Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01
Desperate Effort to Defeat the Immediate
Application Of the Law.
I'D ATTACK ON OMAHA is RESUMED
Anonymous Circular on Terminal Taxation
Being Distributed.
SENATORS WARM UP ON INsURVfi
Burns of Lancaster and AIdricn Of
Butler Indulge I'm Personalities
over Bills ARectiRR Life
Insurance Companies.
CFrom a star correspondentl

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. Especial. )--1fl
fight In the Legislature over 2-cent pa
senger fare came to a close this mornir
when the senate passed H. r. s67, the joi
committee bill. hurried Il over to the hou
where the senate amendment was immes
ately concurred in. The bill was then g
rolled and early I'm the afternoon was
the hands of the governor. p-
The railroads took a last stand in an eg'S
fort to kill the emergency clause, which
will put the bill in force three days
after It is signed by the governor, but the
attempt failed in the senate and all but
four of the senators who gave this clause
as their reason for opposing the bill hqr-
riedly changed their votes before the a1al
result was announced and lined up wRh
the majority. The vote as finally eRt
nounced, stood q to l. two senator's, o'cV
nell of johnson and Latta of Burt, absei
The four senator's who persisted in oppos
ton to the BILL even after they saw II ha
secured the required majority were Burn
of Lancaster Glover of Custer, Gould o
Greeley and Hanna of Cherry
Douglas County Members switch.
On the first roll call Gibson, Thomas andf
Saunders of Douglas and McKesson -
Lancaster voted against the bill givi
as their reason the Objectionable emergen
clause, but before the vote was announcSV
all OF them Topped to the afirmativess
Glover OF Custer at first voted for the bill.
but when It appeared that a change in ids
vole might defeat the emergency clause
and after consultation with some of this
opposition, he changed his vote to tho
negative. His change came first and 1t re-
duced the vote for the bill to %, just one
more than enough to carry the emergency
clause. When 1t was found the emergency
clause had carried there was a scurry IN
get on the popular side OF the fence w
the vote was being verified, Clarke
Adams voted no. though he had previd
voted aye. When he found he would
to be recorded as changing his vote h
lowed his aye vote to stand.
IcxpIanRtion of votex-o 4
Several OF the senators explained tn
votes. Ashton while votinsy for the
said the interstate commetce act reqtc
The raiir roads to give 80 days notice befd
changing a rate. He therefore thought a
emergency should have been stricken oun
Hanna and Saunders also explained theirl
opposition was due to the emergency clause
Randall explained he thought the railroadik
should be given 80 days, but neverthelesi
he voted aye. The following written exl>
ptShations were sent to the secretary's
desk:
y wish to explain my vote: When "a
bin in the committee of the Wild
voted to strike out the emergency -
| thought then-as l do now that under
Interstate act no railroad can change
rate without first giving thirty days NO
| TO the Interstate commission. And as
act must necessarily involve sale of n
state tickets, thus we will find II this
passes with the emergency, a federal =
| prohibiting any change of rates without TIM,
thirty days notice and state statute de-
manding instant action, which seems to|
me would be 80 confusing to all concerned
| that II should not be insisted upon. / viii
| vote for this bill without the emergenGyF
JOSEPH BURNS
| l vote No because the bill has the emer
gency clause incorporated therein. bu
would vote yes otherwise.
And further for the reason that / ar
not moved in any action / take by sent
ment, politics or newspaper criticism.
And also because ] believe II manifestl'
| fair all conditions being considered to pc
| NIT ninety days TO elapse before the ID
becomes a law. GIBSON -
I desire to explain my vote. l beIi9
days in in which to adjust their mat matters m
conform to the law. C. A. RANDALJ.V
! l am in favor OF the 2-cent maximum
rate bill and win vote for the same with
the emergency cut out. THOMAS.
When the roll call was completed .Gaun.
ders moved the call of the house, as 4
or four OF the senator's were absent
Kesson came in about that time and votN
no, afterward changing to aye. Gould waS
absent at first. but came In during the can
When It was found that only Latta ana
O'Conneii were absent and both wera. ex-
cused the call was raised.
Vote of Record.
The vote after the changes had been
corded was as follows:
| Ayes