Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-01-10

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imous vote nine referees, with neces
sary stenographers, to hold Office 70
two years as salary of $500 annu
ally. Emergency clause attached
Senator Ransom's kidnapping bill
To amend section 207 of the crimina
code. Removes age limit of Is year.
in crime Of seduction. Providing pen
alties for the abduction or KIDNAPPING
o. infants, children or adults. Tt
amend section rs and section 7S O
the criminal code relating to allow
ing domestic animals with contagioul
diseases to run at large. Emergency
clause attached
HOUSE-In the house on the I'd
Lane, Fowler and Gishwiller we're ap
pointed, with senate committee, tC
notify the governor that the legis.
lature is ready to receive communi
cations. HILBERT, Beisner and Schfn-
stock were appointed committee tc
arrange with a senate committee fol
a joint session for the purpose OF
canyassing the vote. The speaker an
nounced the appointment of the COM
mittee on privileges and elections, as
follows: Whitmore of Hamilton,
chairman; Mullen of Douglas, Beis-
ner of Thayer, Hilbert of Gage, Arm
strong of Nemaha, Warner of Lancas-
ter, Brown of Furnas (republicans)
and Loomis of Dodge, Hamilton of
Butter and Tanner of Nance fusion
lsts). At 1880 both houses convened
in joint session for the purpose Of
canvassing the vote of the last gen.
eral election. The members of the
house arose and remained standing
while the senators entered represent
attive hall, escorted by their SER
geanttat1arms. Lieutenant Governor
Gilbert and President (pro tenn
Steele led the procession. The lieu
tenant governor called the joint ses-
sion to order and announced its pur-
pose. The house and senate rolls
! were called. The secretary of state
not showing up to transmit the re-
! turns, Representatives Crockett and
| Fowler and Senator Arends were sent
out to apprehend him. After an in
| terval, Mr.. Porter was produced, who
handed to the speaker the original
abstracts of the vote. The speaker
canVassed the vote, and announced
the result of the election on presiden-
tial electors, state officers and con-
gressmen. Immediately thereafter
the joint session, Tanner Of Nance
moved the appointment of a commit
tee OF three, to report at the next
session, to ascertain the cost of print
ing the journal each day in sufficient
numbers for each member. Uhl of
Douglas amended to include the cost
OF typewriter and mimegraph copies.
The motion as amended was agreed
to. The chair appointed Tanner, Uhl
and Crockett Tanner next moved
that the clerk be instructed to fur
nish each member daily ten 2-cent
stamps, ten 1-cent stamps, five 1-cent
wrappers and four daily papers.
Taylor of Custer amended to strike
out the daily papers, and Marshall of
Otoe amended to strike out the 1-cent
wrappers. Both amendments were
adopted, and the motion thus mutt
lated was agreed to.
SENATE-The work in the senate
on the Sd was principally devoted to
discussion of the pending contest
cases, and resulted in the papers and
documents purporting to be evidence
Icing delivered to the presiding Off
Ger, who opened the packages in the
presence of the senate. A resolution
by Baldrige of Douglas, diecting the
sergeant-at-arms to summon D. M.
Haverly, clerk of Douglas county, to
bring the ballots and poll books of all
the wards of South Omaha, the sub
poena to be signed by the presiding
officer and countersigned by the clerk
of the senate, was passed at the morn
ing session. A motion by Crounse of
Washington prevailed, directing the
presiding o6cer to turn over to the
committee on privileges and elections
all the papers and documents relating
tc contest cases in the senate. The
committee on standing committees
gave out the following additional
chaiSnen: Highways, bridges and
surveys, Trompen; counties and county
boundaries, Van Boskirk; internal
improvements, Berlet; school lands
and funds, Crounse; labor, Steele; ed
ucational, Allen; library, Young; live
stock and grazing, Van Boskirk; man
ufactures and commerce, McCarger;
public charities, Martin; miscellaneous
subjects, Olescn; corporations, Berlet;
constitutional amendments and fed
eral relations, Young; medical socie-
ties, Newell; immigration, Currie; in
surance, O'Neill; irrigation, Owens:
reform schools and home for the
friendless, Harlan; insane hospitals |
Arends; deaf, dumb and blind asylums, |
Baldrige; mines and mining, Ransom;
apportionment, Van Boskirk. Among
the bills introduced were the follow
ing: An act to amend section TIA of |
chapter xviii, article 1, entitled reg
lister of Deeds" Of the Compiled Stat |
utes of 1899, and to repeal said sec
tion. A bill to amend sections 1S, 20 |
and 21 of chapter iv of the Criminal |
Code Of the state of Nebraska and re-
peal sections 1S, 20 and 21, Compiled |
Statutes of 1897. An act to amend |
section 140 of chapter XVI, Compiled |
Statutes Of Nebraska for 1899. enti-
tied Elections"
JOINT SESSION.-The senate AID
house committees on privileges and
elections met in joint session on the
4th in the lieutenant governors office
and began consideration of the elec-
ton contest cases from Douglas coun-