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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

signed to remedy the defect in the law
pointed u by the two dissenting
members Of the supreme court.
The temporary defeat of the meas
ure in the senate is by no means fatal,
although It probably indicates that
legislation along this line will be i'm
possible at the present session. with
the mass of business pressing for con
sideration in the six weeks that remain,
Senator Aldrich will doubtless be able
to force a delay in action upon the
railroad measure, sending 1t over to
the new congress for action. 1t is sig
nificant that the deciding vote in the
committee was cas by Senator For
aker, who is evidently determined to
remain loyal to the end to the railroad
interests he has so ably served for
many years.
The question is one OF the most i'm
portant before congress. If the pres
ent congress refuses to amplify the
commissions power, the new congress
will be expected to enact the legisla-
ton needed to render the regulation
of the railroads as effective as posi-
BILE.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
NOTES.

Yuan Shi Kai is ably assisting Castro in
demonstrating that the highest art in
craftsmanship is to know how to escape
at the proper moment.
In P%ittsburg the aldermen are called
councilmen until they are caught. Then
they are called Pfttsburglars, according to
the smoky city press.
Mrs. leila Nuttall is now in Mexico as
field director of the Reid-Crocker expedi-
ton, which is ~excavating the Pyramids of
the Sun and Moon. The work is being
carried on with funds furnished by Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Crocker of San
Francisco.
Letters received from Miss Caroline
Hazard, president of Wellesley college, in
dictate that she expects to soon return to
her work, having regained her health to a
considerable degree. She is at present at
the old winter home of the Hazard family
at Mission Hill, Santa Barbara, Cal.
Albert 8. Callan of Valatie, who was
elected in November last as a republican
to represent the Columbia county district
in the New York state assembly of 1909,
will be the youngest member of the lower
house, IL not the youngest member of any
state legislature in the union. Mr.. Callan
was born in Albany only twenty-four years
ago, and he Is the son Of Jeter j. Callan, a
well known real estate broker
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
RENEWING THE RAILROAD FIGHT

RENEWING THE RAILROAD FIGHT.
The adverse report on the bill pend
ing in the senate comforting additional
powers upon the Interstate Commerce
commission for fixing railroad rates
will be accepted as evidence that rail
road influence will be eXerted to the
utmost to prevent the enactment of
additional legislation to lend full eff
~fectiveness to the existing laws regu-
lating railroad rates and suppressing
rebates.
The measure upon which Senator
Aldrich succeeded in securing an ad-
verse report gives the Interstate Com
merce commission power to pass upon
rates proposed by the railroads and
provides that no change shall be made
in rates except upon thirty days
notice, unless the commission agrees
to shorter notice. 1t also prohibits
the railroads, under heavy penalties,
from accepting compensation for
freight or passenger transportation
other than hat stated in the pub
lished rates. The measure was de-
signed to meet the restrictions laid
down by the supreme court of the
United States in a recent rate decision,
holding that under the existing law
the Interstate Commerce commission
has authority TO investigate and deter
mine whether a rate is just and equi-
table, but has no power TO fix the rate.
In the case against Mr.. Hartman
the government contended that the
commission had the power to not only
determine what the rates should be,
but also TO FIX them when so deter
mined. The supreme count held ad-
versely on the proposition, although
Justices Harlan and McKenna filed dis
senting opinions in which they as
serted that limiting the junction Of
the commission to the power TO in
yestigate, without power to correct,
was defeating its very purpose. The
Fulton bill, introduced prior to the de-
cision OF the supreme court, was de-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
PRISON FOR KOREAN ASSASSIN

