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

bills were introduced yesterday after
noon, among them bill (houSo roll
243) f,r 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 iii ,isl act ef Acilg Governor
w II James, and tho same bill has
been bsfore each legislature for the
past twelve yearr.
Mr.. Whedon also introduced hause
roll No. 252, making psrsons and cor
porations owning or 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 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, 3, 4, IS and IA These are the
frat from that end tf the house. All
of them were read frat time, ard
ordered to second reading.
SIDE sH )ws.
The caucuses Of 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 special senate com.
mittee may add another side show
| which may open up at any moment.
| RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
If any credulous anti monopolist Is
hugglng 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 law. 1t is not probable
that any valuable legislation on this
subject will be had and it ia hardly
possible that any bill can pas1 unless
1t has tho full soction Of onn or both
the railroad corporations. This may
seem strange to those who have heard
80 much of the antimonopoly senate
and the anti-monopoly republican
house. l. is trua that they had
real msjority in both houses when
elected, but it is also true that there
has been, as there always is, con-
tinuous line Of converts to the railroad
side. aud whumLoever the RAILROADS.
get they keep.
A man can purchase prairie land
cheaper than he can homestead it, and
it ia often easier to convert mem Der
than to elect one.
Be this az it may, the number of
men who came here to assist in rail-
road legislation has already dHindled
down to a minority In the house, and
is certainly not much, If any, in the
majority in the senate.
There are excuses enough by which
man may seek to appease his con.
stituents and his conscience. The bill
is not in the right form; tis 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
classs to kill every bill thnt touches
; upon rates or pasues.
If the supreme court ~. not rem.
dered it's opinion at sn early day we
should have had 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 it 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 unconstitutiona
and therefore dead. Having los'
their com mission 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 bs disposed to use
them.
SCHOOL LANDS.
House Roll No. 7, bill providin,
for selling and leasing the school land
of the state came up for passage thi
morning, and was passed by larg'
majority. Mr. Jensen explained hf
vote, saying that he had expected t.
vote for the bill, but upon examina
tion found that any man could lease a
4 many sections as he might think best
He had been informed that one man II
l 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 sctions, but thought tina
it was so much better than the oil
law, now in force, that he would vot
: yes.
- THE CUMMING STATESMAN.
Mr.. Franse, of Cumming Introduce
resolution calling upon the rpscii
railroad committee to furnish tn
Q house with the expense already II
s Cured in sending for witnesses to al
Q pear before said comrnittee. In SUI
Q port of his resolution Mr.. Frsns
II made few remarks in which b
It charged that he had been informe
j. that between one and two thousan
q dollars had already been used up all
d he was opposed to any further e,
% penditure for the reason that h
o thought the examination had assume
1t a personal nature, and he thougt
that Rosewater was too small ma
}. to occupy so much time and consun
l. so much money in this fight again
81 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 til
IT state had better pay half million
1t year in over charges ON freight tart
y rather than to expand a thousand
it two in finding OUT where the troub
Ia.
0 House roll Nos. 40, 43. Al, 58,