The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-01-21
Friday.

then adjourned.
Friday.
The bill %appropriating 800, 900 for salaries
OF members and employees, were distributed
among the members of the house on the
10Th. This was the first bill printed. 1t
was put upon its passage and passed. Fol-
lowing are the most important bills offered
in the house: Relating to school lands and
funds; to prevent the further sale of school
lands and to repeal said original chapter;
to authorize the state of Nebraska to erect,
maintain and manage a beet sugar factory:
providing for the payment of taxes in in
StallmentS of not less than Is per cent. of
the amount cue at time of payment and
repeating all acts in conflict Herewith: to
punish hog stealing and to punish persons
receiving or buying stolen hogs, and to
punish all persons harboring or concealing
hog thieves. A motion to adjourn to Mon
day was defeated, so adjournment was
taken till Saturday at 10 a.. m.
The senate was unable to take I'D leg
i%slative business for actual consideration
on the 10Th because of the lack of necessary
facilities. The resolution offered by SEN
ator Dundas, relative to a 20 per cent cut
in state and county salaries, was made a
special order for Tuesday morning at 10
O'Clock. The consideration of the gov
ernor's message was made a special order
Tor z o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The fol-
lowing bills were introduced: To amend
the code OF civil procedure so as to provide
that the owner Of any real estate against
which a decree of foreclosure has been
rendered, or OF any real estate levied upon
to satisfy a Judgment or decree of any kind.
may redeem the same at any time before
the confirmation of such sale by paying in
to the court the amount bid for said real
estate by the purchaser thereof together
with the interest accruing on such decree
or judgment; to require owners or con-
structors of irrigation bitches to construct
bridges over the same when such bitches
or canals cross a public highway; to fix
commissions for selling live stock in the
state Of Nebraska; to prevent cruelty to
children in certain cases; to prohibit the
employment of any child under the age of
II years in any store, office, shop, factory,
mine or other place to exceed three months
in any one year; adjourned.
Saturday.
The attempt to shut off the reading OF
the house journal on the 10th was a pro-
nounced failure. Consequently it was af-
ter II o'clock before Wooster of Merrick
moved that at the hearing of the Trans
Mississippi Exposition matter the opponents
OF the bill be given equal time by the
finance, ways and means committee with
those who favored the measure. Hull and.
Harlan said that the hearing should be
held for the benefit of those who favored
the bill. Kimberley of Lancaster was of
the opinion, however, that WooSter's mo-,
ton. was. all right, and when a vote was,
taken it was found that a large majority
were with him, Preceding Adjournment
until 2 O'Clock p. N. Monday the following
bills were introduced: To regulate tbs,
manufacture and sale of cider, to prevent
adu!teratioa, deception and fraud therein
and to provide penalties for violations
thereof; to define the liability of railroad,
companies for damages sustained by en-
plOyes by reason of the negligence of other
employees; to provide for the destruction of
noXious weeds and for the collection of ex-
penses incurred thereby, to fix penalties for
! the violation of this act; defining what shall
be legal tender in the payment of debt: pro-
posing an amendment to section l of article
vii of the constitution Of the state OF
Neptaska, felalhs 10 woman Suffrage;
to amend section lss, of chapter xix, of the
Criminal Code, entitled "Otfenses Against
Election Laws" and to repeal said section;
to assist and develop the Iowa, Lake Shore
& Gulf railroad in the state of Nebraska:
to collect a direct tax on dogs for the pur-
pose of creating a fund for the payment of
the bounty on wolves, coyotes and wild
cats and the suppression # the DOG NUS us.
anee; tG prevent dissertation of the Ameri-
can flag; to amend section 4, of ehapter
lxxxix, of the Compiled Statutes OF Ne.
braska of 1885,; entitled "Swamp lands.n
and to repeal said original section; house
roll No. 1853, to provide for improvina