Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-21
This Work Takes Precedence Of Re.
deeming Any of Party Pledges.
TWENTY BILLS OF THIS KIND
Bill for ProhibitOry Amendment to
Be introduced.
ON INSURANCE BILLS
Edgar Howard Rounds Up the LeRis-
latOrs for Failure to Live Up
to Their Platform
Pledges.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

CFrom staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN. Feb 2o-(specal 1.-The pub
lication in The Bee week ago of sufficient
evidence to Justify the designation Of this.
Nebraskas first democratic legislature as
an Organization for the relief OF jobless
democrats" has seemed to inspire members
of the majority party to get buster on the
| job. rather than to deter them.
Though the session is more than half
over more attention has been given to
measures designed solely to create Jobs
for democrats than to any other ono SUBJ
ject. Political job bills have taken precedent
over all The banking bill. the physical
| valuation of railroad property bill and all
| other measures have had to take a back
| seat while Mr.. Bryan and Governor Shall
| lenberger have their lieutenants at work 20
build up the most gigantic political machine
over created by legislative action. Laws
governing the appointments of state EN-
| ployes which have been on the statutes for
years are being changed in order that the
governor may appoint democrats to the
places
The foundation OF the democratic political
machine was started with II. r. 1 and
s. r. /. The first was introduced in the
interest of Mr. Bryan's candidacy for the
United States senate. The second is the
Omaha charter BILL which contains more
politics than anything else. Apparently no
attempt is being made either by Mr.. Bryan
or the governor to disguise their real
object Following the Introduction of IL
r. /, to promote Mr.. Bryan's candidacy
| for the senate, the members of the ma
jority party have. step by step. laid the
foundation for the future control OF the
/ mo chi of Of at In addition f0
giving the authority to the governor to
appoint every employee on the pay roll OF
the state, save the office help of the con-
| stiiutonal officers. the democrats are at
| tempting to secure for their party the con-
| troll of the supreme court by ousting mem
bers of the present court through techni-
calities and to control the patronage of the
State Railway commission by giving 20 the
| lone democratic member of the commission
| authority to prevent the selection or. tho
discharge of any employo by the majority
of the commission.
| Schools in Politics.
Second only in importance to the at
tempted overthrow of the supreme court
solely for the purpose of giving some Jobs
to democrats. and probably of equal inn
portance. is the attempt of Nebraska's first
democratic legislature to give to the gov
ernor, as a part of his political machine.
the state normal schools of the state, the
junior normal schools and those high
schools in which normal training Is taught
The attempt to make of the public schools
cog in a democratic political machine is
found in the Case bill. which provides that
the governor shall appoint a board OF five
members who. with the state superintendent
and the state treasurer. shall constitute a
| rd ard tair
place of the State Board of Education. The
governor now has the power to appoint
| the five members OF the State Board of
Education, but uader the new bill the terms
of the present members of this board will
end upon the passage of the measure.
But probably the high crime in the at
| tempt TO steal the schools and make of
them political institutions is the attempt ON
the part of Mr. Bryan himself to make of
| the state university an incubator to hatch
out converts TO his peculiar political
! theories Mr.. Bryan in his many talks re-
garding the bill to establish his school of
| citizenship at the state university. has
never said how he threatened the regents
unless they established his pet school, which
he desired to be school of politics with
! himself at the head. He even gave the
members of the legislature the impression
!
regents in pushing that bill Mr.. Bryan has
been publicly charged that he threatened
the regents with legislative action unless
they agreed to his proposal Mr.. Bryan
has In his possession the evidence TO either
prove or disprove this charge, but he re-
fused to give out for publication his official
and private correspondence on the mAttsE.
Not only all that, but by changing the
state banking laws to give the governor
| supreme control in selecting examiners and
other assistants TO carry out the provisions
OF the guaranty bill. the democratic manip-
ulators would flaunt the banks of the state
as a political asset,
Sop 10 Party Press.
In the house this afternoon the members
attempted TO line up the democratic papers
OF the state by laying the foundation to
throw a little sop TO them. The house
recommended for passage s. F. Is. by Tan
ner. which gives 10 the governor the au-
thortty to designate in what papers pro-
posed constitutional amendments shall be
published. The bill still leaves all the work
in the matter to be performed by the sec
retary of state. All the governor has to
do is to tell the secretary of state what
papers he desires to favor and the secretary
must under this bill, send out the copy
to them.
Killen OF Gage and Nettieton OF Clay
both objected TO the provision in the bill,
which required the secretary OF state to
do the work.
Il object to the secretary Of state being
man Friday for the governor" said Mr.
Nettleton. but this democratic house did
not object and on a strict party vote the
bill was recommended for passage
When the bill giving authority to appoint
deputy state surveyors to the state land
commissioner came up Kelley OF Furnas
jumped up with an amendment providing
that the governor should do the appoint
ing. Bowman. democrat OF Nuckolls told
the house he was getting tired OF voting
appolntiye places 10 the governor ana he
believed the appointments In this instance
L shnnId ha made hu iha. rrnr.ar nffll.a. e..