Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-01-25

mended that the bill to prevent diS.
crimination by railroads be printed
and placed on file. Agreed to.
'-'s resolution to furnish fiji ,ers
BLa, \ stamps, came up
HD Der 4 to lay the bill
on the To- stpone it's oonsid-
Grafton Indefinite, The motion was
lost by vote cf 15 noes to IL ayes
Brown, of Doug as, asked it boot.
blacks we're included.
Butler retorsed that they had not
got to that yet. They had left that
tor the Judiciary committee.
Before the motion to adopt was put
Mr.. McShane callt d for list of the
fl ,srs and employees in the resoll
tion. Twenty three names were
read, but there are laTgs number Of
others whose names we're not read.
Connor and Brown (Douglay held
consistently to their poiat, and Butler
fred up, making one of his rafting
speeches, full of anecdote and point,
and making considerable fun Of the
constitutional lawyers on the fIor.
He closed with a warning that IL de-
feated he would make the senate vote
on a similar resolution every dav.
The motion was lost-nays l6,
yeas 13
At noon the senate adjourned to go
into joint convention for the els C ion
OF United States senator.
| House PROCEEDINGS
LINCOLN, January "a Among the
important bills btf1re the house to-
day was one legailzing primary cleo
ii ns. FL r No 204, isa bill appro-
priating money for the payment Of as
signed claims against tho state In the
case of j. p. Oliver. HI, r. No 159,
i, a bill to repair roof If the university
and build outhouses, etc. Tne amount
appro 1risted is So 600
The bill of r p Kerpard, Fl. r.
No. 1853, was read a sec ,ni time. This
bill asks over $1,000 20 ply Mr.. Ken
nard his fees a. d expenses as attorney
in collecting money from this general
goyernman for Nebraska.
The second reading Of bill was had
to-day apprcpriatiug s., 1000 for the
purpose OF erecting a soldiers monu.
meut near Lincoln. TIE question of
making the old Gillespie residence,
which is now the property f the state,
into an executive mansion, assume d
the shape of bill in the house.
Ths committee on normal schools
m ,de soma recomme ndations in rela.
tion to appropriations needed for the
normal school, and moved that the
same be referred to com mittee on
finance, ways and mears
A bill appropr ,ating $500 to assist
in bui idipg the Liucoln monument at
Springfield, Illinois, WAS today re-
ferred to the committee on finance,
ways and means.
The members who have been fsyor.
ing the passage of a law providing for
the appointment or election Of rail
road commissioners as is now the case
in Iowa and Illinois, have run square.
ly against rock in the shape of de
cision of the supreme court which il
to the effect that under our constitu.
tiop no such law can be enforced. A
bill has already been introduced pro
, viding for the submission of the ques
, ton of changing the state constitution
80 that such { ice of railroad commits
| sioner or commissioners may be legal
ly created, but as this will require two
: years something must be done for i'm
mediate protection, and this Is whs
is being considered by the anti.mon
opolists at this time.
A bill was introduced this morning
by Mr.. Haven, of Buffalo county, ap
J propriating $75 $50 for the purpose o
erecting new building to be used b!
the reform school at Kesrney. Thi
bill provides for the erection { f an en-
| tire new building to be used for tn
? school, while the old building, which
: Is considered much too small, is to b
fitted up as WORK shop.
The house passed II. r. No. 6, ant
3 NJ. this afternoon. The former rs
fers to the recording Of patents to rail
3 road lands, and the latter prohibits tn
t importation, selling or running q
D large of domestic anipals or animal
( Infected with infections or contagiou
diseases.
: A bill providing for the publication
> of the proceedings of the county com
= missioners In county newspapers, wa
r introduced and referred to the com
mittee en- counties and county bound
4 aries.
+ Fl. R No, IL, by Mr.. Sessions, wa
u defeated. The bill had some merit
r but Sessions and death are synoni
nous terms In this body.
8 The contes. over the scat occupie
d by McGsvook, from Douglas, has bee
!. the special order for this afternoon 9
3 p. IN. w. K.