Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-02


asked to make this inspection at the port,
named, Secretary Wilson believing thai
sum viii be all that is necessary. Should
such bill become a law IL Is believed
that II will mean much for the grain ship
pers OF the United states and raise tho
standard of grain shipped abroad
Poor OotloOk for Ola Fort Kearney.
Judge Norris appeared before the mill
tary affairs committee Of the house to-
day in behalf of a bill introduced by SEN
ator Brown to purchase the old Fort
Kearney military reservation for histories al
purposes. While Judge Norris received
most courteous treatment and was lis
tened to with much attention by the com
mittee, he was informed that hundreds OF
such bills had been presented to congress
in former years, but that precedent was
decidedly against such purchase. Ii de-
veloped during the hearing that there was
no report in the senate on Senator Browns
bill and that 1t would have to be referred
to the department for a report Judge
Norris will be given a hearing on the
measure, but he is not confident after
his hearing today that he will be able to
secure favorable report upon the meas
ure.
Pure Food Laboratory for Omaha
Secretary Wilson today issued an order
1
laboratory at Omaha in conjunction with
similar orders for laboratories at st. Louis
and Pittsburg. A chemist from the aRri-
| cultural department will be sent to Omaha
! just as soon as quarters arc secured. prob
| ably In the postoffice building and the
| necessary apparatus installed for the pur-
pose of examining and analyzing specimens
| OF foods and drugs in the country adjacent
to Omaha. Omaha will embrace territory
half way to st. Louis on the east and half
way TO Denver on the west a pure food
laboratory having been in operation in
the latter city for some little time Sec
retary Wilson stated that he expected in
view of the growing Importance of Omaha
as shipping center, that the laboratory
in that city would become most important
in assisting the department in working out
the pure food and drug act
Pollard Coming Home.
Congressman Pollard declined an invita-
tion today to speak before the Merchants
club of Fall River. Mass, TUESDAY next
as he expects to leave for home inlmedi-
ately after the passage Of the agricultural
bill, which now gives promise Of being
passed tomorrow or Thursday at the lat.
est
Restricting Federal Courts.
Senator Burkett introduced a bill today
by which it is proposed to prohibit the is
suance of writs of injunction from federal
courts against proceedings of a state court
Senator Burkett had prepared the bill in
the first days of the second session of the !
fifty-ninth congress-. but did not introduce
1t at that time, In order to learn what the |
decision of the supreme court of the |
United States would be in the Nebraska .
railroad cases, in the matter of the colec- |
tion Of their taxes. When that decision |
was rendered 1t was too late to introduce |
the bill. At that time Burkett received
resolutions from the Nebraska legislature
in which congress was asked to enact a
law to prevent railroad companies and
other tax debtors from interfering by in
junction in federal courts with the COL
lection OF state, county, school district and
municipal taxes. Since that time the
senator has been making a further study
of the matter in order to draft a law which
will be broad enough to cover the defect
in the present law, and still not too broad
to interfere with constitutional require
ments, and the bill today is the result.
Rate Ruling MtsundcrstoOd,
At a recent meeting of the Nebraska
State Association of Commercial clubs
resolution was passed crticising the ruling
OF the Interstate Commerce commission
which in effect and substance nullfied the
so-called long and short haul clause" of
the interstate commerce act. A copy of
the resolution was sent to Senator Burkett
and he at once took the matter UP with the
Interstate Commerce commission, to the
end that additional a legislation should be
had II it were necessary. The commission
mas assured the senator that the resolution
mscontrues the action taken by the COM
mission. The commission insists that it !
ioes not intend to nullify this section of the .
act. ,
The commission said that what it desired
% do was to make each tariff show spe- Z
'ifically the rates applicable at each of the
stations named therein. One of the trou- ;
'les in the past has been that tariffs filed I
With the commission, instead of naming I
'ates applicable at each station have con- :
aimed the long and short haul clauses s
naximauim rules, alternative rate provi- @
lions, and other indefinite and doubtful +
'ules as to the application of rates at c
Intermediate points not specified in the r
ariff, which have led to such confusion | h
hat in certain contested cases experts in I
ate matters have been unable to agree c
lpon the rates which should be applied I'm v
accordance with the tariffs on file. The [
promulgated the new rulings a
or the purpose of eliminating that con- $
usion, and they say the new ruling pro- Il
'ides nothing more in substance than that
carrier shall publish the specific rate [
or each station, and they cannot see how r
he requirements of their ruling have au- O
horized the carrier to violate the law by I
harging more for a shorter haul under h
similar conditions r
Petition for Dick Bill. f
Believing that the enactment of the Dick r
ill will bring TO the old soldiers of the C.
country long delayed justice, officials of the II
tate Of Nebraska have petitoned congress p
o pass this bill in a hurry. Petitions Il
gned by Governor Sheldon. Justices of the y
supreme court, railway commissioners and "
Ill other state officials who happened to il
'e in their offices at the time the petition
vas circulated were presented to the senate
oday by Senator Brown. Many names be-
des those OF officials are found on these
petitions. The Dick bill proposes to re-
adjust the pay of soldiers during the civil
var on the gold basis.
Postal Matters.
The postmaster general has ordered the
on Nav l. of Station No. 10