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County
For
Against
County
For
Against
Adams
2,033
Fillmore
1,780
1,456
Antelope
2,163
1.101
Franklin
1,282
918
Arthur
221
106
Frontier
1,160
573
Banner
193
79
Furnas
1,725
694
Blaine
321
120
Gage
3,549
2.576
Boone
2.022
1,119
Garden
523
253
Box Butte
856
503
Garfield
486
208
Boyd
1,041
559
Gosper
560
442
Brown
804
431
Grant
208
128
Buffalo
1,808
858
Ilall
2,364
2,483
Butler
1,348
1,909
Hamilton
1,906
1,155
Cass
2,591
1,865
Harlan
1,290
673
C'edar
1,713
1,531
Hayes
354
190
Chase
551
263
Hitchcock
721
321
Cherry
1,520
961
lfolt
1,988
1,437
Cheyenne
683
606
Hooker
184
107
Clay
2.191
1,314
Howard
1,226
1,108
Colfax
922
1,526
Jefferson
2,172
1,513
Coming
991
1,876
.Johnson
1,218
1,075
Custer
3,586
1,672
Kearney
1,291
745
Dakota
708
796
Keith
536
344
Dawes
1,071
524
Keva Paha
481
198
Dawson
1,992
1,120
Kimball
378
144
Deuel
318
153
Knox
2,351
1,632
Dixon
1,50%
861
Laneaster
10,220
5,518
Dodge
2,204
2,123
Lincoln
2,194
1,183
Donglas
14.888
25,389
Logan
306
114
Dundy
639
184
Loup
235
121
1,889
Greeley
1.090
713
Burt
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County
For
Against
County
For
AAgainst
Mc Pherson
215
70
Seward
1,748
1,633
Madison
2,491
1,991
Sheridan
1,000
494
Merrick
1.511
893
Sherman
1,107
791
Morrill
871
328
Sioux
615
257
Nance
1,231
$39
Stanton
685
871
Nemaha
1,698
1,146
Thayer
1.593
1,577
Nuckolls
1.978
1,119
Thomas
273
94
Otoe
2,130
2,211
Thurston
1,135
632
Pawnee
1,368
921
Valley
1,330
817
Perkins
352
165
Washington
1,280
1,354
Phelps
1.755
529
Wayne
1,073
998
Pieree
902
1.227
Webster
1,562
911
Platte
1,661
2.467
Wheeler
289
156
Polk
1,667
859
York
2.614
1,417
Red Willow
1,492
688
Richardson
2,675
1,881
Total
146,574
117.132
Rock
576
246
Saline
1.670
2,273
Plurality
29.442
. . . . . .
Sarpy
975
1,119
Saunders
2,388
2,115
Scott's Bluff
1,810
Scattering-D., 1.
GOVERNOR NEVILLE'S ADMINISTRATION. 1917. The Legislature met in January, thirty-seventh session. John Maltes was president pro tem. of senate, with Lieut .- Gov. Edgar Howard presiding and E. A. Walrath, secretary. In the house, Speaker George Jackson and Chief Clerk Geo. W. Potts again officiated. Aside from the strict prohibitory enactments, the other important measures formulated by this session were: very sweeping amendments to the Employers' Liability Act of the session of 1913, known commonly as Workmen's Compensation Law; State Hail Insurance Act ; Regulation of Employment Agencies; City Manager Act.
Semi-Centennial Statehood Celebration. An interesting event in 1917 was the Semi- Centennial Celebration, when the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of Nebraska to statehood, in 1867, was commemorated. President John L. Webster of the State Historical Society was the guiding spirit of this enterprise. Gurdon W. Wattles, of Omaha, was chairman of a committee of one hundred prominent and active eitizens throughout the state who assisted in making this celebration a suc- cess. The first step in the celebration was the pageant at the Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha, in the fall of 1916, when President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson reviewed the wonderful portrayal of all stages of Nebraska's life. The great celebration held at Lincoln in June, 1917, at which the State University gave a historical pageant, was visited by Theodore Roosevelt, as guest of honor. Local committees. consisting of the county superintendent, mayor, president of women's elub and president of commercial clubs for each community worked arduously. and in many cities in the state local celebrations were held. Hon. John D. Haskell of Wakefield, Nebraska, offered in 1916 a prize of $100 for the best poem suitable for a Nebraska state song. The prize for the words, or poem. went to Rev. W. II. Buss of Fremont, and for the best musical arrangement the $100 prize was secured
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by John Prindle Scott of New York City. The Hymn to Nebraska appears at the beginning of this state historical review. The program of the memorable occasion was as follows:
HALF-CENTURY A STATE
Detailed Program of the Semi-Centennial Celebration, Lincoln, June 12th, 13th and 14th
Tuesday, June 12th
8:00 a. m. Opening of Historical Society Museum.
