Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-22
Changes Of All Sorts Suggested, but 0nl,
One Gets Favor.
MEASURE GOES BACK TO COMMITTEE
Some Changes Will Be Mads and Bill Sen
Back to the Senate.
SENATE PASSES MAXIMUM FREIGHT Bill
Measure Fixes the Tariff at Not e
Exceed Eighty-Five Per Cent
of the Rate In Force
January 4, 1909.
(From a star correspondent.l


house spent the afternoon discussing tn,
senate anti-pass bill and the proceeding.
would be properly termed horse play.
o'clock recess was taken after tn,
bill had been referred back to the railroad
! committee. The fight started when HEr
Of York offered an amendment TO the bill
| defining employees, and In this definition
/ Il provided that lawyers and physician.
/ who were eligible to receive passes shoulC
| be persons whose time is principally takeI
/ up with work for the railroads. After tina
/ amendment, which the house adopted bf
! the close vote Of SS to S6, dozen or mort
were offered and voted down and variou
insinuations were made by one party anc
another as to why the bill has been so lonf
! delayed and yet not roll call was haC
and the sheep were not separated from tho
! goats, and the blame for the houses actor
could not be located.
Bill should Long He Passed.
Speaking for this motion, Hart said suci
a bill should have been passed forty days
ago. The discussion of the matter hac
been delayed from day to day without goot
! reason, and there was no excuse why tho
matter should not be definitely settled al
! todays session. His amendment also per.
| mitted the interchange of passes between
bona hde employees of railroads Thiesser
of Jefferson wanted to cut out the families
of employees, while Hart said he was ready
to vote for the senate bill as It was OF
| with the Hart amendment, though he be.
lieved the employees OF railroads should
not be prohibited from accepting trans
portation from other roads He was after
cutting out the politicians, he said, and not
the railroad employees.
Marsh of Seward was for the house bill
ana believed the house ought TO stand by
that and let the senate take It. as II had
been endorsed by the people generally He
did not favor the senate bill. Jenison
stirred up some of the members by insin-
uating it was the politicians and those
members who represent them and not the
railroads that had kept back the anti-pass
bill from becoming a law. He wanted a
conference committee appointed and wanted
the senate treated with due respect
In the meantime, Cone had offered an
amendment which placed under the senate
title the house anti-pass bill and Jenison
wanted this amendment defeated because
he said 1t made the bill unconstitutional
Harrison and Lahners both indorsed what
Jenison had said, while Speaker Nettletou
urged the house to be careful and treat
the senate fairly, because there were more
: measures to be considered than the anti
pass bill. and some OF them were of vital
? Importance. Farley wanted both amend
ments killed and Clarke wanted a confer
ence committee appointed The speaker in
formed the house this could not be done
at this time, and not until the house had
amended the senate file and the senate
had refused to concur in the amendments.
Hart Gets n TrIae Warm.
Hart then got little warm because of
the Jenison speech, and he Informed the
house he would not take on his hat TO
anyone regarding the passage of the anti
pass bill, and he wanted to know II any
member wanted TO go home and face his
constituents without having passed an anti
pass bill.
The Cone amendment was then lost by
a vote Of 81 to 49, McMullen then moved
20 amend the Hart amendment and his
amendment was accepted by Hart, TO in
clude in the list Of those who were elf.
gible to accept passes the widows and de.
o pendent children of those employees who had
n been killed in the service Of the railroads
Y d w. Brown spoke for the senate bill
and against the amendments proposed
q And then Cone told what had been eat
q ing on him all during the session II,
: said in crying over his lost amendment,
II was born in grief. nursed IN grtef
raised in grief and can stand grief as wei
Z as any one" and the house had TO stand
for It because It was courtesy. Cone finau,
: wound up by saying II the house couldnt
stand for the senate bill It should kill Il.
Hart Amendment Cnrrfes.
Quackenbush was against the amendment
Mike Lee moved that care takers of stocl
q and poultry be stricken out and Clarke as
> sured the house Lee was not in earnes
and this amendment was killed. Earle,
] - sNuE tg..
y employees. This was lost, and Jenisor
u moved for the committee TO rise, and thii
> failed. The Hart motion then carried b.
% a vote Of 80 to 36. Farley got after Har
a and the latter moved TO strike out III,
"a word principally" referring to the tim
8 lawyers and doctors who get passes shoul,
70 be employed by railroads, and insert 'ex
70 olusively." This failed because Cone eH
7" planned the house would be buying a goi,
i brick II It adopted that amendment, as
&c man being employed three days or less ex
clusiveIy could get a pass. Cone thei
. moved TO strike out make It unlawful 10
) one 20 receive a pass" This riled up Best
who. instead of speaking to the motion
m directed his remarks TO Cone, and demande
TO know what was the matter with him an
why he offered so many amendments an
-, talked so much Quackenbush moved IN
=, committee arise. and because II was sti
- able 70 do something the motion carried.
Hart moved not TO concur In the report
but TO pass the bill up for third readin
with his amendment, which had bee
adopted. Brown OF Sherman moved a
substitute that II be indefinitely post
~ pOned. Dodge raised the danger signs
- and asked the house to vote down bot
=. motions Jenison began 20 talk and Con
moved 10 adjourn. His motion was los
Jenison told the house II would have
take the responsibility n II failed TO ena,
al an anti-pass law, but that he was read
RI TO face his constituents on his record O
". the house bill. Hart and Quackenbush e
en- together and both withdrew their motions
rd Cone Gets Set Back.
is Farley moved committee be appOints
10 prepare amendments 70 the bill and