Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-30
Organization the Only Question Likely to
Be Considered.
OBJECTION TO TAKING UP OTHER THINGS
speakership Contest Continues to Be Z
Puzzle to All.
DODGE is PLEASED WITH HIS PROSPECTS
Announces His Intention 70 Follow
Dictates of state Convention
and Vote for Brown for
Senator.
tFrom a Stan Correspondent0


LINCOLN, Dec. 29.'-lSpecial. 1.-The cali
Tor caucus of the members of the house
to perfect an organization probably will be
started around for signatures tonight or
tomorrow. The date Of the caucus will be
fixed for Monday night and the call will
set out specifically that the purpose OF the
caucus is to perfect organization only.
During the day someone started out the
suggestion that the call should include a
vote on United States senator and for a
discussion Of the appointment of a Joint
committee for the purpose of formuatir
measures in conformity with the pleF
made in the republican state plate
While there seemed to be little l.
20 discussion of the latter PROPOSE,
sqe inc hon of the senatorship was 4.
Wpreted to mean a clever way to get a
secret ballot on the senatorship. num-
Der or legislators were interviewed and
each expressed himself emphatically on
posed to vote for United States senator
In the caucus. because this proposition.
each said, had been settled at the state
convention, when Norris Brown was en-
dorsed for the position and at the polls
when he was endorsed with popular vote
| or preference. That the call will not in
| clude the discussion of the appointment OF
joint committee is pretty certain, be-
| would lead to the discussion of too many
matters which have no place at the time
| OF the perfection of the organization.
! The situation has not changed materially
| during the day, each of the candidates for
| speaker having devoted his time trying to
| hnd out how much strength his competitors
can muster. Combination makers have tried
to put this man and that man in the same
| pot, but there seems TO have been no
definite understanding arrived at by any
OF the candidates. A question of much
interest to all Of the candidates is how
much strength one man can deliver to an
| other. 1t being the general impression that
none OF the candidates can do much trad
ing. There is still only small minority
/ OF the members here
| Dodge the Ground.
| Representative Dodge came In this morn
| ing and took charge of his Headquarters
| and he has had many callers during the
! day. Inasmuch the announcement OF
| Mr.. Dodge's engagement to be married has
| Just been made the Douglas county candi-
date of especial interest during the
day and was warmly congratulated. II. c.
Clarke, Jr., came down with Mr.. Dodge
According to Mike Lee, Dodges chances
have materially advanced during the day
and he is making a very favorable impress
|
members are giving his candidacy every
consideration.
81 am well satisfied with the reports I
have received regarding my candidacy for
| speaker since reached Lincoln this morn
! ing" said Representative Dodge Mr.
Tucker has been looking after my inter-
ests, and am well pleased with his man
| agement"
Mr.. Dodge publicly declares that he
| stands squarely on the platform as
adopted by the state convention and is of
the opinion the legislature will enact
measures covering every pledge in the
platform. 81 made my position clear dur
| ing the campaign and since" he said
when 1 filed as candidate previous to
the state convention l announced that I
would vote for the nominee of the state
convention for United States senator At
that time L thought an Omaha man would
| be selected and hoped he would How
ever, such was not the case but 1 feel
equally bound to support the nominee of
that convention.
Strong Point of Claim.
81 have no doubt Mr.. Brown will get
every republican vote in the legislature in
asmuch as he was the choice of the re-
publican state convention. l feel bound
by the endorsement of that convention. ana
|
gret that Omaha is TO lose the senator. we
went into the fight and 1t so happened that
another secured the endorsement, there
fore, feel we should do as we would have
expected the other members to have done
had Omaha been successful in the state
convention.
with the exception of a railway COM
mission, which office may or may not be
constitutional, Omaha has no representa-
tion on the state ticket and l think no
outside influence should be brought to bear
to prevent Omaha from getting the
speaker"
Very pat Just at this time, when the cost
Of the State university to the taxpayers
and to the students is being discussed. Is
the report OF Secretary Ludden of the State
/ Normal board regarding the renting and
selling of text books to the students OF the
l normal schools. At the Peru Normal and
at the Kearney Normal the board buvs
text books and sells them TO the students
at the same price, or rents them for 10
cents semester. At the Kearney Normal
the system has not been long in vogue
but at Peru 1t is well established. OF the
working OF the system at the latter school
Secretary Ludden says in his biennial re-
port made to the governors
The experiment adopted by the board
! in the previous biennium of purchasing
: textbooks at wholesale prices and renting
them to the students for nominal fee
each semester. has been continued during
I the present biennium. The results are ali
! that we could wish. We charge 10 cents
p for each book for a semester, or, II the
student wishes, he can buy the books at
the actual cost to the school. At the be-
ginning OF the school year the student de-
} posits So. At the end of the school year
the deposit is returned lass the rental fees.
J BY renting, books cost the students from
81 to $3.50 per year. To purchase the books
J would cost from S12 TO SIS per year"
Regarding fees charged at the State
Normal schools. the report Of Secretary
Ludden says:
p THE board has practically eliminated all
70 fees save the usual breakage in the labora-