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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
Investigations Galore.

1t is a question whether congress
will adjourn as early in August as pre-
dicted. If it intends to complete all
the unfinished business on hand before
closing this extra session, it will be
grinding away when August shall have
passed, unless it should suddenly be
seized with an impulse to put in all the
remaining time actually at business
which is not likely.
This has been, nominally at least, a
session of investigation. And five in
vestigations are still dragging along,
none of them apt to be finished at this
session. The list includes the Lorimer
case, the Sugar trust, the Steel trust
Alaska, and the proposed inquiry into
the Banking or Money trust. In all
of these matters speedy action is i'm
portant, but it is out of the question
to expect final results soon.
AS to the latest proposed investiga-
ton. that of the so-called Money trust,
1t is yet to be established that such an
institution exists. Congressman Lin
bergh's resolution asserts its existence
proved, yet other authorities take d.
rect issue with that declaration. The
New York Journal of Commerce, for
instance, says:
This seems to be the elimination of the
craze in Washington for investigating ev.
cry wild charge of monopoly or trust com.
bination that the Imagination can conjure
up. The Lnbergh resolution has moi
seemed to US to be worthy of serious at
tention and 1t is surprising that it should
be taken up at all by the rules committee
Our financial systems" may be In need
of remedies" and they have been for some
time under examination with view to ap.
plying them, but they are not in such q
'parlous state as to require any such di.
agnosis and treatment as the Minnesots
congressman is said to have persuaded the
rules committee to adopt. The idea Of g
monopoly or trust" controlling the credit
exchanges and deposits of our 800 nationa
banks or thereabouts, the 1900 or 14OO
banks and trust companies of the states
and other banking houses and institutions
''for selfish purposes and to the damage
and irreparable injury of the people," is toe
preposterous to be entertained by mer
altogether sane.
We are not for defending any
Money trust" but neither for bring.
ing in a verdict before the evidence IL
presented.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
NEBRASKA ENDORSES TAFT.

Sioux City Journal: True. the Nebraska
republican state convention did not indorse
Canadian reciprocity. For that matter,
neither did the Nebraska democratic state
convention.
st. Louis Times. The endorsement OF
Taft by the republicans OF Nebraska shows
that the Nebraska republicans wish to
align themselves with the people Of the
country, rather than with few discredted
leaders Of their party.
Boston Transcript: The success Of Presi-
dent Tafts friends in securing an endorse
ment Of the president from the Nebraska
republicans in convention and in blocking
the efforts of the insurgents to secure an
Endorsement of La Toilette, is significant.
II indicates that the presidents friends
have been working effectively and well
throughout the country, and that he will
come very near to controlling the next re-
publican national convention.
Washington Star: In endorsing Mr. Taft
and his work the republicans did the only
sensible thing. To ignore him would have
been folly; to praise him intellectually,
stupidity; to repudiate him, a blunder OF
proportions greater than a crime. Mr.. La
Toilette was the only man in the minds
Of Mr.. Taft's opponents, and outside OF
his own state he has no real strength
Talk of him for president is thin, and
confined to a few places and a compare
lively small number.
Washington Post: The strong hold OF
President Taft upon his party was shown
at the proceedings of the republican state
convention of Nebraska. A few insurgent
malcontents had announced that no en-
dorsement of Taft or the national admin
istration would be permitted to pass, but
when the showdown came the endorsement
was there, and the insurgents were not
Ringing resolutions were adopted praising
President Taft for his administration OF
national affairs and full confidence in his
course was emphatlcally affirmed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
De-Churchinp q Governor

