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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
NATIONAL IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Success of h Plans Developed in
the West.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
BY the completion of the Gunnison tun-
mel. in western Colorado. reported in re-
cent press dispatches. attention is directed
anew to the magnificent work now being
done by the federal government in making
available for cultivation extensive tracts of
land at present absolutely worthless. Eight
or ten OF the smaller reclamation projects,
now completed in the west, provide for the
irrigation Of about 10000 acres. Five which
are almost finished will add nearly 100000
acres to the total, and seventeen others,
still under way, embrace not far from
100000 acres more. which require only a
little water to develop the highest fertll-
ity. One OF these aims to redeem from
$50. 900 to 200. 900 acres in the Uncompahgre
valley, in Colorado, and it is to supply
that region that a six-mile tunnel has been
cut through the mountains from the Gun
nison river. Dams and canals must be
constructed, however, before the tunnel can
be utilized.
The general plan of which this unnel
is a unique feature, is practically without
a parallel. other governments have I'M
dertaken large irrigation enterprises, either
to give employment to unoccupied work
men or to promote agricultural prosperity,
or to attain both ends together, but the
money which they spent was a permanent
investment. The United States Is following
a different program. Arrangements have
been made to recover every dollar devoted
to reclamation work from those who will
be benefited, and when it has been re-
turned It will be used over and over again
for similar service. A scheme which win
increase the value of taxable property in
more than a dozen states and present
tempting possibilities to farmers and gar
deners who are looking for new homes,
yet without costing the prime mover In
the work a cent, Ia certainly remarkable
as well as beneficient. 1t is noteworthy
also because It was fairly initiated before
Mr.. Roosevelt advocated a more compre-
hensive policy of conserving national re-
sources.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
Fair Treatment for Immigrants.

Numerous complaints, some of them
apparently we'll founded. of hasty and
ill-considered action by immigration
inspectors in deporting aliens has
brought a rebuke from the Immigra-
ton bureau which is timely. The i'm
migration restriction laws were en-
acted TO keep out undesirables, but
the immigrant seeking admission,
after having met the requirements at
the point Of departure, is entitled to
the presumption OF being eligible TO
enter n certainly should not be
turned back on flimsy charges or mere
suspicious. A notable illustration of
hasty action Was the deportation of
the niece OF a wealthy Louisville man
returning from a trip abroad. because
she had unfortunately spent her
money until she did not have the re-
Quired $25. and although she tele-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
Washington star

Washington star.
Bill Stiggins surely is a man
OF consequence round here,
There's scarcely any one who can
Be mentioned but you'l hear
Bill pipin' up with brightenin' eve.
In accents loud an slow
The party you ies' mentioned-Wh
l knowed him years ago.
He says that tennis he has played
A lot with Theodore,
And Bill has been r heap dismayed
To see his Coffin score
And, speakin' OF the tariff war,
When everybody else
Calls Mr.. AldriCh senator
He always calls him "Nels.f
les fur a test We handed out
Some names from ancient. lore.
He never showed a sign Of doubt'
He knoWed 'em all Of yprc
With Socrates he'd made his home
In Athens, Ohio,
And helped j. Caesar huld up Rome.
In Georgia, years ago.
II didn't modify his CIce
When gTavely we inuutred
II Ananias miRhtn't be
A friend whom he admired
All placidly his way he goes
They keep us wonderin' still
The folks that old Fiji Stisgtns hnoNt
Who never heard Of Blu,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29


The Creighton Medical college is
commencing the erection Of a new
building adjoining its present site. The
Creighton Medical is a strong institu-
ton and destined to future greatness,
but we suggest that looking ahead
would warrant considering now the in
evitable change Of location. The in
trusion of a freight depot and railroad
tracks in immediate proximity has
made the present site unsuitable for
educational purposes and the prospect
Of a new building and equipment in
Omaha for the medical department Of
the State university, with which
Creighton will always be in friendly
rivalry, should make the Creighton
university authorities realize what is
needed to maintain the high position
their medical college occupies.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

