The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-16
NEBRASKA LAWMAKERS
VIII Investigate the State Pen
itentiary Officials.
BILL TO REGULATE STOCKYARDS.

BILL TO REGULATE ST0CKYARDS.
House Recommends That It P~ass-suter's
Measure to Fix Commissions For Selling
Live Stock In the State Was Favorably
Acted Jones Has Left the
state-Iowa and Nebraska News.
LINCOLN, March 1O.-The res solutions
for an investigation of the alleged
cruelties practiced at the state peniten-
tiary We're adopted in the house and
senate Friday. The resolution was in
troduced by Crane Douglass as follows:
Whereas, Grave charges have been and
are being made in the press Of the state
against the warden, Hon. A. D.. Beemer,
and the contractor, w. II. Dorgan, charg-
ing cruelty to convicts, attempted bribery
and mismanagement of the penitentlary,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That a committee of five be
appointed to investigate said charges,
with power to send for persons and papers,
and report the result of their investiga-
tions to the senate at as early a date as
possible.
The house resolution was offered by
Brady buffalo and although worded
somewhat differently seeks to accom-.
plish the same purpose.
1t is feared, however, that the pro-
posed investigation too late i'll the
session to produce practical results. The
senate has but IA working days and the
house II. But little more IA be ac-
complished in this time than a surface
investigation.
Two years ago the senate appointed a
committee to investigate charges Of ex-
treme cruelty on the part of attaches of
the ~penitentiary toward the convicts,
but nothing came of it. Convict Jones,
whose stories of terrible cruelties in the
pen was the primary us of the trOu-
BILE, went to Council Bluffs Thursday
night.
The house devoted nearly the entire
day to a discussion of the stock yards
bill No. 1873.
The bill as it was recommended to
pass provides that the governor shall APP
point a live stock inspector, who shall
inspect all stock and determine which
are piggy sows and which are stays,
and who shall allow a dockage of not
to exceed 40 pounds for each piggy SOW
and not to exceed 60 pounds for each
stag. The inspector is to receive for
compensation Is cents per car for in
speeding the same, to be paid by the
shipper.
Maximum rates are fixed for stock
yards as follows: For yarding and
weighing cattle, 20 cents per head; for
yarding and weighing hogs, 6 cents per
head; for yarding and weighing sheep, A
cents per head.
1t is declared to be unlawful for the
owners to charge q greater price for hay
and grain than double the wholesale
market price OF the same on the day
furnished in village or city where said
stockyards are located. It is also de-
clared to be unlawful for the owners OF
stockyards to sell less than 100 pounds
of hay for l00-weight, or less than 5t
pounds Of shelled corn or less than 20
pounds Of ear corn for IA bushel.
1t is also declared to be unlawfut for
the owners Of s%tockyards to prohibit the
owner of any dead stock in such yard:
from selling to any person or persons tC
whom the owner of the dead stock may
desire to sell the same.
The penalty for violation of the act i
fine for the first offense of not NOR,
than 500; for the second offense no
less than 800 nor more than $500, ant
for each subsequent offense no less thar
$500 nor more than 81 1000.
The house also recommended to pas
Suter's bill to regulate the charges Q
commission men. This bill Ak, t.,
maximum charges for commission a
follows:
For selling cattle, 40 cents per hea
and not to exceed S. per car; for sellln
hogs, 6 cents per head and not to excee
IS per car for single deck and IS pc
car for double deck cars; for sellin
sheep, 4 cents per head, bat not to e2
coed 81 per car for single deck and
per car for double deck cars.
The penalty is a fine for the first o.
fense Of not less than $50 nor more tina
500; for the second o~ffense, not les
than 900 nor more than $500, and fc
each subsequent offense not less tina
$500 nor more than $500.
Carleton Must Hang.
LINCOLN, March 10.-The supreu
court refused to grant a rehearing
Charles Carleton, the Fremont man col
demned to death. The supreme cou
in January refused to grant Carleton
new trial and fixed the date for his ex
cution ON April 20. Judge Maxwell a
piled to the supreme court for a rehea