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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Only Three Days Left to
File Bills; Expect an
Average Of 100 Each Day
Burney Bill Was Biggest Event in Legislature Last
Week-Flood of Salary Bills Prove Re-adjust-
ment Period-Victor Reynolds, Douglas
County, Is Making Fine Record

men IN the state attended the hear
ing and today they are saying it
was a good thing as it helped to
clarity and smooth out an irritating
situation.
Every speaker agreed that the
Standardization of the curriculum of
schools would be good thing, as
we'll as supervision of all schools by
state and county school officers, also
certification of teachers and the
adjustment of foreign language in
struction below the eighth grade.
Standardization will bring about
greater efficiency" said one prom
inent Catholic layman, "and super
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

he used his talents along seeming
ly legitimate lines and became a
millionaire several times over.
Still Gives It "once Over"
He is still alive and every now
and then when the legislature is in
session comes back and gives it the
"once over" He, better than most
persons, realizes that times change
and men and methods with them.
Every lobbyist in the old days
maintained sideboard stocked with
plenty of cigars and the choicest
wines and liquors in his rooms. In
the house lobby the other day was
witnessed the spectacle Of one lob
byist borrowing cigar from an
other. No longer does the amber
liquor flow like water to loosen the
tongues of legislators causing them
to reveal secrets or make indiscreet
utterances as well as illegal prom
Uses.
Right in the State House.
Some of the old members of the
legislature remember the time when
there was nook in the cellar of
the state house that was as we'll
stocked with liquid refreshments as
any saloon in Omaha before the
state went dry. 1t had its porter
and its bartender who dispensed the
liquid cheer free as air to members
of the assembly. They knew who
the donors were, and on the prin-
ciple that one favor deserved an
other, the service certainly paid.
Birds of feather would flock to-
gether after the daily sessions and
many hilarious party was planned
and staged for the edihcation of the
members who could be lured by the
bait of illicit pleasure. Painted De-
lilahs, wine and song, were the at
fractions and many a member was
caught in a mesh of this kind of
weaving that was used as a means
of blackmailing him into voting the
way the lobbyists wanted him to
afterward.
Lincoln is free of these condi-
tons now. There is none of the
old time venal lobbyists who will
try to seduce the members of the
legislature by brides of money or
any other valuable thing
Changed in 1907.
The men who assemble there to
make the laws are of a different
type than those who gathered in
the olden days. The turn for the
better began with the legislative
session of 1907, republican legisla-
ture, which passed more real reform
laws than any assembly that ever
gathered in the history of the state.
Even the old time lobbyists have
grown respectable and they hate to
relate the details of any of the
tricky turns and deals they turned
in the halcyon days of their youthful
activities.
They see, in the modern lobbyist,
a new type of man, a person with
different methods, one who seeks to
gain his point by brain power and
respectable methods, rather than by
the good-natured, corrupting Chi
canery OF the old days.
They sigh, though, over memories
of the battles they fought in the
third house with political bosses
who would try to slip one over"
on the corporation interests, either
for revenge or the hope of larger
rewards as a bride to their power.
For they were giants in those
davs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
BY a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. l.-Qniy three
more legislative days remain in
which new bills can be introduced
and to permit the legislative bureau
to catch up with its work, the SEN
ate adjourned Thursday to Monday
afternoon, and the house Friday to
Tuesday afternoon, both branches
hoping that during the interval the
hundreds of bills in the process of
incubation will be Matched by the
bureau.
1t is expected that during the
three days that remain there will be
at least 100 bills per day intro
duced.
The Burney Bill.
One of the main events last week,
was the hearing held on the Bur
ney bill to eliminate parochial and
private schools in the state and
make the attendance of children at
public schools compulsory.
Many of the leading Catholic lay
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
French and British
Assume Control Of
Turkish Railroads

Washington, Feb. Ian official
report to the State department to.
day announced that the French and
British authorities had assumed con-
troll of all railroads. in European and
Asiatic Turkey, in accordance with
the terms of the armistice, and that
the allies also had taken over con-
troll of the Constantinople police and
the German and Austrian banks in
the Turkish capital.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Many Salary Bills.

