Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1910, Page 1

+ i @ THE OMAHA BEE the most powerful business gotiter ih the wost, because it goes to the home# of poor and rich. Fra—— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. WEATHER FORECAST, Fair jenerally For Nebraska For lowa-—( nd warmer. falr. l For weather report see puge 2 VOL. AFT IN TRIUMPH | AT SESSILZ \ END. “ President Sees ~Hh~u“ X gram Carried Throu gress Completel % | UNCLE JOE STICKS TO HIS % ° Speaker Rules House in Closing Hours of Its Session. “ | COMMENT ON THE RECORD MADE { Members Speak in Praise of the Laws | Enacted, 1 WHAT NEBRASKANS HAVE TO 5AY Burkett, Brown and HMitehcock AN Kndorse the Raflrosd Luw as COne Measure of Greatest ' lmportance. (I'rom o Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, June 26.—(Special Tele: gram.)—WIith every impuriant pledge of the republican party’s platform redeemed by logietation, with a list of laws for the rellof of the people and the betterment of soclul conditions unequalled by any con- gress In history, the first regular and s ond session of the Sixty-first congress ended Tast night. It is regarded on all hands as having been most imporiant in its every aspect and reully revolutionary in many. The,revolt in the house, which culminated in the virtual overturning of the speaker as the wutocrat of that budy, was the most sensational phase of the session, and In a large way overshadowed Its actual accom- plishment. But the congress, under the in- spiration and guidance of President Taft, has achleved results that must be for the good of the peopla of the United Btates. President Taft set his heart upon the ac- complishment of & definite legislative pro- gram and he has achleved it. The new raflroad law, inost comprehensive and sweeplng iu its provisions, even cailed drastie in it regulations; the postal sav- ings bill, the commerce court, the tariff couit, th¢ admission of two new states— Arisona and New Mexico—are but the high (4pote in the record. The president lag fully established himself as an cner- getio and capable leader of legislation, as well as an executive of firmness and abli- ity. He stands before the American people today stronger and more completely es- tablished in his office than even his most ardent advocates had expected. “Unele Joe” Rules to B A nate of pathos sounded in the speech of Speaker Ca.nom, and yet it had the ring of ne quarter, either asked or given. He accepted the majority's ruling with equanimity, and he turned down today pressing requests of Tepresentatives that they be recognized for consideration of bills with the eaey nonchalance of one W-w.m Aeny .*unanimous ::Q 0y, cR“has been the power in the passage of bills in numberless sessions of congress heretofore with a wave of his hand, & flip of his customary cigar, and the sententious “Nothing doing, boyp, at the cld In the senate, Vice President Sherman made a felicltcus speech of the *‘Sunny Jim" variety. Mr. Sherman has proven himself not only an exceptionally capable presiding officer, but he has displayed a very large knowledge of senate precedents and laws, which has stood him In good stead throughout the sessions of this con- gress. His smile, llke that of President Tatt, has dismayed the enemies of the administration, end the smile, coupled with a determination to fultill the party pledges behind it, has worked almost a revolution in legislation. Burkett is Elated. Senator Burkett, who looks upon the achlevements of the session In the way of leglsiation desired by the president as start- ling in character, s also elated over the number of Important measures which he got through for Nebraska, having secured an appropriation of $100,00 for the Lincoln postottice bullding, $15.00 for a postoffice eite at Chadron, $25,00 fof' a Tifle range In Nebraska, $25,00 for the establishment of a fish hatchery station in Nebraska, to- gether with ample provision for bullding of employes' quarters, blacksmith shop and superintendent's cottage at the Genoa In- dian school. He also secured the passage ot his LIl glving settlers on reclamation projects the right to transfer their title after they hnd lived there the period re- quired for homestead entry, notwithstand- ing the fact that they had not proven up thelr case under the reclamation act. Among other things the senator got through was the Omaha Indian bill, for the settlement of accounts of Omaha In- | dians with the government. This matter has been pending in congress for the last dozen or fifteen years. He has also secured favorablp reports upon his bills for the es- tablishment of a school of forestry at Ne- braska City, and for the federal inspection of lpcomotive boilers. Behind this latter bill stand the employes of rallways and the president of the United States, and it is belleved, with a favorable report from the committee on interstate commerce, its passage at the next