Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-04
PROGRESS OF LEGISLATION
Thirtv- Three Bills Passed by Both Houses
and Signed by the Governor.
OVER six HUNDRED BILLS INTRODUCED
Twenty-Nine Senate Bills Are Pend
ing in House and FOrty-Nine
House Bills In the
Senate.
tFrom a star Correspondent

(From a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, March 3-(Special)-A
little inquiry into what the Legislature has
done up to the present recess discloses
that the session thus far has been a profit
able one and that the time has been well
occupied. The legislature has been in ses-
sion just thirty-seven days actual time,
and in that time thirty-three bills have
been passed by both houses and sent TO
the governor and everyone of them has
been signed. But in addition forty-nine
bills have passed the house and are now
pending in the senate and twenty-nine bills
have passed the senate and are now pend
ing in the house. About fifty or sixty
bills have been indefinitely postponed in
each house Put in tabular form 1t is some
thing like this:
House bills introduced. .....................26e
Senate bills introduced. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bills passed and, signed. ................. 80
Bills killed (abouO ...........I..... 100
Passed house, pending in senate.......... az
Passed senate, pending In house. y
In the thirty-three bills which have been
passed by both houses and signed by the
governor there are some few legallzing
acts and bills of only local Importance to
various COMMUNITIES but there are also
The bill providing for railroad commits
sioners' maps; increasing the salary of the
insurance actuary; allowing fraternal ac-
cident associations to do business in the
state defining the term misbranded as APP
piled to pure foods; prescribing the invest
ments of fraternal beneficiary insurance
companies; directing the preparation of the
supplement of the code; allowing police
matrons appointed in special charter cities;
providing for the transportation of dead
bodies; the 2-cent fare bill.
the senate and are pending in the house
there is the bill by Senator Hughes pro-
viding that pass in a Jurors pocket is
grounds for challenge for cause; provid-
ing for pure paints and oils, prohibiting
corporations contributing to political cam
paigns; providing for the examining and
licensing of graduate nurses; amending the
Juvenile court law so as to allow super
visors and cities to erect detention homes
appropriating 5000 for the railroad COM
mission for extra help for investigating
freight rates. -
OF those that have passed the house and
are pending in the senate there is the
bill fixing minimum rates for fraternal in
surance companies; the Dorian minimum
speed limit stock train bill; Marston's bill
limiting the hours of continuous employ
cracker bill; providing state aid for county
agricultural societies; providing a means
for drawing juries in cases of emergency
when for any cause a legal jury cannot
be drawn from the regular lists; requiring
employment offices to make reports to the
state labor commissioner: increasing the
amount of support to the county teachers
Institutes; providing for the investment of
DC 80 lz4N
than life.
Anyone familiar with legislation knows
/ that the showing so far as the number of
bills passed is concerned comes late In the
session The first part of every session
is taken up quite largely in committee
meeting hearings. in visitations to the in
stitutions, and the first week practically is
| given over to organizing and the Inaugural
ton. Following that for b time only bills
/ OF minor Importance are passed, because
the time is quite largely gwen up to COM
mittee hearings In which the members
seek to study the various subjects presented
| for legislation. Furthermore, after bill
has passed one house, with its committee
hearings, it is nearly always necessary for
1t to go through the process of COMMITTEES
| hearings in the other house.
| With twenty-nine bills passed by the
senate and pending in the house. and forty
nine passed by the house and pending in
the senate, the prospects are bright for
| number of important bills to meet their
final test within the next week or two.
On the house calendar ready to be acted
] upon as soon as the legislature reconvenes
are twenty nine bills, including the Smith
wife desertion bill. the Peterson bill pro-
hibiting corporations contributing to Do
| litical campaigns, the bill to license grad
uate nurses and the bill providing for pure
drugs and oils. On the senate calendar
\ are thirty-nine bills, including the bill pro-
hibiting combinations for controlling the
price Of grain and the bill providing for
pure seeds.
Warehouse Receipts Negotiable.
| bill introduced in both the house and
senate last Thursday seeSs to make the
| warehouse receipt for grain or goods ne
gotiable paper just as the certificate OF
deposit of bank is negotiable. II is an
! interesting looking bill. with all the ap-
pearance of needing Philadelphia lawyer
to explain it's provisions but It has back
of 1t more big influences demanding its
! enactment than any other bill that has beer
introduced at this session It is backed by
the American Bar association. which drew
| IT; by the American Bankers association
! by the American WarehouAs association and
1 by Chief Justice Emlin McClain of the
Iowa supreme court and H. o. Weaver
| both Of whom are members OF the uniform
laws commission appointed by the governors
or the various state, the Iowa members
being appointed by Governor Cummins
All three OF the associations that have
endorsed the bin are interested In securina