Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01
'enatOr' Give it Out that Sharp Axe
is Awaiting the Bill
AK OF CUTTING OFF Half sNlLllOR
Peru Normal and Proposed New school
Marked 70 Slaughter
STUEFER REPORT READY FOR SUBMISSION
RumOr Has IL that 1t WIN Favsr the
Ex-Treasarer and some House
Members DO Not Retsh
the Idea.
(From san CorrcrpnndentN

F'rorn a Stan Correspoudentl
LINCOLN, March Especial. .l--The
senate finished the sixty-day limit OF the
legislative term today and the house not
through the hfty-eighth day. The mems
bers Of both bodies. despite the episode
yesterday brought OF by Robert Ryan and
| G. 0. Whedon, have drawn their salariea for
the full term OF sixty days at So per diem.
There is ample work to keep both bodies
| busy every day until April Z. the time fxod
! TOT hnal adjournment. Il ls the general
| belief that actually the legislature will
( cease its labors Thursday. April o.
The house passed a large number OF
/ bills today, among them being the current
| expense bill for state government and this
salaries bill. carrying respectively 1880 900
and S9so,OOO the house bill carrying SIS, 900
! for the worlds fair exhibit and the Good
| bill appropriating s75, GOO for a chanel ana
library at the Peru State Normal school.
All OF the four big financial measures are
now through the house. ~
As has already been indicated these bills
| are going to fare roughly when they reach
! the senate, with which the governor has
entered into an alliance to trim the total
/ appropriations down to about So 200 0O0
! They stand now about SSSo0, 5000 or more.
senator today said that he felt sure
the bill setting aside SIS. 900 for the Peru
Normal chapel and library would be cut
materially. He represents aslarge contin-
| gent that believes the chapel can be dis
! pensed with for two years at least ana
the bill Topped down to 5000. This same
senator takes the position that the War
ner bill appropriating $50 900 for a new
state normal school will be turned out to
! Craze for another biennium and that other
bills Of a similar character will be treated
'incisively."
In the budget OF bills passed today By
the house was the Ten Eyck South Omaha
charter bill, imposing governor a appointed
fire and police board on that city. such as
Omaha is now afflicted with The senate
rassed pure food bill and occupied much
time in debate on the Wall bill to abolish
capital punishment
| Members Draw Pay.
The members OF the senate ana house
drew their uaiariss today for the last period
of twenty days. thus giving them their
full pay for sixty days at IS a day. Tho
projected action yesterday by Robert Ryan
and c. o. Whedon to curtnil the salaries
to 80 day for forty Gays has, therefore,
had no effect. This is the ffty-eighth day
for the house and sixtieth for tho senate.
and as the members have their full nav
no Injunction could touch them now. OF
course Ryan and Whedon have withdrawn
their project There is one of those
! wall defined" rumors, however, to the ef-
feet tho injunction plans would have been
carried through had not the legislators
laid down tbe law" in plain, emphatic
terms that II any such thing was Attempted
the legislature would adjourn sine die
These plans went the way Of tho resolution
to release 'he BARLEY bondsmen, though.
and II is understood the ostensible purpose
OF testing this amendment which Increased
the terms from forty to sixty days and tha
salaries from SO to IS day has been aban-
| doned.
stuefer Report Ready.
The Stuefer investigation committee has
given out that It will report to the housa
tomorrow morning. The committee has al
ready allowed the impression TO obtain that
the report will be favorable to stuefer.
Speaking Of the case, a prominent mem
ber of the legislature who was deeply In
terested in getting at the true situation,
today said;
Whatever the Investigation failed 10
prove it brought out the fact that stuefer
made no effort TO buy Burt county bonds.
despite his admission that he had talked
of them with w G. Sears, William Nesbit
Peter Rork, j. r. Sutherland and j. Han
cock. He denied having bid on the bonds,
OF course, and gives as his reason for not
bidding the fact that he could not pay
premiums, then in the next breath said
that prior to the sale of these bonds he had
many times paid premiums on state war
rants-the same class OF securities.
"Mr, Stuefer's own testimony showed
that the money for the purchase OF these
bonds was furnished by him in checks q
$4,000 and $4,000 denomination. II went
to w. T. s. Neigh This he also admits
but qualities his admission. OF course, with
the statement that he actually bought the
bonds from and not through Neigh, after
the latter had already bought them from
Burt county. The same and other corrobo-
rating testimony showed also that Neligh
took away with him from the state treas
urer's ofdce $50 in coupons According
to Neligh's sworn statement all the money
he had invested in the deal up 70 this
time was the 81. 900 certified check drawn
on Stuefers bank at West Point.
One Interesting Point.
IAN interesting point established was
that Neigh had not been bidding on county
bonds on his own responsibility until Mr..
stuefer was elected and installed as state
treasurer But it was shown that shortly
after stuefer went into once Neigh. With
no capital invested, exchanged some new
Cunning county bonds for old ones then due,
which exchange brought TO himself ana
those with whom he was associated in the
deal $1,000,
He then used checks from William stus-
fer on the money in the banks, Il beins
state funds, I'm payment for the 900 of
Burt county bonds. II was brought out
then, that without having any personal
funds at stake except $1,000 he secured
coupons for himself 10 the amount OF t2.-
ESQ, which with the $500 bonus paid by
Neigh TO Burt county I'm making the deal
and the $3.50 in coupons retained in the
: state treasurers once. made the amount
, S. 0O0 which represents the difference be.
tween the interest at 2H-and 3A per cent.
: at which the bonds ran and we're bought
respectively. Having succeeded so admira-
bly, In this transaction. Mr.. Neigh, then
launched out 10 secure the bonds Of Hall