10:00 a. m. Daylight Fireworks.
10:30 a. m. Band Concerts.
2:00 p. m. Auto Races at State Fair Grounds and Band Concerts.
2:00 p. m. University Alunni Reunion.
General Business Meeting. Annual Report, Chancellor Avery, Alumni Address by Prof. F. R. Philbriek.
2:30 p. m. Pioneers Reunions at Auditorium. Hon. S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, presiding. Semi-Centennial Historical Address by Hon. John L. Webster of Omaha. Historical Round Table by Pioneers.
8:00 p. m. Pageant of Nebraska at State Fair Coliseum.
10:00 p. m. Fireworks at State Fair Grounds.
Wednesday, June 13th
8:00 a. m. Opening Historical Museum.
10:00 a. m. Daylight Fireworks.
10:00 a. m. University Commencement Parade.
10:30 a. m.
Commencement Address by Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard.
2:30 p. m.
Semi-Centennial Exercises, Capitol Grounds, Semi-Centennial Ad- dress by Gov. Keith Neville, Response by Governors Capper of Kansas, Harding of Iowa, Burnquist of Minnesota, Honx of Wyoming. Gunter of Colorado and others. Open Air Reception to Governors.
6:30 p. m. Nebraska Editors' Semi-Centennial Banquet at Commercial Club.
8:00 p. m. Reunion of Legislature and State Officers, Capitol.
8:00 p. m. Pageant of Nebraska at State Fair Grounds, Coliseum.
10:00 p. m. Fireworks at State Fair Grounds.
Thursday, June 14th
8:00 a. m. Opening Historical Museum.
8:40 a. m. Arrival Colonel Roosevelt, Burlington Station.
10:00 a. m. Band Concerts.
10:00 a. in. Elks Flag Ceremony.
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10:30 a. m. Unveiling portraits of J. Sterling Morton, Charles Bessey, Robert W. Furnas, Isaac Pollard, and R. W. Daniels in Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Fame.
2:00 p. m. Great Patriotic Parade Reviewed by Colonel Roosevelt.
3:30 p. m. Address by Theodore Roosevelt on "Americanism" followed by in- formal reception.
5:30 p. m. Band concerts and daylight fireworks.
8:00 p. m. Pageant of Nebraska at State Fair Grounds Coliseum, Colonel Roosevelt the guest of the evening.
Nebraska in the World War. A greater part of Governor Neville's admini -- tration was devoted to tasks that arose from the part Nebraska was called upon to play in the Great World War. This terrible conflict had been raging since 1914. when on August 1st, the world embroiled itself into a conflict that eventually swal- lowed almost the entire roster of nations, directly or indirectly, and more than two dozen were in aetual fighting at a time. But upon April 2. 1912, when the President's message to congress called for a declaration of war, which was forth- coming on April 6th, Nebraska got immediately into the task. Iler National Guard regiments were called baek into federal service in July, 1917. The governor of the state fostered the enlistment and organization of a third regiment, the Seventh Nebraska, and tendered his resignation, to take effect upon his being mustered in as colonel of the new regiment. The Fourth Nebraska went forth under command of Col. W. E. Baehr, the Fifth under the command of Col. H. J. Paul, and the Sixth with Phillip L. Hall, formerly adjutant general of the state, as colonel. These regiments went to the training camps; were put into the mill with other national guard regiments ; and through the policy pursued by the War Department toward the National Guard, torn apart, their identity largely destroyed, their officers scattered, and some of them left at Camp Deming, New Mexico, practically the entire time. The Seventh never got mustered in, and Gov- ernor Neville remained at his executive post.