session s assured. wsion Stands Unegualed. ( No sesslon of congress in the history of the nation has sccomplished such far- reaching legisiation for the benefit of the people of United States as has been ac- complished in less than eighteen moaths of President Taft's administration. “Almost revolutionary,” wa: the way Senator Horah of ldaho characterized the sesslon which ended tonight. nd over and above all,” he continued, ‘“‘was the enactment of railroad rate legisiation, ‘which is most drastic In character. Then came the legislation for postal savings banks; then the reclamation measures, with the creation of a commerce court, and a bureau of mines, untl I am positively dazed when I think of what has been ac- complished in two weeks. Never has the republican party faced & campalgn better conditioned to tell the people for what it stands, and what it has accomplished, than now, and victory is in the air."” Ballrond Bill Endorses Glibert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, one of the democratie minority, who leaves for Omahs tonight, said: “The most popular move that the administration made, in my judgment, was when Mr. Taft got out an injunction against the raiiroads, and one ' of the acceptable legislative enactments of this session was the passage of the ratlroad rato bill. Now, you are not going to quote me as pralsing President Taft's achlove- ments, in accomplishing much = that he | Spanish War Hayward club. OMAH!/ MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 19 Spanish War Veterans Will Be for Hayward Spanish War Hayward Club Formed with Leading Young Men on Its Roll (By a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Ju 20.—(R|pecial.)—The sol- diers of the Spanish war are organiz- g in the First district to help send Col- onel Willlam Hayward to congress. The movement is well under way. Nearly @ hundred have signed the membership roll in Lincoln alone and as many more in the countles outside. Officers have been elected and the following constitution adopted: “First—The name of this club shall be the “Second—The officers ehall be a presi- dent, secretary, treasurer and an advisory board of ten or more members. “Third—Recognizing that Colonel Willlam Hayward of Nebraska City, Neb., is un- questionably the best qualified of any can- didate yet suggested for congress in the First dlstriet of Nebraska, and knowing him to be a former comrade In the service of the Unjted States who was a faithful soldier and an efficient, honorable and considerate officer, the object of this club shall bs to advance his candidacy &nd to use every honorable means and influence to secure his nomination and election.” John Westover of Lincoln js president. Westover was in the First Nebraska and was wounded in the Philippines. He was a famous foot ball player on the Nebraska team, taking Hayward's place at right tackle when the latter graduated and was afterwards captain of the team. Governor George L. Sheldon is vice presi- dent, and on his return to the state, ex- pects to take an active interest in Hay- ward's support. The two men are life- long friends and Sheldon wanted to appoint | Hayward as adjutant general of the state when he was governor, the latter being unable to accent on account of his busi- ness. Willlam McClay of Lincoln was selected as secretary, and Dr. Larsh 8. Gllman of Havelbek, a sergeant in Hayward's company, as treasurer. The advisory board Includes such men as C. A. Rawls of Plattsmouth, Judge Paul Jessen of Nebraska City, John F. Pope, editor Burchard Times Lieutenant Han- sen of Bennett, Larue Brown, a brother of Senator E. P. Brown, of Lancaster; Frank P. Majors, a son of Colonel Majors, of Peru, who was In the Nebraska City company; Selby R. Beman, Fritz Nicklas of Byracuse, Edwin D. Fisher of Falls City, Fred Gilbert of Stella, A. M. Hus- ton of the Fifty-first Iowa, of Pawnee; Herbert H. Hay of Auburn, and U. G. Souverelgn of Johnson county. Active headquarters have been opened in the Richards block here and every soldier in the IMrst district whether of the civil or Spanish war, will be asked to join in the movement, no other soldler than Hayward being a candidate and it being the first opportunity the young soldiers have had to send one of their own comrades to Wash- Ington. Colonel Hayward has just returned from the Roosevelt reception.at New York, which he attended as the delegate of the Union Veterans' Republican elub of Lincoln. The meeting of the federation of clubs was adfourned until September, King George Has Task on His Hands Seeks to Bring About Peace Between the Chiefs of the Rival British Factions in Parliament. LONDON, June 2.