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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

man; Fuller. Davis, Diers. Buhrman. Law
erty, Thompson. Myers.
Public Charities-warren chairman: Hat
field; Ketchum. Fuller, King.
Public Lands and Buildings-Buck, chair
man. Volpp, Banning, Buhrman, Diers.
T1bbets, Brown. Randall, Thompson.
Public Printing-ketchum, chairman;
Tanner, Hatfield, Brown, Cain.
Railroads-Ollis, chairman; Bartos, Tan
ner, Henry. Buhrman, Volpp Bannins,
Reform schools. Asylum for Feeble
Minded and Home for the Friendless-
Klein, chairman; Ketchum, Bodinson, Cox,
Revenue-Buhrman, chairman; Bartos,
Donohoe, Miller. Raymond, Gammill, Cox.
School Lands and F~unds-Hatfield, chair
man; Robinson, Miller, Randall, Gammlll.
Soldiers Home Majors, chairman; Full
Ter. Hatfield, Ketchum, Gammill.
State Prison-Diers, chairmsn; Banning.
University and Normal schools-Bodin
son, chairman; Miller, Banning, Volpp,
Majors, Randall. King.
Dralnage-Laverty, chairman; Banning,
Henry, Brown. Cain.
Committee Appointments a Club.
Some of the hardest work OF the session
was done by the Dough- county contingent
previous to the joint session on the recan-
vass today. The unusual delay in naming
the standing committees of the senate was
ascribed to the fact that the Douglas
county men were trying every possible
method to hold the senators in line for the
ballot. The senate caucus had previously
acted favorably on the question and the
majority party was committed to the mat.
ter so far as the upper house was con.
cerned, but on second thought and under
the arguments put forth by Representative
Taylor of Custer a number OF senators
grew weak kneed. so many. in fact, that
the Douglas delegation held open house
and sent down for the members to consult
with them and appease them II possible.
A number of them feared the committee
on standing committees was trying TO work
q clever scheme on them. In spite OF this
they visited the room Of Senator Tanner.
chairman of the committee on STANDING
committees, to find out for themselves
what was in the air. They were assured
all was well and came down into the hotel
lobby smiling.
Taylor OF Custer openly charged that the
committees were being held as a club over
the member to keep them In line, and he
said several had come to him with the
expression that they were In sympathy
with him, but did not dare to go back on
the caucus.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

tenant governor; Reginald ID. Woodruff,
clerk lieutenant governor; Eugene Howard
tanttor: John Bates, %janitor: II. e. Cox,
bookkeeper; Beach Cannon, page; Helen
Murphy, s~tenographer; Adam ]. Slarger.
doorkeeper; May Nallery, copyist; John
Brady, custodian; Gus Kleber, custodian;
Carrie Banning, copyist; John kowalewski,
clerk committee employees; Roy Hutchison,
bookkeeper; Catherine Brown, stenog-
rspher; n. J. BornfOrd, assistant door
keeper; w. r. Reaum, custodian; Robert
Emerson. custodian; Lem Phillips, janitor:
John Majors, page; Bernice Anderson,
copyist; Mary Brady, copyist: Laura Tay-
lor, stenographer; w. Mitchell, custodian
cloak room; Fred Johnson, clerk; Lewis
Gervin, custodian committee room; p. b.
Maddox, clerk; O J. German. copyist:
w. II. Cash, assistant sergeRnt-at-Rrms;
Scott Frank, clerk; Byron Pendardis, door
keeper; l.. c. Henderson. night watch; l..
10. Brown, copyist; John Carton, custodian
o. A. Watson, bill clerk: John Healy, mes
senger; Charles Drummer, Waterman; Dennis
Lynch, copyist; Ben Rhensherbier. eopyisti
Minnie Muldoon, stenographeri George
Holmes, bill clerk: Margaret Whitaker,
copyist; Ida Il. Wells, stenographer; Eu-
gene Falconer, stenographer; Lawrence
Fay, copyist; Joseph A. Heavican. copyist;
Frances Dargicuski, stenogrRpher; Henry
j.. Rupprcht, proofreader; Anna Ord, copy
list. ]. A. Parker, copyist.
The committee recommended that the en-
ployes be put on the payroll from the open
ing day Of the session and that they report
to the secretary of the senate and the
sergeant-at-arms for duty.
One OF the stenographers was assigned TO
the senate m while the senate is in
session for the purpose of writing out the
motions made by the senate.
The report was agreed to.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS OF HOUSE
Large Grist of Bills Poured Into the
Hopper
From a staff Correspondent