Governor Colquitt of Texas, If re-
ports are to be relied upon, may have
to forfeit his membership in the Meth
odist church in order to have retained
his leadership of the militant democ-
racy of his state. The governor led
the anti-prohibition forces that re-
Gently achieved a victory in defeating
statewide prohibition in Texas and
now, as consequence, petitions are
being circulated by his fellow-church-
men praying that he be ousted from
his pew.
The protestants do not charge NAL
feasance in once against the COVER
nor; they do not accuse him of cor
ruption or crookedness in the cleo
ton; they do not allege that he is a
| topper, or even a questionable char
acter in his private life. So far as
these things are concerned, the gov
ernor OF Texas may walk as circum-
specify as the brethren who want him
put out Of the church. They allege
only, what everybody in Texas and q
good many outside the state know
that Governor Colquitt lent his infiu-
ence to defeat statewide prohibition.
He may have favored restrictive legis-
lation Of the liquor traffic in some
other form. He may have believed
that temperance could be practiced
and law upheld more effectualIy in
some other way than to write prohibi.
tion upon the statute books. But his
offense is that he had the courage OF
his convictions to come out boldly for
what he believed.
1t is a dangerous thing to punish q
man for doing what HIS conscience
tells him is right, especially q man
like the Texas governor. who evil
IDENTIFY has aligned himself with the
great moral forces OF the day. Yet
that seems to be precisely the PROPOSE
ton. When statutory prohibition was
in its heyday, the majority OF church
members never voted for It. II they
had this country would have had sew
eral prohibition presidents. And had
such a movement been started and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
People Talked About

John Haines, "a years old, of Fairfield,
Me-, shoveled 400 barrels OF potatoes and
put them in his cellar one day last week.
Lloyd Engelman won first prize in a pie
eating contest at Emanus, Pa, last Mon
day by eating seven ordinary-siz black
berry pies in thirty minutes and AZ seconds.
The new conservation commissioners OF
New York state get $1,000 year each.
The state deficit is only 100000 and with
out conservation paid for At = good price
It might grow less.
Anyone who takes q crack at Colonel
Bryan In Nebraska is assured OF distin-
guished consideration In the east. Mayor
Jim Dahlman's cowboy picture takes up q
quarter section Of the front page Of the
Baltimore Sun.
George H. Ward OF Middletown. Conn,
Is 70 years old and he walks four miles
every morning before breakfast. He says
he will live to be 100, He bases his pre-
dictions on the success he met in living
on d cents week.
The ordinary courtesy of Mayor Gaynor
OF New York to the southern editors was
extraordinary. "Your conduct as editors, A."
he told them, In effect. lis unexceptional
This is because in the south you would
be shot II Il was not. The custom OF
shooting editors is an admirable one"
The death OF Burr Peck in New Haven
Conn, at the age Of 81. leaves a fortune
OF fully 10000 to his widow, who is hardly
out OF her teens They eloped three years
ago. and were married in New York City
by an alderman. She was Miss Mamie
Burns, a waitress In q Yale students
boarding house before her marriage.
A woman attracted some attention in
Broadway. New York. the other day by
appearing before signboard and outlining
the figures for whisky advertisement.
The painter was Miss Msdge Claiborne
who is said TO have Travelled over much OF
the country as tramp painter. She bid
for the contract with a number OF men
and secured It. She works on scaffolding
or other places that Is necessary.
Old interest checks found In the govern
ment vaults AT Washington show that the
first William H. Vanderbilt once owned
~, 10000 In government bonds. This was
before the time when national banks be-
came nearly sole owners OF the govern
ment's evidences OF debt. and individual
owners became few. II IL quite possible
that Joseph Pulitzer OF the New York
World. with his 8. 10000 subscription 70 the
recent Panama canal bond issue, now be-
comes the largest individual owner OF
United States bonds
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
Twenty Years AGO

Strike trouble over the eight-hour pro.
position led to call for police help al
the smelter.
Hon. Charles Wooster, one of the
brainest farmers Of Nebraska who has q
we'll cultured farm near Silver Creek
called on The Bee to pay his compli-
ments."
Job printers on strike for eight houI
day are locked out, efforts of employees
and employers to agree coming to naught
Mrs. Cummings began her duties as
police matron.
Several Omaha veterans were at the
depot to meet the California G. A. r.
delegation going to the enoampment at
Detroit and when the western veterans
failed to arrive, Dexter L. Thomas, Major
Furay and others seized onto the outgoing
train and started for the big reunion.
Governor Thayer went on the special
train, which was in charge of General
Passenger Agent John Francis of the
Burlington.
A correspondent of The Bee wishes to
know why residents on asst street south
Of Vinton have no mail delivery and police
protection.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
Ten Years Ago

