Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-28
PETITION IN PETTICOATS
South Omaha School Maams and School
Children Visit Lincoln.
TOM HocToss THOUSAND At THE CAPITOL
Pleasant Greetings Exchanged and
Speeches Against "ForcIbIe An
nexatiOn" Listened to by
the Legislature.
cFrom a stan correspOndent.l

LINCOLN, Feb. q. - Especial. D-South
Omaha for the second time swooped down
upon the legislature to protest against
being annexed to Omaha but this time in
stead of it being petition in boots the
Magic City's delegation was more aptly
referred to as a petition in "petticoats.
There we're eonugh school teachers and
| school children in the crowd of 1000 to
| give the delegation all the appearance Of
fresh air picnic. Acting as escorts for
the 1A school teachers and their pupils
who were given holiday by the powers
| that be, in order to get them to swell the
crowd. were democratic officeholders and
| friends of the administration. The delega-
| ton was bedecked with ribbons of red
bearing the inscription South Omaha pro-
| tests against forcible annexation" while
numerous banners were flung aloft bearing
! various inscriptions, For the square
DEAL" and such like, and 1t was headed by
a brass band and the big stick" which
incidentally was stolen by some one and
will never again get back to dear old South
Omaha.
| Sentiments of One Protestant.
One of the bright little fellows in the
| delegation was Oscar Lucas, aged years,
who was gaily decorated with the usual
badge The little fellow did not care to
/ be quoted on the question which is so
| thoroughly uppermost in the minds of the
people Of the packing house city, but of
other things he willing to talk He
said:
IL am years old. l go to the parochial
school, but we got a holiday today to
come down here All Of the school chill
dren in South Omaha got a holiday and
most of them are here. 1 think there must
/ ha wifi ba rd nh
papa used to work for the electric light
company, but he isn't working now be-
cause ne hurt his eye"
At the State House.
The delegation with its brass band
reached the state house doors at IL o'clock,
but as the house had adjourned for lunch
1t committed no overt act other than to
have the band play some spicy music for
the benefit of the state house employees
and hangerson. At o'clock the delega-
ton occupied every available space in rep
resentative hall Dignihed school teachers
hoisted themselves upon radiators and
smiled and made eyes at politicians who
occupied chairs or seats on the steps to
the speakers rostrum and in the window
ledges Members of the senate then came
in and found places somewhere and every
where and the big tournament was on.
Hart started II when he introduced a reso-
luton to have the sergeant-at-arms find
Mike Lee and bring him In to face the
4 music as he SO gracefully did two years
ago. but while 1t was being read the Hon
orable Michael came In wearing a smile as
prosperous as an engaged school ma am,
and the resolution was declared out of or
der Speaker Nettleton presided and in
troduced the speakers from the Magic City,
who spoke in the following order: Rev.
Dr. II. c. Wheeler, Police Commissioner T.
]. Nolan and City Attorney Fleharty. The
tune they played this year was different
from two years ago, Then they did not
want annexation or anything that looked
like it. This year they did not want
"forcible" annexation, but were professedly
willing to vote the question and let
the majority of both cities settle it once
for all. Fleharty went into details to some
extent, showing the debts OF the city and
the value of its property, while all three
played to the sentiment OF the members
without a discussion of the merits or de-
merits of annexation. The speeches were
we'll received and the speakers given the
most respectful hearing, and at the con-
clusion Mike Lee carried a motion to let
Omaha and the rest OF South Omaha dis
cuss the other side of the question at 30
next Friday.
Recommends Terminal Taxation.
The terminal taxation bill which was in
troduced into the senate by Thomas of
Douglas was reported back to the senate
this morning with a recommendation that
1t pass. 1t was amended by the committee
to exclude freight line companies from its
provisions and in few minor details. The
bill is a duplicate of the Clarke bill in the
house.
At the afternoon session the senate de-
veloped a mania for killing insurance bills,
and after a long discussion on one Of a
dozen measures introduced by Aldrich at
the request of the insurance department
started in to indefinitely postpone them one
at a time.
The friends of the bills argued that they
were recommended by the committee of
fifteen that met in the east some time ago
and considered uniform insurance legisla-
ton. The opponents based their arguments
on the ground that they were designed 10
cripple the local state companies and were
backed by the large companies of the east.
The first bill to suffer was s. F. 2OS. which
required insurance companies to make
annual apportionments OF surplus funds on
deferred payment policies, instead of max
ing the apportionment at the maturing OF
the policies. Local companies contended
the law would take away from them their
surplus funds and would place them in a
bad light as compared with eastern COM
panies.
s. r. 2O4, which prohibited corporations
and stock companies from acting as agents
for insurance companies, suffered a like
fate.
recommended for Passage.
The next one, s. f. 9O5. prohibiting the
use of money by insurance companies for
political purposes or to effect legislation
was recommended to pass, after being
amended
F. as, which required that the insur-
ance policy should contain the entire con-
tract, was indefinitely postponed Files 2O1
and SOS were ordered engrossed for third
reading The former prohibits and pro-
vides pealties for misrepresenting the terms
OF a policy or the benefits TO accrue under
IL, and the latter makes the insurance So
licitor agent for the company and not foI
the insured. s. f. 30. placing limitations
on the salaries OF insurance company OH
cials and agents, was ordered engrossed
and s. f. 2ll. relating 70 the provisions
which shall be contained in policies. was
indefinitely postponed. After this action the
committee quit work after the most strenu.