From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Jan. 12-(Special.)-The reso-
luton by Kuhl Of Cedar prohibiting any
further appropriation by levy was adopted.
This exempted the university.
Brown Of Sherman introduced a resolu-
ton to provide the members of the house
with five 2-cent and five 1-cent stamps
daily. This went over for further discus
sion.
The house ordered 500 copies OF the mes
sage of Governor Sheldon and 1000 copies
OF the Shallenberger message printed for
distribution. This was on motion of Sny-
der Of Harlan.
A petition from Platte county requested
the enactment OF a law providing that cat
tie shipped in should be inspected for tuber-
~culosis.
The report OF the committee on employees
was adopted as reported in The Bee.
The following bills were introduced in the
houses: .-
II. r. 10, by Stoecker OF DouRlas-Provid
ing that the Omaha school board shall be
composed OF one member from each city
H. r. 20, by Kelley Of Furnas-Appro-
priating $4,000 for the establishment OF a
western agricultural school at Cambridge,
II. r. ii. .by-tNoyes OF cass-Reciprocai
II. +. q, BY Talcott of Knox-For the
commitment OF the criminal insane to in
sane asylums.
H. r, %, by England of Boone-ProvidinE
ganization to a system OF government BY
county commissioners may vote whether
the board shall be composed of three or
H. r. "a, by Holmes Of Dougias-Provid-
ing that telephone companies shall charge
phones and 81 so for residence phones and
va month Tor party line residence phones,
with a penalty of a fine OF $500 or six
propriatinGgs' ss.5as; 70 to pay Lewis RiH Il. Grand
Jen and Alex e. Grandjen overcharge in
H. r. 96, by Sink of Hall-ProvidinR for
fire escapes on buildings over two stories
H. R.. q. by Taylor Of Hitchcock-To pre-
vent Discrimination in buying or selling
ties or sections Of the state.
II; r.. Is, by Pickens of. Jefferson-Pro-
vldlng Tor the election OF three or five
commissioner In counties according to the
II. r. 2. by ,Besole Of Gase+Appropriat-
Cobbey's annotated statutes for the use Of
H; R. 80, by Hadsell of saunders-com-
Lines IN any village or city to construct
II. r. 81, by Shoemaker Of Douela+pro-
viding that in cities Of over 10000 the
mayor and. council may determine what Is
common labor and define exceptions to the
II: r: 81, by Shoemaker Of Douglas-Re-
peais the law providing for the removal OF
II. r. 80, by Shoemaker OF Douglas-De-
fines the rights and obligations of landlords
II. r. "a, by Sink OF Hall-To regulate
the length OF bed sheets, etc.
II. r.. IS, by Wilson of Polk-Making It a
felony for any man to overdraw his check
account in a bank with intent to defraud
and providing a maximum penalty OF five
years Imprisonment or a 5000 fine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
MEMBERS FROM DOUGLAS ACTIVE
Telephone and Sunday Labor Bills
introduced.
Frcm a Staff Correspondent

From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Jan. l2.-(speclal.)-The Doug
las county house delegation got to
the front today with numerous bills ana
nine employees. Holmes is the father OF the
bill providing that no telephone company
shall charge more than "a a month for bust
ness or $50 for residence telephones or 81
a month for party line residence phones.
Shoemaker got in with a bill to repeal the
blue laws Of Omaha by permitting the
mayor and city council in cities over l5O,O 900
10 define common labor on Sunday, and
make exemptions and enforce penalties.
also has a bill to repeal that
law which provides for the removal of
derelict officials and another which defines
the rights OF landlords and tenants.
Howard got IL in the neck when he called
up his resolution to make February 70 and
March II holidays for N~ebraskans. Jere-
miah's WI delegation refused to stay with
him and It Is reported because jeremiah
did not say March IT was st. Patrick's day.
Instead Dom Paul insisted that this was
the date George III was driven out OF Bos-
ton hsrbor. The Legislators preferred to
remember the date as 81. Patrick's day.
Jerry insists he will come back later with
a bill which the legislature will not be big
enough to kill. Thu resolution was killed
by a vote OF 20 to S..
Boland OF Douglas county is a member
Of the finance committee on employees and
acted as the secretary OF the committee.
stoecker OF Douglas introduced a bill to
make the Board OF Education consist OF
one member from each ward Of the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

brought back the answer that Secretary of
state Junkin had refused to comply. Then
Ransom put IN his printed abstract of the
vote; together with the half-baked certifi-
cation. by the secretary OF state. together
with the motion that the amendments be
proclaimed deoiaredoa ~ This motion, went
through with Eaytornof Custer making a
final effort to- stop .ethe RANSOM crowd
Taylor pointed out that the constitution
provided that the votes must be opened by
the speaker before the vote could be can
vasseai, but his talk had no effect.
RANSOM announced that after the gov
ernor appoints -four judges to take the
place of the -four, appointed by Sheldon the
case can be fought out by the appointed
ones & ~
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE BILL
NOyes of Cass County Father of the
Measure.

