The independent., 1907-02-07


them had met him in his own town
and asked him to oppose the measure.
Jennison of Clay said he admitted
to the shame of his own town, that in
the last five years there had been two
instances of midnight sales when
stocks of goods had been disposed of
and creditors beaten. In one case the
defeated creditors were Obliged to SEQ
one of the men participating in the
steal shake the money received for
the stock shaken under their own
noses with a defy for them to get il
II they could by legal practice. AS a
result the stocks were sold at reduced
prices md the merchants in tn, town
doing legitimate business were
obliged TO sell at cost or less to COM
pete.
Springer Challenges Burns
Representative e. F. Springer of the
Fffty-fourth district is out with n
challenge to debate directed to Sena-
tor Joseph Burns. On the night of the
Christian science meeting in represen-
tative hail. Mr. Springer took the floor
against the religion and compared il
to mormonism. He made a speech that
aroused Senator Joseph Burns of Lam
caster who followed with a scathing
denunciation of the position taken by
Mr. Springer Mr.. Burns several times
turned around and faced Mr. Springer
ana gave him verbal pounding for
ms views that caused the member
from SCOTS Bluff to change his seat
three or four times.
Mr.. Springer sat down yesterday and
wrote the following:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb /, 1907
Hon. Joseph Burns, Lincoln, Neb.,
Dear Sir: respectfully challenge
you to debate on the merits
or dement's of Christian science in the
city of Lincoln on Monday night of
next week or on any day that may be
determined in that week. Your re-
marks directed toward me on the night
of Wednesday last, | regard as a per-
sonal matter | did not have the op-
portunity to reply TO you then. | will
do so at any time next week. | have
Kentucky blood in my veins, but the
time of killing is over and the only
thing left is to fight it out with the
tongue. f.. F. SPRINGER.
The challenge was shown to Senator
Burns who smiled visibly when he read
it,
"Tll have an answer for this" he
said. Just wait until it comes out"
Mr.. Springer is extremely anxious
TO explode the doctrine of Christian
science and he says he can do it in an
hours time. He wants to have his
seconds arrange beforehand whether
Mr. Burns will defend Christian science
from the standpoint of inspirati ton or
of history. He will meet Mr.. Burns any
way he likes
Representative Springer is a man
well along in years He has been in the
habit of walking out into the postmas-
ter's office each morning as the chap
lain performs his daily duty, declar-
ing that the funds expended for the
service of supplication are wasted.
There is trouble in the air in the
senate Whenever tie lawyers and the
doctors clash, and this was proven
the other dav when Dodson's bill to
increase the fee for admitting a grad
uate of any Nebraska medical college
from $40 to $25, the same as is paid
by others who take an examination,
and to increase the fee from appli-
cantS from Other states who come in
under the reciprocity rule 10 $50 The
bill was recommitted afte1 the LAWYERS
showed opposition by claiming that
the examiners of the state board of
health receive 81 800 annually. Root
of Cass, an attorney, said that the
lawyers have an examining board
who look into the qualifications of
those who desire to practice law and
that they feel they owed something
to their profession and that tneN re-
ceive no pay except their actual ex-
penses. He desired to investigate the
matter Of fees paid to the examining
physicians. The author of the bill said
he Was willing to have all the infor-
nation possible placed before the sem
ate.
The report of the secretaries of the
state board of Fcalth, four in num-
Der, who examine applicants Cor Ii
censeS 10 practice medicine on file
with the governor, contains m item OF
Sl,3O2.25 paid TO thre cf the secre-
taries but the money retained by
them is for period of seventeen
months, from July !, 1905, To Novem-
Der 80, 1906 IL shows that during that
time the board expended $70SS.9i Of