IhISON EOh hO1tEAN ASSdDCiN.
The Korean who assassinated Dur
ham White Stevens, confidential ad-
wiser of the Japanese government, in
San Francisco some months ago., has
been sentenced to twenty-five years In
the ~penitentiary. The dispatches bear
ing the information offer no explana-
tion why the death penalty was not
inflicted, as the evidence showed the
murder to have beer calculated and
brutal. Mr.. Stevens was attacked as
he arrived in the United States on a
visit to his native land by a Korean
who had witnessed the absorption of
his country across the Pacific by the
nation which Mr.. Stevens served as
councillor and there seems to have
been no other motive for the crime.
The trial of the case developed the
plea of patriotic dementia" urged in
defense of the accused, but 1t appears to
have had no more effect upon the jury
than "dementiana Americana, and
similar pleas advanced in other muir
der cases. Perhaps the mitigating cir
cumstance that saved the murderer
from the moose was the evidence indi-
eating that he was a party to a politi-
cal conspiracy against Japan and that
further unearthing of the conspiracy
might better be served by his incar-
ceration than by his death.
The case serves to illustrate the
~barrenness of such crimes, so far as
their purpose goes. The assassination
of Mr.. Stevens did not for a moment
stay the absorption of Korea by ia
pan. Governmental policies are not
stopped by a bullet, a fact that an
archists and victims of patriotic de-
mentia" seem stupidity slow to learn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
TRIALS OF THE TIMES.

Baltimore American.
! have a hard time, | have.
You know,
Concerning the way in which ! 81, SOL
Just go.
My good resolutions for use
And show
l made with the fist of the y-u..
l was going to be very good.
Precise,
To every one be just as kind
And nice,
An do nothing ~wrong-no, not at any
Old price,
And l made 'em without any fear.
But how hard It's to keep good resolves,
my!
No matter how you may resolve
To try,
And you get so tired that you want
To die,
Blu when you give up folks all laugh
AT you,
And say il was nothing but what
They knew.
That you could never a week
Pull through,
And that makes YOU feel YER meau.
But tits quite too hard, indeed
This diary-keeplng's an aw-
Full biz,
And ] write the wrong date and they all
And I can't keep my temper FOR good
Then some folks you never can be
Nice to.
You can't be industrious all
Day through,
I'll do what ! feel like ] want
To do,
And won't keep resolves if | could,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
GOOD ROADS AND POOR ONES.
sharp INDUCES in an Outburst
of Calculations.
P"hiladelphia RecorC


There are in the United States 2,l5O,OOO
miles OF roads, OF which 10000 miles are
improved and the remainder made after
the manner of the soil they traverse and
the methods Of the builders 1t is not too
much TO aver-and the averment will be
sustained on oath by any owner Of an au-
tomobile or OF fast horses in the country
that our roads furnish proof Of a backward
civilization. The statisticians OF the Agri-
department find It easy to prove
that the yearly moving Of the crops and of
other products, having a gross weight OF
900 G0 100000 pounds, over poor roads in
order TO reach points Of sale or shipment
costs the owners sSO0.0OO.O0O more than would
the like movement over macadamized roads.
These figures are startling. The gay sta
tisticians do not, however, figure on the
initial cost Of such roads or on upkeep.
u say 5000 per mile the two million miles
Of bad road could be made good for an
outlay OF slO.OOo,OoO.OOo. That is a stag
gering sum even in a billion-dollar coun-
try.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

With becoming ~magnsnimity the
successful candidate for chief clerk Of
the lower house of the Nebraska legis-
lature has provided a comfortable
place for his unsuccessful rival. Can
it be that that spectacular fray was
nothing but a sham battle after all?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
Too Near the Water Front.
Washington Post.

Signor Ferrero, the italian historian, who
has walke along the water front Of three
or four OF the original states, arrives at
the conclusion that the destruction Of Amer
lean institutions is so far away that only
a few philosophers can see 1t. If signor
Ferrero will step back 10 where the real
country is, he nay conclude that any phil
osopher who can see the end OF American
institutions should be placed in a padded
cell.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

BY a new law the road supervisors
in New York state are placed under
civil service. 1t is going to be rough
shedding for rural politics if the road
supervisor, the country postmaster
and the rural delivery carrier are
from activity in it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The Denver Republican wants the
kerritory of New Mexico admitted as a
state without a change of name. New
Mexico means nothing, except a re-
minder of a chapter in our history Of
which we have no occasion to feel
especially proud.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

1t would look as if Mr.. Bryan's
declaration that he would keep out of
all contests for preferment among his
followers meant simply hat he wants
one of the disappointed to blame
him, while at the same time he expects
the fellow who lands to recognize him
as the deciding factor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
~Oregon's Back Pay.

