Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-04
GOVERNORS GIVE
MESSAGES TODAY
IN LEGISLATURE
Outgoing Executive Will Ad-
dress Lawmakers and In
coming Official Deiv-
ers Inaugural.
NO BALL FOR THIS YEAR
Public Reception This Evening
Will Be Marked With
Simplicity.
NO BALL FOR THIS YEAR
LEE METcALFE SECRETARY

(from a STAFF Correspondent1 t31.
Lincoln, Jan. Especial Gov
crnor-Elect Keith Neville and all the
other state officers will be sworn in
before joint convention Of the SEN
ate and the house in the house cham
Der at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon
following the canvass of the vote in
joint session today.
At this session two messages to the
legislature will be read. one from the
outgoing governor, John III. More
head, and the other from Keith Me-
vile, the incoming executive.
The joint convention will be pre-
sided over by John Mates, president
pro TEN of the senate. Committees
will be appointed to escort to the
chamber Chief Justice A. M. Norris
sey, who will prescribe the oath to
the governor and state officers.
Governor Morehead's message will
be first read to the assembly. Then
the oath will be given to Governor
Elect Neville, and he will read his
message. After all the other state
officers have taken the oath and
signed their nam& to it the joint
session will be adjourned and the
two houses will continue their sepa-
rate sessions in their own chambers.
Simplicity the Note.
The reception, always given on the
evening of Inauguration, will be
marked this year, as in the last half
a dozen years, by more informality
and more simplicity.
| There will be no ball, formerly the
custom, only program of music and
hand shaking. This will be held in
the senate chamber, beginning at 7:30.
Governor Morehead made the ar
rangements and announced the de-
tails of the reception from his office
| Wednesday morning.
In the reception line will be all the
principal incoming and outgoing Off
GERS, including retiring Governor
Morehead and Governor Neville, Sec
retary OF State Pool, Land Commits
sioner Shumway and retiring Com,
missioner Fred Beckmann, Attorney
General Reed. State Auditor w. II.
Smith State Superintendent Glenn
mons and retiring Superintendent A.
O. Thomas, Treasurer George Z.
Hall, the judges of the supreme court,
including the new members, Judges
A, ]. Cornish and James X. Dean;
the board Of control and President
Pro Tenn John Mates OF the senate
and Speaker Jackson of the house.
Morehead to Move.
Governor Morehead will vacate the
governors mansion Friday or Sat-
urday, and will move his household
goods direct to Falls City, where he
will take up his residence in one OF
his own houses
On account OF a hitch in the time
Of the expiration Of the lease, it may
be that Governor Morehead will not
be able to get possession for few
days. At any event, he says, he will
vacate the mansion. Governor ELECT
Neville expects to move into the gov
ernor's home the first of next week.
Lee Metcalfe Secretary.
Governor Keith Neville arrived at
the State house this afternoon and,
after announcing the. appointment Of
Lee Metcalfe for private secretary,
gave out the following minor appoints
ments:
Miss Alice McElfresh, now stenog-
rapher in the Office of the governor,
to be chief clerk in the labor COM
missioner's Office.
Miss Lenore Daley, up to six
months ago a stenographer in the
Office of the labor commissioner, to
return to that position.
Miss Anna Whelen, stenographcr
with the game warden, reappointcd.
Miss Bernice Owen and Miss Janet
Carnaby lose out in the labor COM
missioner's office and have not To-
| Gated themselves as vet.