—(Special Cablegram.) —King George is asserting himself to the full extent of the royal prerogative to bring about an agreement in the conference be- tween the chiefs of the rival parties. He has expressed it as his imperative desire and in this matter, Queen Mary is under- stood to be taking & strong line, that when the coronation occurs next spring the so- called constitutional issue shall be an ac- complished fact and well in the back- ground. While the king has let it be known that he will not Intervene In the deliberations unless invited unanimously to do o, he s sald to be fully persuaded of the danger likely to follow a flasco and to be de- termined to prevent one. On every side signs of approval of his attitude mul- tiply. Instead of resenting It as a peril to the liberties of parllament, the British are placing themselves behind him in his endeavor to heighten the efficlency of the parliamentary system by making both houses effective. He is regarded to a de- gree higher than any party leader as the champlon of the workable compromise that public opinion demands without fur- ther factional warfare. Scandinavian Lesgue to Meet. SIOUX FALLS, & D., June 26.—(Special.) —Martin Bergh of this city, secretary of the Scandinavian league of South Dakota, a political organization, has called a meet- ing of the league, to be held In Sloux Falls, July 5, at the same time as the re- publican state convention is In session. In the past the regular meetings of the league have been held just prior to the June pri- maries, when the league has endorsed can- didates who come before the voters of South Dakota, but this year the league, as an organization, took no part in the pri- mary election. The league claims to rep- resent 25,00 Scandinavian voters of the state. THURSTON'SNAME | ISUPIN CONGRESS Former Nebraska Senator Mentioned in Connection with Oklahoma Indian Land Frauds. PROMPTLY ASKS INVESTIGATION Both Houses Name Committees to Probe the Charges. EX-KANSAS SENATOR ON THE SPIT Allegation Made that Red Men Have Lost Millions of Dollars. TROUBLE GROWS OUT OF LEASES Closing Hours of the National Legin- lnture Marked by a Senaation of Most Gigantie Propor- tions. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Kach house of congress marked its closing hour by voung for an investigation of the MeMurray In- dian contracts. Instead of the usual scene of comparatively undignified reluxation from the business of legislition, both houses devoted exceedingly serious atten- tlon to the charges of attempted bribery and other forms of improper Intiuence made In the senate yesterday by Benator Gore of Oklahoma and subsequently in the house of representatives by Representative Mur- phy of Missouri. Senator Hughes in presenting a reso- lution for a senate investigation stated that Senator Gore's mccusations were so grave that they could not be Ignored. The reso- lution went through without opposition. It 15 as follows: Text of Resolutions. “Resolved, That a committees of flve be appointed by the chaii be, and is hereby directed to investigate and report whether any senator of the United States is, or during his term of office has been interested or connected with legisiation affecting the approval of Indlan coutracts or has done anything because of sald Interest, whether any improper atiempts or efforts to prevent or to secure the passage of a statute af- fecting the approval of Indlan contracts have been made at this session of congress, and sald cormmittee 1s authorized to sit and proceed in the vacation.” Letter from Thursten. At Senator Carter's instance a letter was read from ex-Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska, demanding an investigation. Proceeding upon the theory that Mr, Gore had made a charge against him, he said that he was entirely Inaocent, He sald, however, that in connection with ex-Senator Long of Kansas he had acted as counsel for McMurray, Speaker Cannon appolrited the following committee to conduct the house investiga- tion: R RSN “Messrs. Burke, South Dakota, chairmi Campbell, Kansas; Miller, Minnesot: Stephens, Texas, and Saunders, Virginia. “Vice President Sherman announced the following committee to conduct the senate investigation: Senators Jones, Washington; Ohlo; Crawford, South Dakota; Colorado, and Percy, Mississippi. To Sift the Matter. Two separate investigations are provided for, one in each house. Each body adopted a resolution creating a select committee of five members to pursue the inquiry to the bottom during recess of congress and to report whether any of its members are, or have been interested in any of these con- tracts, Until a late hour in the day it looked rather as if the matter would go by de- tault. But as soon as the two houses re- convened at 9 o'clock tonight, after a re- cess since afternoon, the matter come up with a rush and crowded galleries listened with Intense interest to the proceedings which ended in the vote to probe the charge During the proceedings in the senate In the “marble room’ adjoining the senate chamber were ex-Senators Long of Kansas and Thurston of Nebraska, who have been mentioned in connection with the Indian contract matter, as well