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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Defining Contemnt of Court.

A law more explicitly defining con-
tempt of court would seem to be a
necessity in this country. Congress
may enact such a law out OF the bill
introduced in the house by Chairman
Clayton of the judiciary committee. 1t
is not surprising to know that the
tangle and confusion arising from the
case of the American Federation Of
Labor officials and the Buck Stove and
Range company inspired this measure
Now, the house has set a time next
winter for hearings on this bill, to-
gcther with an inquiry into the con-
tempts and penalties emphasized by the
court in this notable case.
Not only the labor leaders involved
but thousands of other people, have
never believed that what Gompers
Mitchell and Morrison did came rightly
within the definition of contempt of
court. The trouble is that in the alb
sence of more definite and specific
rules, judges are given great latitude
in arbitrarily determining what is. and
what is not contempt of court and
what may strike one judge as such
might not so impress another. 1t would
seem to depend good deal on the SEN
sitiveness of the court. But not only
the litigant would be benefited by a
more explicit definition; the court and
the state would be even more bene-
fitted, and as for the respect for the
law and sanctity of the judiciary, they
would, under a fixed construction,
really come to mean something.
When a Judge upon the bench can
say what a certain federal judge has
said, that the dictum of the court was
the law of the land and remained such
until altered by higher tribunal, it is
time to think of such measures as the
one under discussion. And this judge
will not find many to dispute his claim
Contempt of court should be neither
condoned nor tolerated, but it would
help matters generally to know pre-
cisely what constitutes the offense.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Embarrassing Mr.. Underwood.

In explanation of how the steel and
iron schedules came to be attached to
the cotton tariff bill, this excerpt out of
the press dispatches is significant:
Senators Simmons and Overman of North
Carolina Foster and Thornton of Louisi-
ana and tombstone and Bankhead of Ala
bama made vigorous protest against action
on cotton during the present session. Sena-
tor Williams OF Mississippi took especial
exception to the proposition to attach the
steel schedule, emphasizing the opinion
that to attempt to do so would be an
embarrassment to Chairman Underwood
of the house ways and means committee
In view of the criticisms of William j.,
Bryan.
Mr. Underwood assured a committee Of
senators that he not only would not be
embarrassed by the senate's Incorporation
of steel in the cotton bill, but would be
delighted at such action. With the report
Of this committed, before 1t, the caucus had
little difficulty in deciding to attach to
| the bill the steel and from schedules, ma
terislly reducing the duties
II there were any merit In the steel
and iron schedules being brought up at
this SESSION of congress do the demo-
Gratis mean to tell the country that ii
should wait upon the pleasure or COM
fort of Mr.. Underwood, who happens to
be chairman of the ways and means
committee and as such, floor leader OF
the democracy? What does the coun-
| try care about Mr.. Underwood's con-
troversy with MIR. Bryan? 1t is q
pretty come-off when petty PERSONAL
ties of this sort are to be crowded in
front of what are supposed to be i'm
portant measures of national legisla-
ton. Underwood was shrewd enough
to see that the democratic senators
were fixing to put him and themselves
as we'll as their party, in a worse mes;
than the one Mr.. Bryan caught them in
and fastened to save their face.
OF course, since the whole thing
cotton, wool, steel, iron and all present
snapshot tariff tinkering--is nothing
but petty politics, 1t would have made
no real difference whether Mr.. Under.
wood was embarrassed or not. Mr.
Bryan, though, seems to have put the
democratic leader in position where
It requires careful action to save him
from embarrassment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Save the Pure Food and Drug Laws.