The state Of Oregon has been awarded
ssOO 600 for protecting the adjoining terri
tories of Washington and Idaho during the
Civil war. This is the first time we have
known that Washington and Isho we're In
danger at that interesting period. But
them history has a way OF being written
several years after.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

New York will not allow vaudeville
on Sunday, wen when disguised as a
sacred concert" Omaha will remem-
Der when 1t rose in its wrath and sup
pressed Senator" Morgan's grand
sacred bull fights" at the old exposi-
ton building on Sunday nights.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Francis j. Heney intimates hat Mr..
Hartman was responsible for all the
troubles in San Francisco. This fixes
the blame on Mr.. Hartman for about
everything except the Messina earth
quake.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Captain Hams is constantly reciting
poetry, smoking cigarettes or whistling
airs from light operas, and his attor-
neys are convinced that these habits
furnish proof of his insanity. 1t would
be easier to use them as proof that he
is a nuisance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Still. II Mr.. Heney has the facts TO
warrant the accusation of Mr.. Harri-
man, he should indict him instead of
spending time denouncing him at ban
duets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Emperor William proposes to sell
five Of his castles to raise needed
funds. How nice it would be if we
could sell air castles when the purse
runs low.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The Omaha city council has a new
member to fill out an unexpired term
of four months. That ought not to
be too long for a councilman to be on
good behavior, even though he be a
democratic councilman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The only democratic congressman
from Nebraska says in his newspaper
that President Roosevelt is right in
his demand for removal of the re-
striction on the secret service APP
preparation. We will presently see If
he votes that way.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
Experience Better Than Assertion.

Kansas CITY Times.
In deciding the New York gas case the
United States supreme court holds that a
rate is not necessarily 'confiscat tory just
because a corporation alleges that It may
be. The company must try the new rate
first and find out. But is this a deadly
blow at the s~anctity Of the Vested Inter
ests?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

about their clothes that they won't have
time to notice my grammar. Washington
Star.
How did that snowstorm scene COLIN the
playa"
My dear, it was a frost. '-Baltimore
American.
she During a spaD-Why don't YOU SAY
what you mean? I'm no mind reader.
He No; IL YOU were you'd never speak lo
me Sain.-Bost Transcript.
The Preacher-We should arise by our
own efforts.
The Kid-Sure. De alarm clock might
go wrong .-Cleveland Leader.
We've been havin' a dispute sad Ari-
IONA Jim to the tenderfoot. Now. which
do you say, Who'll have a drink or Vino
will take a drink
Neither remarked the lisht-haired man
in eyeglasses. II say. They're on YOU,
And they were.-Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

the last election. II this amendment
we're no part Of the constitution until
the legislature had csnvassed the vote
and declared the result. all these pur-
chases are lawless and illegal. What
is the legislature going to do about
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
Energy of Humane Machinery.

Eight hundred thousand dollars for the
relief of the Italian earthquake sufferers.
granted without a days delay, is a graft
flying example of the promptitude with
which our legislative machinery can. move
under the impulse of humanity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
If anything more were needed to

If anything more we're needed to
prove hat the attempt of the demo-
cratic legislature to assume sole power
to canvass the vote on the constitu-
tional amendments is purely a politi-
cal play, 1t is furnished by the delay
in making the canvass after having
secured the returns and refusal to de-
clare the amendments carried at the
same time with the declaration of the
successful candidates at the election.
The reason is ~palpably to give the in
coming governor the appointment of
the judges to fill the new places on
the supreme bench, for had the whole
vote been canvassed and declared at
once, it would have left Governor
Sheldon an opportunity still to make
the appointments before his exit from
once. We will be surprised if Gov
ernor Shallenberger permits himself
on the Threshold of his administra-
ton to be made a party to the
transparent schemes Of a bunch of
wire-pulling lawyers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

DR.. Wiley's attention should be
called to the fact that ~benzonate of
soda and other food adulterants have
evidently been used in many of the
New Year resolutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
Fortunate Restraint.

