The McCook tribune., 1897-04-02
MEN FOR THE COUNT.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED IN
BOTH HOUSES.
Reca ivass of the Amendment Vote will
New Interruptediy Go Forward
Legislatures Time Is Up, But
There is Yet q Great Deal
of Work I'm Sight.
The Nebraska Assembly.

The Nebraska Assembly.
SENATE.-The senate on the 23d became in
volyed iu a parliamentary tangle over the
bill providing for a new dormitory for the
| Peru normal school. Today the senate un-
| did some OF this hasty work. The dormi-
| tory appropriation was recalled, and the
measure must henceforth take its chances.
| The vote by which the bill was passed was
| reconsidercd by vote OF IL to a. In the
afternoon the senate took up regular routine
| work. AS soon as it had been called to order
| the senate went into committee of the whole,
with Mr.. GOndrng In the chair, to take up
| the consideration of senate file No. 239, which
| had been made q special order for this after
noon. Fritz OF Thurston, author of the bill,
| tried to have the name of Feltz of Keith sub
Stituted for that of Mr.. GOndring, but the
| motion failed to carry; and Mr.; Gondring
! took the chair. Senate file No. 239 provides
| that the terms Of all county officers shall be
for the period of four years, and that all
county officers now in Office shall hold
Until 1899. In other words, the pro-
Of pW ee G ali eU1 eU3ny years Gcers ns
| The committee made short work of the
bin. After it had been read MI. Fritz
| offered an amendment which limited
| the tenure OF Office to a single term. 1t was
| agreed to without dissent. Then MIR. Mutz
offered another amendment providing that
proposed law should be held in 1897. This
was also agreed to by vote of IA to 2. Mr..
| Beal moved that the committee rise and re-
port the bin back to the senate with the
| recommendation that the bill be indefinitely
| postponed. To this Mr.. McGann offered an
| amendment that the bill be recommended
| for passage. Finally the bill was recon-
mitted to the committee on Judiciary. SEN
| ate file No. ., the anti-cOmpact insurance
| bill introduced by Mr. Haller was placed on
| its final reading and passed by vote of 2S : to
l. Senate file No. sos, introduced by Mr..
Gondring. to amend the irrigation law, was
| read the third time and passed. House roll
| No 1s5 was read the third time and passed
| 1t leagaliZeS certain acts of the county com
| missiOners of Buffalo county. Up to this
| time the passage of the bills had proceeded
| without interruption: but from this time on
| the afternoon proceedings, so far as bills on
| third reading were concerned, were badly
broken up Bill after bill was read and
| found to be radically defective in construc-
! tion or in the manner III which it had been
engrOSSed.
SENATE.-The senate devoted the session on
the 24th entirely to the several normal
school propositions. 1t transpired very
early in the day that q combination had been
effected for the purpose of establishing not
| one but two, normal schools, one at Scotia,
and one at York. Long before the day closed,
however. the combination went to pieces and
all normal school bills were killed for the
session. Mr.. McGann said that the necessity
for a normal school was apparent to every
geographical center of the state. 1t was ac-
cessible to the people of twenty counties.
Inc buildings were SuInclenU 1Or all Ufle
| needs of a normal school for the coming ten
years. He contended that such a school at
York would be superfiuous as that city was
within an hours ride OF the University
cilitieS for the training OF teachers in
the south and central part of the state.
There was lengthy discussion on the matter,
some favoring York and others Scotia. Mr.
McGann closed the debate with plea for the
Scotia proposition. At 4:20 o'clock a vote
was reached on Hallers motion that the
too and tn inhn tal
to by vote OF 10 TO II: This kills all normal
Osborn moved that the vote by which senate
file No. 331 was passed last Monday be recon-
sidered This motion was declared to be out
of order until the bill was in the possession
of the senate. Mr.. Caldwell moved that the
house be requested to return the bill to the
senate. He said that there was good reasons
for the bel ief that the bill, which proposed TO
restrain. the crime of gambling, had been
passed i'm ignorance of its true purpOrt.
After discussion the motion to recall the bill
was agreed to. When the bill was returned
the vote by which it was passed was recon-
sidered and the bill sent back to the COM
mittee of the whole. A committee consisting
pointed to confer with a like committee from
the house relative to fixing day for final
adjournment. The senate then adjourned.
SENATE.-The senate on the 25th resolved
itself into an informal sitting. committee this
forenoon. The approaching end of the ses-
sion was evidenced in the hasty scramble of
individual senators to get their favorte bills
in under cover. Bills on third reading were
taken up as soon as the chaplain had said
his prayers. But one bill was ready. house
roll No. IA, introduced by Burkett of Lam
caster, 1t makes grave r0bbing a felony
instead of a misdemeanOr. The bill has al
ready passed the house and the senate sent
it to the governor. Mr.. MUTT brought up his
bill, senate file No. 164. providing for the
dividing of the Fifteenth judicial district
into two districts. and moved that it be ad-
vanced to a third reading. This motion
brought on q tirSt-claSS controversy. The
motion to advance the bill was not agreed to.
Mr.. Gondring asked that senate file No. 240
be engrossed for its final passage. This is
one of the important bills of the session,
although it has attacted but little attention.
1t authorizes the attorney general to COM
mence an action to recover from the sureties
of an official bond running to the state in the
county i'm which the SuretieS reside. At
present such suits have to be commenced in
Lancaster county. The bill was advanced to
third reading. On motion of Mr.. Spencer of
Lancaster. senate file No. 293 was ordered
engrOssed for third reading. 1t is a bill
to require school book companies fur
nishing books to school districts in Ne
braska under contract to maintain a
supply house at the capital of the state.
Senate file No. POS. which next received con.
SideratiOn, provides for the exclusion of
school bond taxes in the computation of ag
gregate school taxes. The bill was recon-
mended for passage. The enrolled copy of
the recount bin was presented and signed by
the lieutenant governor. The senate bill
ceding to the use of the hospital for the in
sane at Lincoln a quarter section of state
land was passed. The senate bill permitting
criminal suits against state officials charged
with OffenSeS against the statutes to be
brought in any county of the state was passed:
The announcement that the governor had
signed the recount bill was received and the
senate adjourned.
SENATE-The senate on the 9th did con-
siderable business. The lieutenant governor
handed to the clerk and had read a commu-
nicat!on in which he announced the appoint
ment of Canaday of Kearney, Sykes of Adams
and Heapy of Sherman as the senate MEM
bers of the recount commission, provided for
in the bill which received the approval of the
governor. The house bills received were
read the second time. Lee of Boyd moved
that house roll No. 435 be advanced to third
reading. The bill authorizes the commits
sioners of public lands and buildings to select
lands in the old Fort Randall military reser-
vation as school land indemnity. The pure
food bill introduced by Mr.. Murphy was
taken up discussed and recommended for
passage. House roll No. 267, Gaftin's bill to
nra Mt pih hlIf mo- tn