Save the Pure Food and Drug Laws.
However the present controversy be-
( tween persons charged. directly and in
directly. with the administration Of the
pure drug and food laws, may .ermi-
nate, II would be most lamentSble to
countenance any Intervention of those
laws or the general movement whose
purpose Is to protect public health
against the dangers of adulterations.
The issue involved is bigger and
broader than any individual or per-
sonal interests. The country looks,
therefore, beyond the personnel Of this
unpleasant mixup to the larger objec-
tive. The people would, we imagine,
sternly rebuke anything that savored
of move to restrict or restrain the
good work which has been begun under
the auspices of the Department of Ag-
riculture, pursuant to legislative en-
actment. Pure food and drug laws
were placed on the statute books be-
cause of a very live and insistent need
and demand for them. They could be
neither effaced nor nullified with i'm
punity 1t would be extremely unfor-
tunate even to have the reform briefly
retarded by a personal controversy
The government could more easily af-
ford to sacrifice one or two worthy SER
wants than suffer an injury to the SER
vice. 1t is generally believed that GER
tain interests not financially bene-
fitted by a rigid enforcement of the
laws have welded sinister but potent
influence against them. 1t is too bad,
then, to have had the main issue be-
logged by the lesser consideration of
personalities. Recompense may come
in the end, however. if this tedious in
quiry serves to expose the sinister in
fluences and place the system on bet
ter working basisA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
The Cost of living

Experts at work under direction of
the Department of Agriculture have re-
ported the increased cost in some
staples TO be due, not to higher prices
being paid to the farmers, and on the
basis of this report, the Department of
Commerce and Labor has set experts
to work TO find out to what this in
crease is due. So, In all the series OF
investigations, official and otherwise,
and all the speculation OF economists,
we seem to be as far as ever from a
satisfactory explanation of the high
cost OF living.
Surely by now the people have
learned enough about the problem OF
the cost OF living to know that II is a
very intricate problem and not one
for partisan speculation. 1t certainly
is not one for careless handling by
politicians. II would be idle, for in
stance, to ascribe political causes for
the recent rise in the price of meat,
when the main reason Is obvious In the
POOR condition of grazing land OF the
vest. Or, similarly, as to the doubled
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
MERCERIZED.

Have YOU ever seen a gown,
Soft and fine and filmly like
Pink or white. or blue or brown
That your senses seemed to strike
For its luSter and its style
BY it's owner duly priced?
Have you much admtred-then found
That twas only merceriged?
Have you heard some people talk
Proudly of their social doin's?
Heard them boast of their gifted friends,
OF their prowess and pursuits?
Have you thought them real stuff
And the friends they eulogized?
Then have walked some morn TO find
That this goods was mercerized2
Have you met what seemed a friend
Who had sworn allegiance true
Who approved OF all you said,
Who seemed all wrapped up in you.
Have you then by daily wear
Most before you realized
Found them not the real stuff
Proved them only mercerizedf
But in cloth or social status
Also in the friends you make, n
Tho you often meet the bogus
Let not this your courage shake;
For behind the fake the real
Still exists and still is priced,
Waiting for your better efforts
Hid behind the mercerized
-BAYOLL NE TRELE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

GRAND ISLAND, Aug. 16.-TO the Editor
of The Bee: In connection with a report
of the national convention of sheriffs al
Omaha, a week or more ago, there APP
peared the statement that Sheriff Dunkel
was the man who, slnglehanded and alone,
captured the Giltner bank robbers on an
island of the Platte. The many friends OF
Chief OF Police Arbogast of this city OBJ
ject to this statement. 1t was hoped that
the publication OF the story was through
some misunderstanding and that 1t would
be corrected ere this But II has not been
and as one interested in The Bee as we'll
as in getting the facts before the public. l
would like to call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Arbogast II was who captured
the robbers. Mr.. ATbogast had had some
experience in police work at North Platte,
but he had at the time Of the robbery re-
ferred to, been at the head OF the Grand
Island police force only few days. There
was no one near him when he suddenly
came upon the robbers and, armed with a
Winchester rifle, not only held the three
men, but had searched them before others
came to his aid Sheriff Dunkel is said by
some others. who were participating In the
manhunt, to have been a mile away at the
time. II any credit belongs to any single
man in that hunting party of several score
Of men, it belongs to Chief of Police Arbo-
CAST. ONE WHO KNOWS
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Vote at the Primary.

