Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-19
STAFF GOES NEXT SATURDAY
Train to Garry Nebraskans to Be
Called the Governors Special.
NEBRASKA EARNINGS NOT GIVEN
Union Paciac and 50. Joseph a Grand
Island Say it t. Impossible TO
Separate Them from Inter-
state Earnings.
crrom a staff Correspondent) }

ApTll Aos--NoRNNAeA+f Oho wen
from tonight Governor Sheldon, his staff
OF colonele and about seventy-five citizens
will leave Lincoln on the Governor Shell
don special" for California. They go as
representatives of the state to deliver to
the battleship Nebraska a silver service,
the purchase price of which was con-
tributed by the people of the state. The
train will be decorated with a banner in
scribed with the words. Governor Sheldon
special" and II will be in full charge OF
the "colonels." who will constitute the
active guard OF the silver service, and Il
will leave here promptly at o'clock on
the evening Of April IS, arriving at Denver
at 7:b the next morning. The entire morn
ing will be spent In Denver. after which
the party will go to Colorado Springs for
cities will be visited Lamay. sante Fe
and albuquerque. The train viii reach
Los Angeles May 80, after having been one
day In Grand canon. The party will leave
Los Angeles on the morning OF May T. ar
riving at Sap Francisco on the morning
of the May B. The presentation Of the
silver service will be made on board the
battleship Nebraska May s. after which the
party viii separate and come home as in
dividuals, the tickets being good for sixty
days.
Information received by Adjutant General
Schwartz is TO the effect that towns in
which stops will be made, intend to go out
OF the way TO impress the Nebraskans with
western hospitality. At Los Angeles a Ne
braska day will be observed by all the
people OF the city. and the three days
spent there will be full of sight seeing
and good time.
1t is thought fully 1870 people will go on
the trip the list at this time not having
been completed. A number of people have
notified the adjutant general they intend
20 go, but have not yet made their reser-
vations. The following is a list of those
who have made the reservations:
Governor and Mrs. Sheldon and two; w
NJ Dimery, secretary to Governor Sheldon;
Lincoln; Adjutant General Schwartz and
Mrs. Schwartz. Lincoln; Colonel c. j..
bury; Colonel J. c. Gown. Omaha; Col
onei F. s. Nicholson, st. Paul. Colonel
Crete; Colonel Emil Brandeis, Omaha:
Colonel Thomas c. Byrne, Omaha; Col
onel John 7. Cameron and Mrs: Cameron,
Mrs. Cornell Valentine; Colonel Charles
Grotte, omahai Colonel George Lyon, Jr.,
Nelson; Colonel Theodore w. Mccullough,
Omaha; Colonel Ernest L. Myers, New
port. Colonel Fred Nelson and Mrs. Neil
son. Bancroft; Colonel Henry j. -Penfold
Landreth p. Sine and Mrs. Sine Lincoln;
Colonel Herbert p. Shumway Wakefield;
IS.
straub. Lincoln; Colonel Arthur c. Smith.
Omaha; Colonel Andrew F. Sturm and
Mrs. Sturm, Nehawka; Colonel Millard +.
Perry. Lincoln; Colonel William Bischor,
Nebraska City; Colonel w c. Shinn and
Mrs. shinn. Lincoln.
state officers-Lleutenant Governor Hope
well, Mrs. Hopewell and son, Tekamah;
George G. Junkin, secretary of state, Lin
colin III. M. Eaton, land commissioner,
l.. c. Brian. state treasurer. and Mrs.
Brian. lincoln; w. r. Mellor. secretary Of
State Board of Agriculture. and Mrs. Mel
F. p. Sheldon and Mrs Sheldon and
daughter, Nehawka; q. M. Murphy and
Lincoln: G. p. Breezee and Mrs. Breezee,
Rushvile;. Mrs. Norton, Kearney; DIR.
kamah; - Mitten, rekamah: j. F. Byrne,
Lincoln; r. II Hopkins, Tecumseh; @. w.
Haley; Red Cloud; Colonel Presson and
csdia. ii chSrles Mars MSrshki Doasias; j. j.
Keller, Newport; Mrs Rawls and two
others, Plattsmouth: A. o. Taylor, Lin
coin; M. o. Johnson and Mrs Johnson
Crete; w. Kimball and Mrs. Kimball, Lin
coin; Miss Hardwick Lincoln; Mrs. Rich,
Lincoln; A. e. Kennard and Mrs. Kennard
Lincoln
Nebraska EARNINGS Not Available.
The Union Pacific and the st. Joseph &
Grand Island railroads have not reported
their earnings in Nebraska in their annual
reports to the State Board of Assessment
Each road says 1t is not required t, leg-
regate its business among the different
states and as its income is not dependent
upon merely state business it cannot sep
arate the state from the interstate busi-
ness, so should II make such a report the
figures would be mere conjecture. The
letters are practically the same and each
contains the following:
I'm returning this report wish to advise
that while the company raises no objec-
tion to reporting any facts that may be
required by you. the proposed report con-
templates the segregation of the company's
interstate business among the various
states through which its road passes; and
as its earning. expenses, etc. are not de-
pendent on state lines. there is no way in
which such segregation can be effected
except by approximation of conjecture. The
information requested pertains to the road
as a whole and cannot be accurately ap-
portloned among the states traversed. Any
attempt TO do so on my part would be a
mere expression OF individual opinion.
! which / am not authorized to make. Be
cause OF the difficulty l should experience
in attempting TO comply with your demands
l have delayed returning this report to
you until have referred the questions in
volved to counsel and am now advised
that, while any facts shown by the COM
pany's records should be reported, no at
tempt should be made to give merely mat
ters OF opinion or speculation,
''rhe Interstate Commerce commission
has. as you Rnow, directed the form and
manner in which the accounts OF inter-
state carriers shall be kept and the inter-
state commerce act provides Csection 2o)
that IL shall be unlawful for such carriers
to keep any other accounts, records OF
memoranda than those prescribed or APP
proved by the commission. This is another
reason why the Information has not been
given as required as no change was made
in our accounts apportioning earnings and
expenses to states"
Bids for state BuiIdinEu.
The State Board OF Public Lands and
Buildings has tabulated the bids on the
state buildings at Milford and Grand Island.