Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-01
PROCEEDINGS or THE HOUSE
wild Rush by Members to Pass Their
EuNuritp UiiIS,

wild Rush by Members TO Pass Their
FuNuritc BiIIs.
LINCOLN, March Sl.-tS Special )-Fisher
Of Dawes moved that S. =. 257 and 2i9 be
advanced to Third reading. Evans moved
to indefinitely postpone 5. f. 2i9 After
some discussion a motion to table carried,
killing both bills.
A motion by zellers OF Dodge to advance
$. f. 257 was adopted.
Sturgcss moved that $. f. 131 and 2S1, the
South Omaha charter bills, be advanced to
third reading. The motion was defeated.
Taylor of Custer offered resolution re-
quiring immediate reports from the special
committees appointed to investigate the
auditors office and the supreme court.
Amendments allowing the committees
until o'clock and until 12 o'clock were de-
clared out of order.
Sturgess said the majority and minority
reports on the supreme court matter had
been ready for some time.
Lane, a member of the committee said
he understood the minority report was pre-
pared before the Investigation began.
The members OF the committees explained
that the reports would be ready some time
during the day, but Taylor demanded roll
call on the resolution. Tue vote on the
defeated by a vote of Al to Al.
Smith of Saline offered resolution cali
ing attention to the gallant services Of
Colonel Stotsenburg, and asking that the ad-
verse resolutions adopted early in the ses-
sion be expunged from the record. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
Eastman of Custer offered the following
resolution, which was laid on the table b,
a vote of 50 TO 25
In view of the fact that we have had MANY
adjournments, which have DELAYED the bus
mess of this session, and believing that the
free pass system is largely responsible for
these adjournments.
Resolved, therefore. That the chief clerk
be Instructed to report the number of half
days in which there has been no work per-
formed for which the members have received
pay.
The committee to ascertain the cost of
making up the house journal reported unan-
imousy that $1,000 be allowed for the work
to be done by Chief Clerk John Wall, who
should have authority to choose his own
assistants. The report was adopted.
motion to require the supreme court
investigating committee to report at once
was declared out Of order
a motion ihstructing the chief clerk to
send the eXpunging resolution to the father
of Colonel Stotsenburg was adopted
Tho house then went into committee of
the whole with Pollard of Cass in the
chair.
9. f. Al, by Currie, to provide free at.
tendance at public schools of nonresident
pupils; to provide for the expense thereof,
was recommended for passage.
S. f. 302, by Talbot, relating to state and
county officers, providing for salary of
$4,000 for the governors secretary, was
indefinitely postponed.
S. f. 176, by Steele, to authorize and en-
power the state auditor to license a lin
tied number Of fire insurance brokers, defln-
ing their duties and compensation and pro-
viding penalties for the violation of the
provisions of the act, was recommended for
passage. The bill further provides that all
fire insurance policies shall be issued by
resident agents.
s. +. 131, by Van Dusen, relating to
school officers and their terms was recon-
mended to pass.
The committee then arose.
Fisher moved that the committees report
on S. f. SO2 be adopted and the bill
be engrossed for third reading. This
was the bill raising the salary
of the governors secretary to $4,000
per year and the deputy auditor to 81 500
per year. The movement to save the bill
failed, the vote being 45 to 40.
The report of the committee was adopted.
Armstrong OF Nemaha offered a resou-
tion, which was adopted, condemning the
practice of looting the supplies belonging
to this state, and asking that proper meas
ures be taken to look after the matter.
The house members then drifted away to
dinner, the chair having announced that a
recess would not be in order, but "if there
was lack of a quorum no business would be
done for about two hours"
Bills on third reading were taken up
S. f. 120, by Spohn, to authorize and en-
power cities of the second class to purchase,
take by donation, gift, devise or appropria-
tion, own, improve, maintain and control
lands for parks and public grounds, and to
borrow money on the bonds of such cities,
for the purchase and improvement of such
parks and public grounds, and to call cleo
tions and submit propositions to the electors
Of such cities for the issuance of such bnods,
was passed by vote of 6S to IL.
S. l.. %, by Noyes to change the districts
according to the population, was passed by
a vote of "a to 26.
S. +. A, by Miller, to punish cattle steal
ing and to punish persons receiving or buy
ing stolen cattle, and to punish all persons
harboring or concealing cattle thieves, was
passed by vote of 10 to 0.
S. F. 10, by Van Dusen to protect pri-
mary elections and conventions Of political