Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-04

Speaker Gaffln FOreshndoyys the Conn
Ing of the End of the Sessian

speaker Gafhn FOreshndoyys the Com
Ing of the End of the Session
LINCOLN, March Especial Speaker
Gaffin this morning named the following sift.
Ing committee: Jones of Nemaha, Moran
Hull, Woodard, Robertson, Wiebe and Fouke
severe, from the committee on en-
crossed and enrolled bills, rose to question
OF privilege. He said it had been stated on
the noor OF the house and the statement nub-
lished in the newspapers that the clerks in
the committee room for engrossed and en-
rolled bills had deliberately changed the
wording of bills This, he said, was false
and that the clerks in that room were strictly
honest and would not do such thing for
the world. AS Smith of Douglas had ad-
mitted yesterday that the clerks had done
so. the member from Douglas was severely
lashed over the shoulders of the press The
word association had been eliminated from
the rransmississippi Exposition bill. The
elimination had been done at the suggestion
OF Smith of Douglas, but the actual work
mad been authorized to be done by Chief
Clerk of the House Eager
FOLLOWING the reference of few bills. on
second reading, to appropriate committees
the house went into committee of the whole
to consider bills on the general file. with
Rouse In the chair.
House roll No. 270 by Mccarthy. was first
considered. This Is a measure to appropriate
S25,0OO for state normal school at Scotia
a''oieS eouily. SOuernan moved that when
the house rise 1t report the bill for indefinite
postponement. Prolonged debate was had
on the measure, participated in by Jenkins
Stebbins, Kapp, Wooster, Soderman and Nc
Carthy. The bill is similar to the one in
troduced by Representative Barry two years
since. II proposes to donate a whole block
aside from seventy-five building los in the
town OF Scotia, also building known as the
Scotia Normal and Business University. Nc
Carthy, Clark OF Lancaster Snyder of Shar-
man, Shull, Roberts and Wooster all smoke
strongly In favor of the bill Soderman's
motion to postpone did not prevail. and on
motion of Wooster, the bill was recommended
to pass
House roll No. 10 is a bill to authorize
county commissioners to appoint Judges and
clerks OF election. The bill was amended to
authorize county judges instead of commits
sioners to appoint them. The bill was
recommended for passage
HOUSE roll NO. IL Is a bill making the
election laws conform to the bill just recon.
mehded for passage, house roll No. TO- 1t
was recommended to pass, the COMMITTEES
rose, reported the report was adopted and
the house took recess until p. m
SOME REGULATIONS RECOMMENDED.
The first thing this afternoon the house
went into committee of the whole to consider
biiis ON general file. Clark of Lancaster
was invited to the chair.
House roll No. 26l, to prohibit the useless
mad been recommltted for amendment was
taken up and recommended for passage
House roll No 1S3 authorizing the organI-
zatlon of mutual insurance companies. which
had been also recommitted, was recommended
to pass
House roll No. 49, by Shull. to repeal the
offices of register and master-in-ch
was indefinitely postponed.
House roll No. 142. by Hull, provides for
an act to regulate the manufacture and sale
or vinegar. to prevent fraud and deception
therein, and to provide penalty of a fine NOT
exceeding 800 and Imprisonment in the
county jail for not more than thirty DAYS. Tho
provisions OF the bill compel manufacturers
10 brand their vinegar either cider or spirit |
goods and prohibit them from selling n |
Tor anything else. Nesbit of Burt Thought
lhe Dill most unjust measure. Snyder of
sherman was OF the opinion the bin was
not broad enough. He thought II should he |
framed to cover adulteration of coffee sugar
and other commodities. Pollard smoke In |
favor OF the measure. Reforms he said
moved forward step by step. II would he I
IDLE 10 expect they could be incorporated In !
one Dill The bill was in the interest of the |
apple growers OF Nebraska Ii had beep
found that cider vinegar could not be nnt |
In competition with adalterated spirit vinegar |
AS consequence, many apples that might
be used for cider We're permitted to 20 to |
waste. e' W
jenkins said he was one of the "inpo- |
cent retailers to whom attention had been
directed and he believed they were canahIa
OF taking care OF themselves. No repntabIs
dealer would sell spirit vinegar for cider