The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-03-01

ana lengtnen1ng their term OF Office to
five years. Senator Lindsay introduced
a Joint resolution for q prohibitive
amendment to the constitution. This
was done because the time for intro
ducing bills may elapse before the su-
preme court renders its decision on SEN
ate file 81. The committee of the whole
recommended the three bills for the cre-
alton of Thurston county, also the bill
requiring state officers to make yearly
reports of property in their offices; also
the bill providing that protests on notes
due on Sunday be made on Saturday.
The senate adopted the house joint res
olution requesting Nebraska congress
men to demand q suspension of all en-
tries of public lands, when the same are
under claim OF the state as indemnity
school lands. In the house a bill intro
duced by Mcbride to compel railroad
corporations to list their property for
purposes of taxation, under the oath of
the president or secretary, or rather chief
officer of the company, was reported by
the committee on ways and means, with
the recommendation that it do pass.
The joint resolution to submit an amend
ment to the state constitution providing
that all money derived from saloon Ii
censes and fines should go into the
county instead of the city school fund
provoked much discussion. The bill
was finally killed by a vote of 40 to 81.
House roll 154, Denman's bill to pro-
vide for the state publication of school
books, was indefinitely postponed. Bills
we're introduced: To make all railroad
tickets "good until used" or until the
money be refunded. To authorize
townships and precincts to issue bonds
to make roads and bitches. Providing
for the closing of public schools each
year on decoration day. To provide a
penalty for furnishing or supplying i'm
pure milk to customers. To compel
railroads to keep public crossings in re-
pair. Mrs. Cougar was granted the use
ON municipal suffrage.
The 21st was the 10th day of the sen.
ate session and the last upon which bills
may be introduced. There was a shower
of such documents, and a big part of the
morning session was taken up in read
ing and referring these bills. The three
bills for the creation of Thurston coun.
ty were passed. One cuts n slice from
Wayne, and the third joins them with
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and Winnebago reservations, and calls
the whole Thurston county. The senate
also passed a bill requiring state officers
to include in their regular reports to the
government n schedule of the personal
property in their severa. Offices and in
situations belonging to the state, with a
statement of it's condition.; also an ac-
counting for any such property as may
have been disposed of during the bien-
NAL period preceding. An adverse COM
mittee report has been made on Senator
Howe's bill, one assessor in counties of
10000 or over, a measure that was in
tended for the benefit of Omaha. The
Judiciary committee reported q joint
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment providing for a state board of
transportation of three members, to be
appointed by the governor and
confirmed by the senate. Ad-
journed until Monday. In the house
bills were introduced: A bill to regu-
late and control associations, arrange
ments, combinations, agreements, pools
and trusts. To provide for the pay
ment of all live stock killed by order of
the live stock sanitary commission in
the years 1885, 1886 and 1887. Provid-
ing that all citizens shall have the same
civil rights, and providing for the pun
ishment of any violation of this provis-
ion. 1t is intended to prevent any dis
tinction "on account of color" in seat
ing people in theaters and in furnishing
accommodations at hotels and restau-
rants. A bill providing that owners of
adjoining land shall pay for one-half of
the line fence if he shall build a paral-
lei line and not join in the fence already
established, was debated at length and
finally ordered to a third reading. A
bill to repeal the present militia law,
and to make all the citizens of the state
between eighteen and forty-fve subject
to military duty, and empowering the
governor to enroll as many as may be
necessary to suppress an instruction, |
was introduced by Majors.