Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

roll No. 612, making appropriations to pa.
the bounty on sugar manufactured In the
state of Nebraska. The bill appropriates the
following amounts:
Oxnard Beet Sugar company for
leS0 l0,Sil.S
Norfolk Beet Sugar company for
1880 :. 3l,l9o.6
oxnard Beet Sugar company for
Norfolk Beet Sugar company for
1896 42,63s. II
Total $l21, O3i II
The total amount of salaries named in the
appropriation bills is 1874, 200. This does
not include wages of employees.
TO AID THE EXPOSITION.
House roll No. SIS, by Roberts, provides
for an act to authorize counties to issue
bonds in aid Of the Transmississippi Elk
position. 1t was introduced today and read
for the first time. Whenever 900 voters of
any county shall petition the Board of
County Commissioners, they shall issue the
bonds Of such county, to become due in
twenty years. at 5 per cent interest per
annum, provided the proposition shall first
be submitted to the legal voters of the
county at a special election, and provided
that such interstate exposition shall first
have been recognized by the congress of
the United States by an appropriation Of a
sum not less than S100, 900.
Among the bills introduced this morning
were the following: BY Clark Of Richardson,
app-opriating 100000 for boiler house and
electric light plant at the Institute for Feeble
Minded at Beatrice; by Snyder of Sherman,
for imposing a tax on legacies and success
sions; by Horner of Dawson, to establish a
State Normal school at Lexington, Dawson
county; by ShuH, providing for the erection
of a vault In the office of the treasurer for
the purpose of storing the state funds, and
appropriating 100000 for the purpose.
Hulrs new bill for recounting the ballots
cast on the constitutional amendments is
house roll No. Ssh and provides that the sec
rotary of state. together with, six d%isinter-
ested electors, who shall be free holders OF
the state, not more than two of whom shall
be of the same political faith or. party allie
glance, to be appointed in writing by the
governor of the state, shall constitute a board
of canvassers to inspect and count the said
ballots cast upon the question submitted to
the voters of this state at said election
relating to an increase Of the number of
judges Of the supreme court and fixing their
terms of Office; also to compare said ballots
and poll books; also to determine from the
poll books and ballots and abstracts the
number Of electors who voted at said cleo
ton. Said board, as soon as the ballots
have been received, shall proceed with the
canvass at the office of the secretary of
state and continue from day to day until it
is completed. If any county clerk shall re-
fuse to give up the ballots and poll books,
the sergeant-at-arms shall go for them and
arrest all persons who shall interfere with
him in the performance of such duty, and
bring them before the bar of the house of
representatives. There Is an emergency
clause to the bill.
A memorial from Omaha, signed by Frank
]. Coates, Frank A. Agnew, post colonies,
and j. Howard 'Heine, member of Council in
Chief, Sons of Veterans, was read, opposing
the adjustment of the Soldiers and Sailors
home at Milford.
SHORTAGE IN BILLS.
Mr.. Webb of Custer, chairman of the
house committee on printing. will have a
startling report to make next week. For
two weeks his committee has been at work
on certain charges made against Jacob North.
North has the contract for printing the house
bills. The terms of his contract demand 500
copies of each bill. The report of the com
mittee on printing will show that up to the
400th bill introduced in the house, about one
week since. each lot of bills was 200 short.
This would make a gross shortage of 10000
bills, and 1t is readily seen that this would
be a great saving In white paper alone, to
say nothing about prese work. Since the
lusty kick by certain members of the house
and the appointment of a committee of in
vestigation, there have been shortages as
follows; House rolls 439, 119 copies; 42S,
200 copies; 440, 1872 copies; AL, 1s9 copies;
AZ, 100 copies; AS, $50 copies; 4S0, 200
SO, III, 247 and 2S3 are exhausted, and ac-
cording to the affidavit of Bill Clerk Was
mund, on file with the printing committee,
these numbers, were all short and the 500
copies to which the house was entitled under
the contract of each bill were never de-
livered. House rolls Mes. 50 and 295 have
never been printed.
The committee on claims, Soderman, chair
man, introduced the claims bill the last
thing before, Adjournment today. The total
amount allowed newspapers for the publica-
ton of the proposed constitutional amend
ment is $25, 2G}y36.G
The following amounts were allowed tho
for transportation of the Nebraska
guardsiIto the Hastings encamp-
meat: Il Ett
Union iPaclas R3iiSyay Co..."...." sssSSSSSss
Union Pacific Railway ,Co..;.rr,i... 1,$5I36
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacihc...,.. 2t6.S5
St-Raul Minneapolis & o. 114.24
Total ..N> ~ S. 1856. 70
The county clerks of all the ninety coun-
les in the state have forwarded the ballots !
md poll books of their respective counties
o the secretary Of state, with the exception
If eight. They are Douglas, Lancaster, Ban
Grant, EKeY4 Paha, Nuckolls. Sherman
md Wheeler. The county clerks of Douglas
md Lancaster have been enjoined from send
ng in the ballots for the purpose of re- X,
the vote cast on constitutional :
Imendments. The other six counties are in :
Iefault. as the law provided they should make :
eturns within five days. The limit expired |,
evening. :
Governor Holcomb today received from !
States Land Commissioner Lamoreux q
he official transcript Of the list OF lands Sc q
ected from United States lands to indemnify .
he state Of Nebraska for the deficiency +
reated in the school land allotment on the
'awnee Indian reservation. The deficiency
to 2.62I acres and the government
as set apart the same number of acres near I
tdney to make good the lees. {
Unaa payt pnaaNfnu Of fhn NahFnaLa Euut . | -
eering noelety viii be held May 13 ana IA :
t Grand Island. '
Burd-SchnOor. a
PLEASANT DALE, Eeb., Feb. 27.-(Spe- I
ial.)-Mr. Amor Burd and Miss Emma t