(From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Jan. 12--(special.)-Noyes Of
Cass county. a republican, introduced a
reciprocal demurrage bill in the house,
something on the order OF the bill intro
duced In the last legislature.
The bill provides hat freight must be
carried forward a distance of not less than
sixty miles every day of twenty-four hours.
In computing the time of shipment Of car
load lots twenty-four hours shall be allowed
at points where a transfer is made from
one road to another; twenty-four hours
shall be allowed on cars weighed in transit.
Failure to forward freight in a specified
time will subject the railroad to pay to
the consignee 81 a day on carload lots or
a minimum charge Of cents for packages,
as liquidated damages, together with other
damages the shipper may sustain by the
delay. a
Railroads must notify c~onsignees within
twenty-four hours after the receipt Of
freight with a statement Of the freight bill.
or failure to do SO the same penalty as for
delay attaches.
Railroads shall deliver to their own ware
houses or in case of shipments for track
delivery to an accessible place for unload
ing within ~twenty-four hours after arrival.
Failure to do this subjects the railroads
to a forfeit of 81 a day in addition to dam
ages to c~onsignee. The shipper shall have
forty-elght hours for unloading cars of co.
900 pounds capacity and s~eventy-two hours
for loading or unloading cars Of over $1,000
pounds capacity. Failure to keep within
this limit subjects the shipper to n forfeit
OF q a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
MAKEUP oT sRSATE Committees
Radicals Get More Consideration
- Than Earlier.
From a Staff Correspondent.)

- 10 4AAAG
From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, jan. 2-(Speclal)-The dis
tribution Of senate committee places an
nounc6d today appears a compromise be-
tween the "~orgahizers" and the radical ele-
ment OF the majority. with a number of
good places given the republicans. Good
care, however. was taken to protect the in
terests 81 the r~eactionary element Of the
democratic party. and It's asserted this is
true especially or the banking committee.
notwithstanding assurances from some of
the leaders OF the senate In favor OF a
Bryan banking bill. the standing COMMITTEES
OF the upper house appears to be in the
control OF the bankers and business men
rather than the farmers. But It is given
out that this bin. the leading party meas
IRE OF the session, will be a composite OF
the deas OF ststesrnen rather than an EN-
actment as the term is usually accepted.
committee may possibly have some of its
ideas overruled.
Senator Miller OF Lancaster is authority
for the statement that the party leaders
will soon hold a conference TO determine
the leading clauses the measure shall con-
tain. He says the leaders are now in ac-
cord though possibly at the outset this was
not true. He is confident the banking law
as finally passed wiki meet the approval Of
all and will be such ameasure as win pass
muster with the platfsrm pledge.
The banking committee is composed OF
volpp OF Dodge. chairman; Bartos OF sa-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
CLEAN SHEETS o LONG People
Hall County Member Comes to the
Rescue.

NGH1uGa
(From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Jan. 12.-QSpectal.)-Okla-
homa moved quietly out of the limeliEht
this morning and Nebraska took its
place.
Sink of Hall county Is the hero. He
did it with his little bill providing for
the regulation of hotels. After provid-
ing the length OF the bed sheets and
the care of the bed clothing and the reg
ulatioP Of the wash room, the bill goes
on to say thai the labor commissioner
shall make an annual inspection of every
hotel in Nebraska. He Is permitted to
employ assistants to enforce the law and
not more than $4,000 shall be a%ppropri-
ated annually for this inspection. Fol-
lowing are a few of the important sec
tions of the bill:
Section &. All hotels shall hereafter
provide each bed, bunk, cot or other
sleeping place, for the use OF guests,
with pillow slips and under and top
to completely cover the mattress thereof,
the top sheet to be of equal width and
three feet longer than. the top bedding
cover all such top clothes or covering,
said sheets and pillow slips to be made Of
white cotton or linen. and all such pillow
one guest, must be washed and ironed
before they are used by another guest.
q clean set being furnished each succeed
ing guest
Section 8. All bedding, including mat
tresses, quilts, blankets and comforts.
used in any hotel in this state shall be
thoroughly aired and disinfected at least
once every three months, when in use, in
such manner as may be designated by
the commissioner OF labor or deputy
commissioner of labor. :.
Section 6. All hotels in this state shall
hereafter, whether in the main wash
room or in a private room thereof, fur
nish each guest with a clean, fresh, In
dividuai towel, so that no two or more
guests will be required to use the same
towel unless II has been first washed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Your greatest bargain opportunity
is at this sale, where prices are re-
duced below cost, to clean up our
stock in a hurry. Thousands have
been here, you had better come TO-
morrow sure. .'
$4,000 Galloway Fur Coats 1925,
$3.50 Heavy Duck Coats $1.s6, Sheep
skin lined Duck Coats $3.50, Mems
Leggings soc. 75c black Kersey Gait
ers SOC. 800 brown Kersey Caters
75c, $3.50 Heavy Overshoes O5c, 800
heavy Wool Caps SOC, SOC heavy
fleeced Underwear zoe, $3.50 Camel
Hair Underwear 49c-sizes 81 to so,
800 Lambsdown Health F1eeced I'm
derwear 49c, 25c Wool Sox 1Oc, Cash
mere Sox-sanitary feet-2 pairs 25c,
SOC President Suspenders e5c, 75c and
S1.00 Shirts 3Sc, $3.50 and $500 Elan
mel Shirts 95c, $3.50 Wool Sweater
Jackets 69c, and many other bargains,
Corner 18th and Douglas Streets
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
ADDITIONS TO SENATE EMPLOYEES
Committee Files Report and it IL