Let us be thankful that Uncle Sam did
not Tecklessly go ahead and spend the
amount of the Standard Oil fine before
finding out whether he was going to be
able to collect the money or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

An organization has been formed to
teach the farmers wives how to cook.
The great need Of the farmers wife
10 to be relieved Of about half the
cooking.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

That open ventilator order for our
Omaha street cars came just at the
right time to insure pure and unadul-
terated refrigeration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Tommy Burns insists that he was
cheated out OF that night. 1t is under
stood that a rude colored person
named Johnson cheated Burns by re-
fusinE 10 be licked by q white man.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The state board has invested nearly
$500, 900 of Nebraska's school funds
in school district bonds under author
ity conferred by the constitutional
amendment enlsrging the field of
school fund investments voted on at
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

I'm glad I'm not as vain as Smiley"
rs he vain?'
~ should say so. He told a friend Of
mine he considered himself my equal
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Fifty dollars" said the judge.
Cant accept it, replied the man ar
rested for fighting. III they're offering
Jeffries $4,000 for a scrap, the article l put
up Is worth more than fifty"
Gently as possible they broke to him the
news that the fifty had not been hung up
as a purse.-Philadelphia Ledger.
"But why did you eat the cake she
baked?"
II wanted to make myself solid"
did you succeed?"
II should say so! I felt like a ton Of
lead. Cleveland Leader.
"What sort of a time do you expect to
have during the social season."
Fine answered Mr.. CumroX; mother
and the girls will be so busy thinking
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
Merry Hum of Industries.

Mills and mines, workshops and factories.
shipyards and plants are now running at
full time with full force and the army
OF unemployed is being reduced to the size
Of a corporal's guard.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Lillian Russell's love letters are to
be printed in two volumes. That
means that only a few of Lillian's love
letters win be printed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Measured by the length of his mes
sage to the legislature, Governor
sheldon has several laps the lead of
Governor 5hallenberger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Oklahoma prisoners in a Kansas Jail
are demanding tooth powder. 1t is
presumed the point was covered by the
Oklahoma constitution.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
nIrs on wAsHrNeroN L1Fn.
Minor Scenes and accidents Sketohed
m ehR gnof.

Minor scenes and accidents sketched
on \ Spot.
Vice President Fairbanks has taken Up
the preliminary work in connection with
the coming electoral college, for which the
two houses OF congress will canvess the
vote of tho several states for president and
vice president In the hall Of tho house Of
representatives on February 10. The first
step in the program. as outlined by the
Washington correspondent OF the Boston
Transcript, Is TO resurrect a large safe
somewhere in the basement of the capitol
and place 1t in the vice presidents room
as a depository OF the sealed ballots OF the
electoral commissions OF forty-six states,
brought to Washington by special mes
sengers.
Each state has an electoral commission
which meets after the presidential election
and ~canvasses the vote. Usually this is
done in the presence OF the legislature.
Each state has its own custom and time for
making the canvass. When the result il
reached in each state and announced, three
copies of the vote are made, to insure per-
feet safety. One copy is sealed in q pack
age to be sent to Washington by special
messenger, one copy is placed on file with
the judge of the federal court in each
state, and the third copy is held, so hat It
may be mailed to Washington should an
emergency arise making It necessary.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The president is fighting wind
mills" says the New York American.
Perhaps, but it does no good to call
congress such names.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

II will be leap year again in 1912
and Mr.. Bryan knows what he will do
10 Miss Democracy renews her pro-
n0aaI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

King Victor Emmanuel Of Italy is
only five feet high, but he has shown
himself every inch a king since the
disaster at MessinA.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

A Michigan man has been sent to
Jail for stealing a 2-cent stamp. The
courts have no sympathy with pikers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The change in the occupants of Ne
braska's executive mansion is another
example Of Change of name, but not
Of letter"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Congress must defend its honor"
declares the New York Sun. The best
defense would be to keep the honor
above suspicion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The coal man and the iceman may
smile together.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

