Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-02-14

HOUSE-The house on the 7th did
not pass any measures, but quite a
number Of new bills were introduced.
The investigating committee made the
following report: ANY members OF
this house who have been requested
to introduce bills of a character SIM
liar to those referred to by Repre-
sentative Thomson yesterday, Feb
Tuary 6, will confer a favor by COM
municating the facts to this commit
tee at once. Any street or steam
railway, or sleeping car company, in
%surance, express, telegraph or tele-
phone companies, bucket shops or
dealers in lard Or other food prod
ucts who have received hold up let
ters from persons, either members OF
this house or others, are requested to
confer with this committee immedi-
ately." Bills placed on general hle
were: House roll 200, by Vandegrift,
a~ppropraiting $610.14 for the relief of
Sherman county. House roll 293, by
Evans, for the display of the United
States flag on school houses. House
roll 2S2, by RohWer, relating to coun-
ty superintendent. House roll 2Sl,
BY Rohwer, to allow school children to
attend the nearest school. House roll
Is. by Crockett, relating to the col
lection of taxes. Among bills intro
duced was: House roll No. 336, by
Smithberger (by request)-A bill for
an act to tax life insurance companies
organized outside of the state Of Ne
braska and to provide for the manner
of paying such taxes and to repeal
section SO of chapter ", compiled
statutes of 1895, entitled Revenue"
so far as It relates to the taxation OF
life insurance companies. Taxes nom
resident companies, other than frater-
nal societies, 8 per cent on all premi-
ums on Nebraska business. Senator
ial vote: Allen, 30; Berge, 4; Crounse,
z; Currie, %; Hainer, 5; Harlan, 1;
Hitchcock. 12; Hinsnaw, 10; Kinkaid,
q; Martin, g; Mccarthy, 1; Meikle-
John, 90; Martin, 1; Ransom, 35;
Rosewater, 16; Sutherland, 1; Thomp-
son, D. E., "a; Thompson, W. H, IL;
Van Dusen, /.
HOUSE-In the house ON the 9Th
the following bills were passed:
House roll No. 8, by Hathorn, to pun
ish illegal voting in school district
and village elections, by a fine OF
from $25 to 500 and imprisonment
in the county Jail for not more than
three months; ayes, II; nays, none
House roll 81, by Lichty, to provide
for the printing of 1000 volumes OF
each number of the supreme court
reports, and fixing their selling price
at S1.50 each; ayes, 81; nays, none.
House roll No. 25, by Coppoc, to e x
tend the liability of railroad corpora
lions. was recommended 70" indefinite
postponement by the committee on
railroads. The bill in full is as fol-
lows: "Be it enacted by the legislature
of the state of Nebraska: Section /.
Every railroad corporation shall be IL
able for all damages sustained by any
agent or servant thereof by reason
of the negligence of any other serv-
ant or agent thereof, without con-
tributory negligence on his part, when
sustained within this state or. when
such agent or servant is a resident of
and his contract of employment was
made within this state; and no con-
tract, rule or regulation between any
such corporation and any agent or
servant shall impair or diminish such
liability. Sec. 2. The terms agent
and servant in this act shall include
all agents and servants OF railroad
CORPORATIONS and shall not be by any
construed to mean only those
agents and servants who are connect
cd with the use and operation of rail-
roads on or about which they may
ne employed. The term railroad here
In used shall include street railroads
as we'll as other railroads. The re-
mort was adopted without division.