Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-09
, lNEXATlOy PETITION FILED
County Clerk Receives Request to
Have Question Submitted.
STRONG RESOLUTIONS PASSED
sets Forth en- Unmistakable Terms the
Advantages 60 he Gained by the
Consolidation OF the
Two cities.

oters at the fall election Of the dues-
90 OF annexing South Omaha we're filed
Ia The office Of the county clerk Saturday
morning. and the fight for the initial step
toward a Greater Omaha Is on.
Legality Of the petition calling upon the
BOARD OK County Commissioners TO submit
to the voters at the November general cleo
ton the proposition OF annexation Of South
Omaha 70 Omaha was brought into uues-
don Saturday by City Attorney H. C.
Murphy Of South Omaha and other South
Omaha men who oppose the annexation.
when they filed a protest against the petit
ton. The ground Of the protest Is that the
petition does not carry the names OF 10 per
cent Of the qualified voters Of the city.
many Of the 100 names on the petition being
the names OF men who are not qualified
voters.
The commissioners deferred action on the
petition for one week and set next Friday
at 10 a. m. as the time for a hearing on
the protest. The action was taken in
meeting OF the board as a committee Of the
whole.
Last night the Greater Omaha Consolida-
ton club met in the Magic City and
passed a set Of resolutions that are UNI
mistakable in tone. They are signed by
the men responsible for the beginning Of
the agitation. and who insist that sentl-
ment in the packing town leans very
strongly that way. Following is the text
Of the resolutions with the names Of the
committee that drew them up and pre-
scented them to the meeting:
Resolutions on Consolidation.
The Greater Omaha Consolidation club
Of South Omaha, including business men,
day laborers, packing house employees, me-
ohanios and clerks, knowing that the SEN
ina If nN EaNFNh lima ho NNH
the consolidation Of South Omaha with
Omaha by an overwhelming majority,
deemlng II the part Of wisdom and to the
best interest of an that the city OF South
Omaha should be merged with the city
Of Omaha and form one great metropolitan
city hereby pledge that we vii advance
power we command that the cause may
triumph as the honest desire Of ali of the
While the city Of Omaha has been ad-
vancinB in greatness and building up
tremendously in the last few years, we as
city have been standing still. We
TO a greater growth and prosperity by
uniting our enterprises with those OF
Omaha and working unitedly for the one
end OF prosperity for all OF the inhabitants
Of one great city.
We believe that we will gain many bust
and vast amount OF trackage when the
great enterprises that are ready to come
can advertise their location as being In
f We being a separate and rival city TO
Omaha, cannot expect to have enterprises
sent to us by Omaha until we are part OF
the city of Omaha BY mutual agreement
Omaha has manifested its intention to give
us every advantage In making the merger,
70 be adjusted by committees to the salts
faction OF all the citizens OF Greater
Omaha TO be embodied in a new charter
public schools, the high school, police, fire
men. the present postoffice, sub-treasury
- knowing that the courts have held that
one city cannot furnish water to another,
as cities are prohibited from doing bust
mess I'm a commercial way, and knowing
that we will be without water supply In
case we are not consolidated with the
q city Of Omaha. In case the city Of Omaha
buys the water works we deem II OF vast
Importance that We should be consolidated
with Omaha before such an embarrassing
situation confronts us as a city,
A. general plan for the consolidation Of
q, the cities Of Omaha and South Omaha will
8 sideration and we feel sure that the vote
for the consolidation OF the two cities will
be as overwhelming as the sentiment is
E, Believing we have everything to gain
and nothing to lose, we ask that The
people OF South Omaha vote for the con-
solidauon of the two cities In the coming
''"'' ELoF NELSON,
THEODORE II. TIE POHL.
CHARLES d z LEPPERr'
L; G. GIBSON t.,r-r,,,,.
VILE v 5TrH Il BECKETT
oi- p j. BARRETT.
r j. r. KTAUS.
PETER, HENKBL,
JOHN HUDEC,
.ta FRANK MARKHAM.
d. s. CLARK
GEORGE BRADLEY.
j. +. MARVEL,
THOMAS GUARY.
a.. w. ]. NAGLE
THOMAS j. PARKER,
G. +. BEAVERS.
FRANK A. AGNEW,
Committee.
RumOra of Suit.
{! Reports that the persons behind the
movement for annexation OF South Omaha
TO Omaha were about to so Into district
court and ask for a mandamus writ order
ing the Board OF County Commissioners to
proceed at once 10 canvass the petition for
submission OF the proposition to the vot-
ers. were current about the court house
Saturday afternoon after the board had
decided to defer action In the matter for
week and hold a hearing on the anti
annexation protest against the petition
Friday morning. AT p. m. no such APP
plicati0n had been made.