The great flood of salary bills
that have been introduced in the
house and senate indicates that there
is a period of readjustment now
on, which has been delayed for two
years because of war conditions. The
same conditions. too, will have the
effect of making the appropriations
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02


to Leave a PIatefuI Of Food Picked Al.
People who nibble at food can recall
the time when they ate heartily Of any
thing they liked. There was no dyspepsia
then, no stomach trouble, because there
was a plentiful supply Of digestive juices.
You can bring back the good old times if
you follow each meal with Stuart's Dys~
pepsia Tablets. They relieve sour stom-
aeh, water brash, heartburn. gas, rumb-
Iings, bad breath. coated tongue and dead,
dull, stupid feeling.
Sit down TO your next meal and eat
heartily. Enjoy your food in peace. Let
your appetite have full play. When all
through. take q couple Of Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets and fear no consequences.
Thousands have taken this advice and
been glad they did.
Get q SO cent box Of Stuart's Dyspep-
STA Tablets from your druggist
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

bills bulk large in the eyes OF the
taxpayers at the adjournment Of the
session.
Many of the members say that the
bulk of the appropriation measures
are of real merit and necessity and
whatever huge showing they may
make in the aggregate will be JUS
titled by the great increase in the
taxable wealth that has been created
in the state in the past few years.
A bill that has been introduced in
the house to increase the amount al
lowed sheriffs for the feeding OF
prisoners in the county Jail may
meet with some opposition on the
part of one or two of the Douglas
county members.
The bill should be so amended as
TO provide that the feeding of pris-
oners in the Douglas and Lancaster
county jails, which have the largest
average jail populations in the state,
should be done by the county in the
same manner that the county feeds
all other inmates of its institutions,
instead of allowing the sheriff so
much per capita for each prisoner.
Has Bee in Bonnet
1t is a matter of gossip around
the state house that Theodore M.
Osterman, Merrick county represent
tatiVe, is nursing a congressional bee
in his bonnet on the strength of the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Other Bills Doomed to Die.

Other bills which had a tendency
to raise religious issues will UNI
doubtedly be killed in committee.
The house, with such large per-
centage of new members, is finding
itself. Representatives new to par
liamentary usages are getting over
their self-consciousness and are be-
ginning to be heard in debates and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

vision and inspection OF the schools
will eliminate the bigot who attacks
our system of education and points
to a supposed element of mystery
and isolation connected with the
paroehial school to give foundation
to his calumnies."
As a result of the hearing, which
brought out the fact that nearly
every representative of paroehial,
private and UNCONVENTIONAL schools
were heartily in favor of an Ameri-
canization plan, a bill will undoubt-
edly be passed which will provide
that no alien will be permitted to
teach in the elementary schools, all
teachers must have certificates,
schools will be subjected to the SUI
peryision and inspection Of the
proper school officers, studies will
be standardized So that civics and
history will have prominent parts,
and teaching of foreign languages
below the eighth or tenth grades
ahoiished
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Franklin Economy
Us. Heavy Car Inefficiency
10000 miles to the set Of fires-insteod Of 5000

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the public interested than today the id an
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

car and you'll find the answer Heavy weight and hgdity
numerically pound dresthey get chance to
Franklin Light Weight is reinforced by Flexible
Construction which unfangy absorbs the pounds and hru
Of the toughest roads. And Franklin often wh
out spare They are simply conscious Of tires; fOe they
free from the sharp reminder Of ireEoublQ.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

As and motorists find the franklin Car
sstenty delivering economical service of 20 miles the
gallon of gasoline of the usual TO- 10000 miles to the
of resinsad Of the usual 000 and high resale value
instead of fre-sale pcehey asking for explains
ton. And finding it in word, WEIGHT.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

