The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
THE men LICENSE cLauss ACCEPTED.

| THE HIGH LICENSE cLAuEs ACCEPTED.
House Amendments to ths ~Snbmisstem BGl
Concnsred IN by fhs senate.
The senate did little business to-day,
says a Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch to the
Omaha Herald. Shortly after the open
ing OF the session senate file No. 81, the
submission bill as it came from the
house, was called up. A call Of the
house was demanded by Church Howe,
and it was found that Senator Taggart
was missing. It was soon discovered
that he had gone to Hastings and wai
ordered sent for. There being no train
going west, a special train with the ser.
g~eant-at-arms was sent to Hastings after
the absentee. 1t was claimed by Tag.
CARTS friends, however. that he was in.
nocent OF any intention to dodge the
submission question, and that he left
thinking it would not come up in the
senate this week, leaving an excuse with
a brother senator, who forgot to deliver
it to the lieutenant governor. A tel.
egram was said to have been received
from Taggart during the afternoon, say
ing That he would at once return.
Through the afternoon nothing could
be done, but wait, and they waited.
During the evening q telegram was re-
ceived from Sergeant-at-Arms Parkin-
son saying that he had met Taggart at
Inland coming back on a freight. From
this time expectation ran high and every.
body waited patiently for Taggart to APP
pear.
At II 80 o'clock Senator Taggart APP
peared at the door of the senate and was
greeted with cheers from house and gal
lery. A suspension of proceedings I'M
der call of the house was carried unan-
imously. He was brought before the
bar of the senate and allowed to make
excuse for his action. The senator pro-
ceeded to explain that an important
business engagement took him to Hast
ings to-day and he had gone leaving an
excuse which had failed of delivery.
He had received several kilograms but
had not noticed the request to send
word when he would return. His ex-
cuse wal deemed sufficient and he was
excused and allowed to take his seat.
The regular order of business, the con-
sideration of senate file 81 as amended
was then resumed. The amendments
made to the bill in the house were read.
Howe moved that the senate concur and
the motion was seconded. Howe
opened the debate in favor of the meas
ure. He declared that if the senate did
not C in the house amendments.
the house would recede from them and
the result would be the same, and the
senate should meet the house half way.
He was answered by Ransom of Otoe,
who denounced the amendment and de-
clared that no part of the people had
asked to vote on this license PROPOSE
ton. The river counties are not and
will not be bound by the action of the
republican convention to vote for such
a "double-barrelled" proposition as sent
back from the house. The speaker ar
gued the question ut length. He de-
clared if this license proposition were to
be carried it would force the licensing of
liquor selling in counties which did not
want it, as for instance, York county. In
conclusion, he said the senate should
hesitate to do IN act of this kind which
will destroy the value of property with
out giving remuneration. He did not
believe that the people of Nebraska
would perpetrate such an outrage as the
passage of this measure. Nesbitt spoke.
He said that senate file No. 81 was still
the child of the senate; though it had
been mangled the senate could not be
recreant to its trust. Wolbach spoke
briefly against the measure. Howe
called attention to the fact that Pennsyl-
vania by its Legislature had just submit
ted the question of prohibition and the
proposition had just been signed by the
governor. The audience was clearly on
the prohibition side of the question.
Dern moved to recommit; defeated.
Wolbach moved to indefinitely postpone;
lost. The presiding officer called for
the vote on the original question, when
Ijams moved to refer to the Judiciary
committee; lost. The roll was then
called on the concurrence of the senate.
The vote was as follows and the presid-
ing officer announced that the. senate
concurred. Ayes: Burton, Conner,
Cornell, Funck, Gallooghy, Hoover,
Howe, Hurd, Jewett, Keckley, Lindsay,
Linn, Manning, Nesbitt, Pickett, Polk,
Robinson, Roche, Shanner, Suth-
erland, Taggart and Wetherlad-23;
Beardsley, Dern, Ijams, Maher,
Norval, Paulson, Paxton, Ransom, Ray
mond and Wolbach-10.