at Attorney J. F, McMurray of McAlester, Okl, whom Sena- tor Gore named as the principal owner of the Indian contracts in question. McGuire Other Man. Mr. McGuire of Oklahoma, who was the member of the house referred to by Senator Gore in his speech in the senate yesterday as the house member who had been repre- sented to him as being Interested in the McMurry claims, brought the matter be- fore the house tonight by rising to a ques- tion of personal phivilege and demanding an Investigation Into the entire matter. He denied that he had or ever had any interest in the McMurry claims. He presented a resolution providing for an Investigation by a subcommittee of the Indian affairs committee to be appointed by the speaker. He asked the house to authorize a search- ing investigation of the matter. The house adopted a substitute resolution offered by Mr. Tawney of Minnesota, creating a committee of five to Investigate contracts with the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Osage tribes, the inquiry to embrace any acts of bribery, fraud or any other improper influence. The committee is to file its report, when completed, with the clerk of the house. Burton, Hughes, Politics Not T hing for Women, Says Watterson NEW YORK, June 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Colonel Henry Watterson of the Loulsville Courler-Journal, who Is affec- tionately spoken of throughout the coun- try as “Marse Henry,” in an interview has given some Interesting views on woman suffrage. He sald: “I deplore the agitation for women suf- frage and other related subjects because I think it tends to crvate sex antagon- fsm. Woman ls the moral light of the world. Without her influence, would be raving wolves. There could be no civilization. I.belleve in the widen- ing of woman's fleld of work. There ls practically no profession today in which | & capable woman cannot succeed. They are pald less for their work and that is wrong—but the ballot will not help slarted out to accomplish, are your" sald (Continued 9n Third Page) matters. The ballot is & very much over-estimated benefit in my opinion, and often & most unpleasant duty, If I eould men | remake the constitution I think I would take the voting power away from half the persons who exercisa it, and I would not infiict it upon womar. I hold her too high to wish to see her debauched by politics.” “But ing?" “Polftics {s muck,” replied Mr. Watter- son. “In any close contest, where the woman's vote was determining, the will |of the bad woman would control. Wo- man suffrage may work falrly well in sparsely settled communities like Colo- rado, but if it prevailed In the country at large it would debase womanhood. “You will find that most of the .advo- |cates of woman suffrage are dtscon- tented or childless,” the colonel con- tinued, “unless they are society women who, having exhausted the excitement of other amusements, have taken it up as . e politics necessarily debauch- From the Minneapolis Journal. THE 10—-TEN PAGES. cw,w ¥ . AIRSHIP IN 0 AGRICULTURE. SINGLI P i ) HITCHCOCK'S LITTLE SCHEME Filing of His Name for Congress May Be Bryan Slap. PIAN TO BEAT PEERLESS ONE Lincoln Workers Regard it as Done to Atford mn Excuse to Stay e Sefnbvinl (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, June 2%.—(Special.)~The fliing by petition of G. M. Hitchcock as a candi- date for re-nomination for congress on the democratic ticket after his own filing as candldate for United States senator, is still puzzling the wiseacres around the state house. Bvery one is sure there is some hldden purpose behind it, and there 1s considerable speculation as to what. it is.-One democratic oracle ventures this ex- planation: “That filing of Hitchcock for congress emanates from Hitchcock, himself, mark my word, and the purpose is to block the Bryan candidate for the senate. The game put down here by Bryan and his co- workers is designed to force Hitchcock off the track for senator by projecting Bryan, himself, and they intended to go to Hitch- cock and ask him to keep his place In con- gress for another two years with prom- ises of support for the senatorship when Norrls Brown's term expires. MHitchcock was then to withdraw for senator and file for congress. “Hitchcock got on to this when he was down here last time. Of course, he will not accept the present filing, and will then have an excuse to turn down the Bryan proposition by pointing to the fact that he can no longer get into the running to hold on to the place in congress he now has. As an argument why Bryan should keep out of the senatorlal list, it's a good scheme from the Hitchcock point of view, but it remains to be seen whether it will work out as planned.” Some others here think the filing is really a double shot on the aprt,of Hitch- cock and that he will accept so as to have an open door for retreat when Bryan's consent to run for senator shuts the other