Heavy Weight in motor car is distinctly Iablit-not
an asset Unnecessary weight bound waste Weight
requires power in proportion to it, and represents excess
costs that cannot be justified by performance
The Frankin-America's First Light Weight Fine Carts
based on the engineering ideal of Lghness with Strengthen
the principle that weight does not mean strength That
on the contrary the highest motoring efficiency only result
from light weight scientifically distributed and properly supported
And for sixteen years. the facts Of franklin performance have
demonstrated the merit Of the principle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Wzot Eankls ''Eay-RolSng' Means

The entire result of Franklin ghtnes balance and hsz-
Utility is summed up in the phrase, "EayROling" which
mnimized friction. It explains not only the remark
able Franklin economy but also its riding comfort ih quick
responsiveness, its and safety of handling.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
The Story HIy the Gasoline Tanks

Take Gasoline. Heavy weight friction, wear and
rag-and aluays shos up n the gasoline tank Free from
the handicap of weight the Franklin uize its fuel deliver
power the wheels in sheer driving force And the re-
suit the steady daybyday delivery of 20 miles and more to
the gallon of gasoline
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02
Some" Beefsteak.

He went to the hotel where Rob
erts was staying, found the door OF
the latter's room locked, but the
resourceful officer climbed through
the transom and found the sick
member sitting up in bed, the pic
ture of health and engaged in de-
youring a beefsteak two inches
thick and two feet long.
Roberts was hailed before the
house and voted for the vets. He
was nicknamed$ Beefsteak" Roberts
by the house, and still bears that
name although years have since
transpired. He is now living in
Oklahoma.
One of the richest men on the
Pacific coast got his start lobbying
at Lincoln for the bridge trust in
the old days. He literally purchas-
ed votes at so much per head, by
the crudest and rawest methods, but
he escaped investigation and after
a long period Of profitable immunity
in Nebraska went out west where
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-02

he used his talents along seeming
ly legitimate lines and became a
millionaire several times over.
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two men run parallel at college, at
the law and in politics. II was never
compelled. said the Senator to the
writer ito sell newspapers or to black
boots. Nor" he added after a mo-
mentary pause. did ever work on a
farm or teach school,"
Youthful as he was Augustus Bran
degee became a leader in the Con-
nectlcut Legislature. He was hostile
to slavery, and as chairman of a spe-
cial committee managed the passage
Of the first prohibition law ever en-
acted in Connecticut. In 1855, being
2S years old. he made a speaking tour
for John c. Fremont, whom the re-
Gently organized Republican party had
nominated for President, and as an
elector cast his vote for Fremont with
the other electors OF his State.
Then In 1868, after having done Inn
portant war work at home. Augustus
Brandegee, 95 years old, was sent to
Congress- being the youngest member
elected TO the House OF Representa-
tives. Frank b., his son, entered Con-
gress at the age OF SS.
Augustus Brandegee often saw and
counselled with Abraham Lincoln. As
delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1854 he voted for Lin
coins denomination: and Connecticut,
abandoning Hannibal Hamlin. led the
stampede that resulted In the selection
Of Andrew johnson for Vice. President.
At Chicago in 1880 Augustus Brands-
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From this man came John, a grand
son. and then Augustus and then
Frank B., the Senator in Congress.
Iohn went to New Orleans, where he
made fortune as broker in cotton
and where, under Gen. Jackson. on
January 8, 1915. he gave battle to
the British. Returned to Connect
cut, he settled in New London, en-
gagged in the business of catching
whales. in buying and selling real
estate, In founding banks and in the
building of railroads.
Such was the Senator's grandfather
Ia driving and resourceful character.
He lived In large brick house and
was honored and Of course envied,
surreptitlously, more or less. His
wife. the daughter of Capt. Daniel
Deshon, was Of Huguenot blood. Capt.
Daniel in the Revolutionary War
commanded the old Defence, an
armed vessel put into service by the
new State of Connecticut to night the
| British.
Senator Brandeges's grandparents.
John and his wife, had three sons.
The eldest. also John. having been
named for his father, was an Episco-
pal clergyman; Frank was a physi-
clan at New London, and Augustus
was a lawyer In the same city.
The latter. Augustus was the SEN
ator's father. Like his son Frank b.,
he graduated at Yale at the age OF
| twenty-one. The life lines OF these
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It was vulcanized. So began the rub
Der industry
The inventor OF the cotton gin, Eli
Whitney, obtained n contract to sup
ply guns to the United States Army.
Until that time every part of a rife
or musket had been made by hand
wrought at the forge with patient
labor and fine skill. Whitney discov-
cred the principle OF Standardization,
OF the manufacture OF many parts at
time and their Interchangeable
Any trigger was made to Mt any gun.
Colt and his revolver were developed
in Connecticut. The first axe factory.
capacity six axes a day, was estab-
iished not far distant from Hartford.
The first halter in Dandy worked with
his own hands and produced eighteen
hats a week. Howe and Wilson con-
tributed sewing machines to the well
fare and liberation of women. "As
shrewd as Connecticut Yankee" has
been a common phrase outside OF the
State for moro than a century.
The progenitor of the Brandegees OF
New England was weaver by trade
Among the Platts were many farmers
Jacob Brandegee. Jr., the weaver
moved to Great Swamp Village in
Connecticut from New York. He kept
store and became the owner OF YES
sells engaged In the West India trade
In 1893, at the age Of IS, he died NJ
sea-
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.Brandegee Devotes
HisWholeEnergyto
Anericanize Treaty
Little Given to Oratory but Ever
Watchful and Active, the Senator S
Methods Bear Striking Similarity
to Those of Platt, Whose Politi-
cal Heir He Became
By JAMES B. MORROW.

