Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-02-08
Principal Work to Date Laying Plans
to Capture the Offices.
JERRY HOWARD HAS HARD TIME
Tells His Troubles with Charter to
All Who Will Listen.
ANTI-JAP BILL Is COMING UP
Proposes 10 Introduce Measure to-
SegreEate Japanese LabOrers
from Others in Packing
Houses.
(From a staff Correspondent.l }

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| LINCOLN, Feb. Especial )-one month
of the three usually devoted to the legisla-
tive session has gone by and the members
are only around the first bend in the track,
with the quarter-pole in sight, so far as
actual work is concerned. Hosts and hosts
OF bills continue to pour in upon the printer
and the helpless committees, among which
are numerous measures of a purely political
| character, which the managers hope to
| force through toward the end under the
| weight of accumulated business and the
power of alleged party need.
| The week just ended has marked the in
| PRODUCTION of numerous measures calculated
to reward Nebraska democrats for their
| twelve years of unceasng toll In vain en-
deavor to make the people of the nation
| believe In the principles of a defeated
leader.
Later the members are expected to give
the sign of their approval to a measure
that will still further fasten his grip upon
the state and permit him to walk from Ne
braska into the United States senate. All
this is being done in pursuance of a care
fully laid out plan to despoil Nebraska's
institutions for the benefit of the majority
party. One b. one the political bills have
| been introduced and each one has heen fol-
! lowed by another that is a little farther
reaching. II the plot of the Bryan men
succeeds, every available institution or
| board In the state that is now even in
directly controlled by constitutional off
| Ger will be turned over into the hands OF
an elective or appointive one of the demo-
| cratic faith and all for the reward of the
Bryan democrats.
With few exceptions the bills looking to
these ends have been first introduced in
the house, composed in the main OF men
OF less analytical minds and more amenable
to blind partisan spirit If the measures
are forced through there the senate. where
there are somo democrats of independent
thought. will scarcely be able to withstand
the pressure, and the whole program of
spollation will be complete.
Nebraska must now pay Mr.. Bryan's
political debts of thirteen years standing.
Jerry Howard's Fight.
Whether Jerry Howard, who says no
| "represhents" the people of South Omaha,
will win out in his fight against the bal
ance of his delegation is to be one of the
interesting developments OF the session.
The honorable Jerry is making a one-nian
fight on his South Omaha charter ana is
! trusting to luck and a tireless energy TO
block the deals of his mates in the house
| and also in the senate. He wanders about
the halls with the printed record of some
OF the officeseekers of Packingtown In his
pocket and whenever he can find a willing
listener he dscourses what the other
bunch is trying to do and why they should
not be allowed to do 1t. He says Senator
Tanner is putting his charter through TO
put in the office of fire and police COM
missioner such men as Queenan, the tax
commissioner
1t Is safe to say that Howard will be
satisfied If he kills the Tanner charter in
the house when it comes over having lit
tie hope of making more than a record
with the one he is pushing The legislature
will never turn down the United Douglas
delegation on the Omaha charter and 1t
will take some herculean work to bring
opposition to the Tanner South Omaha
charter in the house sufficient TO kill IT,
for the nine votes of the Douglas delegation
count something on any measure in the
lower body and Howard has not gathered
any following that he may offer in return
for support to offset the united forces of
the metropolis.
Look et Douglas and Wonder.
However this may be, some OF the menu
bers occasionally take a look over to the
corner where the Douglas members sit in
the house and wonder II they must stand
for everything proposed by them In the
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Jerry's bill to immortalize st. Patrick by
making his day in Nebraska a holiday
along with the birthday Of Abraham Lin
coin, but since then he has been rustling
about in a lively manner, seeking to ex-
pose South Omaha democratic methods.
He has a lonesome time of 1t, but there
are members who lend cars occasionally,
but to what purpose 1t will be difficult to
tell until definite test comes.
HOward's Anti-Japanese BIII.
! Howard made his campaign on securing
paving between the street car tracks in his
home city, the double shift for firemen
and segregation of the Japanese in the
packing houses. He says he intends to in
troduce a bill the coming week to carry
out his pledge about the Japanese, against
whom some of his constituents have made
complaint on the ground they, while work.
ing in the same departments with Ameri-
cans have committed offenses against
them and particularly against the young
women employed there which has created
a demand that they be employed in de-
partment by themselves.
| Whenever the name OF Howard is mem
toned in the presence of Senator Tanner, a
look Of WEAKNESS comes over his face that
is inexpressible
| Senate 10 Get Canvass Bill.
Senator Rsnsom called a meeting of the
committee on privileges and elections last
week to act on Representative Taylors
bill placing the power to canvass votes
constitutional amendments in the hands OF
the state canvassing board. bill directly
in opposition to the position taken by the
joint assembly earlier in the session when
the legislature attempted to canvass the
votes on the supreme judge amennment;
some democratic members were absent and
republicans controlled. Just what the sem
ate will do with the bill II Senator Ran
som as chairman permits it to go before
the upper house with this recommendation,
is a matter of conjecture. but It is thought