Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-16
BUSY SEASON IN CAPITAL
Nearly All State ofHcers Are Candi'
dates for Reelection.
DEPUTIES ALSO IN FIGHT
Man In Zach once Desires to Sue
cecd His Chief--HeRrInE ON
Ex-cess Rates on
FFuit.
lrrom a staff correspondent.l )

NFrOm n SluII 0OIIehRohNNhN'y
LINCOLN March .A(Special) )-Ihe
coming summer is going 20 be a busy one
for the state officers. and for them all the
work ls already mapped 0ut. Every deputy
in the statebouse whose chief retires at
the end of hts second term is candidate
fo- the office about to be vacated. while
an the fiFSt-termers want to succeed them
selves. In the first bunch is included Dep
utv Auditor Cook. Deputy Auditor Peirce.
DEPUTY Land Commissioner Shiveley and
Dep,tv state Superintendent Bishop. In the
second group are included Governor Shell
don. Attorney General Thompson, Treas
urer Brian, Secretary OF State Junkin and
Railway Commissioner Williams. Rumors
OF opposition to Secretary Of State Junkin
ana Railway Commissioner Williams are
constant. Mr.. Junkln's opposition is the
outRrowth OF the ruling OF the Board OF
Public Lands and Buildings on the matter
OF the pension money OF members of he
Soldiers Home, which, by the way, rec
auired the payment OF less Of the pension
money than under the old system, though
this does not seem to be generally under
stood.
In addition 20 running for office, mem
bers of the state Board of Assessment
will begin the work OF assessing the rail-
roads in May, the same month In which
the governor Is expecting 20 go TO the
coast and also to Washington at the re-
quest OF President Roosevelt. This board
will keep the governor. land commissioner,
treasurer auditor and secretary OF state
tied up most OF the summer; the attor-
ney general has the important railroad
rate legislation TO drag through the courts
during the hot weather; the Railway com
mission has set out to make schedule
Of rates and thresh out the question OF
a chedule OF rates based on distance.
This work will begin a week from Tues
day and the question OF plan Will be
decided first In addition to all this
work the deputies will want to be out
campaigning and Governor Sheldon wants
10 visit every state institution IN order
TO be prepared to make the proper rec
concentrations to the next legislature. 1t
Is the wish of all the heads of the state
institutions that the governor recommend
the appropriations needed In order to re-
move the necessity of them coming to
Lincoln to lobby for appropriations.
Temperance Fight waxes Warm.
Another busy day was spent by the ad-
vocates Of a no.saloon town today and at
practically all Of the churches speakers
denounced the liquor traffic or advocated
the daylight saloon. The fight started
out as ciear-out proposition OF saloons
or no saloons, but under the constant
hammering OF a local newspaper and Q
few Others the excise board adopted an
order tnat II would license only daylight
saloons should the prohibition movement
be defeated. This has complicated the
situation considerably and has somewhat
divided the temperance element and at
the same time disappointed some of those
who favored saloons The new license
year begins May" 10. and the election is
set for two days before and, from now un-
III that time tI1eo town. win be torn up
over the question. Mayor Brown, a mem
ber Of the, excise board was In favor
OF submitting the, prohibition question
flat and II the town went dry to close
the saloons. but Members Harpham and
Powell. the other two members, elected
by what calls itself the conservative OF
temperance element, finally decided to
adopt the daylight saloon policy in case
prohibition lost Consequently. whether
prohibition carries or not. Lincoln will
have no more night saloons for at least
year from May
Express Rates ON FruIt.
The state Railway commission next
Tuesday will hold a meeting for the pur.
pose OF listening to testimony on the
matter Of rates for the shipment of fruit
At the present time the rates ara not az
all Just and fair according TO the belief
Of the commission. but It realizes 1t will
be difficult job to fix up just
schedule The meeting will be informal
and the matter win be thoroughly dis
eussed. ~on the same day in the supreme
court VIII come up the application OF
the attorney general for a temporary in.
Junction TO restrain the express com.
panies from violating the Sibley law
This win bring the case up on its merits
and II will be necessary for the express
companies TO show that the rates ar,
not compensatory IN order to stave of
putting the law into effect