Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
RAISES JUSTICES SALARIES
House Adopts Bill to ReOrganile the
Supreme Court,
INDIAN CAMP IS WELL FUMl6ATED
Every Redskin IL Given n Bath at
the states Expense on
ciaI Register il
Ready.
INDIAN CAMP is WELL FUHlGATED
From a stan correspondent


court and raise salaries. The bill as orig
inally introduced was in substance that
which was approved by the State Bar asso-
citation and generally desired by the law
yers Of the state. II provided for three
general terms of the court, but practically
continuous sessions, and a general change
in the method of making the assignments
and hearing cases so that the decisions will
follow submission much closer than at pres
ent. It also fixed salaries at Sc. 1000 a year
instead OF 1900. The house cut the bill to
pieces and eliminated all but the salary
feature and fixed it at $1,000. The senate
took up the house bill and substituted it for
the one the house had passed and today
the house accepted the original bill as 1t
came over from the senate in the form OF
a substitute.
An effort was made to reduce the salary
to 5 1000 a year, and on this motion Speaker
Eaton, for the first time during the ses-
sion. came down to the floor and delivered
a stirring speech in opposition to such a
change and in general defense of the orig
inal bill.
A resolution was adopted for a committee
to view a portrait of the late Senator Har-
Ian with a view to purchasing it for the
state.
The bill TO increase the salary of the
superintendent OF the Feeble Minded in
stitute at Glenwood to s., 700 was passed.
A bill to authorize the executive council
to employ expert accountants for the state
TO go over the state books was passed.
also a bill to provide for filling vacancies
in elective city offices. The Hubbard bill
on railroad matter was brought up, but not
put to a vote.
A bill 20 appropriate for the expense Of
inspecting private and county insane asy-
lums was passed. A bill to make it impos-
sible to withdraw a name from a petition
OF consent in a saloon case and to permit
Identification OF names was passed.
A bill limiting statements of consent to
FIVE years was indefinitely postponed. and
also a bill to make turtle doves game
birds.
A bill was passed fixing the per capita
allowance at the Cherokee hospital at SIS
and appropriating $4,000 for removing in
sane to that place.
Pardon Cases All Disposed OF.
The last Of the pardon cases were dis
posed OF yesterday, the senate taking up and
passing the house resolutions with refer
ence to the pardon of George Stanley, Will
liam and Joe McCrary.
The house amendments to the State uni
versity and State college, millage tax prop
o~sitions we're concurred IN. : These amend
ments take of the limit that, was at ,hrst
fixed by the senate, providing that not over
S110, 900 should go each year to each one
I Of the Institutions. The normal school tax
proposition was carried. This disposes en-
tirely Of the millage tax propositions and
gives these institutions a good fund for
building purposes.
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to publish complete annual reports OF
county finances in pamphlet form was
passed.
The bill TO increase the salary Of the as
sistant attorney general from 1920 to
$500 a year was passed. The Emmert bill
to make the law in relation to fees for
itinerant physicians licenses apply to in
stitutions sending out soliciting agents was
passed. The Harper bill to make 1t fraud to
sell entire stocks OF merchandise in bulk
without notice to the creditors was de-
feated.
The automobile bill was passed. 1t had
! previously been ridiculed and sent to a
committee. Some amendments were made
and the bill was passed. 1t leaves ii to
cities to fix the speed within the city limits
and fixes 1t as twenty miles an hour in the
country.
The bill TO make 1t a crime to sell prop
erty on which there is a landlords lien for
debt was passed.
The bill to provide for placing out friend
less and homeless children was passed.
Passes Fire Escape Bill Again.
The enrolling clerk has discovered that
a bill to require FIRE escapes on all build
ings had passed both houses without any
e~nscting clause and the senate passed the
bill again.
The senate refused to eoacur in amend
ments to the bill for deputy county at
: ~torneys and appointed a conference COM
I mittee.
The appropriations committees did good
work this evening and disposed Of most
OF the small bills.
The house committee recommended an
emergency bill which would pay SIS 900
for a laundry building at Mount Pleasant,
to replace the one burned last week.
The senate committee indefinitely post
poned the bill for 500. 900 for a historical
building and $4,000 for a state arsenal
bill, a bill for a monument to Iowa soldiers
at Andersonville. for a statue to General
Heron in Des Moines, for the purchase
OF paintings Of great Iowa men. and TO
pay widows and orphans OF miners at Lost
Creek.
Bills were recommended for passage to
give SIS 200 for game wardens, pay for
inspecting county insane hospitals, to pay
for expenses Of conferences OF the heads
of state institutions, raising its per capita
at the state reform school, TO pay exc
penses Of state architect. and for a state
meteorological laboratory.
The committee recommended that in the
Bruee-Emmert contest case no allowance
be made for the expenses Of attorneys.
Cleans Up the ndIAn Camp.
DR.. A. NJ. Linn, president Of the State
Board OF Health. has returned from Tams
county where he had been engaged for
over a week cleaning up the Indian camp
after the smallpox epidemic Of last win
ter. He was on the reservation for some
time and burned up the old clothing and
property OF the Indians in great Quantities.
Nearly all the stun belonging to the In
dams was disposed OF and substitutes were
given. The contents Of the house were
burned and most Of the wickiups were de-
stroyed. Dozens OF bottles and casks Of
corrosive subltmate and formaldehyds So
luton we're used in cleaning the buildings.
Every Indian was fumigated and given a
bath something that has never been done