From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Jan. i2--(speciaL)-The new
senate employees. as reported today BY senA-
tor Howell and agreed TO. are as follows:
Hubert Tanner. bill clerk: c. 70 Weeks.
night watch; Harriet Broadwen, clerk lieu
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
January Clearing Sale of
Blankets and Oomforters

We call your special attention to
fine wool Blankets on which
the reduction of prices are very
substantial.
$3.50 st. Marys gray or white
fine Wool Blankets at $3.48 pair.
84.76 Amana Society all wool
gray shruhk Blankets at $3.50 pr.
$3.50 st. Marys gray or white
fine Wool Blankets S4.69 pair.
$500 Amana Society all wool,
gray, shrunk blankets at $4.SS pr.
$500 st: Marys fine wool Blank
cts, In gray or white, at $500 pr.
$500 North Star fine wool
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Special Sale of Gloves

Short Street Gloves for CSC.
Long Cape Gloves, tans and
black, reduced from $3.50 to
S1.9S.
Tan and black Biarritz, Of
finest Kasan cape, one of the
latest styles, worth $3.50, for
Wednesdays selling, $1.e8.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Blankets, in gray only, 1878 pr.
$500 New Bremen gray or
white fine all wool Blankets, at
S7.6S pair.
$40 st. Marys all wool white or
gray Blankets. at $40 pair.
SIS st. Marys OF North Star
white wool Blankets at S11.5O
pair.
$3.50 white wool Blankets, at
$2.49 pair.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

All our 1900 Bleached Napkins,
In this sale, $1.39.
All u $500 Bleaohed Napkins,
In this sale, s1.9S.
All our $3.50 Bleached Napkins,
in this sale, $3.50.
All u $3.50 Bleached Napkins,
In this sale, SAYS.
ALI our $4.75 Bleached Napkins,
in this sale, 1928,
All our $500 Bleached Napkins,
In this sale, $3.50.
All our 1915 Bleached Napkins,
in this sale, $3.50.
All our $3.50 Bleached Napkins,
In this sale, S4.S9.
All our 1915 Bleached Napkins,
in. this sale. sass.
All our $40 Bleached Napkins,
in this sale. $500.
All our SIS Bleached' Napkins.
in this sale. $10.S9.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

= Almost every department is offering high grade merchandise at much under regular,
and comfrabeah r you get here
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
COME
Colored and Black Dress
Goods in Our Great Jan
uary Clearing Sale

Look these dress goods over;
perhaps the very kind you are
wanting is among them, and most
important Is the great saving.
Very Special Our $3.50 and S1.25
English stripe tailor Suiting, Sc
inches, swell fabric, now CSC I'd.
Pretty 800 and $1.25 Novelties
among these are stripes, checks
and over plaid. The same beau
tiful goods you have been admir-
ing, now soc, SIC, 62hc and 69c
yard.
Look this line over-Just One
Half Price wednesday. This sale
is of interest to every woman who
loves beautiful dress goods. We'd
nesday should be one of the great
est days of the Clearing Sale.
$1.25 gray striped 81 inch Pana-
ma, two shades, soc yard.
800 handsome checked wool
Batiste very specially, Acc yard.
Women Needinr q. Man Tail
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-22

vice as will insure comprehensive
plans, wise selection of projects that
will dovetail into each other as parts
of comprehensive whole, the union
and coordination of the scientific
services of the government related to
water in such manner as to unite
their experience and knowledge in
some effective way; an ample fund
that will insure continuous work, and
such cooperation of the nation with
states, corporations and individuals as
will insure the full exercise of all
their power and the enforcement of all
their respective rights in the devel
opment of our rivers and source
streams, not only for navigation, but
for every incidental and auxiliary use
to which civilization can put, such as
the irrigation of arid lands, the drain
age of swamp lands, the conservation
of forests, the prevention of soil waste
and the development of water power.
I'VE shaped the reclamation act on
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-22
De Lara viii Be
GiUen Secret
Hearing
os ANGELES, Oct. 21.-When L

