Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-11
LEGISLATURE IN
RUNNING ORDER;
FIRST BILLS COME
Governor Neville Recommends
Mayfield of Omaha for Place
on the State Board of
Control.
FREE SPEECH IN SENATE
Lahner's Resolution ito Limit
Remarks Is Voted
Down.
NO LIMIT ON BILLS
NO LIMIT ON BILLS
(From a Staff correspondent)

NrIVHt ptdlL SOfTNSponutHli
Lincoln, Jan. 10-(Special. Rec
ommending E. o. Mayfeld as having
wide experience in the lines which
ought to make him a valuable mem
Der of the Board of Control of state
institutions, Governor Neville today
sent the name of the Omaha news
paperman to the senate for conhrma-
tion for the place on that board now
filed by Judge Howard Kennedy,
whose term will expire July |.
Mr.. Mayheld is an old newspaper
man in Nebraska work and at the
present time owns an interest in two
republican papers in the state. Con-
hrmation of the appointment was put
over until next Tuesday at 2 o'clock,
when it is expected that some op-
position may be made, though it is
thought this will not be sufficient to
prevent the confirmation which must
be by two-thirds vote
Mr.. Mayfeld has the endorsement
of most Of the members of the repuj-
1ican state central committee and the
chairman, Ed Beach, besides that of
many newspapermen in the state.
Free Speech Hereafter.
Free speech and plenty of it will
not be denied by the senate this ses-
sion, a motion by Lahners, who OBJ
jected to half-hour being taken up
yesterday by woman speaker in
presenting one side Of the war situa-
tion, being voted down by IS to IA.
Senator Howell made vigorous pro-
test against denying the right of the
people to come before the senate and
present their claims. Lahners wanted
a committee of three appointed to in
vestigate the kind of oratory any in
dividual might want to turn loose, but
the senate was willing to take a
chance and defeated the motion.
Those in favor of the investigation
of speakers were Adams, Albert,
Buhrman, Gates, Haase, Henry, Kohl,
Lahners, Mates, Moriarty, Robert
son, Samuelson, Tanner and Wilson
of Frontier. Wallace Wilson slipped
out of the chamber and did not vote.
The other eighteen opposed the
"throttling for free speech"
Lieutenant Governor Howard, ris-
ing to a point of personal privilege,
explained that the chair was not
responsible for the Tuesday woman
speaker. He asked the house if it had
objection, after Senator Sawyer of
Lancaster had presented her. He ex-
planned that no objection was raised.
University Presents Gavels.
Senator Adam McMullen of Gage
presented, on behalf of Chancellor
Avery, two gavels made by the me-
chanical engineering department of
the university, one to Lieutenant
Governor Howard and the other to
President Pro Tenn John Mates of
Otoe.
Lieutenant Governor Howard, in
his speech of thanks, commended
Sthe real working branch of our state
university" and said that he favored
more extensive teaching to make the
youth useful in a mechanical way.
In Senator Mates speech the Otoe
county president pro TEN flung chal-
enge to those who had declared he
represented the liquor interests and
would not be fair to the prohibition
cause.
"My one and only ambition is to
Gfscredit the prophets who have fore
told the calumnious things of me-" he
said, after explaining that the state
cannot do too much for the univer
sity.
The resolution opposing federal
control of transportation, offered by
Senator Walter E. Hager of Adams,
was laid over for a day, as is custo-
mary.
Car Shortage Report.
The Samuelson resolution, asking
for joint house and senate probe of
the car shortage, was continued until
Friday at the request of its author.
The report of the Nebraska Railway
Continued on Page Two, Column Ffve.)