Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-18
THORNE ATTENDS HEARlyC
Attorney for Corn Belt Meat Pro-
ducers to Give Statistics.
SECURES ADMISSION FROM mCREA
Portrait OF Lnte senator Allison Now
Hangs In Corridor Outside sem
ate Chnmber-Commiss
Abbotrs Troubles.

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WARRINGTON, oct IT. Spe.ialD-Clif-
ford Thorne Of Washington. Ia. attorney
for the Corn Belt Meat Producers asso-
citation and the Farmers Cooperative
Grain association IS in Washington to at
tend the great railroad rate case hearing
now on before the interstate Commerce
commission. The representatives. Of the
railroads arc presenting their side OF the
controversy here and the shippers OF the
west will be heard by the commission in
Chicago October rs and %. Mr. Thorne is
finding time here. with the aid Of two eN-
perts and a stcnographer, all working
night and day. to dig up a mass Of sta
usticai matter which he will hurl at the
railroad In behalf Of the shippers at the
Chicago hearing. lie IS in constant at
tendance at the hearings here and Is quick
TO seize a point which may benefit his
clients. 1t was Mr.. Thorne, for instance,
who drew from Mr. McCrea, president Of
the Pennsylvania railroad, while upon the
stand, the admission or statement, that has
been so widely published. that he believed
well-ordered and properly conducted
railroad system, such as that Of which he
Is presIdent-the Pennsylvania-should be
permitted to earn minimum Of per cent
and no I'D should be placed upon the max
imum earning capacity Of his or any other
railroad. In other words he very plainly
indicated bis aversion 20 governmental In
reference or con.rol In attempting to die
tate what a railroad corporation may
properly earn.
Portrait of Allison.
Iowa visitors and admirers generally OF
the late Senator William Boyd Allison
should they visit the capitol building this
winter, win find hung on the wall OF the
corridor Just outside the United States
senate chamber a most striking and life
like oil painting OF the Iowa statesman
The portrait encased In a heavy gilt
frame is from the brush of WILDER A.
Reaser, and is pronounced by those who
know Mr.. Reaser's work 10 be about the
best piece Of portraitire which has YET
come from his brush. About Senator ALI.
son are grouped portraits OF such cele
brated statesmen as Charles Sumner
Henry Clay Daniel Webster and John c
Calhoun
No Longer "Ab'' Abbott.
when / was student at the University
OF Nebraska my inumates generally called
me with a Hello. Alb! thus abbreviatlnl
my surname to tho utmost in point o.
breuty. I must say that at the time
rather resented this liberty. Now, how
ever, l wish our Uncle Sam would permit
me to sign all official papers simply Abb ,
said Assistant Indian Commissioner b. H
Abbott of Aurora, Neb In his office yes
terday as he YEARLY laid aside his pei
and pushed a great stack OF official paper
toward a waiting messenger. 1T look
easy, doesn't It, simply signing #. H. Alb
bott over and over again and then som,
MORE" continued Mr., Abbott but I hav,
before me statement showing that dur
ing the month OF September alone l al
fixed my signature 10 exactly 1865 Ofnoia
papers, or, an average Of 3l5 every work
ing day This is not really what might b,
termed full months work, because dur
ing about half the month Of September
was absent from Washington on officia
business in the west. Do you wonder
wish might sign my name as in the alb
broviated form my college mates had IT,?