Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-31
THE HOUSE.
Special Correspondence OF tbs Brn.
NRw BILLS,

bills we're introduced yesterday after
noon, among them a bill (houSo roll
243) fpr an act for the relief of the
FIRST National bank of Nebraska City,
sppropriating over $4,000. The
money claimed is on accoun. Of a
semi. I, iii ,isl act of Aciig Governor
w II James, and tho same bill has
been bsfore each legislature for tho
past twelve yearr.
Mr.. Whedon also introduced house
roll No. 252, making persona and COR
porations owning OF operating tele-
graph lines within this state common
carriers, ard restricting their author.
ity to limit their liability by notice or
rules.
Two bills were also introduced pro.
viding for the establishment of a board
of immigration, both OF which will
probably go the way of all the earth
a. no late day.
Six senate bills, namely, numbers
/, 2, 8, 4, IS and IA These are the
frat from that end tf the house. All
of them were read q frat time, ard
ordered to a second reading.
SIDE sH )ws.
The caucuses If the different parties
and the operations of the special rail.
road committee afford about all the
excitement at this time, and it is
probable that the examination into
the acts of the superintendent of the
insane asylum by a special senate COM.
mittee may add another eide show
which may open up at any moment.
RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
If any credulous anti monopolist Is
hugging to his soul the fond delusion
that railroad legislation at the present.
session is an assured thing, let him
dissbuse his mind at once. 1t il not
certain that any single rsilroad bin
will become q law. 1t is NOT probable
that any valuable Liquidation on this
subject will be had and it ia herdl5
possible that any bill can pas1 unless
1t has tho full saction Of onn or both
the railroad corporations. This may
seem strange to those who have heard
so much of the anti. monopoly senate
and the anti-monopoly republican
house. l. is trua that they had a
real majority in both houses when
elected, but it is also true that there
has been, as there always is, a CON
tinuous line of converts to the railroad
side. and whunLoever the RAILROADS.
get they keep.
A man can purchase prairie land
cheaper than he can homestead it, and
it ID often easier to convert g member
than to elect one.
Be this az it may, the number of
men who came here to assist in rail-
road legislation has already dwindled
down to a minority In the house, and
is certainly not much, If any, in the
majority in the senate.
There are enough by which
n man may seek to appease his con.
stituents and his conscience. The bill
is not in the right form; it is uncon-
stitutional; he believes In "a commits
sioner system, etc., but the bold fact
remains that his vote will help to kill
the bill. and there are enough Of this
class to kill every bill thnt touches
upon rates or PASSES.
If the supreme court -. not rem.
dered its opinion at 30 early a day we
should have had q railroad commits.
sion 'ystom as advocated by The
Journal and other railroad mouth.
pieces. The chief beauty of the sys.
tenn In the railroad mind was the fact
that whenever 1t became troublesome
1t could be shaken off and abolished
by this very authority that has now
/ prevented It's adoption. 1t would
have been declared demonstrations
and therefore dead. Having los'
their commission bill, 1t now remains
for them to kill everything else look
ing toward railroad regulation. i
they are disposed to do so they car
control votes enough, aud they will
very naturally b. disposed to use
' them.
SCHOOL LANDS.
House Roll No. 7, a bill providin,
for selling and leasing the school land
of the state came up for passage thi
morning, and was passed by q larg'
majority. Mr. Jensen explained hf
vote, saying that he had expected t.
vote for the bill, but upon examina
ton found that any man could lease a
many sections as he might think best
, He had been Informed that one man II
Wayne county has leased and nov
controls fourteen sections of this land
: He thought it opened the door to to
much speculation at the expense O
the state and the settlers. He, there
= fore, voted no. Mr.. Wolph endorse,
Jensen's obi s%ctions, but thought tina
it was so much better than the oil
: law, now in force, that he would vot
yes.
o - H CUMMING STATESMAN.
l Mr.. Franse, of Cumming Introduce
q resolution calling upon the rpscii
railroad committee to furnish tn
Q house with the expense already II
$ Cured in sending for witnesses to al
Q pear before said committee. In SUI
Q port of his resolution Mr.. Franz
made a few remarks in which b
charged that he had been informe
that between one and two thoussn
dollars had already been used up al
d he was opposed to any further e,
% penditure for the reason that i
o thought the examination had assume
1t a personal nature, and he though
that Rosewater wa too small a ma
to occupy so much time and consun
so much money in this fight again
the Uuion Pacific company. The r
d solution was adopted.
There is no doubt but what all raj
g. road strikers will hear enough to COZ
vince them that tho people of I'll
IT state had better pay a half million
1t year in over charges on freight tart
y rather than to expand a thousand
two in finding OUT where the troub
la.
0 House roll Nos. 40, 43. Al, 90,