July l a man committed murder in Lon
don. July % he was tried. this procedure
taking an hour, and condemned to death.
Even the causual observer cannot but
notice that things are lone differently here.
When King Edward travels in Europe
he occupies his own cars. Except when
in actual use the kings railway carriages
are stored in Brussels and sent to Cher
bourg, Calais or Flushing, according to the
royal destination.
All but one OF the senators and all
but eleven Of the representatives in con-
gress live during the session. on Wash,
ington streets, avenues squares and cir.
Giles having the aristocratic IN. W.
tackled to their names.
An eccentric splnster OF White Plains
N. Y, after living for fifty years as q
recluse. has just died leaving a million
She did not leave 1t to anybody, bu'
just simply left IT. The amount OF hap
piness she got from her million nigh
be worth trying to figure out
An Oklahoma postmaster explained L
the department a trining delay in To,
mails as having been occasioned by tn,
carelessness Of a citizen who had sho
another citizen in the postoffice and
mussed the place up. As the postmaste
not only withheld approval, but expressed
actual annoyance, the delinquency VA
overlooked.
The record for long hypothetical cues
tions, the New York Sun explains, VA
made many years ago in the celebrated
Hoyt will case in the New York surro
gates court, when Dr. Frank Hamilton
the famous army surgeon, was asked
question Of 3,1S words by General B. F
Butler. Of Massachusetts, whose oppos
ing counsel was Senate Elihu Root, o
New York
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
A TRUST AND ITS VICTORY.
Tobacco Combine Gets Around n De-
partment Order.
Washington Herald.

Washington Herald.
The tobacco trust does not seem TO have
lost out" after all, in the secretary of
wars prohibition against the award of
contract, by army subsistence officers
and the Isthmian Canal commission, for
tobacco to the forty or fifty firms COM
posing what Is properly known as the
tobacco trust 1t now appears that any
one having no direct connection with the
companies In that trust may purchase its
products and sell them to the government.
This means that the government will pay
a higher price for the product of the
tobacco trust than 1t has been charged
for those articles hitherto. The trust.
which was supposed to be the object OF
Official rebuke and punishment, is restored
to its former privileges, with the govern
ment paying the freight"
This notification of the righteous indig.
nation Of the Department of Justice, where
the order of the secretary OF wal is under.
stood to have originated, is one OF the
peculiar results Of dealing with trusts
when they are guilty of the restraint OF
trade. 1t will be an easy matter for the
managers OF the tobacco companies in the
trust to find wholesale or retail dealers
who will handle the product without any
loss to the trust in its relation to the
government. The independents" who have
cherished the notion that they would now
have an opportunity to bid for government
orders without running up against the
competition OF the tobacco trust, will view
this latest development with no great sat
isfaction. The secretary Of war has found
II impossible to refuse to purchase tn,
trusts product when It comes from con.
tractors not Of the trust, and he has 81
informed the army subsistence officer,
and the Isthmian Canal commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The tariff lobby really began moving on
Washington last winter, when the ways
and means committee began holding hear
inRs. Before those hearings were well sd-
vanced most OF the great manufacturing
industries had opened offices here and had
assigned the ablest and most adroit men
in their employ to stay in Washington
until the tariff bill was signed by the
president. Many of the manufacturers es-
tsblished headquarters in the hotels; others
preferred to go to office buildings. Before
the bill passed the house the largest and
probably the most expensive lobby that
ever came on to Washington was well
settled and ready for business when the
bill got into the senate, for the plan was
to do the real effective work in that lobby.
Generally speaking there are about as
many groups of lobbyists as there are
schedules in the tariff bill. Many individ-
ual manufacturers have sent men here to
look after rates In which they were spe-
cially interested, but the general plan was
to have a group of men, under the direc-
ton Of a man in charge look after an
entire schedule. Thus, looking after chem
icals, oils and paints, would probably be
a half dozen men who occupied the same
office. Another group looked after the
earthenware and glassware schedule, an
other watched the rates on metals and
manufactures thereof. another group
watched out for the sugar schedule and Sc
on through the bill. One of the high priced
groups Of men conducted the campaign for
a duty on hides. This lobby was financed
by the cattle growers association of the
southwest. The lumber dealers, who were
determined that the duty on lumber should
not be taken off, have not abandoned the
field since last March. They started out
by giving a banquet to which many mem
bers OF the house Of representatives were
invited. The tobacco people kept a watch
on guard for more than four months be
fore there was a movement that necessi'
tated a call to arms. The call came wher
Senator Beveridge introduced his amend
ment increasing the tax on tobacco and
cigars.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The increase from 2 to a 3 per cent
dividend rate On steel stock due to
business revival answers the question
why that stock has advanced so stead
ilV Of late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Just to show the Frenchmen that
they are still in the game, the Wright
brothers took up a passenger and kept
him in the air for over an hour. All
that was needed was a little incentive
to induce them to do something.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Colorado Springs has just gone un-
der a home rule charter manufactured
by its own people, which is decidedly
different from the home rule charter
thrust upon Omaha manufactured at
Lincoln by nonresident demo-pop law
makers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Another proof Of the intense non
p~artisanship Of the democratic World
Herald may be found in its refusal to
print the republican platform resolu-
tions in full. Imagine the squeal It
would emit II The Bee failed to print
tha democratic resolutions in full.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The new battleship Michigan is said
to be the fastest craft of its class
ahoat. That makes twenty-eight bat
tleships in the navy, four building and
two more authorized. Even if the
United States is not hysterical, It is
certainly doing its share IN keeping up
the battleship competition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The czar of Russia cannot even go
visiting in peace. and he has no con-
gress to keep him at home, either.
Who wants to be a car, anyhow, when
the base ball and fishing seasons are
on?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
RIindness of I'm Temper.
philadelphia Record.