One of the most encouraging fea-
lures of the primary election in Doug
las county is the interest shown by the
voters in the selection of the candi-
dates. 1t so fell out that the weather
conditions on Tuesday were Of the
most discouragiDg sort. and yet the
vote was sufficiently heavy to give a
conclusive notion as to the trend of
public opinion. Almost $4,000 votes
we're cast. or nearly half as many as
were registered for governor last fall,
when one of the most exciting contests
In the history OF the state was en-
HANGED by the presence of a popular
local candidate for the office. This
proves that the voters are interested
in the choice OF the candidates. The
further fact that more than two-thirds
OF the total vote was cast for the re-
publicans is another excellent augury.
1t means that If the interest Is prop
erly maintained, the republican victory
in Douglas county this fall will be tri-
umphant.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.

cleveland Leader: Deprived of the on
porturity 10 engage in any OF the other
summer sports. can you blame congress
men FOR occasionally taking a fall out OF
Brvan7
Pittsburg Dispatch: Senator Cummins
figures that the great fight In the next
national convention will he over the plat
form rather than the candidate lt is not
improbable, since there seems 50 far to he
little prospect Of much OF a fight over the
candidate.
Minneapolis Journal: Mr. Bryan's position
Is that IL referendum shows that he was
wrong he will apologize TO Mr.. Underwood.
Mr.. Underwood's is that MIR. Bryan owes
It TO himself to take the initiative in the
recall OF remarks for which he has no
sufficient foundation.
Philadelphia Press: Colonel Bryan de-
clares he Ia not afraid Of any effort to
read him out Of the party. Probably he has
no reason to be afraid but he is generally
so busy reading others out OF his party that
he may yet be able to look forward to
the time when he can enjoy exclusive mem
bership.
Sioux City journal; over in Nebraska a
"reformer'' has handed out chunk of re-
form in the concrete which may be men
toned, though II Is not worth a slug head.
This particular reformer, though he has
been head of the state Industrial school
at Kearney-coming In and put there as a
shining light of reform-only few months
is able already to show a payroll including
his wife as matron, a daughter as stenog
rapher, another daughter as housekeeper
and brother-in-law as school farmer
making altogether a family salary Of $780,
per month. This gentleman was lately
chairman OF the populist state central com
mittee He could probably do more in that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
DRASTIC ACTION CALLED FOR.
Methods Employed TO Nullify the
Pure Food Law.
Philadelphia Ledger

Methods Employed to Nullify the
Pure Food Law.
Philadelphia Ledger
The feeling of bewildered amazement
with which the public received the publica-
ton In Washington a few weeks ago OF a
formal opinion Of the attorney general
recommending the "condign punishment
meaning the practical dismissal in dis
grace from the public service-of DR.. Wiley,
chief of the bureau of chemistry OF the
Department OF Agriculture, and the dis
ciplining OF several Of his associates in
the pure food crusade, has given place to
quent revelations which have been made
before the house committee of inquiry.
Such an exposure of bureaucratic usurpa-
tion OF power to thwart the purposes OF
law, to browbeat and coerce servants Of
the government and to bend the admins
tration of the Agricultural department to
the service OF private ends, has never been
made before in the history Of the govern
ment.
Enough has been elected to warrant
drastic action by the president and while
Mr.. Taft's judicial temperament will guard
him against hasty action, the country will
look with confidence for such action by
him as shall end forever the McCabe cabal
and Its mischievous operations. The eX-
posture has been startling and complete,
based as IL is upon the admissions of the
chief actors themselves and upon the Of
fetal records, that not much more in the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
HypocrIticaI reforms.

The hollowness Of reform pretenses In
congress is shown by the impossibillty OF
getting the mileage graft cut out. Economy
is perennially demanded OF every depart
ment Of the government. Fiery indigna-
ton is expressed by one set OF reformeTs
after another over the wasteful expenditure
in this, that and the other direction, but
when 1t comes TO the outrageous mileage
rate Of 40 cents, indignation fades and the
most vociferous reformer pockets the
money. Just now the democratic brethren
are especially active in probing" for
abuses and extravaganza, but they are very
careful not TO touch mileage. Reform senti-
ment can best prove itself by beginning at
home, and until It does 30 may be properly
labeled as sheer hypocrisy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Ten Years Ago

