The record-union., 1897-03-04

RESTRAINING BARRIERS.
Seward has had a long siege with his
bill, 142, providing for restraining bar
riers and the appointment of a Debris
Commissioner, but yesterday the report
of the joint conference committee from
Senate and House showed that the diff
ferences regarding amendment We're all
settled. The report of the committee
was adopted and there is nothing now
between the bill and the Governor but
enrolment
OMAHA VISITORS.
| Valentine announced that some visit
ors We're present who came in the inter-
est of the Trans Mississippi and Inter
national Exposition to be held at Oma-
ha in 1898, and moved that they be re-
ceived and permitted to address the
House on the subject. A bill is at pres
ent before the Legislature carrying an
appropriation for California exhibit at
that exposition and members could gain
some information which might aid them
in consideration of the bill Dennery
seconded the motion. The House un-
animously accorded the courtesy to the
| gentlemen, who were invited to the
| Speakers desk.
Speaker Coombs then introduced G..
M Hitchcock, proprietor of the Omaha
World Herald" and Judge Webster.
also of Omaha. Both gentlemen spoke
| clearly and well, Mr. Hitchcock, partic
ularly, giving history of the enterprise
from its inception, statement of its
present status, a setting forth of the
advantages attending an exhibit at the
exposition and a hearty invitation to
California to be present with her pro
ducts. They We're greeted with ap-
plause and accorded an attentive hear
ing, after which the House took a re-
| cess.
AN AFTERNOON BREEZE.
Directly after recess, North, of Ala
media, moved that some half dozen cleo
ton bills, which had been reported back
| by the Committee on Election Laws, be
made special order for Friday.
Dibble was up in a moment and de-
clared that this sort of thing had got
| to stop. Everybody was getting bills
in ahead of the regular files, and, as
a consequence, the files were all broken
up. He objected and should continue
to object to people pushing their own
bills in ahead of others.
Wright of Alameda jumped to his
feet and declared that he objected
and he believed the other members did
also, to having this Assembly run any
longer by Judge Dibble. That gentle
man had been constantly busy in fix
ing the files to suit himself. and when
be wanted bill pushed it always was
pushed, but if anybody else wanted a
like favor they had to listen to a lot of
buncombe from Dibble about their
presumption in trying to forward their
measures He hoped Mr.. North's mo-
ton would prevail.
| Dibble said his earnest young friend
from Alameda was wrong. He had not
forced his own bills forward; he cared
10 more for one than another; his sole
interest was in promoting the work of
the Assembly.
| Others objected to the special order,
though North explained that not one
of the bills in question was his own. 1t
was a motion agreed upon by the
committee in order to get the bills read
the second time, amended and sent to
the printer.
The motion was lost.
SENATE SPECIAL FILE.
| Seawelrs 113, amending the Code of
Civil Procedure to prohibit the carry
ing into execution of judgments after
the lapse of five years from date of en-
try, was refused second reading.
| Mahoney's 100, the 'pawnbrokers'
bill," was read the third time, placed
on final passage and lost.
Androus' l, amending the Act to en-
able school districts of the fifth class
| to issue bonds. was read the third time
and passed.
THE LAND ACT SAFE.
| Toland, pursuant to notice, moved to
reconsider the vote by which Senate
bill SO, the Torrens Land Act, had been
passed.
| In support of his motion, Toland en-
tered into an elaborate technical con-
sideration of the bill, speaking half an
| hour by courtesy of the House. He
| had detected numerous flaws, though
| he approved of the main intent and
purpose of the bill. He believed, how
ever, that it would be better to lay it
over two years and allow everybody
chance to study it and improve it.
| Mead said that there were few bills
of thirty y-nine pages in length so per-
fectly drawn that a shrewd and able
lawyer could not detect some flaws in
| them. His friend from Ventura was
just that kind of a lawyer, and he
didn't doubt that if he really set him
self to the task Toland could find flaws
in the eleven commandments. How
ever, the bill had been before people
long time, had been discussed in public
and by the press, had stood the test
of long use in other countries, and he
saw no reason if it was a good thing
why we should wait two years for it.
We are always putting off things for
more time to consider them, Mead said,
and if we did so with this bill we might
all have passed to that land where
there are no land transfers, no alb
stract companies and no lawyers, be-
fore it became a law. The motion to
reconsider being put, it was voted down
and the bill transmitted to the Senate
for enrolment.
THE GOVERNORS APPROVAL.
The Executive yesterday approved a
number of Assembly bills, as follows;
Sowards %, to enable the attorney
for the executor or administrator of an
estate to verify returns of sales from
the estate in the absence of the exec
utor.
Melck's 6S, providing that no fees
or other compensation shall be col
lected for services rendered in an affi-
davit or application relating to the Sc
curing of pension, or for the payment
of a pension voucher or any matter
relating thereto, nor filing nor swear
ing to any claim or demand against any
county in this State