The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-22
SIDE LIGHTS ON
ELECTION IN NEB.

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until midnight to file acceptance OF
his nomination. The Secretary OF
State of Nebraska awaited him al
a hotel at Lincoln, where he ar.
rived in time, and his name was
placed on the special ballot by tele-
graph by the Governor. At the
primary election six days later he
won by a plurality of something
more than 1000, and majority OF
1000 over the next highest candi.
date.
The Sixth Congressional Dis.
trict of Nebraska is Republican by
about 10000. 1t is safe to say
that because of the great popularity
and splendid character of Mr.. Hum.
phery the district will register more
than that Republican majority this
year, and that this typical Western
man is just the same as elected
member of the Sixty-eighth Con
gress now. "The nomination is the
election" they say in the Sixth, anc
this nomination certainly was ten.
dered con a silver platter" Fur.
ther, as Mr.. Humphrey smilingly
informed your correspondent, 81
didn't spend a cent for it, which
makes it all the better"
"The young man who does not
get into politics nowadays makes
great mistake, in my opinion,
is the sentiment of this honored
Nebraskan. ''But the man, young
or old, who conceives the idea that
graft is part of the game is even
more in error. Thou shalt not
steal is as immutable a law as the
one which unerringly regulates the
revolution of the earth or causes the
sun to give it's ligh. No man can
violate it without encountering
physical, mental, and moral ruin"
It appears certain that the chair
manship of the committee on irri-
cation of arid lands will 60 to a
Western man. Sinnott of Oregon,
the ranking member since the death
of Judge Kinkaid, is chairman of
the committee on public lands
Little Of Kansas, next man, is chair
man of the committee on revision of
the laws; Smith of Idaho, third, is
chairman of alcoholic liquor traffic,
which is not important, and he may
be selected; otherwise the choice
will be Summers of Washington,
now serving his second term in the
House. At any rate the West will
have an able representative as head
Of this Ito it) highly important
House committee.
The House reconvened Tuesday
after its recess. There was a con-
siderable flood of private pension
and relief bill (which look good to
many members just before cleo
tom, but no quorum. Members
are not coming back promptly, be-
cause there is absolutely nothing
the House can do. Sessions of but
few minutes duration have been
held this week. A plan for three
day recesses is expected. The Demo-
cratic minority may oppose this be-
cause they wish to appear as being
anxious to act on the Muscle Shoals
proposition Immediately it may
come from the Senate.
After a 26-minute session the
first day the House formally ad-
journed as further mark of re-
spect to the memory Of Senator
Crow and Representative Kinkaid
and Padgett, who have passed on
during the recess.
Since the defeat in the primary
election of Representative Campbell
of Kansas, chairman of the House
committee on rules, great interest
is manifested in the campaign of
Smell of New York, who will be
ranking member of the committee
if he is returned.
Reports of the census Of 1920,
now coming forth. are the first in
which the population living on
farms has been tabulated separately
from rural population as a whole.
A postoffice will be established
at Tempest, eighteen miles from
Phoebe, Lincoln county, with Hubert
L. Pierce as postmaster. Bryan
piorco will ha pa,uad oc<;r~ 800