Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-07
BACKS Up ON SUNDAY BILL
Senate Decides to Reconsider Measure
Passed Last Week,
ACTION TAKEN AFTER LIVELY DEBATE
state Certificate BilI Made n Special
Order for Thursday In the
Hou,e-Number OF Minor
Measures Passed.
ACTION TAKEN AFTER LIVELY DEBATE
CFrom a star correspondent

CFrom a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, March 6-(Special. lin
the senate today after a somewhat warm
debate between Senator .Dowell on one
side and Senators Bleakly and Garst on the
other il was moved to reconsider the OH
prohibiting Sunday theaters, base ball and
all other attractions where an admission
Is charged. Since the bill passed the
senate there has ,been manifest much
surprise that II passed so easily. The sem
ators have now been hearing from home
Every town where there is league base
hall team is anxious that the law should
he killed or at least amended so as to allow
Sunday base ball. Senator Dowell OF Polk
county, where there is the Western league
team. is chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee which recommended its passage
Bleakly opposed the reconsideration and
spoke of the petitions that had flooded
the senate for the bill. Dowell thought
this came with poor grace from Bleakly
and referred to the primary petitions
Bleakly had introduced and then voted
agalns the primary. Bleakly got the floor
and proceeded to say that what Dowell
called petition was not a petition, but
the declaration OF several principles of
which five related to federal matters, while
one. the anti-pass bill. he Favored and
had been instrumental in getting on for
special order and the ether. was for the
primary. and he declared he had voted for
the best primary bill offered To the senate
Uhc Saunders substituted He said further
there was not petition circulated by his
constituents and that what had been in
troduced was secured by the Sioux City
Tribune. which claimed to be independent,
but was really democratic. The bill was
rcconsdered ana referred 10. the judiciary
committee.
Limit 10 Knoxville.
I On motion of Smith Of Mitchell the sen
ate today reconsidered' the bill to limit
the admttanco to Knoxville Incbriato
asylum and passed the bill after eliminating
the section giving judges of the district
court discretion in sending only those Civ
ing promise of being cured
I Because the officials have been unable
3 to find the bill that was lost i'm the house
requiring the circulation Of petitions of
consent every five years, the senate today
moved to recall the bill, so that II can be
repassed and sent over to the house. Their
are Gears on the part of friends of the
bill that it will never be passed by the
senate again.
senate Routine.
. The senate today passed concurrent
resolution arranging for joint session
Thursday in memory of Colonel d. b
Henderson; adopted the report of the com,
mittee indefinitely postponing the state
marshars bill; provided for printing l,20
copies OF the supreme court docket in
stead of Loo; passed law fixing a penalty
for misreading the Babcock test of mnL
or cream; appropriated 50 To repair the
soldiers orpi an, monument at Cesar Falls
passed the hill increasing the compensa
ton for publishing the session laws il
newspapers; passed the bill increasing IN,
pay of the superintendent at Mitcnellvin,
to slSc0.
Senator Saunders to-day introduced a bill
prohibiting persons wearing the insignia OF
secret societies TO which they do not be
long. Taylor introduced a bin providing
| that divorcs DEGREES cannot be signed ant
issued Till one year after the hearing Of tn,
divorce. Lewis introduced bill giving IN,
state auditor supervision over privat,
bo.ds.
FIenniktu VIII Have Bill.
2 Representative Flennikin. chairman o
the house committee on elections said toda,
that he would n once call together III,
I committee and that there would soon b
reported Qua a primary election bill simila
10 he Crosslcy hill. Two hills are befor
the com HIS. - =
senator iunham. ~he returned toda!