The Red Cloud chief., 1901-02-15
THE BUFFALO EXPOSITION.
Rouse Appropriates Money For Purpose
OF Nebrasha exhibit.

House A~ppropriater Money For Furp're
Of Nebrssha Exhibit.
LINCOLN. Feb lathe house was
m session but one hour yesterday.
The adjournment was taken i'm
mediately after the joint convention
till this morning at II O'Clock. LOOMS
Of Dodge offered resolutions OF respect
for the memory Of Judge Samuel Max
well and he will call upon the house
70 adjourn on the afternoon OF the
funeral out of respect.
The house committee on deficiencies
met yesterday and commenced on the
bills which have been 6lcd with the
auditor for allowance They are for
services performed and supplies fur-
nished the various institutions for
which money was not appropriated by
the Legislature of two years ago. AT
the meeting yesterday, a bill for vi for
a subscription To the Omaha Bee, re-
ceived in the governors office, was dis
allowed. Two fusion members on the
conmitte voted for this, Chairman
Lowe being in favorapf allowing II.
Deficiency claims have been listei
with the chairman as follows: From
the governors office, for telephone SER
vice, $500: insurance department, $3.50;
insurance commissioner. SPA: land
commissioner, $50; American Bond
ing and Trust company, for bonding
the hospital at the Grand Island hos
pital for the soldiers home, S5.t: fish
commission, 81, TOO; Milford soldiers
home. 81, 200: Grand Island soldiers
home. So, 900; Beatrice institute Or the
feeble-minded youth, S".l?I; Norfolk
hospital, $3.50. A large number OF
bills are submitted, coming through
the board of educational lands and
funds.
The committee on finance, ways II
means of the house has agreed to- rec.
ommend to- the house the %appropria-
ton of Sl5. 900 for the pan American
exposition and the exposition which
will follow closely afterwards at
Charleston, =. C. The bill as original
ly introdu ed by Speaker Sears pro-
vided for an appropriation OF $1,000 hut
the committee thought this woui be
insufficient. The bin to he reported 20
the house will provide that not more
than Si2. 900 OF the sum mentioned
shall be expended at the Buffalo eN-
position. IL is believed that less than
this will be needed and the balance IL
any, will b. used at the Charleston en-
position. \ representative OF the
Charleston exposition was before the
committee to state its aims.
rbe slaughter Of bills in the senate
yesterday morning was done on the
order Of standing committees. After
"a liberal number had been buried the
senate went into committee of the
whole and pushed forward several bills.
including Ransom's bin against kid
naping. This act appears to be- in de-
mand. IL grew out Of the Cudahy kid
naping case, As the discovery WAS
made after that event that the state
law preGcribes practically no penalty
for kidnapping. The bill introduced
by Ransom a. amended provides pen
alties for two grades Of the offense.
imprisonment for from one to twenty
years is prescribed for kidnapping,
but where the crime is accompanied
with threats of injury to the person OF
by injury the penalty shall he death Oh
Imprisonment for life. McCargar's bill
senate file No. lOi, req uiring a STAMP
on each ball Of binding Irvine offered
for sale in this state, vas recommended
fec passage in committee OF the whole.
The stamp must bear the name Of the
manufacturer and the number of feet
per pound. A committee was appoint
ed to draft resolutions ON the death o
Judge Samuel Maxwell, ex-judge o
the supreme court. Steele, OF JeffeI
Sou, introduced senate file No. 2+a. AT
act to appropriate $1,000 to erect 4
monument ia the battle field of Shi'ol
TO commemorate the part taken by tn
First Nebraska regiment. The bill
carries an appropriation of $1,000 q
pay the expenses Of "A commission h
erect the monument.