Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-26
COUNTY YREASURERS QUIT
SOME NEW LAWS ARE PROPOSED
Law and Declares that He
People Are Not Properly
Protected.

Closing the second annual convention
Of the Nebraska state Association OF
County Treasurcrs yesterday afternoon =
motion ives unanimously adopted rsedg-
ing the support OF the treasnrers to a
campaign for better corn, This motion
followed speech by Il. " Parrish. pub
licIty man for the club. who declared that
the seed corn situation is the worst ever
known ln the history OF the state and
that a partial failure of the corn crop
and probable loss Of sis,ooc.@o or
100000 will result unless the farmers
awake 10 the fact that only % per cent
Of the corn raised in The state will ser
inmate. I&
Other sneakers followed Mr.. Parrish
and andorssd the plan TO enclose In COM
fnuniaations from county treasurers o.
fier~- pamphlets explaining the situation
and outlining the manner IN which seed
corn can be tested. some bf the county
treasurefs shsertea thai but 10 par cent
OF tho corn in their counties VIII ger
inmate
Ross l. Hammond. collector Of Internal
revenue. said Fremont had conducted
experiments and collection Of seed
corn there proved that Dodge county
produced excellent seed corn last year.
He said In his opinion there was suffi-
eient seed corn in the state TO supply all
Nebraska farmers this year lie en-
dorsed scientific agriculture as some
thing TO be no longer sneezed at"
Officers Are Elected.
The next place OF meeting was selected,
Lincoln being chosen upon motion OF
Frank A. Furay Of Omaha. The cxecu-
tive committee Will name the date Of the
meeting. Officers we're elected as fol-
lows:
President-P. A. sommerlad. Laneas-
ter.
Vice President Simon Flshman. chey-
enne.
Treasurer-IAfe PaIst. Valley.
Member Of executive committee TO fill
vacancy-C. A. schappel. Pawnee
State Treasurer Walter A. George
recommended that the present law be
char ed so as TO compel the county
cler to have the tax lists completed
and turned over TO the county treas
urers not later than October /, for the
reason that floating taxpayers are NOV
Ing about, getting located for the next
year" He said the fact that the clerk
turned over the lists only about a month
before the taxes became delinquent was
responsible for the great loss in coll
lections. The condition OF the funds held
By his office. derived from the counties.
was explained and a review OF the work
b. his department was made.
barton Attacks Insurance Law.
silas n. Barton. state auditor. out
lfued the campaign he win wage before
the legislature for new laws which he
believes are necessary. The majority Of
the recommendations he win make will
be for Insurance legislation He at
tackled the Insurance laws now existing,
declaring they lad been drafted by in
surance companies and were dangerous
discriminatory and palpabIy unfair. He
said the. people OF Nebraska had paid
out within the last two years ss4.475.oo1
for insurance and had received back sIe.-
0ee9oo.
a legislative committee was provided
for. 10 be named by the executive COM
mittee. The number Of the committee
was not designated nor were its duties
defined.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved. That this association extend
TO the people Of Omaha and their hon.
orabie mayor, the representatives Of the
cific railroad the OMAHA National bank.
the Rome hotel. the Lion Bonding CON-
pany. Harry Male. general agent of
the Maryland Casualty company: Harry
). Byrne. general agent Of the Equitable
Surery company; the Dalton Adding Ma
chine company and the press their sim
eere thanks tor their kindnesses in as
sisting to make this convention SO sue
cessful