Is learned in ones youth-at school
and at college. Beveridge OF Indiana
can write three long political speeches
and carry all of them In his mind at
once, word for word, and deliver any
OF them at moments notice"
Nor did Orville II. P1att often adj
dress the Senate, of which he was q
member for twenty-six years. Yet,
like Brandeiyee. he was ready for on
hand debate on many subjects. Seem
ingly, also like Brandegee. he had no
desire to see his name in print. But
this austere Puritan lawyer loved to
live in the woods, to search the fields
for flowers and to stand in the water
and whip a brook for trout
Plat Made Him an Heir.
In him were the very elements of
joy and sunshine, but strangers did
not see them. Brandegee possesses
those elements, but they are not hid
den from sight. Men can read them
In his manner and get a reflection Of
them In his deepest of dark blue eyes.
The writer wishes to believe and
does believe that he was the last news
Plat at length. Then, also, a debat-
able treaty was up and the weather
in Washington was unbearably moist
and hot.
Nevertheless. although lacking but
two years of being four score, Senator
Platt stood gamely at his post. Not
an hour was missed. And even then
he had written q letter to Augustus
Brandegee. father Of Frank B. Bran
degee, in which he expressed the hope
that this mans only son would be his
successor in the Senate.
It Is difficult to separate, at least
for the writer, In an article Of the
present sort, Piatt and Brandegee, so
dissimilar and 30 alike: men of Con-
| nectcut. both. belonging to the same
type. The Platts Of old and the Bran
degees Of the same generation lived in
Connecticut when the farmers. OF that
State, driven by the stony and barren
nature Of their lands into expedients
for their existence. became q race of
skilled artisans and inventors.
Men Of Connecticut made their own
boots. clocks, agricultural implements
and tinware. Pedlers on foot travelled
from farm to farm buying axes in
one region and trading them for pitch
forks in another. One man estab-
iished a reputation for fashioning ram
rods and steelyards. Eli Terry, the
| first cloclSmaker. carried his stock OF.
the back of horse and exchanged It
for country produce. He invented the
scroll case and gained a small fortune
thereby. One OF his worl1men, Chaun-
cey Jones, substituted brass wheels for
| those OF wood.
Thus came the clock industry to
cnnecticut-through a farmer who
dug a scant living from between the
rocks and who was driven by neces-
sity into better business. Itinerant
statesmen carried the clocks. on foot,
in wagons or on horseback into the
West.
One of them also carried a formula
for making matches, which he sold to
George Bar'per in Ohio. and o. c. Bar
Der, Georges son. peddled the matches
made by his father. and, falling heir
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gee made the nominating speech for
Elihu B. washburn, up for the Presi-
dency. In 1884 he performed the same
service for Gen. Joseph r. Hawley.
Little. nationally, has been printed
Nabout Augustus Brandegee; little. also,
of his son. The father could have been
the Governor of his State and SEN
ator in Congress. He preferred. how
ever, to be lawyer. and that IL what
he hoped his son would be.
81 had almost promised my father
not to he a candidate for the United
States Senate" Frank B. said to the
writer. He had devoted almost fifty
years in building up his business and
It was profitable and he desired me to
continue 1t. But he died late In the
year 1904. and in the following May
our Republican legislative caucus
nominated me for Senator to fill the
unexpired term OF Orville II. Plat
And here / am"
