Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-24
inns ON LOBBYIST LIST
Mayor and Tanning Will Formally
Enroll at Lincoln.
WORK AGAINST ELECTIVE BOARD
enatoru Against Them. Say DBhlman
and Satellite, but Lower House
Members Favor Appointive
Com mtssiOners,

Mayor Dahlman and Colonel Charles L.
flaming will go to Lincoln next week,
register as lobbyists and work against Con-
gressman Hitchcock's amendment 70 the
city charter making members OF the fire
and police board elective. This was au-
tloritatively announced yesterday by both
the mayor and Colonel Tanning.
Dahlman and Tanning have talked to the
members OF the Douglas county delegation
to the state legislature and the mayor says
that the majority Of the lower house mem
bers from this county are for an appointive
board. All the three senators are for an
elective board as dictated by Congressman
Hitchcock.
As yet no one from Omaha has counseled
with the other members OF the legislature
on the proposition, believing that some
definite action should first be taken by
the Douglas county members. The charter
is expected 10 come up in the senate the
first of the week and as soon as 1t does,
Mayor Dahlman and Colonel flaming will
jump on II with both feet and as registered
professional lobbyists will buttonhole other
statesmen and endeavor TO get them to sit
down "Teal hard on the Douglas county
bunch.
Tune ChanRes After Election.
Il will defy any man to find one line In
the World Herald, before election. favoring
an elective fire and police board said the
mayor yesterday. '"The paper was almighty
silent on the proposition while Mr.. Hitch
cock was q candidate for congress. But
now look at IL Shouting for an elective
board. Who is responsible for the affairs
Of this city. the mayor or the newspapers?
/ say the mayor is, and therefore the mayor
ought to be given the power to appoint the
members OF the excise board.
while We are pledged for home rule and
home rule means q fire and police board
appointed by the mayor, still I would rather
have the law remain as 1t is and have the
governor appoint, than to have the board
elected"
Colonel Tanning openly declares that Con-
gresham Hitchcock has forced the repre-
sentatives from this county to work for
an elective board at the dictation of the
breweries.
This is Hitchcock's method of repaying
his political debts to the breweries which
put him in office again." said Tanning.
HE and they may think that they are do
ing something pretty smart and cute, but
IL the breweries keep on meddllng they will
disgust the legislature and the first thing
we know we will have state wide prohibit
AlOu' a SWllCH Ol i've OF SIX votes would
do this very thing
Tanning Charges Bad Faith.
Colonel flaming denies the report in the
World Herald that all but two of the house
members are pledged to an elective board.
He says that they were all pledged for an
appointive board, but that after they got to
Lincoln they all switched but two-Pete
Boland and one other. Those who drafted
the state platform of the marty construed
home rule to mean an excise board ap-
pointed by the mayor, says Colonel Tanning
and other leading Jims. because a plank
calling for an elective board and introduced
by Edgar Howard of Columbus was tabled
Immediately.
with the mayor and Colonel Tanning at
the capitol as registered lobbyists against
the elective excise board proposition, the
Jims look for great results, for Tanning is
known as a man possessing ability to get
another to come around to his way of
thinking. This is sustained by the report
that Tanning got the legislature to strike
out a clause compelling the street railway
to pave for two feet outside it's rails.
This recommendation was made by the
charter revision committee. II is asserted
that after this became known, represcn-
tatives OF the company appeared before the
legislators in one OF their conferences and
Informed them quietly, but convincingly,
that II the recommendation was adopted
into law the street railway company would
go into the paving business on such a large
scale that there would be nothing left Of
the other contractors. This was where Fan
ming got busy and due to his efforts, 1t Is
said, the section was stricken out of the
proposed charter,