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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1907
Page
3
Senate debate over Aldrich maximum freight rate bill ended with a close vote in committee and eventual recommendation for passage. Amendments narrowed the 20 percent cut to 15 percent and limited application to specified commodities, with broad support seen for swift railroad relief and commission authority.
Passed by the senate the railway commission bill remains largely as introduced by the joint railway committee and drafted by Senator Aldrich. It covers railways, common carriers, telegraph and telephone firms, car lines, and streetcar operations the legislature may later designate. The child labor bill was recommended for passage with amendments by senators Sackett Patrick and King opposing, Wilsey’s beet field work amendment defeated, Buck’s ten hour day proposal also blocked.
Governor urges action as the senate judiciary committee pushes the anti lobby bill with amendments to the general file. The measure mirrors New York law, banning professional lobbyists and limiting lobbying to committee appearances or submitted briefs and oral arguments. A penalty of up to 1000 dollars or imprisonment awaits violators.
The measure, pushed by Thiessen of Jefferson county, emerged from the committee of the whole in a stronger form than the railroad committee report. It proposes state regulation of carload weights for lumber and coal. Amendments were adopted and the bill was recommended for passage.
An amendment to the general state funds bill requires state officers to pay their own travel costs except rail fare. The governor’s office equipment budget rises from 1,500 to 3,000 with 3,000 allotted for mansion furniture. Traveling funds for the state bank examiners rise from 6,000 to 8,000, and the food commission gains 1,000 to reach 4,000 total.
In behalf of Ne maha county fruit growers and nearby territory Representative Armstrong introduced a resolution asking the state railway commission to promptly investigate fruit rates and correct them. He notes the upcoming fall fruit season and stresses haste. The resolution was adopted.
The bill, in line with the national pure food law, retains sections on poison and alcohol formulas, while Section 9 as amended relieves retailers of liability when they hold guarantees from manufacturers or wholesalers.
Lawmakers expect to finish by Saturday with all major measures completed. Speaker Nettleton resists any adjournment before every key item clears the WOCGE. The conference committee railway commission bill was adopted by both houses and awaits enrollment for the governor’s signature.
The bill by Stirley of Lincoln county would cut express rates to 75 percent of current schedules and empower the railway commission to equalize unjust charges. In the senate, sleeping car rates were debated, and S. F. No. 409 by Thomas of Douglas, proposing lower rates, was recommended for passage. The measure sets berth charges at 1.60 for a lone berth, 1.25 for an upper berth, and 2.75 for a section, applying to standard sleepers.
I B Miller argues that mail order houses destroy small town economies by siphoning business to cities. He cites ruined buggy purchases and ill fitting shoes bought by catalogue, warns of bankrupt towns, devalued property, and fading churches and schools as rural commerce collapses.
A Boston Herald writer notes Conductor Crowley famed for six service stripes in Forest Hills transit. On election day a drunken passenger slept in a car corner and shouted a mistaken name, claiming “Cirrcuit and Guild” before being awakened by the conductor’s reply.
The bureau of standards of the department of commerce and labor prepared a new metric chart showing geographic measures of the international system and will supply it free to any school teaching the system.
Reports include two smallpox cases near Gretna in Douglas county and a dying Oxford scare with no new cases. A new York postmaster starts April 1 while Beatrice's Charles Dains pays a $100 fine for stealing two chickens. Fires hit Fremont hotel and Springview's Red Front livery, and prairie fires burn property near Sutherland.
New York women have devised a back fastening for blouses to free them from chambermaids aid and guard pockets. They slip the blouse on from the back then turn it around to fit sleeves, leaving neck hooks untied, a simple method unseen by many.
Edward Worell of Fort Crook Nebraska endured eczema on hands arms and legs for fifteen years. He suffered severe itching and sleepless nights until using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent. After about six days the itching ceased and sores disappeared.
Anxious about the stability of St Michael's church steeple in Bath England the rector who is known as an avid mountaineer climbed the tower to inspect its condition. The piece also references various miscellaneous ad style lines and odd phrases from a period advertising and prose fragment.
A Detroit machinist, Robert Odbert, describes two years of rheumatic illness with swollen legs and pain, then credits Dr Williams' Pink Pills with rapid improvement and lasting cure after trying other medical care. He endorses the pills and notes pricing and mail order from Schenectady, New York.
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