Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-13

worthy OF consideration. After Senator
Harlan had finished speaking a vote was
taken on Senator Young's amendment but
1t was lost by a vote of IL TO A..
Senators Allen Curre and Lyman made
strong appeals in behalf of the bill. after
which Senator Crounse took the floor and
made last appeal for the death OF the
measure and to this speech Is to large
extent attributed the defeat Of the bill.
II am opposed to the establishment OF
additional normal schools at any point"
said the ex-governor, "and especially to
these in the western section of the state.
IL is an astounding proposition, with the
state already nearly 81 1000 900 in debt. There
is no demand for schools whatever and
appeal to the conservative and thinking
element of this body In behalf of the
taxpayers who cannot come here and speak
for themselves. We are going education
mad. Appropriations are asked for our
university of over s500000 Think OF II.
Why do you put your hand in the pockets
of the hard-working farmer and the me-
chanic to secure funds with which to edu-
cate few? Are we TO come here each
year and loot the states treasury under
the guise of education? II is preposter-
Gus. God Almighty makes teachers. You
can fill the heads of students with cube
roots. square roots and other roots and
still they are not teachers Locate those
schools where we guess they will be To-
Gated and they would not accommodate one
tenth OF the population. You could not To-
cate a state normal school in my county
without my opposition, and yet you could
draw a circle for twenty miles around the
town in which reside and It will enclose
more people than you will find west OF
Broken Bow and Arapahoe. Why, it costs
the state 5000 to graduate n student at
Peru. yet the private normals of our state
can do the same thing for less than 500
and 1t cannot be denied that our private
normals furnish a higher class OF education
than our state normal"
Final Motions on the BiII.
Senator Crounse read from the approprl-
alton bill and vaguely limited that some of
the votes for the bill had been bought by
chunks of pork" He closed his remarks
with a most eloquent appeal to the sena-
tors to vote against the measure.
Senator Crounse moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill and Senator Currie moved
to amend that the report of the committee
be not concurred in. Currie's motion was
put first and by a rising vote was de-
feated, IL voting against II. The commit
tee then arose and. on the vote to indef
nltely postpone, tne antlS Wou ny u Nole
of II to 13.
, Routine Work OF the Morning.
Bills disposed of this morning in COM
mittee Of the whole, with Ransom in the
chair. we're as follows:
s. +. TO- relating to county judges and
defining their eligibility recommended for
postponement.
S. r. 227, relating to mortgaged property;
to pass.
II. r.. ., providing penalties for illegal
Ii. r. 81, relating to extorton; deferred
for amendments.
S. r. 1Ol, Van Boskrks game bill: post
S. i. 13l, relating to the construction of
sidewalks I'm cities having a population of
less than 5000: to pass.
s. f. 1872, combining the office of city
clerk and water commissioner I'm cities hav-
ing less than 5000 Inhabitants.
H. r. 81, appropriating $1,000 for medals
to be presented to members of the First
Second and Third Nebraska regiments;
postponed.
s. +. IS, providing for additional examin-
ers for county treasurers; recommtted
s. +. 20. an act to repeal the law creating
a railway commission; to pass.
S. f. 92, relating to insurance companies;
S. +, %, amending the game law; laid on
the table.
House roll 3, by Hathorn, a bill provid-
Ing penalties for illegal voting. came up
for third reading and was passed without
opposition.
The following bills were placed on gen
eral file:
II. r. 20. providing for travelling library
II. II. 4, to provide for a flreproof wing
and heating apparatus for the Asylum for
the Chronic Insane at Hastings.