Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14

work and long hours will mark the re-
mainder Of the session.
Members are discussing various matters
which they believe should be attended to at
this session. and among the things Ia some
way by which the powers of the courts can
be curtaned In a discussion OF this ques-
ton by some Of the legislators yesterday
Il was found there Is quite a sentiment
against the courts declaring laws uncon-
stitutional on technicalities; against courts
enioining or mRndamusing other branches
Of the government, amounting, said one of
those In the discussion, to the courts vir-
tually running, not only the state, but
local governments as we'll No plan was
proposed whereby those things complained
Of could be remedied but there is a senti-
ment against the growing tendency OF the
courts to virtually run the government AL
ready there Is a bill In providing courts
cannot reverse a criminal judgment on a
mere technicality which does not prevent
the convicted person from having a fair
trial.
study of state Installations.
Numerous members show a strong dis
position to learn something about the va
rious state institutions and to become more
familiar with the way they are managed.
In this connection a suggestion has been
made that the board OF trustees of the
Omaha Institute for the Deaf and Dumb
and the board which controls the affairs OF
the Institute for the Blind at Nebraska
City be abolished and these Institutions be
turned over to the state Board Of Public
Lands and Buildings with authority to con-
duct them as the other state institutions
/
ment the trustees are paid no salaries re-
ceiving only from the state their actual
expenses while engaged in work pertaining
to the institutions. The trustees send in
their bills for the construction OF buildings
let the contracts themselves and the war.
rant has to be drawn by the state auditor
who never sees the contract and know,
nothing about its details; yet the state
auditor is under heavy bonds to audit al
state accounts
Pullman Car Assessment.
Another matter which is not being over
looked by the legislators. though it has no
been discussed very much lately, Is al
| amendment to the section of the statutes
regarding the assessment of the Pullman
Car company. Under the present laws, &C
cordlng to a verbal opinion given the Stat
Board of Assessment by Attorney Genera
Brown the board has no right to includ
the value OF the franchise of this compan!
in making up its assessment. This leave
IL up to the board to merely find that tn
Pullman company is worth what Pullman
lobbyist Tom Benton says 1t is worth. Stat
Treasurer Mortensen tried TO get this prop
erty increased by 100 per cent at the session
OF the board last summer, and Governo
Mickey sided with him, but the other tire
.lA - D.
increase. giving as an excuse that the lega
department said under the present law thi
could not be done.
In the house there probably will be quit
a fight over the proposition to print tn
daily journals. Cone of Saunders wants tn
house to have the record printed daily jus
as 1t will appear in the Journal at the en-
of the session, the contract calling for tn
printing daily of some $500 copies, all u
which, with the exception OF 800, to D
bound when the session adjourns The print
ing committee has this under advsement
but inasmuch as the work will have to b
done in Lincoln the field of competition
said to be too narrow to permit of man
bids being received. bid has been file
with the committee for mmeograph copie
OF the daily journal for the entire sessio
for total cost of $500 the supplies to b
furnished by the party making the bid.
Captain snwueI ID. Davis Dead.
J Captain Samuel d. Davis, assistan. quar-
termaster in the adjutant generals off1c'
died Sunday morning at $3.50 at his HON
in Wilbur from blood poisoning, cause
) from an injury to his amputated leg rt
, ceived at the Fort Riley encampment {
..s Nebraska National Guard last Angus
: from which he had suffered since. Tn
Ineral will he held at p. m. Monda!
: January 4. at Wilbur.
Captain Davis was born in Fairfel
J county, Ohio, August 10, 1S45. He enliste
J I'm Company ID. Seventy Ohio II
fantry, on February H. 1864. He serve
7 in the campaign of Atlanta and others pa
ticipated In by his regiment He was mu
. tered out with his regiment at Loui
vile, KY. July Is, 1865. He came to N,
brasla in the fall OF 1866 and homesteade
{ one-half mile south of WILDER in 1863 whei
!. he has since resided He leaves a wifi
, one son and one daughter He was an Ell
. thusiastic Grand Army man and has he
0 many important offices in that organization