Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-04
Little Probability Of Adjournment Before
the Fifth Of April
ALL BIG WORK is YET TO Be DONE
Only One of the Platform Measures OF the
General File.
ALL PLEDGES, HOWEVER. WILL BE KEPT
Members Are Hearing from Their
Constituents and the Disposition
20 Push Business is Grow
ing Rapidly.
fFrom q SIAN CorrernondentN )


LINCOLN, March S.--(Special. 1.-The legis.
lature tomorrow will start in on the home
stretch and to finish in record time will
require numerous night sessions, and even
then Il is believed the members will be
here after the bluebirds begin to sing and
the grass turns green Some OF the most
conservative believe final adjournment will
not be taken until April or s, II then
In fact, all OF the big work OF the session
Is yet to be done. The primary election
bill. the terminal taxation bill. the employ
ers' liability bill, all platform pledges, are
still on general file and have never yet
been discussed while the railroad commis-
sion bill is practically in the same condi-
tlon. 1t has been before the committee OF
the whole on two occasions, but no def
mite action has been taken in regard to the
numerous amendments offered to It. The
appropriation bill, the deficiency claims bill.
| the salary bill. all are in the hands of the
printer and forty-one days have passed over
the heads of the house members and forty
over the senators. The primary bill has
been made a special order for next wednes-
| day, and 1t is possible this can be gotten
out OF the way that day, but there Is no
telling what will happen when the show
down comes. And while all the platform
pledges are yet TO be carried out, many OF
the members have In hand measures which
are of special moment to their various
constituencies, and these cannot be side
tracked very much longer because some OF
the members are getting restless.
Several Claims Before LegisIature.
Among the claims allowed by the COM
mittee is one for 500 for 4. U. Sawyer,
| engineer at the state house. Two or three
years ago Sawyer was assisting in putting
| in a water tank on the roof and was
| hurt. He filed his claim TWO years ago
and the legislature allowed him $3.50, which
| Governor Mickey vetoed. The legislature
acted on the theory that the contractor. ~
any one, should be responsible for sawyer's
INJURY, even though Joe Burns or Howard
Burns did have the contract Mrs Eioxies
claim for e. 800. on which she wss allowed
$500 by the committee, VIII be fought on
the floor of the house The records show
the pop administration under which she
claims to have served. declared the office
vacant and therefore she was never matron
of the Kearney Industrial school Some of
the members think she should pay the
state board for the time she was there.
All Pledges VIII He Kept.
There is no doubt, however, the platform
pledges will be kept. every one of them.
| because even II Iiefe were q ulSpOsltlOn on
the part of some to sidestep some OF the
| planks, the people at home would not let
them. 1t is very evident that never before
was a legislature so thoroughly In the lime
light Every roll call is watched carefully
by the home folks and numerous members
have heard the rumblings in the background
when they apparently did not toe the mark
as they should. One man said yesterday.
because some paper had published that he
was assisting the railroads, he had re-
ceived not less than fifty letters from home
telling him what to expect IL his record
did not read right. This man denies em-
phatically that he is here to help the rail-
roads, but nevertheless, ne has concluded
to have himself recorded in the future so
that his action will not even have the ap-
pearance of evil