The reactionaries OF the senate, who are
applying the epithet of Jelly fish" to
President Taft, are strangely oblivious to
the tenacity, not to say downright OBJ
stinacy, with which he has chung for
years to his policy in regard to the Philip
pines. They will be apt to find before they
are much older that he Is not the man they
took him for.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The governor Of Alabama advises
the legislature of that state to place 1t
in the dry belt. II this thing keeps up
the south will soon be no place for a
man with a thirst unless he belongs to
a locker club.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The latest Venezuelan developments
indicate that Castro not only desires TO
be buried in Venezuela, his native
land, but would gladly bury a few Of
his enemies there BEFORE his own turn
comes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
the west might get the harvest hands
it wants If 1t would only send along
return tickets. Why anyone employed
in the west should want to return east
is beyond comprehension.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

According to edict of our Juvenile
court officers, parents are to be prose-
cuted for their children's violation of
the curfew ordinance. Reversing the
Biblical threat Of Furnishing children
for the sins of their parents.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

At the present carrying capacity It
would only require 100000 aeroplanes
to land an army in Great Britain with
out any artillery or other equipment,
which would indicate there was no i'm
mediate danger of an invasion in force.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
ConquerinE the Air.


When a t~wenty-foot monoplane crosses
the English channel in half the time Of a
quick steamship the birds may take notice
that man has set out upon a conquest OF
the air as complete as that in which he
has won over the domain Of the fishes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Eastern financial journals comment
on the bright outlook of western bank
ers. The west has the crops and the
banks have the money to pay for them
and everybody is happy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

President Taft is as fond OF automobiles
as Roosevelt was OF horses, and he putG
his machines TO even more practical use
than Roosevelt did his steeds, Now that
he Is living the bachelor life and trying
to get through q tariff bill at the same
time, the president is combining business
with pleasure in a most delightful way.
His favorite performance after dinner is
to hunt up one of the conferees by tele-
phone-Sereno r Payne Is q favorite vic
tim-whiri around to the statesman's home
in his car and take him riding, The presi-
dent is too social to confine his converse
ton wholly to business topics. but many
a doubtful tariff rate gets overhauled IN
the course Of the run and both men seek
their couches cooler and wiser, President
Taft has four automobiles
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
Complimentary. but excuse U.s."

