Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-17
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Anti-Annexationists Are Stalking
Whole Cause on Hearing Before
House Committee Today.
oFFTCE.HOLDERs TO MAKE TRIP

South Omaha politicians are making a
supreme effort to conserve their Jobs by
defeating the Greater Omaha consolida-
tion bill. A number of mon have been
working among the members OF the state
legislature almost since the time the sem
ate passed the measure. Today another
delegation of picked antis. mostly office
holders and city contractors. will appear
before the committee on cities and towns
TO try to bury the bill in committee.
Another committee OF local business men
favoring the Greater Omaha measure. is
said to have taken UP the matter. and
the politicians may get some surprises at
Lincoln.
At the Live stock exchange building
yesterday anti-annexationists were busy
trying to get aid and comfort. A visit
from Representative Regain Of Platte is
said TO have been expected. and the local
ants were to have a meeting with him
it is said, at the exchange building. but
Regain apparently did not materialize at
least not at the Exchange building.
In private communication to friends
among the workingmen Of the city. Rep
resentative Jerry Howard declared that
anti-annexationists were working desper-
oNSA9 diAlohk louSt HlelnDeTS at LIN
coin. AS Howard expressed it, the minds
Of honest representatives outside OF Doug
last county were being poisoned against
the consolidation bill"
Prominent democrats both here and in
Omaha expressed the opinion that the
house would not stand for the work of
the city contractors and office holders
any more than the senate did. 1t is
limited that two prominent Douglas
county legislators in the house are looked
to by the ants as their last hope At
least one of these members was known
to have been elected with the under
standing that he favor the measure.
The consolidation bill will be defeated
in committee by a vote of TO s." VEN
tured a we'll informed citizen yesterday.
''rhe bill viii so through the house as
through the senate admitted one of the
antis. Brass bands are nix with this
Legislature
Mayor Seems Pleased.
Possibly with the idea or instilling
courage into his faithful companions in
office Mayor Thomas Hector expressed
himself last night as being happier than
in weeks" In fact the officehoIders
Of the success OF the leaders now working
| against the consolidation bill.
Three new lighting districts were
designated. As was expected they will
extend from J to o streets along Twenty
fourth streets and from the Eagles home
ON street to Twenty-seventh street
near to where the dark town brigade
| holds forth. Along o street the new
lights will be studded from the city hall
to the stock yards entrance so that folks
walking to the yards at night may not
stub their toes.
very strong spasm of public order
struck the council last night and that
body ordered a few chicken coops re-
moved from Twenty-second and d streets.
The coops are said to be the property of
+. A. Agnew, who happens to be n very
strong annexationist. Unofficially II is
understood that the order against the
chicken coops is in the nature of re-
taliation for Agnew's activities in seek