Nebraska is credited with having had more soldiers and sailors in the service of the country, in proportion to her population, than any other state. Of a total increment of armed forees of 4,034,743 for the entire nation, Nebraska furnished 49,614. Of these 29,807, or 60.08 per cent represented induetions under the regis- trations into the national army ; 14.416, or 29.06 per cent, were enlistments in the army ; 4,944, or 9.96 per cent, in the navy, and 447, or .90 per cent in the marine corps. Nebraska's per cent of national army, or "drafted" inerement was 60.08 per cent against an average for all states, of 66.10 per cent, and the percentage of enlist- ments in other branches, for the entire nation, of 33.90 was eclipsed by Nebraska with a percentage of 39.92. Not only in numbers is Nebraska credited with an unusual record, but the report of the provost-marshal general shows that Nebraska accomplished the work of securing the men for military service at a cost of $4.90 per man, against the national average of $7.90 per man. In physical rejections, this state stayed below the national average of 8.1 per cent with a showing of 6 per cent.
Nebraska can further show a record of more money subscribed per capita for Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, and other quotas than any other state. The following table shows the results of Nebraska's war drives :
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Over Sub-
Qnota
Subscribed
scribed
First Liberty Loan.
$ 18.000.000
$ 18,206,750
1%
Second Liberty Loan.
29,640,000
33,317,200
8%
Third Liberty Loan.
31,942,800
50.684,850
58%
Fourth Liberty Loan. .
68,350,000
21,000,000
4%
War Savings Stamps
25,940,120
32.000,000
23%
United War Work.
2,000,000
2,600,000
30%
Y. M. C. A.
250,000
560,302
124%
First Red Cross Fund ...
200,000
1,020,812
45%
Second Red Cross Fund. .
800.000
2,300,000
188%
Knights of Columbus.
...
40.000
225,000
162%
Armenian Relief
250,000
265,000
6%
Smileage Book Campaign.
10,000
16,470
65%
Y. W. C. A.
no quota
58,505
Miscellaneous
165,000
240,000
15%
Total
$178,087,920
$212,494,000
19%
Nebraska was the first state in the Union to go over the top on the war savings campaign, and the only state to accomplish this task on the first date set, March 22d. This scheme had been figured out by a group of eastern financiers, and Frank A. Vanderlip of the National City Bank of New York City placed at the head of this campaign. But a little group of men in Seward County. headed by W. H. Brokaw, later director of farm bureaus in Nebraska, in devising a way to meet the mota of their county took Mr. Brokaw's suggestion that a meeting be held simul- taneously in every school district in the county on one appointed day. In this way Seward County so promptly raised its quota, that State Director Ward M. Burgess of Omaha, investigated, applied that plan to the state and raised Nebraska's qutoa on March 22d; and this action resulted in another date being set for every other state in the Union, and Mr. Burgess being called to direct the national campaign.
A state council of defense was appointed by Governor Neville and this body of men worked incessantly for many months. Robert M. Joyce of Lincoln was chairman. Hon. George A. Coupland worked on the problem of increasing the production on farms; Hon. Richard L. Metcalfe, HI. E. Gooch, Miss Sarka B. HIrbkeva worked faithfully on Americanization problems. Gen. George H. Harries of Omaha, George O. Brophy, Dr. E. O. Weber of Wahoo, Chas. A. McCloud, York, representing financial interests ; T. P. Reynolds of Omaha, representing labor interests : State Engineer George E. Johnson and Adjt .- Gen. P. L. Hall, Jr.
1918. The continuance of the war work was the main task of the second year of the Neville administration. A special session of the Legislature was called to pass laws forbidding the teaching of German and European languages in the publie schools below the high school; to pass espionage and sabotage laws; and other war measures. The Conneil of Defense inaugurated a vigorous campaign against certain elements of people in the state, and prosecutions of the Nonpartisan League were carried on with great vigor. The anger of these aroused elements throughout
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the state, the antagonism of certain elements against the party in power, and a sudden turn just before election caused by an appeal by President Wilson to elect a democratic congress and intimating that to vote for a republican candidate was an act of disloyalty, swept the state into the republican column at the fall election. Ex-Governor John H. Morehead, who had won the democratic senatorial nomina- tion against a field of aspirants was defeated by Senator George W. Norris, and Governor Neville was likewise defeated by Samuel R. MeKelvie, of Lincoln, who had defeated a field of republican gubernatorial aspirants in the primary.