Ten cars hkO-
Word was received that Miss Josephine
Mitchell and Miss Della Walsh, both OF
Omaha. had taken the veil of Sisters OF
Providence at the home Of the order IN
Richmond, Ind. The former was given the
name of Sister Mary Lerena and the lat
ter of Sister Mary Philomena.
Earl Lewis of Burr Oak, Ia, complains
to the police that a woman he incidentally
met on the street got away with $25 of his
hard learned cash.
]. O. Berkeley of the Schuyler Sun, VINO
was in Omaha, said very nearly hat
crop of late corn would be harvested in
Cofax county.
7. Hiram Stevens. president OF the gen.
eral council Of the American Bar assocla-
ton. stopped in Omaha en- route to the DIG
bar meeting at Denver. Accompanying
him west in the evening were f. M BART
lett and daughter. Miss Henrietta
II. w. Gannett was successfully oper-
ated on for appendicitis.
Clarence English and Kid Jensen tought
10 a finish in East Omaha, the finish tihu-
ing Mr. Nielsen throwing up the sponge IN
the eighth round.
Charles T. Hinkle, a pious and Versatie
burglar, who in the midst OF campaign
of thIevery served as vestrymah IN
co,orad church. led a big "meetin " at
the city Jail, where he was then getting
his mail.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
IEOOkin$ Backward
IhisDaSy in0naha
COMPILED FROM BEE FILE.S Z
Thirty Years Ago
FROM BEE FILF.S
AUGUST ~.

Thirty Years Ago
At special meeting OF the city council
the Slocumb ordinance failed to pass. The
stull HorLberger and Kaufman, reported
the papers back without recommendation,
the ordinance being repetition of the es-
tabllshed Slocumb law. The question at
issue is the amount OF the license fee. A
vote was taken on inserting siOO instead
Of SlOOO for the license figure and was lost.
Messrs. Baker. Corby. Durham, Herman,
Stull and President Daily voted in the
negative, and Messrs. Denone Hornberger
and O'Keefe i'm the affirmative.
Prof DrummOnd of Fremont and Prof.
HALEY of Crete are to assist Prof. Points
at the session Of the teachers institute.
p. T. Fitzgerald spralned his ankle very
badly this evening at the corner Of Six
teenth and lizard streets. It was caused by
a bad sidewalk
At meeting of the Ladies' Land league.
Mrs Ella Kennedy presiding u was de-
cided to picnic in Oklahoma park on the
Bellevue road. Mr. Hascall has donated
the park, likewise fitted up a platform for
dancing. Two conveyances will take the
women to the park who are to wait at the
table.
Hon. John L. Webster left for a pleasure
trip TO Fort Robinson and Fort Fetterman
and will be absent about three weeks.
A. J. Simpson returned from Lake Chau-
tauqua feeling much improved in health.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
One of 0maha's Needs.

That Omaha already has a great
many social advantages and con-
veniences for its citizens is apparently
too well established to require -argu-
ment. Existence here is padded with
many little creature comforts that are
fully appreciated by the people, but all
has not yet been done. The attend
ance at circus performance during
the week emphasizes one of the city's
greatest needs, that of popular amuse-
ment during the hot months of the
year. We have base ball, but that is
available only during the daylight
hours; we have public parks, but they
too, are only of service during the day
for when the evening comes the birds
and the squirrels go to bed, and cease
to be entertaining. We have some pri-
vate adventures in the amusement line
but nothing to meet the popular want
The genius who will provide Omaha
with something rational and popular
in the way of amusement for the hot
summer nights will be real bene-
factor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Twenty Years Ago

Miss Carrie Stevens Of Boston is visiting
Mrs. ] f. Preston, 4O3 South Twenty-fifth
avenue.
Congressman w. J. Bryan called on The
Bee. Mr. Bryan kindly consented some
days ago to interest himself in the efforts
Of The Bee to help Mr.. s. Gerber the
Omaha man who went back to Russia and
was soon after exiled to Siberia. The con-
gresham referred the case to the secre-
taTy OF state and has just received reply,
the effect of which was contained in the
letter transmitted through Assistant Sec
rotary Crounse and published in The Bee.
E b. Branch returned from an extended
trip over the Elkhorn and reported busi-
ness along that line as very good.
Miss Mary w. Niles, NJ. D., missionary
at Canton, China, who had been visiting
her brother In Omaha, left for San Fran
cisco to board a steamer for the orient.
Mayor Cushing reads the law to the city
council showing it cannot Gust from office
DR.. Clark Gapen, city health commissioner,
Mr. and Mrs e. f. Naugle returned
from a long visit at Devils Lake. N d.
They stopped in st. Paul and Minneapolis
for a few days. Mrs. Naugle was greatly
benefited in health.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