A prominent New Zealander is quoted
as saying that II Germany should whir
England, New Zealand would not acknow'
ledge a cession of its territory to Germany
but would run up the American flae
rather than submit to German rule. While
grateful for the compliment, Uncle San
would like to be excused from shoulder
ing any more trouble in the far east.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

It costs $500 to secure a divorce
in England, but there are some advan-
tages in that you do not have to live a
wear In Reno.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The Omaha city council is making
almost as much OF a task over enacting
those occupation tax ordinances as
congress lie making owe the enactment
of the tariff tax law,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Indications are that the battle
Scared veterans Of the tariff war will
be home before long to tell their con-
~stituents all about It.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The democratic state convention
slapped the late Douglas county dele
CATION in the face for beating the in
~itiative and referendum in the recent
legislature, If this keeps on Douglas
county's democratic lawmakers will
be absolutely friendless political
orphans.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
panger in OverfeedinE.

Kansas CITY star.
The high tariff senator's seem to be pro-
ceeding on the theory that the easiest
way to kill the octopus is to feed 1t until
Il dies Of Indigestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porarIIy should have h Bee
mailed TO mem Address Will he
as often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Of hosiery taken at street crossings
certainly went the limit Of sensational
ism, but the only wonder is that he
did not get his head punched while
procuring the photographs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

A Chicago man wants a divorce be-
cause his wife hit him with a pie. But
II It was a really good pie he should
be able to get away with it without in
convenience.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Senator Stone Of Missouri may use
the gum shoe in politics, but 1t is the
mailed fist for the car porter who does
not act up to suit him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

II Colorado sends a woman to con-
gress and Uncle Joe is still speaker
we can see where the committee on
acoustics gets a new member.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
Always Room mt the Bottom.

Notwithstanding the slurs that have been
cast upon the Missouri river. that stream
continues to contain enough water to en-
gulf trains which happen to fall into 1t,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
Washington Life

short Sketches Of Incidents ana
Episodes that MArR the Progress Of
Events ~ the National Capital
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Great Britain calls It's new style Of
battleships "super-dreadnaughts." If
Germany should gain another lap 1t
will require a new word in the naval
dictionary.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Governor johnson thinks the tariff
should be put out Of politics. When
It IL fixed up satisfactorily 1t may put
some politicians out of once.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Probably the most worn out group of
citizens in the United States at the mo-
ment are the Washington newspaper cor
respondents. Washington when it is hot
is mighty hot. These newspaper corre-
spondents nave been constantly on duty
night and day since December l, and some
Of them say they are worn to a FRAGILE,
They have been compelled TO be alert at
all hours Of the day and night for changes
in the tariff schedules affecting the states
in which their newspapers are published,
The work OF a few United States senators
and a few members OF the house or repre-
sentatives on this tariff bill has been in
tensely arduous, but the vast majority have
had a dull time, and yet have been com
PEELED to remain in Washington. But all
the correspondents have been knee deep In
work in the hot season in the hottest
city OF the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The only kind of a platform which
republicans could adopt with the APP
prevail Of the democratic organs would
be a democratic platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The president of Colombia sent his
resignation by cable from Germany
That was probably safer than deliver
ing It in person.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

New Jersey is to put convicted auto
speeders' pictures in the roughes' gal
lery. Up to date that is the first EFFORT
to classify them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

When Jim Hill agrees to boost
omaha,s coming Corn show II insureS
a good, big boost.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