And II was a famous caucus, being
held at Hartford and continuing Tor
twelve hours. There were four candi-
dates, and Brandegee was only the
second strongest man during, the ear
Hest OF the thirty-seven ballots. Then
1t became known 10 some OF Brande-
gees friends that P,att, before his
death. had written a letter. naming
Brandegeo as his political heir.
knowledge of the letter. which was
"
Cohtiaalod on Seth Pa0A
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man spies. These conspirators were
foiled by means Of 1t when they sought
to plant Internal machines and contra
band rubber and nickel into bales of
cotton. German munition workers did
actually place steel needles and various
metal objects in bags of powder in
United States Government arsenals,
but the X-ray discovered them before
they could do harm. By 1t defects In
shells and guns were found and dozens
of other tricks OF the enemy were
brought home to him before We were
actually in the war.
An illustration. Figure 8, reveals how
these discoveries were made. Power
full X-rays were directed on bullets
and shells. How they were loaded.
what was the amount Of powder used,
was revealed. A different shadow II
cast on the X-ray plate or microscope
FOR each different material. Defects
in the loading and assembling OF shells
frequently were detected IN this way
at the great shell factories and ar
senals. thus preventing misfires and
premature explosions.
Looking Into Cotton Bales.
Figure 1 shows a large x-ray ma
chine being used to detect the pres
ence of contraband rubber or metal
placed in bales of cotton. A number
Of these X-ray machines were used yat
the leading cotton shipping ports Of
the South during the war. Internal
machines timed TO go of at sea were
often detected in this way. although
little or nothing was ever said about
these discoveries for very good rea-
sons. II these discoveries on the part
of Uncle Sans secret service and ship
ping experts had been made public
at the time naturally the perpetrators
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visible cracks caused by strain in the
process of cooling are instantly de-
tected and the defective wheel aban-
doned. For such purposes an X-ray
is used in the manner illustrated in
Figure s. The X-ray tube, together
with exciting spark coil, batteries, &C.,
are placed in portable carrying case
which can be placed behind the car
wheel or other object. The fiuoro-
scope, or in special places the X-ray
plate in It's light proof holder. is placed
before the car wheel or other object.
A few seconds exposure to the X-ray
gives a skiagraph or x-ray photo
! graph on the plate, which Is after
ward developed and printed. or the
image may be, and usually is, ex-
amined on the negative itself. no print
being made. OF course II the fiuoro-
scope Is used for directly viewing the
object under examination then the OBJ
ject is seen clearly at once and vari-
Gus parts of It examined by moving
the Horoscope over the surface.
The by-results of the use Of the
X-ray are too many to be catalogued;
it is used in the large diamond mines
of South Africa, where diamond miners
frequently have been known TO
swallow a particularly rich stone. Now
as each miner at the end Of a days
work has to submit to an X-ray ex-
animation If he has introduced one
into his body 1t is at once detected.
See Figure S. X-ray therapy, which is
carried out in the same way. is shown
in moving pictures and is a branch Of
medical science which promises won
derful results when it is put in gen.
eral use. 1t will serve great ends, II
is said, in the treatment OF cancer and
various skin diseases. The new devel-
opment is illustrated by Figure 10.