Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-01-25
PROBABLE CLASH ON PAYROLL
Intimation Auditor May Hold Up Bills
Of Senate Employees.
HoIcoMB A DISAPPOINTMENT
VIII Neither FiRht for Position on
supreme Bench or Get Out of
the way for Someone
who VIII.
tFrom a staff Correspondent

row with the house two laps ahead OF the
senate In point of days actually put In. and.
both houses away behind the schedule in
the point of service to the state.
Tomorrow night the joint committee Sc
lected to draft a bill for the purpose OF
providing for the valuation of railroad
property will hold it's first meeting, and
during the week the committee selected 20
get up road law will also get busy.
Should the present tentative plans be car
ried out there will be reported back to the
house and senate road bin which provides
for a central engineer, or state engineer, to
supervise the road system OF the entire
state. The argument In favor OF this is
that 1t has been the experience in the past
that what one road overseer does one year
is usually undone the next by an overseer
who has a different idea about the system
OF road building. BY providing that the
state engineer shall have supervision over
the road work the legislators believe they
will get uniform system of roads and Sc
cure plan which may be followed for all
time.
The present week may develop an inter-
estlng situation when the payroll OF the
senate is filed with the state auditor. The
senate has more employees than the law al
lows, unless some OF the 'byes" have been
sent back to Omaha, as threatened. Aud
itor Barton, in all probability, will protect
the taxpayers from the onslaughts Of the
democratic cohorts OF the senate and then
will come the fireworks.
With the pay of the employees to bother
about and the disruption of the supreme
court becoming nightmare. there is little
chance for any legislation OF any import.
ance being enacted during the week
Judge Holcomb is a disappointment to the
powers that be. because, though Ineligible
himself to be supreme Judge. has has failed
to resign 30 Governor Shailenberger may
appoint dead-game fighter to bring the
Ransom custer. suit against the Present,
supreme Court. IL may be necsssar,S In
order for Ransom to proceed with his plans
to file an custer suit against Holcomb and
oust him. and then have the Holcon1b
custer product file an custer against the
present court or course this process would
be a little tedious, especially as Judge Hol-
comb might fight pretty hard. but no bet
ter suggestion has been offered TO get the
Ransom democrats out OF their hole.
The fact that Mr.. Bryan has come out
against the university professors becoming
eligible to participate in the Carnegie pen-
sion fund will give an opportunity to the
legislature to show whether Mr.. Bryan 10
the boss of the lawmaklng power. He in
formed the regents of the university that
he believed he had sufficient influence with
the legislature to get an appropriation for
building for his proposed school OF citi-
zenship or politics or Bryan dope factory.
or whatever its Official name is to be. So
the professors may be denied participation
In the pension fund because the regents
simply refused to stand for a school OF
politics with Mr.. Bryan at its head.
The way the members have been getting
independent lately. however indicates that
Mr. Bryan will be unable to head off the
passage OF the bill allowing the teachers
10 participate In the pension fund, espe-
cially since 1t was the Bryan name that
secured for Lincoln the Carnegie library.
The university teachers might ask Mr..
Bryan to declare himself on the question Of
county option II he gets too numerous
around the Legislature.
New List of Professors.
In the hotel Hobbies today there developed
considerable objection to the proposed
iaculty for the Bryan Political Dope fac
tory because more local professors were
not mentioned.
1t was the general opinion around the
N''"N tN0pIdbhd lot NeDfaSkanG'
should be the slogan in the selection OF
this faculty and enough names were pro-
posed to eat up any appropriation the leais-
iature may see tit TO make for the equip
ment OF the proposed college. Here are a
few of the names suggested for Mr.. Bryan's
consideration:
DR.. w. II. Ready-to-w wear
opinions, perpetual candidacy
colonel John G. Maher-Department Of
l,.,y' mli,itary' ethics of court-martials. type
Prof. Arthur Mullen-Departmen of iobs.
Dr; Elmer Il. Thomas-Departmen OF
political letter writing.
Prof F.. Arthur Carr-The use OF nrooar
stationery to deceive the voters
DR.. Chris Gruenther-Department OF taxa
| tion organization OF anti-tax leagues
Prof F. w. Tucker-Automobling during
a campaign.
Prof Thomas Tibbles-How to snare the
pops how to act when doube-erossed.
J. E. Miller-How to forget constituents
when the party whipcracks.
DR.. Fred Humphrey-Department Of pri-
mary laws, platforms.
Prof w. +. Schwind-Department OF "Old
Sleuth."
DIR, jeremiah Howard-Department OF
Gaelic language,
Fight on Nurses Bill.
One of the big fights OF the session
| is gcing to be over the bill to create a
board with power to examine and issue
| licenses to trained nurses. Should this
bill become law as II has been intro
| duced II will cut off from employment
| those nurses who now work under GER
| tificatn granted after a three months
course in a medical college in Lincoln.
Those who are sponsoring the bill in
sist that inasmuch as they have had to
study for several years. In addition to
the actual experience they have had, all
professional nurses should be compelled
| TO stand an examination before practic-
ing the profession, Those who have quail
flied themselves believe they are en-
titled TO Just as much protection from
inoo ompetents as are doctors and dentists,
who are required 20 pass an examination
before beginning work as professional
men.
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