Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-30
CATCHING UP WITH IT'S WORK.
senate Puts in nm Afternoon of Busy
ADpIication to Routine.

LINCOLN, March 9.-(Speclal.)-The SEN
ate started in with a close application to
routine work Wien 1t assembled this after
noon. A few senate files were placed on the
calendar and two house bills were read the
second time and referred to regular COM
mittees.
Mr.. Miller of Burt moved that house roll
No. 70 be advanced to a thlrd reading. Mr..
Halter explained that the bill was intended
to reimburse Burt county for expenses in
Cured in a murder trial held In that county
by direction OF the attorney general. The
murder was not committed in Burt county,
but in lost land formed by the eccentricities
of the Missouri river adjacent to Burt county.
The motion prevailed.
Mr.. McGann moved that Senators Ransom
of Douglas and Talbot of Lancaster be added
to the appointed Saturday after
noon to investigate the charges made by The
Omaha Bee relative to the passage OF the
gambling bill. The motion was agreed to.
Bills oil third reading were then taken up
and placed on final passage. The first bill
passed was senate file No. 1874, better
known as the judicial apportionment act.
1t was passed without the emergency clause.
The changes made by the new law are in
the Fourth and Fifteenth districts. Tho
Fourth district Is divided and a new dis
trlct, the Seventeenth, made of Washington
and Burt counties. The Fifteenth district Is
also divided, Holt, Rock, Brown. Keya Paha
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Cherry, Sheridan. Dawes. Sioux and Box
Butte the Sixteenth. The number of judges
is not changed.
The next bill taken up. senate file No.
80, introduced by Mr.. Conway of York, was
defeated on its final passage. II provided:
The treasurer, of the county shall pay
over on demand 20 the treasurer of any
city or village within his county tie moneys
received by HIM arising from taxes levied
and collected, belonging 10 such city or
village. together with all moneys collected
az "A TAX on dogs trnm rHEidHnfg 1f gIIph
city. or village for the use of the general
fund therein; also al Vac moneys arising
tax against or. upon property i'm said city
or oro yii Tag br, Thleh sh3lig be expended only
in said city or village.
The effect OF the bill would have been to
give to cities OF the class of York the right
to expend all road and bridge taxes coll
lected from property within the city limits
for their own benefit, and not for the benefit
Of the county. The bill was defeated BY a
vote Of s to Is.
SCHOOL TAX LIMIT,
Senate file No. POS, offered by Mr.. Schaal
Of SaTpy, was read the third time and
passed. 1t amends section "a OF chapter
xxx, subdivision xiv, OF the Compiled Stat
utes OF 1895, making II read as follows:
That the aggregate school tax, exclusive
Of school bond taxes, shall in no one year
exceed 2 per cent, and In cities Of The first
school tax shall not exceed 10 mills upon
all the taxable property Of the district, but
the Board of Education may borrow money
thorized and empowered TO issue bearing
a rate of interest not exceeding 6 per cent
per annum, payable annually or semi-an-
nually at such place as may be mentioned
upon the face of such bonds; which loan
shall be paid and reimbursed in a period
not exceeding thirty years from the date
OF said bonds; provided, that no bonds shall
be issued nor question OF issue be submit
ted TO the electors without the consent OF
two-thlrds of the members of the Board OF
Education. ana be offered Ia open market
and sold to the highest bidder for not less
than par value on each dollar; and provided
further, that no bonds shall he issued by
the board of education without FIRST sub~