R OS ANGELES, Oct. 21.-When L.
Gutierrez de Lara, the Mexican
attorney and author, charged by
the department of commerce and la
bor with being an alien anarchist and
illegally a resident of this country, is
tried before Chief immigration In
spector Ridgeway in this city next
week, it will be behind closed doors
with only his attorneys and witnesses
present The general public and rep
resentatives of the press will be de-
MED admittance. This is in accord
ance with the laws, according to In
spector Ridgeway. He quotes the fed
eral statutes as providing for a hear
ing in such cases, separate and apart
from the public"
Mr.. Ridgeway has telegraphed to
the department at Washington recon-
mending that De Lara's bail be fixed
at $4,000. He has not yet received
an answer.
The evidence adduced at the hear
ing will be forwarded to the secre-
tary of commerce and labor, who will
pass upon it and return a verdict
There is no appeal from the secre'
tary's judgment except to the presi'
| dent of the United States.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-22
NEWLANDS URGES COOPERATION IN
IMPROVEMENT OF INLAND WATERWAY
Senator'S and Congressman From SemArd States Asked to
Get Together for Something That Will Prove Of
Immense Value to Their Communities

these lines, and | think it is safe to
say that it was the first piece of con-
structive legislation in the history of
the country that was free from the
evils of the spoils system such as pre-
vailed for years in legislation relat-
ing to rivers and harbors and public
buildings. Our immediate interests
attaches not only to the rivers whose
waters ultimately flow into the gulf or
the Pacific ocean, but the region con-
trolled by these waterways includes
two-thirds of the entire area of the
country. All the Pacific coast rivers
have their sources in the mountain
region of the West; and the large trib-
utaries of the Mississippi, namely, the
Missouri (including it's tributaries),
the Platte, the Arkansas and the Red,
have their sources in the Rocky noun
tain region.
Irrigation of arid lands is one Of
the great uses to which these waters
of the Pacific coast and Rocky noun
tain region are applied. The recla-
nation fund is not sufficient to push
the reclamation work with the speed
that is desired, and it is important that
in the formation of the new waterway
fund the storage of water upon and
the irrigation of arid lands adjacent
to the rivers in the arid and semi
arid regions, which are tributary to
navigable streams, should be entered
upon as an essential part of the de-
velopment of these streams for pur-
poses of navigation, and that the work
upon these headwaters should be
prosecuted contemporaneously with
the work upon the navigable rivers
themselves.
"In this way we could supplement
the present irrigation fund by a share
in the contemplated waterway fund,
and could claim tie part in the water.
to our region.
"If we should organize the move
ment in a big way with full power to
the president to organize the inland
waterway service on the lines of CO.
ordination and cooperation we have
suggested, and creating fund of
$50 100000 annually for that purpose.
it might be apportioned for the time
being as follows:
"One-fifth for the Atlantic water
ways, including the coastal canals
necessary to connect the bays and
sounds.
cone tenth for the rivers on the
gulf and the inland coastal water
ways from the Missouri river along
the gulf and across Florida to the
Atlantic.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-22

Never before has this city enter
tanned such huge crowd as gathered
to see the big civic and industrial pa
rade of the day. Over 10000 people
marched for three hours and it was
late in the afternoon before the last
of the floats disappeared from the
streets
For time gloom spread over the
merrymakers when it was reported
that Don Gaspar de Portola had been
thrown from his horse and injured,
but this feeling turned to admiring
elation when it was learned that the
superb horsemanship of the courtly
Spaniard had enabled him to escape
without serious injury.
The military and fraternal sections
of the parade were much the same as
those seen in similar affairs, but the
international section was distinctive
Two thousand Cinnamon, dressed in
picturesque costumes, followed the
Japanese who escorted a large float
representing the cherry festival.
The chief event tonight was the
masked ball at the Auditorium. Don
Gaspar de Portola and Queen Vergila
led the grand march.
Chief of Police Cook and his officers
handled the mass of humanity admira-
bly, today and few serious accidents
marred the festivities.