Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-02-24
RAPID FIRE INQUIRY
Whitewash Applied by Legislature
While You Wait.
GOOD JOB IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
Kraus and Howard Ask Investigation
of Riot Talk.
LATTER FILES HIS SPEECH
Taylor of Custer Gets Back at Senator
. Ransom.
STOCK YARDS BILLS BROUGHT OUT
One Recommended 20 Pass and other
Held in Reserve In Case First
One Falls by the
wayside.
STOCK YARDS BILLS BROUGHT 0U'
lrrnn, a sfaff Correspondent.l

tFron a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Feb. 23.-(Speclal)-The house
this afternoon gave Jerry Howard and
Kraus an ample coat of whtewash on their
demand for an investigation Of the conduct
of those two members of the body in South
Omaha Sunday In response to the request
the speuker's committee remained in ses-
sion fully fifteen minutes, after which II
made a report that the two members had
done nothing censurable and the. report
was adopted The sentiment of the commit
tee and of the house was to make Josh
of the entire matter instead Of considering
It seriously as the merits of the charge
made against these two of its members
warranted.
Kraus OF Douglas county insists that he
has been unjustly paraded before the pub
lie by his connection with the South Omaha
riot and he therefore asked that the
speaker appoint a committee to invesu-
gate Mi Howard, his colleague. and him
self.
The speaker appointed the following
committee. Leidigh of Otoe, Broderick OF
Clay and Killen of Gage
Howard Of Douglas filed the following
statement, which was made part of the
records of the house,
Mr. Speaker: | desire a question OF
personal provilege an opportunity to ex-
plain to the members of this house the
cause of all this claptrap that mas ap,
peared In the press relative to a so-called
inflammatory speech delivered by me az
a mass meeting of my fellow citizens az
of by me at said meeting II they were
published, should read as follows:
Fellow Citizens: i shall take for Smy
text the assassination of officer Lowrey.
but nothing less than inspiration would
allow me to do justice on this occasion
best citizens has assembled for the pur-
pose OF forming a committee TO put "a
CITY CITY I am am not r inspired: therefore / shall
only endeavor 10 make few prac teal re-
marks and point out to you, my fellow
citizens, where the blame belongs Tor the
murders and outrages perpetrated upon
our fellow citizens. The blame rests on
the great privilege that they have given
to the cheap labor imported into the city
BY the corporations. They allow tnese
gambling. drinking shooting fighting.
kiniug Nue resorting 70 all kinds OF i'm.
morality around the sporting houses OF
..The labor cournissioner could do some
Sat Sttfh lie Us Is handlsspped % ,ps in in the way q
finances The labor commissioners Is al
SsC the fSS pToTns ths
fish is more valuable than working
man.
tions read by your secretar Mr. Hunter.
relative to the loAthsome disease OF the
houses. house 'i'S would suggest that the commit
tee appointed here this afternoon would
take that subject matter up with the fed
diseased men should be handling the meat
that the general public Is eating"
Trouble for Ransom.
When Senator Ransom killed the bill by
Taylor of Custer providing that the state
Board OF Canvassers shall canvass the cleo
ton returns ON constitutional amendments
he buaded up for himself a house full of
trouble.
The first penalty was exacted this morn
ing when Taylor had the house take from
the standing committee on live stock a
bill by Taylor of York regulating rates to
be charged by the stock yards and a bill
by Armstrong OF Buffalo relating 20 the
same subject. But Taylor did not stop
there. He had the house resolve Itself into
committee OF the whole and recommend the
first bhl for passage. The second bill was
sent back to the standing committee for
should the first one by some hook or
crook fall by the wayside then the second
one win be brought forward.
Taylor was sufficiently strong In the
house 10 shove the stock yards bills ahead
OF the general file, already yards long, In
the face OF the fact that Senators Tanner
and Howell who had responded to a hurry
up call from their friends. were openly
fighting the proposition the floor of
the house.
''rhe standing committee on live stock
and grazing has had II. r. las and H. r.
2ll under consideration two or three
weeks" said Taylor during lull in the
house proceedings, "and ! move that the
chairman OF the committee report those
bills for general file Immediately"
Harrington OF Brown. chairman OF the
committee. explained that he had several
meetings OF the committee with only few
members present. but that the representa-
tives OF the stock yards had asked to be
heard. and they had Informed him each
time they were unable TO be present. A
meeting. he said. had been set for Wodnes-
day. He said further that the author OF
IL. r. 1i5. W. z. Taylor. had agreed to the
appointment
when the melton was put II carried
unanimously for the committee TO report.
Taylor 90 Custer. as soon the bills were
again in the possession of the house, moved
that the house resolve itself into a com
mittee Of the whole for the consideration
OF the two measures.
KenE OF Furnss came to the front with
motion 10 have the bills sent back to
hours The motion was lost.
Bin Made More Radical.
In the committee of the whole the bill.
n. r. iD, vas amended 90 that the stock
yards may charge Is cents a hundred
pounds for hay and S cents for corn above
the market price In place Of 20 cents. Then
the bill Was recommended for engrossment
and third reading.
kelley raised several points OF order until
finally. when he again RAISED a point OF
order. Taylor ot Custer. who Was I'm the
chair. said;
n don't know of anyone out OF order ss
often a. tho SentlemAn from Furnas.-
n. r. "a. b Armslrons. vas then sent
hack 20 the standing committee and the
representatives of tbs stock yards may talk
10 the eommiltee aoout that bnl.
ourins the senerous dissassion ofsis of