A Chicago man reports having, seen
the first robin. Too bad the Ananias
club is so crowded.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

1t is hoped that Mr.. Foraker will
take the Brownsville incident with him
when he retires to private life next
March.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Proper time of the year to think
about the style of straw hat you will
wear next summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Each state electoral commission selects
a special messenger to make the trip to
Washington with the returns. The law
fixes his compensation at 20 cents a mile,
and he collects his money at the United
States treasury before leaving Washing
ton on the presentation OF his proper Gre
dentials. When each messenger believers
the sealed package to the vice president he
receives a receipt for It and the package is
then locked in the safe in the vice presi-
dents room.
In the event of death, accident or de-
layed arrival of the messenger at the vice
presidents room in proper time, 1t becomes
the duty of the vice president to communi-
cate with the state authorities and secure
the returns on file held for just such emer-
gencies and get them to Washington in
time for the canvass by the electoral coll
lege.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Governor Sheldon wants the no.
treat law enforced. King Canute once
ordered the tide to stop rising.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

President Roosevelt apparently is
mindful of the rule against sending
boquets TO congressman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

What will all the Rough Riders do
after March 4?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

On the morning the electoral college is to
meet, the returns from all the states are
taken from the safe and placed in a wal
nut box kept for such purposes, and they
are carried over to the house Of represent
tatives under lock and key by the vice
president, his secretaries or his messengers.
In early years this thing was done with
general pomp and ceremony; armed guards
surrounded the parties carrying the box
and the contents were most carefully
guarded, a regular military procession
marching from one end of the capitol to
the other. In later years this show has
been done away with; possibly a policeman
or two may escort the man or men carry
ing the box, but there is no pageantry
about it. George b. Lockwood, secretary
to the vice president, probably will have
charge of the transfer of the returns from
the vice presidents room to the house of
representatives and he will keep an eye on
the box.
When the electoral college meets on Feb
ruary 10, in the chamber OF the house OF
representatives, it will be the duty OF Vice
President Fairbanks to preside, and for the
first time in his life he will occupy the
chair Of the speaker of the house. The
electoral college of 190s-09 consists of 43
members.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

The Standard OIL company is trying
to show Missouri that there's a vast
difference between custer and ousted.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrarily should have h bee
nailed to them. Address Will be
changed a. often M requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

STATE Of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss;:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer OF Ihe
Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of tull ana
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
mnnth Of nacamhar- 1875. was as follow:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

GEORGE b. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 2lst day of December, 1905.
ROBERT HUNTER
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Entered at Omaha p5stofhce as second
class matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

VICTOR RosEwATER. EDITOR.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-11-10
Royal Neighbors Had Successful
MEETING.

The members of the Royul Neigh
Dor lodge held a very successful
meeting. last evening, the occasion
being a general getting together for
the good of the order.
A candidate was initiated during
the evening, and the manner in
which the degree team performed
won many commendatory remarks
from those present. The team has
been drilled of late by Mrs. Thomp-
son of this city, who has demon
strated rare executive ability along
this line. .... ~
A nice lunch was served that was
partaken of with the relish that is
only provoked by viands that are
really delicious.
The meeting was great success;
and there is a general awakening
all along the line" in Royal Neigh
Dor circles that augurs we'll for the
order in this city.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-11-10

where the evidence was so strong
against them that they forwith plead
guilty and were assessed accordingly
by Judge H. w. Bailey. -.
Gus Smith, who has been stopping
in theTown of Buzzle, plead guilty
to having killed a deer in Buzzle
township, in October, and Paul
Cook admitted that he had to the
best of his ability attempted to kill
deer. Smith was fined $50 and
costs and Cook was assessed $40
and costs, both liquidating.
Jason Carter, who has been
watching camp in the Rebedew
country, east of Tenstrikv, plead
guilty to the charge of attempting to
kill a deer out of season and paid
$13 for his indiscretion.