Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

appropriation Of $4,000 for the experimental
station Ia stricken out The salary OF the
chaplalntof the lKearney Reform school Is
reduced from $500 to $500 per annum. AT
the Girls Industrial school at Geneva the
appropriation Of 81, 600 for bookkeeper and
for steward and $1,000 for matron are
stricken out. At the Institute for the Deaf
AID Dumb. al Omaha, the matron's salary
Of, $1,000 is stricken OFT and the salaries
Of teachers and others are raised from
ga, 900 to 2 1000. For the Institute for
the Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice the
oflces OF steward and physician are COM
blned with an appropriation Of '2,4OO and
tie appropriation Of $1,000 for matron is
cat out. The appropriation Of $1,000 for
bnokkeeper and steward at the institute
tor the Blind at Nebraska City is stricken
out and the appropriation. for matron ls
raised from $500 10 $1,000, AMI the appro~
~ppiation for. teachers reduced from $4,000
10 1900. The appropriation for engineer
o. the Industrial home at Milford Is re-
duced from 1880 to 81. 400, and the appro-
p~riation for farmer is reduced from $1,000
to S72O. The appropriation for the assistant
veterinarian is cut from $1,000 to $500. The
appropriation OF 1900 for clerk for the
food commissioned is cut out and an APP
preparation for chemist is substituted at
1890. The appropriation Of $500 for clerk
to- the reporter for the state library and
1890 for a deputy librarian are cut out.
There are no salary appropriations made
TOR the Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk
To settle boundaries.
Sears Of Burt today introduced H. r. S5s,
providing for the appointment OF a COM
mission Of three by the governor of the
state at a salary of $40 a day for not to ex-
coed twenty days to act Jointly with SINH
lar commissions from South Dakota and
Iowa IN determining the boundary line be-
tween these states where there are dis
crepancies caused by the changing channel
Of the Missouri river. South Dakota has all
ready passed a bill providing for the APP
pointment of its commission, and the legis-
lature was spprised of this fact today. 1t
Is believed Iowa, though failing last year
TO appoint a commission. will do SO at it's
next legislature In 1904.
Sears was the author Of all three bills
making this provision for the three states
famed before. .,.
Apportionhent Bill Appears.
McAitster Of Deuel. today in the house in
~troducsd mis- reapportionment bill which
was published in full exclusively by The
Bee last Friday. No changes have been
made in either senatorial or representative
districts since the bill was givel to the
public by The Bee.
As was then pointed out, the bill increases
the number Of Representatives from Douglas
county from nine to thirteen and senators
from three TO four, giving the metropolitan
county seventeen, instead of twelve mem
bers in the legislature. 1t combines a
small area OF the western part Of Doug
las with Saunders county in a new sena-
tSriaI district and gives 1t one member.
The bill reduced the total number OF
senatorial districts from thirty to twenty
eight and increases the number Of rep
resentative districts from sixty-seven to
seventy-four, but leaves the number Of
members the same as at present, 100 rep
resentatives aud thirty-three senators.
Lancaster gets six representatives, a
gain of two, but retains the same number
pt senator's, two. Counties like Richardson.
which have but a small population and
large representation, are moot affected.
Richardson has = population Of $4,000, with
three members in the house. The basis
of representation intended by law is 49,
900. Thus under the present law Richard
Bon would scarcely be entitled to two.
The new bill, gives Richardson only two
members In the house. The purport Of
The bill is to ~equalize as nearly as possible
Without gerrymandering.
Legislative Gossip.
One Of the bills recommended for passage
by the committee on judiciary was H. r.
241. by Riggs ,of Douglas, amending the
present law regulating the publication of
liquor licenses. The present law provides
that these licenses shall be published in the
havuapanar af fha IarUaaf clrculafiop uhara-
as the bill proposes that any paper in
''cities Of the metropolitan class Of 5000
daily circulation and that in cities of the
nrst class having a population of more than
10000, and less than 100, 900 inhabitants
any paper Of 5000 daily circulation shall
be allowed to print these notices Of liquor
licenses%s
The bill Is being. promoted in the inter-
est OF those newspapers whose, limited
eirculations prevent them from -legitimately
publishing these notices under the present
law. 1T is held that IL passed the bill will
infict3 hardships upon the public, as well
rs reputable saloon keepers, druggists and
Wholesale liquor dealers.
The purpose of the present law, which
has wiihstood repeated attempts at amend
ment. is to give the applicant for a liquor
license and the public the largest possible
benefits for the least possible money by
having notices published in the paper of
largest circulation. requiring therefore but
one fee from the applicant and one sub.
Bcription from the interested citizen. II
furthermore restricts arbitrary impositions
for Political purposes by boards Of fire and
police commissioner or any set Of individ-
uals whose duty 1t shall be 70 make these
contracts. The proposed law. It is held.
would entail needless expense and serious
hardship upon all those interested in the
publication OF these notices.
As every effort TO pass a similar bill in
former legislatures has failed, It is not
thought the present legislature viii be
caught in this snare,
The Douglas county delegation is push
ing the bill, adopting the SAM tactics used
in the promotion Of the Omaha water works
and city election bills, namely, arguing to
other members that the bill meets gen
eral approval in Omaha, where, as a mat
ter OF fact, there is very. pronounced OPP
position to the bill,
The house revenue committee will not
report on the revenue bill before Monday,
At that time It will recommend It for pas
sage with a few minor amendments. The
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