GOVERNOR MCKELVIE'S ADMINISTRATION. 1919. Governor MeKelvie came into office, accompanied by a quota of republican state officers and a republican legislature. It opened up with expectations of being the greatest session since 1907. One of the domestic issues urged by Governor MeKelvie in his campaign for election was that he would advocate the passage of a civil administrative code, pro- viding for the centralization or crystallization of some twenty state departments, bureaus and commissions, into a gubernatorial cabinet of six secretaries, of finance, trade and commerce, agriculture, labor, public works and public welfare. This measure was contested fiercely, but with the governor's insistence and organiza- tion, was enacted into law. It was hanled into the courts, and during the interim between a favorable decision and an appeal, put into force by the governor, who appointed his cabinet, consisting of Philip F. Bross, secretary of finance; J. E. Hart, secretary of trade and commerce, which took over the old banking, insurance and blue sky boards or bureaus, and the fire commission ; Leo B. Stuhr, secretary of agriculture, which department took over the old pure food, dairy, oil, hotel bureaus and some of the activities of the old state agricultural department. Geo. E. Johnson, state engineer, who took over that work and the new, increased high- ways department, and H. H. Antles, secretary of public welfare, which department embraced the old health department and pardon and parole board. This session was presided over in the senate by Lieut .- Gov. P. A. Barrows, and B. K. Bushee. as president pro tem. In the house, Dwight S. Dalbey was speaker and W. F. Ilitchcock was chief clerk. This session accomplished some other noteworthy tasks, the most important of which was the projection of a state highway system, with some three millions of dollars per year appropriated to match a federal aid : and in 1919 and 1920, some ten millions of dollars have been spent on building up splendid, permanent highways in Nebraska. This session provided for ways and means of holding a constitutional convention, and the delegates for this convention were elected at a special election in September, 1919.
1920. The Constitutional Convention met in January, 1920, and after consider- ing 366 proposals, submitted to the people forty-one proposals to be voted upon at an election held September 21, 1920, when every one of these forty-one proposals was adopted, a record which has perhaps never been equalled in the nation. The old constitution of 1875 was allowed to remain intact, and only those portions amended or superseded by these new proposals will be made non-effective. The personnel of this convention and the proposals submitted by it, are as follows :
John Wiltse Falls City
Edgar Ferneau Auburn
A. J. Weaver. . Falls City
Ernest M. Pollard Nehawka Jacob F. Halderman. Pawnee City
L. A. Varner Sterling
Henry R. Cleve Nebraska City
Win. IT. Pitzer. Nebraska City
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William Kieck Springfield
Jerry Howard Omaha
Geo. A. Magney Omaha
Lysle 1. Abbott. Omaha
Chas. F. MeLaughlin Omaha
Chas. W. Sears Omaha
R. A. Wilson . Omaha
Geo. E. Norman.
Omaha
Anson H1. Bigelow
Omaha
A. J. Donahoe
Omaha
Jos. T. Votava.
Omaha
L. J. TePoel
Omaha
Chas. L. Saunders Omaha
A. W. Sprick Fontenelle
Herbert Rhoades
Tekamah
Harry L. Keefe
Walthill
John D. Haskell
Wakefield
F. C. Radke.
Hartington
W. A. Meserve.
. Creighton
Wilbur F. Bryant Hartington
H. C. Elwood. Creighton
O. S. Spillman
Pierce
J. G. W. Lewis
. Wayne
A. R. Oleson. Wisner
Charles MeLeod
Stanton
E. S. Cowan.
Albion
M. D. Tyler. . Norfolk
Charles J. Thielen
Humphrey
I. L. Albert
Columbus
M. J. Higgins
Schuyler
S. S. Sidner
Fremont
W. D. Holbrook
Ames
A. L. Ullstrom
Memphis
Emil Fauquet
Wahoo
C. Petrus Peterson
Lincoln
C. C. Flansburg
Lincoln
John M. Stewart.