Ten Years Ago
John o. Yeiser airs his views on the
matter Of the governorship vacancy at
the Peter Cooper clubs meeting and makes
that assemblage a rather warm affair.
DR.. Ira Van Camp and Mrs. Van Camp
left for their new home in Geary, Okla.
First Assistant Fire Chief Windheim
and Second Chief Dineen change stations,
putting Windheim at house No and
Dineen at No. 6.
Mrs. Frances Hake, a farmers wife
from Falls City, tainted at the sight of
half-melted wax finger in the show
window at 1908 Douglas street.
Francis NJ. Blaine, 29O9 Grace street,
was overcome by the heat at 10th and Dav-
export streets
Miss Mercer, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss
Brown, Asa Shiverick. Hilton Fonda and
Wing Allen made up a sailing party at
Lake Manawa.
Charles T. Kountze went to Join his
family at Sound Beach, Conn.
Complimentary to her guest, Miss Car
penter, Miss Potter's guests Misses Moore
Pugsley and Wells and Miss Edith Hers
guests, Misses Anderson, Holderman and
Giddings, Miss Cady entertained forty
young people at lawn dancing party.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
Verifying Commission Plan Petition

Verifying Commission Plan Petition.
City Clerk Butler indicates that he
will take twenty days to check up and
verify the commission plan petition
before certifying it to the mayor.
Careful reading of the law con-
vinces us that the city clerk is making
for himself altogether unnecessary
work, because nowhere is the duty
imposed upon him to check up the
petition on his own initiative or even
to certify it to the mayor. For the
reason that no such duty is imposed
on the city clerk, the editor of The
Bee, at the time of filing the petition,
himself, gave notice to the mayor of
its filing, and IL the city clerk should
do nothing whatever about 1t the
mayor would be bound to issue the
proclamation within twenty days, just
the same.
So far as verifying the petition is
concerned, by checking against the
registration lists, that is anyone's, priv
ilege. The petition carries over 5000
names, being more than 100 in ex-
cess of the % per cent, with AFFIDAVIT
as to their qualification as legal vot-
ers. The receipt of the petition, on
its face fully complying with the law,
should, IT seems to us, be conclusive
on the city clerk unless someone
should file written protest questioning
It's sufficiency The commission plan
law makes a distinction on this point
as between a petition submitting this
question and other petitions-the re-
call, for example-which are pre-
sumptively insufficient until verified
by the clerk. For the original com
mission plan petition, the presumption
of the law is that it is valid unless
attacked and proved otherwise.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

completed against those church mem
bers who took the position Governor
Colquitt took in Texas, the churches
would have been depopulated long
ago. Even John G. Woolley, himself,
candidate for president on the prohl-
bition ticket, has left that party, be-
lieving it served its day and that its
object can better be achieved through
other agencies. Yet there is no rea-
son to believe Mr.. Woolley is not Just
as strong a foe to the liquor traffic as
he ever was
Governor Colquitt seems to have be-
come the victim of a certain form of
intolerance, which, while fighting in
temperance, usually spends its own
strength in intemperance of action.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

Although the county attorney has
authority at any time to file informa-
ton against all law-breakers, a special
grand jury Is loudly called for imme-
diately, II not sooner, regardless OF
expense, to bring bills against alleged
registration frauds. Did anyone hear
any call for a special grand jury when
The Bee showed up Wholesale coloniE-
ing and election frauds perpetrated in
the interest OF Mayor Jim" and Sen
ator Hitchcock and their associates on
the democratic ticket last fall?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
PASSING OF ARMY MARTINET.
Significant order Issued by War
Department.
Washington Times.

