Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-07
Goes Over by Request Without Losing It's
Place on the Call.
ONE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE sill ACTED ON
oOmpelS Those Who Practice that Faith to
Report Contagious Diseases.
SUNDAY sAsE BALL MEASURE is KILLED
Favorable Action on Bill to Compel
Roads 20 Sell Mileage Books
Good I'm Hands of Bearer for
Two Cents Per Mile.
(From a stan Correspondent }

81
LINCOLN, March 6-(speciaI. THE
house recommended for passage two rail-
road bills killed the Sunday base ball
DILL recommended for passage bill TO
place Christian Scientists under the same
rule as other practitioners In the matter
OF reporting on contagious diseases, treated
harvey OF Douglas county like a prince
and came very near taking up the Omaha
south Omaha consolidation bills Harvey
secured favorable action on H. r. 2e3 al
lowing the retirement OF notes given to
mutual insurance companies II. r. ns.
providing way for the firemen and po-
licemen of Omaha to Increase their re-
lief funds; II. r. 147, allowing the council
to grant n person a monopoly on the
garbage business so long az it costs neither
the city nor citizens a cent II. r. 10
Harvey's legislative annexation bill, was
called up, but at his request it went over
without losing its place. Lee wanted the
bill discussed then and there in conjunc-
ton with his BILL but after some discus
sion the house sustained Harvey's re.
quest, though Jennison at first moved that
the bill go to the bottom of the file. Jenni-
son was induced to withdraw his motion
and so did Lee.
Knowles got his bill. II. r. go, providing
2-cent fare mileage book good for pas
| SobN III tue ndnuS OF any person ana good
for two years, acted upon favorably, though
Barnes of Douglas county told the house
1t was the most foolish thing that ever
| happened, because the railroads were COM
PEELED to sell tickets at cents. and no
person would be foolish enough to buy q
| mileage book for $40 and have the money
tied up when he could get ticket at the
same rate. The bill originally read good
| for three years, but Best offered the two
year amendment which Knowles ac-
| cepted.
Sunday Bali Bill KILLED.
The discussion of the county option Sum
day base ball bill by McAfullen OF Gage,
known as H. r. 1s0 attracted large crowd
to the gallery, and on his bill McMullen de-
| livered the masterpiece of the session, and
ho was ably backed by Lee of Douglas BY
word of mouth, while all the Douglas del
egation except Walsh stood with him when
1t came to voting for the passage of his
bill. But 1t was no use. The house didn't
want Sunday base ball. McMullen reviewed
| the history of legislation to regulate Sum
| day sports and said finally base ball had
been included in the same category as
poker, horse racing and such other forms
| of gambling. He told how Justice Max
well had held it was illegal to play ball
on Sunday, and how since that time very
few city authorities had even attempted to
enforce the law. He believed playing base
ball was the cleanest and purest sport in
America Young men who went out in the
good, pure sunshine and witnessed a good
game OF clean base ball on Sunday after
noon had no time to loiter around saloons
and other such places. He made reference
to remark made by some of the Lincoln
ministers who had been before the commit
tee to tell that body the supporters Of the
bill were buns and toughs and he In an
swer to that statement read the names of
such prominent citizens as ]. c. Harkham,
Rudge and Guenzel, Walter Ludwig and
others who had signed the petition in favor
OF the bill. These men, he said. had made
Lincoln and were not buns and toughs as
stated by the ministers
Mike Lee recited that he had four bovn
and he insisted that after they had gone
TO church and Sunday school that they
play base ball and get down close to ma
ture and grow up strong and healthy and
pure in morals Dives and saloons and
theaters, he said. remained open on Sun
days, but the boy who went TO the ball
games had no thought of such places.
Vote ON the Measure.
Hagemeister of Hamilton thought the bill
a vicious and bad measure and said So He
liked to play ball, he said. but not on sun
day He moved the bill be indefinitely post
poned and Speaker Nettleton added a
strong second to the motion, and then Red
mond Of Nemaha got In with the last kill
ing knock. He said while the bill said Il
was wrong to play Sunday base ball there
was a proviso that II given permission II
was right. The permission. he said did not
make 1t right. McMullen got roll call on
the adoption OF the report and It follows
those voting yes being in favor Of the bill: