Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-13
Final Vote Shows Four, but One is for
Purpose Of RecOnsidering,
DEBATE OF A LIVELY CHARACTER
Kelley Of Furnas One Of the Most
Strenuous of Opponents.
STATE FAIR GIVEN NO CASH
Leidish of Cass Reminds Advocates
of Appropriation of some His
tory of the state
ssl. Fair.
(From a staff Correspondent }

a bill providing that teachers in the State
university who had remained In the pro-
fession for twenty-five years, should, upon
retirement, participate in the Carnegie
Foundation fund, was indefinitely post
poned in the house this morning. This was
done at the earnest solicitation of Mr.
Bryan, who made several speeches against
II and who used the press to denounce IT,
Bryan argued tainted money" and for
ty-nlne members of tho house this morn
ing voted as he said, Notwithstanding Mr.
Bryan himself assisted in securing from
Mr. Carnegie a donation for the purpose of
building the city library in Lincoln.
The fight was hot while II lasted and
though debate was shut off early In the
game, opponents of the bill came prepared
for this and their names were called
several of them handed I'm stump speeches
on the bill, England of Boone handing in
an article which had all the earmarks OF
having been prepared for some hysterical
mazagine.
On the sidelines were Holmes of Doug
las and Howard of South Omaha. each
ready with amendments to offer to the
measure should II appear that II would
pass. In his excitement over the offer of
tainted" money jeremiah forgot all about
the riot in South Omaha and kept yelling
out something about the Homestead mas
sacre."
At the present time the bill is dead, but
an effort will be made to revive It, Wilson
OF Polk county, who spoke for it,. having
changed his vote before the result was an
| nounced so that he could move a reconsid
Grafton.
The committee on miscellaneous sub
1ects recommended that the bill be indef-
initely postponed. Wilson moved not to con-
cur in this report. Following was the roll
call on the Wilson motion:
Yeas-Allen. Baker. Barclay. Barrett,
Begole, Black, Blystone. bowman, Boyd,
Brown OF Lancaster. Bushee. Carr. Chab.
Chase. Clark, Cooperrider, Dolesal. Ellis.
Evans, Fannon, Griffin, Groves, Hadsell.
son of Adams, Johnson of Burt, Killen.
Kotouc, Kraus, Moore. McColl. Nettleton,
Rathsack, saberson. scheee. Smith, Taylor
Thomas-47.
Nays-Armstrong. Bates, Boelts, Boland,
Bolts, Brown of Sherman, Butt, England.
Case, Connolly, Dostal, Eastman. FogartY,
Fries, Gerdes, Graft. Greig, Grueber, Hec-
Kelley, Kuhl, Lawrence, Leidigh Lux,
Marlett, Miller, Murphy, McVicker, Pick
Sink Skeen. Snyder, Stedman. stoecker,
Swan, Talcott. Taylor of Custer, Weems,
West, Wilson, Worthing, Young, Mr..
Speaker.-51.
One Republican Against
OF the republicans only one was i'm
pressed with Mr.. Bryan's tainted" money
talk and voted against tho bill. This
was the gentleman from Buffalo, Mr.. Arm
strong. Douglas county contributed two
votes 10 the bill, Kraus and Thomas
Stoecker Howard. Holmes. Butt, Shoe
maker. Boland and Connolly could not
stand for tainted" money so they voted
against the bill.
When the committee made its report
Wilson of Polk county moved that the re-
port be not concurred in. but that the bill
be recommended for third reading. This
form of the motion raised some objection
and Taylor of Custer county said he would
like the motion divided as he might desire
to vote for the bill to go on general file,
but he might not care to vote for the bill
Wilson then changed the motion that the
report of the committee be not con-
CURED in
Wilson followed his motion with a speech
in which he told that the teachers of the
country were underpaid and they cannot
be paid as they should be. He read the
conditions under which the fund could be
secured for the university teachers and
followed 1t up with the statement that he
knew school teachers who after spending
lifetime in the schoolroom reached that
period OF life when they could not work
and were turned out WITHOUT money with
which to take care Of themselves.
"If we do not endorse this fund" he
said, we must condemn every community
which has accepted a Carnegie library" To
the communities taking libraries Mr.. Car
negie gave the money direct. The money
for this fund comes from a board of trus-
tees. Mr.. Carnegie has no voice In the
directors meeting of the steel company. Mr..
Carnegie sold his holdings to a company
and took mortgage on the steel plant
These bonds will be paid off some day and
Mr.. Carnegie has not one word 10 say
about the management OF the steel corpor-
alton.
Following Wilson. Clark OF Richardson
expressed himself as being favorable to
the bill.
Democratic Virginia, Texas. John John
son, as good democrat as there is in the
country. favors the fund" began Clark
when he was interrupted by Kelley of
Furnas
Kelley 40 the Front.
He is not as good a democrat as there is
In the country shouted the Turnas county
statesman.
This is not a democratic measure" again
began Clark.
Il say it is democratic measure" yelled
Kelley
"SeveLteen states have accepted this fund
majority OF the country endorsed the
high tariff under which" said Clark
when Kelley interrupted again.
Let Mr.. Clark talk" said the speaker:
he viii not convert any OF you"
Every state will accept this fund save
Oklahoma and possibly Nebraska" said
CLARK. Are not our boys and girls as good
as the democratic boys and girls Of Texas.
Indiana. Missouri. Colorado and the other