Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-17
TIPS FOn THE LEGISLATURE.

pencil through some OF the 1901 laws
enacted by former legislatures. then return
to their homes, they would have filled a
long felt want and would stand a much
| better show for reelection.
Ord Journal: The bill making appro-
| priation for the establishment Of not less
than three nor more than FIVE Junior nor
NAL schools in the state has passed the
lower house Of the legislature. II fixes
one at Alliance, one at Valentine and one
at McCook. The schools are all to be
under the direction Of the state superin-
| tendent
Elwood Bulletin: Representative Cum
ningham Of Hamilton county, has prepared
bill which will legislate foot ball out OF
| existence so far as Nebraska is concerned.
Mr.. Cunningham says he has received
pledges of support from every member he
has approached on the subject and he finds
sentiment opposed to the brutal sport,
which, he says, makes brutes out of young
men.
Beatrice Democrat: Laura Gregg and
other women are trying to have a bill
passed in the legislature giving a wife one
half instead OF one-third OF the property
of her husband at his death. 1t is time
that men assert themselves and have lit
tie legislation in their own behalf. The
real estate of the country is generally in
the wife's name now, and II she dies or
fires the old fellow out, what will become
Of him then, poor thing7
David City Record: Senator Hastings
has introduced a bill for primary nom
mating election, in order to do away with
the old-fashioned nominating conventions.
In states working under the nominating
election system the law is popular, as 1t
leaves the choice Of candidates with the
rank and file Of the party instead Of hav-
ing delegates manipulated at nominating
conventions, where so often the real choice
OF the people is defeated by unfair means.
Friend Telegram: Speaker Mockett's bill
to take Nebraska school boards out of poll
tics is the last straw which will break the
back OF the educational institutions of our
state. The supreme court may deprive us
OF the divine light to read the bible or to
sing hymns in the common schools Of Ne
braska but let not the legislature deprive
the districts the privilege Of holding the
annual district scrap and during which
sufficient bad blood is gotten up to last for
the next ten years.
Lyons Mirror: One OF the biggest farces
and downright foolish acts ever known in
the affairs OF the state was enacted when
the Nebraska legislature deliberately ad-
journed and the members went home while
the corporations drafted a revenue bill to
their own liking. Who will deny but what
the state and legislative officers are bound
down beneath the iron grasp OF the tools OF
corporate wealth. And the people will pay
the freight" Our taxes will go higher and
the corporation taxes will go lower.
Elwood Bulletin: The threshing machine
men of the state are up in arms over the
introduction of House Roll 297, which
| provides that all engineers must have
license to run and operate an engine and
also have boilers inspected by the state
boiler inspector. 1t is claimed 1t will cost
them $500 a year, as it requires each
man to pay IS for license and SIS to have
the boiler inspected They are emphatically
against creating an office with fat sal
airy for some fellow and pulling their leg
to pay him
LYONS Sun: Many worthy state enter
prises are knocking 80 the door OF the Ne
braska legislature soi.citing a hand out"
in the way of an appropriation. Private
enterprises in the state and public enter
prises in neighboring states have made mar
veIous strides in the last FIVE years, and
Nebraska, because of its depleted treasury
| has scarcely held It's own. It will be seen
by this that the revenue bill is the feature
Of the session and whatever else is left un-
done a revenue bill ample and just should
be passed without fail.
st. Paul Phonograph Press: The state
legislature is being asked to make an ap-
preparation for an exhibit at the Louisiana
| exposition at st. louis for next year. We
| think that our state should be represented
and liberal appropriation should be made
| for the same The people Of this state
should remember that other states made
liberal provisions for representation at the
| Transmississippi exposition at Omaha.
! True, our state is in debt and our ircome
| is not equal to our legitimate expenses,
| but II our legislature does its duty in franz
ing a revenue bill, then it will be an easy
matter for us to make a showing that
| will be a credit to our state in 1904 at
! the exposition.
| Galloway Queen II the present legisla-
ture would enact law compelling the rail-
roads to take but certain time to deliver
their freight, according to the distance II
must travel, there would be a great many
| more people live up to the Lords COM
| mandments than there are at this time.
| When It takes three weeks to get bill OF
| goods over the road distance of 200 miles,
| II is high time for some action to be taken
| compelling the railroads to do little
| quicker work in the way Of delivering
/ freight entrusted to their care. As II now
stands, important orders are sldetracked,
where they remain until the road gets
ready to remove them, while the merchant
or business man is losing good profits. The
| roads should be compelled TO either get the
| goods to their destination or pay the profits
the business men lose by their carelessness.
Columbus Telegram: Nebraska is
progressive state and its people always
try to look after the interests OF the poor.
| But there is one class OF citizens for which
the state does not properly provide. We
refer to the aged men and women. 1t is
| true that in every county there is poor
house where old people may find shelter,
but It does not look right to send the old
people to such a place. The Telegram re-
Gently received from Mr. A. Hanson,
Platte county farmer, a suggestion in
favor Of a state pension for the aged, and
we are inclined to favor a movement In
that direction Men and women might
grow old more gracefully II they could feel
and know that in their declining days they
should be spared the suffering and the
shame OF extreme poverty. small tax
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