to overstep their positions and
usurp the functions Of the Legislature.
Some are very much in favor of the
appointment Of a joint committee Of the
senate and house to get up the bills, as
. tha ~
such committee proposes, it is believed, |
will have no trouble securing the approval
of both houses.
Mike Lee Of Douglas county has been
here two or three times lately and it is
understood he started out with the inten-
! ton of making himself speaker but the
report down here now is that Mr.. Lee will
be content just to be plain Mike Lee during
this session and receive the majority Of the
bouquets, as he did during the last session.
Schemes for stnte Library.
The need of more room for the use of the
state library has resulted in the proposal
1 of many schemes, the latest of which is
! for the state to buy the corner lot at Four
! teenth and streets or the lot at Sixteenth
and II streets Those who are back Of
this real estate deal want a magnificent
! library and legal building put on one of
| these corners and have 1t used for the
! library, the supreme court and legal de-
partment of state. What good argument
the promoters are making for putting the
! building anywhere else than on the state
! house grounds is not known generally.
! While there is no doubt the library has
| outgrown its quarters and the quarters
| never were fit for the housing of valuable
| books, until a new state house is built, 1t
| has been suggested the dome of the capitol
! could be utilized with some fixing up. AS
| now arranged the bailiff to the supreme
! court has to chase from the second floor
| to the basement after records and books
! and the trip to the dome is not any farther.
| In the dome there are several thousand
| feet of space not used except by those who
! climb up to look over the state and by the
! bats and rats and such things And Incl
! dentally, it is just as sane to put the books
there as to keep them where they are.
EIISs' Memorial Services.
! Memorial services sacred to the memory
! of their departed brothers were held by
the Elks at the oliver theater this after
noon, at which william ]. Bryan delivered
| the eulogy and Lncolns most talented
musicians furnished sacred music. Upon
the stage was the monument erected to the
memory of the dead and upon 1t was pub
| lished the names of those departed, Walter
! G. Edmiston. David II. Heagy, John c.
| Cox John Dowden, Jr., w. ID. Fitzgerald
| and H. Finley Helms Chaplain Francis
! w. Eason delivered the invocation and the
benediction and w. A. Hawes read ''Thana-
| topsis" Carl f. Steckelberg gave two
violin selections, while Miss Helen Dean,
Lincolns sweetest singer, sang Heaven
Is My Home" Two selections were sung
by a quartet, Miss Helen Dean, Miss Edith
Dimmitt, II. Alden Enyeart and Charles f.
Parks.
| Mr Bryan spoke in part as follows:
| on an occasion like this a number of
themes suggest themselves. The woid
| fraternity comes to us at such a time,
when we meet under the auspices of one
! OF the great fraternities of this nation,
and the hour might well be occupied in
speaking of the great work that the fra
| ternity is accomplishing throughout the
world. Among The great forces that are
at Nork u. a" ing men clO- er together, ,e..ch-
ing them 10 Iecognile the tie tnat binds
| each to every other the fraternity occupies
! an important place. and the virtues upon
which lbe fraternity rests-any one of these
would furnish an appropriate theme The
| equality that is taught IN the lodge room,
It in itself would Justify the existence of
learn over and over again that the worth
Of the Individual depends not upon what he
esesse or upon diistnguissned u; gus , linease
the responsibilities that rest upon him.
and our fraternity teaches this Idea Of
| ana 1 think / can say without Offending
those who belong to other fraterniues OF
which l am member, that no fraternity
in this land is more distinguished for the
| hospitality which it extends than this fra
| ternity. At home we can measure a man
by what we know of him, and his position
can rest upon his merits. But when
stranger comes among us we must assume
the existence OF virtues before we have
! an opportunity to test them; and through
out this land the homes that have been
! established by the Elks have the latch
laFr M M 0raa bat
! among US extends more cordial welcome
to the visiting brother or shows to him a
more constant courtesy and care.
While we meet under the auspices OF a
fraternity and might contemplate the work
! Of the fraternity and the virtues that are
brought out in the lodge and among the
members, II is death that brings US here.
IL is the fact that some who have been
among US are among us no more; IL Is the
fanL thaL facaa IhaI arnLILa.-- n.