The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-04-12

I C6ftInCdtt. JUST UtIOfG tHt nOOn RECESS tHt
senate went into the committee of the whole
TO consider bills in the sitting file. Senate
file No. 12s, providing for the government of
a muIu ibe me in rasdraqee c poet noned. WIS TSe fe biii
authorizing the secretary of state to
designate newspapers in which the pro-
shall be printed. instead of permitting the
governor to 40 so, was taken up and passed
over the governors veto by a strict party
vote. The senate then resumed the order
of bills on third reading. The first bill
passed was house roll No. III, known as the
state banking act. 1t makes q number of
material amendments in the present law,
the principal feature of the new law being
the provision which relieves the supreme
court of the burden Of the immense amount
of business occasioned by the failure OF
banks. At present the supreme court has
exclusive Jurisdiction over broken banks,
and as there are constantly from forty to
sixty suspended banks in the court. at least
one-third of the time of tn. supreme bench
Is taken up in this way. The district courts
Will have charge of the work in the future;
The Lincoln charter was read the third
time and passed.
HOUSF.-In the house on the Cd the follow
ing bills were passed: Authorizing the
governor to appoint three commissioners to
act with a like commission of south Dakota
in aScertaining the correct boundary line
between that state and Nebraska, so far as
the same may he the line Letween Clay
county in South Dakota and Dixon county
In NeDraSka; to pension firemen of paid fire
departments after IL continuous service or
twenty-One years, and the widows and or
phanS of tiremen who lose their lives in the
line of duty; relating to contracts for the
sale, lease or hire of railroad and street
railway equipments; authorizing counties,
townships, precincts, cities and villages to
issue bonds TO aid in the construction of
wagon toll bridges across any boundary
river in the state; providing for the nomi-
nation of public officers by certificate: en-
towering cities OF the second class of more
than 500 and less than 1900 inhabitants to
| n lIphpSn nr " ana lnlnrnLn Innn for
parks and public grounds and to BOND Such
cities Tor that purpose; the Omaha
canal bill, to enable counties to issue bonds
TO construct and operate canals for naV1Ea-
ton, water power and other purposes:
The governors private secretary presented
a message from the executive recommend-
ing the passage of III additional relief bill
apprOpriating 50.0O0. Senate file No. s, pro-
vluing for bills of exception in courts lower
than the district court. was
Tor passage. and IS. for the preservation OF
game ana fish, and %. for the increase OF
sheriff's fees, were indefinitely postponed.
The clerk rcad u message from the governor
in which he declined to give his signature
to senate file 335, providing that the secre-
tary of state. instead OF the governor, shall
name the papers in which the constitutional
amendments shall be published. 1t had
been passed in the senate over the veto and
Jared The same way in the house by IL vote
of 60 to Il: The house then took up the
special order of the day. house roll No. la9,
the Omaha fire and police commission bill.
vetoed by the governor, and the clerk read
the message. The vote on the bill resulted
in o. votes 10 0 in favor of overriding the
governors veto.
SENATF.-ln the senate on the 9Th the i'm
migration bill was considered. The judici-
airy committee recommended that the bill
be passed just as it came from the house,
and that it be advanced to third reading.
the report was adopted. House roll No. 81.
reducing the interest on state warrants,
was Indefinitely postponed for the reason
that 1t was not an exact counterpart of SEN
III 70 III M - which had nlDnndv hnpn nICC-
ed by both houses and signed by the COVER
nor. HOuse roll No. ISL. known as BenedictS
age of consent bill, was considered. The
senate then, by an almost unanimous vote,
ordered the bill advanced to third leading
after adOpting the amendments recommen-
ded by the judiciary committee. AS amend
ed, the bill now reads as follows: IF any
person shall have carnal knowledge OF any
other woman, or female child, than his
daughter or sister, as aforesaid forclbly and
against her will; or If any male person, OF
the age of Is years or upward shall carnal-
ly know or abuse any female child under
the age of is years, with her consent, unless
over Is years of age and previously unchas-
ed. and every such, pereon SO often
a ai9F s shaII be inepisdne guiil 1t t Of r pas.
i1entiary not more than twenty years
nor less than three years" The house
county depository law bill was passed. The
next Dill read the third time and passed
was house roll No. $40 better known as the
immigration bill. The measure was passed
with the emergency clause. just as IL came
from the house. The senate then took up
the bill already passed by the house to ere
ate a branch soldiers home at Milford. The
bill provides that the Milford sanitarium
shall be used as Il soldiers home by the
state, providing that the rent shall be free
for two years. The bill was recommended
TO pass. The appropriation bill wa passed.
Lindsay created a diversion by moving that
house roll No. 40 be ordered to third read
ing. This was the insurance bill which the
senate had ordered Crane to return. The
~ n tho hill nninn NrnpnH I woo
an adjournment, but failed, and Lindsayfs
motion was agreed to. Before adjourning
the senate adopted a resolution of Watsons
directing the secretary of state to hang in
the senate a portrait of the late
eN-Lieutenant Governor l.. {. earns of Sew
ard, the frame to bear a silver plate in
SCribed with a suitable inscription setting
forth the public services Of the deceased
lieutenant governor.
HOUSE.-In the house on the 4th the speak
er appointed Burch, Roddy and Harris a
committee to act with a similar body from
the senate, to arrange for the selection of
six trustees of the Institute for the Blind
at Nebraska City. The house conference
committee on house roll No. 50, the anti
cigarette bill. made the following report,
which was adopted: Your conference COM
mittee appointed to meet q like committee
from the senate on senate amendments to
house roll No. 60, begs leave to report that
it has agreed to the amendments by the
senate except in line three Ofsenate amend
ments, strike out the figure g and insert
the figures SO, all of which is respectfully
submitted. The following bills were re-
commended for passage: To regulate the
organization and operation of mutual in
Surance associations; providing for the
care of feeble minded and imrecile chill
dren: for the adjustment of damages by
reason of public roads being laid upon pub
lie school lands; providing tor the listing of
public lands by county clerks for purposes
of assessments; providing that ounty COM
misssionerS let bridge work to lowest bidder
to reapportion the state into judicial dis
tricts: providing that executors ard guar
dianS of feeble minded persons may take
charge of their property; memorial and
Joint resolution to congress regarding the
conveyance by the government of Fort
Omaha to the state of Nebraska on cOndi-
ton that the fort lie converted intOencamp-
ment grounds for the Nebraska National
Guards: NOyes' bill for forming new school
districts. The committee of the whole then
rose and the house took up the regular or
der of bills on third eading. senate file No.
20, by sloan, legalizing orders, judgments,
DEGREES and findings of courts. was passed.
Senate file No. 70, Sloan's bill making valid
orders and DEGREES of 1SS1, and No. Cranes
measure relating to probate courts, we're
also passed.
SENATE.-In the senate on the 9Th the
oleomargarine bill passed by Il vote of 10 to
10. The senate then took up for third read
ing and passed house roll No.. 434, a bill pro-
viding that Union college of Lincoln may
iScuo d;p1omaS The fOIIOwjpu wpre nnSSc6.