Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27

roll No. 30, 43, 40 and a. correctly
engrossed.
Committee on Deaf and Dumb and
Insane asylum reported back house
roll No. 81, recommending its pas ,age.
Committee on agriculture reported
back house roll No. IA recommending
its passage, also No. 45, recommend.
ing that 1t do not pass On motion
the bill was recommitted; also No. 40,
recommending that it do not pass.
Report adopted. ALSO No. 81, recon.
mend;ng that it do not pass, bill re.
committed; also Nc. 20, recommend
Ing that it 90 not pasa; also No. 93,
recommending that it do not pass, 70.
port adopted; also No. 106, recon
mending that it do not pass, report
adopted.
Committee on railroads reported
back house roll No. %, creating a
railroad commission; report adopted.
House roll Nos. 81 and 81 were
signed by the speaker. These bills ap
propriates money for expenses OF thi,
legislature.
House roll No. 2l9, appropriatiug
SO $50 for the purpose Ct buying
ground and improving the buildings
coupled as the deaf and dumb asylum
at Omaha, was introduced this morn
ing by Mr.. Colpetzer.
The house In the committee of the
whole had q lively discussion over
house roll No. s a bill to repeal con.
tract T. p. Kennard has with tho
state of Nebraska relative to tho COL
lection of certain money from the
general government, for which service
Governor Furnss agreed to give the
said Kennsrd fifty per cent Of all
money collected, Messrs. Field ard
Whedon defended the contract and
n ettloton and Howard Of Clay, and
Hall aud Wolph of Cass and Others,
were opposed to the contract aud in
favor of a law which should repeal it.
The bill was recommended for passage
and placed On general file.
House roll No. 80 also came before
the committee of the whole and Can
sumed oonsiderabletime. Roberts and
Jensen, of Butler county, opposed
it OH the ground that 1t would ~legalizs
hundreds of thousands of deliars u
worthless bonds issued by Butler o, 4
other counties Of the state. Mr.
Wolph, of Cass, also took a hand and
declared that if this bill should become
a law, hundreds of thousands of dollars
of worthless paper, which has been
declared good for nothing by the court
years ago, would DO resurreoted, and
the children of honest tax payers in
many cou0tieD would have to go bare
footed. Mr.. Haven, OF BCtf.lo, op
posed the bill In no unmeasured terms.
He said his county had $50, 600 in
worthless bridge bonds hangir 6 over
1t, and he felt satisfied that the bill
would compel their pay msnt, when
they could be collected In no other
way.
MIR. Savage, Ct Custer, also opposed
the bill, on the ground that one of the
counties Of his district (Sherman) had
a large amount Ct tie same class in the
hands of sharks.
Mr.. Robbarts moved that when the
committee arise 1t report the bill back,
recommending that the enacting clause
be stricken out. This motion was
agreed to.
The following is tho section OF the
bill which created the trouble:
SEC. 4. All bonds heretofore voted and
issued by any precinct, township or town
less than o city of the second CLASSY to aid
in the construction of any Of the works OF
internal Improvement enumerated in sec.
tion l of this act, are hereby declared to
be legal and valid, and n lein upon all the
taxable property in such precinct, town
or irre2ulsrity in the submission of the
question to a vote of the people, or in the
taking OF the vote, or,in the execution OF
such tonds, and Notwithstanding the same
may not have been voted upon, executed
or issued in conformity to law, all such
bonds shall haye the same validity and
binding forcs as If they had beon legally
authorized, voted upon and executed.
When the committee arose tho re.
port was concurred in by the house,
and the bill is dead
House roll No. 220 was Introduced
this morning. This bill provides for
an appropriation OF, 81, 048. 20 for the
relief of Patrick O. Halves, for col.
Letting claims against the General gov.
eminent.
House Roll No 221 just introduced,
appropriates Sc 1873 Ia to pay for old
claims in the j. p. Oliver caue and
No. 222 proposes to give j. W. Pear
man $500.
Thus the proposed appropriations
pile up thousands upon thousands.
AFTERNOON eESsION.
Tho house met at 3 o'clock and
proceeded on a special order of busi'
ness, which was the passage of the
appropriation bill for the payment OF
members and for the expenses OF the
Legislature of this session, and imme.
date adjourned for committee work.
All the important committees had
meetings this afternoon, and were
busy at work on bills.
l omitted to state in a former letter
that McGayock, of Douglas county,
by a vote of the house, was allowed
to retain his seat.
The Times IN the Sandwich Islands
Special Dispatch to TnE BgS.
CHICAGO, January 26.--The Chicago
Times says: Looking at the matter on
all sides IL i'd difficult to avoid the con-
clusion that 1t Is the inevitable destiny
of the Hawaiian Island to become al
no very distant time, either an attach
meat of China or E colonial dePenden'