Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-12
PROGRESS ON ASSESSMENT
Indications Board will Consume Less Time
This Year Than Formerly.
GRAIN CASE SUBMITTED TO REFEREE
Superintendent Alden OF Norfolk
Asylum Refuses to Resign aud
Governor FiIeH written
Charges Against Him.
GRAIN CASE sUBWITTEO TO RtFERtE
lFrom a stan correspondentl

LINCOLN, May 1l,-(Specisl.) The
State Board of Assessment is liable to
get together on the assessment OF the
Northwestern railroad before very long
and ~ this agreement is reached, tho
hoard is liable to get its work over in
short order this year, compared to the
time It usually takes in performing this
duty Treasurer Mortensen and Governor
Mickey could get together on the North
Western today and the road would, II is
Bnderstood, get a boost OF about $1,000 a
mile, making it's assessment $500 a
mile instead of $500, as It now is. While
Mr.. Mortensen was free to admit yester-
day and asked that the newspaper pub
lish that he was mistaken in thinking
the road had covered up any part OF it's
property he is not so free to admit that
the road should not be valued at a higher
sum than it has been in years past.
All the members Of the board are at
tending the meetings and are taking part
in the deliberations. Auditor searle was
absent from the city when the meet
inRs first began, but he came in yesterday
morning and has been present at all the
meetings since. The board begins at 10
o'clock in the morning and keeps at II
steadily until after 8.
Today the meeting was merely a dis
cussion of the tangible property and what
part II should play I'm the FINAL work of
the board. The stocks and bonds and the
earnings of the various roads have been
gone over pretty thoroughly and the
board members seem to be pretty we'll
posted along these lines.
Monday and Tuesday promises to be
the red letter days of the series Of meet
ings. as that is the time set apart for
the Union Pacific and the Burlington to
make a showing on their reports. 1t is
supposed the smaller lines and those
roads which come into Nebraska on leased
lines will ask for time later to present
their Arguments. IL seemingly never hav-
ing occurred to the corporations that the
reports filed could be interpreted by the
board without the aid of outside legal
talent
Grain Case Submitted.
The grain case is at last in the hands of
Referee Pemberton and the evidence, to-
Eether with his decision in the matter,
will be submitted to the supreme court at
the earliest possible time. The arguments
were concluded at O'Clock this afternoon,
Former Judge Sullivan closing for the
state in a speech which occupied half a
day.
AAlOIHtNH ditoh ohh AAoAi
for the defendants all claimed the case
should be tried under the provisions of the
Junkin antitrust act, while NJ. L. Learned
made a two minute speech. saying his
client. the Omaha Elevator company, had
an elevator at Council Bluffs and IL an ele
walton charge was paid to it Nebraska hac
no jurisdiction in the matter. Attorney
Hall reviewed the evidence at some length
and argued that the testimony given by
Tom Worrall was not sufficiently worthy tc
be considered and that mems reputation
tsshonld not be blackened by such witness
COPYRIGHT said 1t was nonsense for the
state to ask a decision on the evidence in
troduced. 1t had not been proven, ht
said, that the dealers had even pooled or
prices. The price cards were the best evil
dence, he said, and these had not been in
PRODUCED. The fact that a witness testified