Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-04
Brown Declares Himself Opposed to
the Bill and Burkett Reported So.
L IN INTEREST OF THE EAST
Frsternsl Organizations Protest ON
Penrose Postal Bill.
No CHANCE on TTs pECoMINa Law
Bill Passes the senate for the Issu-
arlce of Patents to Lands to Menu
bers of the santee sioux
Tribe of Indians.
tFrom staff correspondent.l

From a Staff Correspondent.)
| WASHINGTON, March 8.-(Special Tele-
gram )--Emboidened by the speeches OF
Senator William Alden Smith Of Michigan
| and Senator Knute Nelson OF Minnesota
| against the Aldrich bill opponents OF that
measure coming out into the open and
declaring that n passed st will not accom-
plieh the purposes for which It was in
tended, its only benefit being to create a
market for railroad securities. Senator
Brown, who has listened most earnestly to
the discussion of the bill, today came out
flatfootedly against the measure. To The
Bee correspondent he said that he knew
of no person or bank In Nebraska who was
dead set in favor Of the bill In his opin-
ion the bill was framed in the interest OF
New England and New York bankers and
that 1t would not stop any future panic.
The senator was emphatic in his declara-
tion that there was absolutely no need for
such legislation, the only need of a cura-
tive bill being TO protect the American
people from future panics. which the AL
drich bill did not do.
The senator said he was opposed to the
clause OF the bill permitting the issue of
currency upon reilroad bonds and thought
that feature OF the bill was an ingenious
scheme to put into the hands of unscru-
might be needed to corner any great rail-
road stock, AS this bill does not provide
for any guaranty to depositors and as the
people Of Nebraska most generally are
against an asset currency he will vote
against the bill.
There is also rumor current that SEN
ator Burkett holds to this same view. but
as he is in Boston today Il was impossible
to ascertain his Views.
The following other republican senator's
In addition to Brown and Burkett OF Me-
braska, Nelson of Minnesota and Smith Of
Michigan are reported against the Aldrich
bill: Burrows, Hepburn, Borah Hans
brough, Carter, Beveridge, Clapp, LaFol-
lette, Stephenson and Dixon.
Fraternals File Protest.
Senator Burlxett has recently received let
ters from fraternal organizations which
print fraternsl journals urging in the
strongest terms possible the defeat of the
bill introduced By Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania early in the session. which pro-
vides that when any issue of any periodi-
cal has been declared non-mailable by the
Postoffice department the periodical may
be excluded from second class mail priv
ileges at the discretion of the postmaster
general. The law department of a number
of these fraternal organizations have vehe-
mently protested against the passage of
this bill on the ground that II would ex-
clude many fraternal publications from the
second class list and compel them to pay
first class postage.
In the case of the Woodmen OF the World
1t was claimed that the enforcement OF
such an order would cost that organization
$4,000 year. Similar losses were cited
with other fraternal associations and so
ties about the dire effects Of the bill that
Senator Burkett took occasion to look up
the measure. 1t appears that the senior
senator from Pennsylvania introduced a
bill at the instance of Wilbur f. Crafts
of this city, who is at the head of the
Purity league Of the United States, and Il
was aimed primarily at certain socialist
publications of which there are several In
the west. one in particular in Kansas
known as the Appeal TO Reason. This
paper began crusade against the bill and
30 excited fraternal publications that they
bore down upon their members in con-
gress, all of which turns out to be a
tempest in a teapot" The bill has no show
OF passage and 1t is gravey doubted II It
will be considered by the committee of
which Senator Penrose is chairman.
Bill for Episcopal school.
Senator Clark's bill setting aside I60
acres of the Shoshone Indian reservation
for the use of a Protestant Episcopal
mission school passed the senate today.
Patents for Santee Landu.
Senator Brown called up and secured
the passage through the senate Of a bill
to authorize the secretary Of the interior
TO issue a patent in fee simple for certain
lands OF the santee reservation to the
directors OF school district No. ss in
Knox county. Nebraska The land thus
sought to be conveyed contains some two
and one-half acres
Senator Clapp this morning secured the
passage in the senate OF his bill TO author
ize patents to the Santee Indians The
bill provides that the secretary OF the In
terror is authorized TO cause patents 70
issue under provisions Of the act OF Feb
ruary s, 1887, to any santee Indian to
whom lands were assigned under the pro-
visions Of the treaty OF April %. 1858,
who has not heretofore obtained patent
TO his land under the provisions OF said
treaty.
Minor Matters at Capital.
Glen A. somervlle has been appointed
postmaster at Saint Ann, Frontier couDty,
Neb., vice G. r. Garlick, resigned.
Rural routes have been ordered estaB-
lished as follows: April /, Iowa. Green
field Adair county. route 4, population
800. families seventy. May /, Nebraska.
Arcadia. Valley county, route g. popua-
ton 400. families ninety-five.
Rural carriers appointed for Iowa routes:
Conway route q v. w. Myers. carrier;
Thomas Anderson, substitute. Merrill.
route /, Lewis N. Hauser, carrier; Edward
Howes, substitute
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE