Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-02-23


ate TO order at 2:30 Monday afternoon
with only seventeen members present,
just enough to transact business.
II. r. a, providing for the collection
Of vital statistics. was passed.
These bills were introduced and read a
first time Monday:
BY Thomas, of Douglas. TO provide for
the exercise of the right of eminent do
main by school districts in metropolitan
cities.
| BY Gilligan. of Holt, TO allow Boyd
County settlers to buy land at appraised
| value.
BY Gibson. of Douglas, the South
Omaha charter bill.
! BY EppcrsOn, of Clay. a bill for an
act to release discharge and remit all
unpaid taxes due to the state of Ne
brasNa from the county of Hamilton.
BY Saunders, of Douglas. Il bill for an
act requiring that the plat of all addi-
tons situated outside the corporate linn
its Of any town or city shall have at
tached thereto certificate showing that
there are no unpaid taxes thereon.
Standing committees Of the state were
ready with a long list Of reports Tuesday
morning. lengthening the general file suf-
ficiently to make afternoon sessions of
the upper house imperative if the list is
to be acted on this winter.
These bills were read third time
Tuesday and passed:
Allowing anyone, whether an officer
| or not to seize Il seine or net being used
illegally.
| To provide that inebriates and those
| addicted to the dope" habit be con-
| fined in the asylum for treatment.
| To provide for sewers in cities of the
| first class.
| Allowing the fish commissioner to take
spawn from lakes and streams to be
placed in other streams.
| The senate resolved itself into Il com
mittee of the whole, with Tucker, of
| Richa rdSOn. in the chair. These bills
were recommended for passage:
| Providing il penalty for ovcrworking
Il horse or mule and for unnecessarily
tormenting any other animal.
Providing that corporations shall act as
| guardians. trustees. etc.
The senate spent the entire afternoon
| in the committee of the whole and rec
commended for passage these bills:
10 transfer S2.34G. L. from the peniten-
| tiary special fund to the general fund
| To authorize county courts to enter
| judgments in certain cases.
To authorize county commissioners to
| buy material and contract for labor to
| build bridges.
To provide for the formation OF irri.
| CATION districts.
| Providing for the payment of road tax
| es in labor.
I'M hn S.ll lJ of hn Drln W-.lr-
den from 81 300 to 81. 800 and the fish
| commissioners from 81 900 to S1,2OC
yearly.
Allowing cities to foreclose tax certiti,
| Gates.
Defining negotiable Instruments.
The lien law.
Defining when husband and wife shall
| be eligible to be witnesses against or for
| each other.
To prevent the illegal expenditure of
public moneys.
Providing for suspension of sentence
in case of wife deSertion.
Providing for voting machines.
The senate adjourned at 4:3O
With friends and opponents Of the
Shrek fraternal insurance bill, S. +. 40
constituting one of the most powerful
insurance Hobbies ever assembled in Lin
coin. hanging over the railing which sep
arates the lobby from the senate cham.
her. the senate in the committee of the
whole killed the bill Wednesday after
noon. The debate was the most sensa-
tiona in which the members of the up.
per house have INDUCED. and it began
when Shrek. in his opening remarks
spoke of the powerful lobby hat had tried
to kill his bill. and it reached its climax
when Bresec. of Sheridan. in an impas
stoned defense of the measure, pointing
toward the lobby. exclaimed:
This senate has been hoSpu by tins
mcancSt. most persistent. the most in.
dUStrioug and the most damnabl@ lobby
that ever tried to influence Legislation,
In their efforts to defeat this bill they
are spending our own money; money
hat we have paid into the orders for our
insurance. There they are: look ut them
lined up against the railing.
Other dobnters took their cue from
the Rrcsec statement and the remainder
of the morning was Illuminated with ii
most brilliant display of conversational
fireworks
These bills were reported for the gen.
day:
Fixing a penalty for jury briberS.
Fixing Il penalty for Il juror who nj.
lows himself 10 be bribed.
Defining child delinquency and fixing
the punishment for one who contributes
thereto.
Providing for the construction OF
drainage bitches.
BY Sheldon. providing that 1-mill levy
shall bn made by the state board of
equalization to provide a fund with
which to pay off the state debt was pass
cd without the emergency clause.
These bills were introduced and read
Il first time Wednesday,:
BY Cady, for the election of a board
OF railroad commissioners consisting of
three members. to be paid $1,000 Il year
each.
BY Mescrve. of Knox. defining the
boundary of Dakota County to conform ,
to the report Of the NebraSka-Dakota |
boundary commission.
The senate was busy on engroSSed bills |
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