Washington Times
The indications are that the martinez
Is to become a thing Of the past in the
United States army. If the new orders
just issued by the War department are
carried out. Heretofore 1t has been un-
derstood that officers should be retired
simply and solely on account of physical
disability. Some time ago the Department
of Justice handed down a decision to the
effect that an officer might be retired on
the grounds of temperamental incapacity
for leadership, which was but one way of
saying that If he was ill-tempered, over
bearing, and, In short martinez" he
might be retired for the good of the serv-
ice. No recommendations for retirement
were made for that cause, however, up to
this time, but now the War Department
has issued an order which will make re-
tirement for the causes just stated opera
tive. and 1t is probable that a number of
officers who have shown what may be
called misdirected zeal may have to
give way to others who know how to con-
toll their men and their tempers, too.
1t is far cry from the despotism of
the old days, when the issues of life and
death were in the hands of a commanding
officer, and the underling was afraid to
bat an eyelash. The mouth-filling oaths,
the Hessian beard, the buster, have faded
before the refinements of civilization.
There will be these-chiefly, of the old
school-who will contend that this is but
another of the inroads of the carpet
knight style OF soldering, but on yne
whole IL is believed ,hat the elimination
of the Tnartinetf with hts unreasoninE.
passions and outbursts of temper. will be
altogether for the good of the service, and
the first examples under the new rule will
be watched with interest II
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

Pursuant to a law enacted by the
last legislature, over 100000 of
bonds of other states held by the state
school fund have been sold and the
proceeds reinvested in bonds OF our
own counties, cities and school dis
tricts bearing higher rate of interest.
The real question, however. is. how
much loss, IL any. did the school fund
have to take In order to dispose OF it's
holdings7 viii the school fund be
richer or poorer by reason of the con-
version?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
|nOokin$ Backward
HnisDSSy inOmaha
COMPILED from BEE FILES {
Thirty Years Ago
ED FROM BEE FILES


Thirty Years Ago
,Onsternauon Is created by the an
nouncement that the county commission
ers have decided TO make the prisoners in
the county jail earn their keep by break
ing stone to be used for concreting the
basement OF the new court house.
Bids of the several contractors who have
estimated on building the new Grand Cen
trail hotel were opened today by Kitchen
Brothers, and taken under advisement.
The colored population held an Enamel
patton celebration under the auspices of
the Young Mems Rosette Enterprise"
The general manager was A. Travis and
the floor manager Charles Alexander. The
speakers were Mayor Boyd, ex-Mayor
Chase, DR.. Stephenson, e. II. overall and
Captain II. p. Harris Of Lincoln. The
program included reading the Emancipa-
ton proclamation, races, concert, fire.
works and a ball
At the meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton, the question of accepting the Cass
street school building was taken up, and
put over to await the report Of a special
committee consisting of Messrs. Large,
Dufrene, John Withheld, II. II. vischer
and Shaw The members Of the school
board present were Z. X. Long, Fergu-
son, Mcshane, Connoyer and Thrall.
E. Il. Myers, architect of the court
house. arrived from Detroit and was in
consultation with the county commission
ers as to letting contracts on bids sub
mitted.
A new sidewalk which is greatly
needed, Is being laid down Twelfth street
in front of the Metropolitan hotel
The remaining part of the old Vischer
block is being blocked up preparatory to
being moved off.
Rev. A. F. Sheriff. started on a triE
to Denver and the mountains; Captain
Rustin also went west.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
Reciprocity and Practical Politics.

Canada is being lauded in some of
the American newspapers for submit
ting the question of reciprocity to a
popular vote, instead of letting parlia-
ment haggle over It, as was done by
us in congress. The Canadian way
may or may not be an improvement,
but it should at least prove more ex-
peditious. If other issues can be
kept out each voter will be able to
register for himself his own wishes
and take no chance of being repre-
sented or misrepresented by his dele
gate at Ottawa. That the fight will
be a strenuous one is a foregone con-
clusion. The members of parliament
had no sooner left the legislative halls
than they began planning for the cam
paign and Premier Laurier, himself,
will be a conspicuous figure on the
stump throughout the canvass,
Yet Americans need not indulge any
too fine illusions about the candor of
their Canadian cousins in this con-
test because it is not all candor. AL
ready the wolf cry of annexation"
has been raised. The anti-reciprocity
party proposes to make much of that
delusion and its possibilities are not
to be underestimated. Furthermore,
1t appears that the American method
of injecting a little money into politi-
cal campaigns is not to be overlooked.
Reports have 1t that British imperial
lists and Canadian and American anti
reciprocityites have pooled resources
to see that the machinery of opposi-
tion is properly creased. So, on the
whole, it is to be quite practical cam
paign, even if the question has been
submitted to direct vote and the rule
of the people is to be indicated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

