McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
STATE Lrs1sLAr1rE Do1xos.
~ ForshadOsred fs a Condensed Report Of
the Nebraska Legislature.

~ Forshado,red IN a Condensed Report 0,
the Nebraska Legislature.
sEyATE.-In the senate on the 25th the fol
lowing bills were introduced and read the frs
time: s. F. 1874 by Howe, providing for tn,
removal of county seats; 1875, by Lewis, amend
ing sections /, Q and Of chapter %, laws o.
1881; 136, by Buckworth. to prevent introduc
ton Of contagious diseases among cattle anG
horses; 137, by Filson, defining the crime o.
embezzlement: 13S, by Hastings, in regard t.
marriage and divorce.
The senate went into committee of the whole
and some time was spent in discussing bill
relating to prairie fires, in which many mem
bers took part. When the committee arosa
1t reported back In favor Of passage.
Bills were introduced: To require railroads
to connect with competing lines; requiring
that railroad companies be required to put up
In their depots a schedule of rates; providing
Tor attorneys fees In cases on written instru.
ments; to authorize certain corporations to
compromise Indebtedness.
HOUsE.-The committee appointed to exam
Inc the vouchers of Ex-Governor Furnas for
expenditures at the New Orleans exposition
reported that they were all right and satisfac-
tory. A resolution providing for the employ
ment of clerks by committees on constit1-
tional amendments and on cities and towns
was adopted. Bills from house rolls 227 to 268
inclusive were read the second time and re-
ferred to proper committees. House roll 81,
which provides for the payment of officers,
having passed both branches of the legisla-
ture, was enrolled and signed, and has been
sent to the governor for approval.
| McAllister, from the committee on consti-
tutional amendments, presented majority re-
port on S. F. 81 and the bill was referred to
the general file. This bill, or int resolution,
proposes an amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of al
coholic liquors as beverage.
| Bassett, from the committee on university
| and normal schools, reported favorably on II.
R. so and recommended that it be passed.
Report adopted.
| SENATE.-In the senate on the Goth Nc
| Shane called up the special order, s. +. No. z,
a memorial and joint resolution, providing for
| an amendment to the constitution prohibiting
the sale of public lands. After some discus
| sion 1t was referred to the committee on school
| lands and frauds.
| The joint committee on enrolled and en-
| crossed bills reported that house roll 81 had
been presented to the governor for his sigma
| lures.
| A communication was read from the chair
| man of the state convention of the live stock
| association of Texas, deprecating hostile leg
islation that would prevent Texas cattle men
| from getting their cattle to the northern mar
kets, and citing resolution pledging that as
individuals and members of the convention,
Texas herds while on their way north on estab-
lished trails and prevent their contact with
native cattle.
HOUsE.-In the house petitions were pre-
sented: Praying for suppressing of houses of
prostitution; praying for the requiring of
teachers in the common schools to be exam
ined in physiology and hygiene with reference
to the effects of alcoholic stimu]antS; asking
the organization of Blaine county, west of
Sioux.
A resolution by johnson to the effect that
members OF the board charged with frauds,
and members OF the house, be admitted to the
sessions of the school land investigating COM
mittee, was carried after considerable discus
sion.
A report from the secretary of the board of
regents, as asked for by resolution of the goth,
was received. read and placed on file.
SENATE.-The special order of the senate on
the 9th was the bill providing for the regula-
ton of railways. The chief feature of the bill
is the reduction of passenger tariffs to three
cents per mile, it being substantially the same
as the house bill. McAllister moved that the
bill be engrossed for third reading. Sewers
presented a petition signed by John NJ. Thurs
ton on the part of the Union Pacific railway
B. q NJ, asking that the bill be recommitted
to the railroad committee, and that the com,
panies be allowed a hearing. Sewers offered a
substitute to McAllister's motion that the
communication be placed on file, and that the
bill be recommitted. Adopted-17 to Is.
The following resolution was offered by
Sewers and laid over under the rules:
Whereas, An action has this day been had
by the senate referring senate file IA back to
the committee on railroads, and,
Whereas, The request of the representatives
OF railroads to appear before the railroad COM
mitttee to show and give reasons why certain
bills now pending before the legislature should
not pass; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of the senate |
that such action ought to be had in joint meet |
of the legislature, and that the house of repre-
sentatives, through its railroad committee, be |
and they are hereby requested to concur in this |
action. |
Senate file %, to prevent the spreading of |
prairie fires, was read third time and passed. |
HOUSE.-PetitiOnS from citizens of manv |
counties, relative to the teaching of hygiene |
and physiology in public schools, with special |
reference to the effects of alcoholic stimulants |
upon the human system, were read and re-
ferred.
House roll 145, appropriating $4,000 for ex-
penses of the Nebraska commissioners at the
New Orleans exposition, was read the third
time and passed, every member present voting
for the bill.
The bill providing for a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
liquors as beverage was indefinitely post
poned by large vote.
bill was introduced providing that the pay
of jurors in district courts be increased to 50
per day.
SENATE.-In the senate, on the 2Sth, Howe's
revenue bills, senate files l and 81, were read
the third time and passed Senate file l
amends section los of an act entitled San
act to provide for system of revenues" APP
proved March 1, 1877. By its provisions taxes
become delinquent on January 1st, except in
cities of the first class, where they become de-
linquent on the list day of May of the year
after which the taxes shall have been assess
ed, interest at 10 per cent. Senate file 81 re-
peals an act entitled can act to amend sec
tions 4S, 70, 81, 49, Sc, 81 and los of an act en-.
titled An act to provide a system of reve-
nue." approved March 1, 1888. 1t provides
that the county treasurers of the respective
counties shall, on demand of any person who
has paid penalty prior to the taking effect of
this act. refund amount so paid.
Shervn introduced s. F. 166, providing for
of an insane asylum at Fremont,
after which the senate adjourned until Mon
day.
HoUsE.-Stevenson, from the special COM
mittee appointed to visit and inspect the
Home for the Friendless, reported that such
visit and inspection has been made, and re-
that $1,000 be appropriated for
salaries and expenses for two years, and that
600 be appropriated for building a new
wing and making necessary repairs about the
home.
Snecial order RI OH was taken undeI