The Columbus journal., 1907-04-03

the senate. Dodge. 0f Douglas, moved
that al the amendments b adopte0
with the exception of sectioa %, re-
lating to the promulga&ioa of the
party Platform and the selection Of
. state committee. and On this Ques-
tioa he asked for the appointmeat
Of . conference committee. His 10
ton WAS defeated. The senate passed
the bill BY . vote of 80 to ;. every
senator Going On record. Though the
bin Was recommitted ut the forenoon
session for IN amendment which Sen
ator Aldrich wanted to attach, tie
change was not made and the bill was
placed On its passage ut the opening
Of the afternoon session. The three
senators who voted against the meas
ure were Ashton. Latta and Hanna.
Ashton and Latta are fusionists while
Hanna Is . republican. Ashton ex-
plained his vote in q written state
ment. declaring the primary would
cost the state 500, 900 . year. The
bill goes to the governor ut once.
The proposed law. to 90 hack to the
old system OF precinct or township
elective assessors, was defeated In the
house by q vote of 10 to ~. The bill
was introduced by Johnson Of Saline
and applied only to counties Of less
than $4,000. In these counties the
county assessor was to be done away
with and the deputy assessors. instead
of being appointed by him. were to be
elected in each precinct or township.
There was . considerable demand for
the bill by farmers who declare that
assessors are appointed from the
towns which give the merchants In
the towns the best of the bargain at
the expense of the farmers.
The house. passed the Adams and
Doran stock yards bills with practic-
ally the Douglas county delegation
opposed. Some Of the members from
Douglas county did not vote for the
bills. The contest came up In the
afternoon when Thiessen Of Jefferson
moved to recommit H. R. 495 by Do
ran to provide an amendment that
men should charge SO
cents a head for selling cattle, Is
cents q head for calves. Is cents for
hogs and cents for sheep. This was
quickly voted down when Clarke Of
Douglas made a motion that the bill
be indefinitely postponed. 1t received
only 8 votes.
Among the more important bills
passed was an amendment to the
Hirsch law by Gone. It seeks to rem
edy the defects in the Hirsch elevator
law by providing a means through
which railroads are required to furnish
trackage to elevators. The limit in ca
pacity Of elevators to which railroads
are required to furnish side tracks is
also reduced to 10000 bushels. The
bill provides that the elevator man
must be ready to put up the cost OF
building the side track. but forbids dis
between two elevators In
one place and requires the railroads
to treat all elevator men in one local
ity alike.
The senate finance committee rec
for passage H. r. 295.
which provides for a heating plant at
the Peru Normal school. The action
Of the committee in indefinitely post.
poning the bill appropriating $1,000
for a subhatchery for fish In Cherry
county was reversed by the senate
after q fight by Senator Hanna. After
securing the reconsideration of the
vote he moved the bill be placed on
general file. and after a heated de-
bate in which members of the finance
declared the action would
open up the way for wholesale re
versal Of the action Of the commit
tee, the motion carried.
wilsey of Frontier, chairman of the
railroad committee of the senate,
gently laid fifteen bills on the secre.
tary's desk after q motion had been
carried to indefinitely postpone all
senate files not on the general file or
advanced to third reading. The batch.
with one or two exceptions. applied
to railroads. but in the entire
lot there is not one that is not wholly
or partly covered by bills already
passed by one or both Of the two
houses. Many of them related to the
qualifications and powers of the rail-
way commission and some related to
maximum rates of commodities.
The senate expunged from the rec
ords . resolution offered by Sibley
of Lincoln county early in the session
Assistant Secretary F. p.
The trouble came about
the publication of some let
tiers from some Of Sibley's constit-
uents protesting against q stringent
anti-pass law. Senator Sibley offered
the resolution apparently while an
gered ut the publication Of the letters.
It was never pushed and has been Al
lowed to lie dormant until. when. by
vote. q motion by Randall
Of Madison to expunge It from the
records carried.
The last county option bill was IN
postponed in the house by .
vote Of 20 to 81. made by Lahners Of
Thayer county. The measure was in
troduced by E. w. Brown of Lancas-
ter after tho original postponement.
The defeat Of the Thomas bin to re-
dsaon tia snfno nhaeaod isI alo~a&n4