Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-04
Many Bills Are New Pouring Into the
Executives Cffoe.
GIBSON BREWERY BILL PASSES THE HOUSE
Measure to Prevent Brewers from Owning
Saloons sent to Governor.
PURE FOOD CoNFtREEs REACH REPORT
Agreement on Amendments Comes
After some Concessions and
Measure Goes Down for
Executive Action.
From a Stan Correspondents

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LINCOLN. April s.-Cspeecial. THE thir-
tieth session OF the Nebraska legislature
viii adjourn at u o'clock noon tomorrow.
That is, the final adjournment Is set for
that hour, but It will be some time Friday
before the work Of the session is ended and
the members begin to leave town To date
the governor has signed eighty bills and
has forty now I'm his possession for con-
sideration, among them being the primary
bill and the Aldrich maximum freight rate
bill. BY fixing the final date OF adjourn
ment for noon tomorrow the legislature
will be compelled to kill OF a number of
measures OF more or less Importance, but
the only bills now pending which require
much consideration are the appropriation
bills and conference committee will have
to be appointed to agree on these. Enough
bills are now pending to keep the members
busy another week. but none of them IL
Of vital importance. Every party platform
pledge has reached the governor with the
exception of the pure food bill and both
mouse and senate have adopted the confer.
ence committee report on this and many
more bills of equal Importance with the
platform pledges, have been passed. Be-
ginning tomorrow afternoon II will be a
case of waiting for the enrolling clerk to
get bills in shape for the governor and
likely very few bills will be passed after
the clock has been stopped just before the
hour hand reaches 12.
Two Important Measures.
Among the measures which passed the
house today were s. F. 76, the bill by Glib
son to prevent brewers from having an in
terest in the retail liquor business or IN
any buil1ing In which a saloon is located:
S. F. 3ls and s. F. $40 by sackett the
! former increases the salary of sherifs in
Douglas county TO $4,000, and the former
provides the contract for feeding the pris-
oners in the Douglas county jail shall be
let to the lowest bidder. This however.
does not go into effect until next January,
after another county election has been
held
Pure Food Bill Passed.
Both the senate and the house this after
noon adopted the report OF the conference
committee on the amencments to the pure
food bill without serious opposition, the
expected fight over the measure not ma
| terializing. The conference committee
amended section 8, over which the big fight
| occurred, to make It practically the same
az II was when the bill left the senate. II
| requires the names Of ingredients. but not
| the quantities to be placed on bottles, and
requires the quantity to be placed on all
| bottled liquor except such as is used for
medical purposes.
The Objectionable provision eliminating
meat products bearing the government
stamp from inspection under the law was
cut out OF the bill on demand of the senate
members of the committee.
Vote Brewer Bill.
The passage of the Gibson anti-brewer
bill was stubbornly fought, not only by
members OF the house delegation from
Douglas county, but by powerful lobby.
but the sentiment always favored the BILL
and except late last night there has never
been a question of its final approval by
the legislature. The final vote was 81 for
the bill and q against 1t. After Gibson
introduced the measure such a protest
came up from South Omaha that he never
pushed 1t. but It was forced ahead by
| other members of the senate, and when Il
came TO the house the same element which
helped 1t through the senate worked II
through the house. The vote on the hip
was as follows: