Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-05
IMMIGRATION BILL IS PASSED.
Intellectual Opposition In tho Senate to
MakinG New Board.


commenced its sixty-eighth day with a call
of the house over the immigration bill. The
bill was read the second time and referred
to the committee on judiciary yesterday. That
committee returned the bill to the senate last
evening with favorable report, but the re-
port was not read. 1t was presented as the
first piece Of business this morning. The ju.
dietary committee recommended that the bill
be passed just It came from the house. and
that 1t be advanced to third reading.
Sprecher objected. He said that the bill
proposed to create another state officer and
TO entail a large burden Of expense upon the
state. The duties Of the Office proposed prop
erly belonged to the labor commissioner. In
stead OF creating a new office, the wisest
thing to do would be to strengthen an Office
already created
Pope said that in his opinion the bill was
one OF the most important considered by the
legislature at the present session. In her
present condition Nebraska needed a strong
Immigration bureau more than ever In her
history. AS far as the labor commissioner
was concerned, ne believed that the state
should place the work in the hands of some
man VINO would be able to attract people to
Nebraska instead Of driving them away
Dale sarcastically remarked that the SEN
ator from Saline seemed to forget that the
action OF the legislature yesterday in passing
two important bills over the governors veto
was sufficient to attract immigration to Ne
braska.
Then Dale wanted the report TO lie over ono
Day under the rules, but he was considerably
startlsd by a decision Of the lieutenant gov
ernor to the effect that inasmuch as the re-
port had been handed in yesterday evening
1t had therefore already laid over one day,
even If 1t had not been read.
The roll was called and 1t was soon dscov-
cred that there were not present sufficient
number of senators to adopt the report by
the necessary two-thirds majority. A call of
the house was demanded, and after the doors
had been closed for about thirty minutes the
requisite number Of votes was drummed up
and the report adopted.
This senate then proceeded to the consid ara
tion OF standing committee reports.
House roll No. 535, making an appropriation
for the relief of Deputy Sheriff Bates of Nance
county, who was shot in the neck and seri-
ously wounded while defending the life of a
prisoner against mob, was recommended for
Indefinite postpOnement, in spite Of the earn ST
effort OF Campbell of Nance county to save It,
House roll No, 4SO. also bill appropriating
money for the relif Of d. S. Beynon, was in
definitely postponed. This was a somewhat
novel claim. In 1889 one Nicholas Foley mur-
dered woman named Ada C. Clark in Ante
lope county, and Governor Thayer offered the
the murderer. Beynon arrested the muir
derer, but before the trial could be
held Foley was hanged by mob The dis
trict Judge refused to give Beynon the certi6-
cate that the murderer had been arrested and
convicted according to the terms OF the gov
ernors proclamation offering the reward Bey-
non asked the legislature to authorize the
governor to pay the money, the tschnicalty
Notwithstanding. The house passed the hill
but the senate will not
LINDSAY SMOKES OUT CRANE.
Lindsay next turned the attention OF the
senate to little sharp practice Of which
Crane, as chairman of the committee on mn
nicipai affairs, had been guilty. House roll
NO. 246. better known as Brockman's mutual
insurance bill, had been referred to Cranes
committee on April 1. In spite of his re-
peated promises, Crane had neglected and
failed to report the bill back to the senate
Lindsay said further that there were strons
influences at work to prevent the passage of
the bill. He did not wish to intimate any-
thing against the motives of the senator from
Douglas county, but Crane had promised yes
terday morning, yesterday forenoon. Yesterday
after dinner and last evening to report the
DILL Ihese numerous promises had not been
kept. He therefore moved that the bill be re-
called from the senate committee on municip,l
ahairs and placed on general file. His motion
was agreed to without opposition. Crane. who
had get wind OF Lindsays purpose had dis
creetly withdrawn while his conduct was
being explained vas
The senate then went into committee of
the whole for the consideration OF hills re
ported by the sitting committee. The hills
on the sitting file were disposed of as fol-
lows: i0'
House roll No. 81, reducing the interest m
s,ate warrants was indefinitely postponed for
tne reason that 1t was an exact counterpart
or senate file No. %, which had already baen
nH sio
ernor. A' e''
House roll No. 556, Ricketts, bill to SIM
press mob violence. was taken up for a
Drier consideration, but was dropped upoD
,ne ; statement by the chairman of the sift-
ing committee that the bill had been with
drawn for further consideration
The committee then proceeded IN bavs
an interesting time over house roll No 3S4
known as Benedict's age of consent bill
MoheeDy made an argument against the
san;, D,,; unaracterz'hs It as a piece Of mawklsh
sentiment, the work Of unthlnklng women
and boys who knew nothing about law. He
moved that when the committee rise the
blil be indefinitely postponed. On division
Mcheeby and Hahn alone favored the death
OF the bil. while sixteen senator's voted
against the motion.
hitchcock then sought to amend the bill
by making 1t read that If any male person
OF the age OF 81 years or upward shall abuse
any female child under the age of Is wears
III VIII 90 u pdsseu lHe mouse, made males
OF Is years and upward amenable to the pen
alties provided by the act. IIitchcock's
amendment was voted down.
The senate then, by an almost unanimous
VOTE ordered the bill advanced to third read
Ing after adopting the amendments recon-
mended by the judiciary committee AS
amended. the bill now reads as follows:
if any person shall have carnal know,-
eube or any other woman, or female child
mar, ms daughter or sister, as aforesaid
1orclbly and against her viii: or if any
male person, of the age OF is years or un-
ward; shall carnally know or abuse any
Iemaie child under the age of IS years
with her consent, unless such female child
so known and abused Is over Is years of
age and previously unchaste, and every
guilty of q rape, and shall b. imprisoned
In the penitentiary not more than twenty
nor less than three years.
The senate then took its regular noon
recess
REPEALED THE DEPOSITORY LAW.
After recess the senate took up the order
OF bills on third reading. first taking up the
Rouse county depository law. 1t was read
the third time and passed.
This bill, as passed by the senate, repeaIs
the depository law in so far as IL relates to
the state treasurer. AS the bill passed the
house II only applied to county repositories
IL contained the usual provision repeating
the conflicting sections of the old law The
present law is contained In chapter | of the
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