Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-11
Iowa
PRESIDENT REPORTS
Norwegian Conference at Des Moines
Also Elects officers.
CITY CoUNC11MEN IN ROW
Warm session over indeHnite Re-
ports Of Legal Department on
Limiting Expenditures of
Public Funds.
Iron a sad correspondentl

DIES MONIES. la, June 1O.-Special Tel
egramJ-The main feature OF the Nor
wegian Lutheran conference session, in
addition to the thirty-three congregation
which we're admitted was the annual re-
port Of the president Of this church body,
the Rt. Rev. T. n. Dahl, d. u. During
the year the president has attended twenty
four meetings OF committees and twenty
eight district meetings besides visiting a
large number OF congregations. He has
dedicated twenty-seVen churches, travelled
5000 miles and answered $500 letters. Be
sides this he has given personal advice to
a large number OF pastors and congrega-
tons.
President Dahl declared the church
to be in a very prosperous condition. hav-
ing 2S2,6 45 members in the United states.
There are l,451 congregations, 80 OF which
were created during the past year. Five
hundred and twenty-five pastors are reg
ularly employed. Ten thousand five hun
dred and thirty were baptised during the
year and $40 confirmed.
New officers were elected this afternoon
with the exception of the president, who
is not to be chosen at this session, as fol
lows: Rev. N. J.. Ellerstad Of Chicago,
vice president; Rev. J. c. Roseland OF
Chicago, secretary; Erik Waideland of
Minneapolis, treasurer,
The Norwegian Lutheran conference to-
night divided over the candidacy of two
eminent divlnes for the president of St
Olaf university at Mortified, Mimi, the
largest school under control Of the church.
At present Lars w. Boo of Waldorf college,
Forest City, Ia. and member of the Thirty
third Iowa general assembly, is expected to
defeat Rev. j. A. Aagard OF De Forest.
wis, for the post.
President ]. l. Kildohl Of st. Olaf's uni
versity. resigned because of I'll health and
is slated to become professor of theology
in the st. Paul Theological seminary. The
election will take place tomorrow morning.
The board Of regents today, in its report,
gave the enrolment of all students in
higher schools under control of the church
at 2,155. Total expense of conducting these
schools last year was $115,s17.
city council in ROW.
When the city legal department at a spe-
cial session Of the council today delivered
a "straddle" opinion regarding the city's
rights to spend over 500 without first ad-
vertising for bids it produced one of the
stormiest sessions of the year.
The meeting was filled with personalities
and cutting references to other council
mems department. Mayor Mathis was
forced to call for order several times.
Councilman MacVicar fired hot shot at all,
including the mayor, and called his atten-
ton to the fact that while police judge he
had remitted fines contrary to law,
The report of the legal department con-
tained two separate opinions. Corporation
Counsel Bailey commended that the city had
a right to spend over $500 without adver-
Using for bids, while solicitor Brennan and
his assistant, Fred Williams, held the OPP
posite opinion. ~,
Counsel Bailey held that all work ex-
cept assessment work and other work spe-
officially provided for may be ordered by
the council without first advertising. So
licitor Brennan said the council must ad-
vertise for bids in all cases where the
Board of Public Works would have been
required to do so.
Mr.. MacVicar said there isn't a depart
ment under the present council that has
observed the law.
You're tying up my department" he said.
How am l going to conduct my business
unless l can spend over that amount? Are
we going to send the report broadcast that
the city officials can't run its own affairs?
If such is the case we had better resign"
"Will you do that?" quickly asked wes-
ley Ash. "Ill resign tomorrow with you.
I'll state my case before the people and
come up again for reelection. VIII your"
"Tickled to death at the opportunity.
You can't bulldoze me. You get sore when
ever anyone votes against you"
This silenced MscVicar.
Fifty Cattle Slain.
Chairman John Cownie OF the Board of
Control of State Institutions returned last
night from Cedar Rapids, where he wit
messed the slaughter of the fifty head OF
COWS and heifers from the independence
State hospital. At the recent test of the
independence herd by the state veterin-
arlans fifty-one head had reacted to the
tuberculin test and were condemned. One
of the animals, however, was crippled and
not shipped to Cedar Rapids, which left
fifty head that were slaughtered.
"Of this number four animals were badly
affected" said Mr.. Cownie, two particu-
larly so, photographs of these two being
taken at the slaughter house and these
animals were tanked The remaining forty
six head were passed by the United States
government inspectors, any symptoms of
the disease being merely local and requir-
ing the closest scrutiny in many cases
to find any LESSONS whatever. In fact,
seven head were passed by the govern
ment inspectors as normal nothing what
ever being found that indicated tuber-
culosis in the slightest degree,
''Thi matter OF tuberculosis" continued
Mr.. Cownie, lis one of the most serious
problems now before the people or Iowa.
whether in the human family or in cattle
and hogs, for many are more or less af-
fected with this dread disease.
unfortunately the tuberculin test does
not indicate the progress the disease has
made, whether II is in lts incipiency or
well advanced. and in this last slaughter
OF the independence COWS Il is even found
that seven cattle that reacted to the
tuberculin test gave no indications what
ever of being affected in the slightest de-
gree as shown By the post norton eX-
animation. This examination was also
very rigid, being conducted by experts en-
ployed by the government and in the pres
ence OF three state veterinarians. 1t is
a serious matter that so many
cattle must be slaughtered to secure those
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