Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-07
Lesislatiye Gossip.

| LINCOLN, Neb, March Especial to THE
| BEE. In the debate on the bucket shop bill
| Senator Keckley admitted, in answer to
| Senator Church Howe's question, that he
| carried 65, 900 bushels on the Chicago board
| last summer but he lost only Sl60. At one
| time he was ahead of the game by $1,000 or
| $4,000.
The committee who visited the state peni
| tentiary yesterday brought back fine leather
I canes as souvenirs.
Colonel w. b. Taylor is about the capitol
| gathering influence to put him into the Lin
| coin postoffice.
Fish Commissioner May is arranging for
an excursion of legislators and others to the
| hatchery at South Bend.
| No proposition has yet been put forward
| for night sessions in the senate.
| 1t is believed that Senator Linn's bill linn
iting the employees of each house in the fu-
| ture to fifty, will pass the senate. Senator
| Cornell threatens, if it does, to introduce
resolution reducing the employees of this
senate to fifty, and he will fight for it.
In discussing the bill to require the clerks
| of district courts to write up their journals
| every day. Senator Ransom said it would be
| impossible to do it, and he doubted if there
was man in the country who could write
| up twenty pages day. Senator Ijams
| challenged the statement by saying he had
written up the court record every day for
| twelve years and had written as many as
thirty eight pages in a day, enough to keep
| him busy most of the next morning session
in the reading.
Senator Lindsay is candidate for regis
| ter of the McCook land office, and petition
| is being circulated in his interest
Commissioners Mount and Anderson of
Omaha are here again.
| w. f.. Babcock of Furnas county, men,
| ber of the house two years ago, is among to-
| days visitors.
David Darr of O'Neill, ex-treasurer of Holt
| county, is on hand in the interest of the
| house bill requiring three-ffths vote to di-
| vide county and permitting such vote no
| oftener than once in three years.
Everything is quiet after the storm of yes
tcrday.
Custer county had the floor to-day. The
| bill requiring three-ffths majority to
| change the location of county seat was up
| for discussion, and as this county is partcu-
| larly interested in this bill, a strong delega-
| ton representing the cOntending elements is
| here. Senator Jewett rather favors the bill,
| but both representatives, Sergeant and
| Whitehead are strongly opposed to the meas
| ure.
Hon. Christian Specht, of Omaha, is de-
cidedlyin favor of maintaining the semblance
| of military organization, but does not want
the militia to become too much Of public
| burden.
| Representative Mcmillan of South Omaha
| has been absent from his seat for several
| days on account of the serious illness of his
| wife.
| After Berln's resolution prohibiting the
| indiscriminate admission Of people to the
floor was adopted the crowd of lobbyists and
| hangers on who turn the legislative session
into very Babel, dwindled down considera-
bly,, and comparative quiet reigned.
The bill requiring a three-fifths vote to
/ change the location of county barely car
| ried, receiving only SO votes. 1t was lost on
| the first roll call, but Baker, Ley and Kahn
came to the rescue and saved the bill
The farmers ''went all to pieces" over the
| bill to authorizing the re-assessment of rail
road lands for back taxes. The law must be
| general in its character, and effect all real
| estate, and many feared that this might lead
| to injustice and double taxation.