prtce Of potatoes. which is due directly
to a very poor crop
High and low prices. though. always
have been and probably always will he,
a relative proposition. Then MAJ who
sells wants high prices, the man who
buys, low. They should not, there
fore, unqualifiedly, be held up as indi-
cations either of very prosperous times
or adversely They bear a relation to
both, but are not conclusive of either.
or all the Investigations being con-
Quoted by government agencies, this
one as to the cost Of living. will. un-
doubtedly, be watched by the people
with most interest
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Futile Hun for the MOAey.
Brooklyn Eagle.

japanese reporters followed Admiral Togo
from New York TO oyster Bay IN taxicabs
at the expense OF t5S.So. and were not per-
mitted TO photograph their eountrymen
when they got there. The man who looks
over the bills at the home office will con-
clude that ginriks has come high In the
mountains Of Long Island
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

The howl that is going up from the
democrats is a pretty good indication
that the republican ticket in Douglas
county is not what they wanted. Well,
it wasn't expected that they would be
satisfied with it, but IT is a ticket that
will draw a lot of democratic votes.
and maybe that is why the Jim"
crowd is Worrying over II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

One of the eloquent tributes to the
value of newspaper advertising is the
vote that is piling up for Judge Hamer.
He used more newspaper space than
any of the others, and he is getting
more votes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

It will be noted that the startling
stories of crime now being published
have nothing to do with Omaha. This
is interesting only as showing that
wickedness is not confined altogether
to this city, as some would have us
believe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Unwilling Yankee Thrift.

The House OF Commons IL eminently
business body. After taking the money
bills away from the control OF the House
of Lords, members of the former body
voted 10 pay themselves salaries. Yankee
thrift could not have better seized an OPP
POrtunity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

Henry Watterson probably realizes
by now that the democratic party is
not the same organization he helped
bring into prominence. He is simply
the latest of its great leaders to be
sidetrarked.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

With the bond issue for completing
the building authorized. the Last ex-
cuse for delay on the court house has
passed, and it should now be pushed
along, because the people are getting
anxious to see what they have been
paying for.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

At Columbus, o., where Governor
Harmon sits and rules the state, cheers
of Bryan again for president" greeted
the distinguished Nebrasksn. Now, will
you stand aside, Uncle Jud?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

1t is not impossible that Edgar
Towards apprehension as to Judge
Albert's chances may yet prove we'll
founded. The democrats do not appear
to have taken kindly to his candidacy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
Not "A New Thought,

The assertion in the report OF the senate
committee on foreign relations that Mr.
Taft's arbitration treaties are breeders OF
war and not OF peace is startling but not
new. 1t was Machiayeln who said Each
treaty plants the seeds Of a new war"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
A Move for High Favor.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ollie James had a real tiff with Mr..
Underwood on the floor OF the house. Mr..
James name will probably be found in the
next edition OF the w. ]. B. eligible list
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

way OF investigation would seem 10 hs
required a. ground for summary action
And the action ought not to Doe confined
to inconspicuous subordinates, hut should
he made to apply to every official respo-1
siblc for the present disgraceful condiuSn'
OF affairs
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

While we are not committed to the
recall. It does seem that It would be a
good thing for a state like Mississippi,
with a Vardaman for senator.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

President Taft knows tho sort OF
welcome he will get in Omaha, and II
may be taken as settled that he will
come here II possible.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18
July EJACULATION.
: T = ~ = III II T
47,93l

state OF Nebraska, County OK Douglas, S..
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, snys that the average daily circu-
lauon, less spoiled. unused and returned
copies, for the month Of July 1911. was
1881. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn TO
before me this % day of August, 1911.
tSeal) ROBERT HUNTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-18

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
psFRsiIy should have The nee
mailed 10 them. Address will be
changed ns often rs requested.