Lincoln
Walter L. Anderson
Lincoln
W. A. Selleck.
Lincoln
C. W. Pugsley Lincoln
Frank Malieky Barneston
Earl M. Marvin
. Beatrice
John Heasty
Fairbury
Thos. Lahners
Belvidere
Wm. Greuber Byron
Geo. II. Hastings Crete
R. S. Norval
Seward
E. A. Coufal
David City
E. J. Spirk Wilber
J. N. Norton
Polk
H. V. Price.
. York
R. A. Matteson Geneva
Chas. H. Epperson. Fairfield
George Landgren
Shickley
Arthur M. Hare Aurora
George Jackson
Nelson
HI. G. Keeney
Cowles
A. T. Bratton Hastings
J. D. Evans
Kenesaw
Emil G. Stolley Grand Island
James G. Kunz
Wood River
Elmer E. Ross Central City
R. Wilde
. Genoa
C. V. Svoboda
St. Paul
Murt M. Sullivan
Spalding
James A. Donohoe
O'Neil
John A. Davies
. Butte
Lewis K. Alder
Ainsworth
D. E. Strong
Ord
Aaron Wall
Loup City
W. J. Taylor.
. Merna
J. D. Ream.
Broken Bow
Nathan P. MeDonald. Kearney
Fred A. Nye
Kearney
I. C. Rankin.
. Minden
Albert H. Byrum
Bloomington
George S. Austin
. Orleans
Harry Johnson
Holdrege
B. F. Butler
Cambridge
Edward Sughroue
Indianola
George C. Junkin. Smithfield
W. M. Stebbins
Gothenburg
Joseph G. Beeler
North Platte
Harry Lehman
Culbertson
P. W. Scott
. Imperial
Festus Corothers
Whitman
Chas. H. Cornell
Valentine
James Il. II. Hewett
Alliance
Everett P. Wilson
Chadron
Thomas C. Osborne
Bayard
J. A. Rodman .
Kimball
Il. D. Lute.
Paxton
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No. 1. Authorizes jury, by a five-sixth vote, to give a verdict in civil cases.
No. 2. Permits legislature to regulate property rights of aliens.
No. 3. Declares English to be official language and requires common school branches in all schools to be taught therein.
No. 4. Reduces percentage of signatures to initiative and referendum petitions to conform to increased number of voters since women secured ballot.
No. 5. Permits large counties to be divided into state senate and house districts.
No. 6. Permits state senate to be increased from thirty-three to fifty members.
No. 7. Increases salaries of legislators from $600 to $800 for two-year term.
No. 8. Relates to legislative procedure and intended to save time of sessions and to prevent passage of important bills in closing hours by viva voice vote on con- ference committee reports.
No. 9. Prohibits appointment of members of legislature to state offices.
No. 10. Prohibits raising of salaries of state and county officers during term of office.
No. 11. Reserves all rights to oil, gas and other minerals in state land sold. No. 12. Eliminates obsolete section of no consequence.
No. 13. Provides for executive budget and takes from governor sole control of pardons, placing it in hands of board.
No. 14. Creates office of state tax commissioner to have charge of assessment work.
No. 15. Provides for reorganization of courts of state with object of speeding up work and relieving supreme court of congestion.
No. 16. Requires vote of five supreme judges to declare law unconstitutional.
No. 17. Provides for election of supreme court judges by districts.
No. 18. Gives ballot to women.
No. 19. Provides soldiers may vote when absent from state on duty.
No. 20. Authorizes legislature to distribute temporary school fund on any basis of length of school term it may decide.
No. 21. Prohibits sale of school lands except at public auction.
No. 22. Provides for election of university regents by districts.
No. 23. Prohibits state aid to sectarian institutions.
No. 24. Raises age for reform school inmates from 16 to 18, in order to keep boys under 18 from being sent to penitentiary, as now.
No. 25. Makes constitutional board of present normal school board.
No. 26. Rewriting of tax schedules with intent to provide for gathering prop- erty that now escapes taxation.
No. 27. Tax exemption of $200 worth of household goods to a family.
No. 28. Clears np ambiguity in existing constitution as to limit of indebted- ness for counties.
No. 29. County boundaries cannot be changed save by vote of all affected.
No. 30. Requires public utility corporations to report to state railway com- mission.
No. 31. Prohibits consolidation of competing utilities without permission of railway commission.
No. 32. Prohibits payment of dividends by utilities out of any fund save net earnings.
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No. 33. Allows Omaha to adopt present charter as home rule charter and relieves legislature of need of legislating for that city alone.
No. 34. Grants greater powers and more flexible control to co-operative com- panies.
