Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-17
Voting the State in Debt
Tbrau.h ALI Eternity.
Explanations for Record OF
Senatorial Votes on the
Railroad Bill.
Typographical Division Of the
Proposed New Deal of Judi
cial P~ersimmons.
Some of the Hogs Who Hope
to Feed Of the Miscellane-
GUS Appropriation Bill.
"A Lively Skirmish In the House
Over tho Railroad Bill.

n AAVcly SAtrth'bh IN SAo 1houne
Over tho Railroad Bill.
Special Correspondence OF The Bee. ' I
LINCOLN, Neb., February 16.--Your
correspondent overheard q little con.
veration In which Capt. Lee, Of Fur.
mas county, participated. The Captain
said: ''We are voting thisstate in'debt
to an extent that will curse us TO all
eternity. Nebraska will never see day.
light again, she will never be ous Of
debt" "Yes," said the.other, II no,
tics that THE BEE is making that kind
Of q charge" "THE BEEF" said the
Captain, damn The Bee" From
this it must be apparent that the afore.
said BEE aud the captain are not on
the best of terms, and It Is moro than
probable that he has been voting for
the steals mentioned and his course
has not been endorsed by that new
paper. II the captain oan reconcile
his course with the statements here
made, we will turn him over to his
constituents and let the reconciliation
sake place in the county of Furnss.
In The senate yesterday the senate
resolution by Brown, of Douglas, pro.
viding for the admission Of an amend
ment TO the constitution allowing
women to vote upon the suffrage
amendment, came up in the commit.
tee of the whole, and occupied half
the afternoon. Brown, of Douglas,
spoke in favor or the resolu-
ton, and Ex-Governor Butler spoke
an hour and q half or two hours. keep.
ing the senate insession till 1880 p. In.
Senator Dech also spoke at length in
favor of the resolution. McShans,
Schoenheit and others opposed it, Be.
fore a vote was reached the committee
arose, and the senate adjourned. 1t
is understood that this resolution will
come up sgain to-day.
When the vote was reached yester-
day upon the senate railroad bill the
following explanations Of votes were
sent to the secretary Of the senate that
they might be made a matter Of re-
ord.
Senator Kinkaid. II believe that
this bill ia not the best which could
have bsen offered expsrisest c6nhso
be passed.
Senator Conner. Il do not believe
this act will meet the just expecta-
tions of the people. Its provisiont
are not complete and ample enough
to properly restrain aud control rail-
road corporations, but, believing Il
will be impossible to enact more thor.
ough legislation of this character a
this session Of the legislature, l cast
my vote In favor Of the act.
Senator Brown, of Douglas In ex
PLANTATION of my vote on this bill, J
wish to say that I entertain grave
doubts respecting the oonstitutionality
of sections five and seventeen; yet
am constrained to resolve these doubts
In favor Of the hill, trustir G that the
bill, should 1t become o lag, will b.
instrumental in correcting the gross
abuses and unjust determinations al
praciced by the railroad companies
doing business in this state.
Senator Butler desire to say, II
explanation OF my vote on this bill
that the railroads Of this state wer'
"aided," as it was called, in thei
construction by subsidies from tn
national aud state governments
to an amount exoseding their cost t.
the companies, that l am convinced
that the freight rates of such road
as now and heretofore charged b.
such companies, are largely In exces
of the amounts necessary to pay q rat
of profit on the capital Invested equa
20 the average earnings OF investe'
capital in this country. That 3.
means of such charges the compauie
are now taking from the people OF thi
state an aggregate sum OF betwee
thirty and forty million dollars ar
nLally, aud the enactment and Ell
forcemsnt of the provisions of TIL
bill will reduce said charge by abou
eight milliops annually. l therefor
vote ''aye."
Senator Reynolds in explanation
of my vote upon the passage OF thi
bill, senate file No. 149 will say tina
while 1 do not think ibis is the bes
bill that might have hsen formulate
by this senate, yer l do believe
will be of great beprft to the peopl
of this state, and II being a beginnin
of the solution of this great questio
which more than any n other sui
iect interests the greatest number 9
the people Of this commonwealth
Therefore l vote "aye."
The consideration of the bill divid
Ing the state into ten judicial dis
%tricts, having been made a special or
der for 10 this morning, at that hou
the senate went into the committee O
the whole to consider the bill, and
lively fight was opened all along tn
line. Jugt before IL o'clock the TO
lowing division was agreed upon:
First district: Gage, johnson, M
maha, Pawnee aud kichardso
counties.
Second district: Cass, Lancaster an
Otoe counties.
Third district; Douglas and SarT
counties to have two judges.
Fourth district: Butler, Colfa1
Dodge, Platte and Saunders countie
Filth district: Adams, Clay, Eli
more, Jefferson, Saline, Nuckolls an
Thsyer counties.
Sixth district: Hamilton, Hall, HoN
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