Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-01
MOVE OF TEMPERANCE MEN
Take New Tack to Shut of G, O. D. Sales
Through Express Company.
BIG CONSIGNMENT SEIZED At LEON
Artist Defends His Action In PuttinS
Driver Of OK Team on tho WRONG
side-Needed to I'm Blank
In Picture.
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DIES MONIES, Dec. a.-(SpecialD-A
vigorous effort is to be made in this state
to put an end to the &C. o. D. liquor
business. Since the decision of the United
States supreme court on an Iowa case
against the Adams Express company, in
which the decision OF the Iowa courts
holding the express company criminally
liable, was reversed the &C. o. u" liquor
business has held full sway. There has
been no check to it till the temperance
people and business men of leon sworc
out search warrant and had the depot
of the Burlington road at Leon searched
and about 500 worth of liquors confscated
IL is proposed by the attorneys in this case
to night it out on "A different line from
other cases that have involved the &C. o.
D. liquor business. The other case de-
cded by the United States supreme court
was tried on the line that the express
company had sold the liquor contrary to
law. This suit will be tried on the ground
that the liquors were kept contrary to law.
The claim is to he made that liquors held
by anyone not authorized by law to be in
possession of such can be conhscated and
destroyed. In support of this claim the
attorneys claim they will show that much
Of the liquor coniiscated at Leon I'm Decatur
county was never ordered by the persons
to whom it was consigned. Two decisions
by the supreme courts of South Dakota
and Kentucky holding that liquors shipped
into state with the intent of avoiding
the state laws, even though interstate
commerce, can be cunfiscated and destroyed.
BIashheId Defends Painting.
r. II. Blashtield, who painted the $4,000
picture Westward" which is hung above
the grand staircase in the state house, has
written to +. d. Harsh, secretary of the
capitol commission, giving a description
of his painting and defending his putting
the driver of the OK team on the wrong
side of the team Artist Bashfcld says
the man was first introduced on that side
of the team because something additional
was needed there to balance the painting.
There still being an untitled space a gun
was placed in the mans hand extending
over his shoulder into an untitled space
and later this was changed to a whip
stock and the man thus made into a
driver. He calls attention to the fact that
child running beside the wagon was
introduced for the same reason, though it
Is not supposed that child would make
the entire trip to the western plains run
ming beside the wagon. but as the child
might do so for a time for recreation and
rest, so the driver might leave his station
for a time and go to the wrong side
Repairs Are Nearly Completed.
The carpets in the committee rooms of
the house are being laid this week and will
be down by the last of the week, when
the caucuses of the republicans of both
houses will be held to determine the organ
ization of the house and senate The
carpets In the committee rooms are the
last of the repairs made after the fire of
two years ago ana in preparation for the
session of the general assembly.
Progress on Surveys.
Excellent progress is reported on .he sur
veSS of the Des Moines a Albany interur.
ban, to pass from this city down through
Creston. Considerable of the right of way
is said to have been secured during the past
several weeks, and active construction vii
be commenced early in the spring.
| Draft of Primary Bill.
The question of keeping the democrat:
; from voting the republican ticket at the
q primaries under the proposed new primary
election law Is being discussed about po
( litical centers, and is Ii -Iy 10 consume
! considerable part of the discussion during
! the coming session of the general assembly
The bill, 1t is understood, will provide TO
holding the primaries of all parties ON th'
same day about the middle of August II
avoid members of one party voting tn
ticket of the other party, it is proposed Il
require the voter TO express his party al
eglauce at the general election before tn
primary. and at the primary lac will b
given the ticket of that party. II is lcarne
that the law is quite likely to require
provision for securing the expression of tn
second choice of the voter, so that tn
second choice may be taken into consdera
ton in case there is not a majority vote
Some of the friends Of the measure hav
contended that plurality vote is sufficient
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