No. 35. Gives users of water for domestie and agricultural purposes priority in streams of state.
No. 36. Retains in public all beneficial rights to water powers of state.
No. 37. Permits regulation as to minimum wages and conditions of employ- ment of women and children in industry.
No. 38. Permits creation of industrial commission to prevent strikes and lockouts and to control profiteering.
No. 39. Provides that amendments to constitution submitted by legislature shall be adopted by a majority voting on the question if the affirmative vote is 35 per cent of total vote cast at election.
No. 40. Raises salaries of state officers, including supreme court judges. until such time as legislature may fix them.
No. 41. Eliminates obsolete sections and provides when amendments go into effect.
The serenity of the MeKelvie administration was disturbed somewhat by the practice followed in recent years of "furloughing" prisoners in the state penitentiary ; a process neither a pardon nor a parole, but just granting them a vacation, which came to a head and brought down public indignation when one Beryl Kirk, of Omaha, serving the second year of a twenty year sentence for complicity in the killing of Officer Frank Rooney, was "furloughed" during the absence of the governor and lieutenant governor from the state by president pro tem. of senate and acting governor B. K. Bushee. This furlough was secured and then held some fourteen weeks, before presented to the warden, and resulted in an investiga- tion by the Bar Commission at the direction of the State Supreme Court of the actions of State Senator C. Petrus Peterson and republican state chairman Robert W. Devoe, who were members of the law firm that secured this action. Coupled with the pardon of Frank Dinsmore of Buffalo County, serving a life sentence for wife murder. the parole of St. Clair, a bank robber convict : of another prisoner who was released the day he was brought to the penetentiary and the growing number of paroles resulting from the indeterminate sentence law, and the necessity of some sixteen to twenty reprieves for Cole and Grammer. two Howard County murderers under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt at Elba, Nebraska, on July 4, 1917. while those cases were switched back and forth and in and out of innumerable courts, this whole question aroused the state. But despite this situation, with five opponents for the nomination, Governor MeKelvie won a renomination from his party in the spring primaries of 1920, and ex-Governor Morehead was selected to oppose him. A convention of farmers' unions, labor unions and non-partisan leaguers met at Grand Island, in May, and nominated Mayor Arthur G. Wray of York for governor ; Robert D. Mousel of Cambridge for lieutenant governor and F. L. Bollen of Crofton for attorney general. In the spring primaries the people of Nebraska expressed a vigorous preference for Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, for the republican nomination for president. which was won at Chicago, by Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, and in the
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democratie circles, ten Bryan delegates, headed by W. J. Bryan, and six Hitchcock delegates went to San Francisco, giving Senator Hitchcock only six from his own state in his quest for the democratic nomination, which on the forty-fourth ballot was won by Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio.
The fall election of 1920 was the first occasion upon which the women of the state exercised the full right of franchise, and the vote of the state was almost doubled, with this added vote and the natural increase. Senator Harding, the republican candidate for president, carried the state by the unprecedented majority of 127,000, and seeured a majority in every one of the ninety-three counties of the state, and numerons state officers on the republican ticket had majorities hovering around one hundred thousand. Governor McKelvie was re-elected by a majority of approximately twenty-two thousand over Governor Morehead, who polled about forty thousand more votes than Arthur G. Wray, the independent petition candidate. All six of the republican congressmen were re-elected. The 1921 Legislature had only four democrats among the 100 members of the house and the thirty- three senators were all republicans. The Legislature of 1921, met, confronted by many problems, in the passage of legislative acts to carry out numerons pro- visions of the new constitution : the first state "budget" submitted to it, a new code of laws on pardons, parole and commutations, a new code of laws upon the -blue sky question and other difficult, but pressing legislative questions. Lient .- Gov. Pelham A. Barrows presided over the Senate with R. S. Norval as President pro tem. and Clyde H. Barnard as Secretary. Walter L. Anderson of Lincoln was speaker and Frank P. Corriek of Lincoln, Chief Clerk of the House. The passage of a new pardon and paroles code, strengthened blue sky code, reapportionment for legislative districts, revenue measure, reassessment of real estate biennially instead of qnadrennially, five-sixths jury act, strengthening Simon act requiring teaching of English rather than foreign languages in schools, refusal to authorize sale of school lands, and passage of several bills included in the child welfare commission program were the chief achievements of this session.
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