Political wiseacres at Lincoln think
Mr.. Bryan will be compelled to come
out in the open for a preferred candi-
date for the democratic 1919 nomina-
ton. The presidential preference pri-
mary may drive him to this course,
but he has never done anything of the
kind before except when his prefer
ence was himself. In 1895 the Ne
braska delegation would have been
for Bland or Boies had 1t been in
structed in convention. and in 1904 1t
certainly would not have been for
Cockrell, for whom Bryan voted it,
had the state convention spoken.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

up when nothing would help, but something
told me 10 try the cuticurA Soap and ONT
ment. sent for CutieurA Booklet which
read carefully. Then bought some Cuticura
soAp and Ointment and by following the
directions I was relieved in . few days.
used Cuticura Soap for washing my face.
and applied the Cuticura Ointment morning
and evening. This treatment brought mar
Vicious results % I continued with Il for .
few weeks and was cured completely. can
truthfully say that the Cutieura Remedies
are not only all, but more than they claim
10 be-" (signed) @. Baumel. 1918 w. 10th
Place. Chicago, ILL.,, May 2S. 1911.
For more than generation cutieurs Rem
edies have afforded the most economical
treatment for affections Of the skin snd scalp.
A cake Of CuticurA Soap (25c) and q box OF
CuticurA Ointment (SOe.) are often sufficjent.
Although sold throughout the world, liberal
sample Of each. with a2-p. book on the skin.
will be sent free, on application to Potter
Drug 4 Chem Corp. Dept. 2sA, Boston.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
HUNTING TROUBLE.
Chicago News

Chicago News.
She sang before the breakfast bell,
She wept before the noon,
And so / have a tale to tell
OF why she wept so soon.
All through her life she'd heard Il said,
Sing ere the breakfast be,
Before the night you'll bow your head
And weep In misery"
And so when she forgot and sang
Before the breakfast time,
Within her head that adage rang
Like some insistent rhyme;
She worried along about the woe
That unto her must fall;
She worried, worried, worried so,
She had no peace at ali.
Now Just because she CHANGED to sing,
Anticipation made
Her life that morn fearful thing
In abject guise arrayed.
A life that's formed of such poor stuff
Is troublesome, / wot;
II you hunt trouble long enough
You'll find 1t where it's not.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

Why Is II that every writer OF fiction
thinks that a Western story has to be
well busted with alkall and dotted with
cactus plants2-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Because most Of them have never
been in the west and are utterly ignor-
ant of the great progress the west Is
making away from alkali dust and
cactus plants.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

The World-Herald accuses The Bee
OF pettifogging in calling attention TO
the fact that II We vote Ss.26o,ooo
bonds to acquire the water works II
win mean that. after drawing AZ per
cent for thirty years, we will be pay
ing for the plant in taxes and water
rent a total of s1s.Ss7.5oO. But at
the same time it admits that the
figures are correct.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

A contributor wants to know why
the money in the water fund levied
for water rentals is not applied on the
hydrAnt rental judgments instead OF
making a second levy on the taxpay-
ers. Some folks are altogether too
inQuisltive.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

The Philadelphia North American,
which published the "Dick-to-Dick"
letter, has been taken to task by one
of it's readers for too great leniency
toward President Taft-according
him the credit of being honest. Per-
haps the reader was only pleading for
consistency.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

suffering and loss OF sleep.
At FIRST there appeared red,
hard plmples which later
contained white matter. I
suffered q great deal caused
by the itching. ! was in q
state Of perpIeXity when
walking the streets or any
where before the public.
II used pills and other
remedies but they failed com
pletely. I thought Of irving
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

That Denver doctor who says the
world is going crazy borrowed the
idea. It was expressed by another
fanatic months ago, who said that
within a certain period everybody
would be a lunatic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01
JUNE CIRCULATION.
48,466

slate Of Nebraska, County OF Douglas IS;
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily circula,
copies. for the month of June, 1911, was
4S,466 DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this first day Of July, 1911
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-01

The Nebraska pure food commits
sioner promises active war on bad
eggs. While presumably every COM
munity has it's share. Omaha should
offer the most inviting field OF opera
tions, even though 1t is already the
chief contributor Of bad eggs to the
penitentiary.