door, County Conventlon July 14, The republican county convention of Lancaster county will be held in Lincoln, July 14. At this convention delegates to the state conventlon will be selected. This date was fixed by the county committee at a meeting held yesterday. Chairman Ander- son has inaugurated & new wrinkle in these committes meetings by having the members come in to lunch for whiéh the hotels charge @ cents a plate. The business of the meeting begins as soon as the lunch is over. Those who do not care to spend the 60 cents are permitted to join the committee after the feed, High School and Parks. Lincoln's coming special election June 30, for the purpose of voting park and high school bonds, has been for several days a much discussed proposition. It seems to be the sentiment of the public that Lin- coln is certainly shy on a high school bullding and on parks, so the question at issue Is the amount of money which should be paid for these Improvements. The money requested for park purposes, $100,000, 1s to be used in the improvement and enlargement of Antelope park, $0,000, and the purchase of Lincoln park. It is at this last proposition that most of the criticism is being aimed. Many people be- lieve that the entire $50,000 remaining will be used to buy that park, which consists of something over 100 acres, while S. H. Burnham, one of the owners, Insists that he will accept a price fixed by three ap- praisers. Horace McFarlane, an imported “eity beautyfier,” after looking at Lin- coln park, announced that it would be cheap at any price for the eity, inasmuch as it has trees on It which it would take the city twenty-five years to grow, and it has other advantages. But the critics in- eist that Mr. McFarlane knows nothing about Lincoln park, and were he in the city during a rainy seasom he probably would have required a boat to inspect some Tl LCMI:IM on mm—f-_ Oregon Shippers Complain Against Harriman Rates Allege that Millions of Dollars Are Involved in Freight Tariffs on Small Lots. " WASHINGTON, June 2.~Milifdhs of db1- lars, it is alleged, ara involved in a com- plaint filed yesterday with the Interstate Commerce commission by the raliroad commission of Oregon. The complaint is directed against the Southern Pacific company and forty-three other Interstate carriers. It relates to frelght classes and commodities in less than carload lots, shipped from eastern points to towns and cities in Oregon, par- ticularly those in the Willamette valley. The rates are made by the addition of the rates from eastern points to Portland, Ore., and of what is known as an “ar- bitrary” from Portland to the point of destination. Heretofore the ‘“arbitrary” has been about ten cents a hundred pounds. In tarifts recently filed, the rallroads have increased this ‘arbitrary” to amounts ranging from 12 cents to 35 cents a hun- dred pounds. The complaint says that the “old rates have been voluntarily maintained for so long a perlod that the public had a right to belleve, and in face of the great rall- road earnings, every remson to expect, that at least as favorable rates would be main- tained In the future as in the last; that millions of dollars have been invested on the strength of this bellef in the manufac- turing and jobbing business in the Willa- mette valley and unless the old rates are restored it will mean ruin to many in- dustries.” Scen Too Many Demagogues. THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., June 26.—(Spe- clal.)—Bishop J. J. Keane of Cheyenne cre- ated a sensation by declaring there are in the country a swarm of demagogues preaching doctrines hopelessly. misleading and producing unsettled conditions in the business world. “There are too many dem- agogues and not enough statesmen,” he said, “and the crying need of our country at this time is a more soiid cordition in financ: Committees Are Appointed. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 2%.—(Special.)— At today's session of the State Federation of Labor committees were appointed to take charge of certain bills favorable to organized labor and urge passage of .same at the next leglslature. President Buckley urged union men to work for the election of men Who are known to be fair to organ- ized labor, Horses Killed, SIOUX FALLS, —While the young Girl Escapes. D., June %.