Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-23
TGYLOR'S SALARY IS $500
Lobeck's Bill Drawn Over to Fix it
at This Amount.
SLOAN ACTS FIRST ON MEASURE
Ways and Means Committee De-
cide's Not TO Allow Omaha Sur
veyOr $1,000 ~ Custodian
of Federal BuiIdInE.
LION a sad correspondentl

tFrOm a stair correspondent
WASHINGTON, July u-(special Tel
egram.)--ln the reaGjustment OF salaries
for surveyors OF customs. based on the
amount OF business done. the surveyor
for Omaha was cut from $500 to s2.5Ol
in a general readjustment bill which con-
gress passed. Cadet Taylor present sur
veyor OF the port OF Omaha protested
vigorously against the rating given him
and also as custodian OF the government
building insisted that his salary should
be restored 70 its old figure, 1880, TO
which he was entitled because thebusi-
ness OF his office warranted thatamount
and 81 900 as custodian Of the government
building
Congressman Lobeck who saw visions
OF tho congressional primaries coming in
and hoping that "one good turn deserves
another" introduced a bill re-cla ssifying
the collectors salary at the port OF
Omaha and giving him 81 900 additional
in view Of the work Taylor does in look
ing after the postoffice custom house,
etc
~ astrange coincidence, at the meet
ing OF the ways and means committee this
morning, Representative Sloan, who made
his initial entry intothe sacred circle rs
the baby member OF the committee, was
called upon TO sit IN Judgment upon
Lobeck's bill, to re-classify Cadet Taylor
salary.
Upon the testimony OF the treasury ex-
pert It was shown that Omaha had been
wrongly classified and thereupon a sub
committee was appointed to re-draft
Lobecks bill, but when it came to giving
Taylor an honorarium Of 81, 900 for looking
afterthe charwomen. laborers etc, about
the government building in Omaha the
committee said: Nothing doing" and so
Taylor will have to get along on $500 per
year.
sioux CITY Market Suffers.
Attorneys representing the packers OF
Chicago and elsewhere yesterday sue
ceeded in getting the agricultural depart
ment to raise the quarantine on cattle
affected with spenatic fever which has
existed in several OF the southern states
The department agreed to lift the ban on
these cattle but found that Iowa could
! not take advantage of the situation due
! to a law of it's own creation which Will
affect the Sioux City market very con-
siderably. other cattle markets as Chi
cago, Kansas City and Omaha will be
gamer through this order. the demand
for cattle being exceedingly active in
view Of the prices now prevailing.
Praise for Gate City.
Big Cy" Cummings, chairman OF the
Maryland commission to the Panama
Pacific exposition who was entertained al
the Omaha Commercial club by a number
OF old time residents OF the terrapin state
short time ago. has returned to Wash.
ington full of enthusiasm for Omaha and
the west. He said today that his trip tc
the Pacific coast was a liberal education
and that Omaha gave promice of heinl
one OF the big cities Of the country. Ht
could not ny enough In praise OF the coun
try shown his associates OF the Mary.
land commission and himself while in the
Gate city.
McvRnn Back to Omaha.
l.. ]. McVann of the Omaha Commercial
club, who has been IN Washington since
Monday on matters before the Interstate
Commerce commission left for Nebraska
today. l'h