A Chicago man was found dead with
a half smoked cigar in his hand. N.Y.
but those Chicago cigars must be
herca. -.... ---.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
eTATrMrNT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state Of Nebraska. Douglas County. ss' rho
George n. Tzschuck. treasurer rorn
Bee Publishing Company being GUY ia
pays that the actual numoer OF Luu ng
complete copies Of Tit Daily. MOL ne
Evening and Sunday Bee printed nul'"s ~
rnantb 80 I,,pe 1oOQ was as follows
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

In the populist lexicon nonpartisan-
ship still e playing tail to h
democratic kite.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Wanted-A chairman for the demo
cratic state committee to advise demo
Gratis not to vote for democratic candt
dates because they are democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The tariff aviators found Mr.. Taft
too heavy a load to lift and they were
forced to come down. -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

There is considerable discussion 60
ing on as to what Is net income. ASK
the man who has one.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Possibly the ablest and best trained lobby
Of all is the one representing the wool
growers and the wooden manufacturers
Several months before congress met in
extra session the wool and wooden people
met at Chicago ana decided there should
be no change in tn tariff rates affecting
their industry. When congress met in
extra session they were ready for business.
Next to the wool and wooden people the
manufacturers Of cotton goods have main
talned the most effective lobby. The Ark
wriEh club of Massachusetts and the cot
ton lobby are pretty much the same.
Well, what does such a lobby do? some
one asks. 1t 'labors" with the right peo-
pie in the senate and house. In the
making Of this particular tariff bill the
tailoring was done chiefly in the senate.
The beneficiaries OF the tariff are keen
enough to know that when the members OF
the finance committee of the senate sit
dow to decide what the rate on a particu-
lar article shall be hey will want some
one to come In and give them a few
facts" II the country had a tariff com
mission there would not be so much field
for lobbyists; but there is no official source
to which the tariff makers can go for in
formation and so the natural thing Is &c
call in the representatives of the manu-,
facturers whose products are under consid'
Grafton. Every lobbyist is, Of course, pre-
pared at all times to respond TO a call for
information from the finance committed
or from any senator. When he is called he
presents his case and his facts" IN the
most 'disinterested" way. OF course he
has no lake to grind" he is simply or
here to give the tariff makers any assist
ance 1t is possible for him to render.
There are the men who appear before thu
committee and the men who call on sena
tors at their homes and show them why
this ought TO be or that ought not to be
The printing bill of the lobbyist would
startle the country II II could be obtained
Tons upon tons of briefs have been turned
out and distributed among the senator
and representatives.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Six hippopotami put their heads togetEtr
and framed up a concerted plan of attack.
But when they tried to rush Mr.. ROosc-
welt he broke up their formation with Two
well directed shots.
That's the way | smash the trusts" lie
smilingly said, and the Hippo trust Is no
exception. cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Adam unused.
Our case was peculiar" he said, we
doubled up before we ate the apple. New
York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

Daughter-Fsther, dear father, wont you
forgive John and me for eloplng?
Father, Dear Father-Ees, II Sou-cr-
elope again right away.-Judge.
Meenister-And why didn't ye come to the
kirk last Sawbath?
sandy had nowt but a shillin' in my
claes. That's over muckle siller to pit In
tn contribution box all at ain time
Cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

The Minneapolis pastor who illus
his Sunday sermon by snapshots
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Please, sir, me grandmother"
Tell a new one, johnny"
Promised to take me TO de games today,
If you'll femme off"
He got off.-Kansas city journal,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Mrs. Youngbride, who thinks she knows
all about it, makes me fairly boil when
she starts to preserve us" sighed the
Pear.
Yes chorused the Cherries, doesn't
she jar you!'-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29

Hard work" said the Teady-mado ph|o-
sopher, brings the greatest happiness in
life"
Yes answered Farmer CorntOSs D.
specially when you kin afford 'o
somebody TO do IT fur you. '-Wash'nG
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-29
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