Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-20
(From a Stan CorresnondentN

P'rom Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN, March 19.-CSpecial Telegram1
The revenue bill and its amendments are
in the hands OF the printers. The house to.
day addressed itself to the general appro.
! priation measures. beginning with the sal.
| aries bill. number Of Chalges were made
which increased the aggregate outlay. In
| the meantime decision was reached be-
| tween the speaker and the committee on
| employees to reduce the list of employees
The senate spent the day on routine 1t
passed the Douglas delegations disfran-
ohisement BILL II. r. 1885, by a vote OF 80 to
q Brady and Coney fusionists, casting the
! negative votes. 1t also refused again to
allow the Brady elevator bill to leave the
committee where 1t has been tied UP for
four or five weeks and amended the mil
itia bill so as to increase the salary OF the
| adjutant general from $3.50 to $4,000.
| Although the salary bill was not hall
| completed in the committee of the whole
| today several vital changes were made
Amendments were adopted which materially
increase the total appropriation. BY the
creation Of new Offices in the supreme court
department, $500 was added to the bill
! All the changes were in the character of
increases, despite the fact that the total
appropriations AS they now stand in the bill
are approximately $1,000, 600, which is nearly
double that Of two years ago.
Some of the Increases,
One OF the most notable changes was
| that in the salary of the adjutant general.
This was brought up from 81, $50 to 81, soc,
| and the senate, in dealing with the militia
bill placed 1t at $4,000. 1t is supposed the
result will be a compromise on 81 300. Tho
salaries OF the governors private secretary,
the deputy seeretary OF state and tho dep
| uty treasurer were fixed at Sc 600, 81, 700 ani
| Sl.SOO, respectively. At present the gov
! onors secretary is allowed by law $1,000,
but the custom has been for the legisla-
ture to appropriate whatever 1t saw ft In
most cases it has exceeded the statutory
limit. The deputy secretary OF state under
the present law is allowed $780, but his
salary, too, has frequently been increased
by act of the legislature. The law deal
ing with the deputy treasurer is a terri
torial statute and prescribes no salary for
that official. The purpose Of the house was
to Tx definite and afequatb amount for
each OF the officers. Thl salary Of the sec
retary OF the State Board OF Banking was
raised from $1,000 to $4,000. and that of his
chief clerk from $1,000 to $1,000.
No Might Sessions.
The house voted to make the four large
dealt with continuously until completed
1t had been the plan oD the part of a
number Of members who e;e Interested I'm
seeing all bills given fair hearings to hoId
night meetings from now until the end Of
} the session or at least until the house had
no more work than II could transact in the
? daytime. but it is evident this plan is not
TO prevail. The house voted to cancel the
night meeting OF course there can be but
one result to this: The great bulk of bills
now on general hle-the number is some
thing like z00-will fall into the hands OF
} the sitting committee and will haVS> to take
their chances, which, 1t is reasonable to
say, will not be as good as they would be
) in the committee OF the whole. The sitting
! committee Is to begin it's work on the
! | hfty-hfth legislative day. This is the fif-
tieth. 1t has been noticeable fact this
week that those members who were most
! persistent against night sessons are those
who were most in favor of having a sitting
committee appointed and the members OF
this committee are always for day sessions
exclusively. Certain members have become
: quite conspicuous Of late for their change
OF attitude on this and similar propositions.
The fusionists are in the lineup every time
against night sessions. The last two days
the strongest argument produced against
I night sessions was by the floor leader Of
the minority. The fusionsts' plan is plain
Of course. Their every effort is directed at
blocking legislation and doing that which
they think will reflect most discreditably
e upon the record of the majority. This is.
y manifesty done with no other motive or
e purpose than that OF making campaign
8 material to be used in the next election.
Last of BARLEY Hearing.
The committee appointed by Speaker
Mockctt Of the house TO investigate the So
called BARLEY cigar box and it's contents,
held its last meeting for receiving testi-
, mony today. It will now address itself TO
, the arduous task OF reviewing this volumI-
nous testimony, What will be done after
that cannot now be predicted. The COM
mlttee has had before it many witnesses
from wnom 1t was expected to draw vital
facts tending TO aid in satisfying the state
, as to the names OF persons to whom the
= funds stolen by ex-State Treasurer BARLEY
8 { and their amounts, were loaned and the
, status OF these funds at present. That
: Z 'he committee has met with general disap-
( pOintment In It's undertaking Is fully ap-
parent. Neither BARLEY nor Governor
, Savage we're brought before the committee.
Savage left for the Pacific coast a little
while ago and BARLEY hied himself on
n somewhere, ostensibly to Chicago. Just be-
fore the committee got down to work Each
i was asked, through a registered letter, to
n appear before the committee but neither
, responded.
~ Chairman Knox says his committee has
run down every clue It could get and will
n be ready aud willing TO take up any others
N that may be offered to them promising ans
light
I; The only witness before the committed
today was Charles +. MeGreg, now vice