Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-10

Hull moved that the house do not concur
| in the senate amendment. Jenkins in
uuired what we're the objections OF Hull te
the senate amendment. Hull replied that
there were discrepancies in the bill, which
| completely nullfed its provisions. Hulfs
motion prevailed, and he then moved that
| a conference committee be appointed by the
| speaker to act with similar committee from
| the senate,
Rouse directed attention to the fact that
1t would be in better form to first return
the bill to the senate. That body might
recede from its position, in which case no
conference committee would be necessary.
| The speaker ruled that 1t would be just as
| proper to now appoint the conference com
mittee, and named Hull of Harlan, Gerdes of
Richardson and Bernard of Pawnee.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THURSTON.
! Speaker Gafnn announced bills on third
| reading and said that II any member did
not have the copy of senate file No. 2, the
joint resolution, instructing Senator John
! NJ. Thurston to vote for free silver at every
opportunity offered him, in his file, the
pages would supply them with loose bills.
| He again apologzed for the bill clerks, and
the condemnatory resolution aimed at the
Junior senator from Nebraska was read by
| the clerk for the third time and placed upon
| its passage. The resolution was passed, sc
| to 26 by a strict party vote, with the ex-
ception of Sheldon and Shull. Sheldon said
! the only instructions he had to give Sena-
tor Thurston was to come home, and Shull
| explained his vote against the resolution by
saying that Senator Thurston had not meant
| what he said about silver two years ago,
and everyone knew that he did not.
! The committees substitute for house roll
| No. 81 was next put on passage. This Is a
| measure compelling all owners of bitches
crossing public highways to bridge the same,
| The bill passed by a vote Of SO to 0.
Speaker Gafin then signed house roll No.
256 the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
| incidental expenses of the twenty-ffth ses-
sion of the Nebraska legislature.
| House roll No. &C is an act for the relief
| of j. M. Mcmillan, ex-county treasurer of
I Thomas county. 1t is shown in the bill that
in 1895 Mcmillan had paid to the state the
sum of $45.21 in excess of what was due.
The bill passed by vote of SO toe
House roll No. 15 by Kapp, is the measure
appropriating $4,S23.00 to reimburse Boyd
county for expenses incurred in the trial OF
George D. Mulliban, Moses T. Elliott anG
Alfred B. Harris on the charge of having
murdered Barrett Scott of Holt county. The
| bill passed ayes rs, nays 2.
| The secretary of the senate appeared and
announced that the senate had appointed
Senators Ransom, Beal and Gondrng COM
| mittee to confer with the house committee
| on house roll No 5, the bill providing for a
| recount of the votes cast for the constitu-
| tional amendments.
House roll No. 90, by Holbrook was then
| placed on passage, but it was found that the
bill had not been correctly engrossed. In
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referred to committee of the whole for cor
| iection.
| House roll No. 50, was next put upon it's
| passage 1t provides for the use of public
| scales and the appointment of weighmas-
| ter. The bill was passed without opposi-
| tion.
| House roll No. 1885, by Gaylord, is an act
| to legallze the acts OF the county clerk of
| Buffalo county, in issuing certificates for
| bounty for the destruction of striped and
gray ground squirrels. While the roll was
| being called on the passage OF this act, Hile
! OF Bufaio, moved call of the house. 1t
| was evident he was afraid the measure could
| not pass with the emergency clause Veri-
| ication OF the roll, however showed that a
| call of the house was unnecessary as the
| Dill had passed with the emergency clause
| by a vote of 81 to 0.
Rich's bill, house roll No. 1873, defining
cruelty to children, prescribing punishment
| therefor and for guardianship of children in
certain cases, was put upon its passage, and
was passed by vote of 81 to 0.
EXPOSITION UNDER FIRE.
Casebeer's bill, house roll No 129, provides
| for the submission of cons titutional amend
ments to vote Of the people. This measure
| was, however hung up owing to the fact
that the amendments had not been properly
placed in the bill files. This completed the
| ollls on third reading, and Clark of Richard
son, chairman of the committee on finance,
ways and means, moved that house roll No.
Y 'o' tHc lIdHSMlSSlsSlppl Dill, De
made special order for Wednesday, Feb
ruary 10, at 2:30 p. m. Wooster Of Merrick
objected to this, and the matter went over
| for the present, but Clark soon renewed his
motion in writing, and Wnsow moved an
amendment putting the special order for the
hftieth day at 2:30 p. M Gaylord supported
| this amendment, and said he would oppose
any movement toward taking up No. SO
until the appropriations for every other in
sttution in the state had been made.
Then, if there was any money left, it might
| be well to consider the claims of the Trans
mississippi Exposition. Smith OF Douglas,
| ntroducer Of the BILL said that committees
| which should go on their visits to state
| institutions were delayed. He desired that.
the bill be brought up tomorrow at 2:30
| p. m.
| Wooster made rabid speech against the
| measure. He said the friends of the bill
had held 1t back because they were afraid
| to bring ii forward. He agreed with Mr..
| Gaylord that not until all other appropria-
| tions had been made should Nebraska go
| into the show business. Pollard made the
point of order that Wooster was not speaking
| to the question and the point was held
| good. Then Wooster sat down and Jenkins
| got the floor. He was in favor of the amend
| ment putting consideration of the bill off
until the fftieth day Of the session.
Yeser of Douglas proceeded to discuss the
| merits of the bill. Wooster called Yeiser
| down by saying that the point of order had
| been pulled on himself, and he would raise
| it against Yeiser. But Speaker Gafiin was
| now in the chair in place of Rouse, who
had ruled against Wooster, and the speaker
| overruled Rouse. Yeiser continued his re-
marks. He made the point that ON the
! hftieth day there might not be money
| enough left to make any appropriation. He
| was in favor of immediate consideration and
action on the measure.
Shull then moved to table the whole ques-
| tion. On this roll call was demanded with
| the following result: Nays, As; yeas, A.
| Roddy then demanded a call of the house.
! Clark of Richardson, moved that further pro-
| ceedings under the call be dispensed with.
When the vote was announced, large num-
| Der changed their votes from no to yes, thus
| tabling the matter
TABLES EVERYTHING.
| Tho vote ON Shull's motion to table the
| resolution and amendment after all changes
| had been made was in detail as follows:
Yeas:
| Ankeny, Hie. Robertson
Billings Hill Severe, ~
Blake. Horner Shull,
| Bower, Hull. Smith Doug.),
| Campbell. Jones Gage, Smith lRch),
| Casebeer, Jones (Nmha). Snyder (Nmha)
| Chittenden, Jones (Wyne), Snyder Shrimp,
| Clark Rich), Keister. Straub.
| Cole, Lemar. Taylor QDoug.),
Cronk. Liddell. Uerling
| Eager. Mccarthy Van Horn.
| Eastman, McCracken, Webb,
1 NkFaIal,