Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-02
Members Point to Fact Bilh Are Far in
Excess Of the Revenue.
WALSH AND CONE HAVE A LIVELY sPA1
Saunders County Man Says Douglas Mem.
Der Utters an Untuth.
SPEAKER COMPELLED TO TAKE A HAND
Trouble Comes UD over BnI 60 Permit
street Railways 60 own Interur-
urbHns, which t. indefinitely
Postponed.
(From a star Correspondent)

LINCOLN, April 1-(Speclal. The house
To-Day Indefinitely postponed s. f. g. the
! Dill allowing street railway companies TO
own and operate interurban companies. The
senate made an inroad on the approximation
ollls and passed several OF them. It alN
refused to reconsider It's action in krlinA
the Dill for the appropriation Of $4,000 forN
buildings. at the state farm, and at the
close Of a busy days session voted TO an
point committee to confer with similar
committee from the house to ix a day for
final adjournment
The house put to sleep, SO far as this
session Is concerned. s. f. 25, the hill by
1homas permitting street railway COM
panles to own stock in interurhan lines and
ailowing interurban companies TO own
street railway stock Those who defended
the bill argued that It had for it's purpose
the encouragement of men who desired to
invest in interurban roads and who are
now interested In street railways When
the bill came up Mike Lee asked that II
go over until o'clock, but several OBJ
Jected and Cone of Saunders handed up
his amendments, which, he said, prevented
watering stock, one road buying stock in
parallel line. and to force connections
between competing lines. e. W. Brown,
Lee and Walsh OF Douglas objected to
these amendments, and Brown cited the
/ constitution to show that stock could not
De watered in Nebraska II the law is en-
forced. In the course of his remarks
Walsh paid his respects to Cone In such a
manner that the speaker had to take the
chair and dissolve the committee Of the
whole and call the two belligerents to order.
Walsh said Cone had been To Omaha and
told members of the Omaha Grain exchange
that he had sufficient power in the house
m
that organization, and. further that he
controlled thirty fusion and thirty repub-
lican votes.
The gentleman speaks an untruth," said
Cone, II said nothing of the kind"
MY authority is Secretary McVann"
said Walsh and the confusion became 90
great that the speaker stopped further dis
eussion.
The amendments were then adopted, and
Walsh said as the bill had been ruined
he moved that It be indefinitely postponed.
Later, when the speaker asked Walsh what
his motion was, the gentleman from Doug
las did not answer. and Jenison of Clay
said as the gentleman from Douglas is too
tired to make the motion II move that the
committee recommend S. F. 25 for indefinite
postponement" The motion carried. and
when the committee arose Dodge tried 70
get the house not TO concur, but his motion
was lost by a vote OF 40 to 2s.
Majors May sue the state.
Redmond of Nemaha got through a reso-
luton this morning in the house to clear
the title to eight acres Of land belonging
to T. J. Majors, by allowing the colonel
to sue the state. When the state bought
sixty acres of land for the State Normal
school at Peru it was in two tracts. BY
mistake the eight-acre tract was not
properly described and instead OF getting
what the state bought the deed reads
eight acres belonging to Colonel Majors.
However, thelstate has been using what II
bought for forty years and the resolution
is only for the purpose OF allowing Colonel
Majors TO get his title cleared up.
s. f. 1877, by Epperson, a bill TO prevent
running establishments for the purpose of
selling grain on margins. was shot over tho
head of the committee Of the whole this
morning on motion Of Cone of Saunders
and recommended for third reading Walsh
and e. W. Brown objected to the bill
coming up that way. but they were unable
to prevent ffty-one men from voting TO
raise 1t. Walsh claimed the bill would
simply locate gambling in Chicago COM
mission houses, which would open up
branches in Nebraska, and thus shut out
their own competition, the bucket shops
Cone pronounced the bucket shop business
as purely a skin game ana Jenison was OF
the same opinion.
Senate Doing It's Duty.
While a number OF newspapers, especially
here in Lincoln. have lately been abusing
the senate for trimming down appropria-
tions, none Of them have told the people
of the state the true state Of AFFAIRS ana
showed that IT is absolutely necessary TO
reduce the appropriations. At this time
the appropriation bills pending and passed
by the house carry in excess OF the ap-
Of two years ago 1880, 900.
And two years ago the total appropria-
tions included the university approprfa-
tion, which Is not this year included in
the grand total Of appropriations against
the general fund. Inasmuch as there a
absolutely no chance for the revenues OF
the state TO increase 1880 900 durin5
the next two years, some OF the appropri-
ations must be cut down. The senate is
using it's best judgment on where TO
make cuts and no institution win be al
lowed TO suffer. though several may have
to go without new buildings. solely be-
cause there is no way for them to be paid
for.
The veto OF H. r. sos. introduced By
Clarke. was due largely
10 Mr.. Clarke himself. whose attention
was called TO section In the bin which
made valid acts OF the city council IN va
eating streets during the past two years.
When the bill was given 70 Mr. Clarke
for introduction he submitted Il to City
Burnham, who indorsed Il "A
Il provided that the council should have
The power to vaeate streets. a word left
put Of the charter two years ago. Hut
iuring those two years the city council
vacated several streets. particularly one
Tor the benefit Of the Northwestern rail-
road. when Il had no authority to do 90.
When MI Clarke saw his bill validated
his act OF the council he called the aftsn-
lion Of a member OF the senate from
Douglas county to that section and re.
luested that Il be stticken out The sen-