—(Speclal.) daughter of Isaac J. tarmer, was driving a team of horses which were hitched to a corn cultivator, lightning struck and killed both horses. It is re- garded as little less than a mjracle tha the girl also was not killed. Tschetter, a prominent Hutchiuson county, GLENN CURTISS 1IN OMAHA of Sunday Here. CREIGHTON TRACT SUITS HIM Consults Colonel Welsh to Get a Line on His Alr Currents and Humid- Lot At Binge of Meet—Women May Take Alr Trip. Glenn Curtiss, the famous American aviator, spent yesterday in Omaha looking here July 23 to 27 Mr. Curtiss agreed that the Crelghton pasture at Forty-fifth and Military avenue, which Is favored by the local committee, will be a good site and the meet will un- doubtedly take place there. Krug park and Courtland beach were also Inspected, but there are good reasons against either. Mr. Curtiss arrived in the morning from Minneapolis in company with Clarke Powell and spent the day In the hands of Mr. Powell, T. R. Kimball, J. J. Deright and othér members of the Aero club of Nebraska. He left in the evening for his home in Hammondsport, N. Y. Mr Curtiss spent part of the afternoon interviewing Local Forecaster Welch of the weathen bureau regarding Omaha at- mospheric conditions. He asked about the average wind velocity in the latter part of July and the relative humidity. “You see,” sald he to Colonel Welch, “weo found a totally new condition in Minneapolls. The humidity was only about 24 per cent and the machines lost power, both as to lateral thrust of the propeliers and as to lifting capacity. The conse- quence was some of the machines would not fly at all, even with higher powered motors than usual.’ Successtul at Minneapol Mr. Curtiss did not say so, but he him- self was able to ascend every day at Minneapoils, aithough Willard and Mars were not. In fact, the aviator is a modest chap. He will talk about himself only when pressed and, while he s not unwilling to glve Informatfon, he is far from thrust- ing himeelf or his achlevements forward as a subject of ‘conversation. Ho declared In answer to a question that Omaha women desiring to fly will be given an opportunity i arrangements are made, “We have one machine for carrying a passenger,” said he, “and will do so if it is desired.” On his return to New York he will de- vote some time to machines being buflt there by his company to fly in the big fall meeting. He himself will take part in it, “Having won the international a year or 50 ago, it will be expected of me,” said the man who recently flew from Albany to New. York. Mr, Curtiss referred to the Wrights in spoaking of this meet, saying that he would not have considered entering had an ad- mission of infringement been thus made. ‘We “are not,” he added, “infringing on he Wright patents. It a different ng.” is NEW YORK, June 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)—It was announced late tonight that the group of allenists who are examining Porter Charlton, the self-confessed slayer of his wife at Lake Como in Italy, would make thelr official report on Tuesday, de- claring Charlton insane and recommending that he be sent to an asylum for the insane or a private sanitarium. According to the statements of the doec- tors, Chariton has displayed forty different maods since he whs locked up in the Hud- son county, New Jersey, jall. He has cried, laughed, roared with himself upon his bed in a frenzy and then | stood deflant. That is & statement from Dr. William Jerome Arlitz, one of the allenists ) employed by Judge Paul Charlton, father )of the young man, - . Porter Charlton Has Forty - Different Kinds of Insanity “He convinced me,” sald Dr. Arlitz to- | nignt, “that he is sutfering from a form of criminal insanity not unitke that which attilcted Harry Thaw. “There 'is no doubt that Charlton Is In- sane,” continued the doctor. “He has be- | come worse since he was arrested and the | confinement is telling on him with remark- ‘.blu rapldity. I questioned him for more than an hour on the subject of the lake | murder. He impressed me as the most emotional character 1 have ever seen ] “The dlagnosls, while not yet complete, sobbed, threw | bears out what I have learned of his early | |Mfe. There has always been insanity, but "n dla not «manifest itselt In acute form {until the committment of the murder. On | several occasions he has shown a wild rige | such as ts common in dementia praecox.” Noted Air Sailor Spends Large Part) over sites for the meet which will be held | R COPY. TWO . C - IN RESIGNATIONS |Three Omaha and Three Lincoln Leaders Drop Membership in Anti-Saloon League. MYSTERY IN FINANCES CAUSE ;Lysle I. Abbott and Five Others Join i in Significant Letter. | IMPORTED BOSS UNSATISFACTORY | | | | County and Precinct Organization Not Carried Out. |{POULON IGNORED DIRECTIONS Abbott, Patriek, Batten, Wimberly and MeBrien Set Out | the Facts and Drop from | the Directorate. Fellman, Six prominent members of the Nebraska Anti-8aloon league yesterday gned from that organization. They did 8o In an open léiter which dgnounces Morna 8. Poul- son of Lincoin, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league. This action, which wil jar prohibition county option clrcles of the stage. from rim to circumference, Is Ifkely to be fol- lowed by other resignations. men Privately, tae signing speak in even more severe terms than does their letter regarding Mr, 1 ulson’s refusals to follow the directions |of the headquarters committee of the lengue. In fact, one or two men who did sign this letter wished for a time to withhold their slgnatures because the statement is in thelr view not drastic enough, The headquarter mittee of the Antl- Saloon league has trled, it says, to pro- ceed systematically to have men elected to o the next legislature pledged to county option. With this end In view they have again and again directed Mr. Poulson to proceed to organize the state by precinct and county . Each time, they charge, he has promised to do so and has immediately broken his promise. Then agaln, the resigning men do not like what they call “the air of mystery” per- taining to the conduct of the finances of {the state league and say they have been unable to learn how much money s being gathered from church meetings and how it 18 being expended. Three Omaha men and three Lincoln men are the six who leave the board of trustees the headquarters committee of the Antl-Saloon league. Among them Is Rev. B. F. Fellman, formerly the head of the Douglas County Antl-Saloon league, and {Lysle L Abbott and W. R. Patrick. The Lincoln men are equally well known. They are Rev. Samu¢l Z Batten, T. W. Wimberly and J. L. McBrien. Mr. Batten was re- cently called to another state to Ml a higher salaried pulpit. | ana Reaswons for Reslgnations, The letter of resignation reads thus: | *“To the trustees of the Nebraska Anti- | Saloon league, Gentlemen: 'We, the under- signed, hereby tender our resignation from membership in the headquarters committeo and Board of Trustees respectively of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon. league. The reason for our action lles in the following state- ment of facts, “At the state convention of all the temperance assoclations of this state helq at York, Neb., July § and 9, 1909, it was unanimously decided to make the enact- ment of-a county option bill the issue for the present campalgn. A #tate central committee was elected and Instructed to organize immediately the staté by counties and precincts to secure the flling nomi- natlon and election of legislative candidates tavorable to county option, “The officers of the Nebraska Saloon league stated that they were in shape to do the work outlined and promised to do 8o If given the field. “Belleving that this promise would be carried out we became members of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon leagué for the sole purpose of assisting in this program. At one of the earliest meetings of the head- quarters committée of tho league a motion was put and carried that the league at once proceed to perfect the county and precinct organizatiuns charged with the duty of selecting and electing legislative candidates pledged to county option, Poulson’s Promises Unredeemed. “The superintendent promised to do this at once., At each subsequent meeting of the headquarters committes the super- Intendent renewed this promise, but in cach Instaace it developed that no work had been done along these lines. At the meeting of February 4, 1910, the matter came to a direct issue in the adoption by the headquarters committee of the follow- ing resolution: Resolved, That t by this league In Nebraska in the year of 1010 shall be to organize the temperance workers in each county Into local com- mittees. These commitiees shall be cori posed of active temperance workers whether in or out of the church. It shall be the duty of the county committees to { secure the nomination and election to the legislature of men pledged to county op- tion. “In spite of these positive instructions {ana his promise to carry them out th | superintendent, as soon as the committee adjourned, Ignored its actions and con- tinued as before His plan consisted in the collection of {money from churéh meetings and securing the appointment by the pastor of each church so visited of three men, who, when the proper time came, were to recefve thely instructions from the superintendent. Theso instructions were in no event to have any- thing to do with securing the nomination of suitable candidates. The headquarters committee deemed it essential to secure the nomination of suitable men and de- anded organization with that end in view, The superintendent continually promised compliance with the instruetions of the commmittee when the committee was in session and immediately broke his promise when the committee adjourned. Second Agreement Ignored. On March 10, 1610, the trustees met in the morning. Adjournment was taken until 1 o'clock to recelve the report of the head- quarters committee. Between 12 and 1| o'clock the superintendent and the head- quarters committee were In conference, the result of which was the distihet and une equivocal promise of the superintendent (o carry out the policy outlined by the heads quarters committee. When the trustees reconvened they were advised that the differences between the superintendent and committee had been adjusted and a state- ment to that effect was given o the présy Anti- e