The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-26

from appearance practically every
delegate and visitor accepted the hos
pitality of the executive mansion
Tuesday mornings convention vas
to have convened at O'Clock the usu-
al beginning time of the eixhr-aozr dzv
man. but the delegates we're a little
slow in arriving and ir was nearly 3
o clock before Chairman Nurrzy
called the convention to order The
committee on order OF business re-
ported and the report was adopted
without dissent The COMMITTEES On
constitution then announced rs rsadi-
ness to report and Chairman Co1ey
took the floor and proceeded 1, read
The document was lengthy one. hut
II mad been prepared with suea care
and ability that the changes and
to the document a. read
were comparatively slight On some
three or four sections there uzs warm
debate. and in several instances rhere
were insinuations of -Jockeyfnz for
political advantage But the debates
were all good narured- and AZ sfuex
hearty laughs were raised by some nit
ty retort Of delegate Section By
section the document was considered
by the committee Of the whole. and
at the conclusion Of the reading the
committee Of the whole arose and re-
ported and at the afternoon SESSION
about $780, 1t was adopted and the
Nebraska State Federation Of La
Dor was an established fact
An effort was made at this fure-
ture to suspend the order of business
and proceed with the election Of on
GERS The claim was made that uzauv
or the delegates wanted 20 ger axzT
on the early trains. but a majority
were willing to stay right there and
proceed in the regular way.
The resolutions committee reported
at length Among other resolutions
adopted was one in favor OF equal suf-
frage. which was carried without a dis
senting vote Another asked thar the
age limit of forty-five- prescribed By
the civil service rules. be raised One
thanking Deputy Labor COMMISSIONS
Haupin for his activity and services in
calling the convention was adopted By
rising vote
Delegate Howard, of South Omaha
insisted upon the reading Of q resoIu-
ton drafted by him. although the resp
luton committee asked for further
time 1t was a savage attack upon
the deputy labor commissioner. charx-
Ing him with neglect Of duty and var
ious other crimes The deputy COM
missioner replied and moved the szbf-
ing of the resolution The motion To
table was adopted with a vhoop- An
other resolution asking that orxznf-
ger Flood be sent to Lincoln as som
as he had finished in South Omaha vas
; finally adopted after some little
trouble in getting chance from Chair
man Murray to have it reported from
the committee
This finished the order OF business
save for the election Of officers. and
this work was taken up- Then came
the big fight-good natured ss a whole
that had been looked forward to
with so much interest As soon as
this order was called for. DeIexzte
Smith of HaveIock arose and pus i'm
nomination VIII NJ NaupIn- OF Lin
coin Delegate Ford Of Omaha fol-
lowed with the nomination OF Fred
Murray of Omaha Several seecndfux
speeches were made and then the
vote came on Delegate Coyenharye
SFed that the ballot be a secret one.
to which Chairman Murray made vSo-
lent protest in which he limited vzxue-
iy at dirty politics. and said the con-
vention was not big enough to honor
MIN to any extent by eIeesfns him as
its head Delegate Grant arose TO a
point of order and pointed our that a
the convention was working uudex
a regularly adopted constitution IL
would be necessary 90 esecx bv aux-
tralian ballot The convensson rcox
that view of IT, Secretary Hart czs,-d
the roll and as each delegates name
was called he went forward and de-
posted his ballot In the hat The vote
stood thirty-eight for MaupIn and
thirty for Murray Hr- Murray ap-
pointed Messrs- Ford and Hyers TO
escort the president-eIeet to the chair.
and in yielding the gaEeI ur. Nur-
ray assured the new president OF his
hearty support and sympathy
Ine election OF vice presidents and
members of the legislative commit
tee was expedited by referring all nom
nations to committee. the commit
tees selection in each instance being
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