Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-13

prise of Mr.. Browns. There is no Official
record Of his expenses or income from that
source, and in his absence MIR Wheeler
was unable to give the desired
information. The state bought 5000 copies
at $3.50 each, just as IL might have bought
them of any other private individual who
had made the compilation. The report was
referred IN a special committee consisting of
Senators Nesbitt, Conner and 1iams.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate went into committee of the
whole, and mt the request of Senator Nesbtt
took up Cady's house bill for examiner TO in
spect the books OF county treasurers and
establish a uniform system OF bookkeeping.
Senator Nesbitt stated that in his county
the commissioners spent thirty-three days at
a cost of nearly $500 checking up the ac-
counts of the treasurer. One commissioner
is a hardware man, another n stock man and
the third q farmer. They didn't know much
about bookkeeping, aud the treasurer was
not an expert This is fair sample of the
condition of things in many OF the other
counties.
Senator Conner thought the bill merely a
scheme to foist another official upon the
state and deemed its operation impracti-
cable
Senator Sutherland thought the counties
ought to pay for the examination, that coun-
ties with competent treasurers should not be
taxed for expense entailed by dishonest or
incompetent men Of other counties.
y The amendment was defeated overwhelm-
ingly and Senator Nesbitt, to save the bill,
had it laid aside for the present
The committee approved Chisty's house
bill turning into the state university library
$3.50 received from diploma and matriulation
fees.
Also Ransom's bill authorizing cities of
the second class to condemn sites for public
buildings.
The committee killed Senator Paulsens
bill iegalizing deeds defective as to witnesses
and seals IL they have been unquestioned for
ten years. This bill is supposed to be in the
interest of George Gaslin in his suit against
George M. O'Brien, 1r., and others for the
Hanscom park. There is another bill on file
containing these and other provisions.
Inns bill fixing sleeDipg car fares at u
cent per mile met o similar fate.
The senate adjourned at $3.50 to give the
COMMITTEES time to replenish the general file.
House.
LINCOLN, Neb., March 12.-lSpecial to
The EEl-Memerial addresses on the death
Representative Hays, of Yorke, were made
by Cady and Gilbert and appropriate resolu-
tons adopted.
A large number of reports were sent up.
Cameron moved that special committee
be appointed to act with a similar committee
on the part of the senate to fix the hours of
final adjournment Adopted.
Specht moved that 500 more legislative
manuels be ordered which on motion of Bal
lard was tabled.
The following bills on final reading were
taken up:
House roll II, Olmstead's bill providing for
modified form of the Australian ballot for
cities of the first aud metropolitan classes,
was on the list.
Hall moved te strike out the enacting
clause.
Omstead vigorously opposed the motion
and charged Hall with being opposed to free
elections.
Hall said the bill was clearly unconsttu.
tionai, but he would vote for it if they would
make il apply TO every precinct and thus re-
move this objection.
The motion was lost.
The bill then passed, 63 ayes and 1S nays.
Cady's bill providing for a bounty of cent
pound on all sugar produced from cane or
plants grown in this state was passed by
vote of a to 4. The negative votes were cast
by Gates, Lash, KEEPER and Satchell.
A bill appropriating the sum of S171.57 to
pay the legal expenses of Pawnee county in
CURED in collecting state taxes from Charles
Brown, of that county, for 1871 was passed
by a unanimous vote.
Senate file 169, Mapning's bill removing all
restrictions from mutual insurance com-
panies as to members, authorizing them to
pay their officers not to exceed 50 per day
when actually engaged in the service of the
company, and prohibiting such companies
from hiring agents or solicitors, was passed
by the same vote.
House roll So, by johnson, authorizing not
less than 25 persons who shall own property
of not less than $50, 600 to incorporate mu-
tual insurance company to insure against loss
by fire, hail, tornado or lightning, was passed
with only three negative votes-Cushing,
Mates, jr., and Truesdell.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The consideration of bills on third reading
was continued. The following were passed:
House roll 204, the amended Lincoln char
ter bill
House roll 1Ss, bill limiting the rate of
taxation.
The reports of the committee of the whole
on the work done yesterday was taken up.
A motion by Christy of Clay to insert the
amendment in the bill authorizing townships
to vote aid to works Of public improvements,
ana prohibiting the voting of aid to railroads,
was lost and the recommendations Of Lhe
committee were concurred in.
Several special orders were considered.
Among them were the following:
A bill by Rayner authorizing any person to
appropriate the water running in a ravine,
canon or stream for any useful purpose,
and to build bitches across the land of an
other under certain conditions for lrrigating
purposes, was favorably reported.
A bill by Ballard providing for q state
board of health was killed.
1.-The consideration of the appropriations to
build wing and other attachments to the
various state institutions came up as special
order.
The following were considered and al
lowed, though not without opposition
Seventy-five thousand dollars for workshop,
boiler house, dining room and kitchen for the
Kearney industrial school; $4,000 for a
boiler house, electric light plant, engine
room, gymnastic and library room for the
state normal school at Peru; SS1. 400 for two
wings to the insane asylum at Hastings and
other buildings. An effort to cut this ap
preparation to 500, 900 was defeated.
Legislative Gossip.
LINCOLN, Neb., March Especial to The
BEE. There has been some discussion of
the question, "Can the governor introduce
bill!" The constitution provides that no bill
may be introduced after the forty-day limit
except on a message of the governor recon-
mending it. The inference is that no one
but a member of the legislature can intro
duce bill, but the records of the house show
that bill has been introduced IN that body
by the governor In the senate Church Howe
assumed the sponsorship Of the bills sent in
by the governor.
Superintendent Mallaleu, of the Kearney
reform school, and Steward Nichols, of the
Norfolk hospital for insane are on hand in