Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-21
Provides for Contract for Feeding Of County
Jail Prisoners
HoPEwElL BREAKS THE TIE AGAIN
Lieutenant Governor Once Kore Stands Up
for Women in senate.
hORTESsES on UNIVERSITY MONEY
Former state Treasurer Points ont
wherein Law should he Changed
to Provide Proper safe
guards for state.
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LINCOLN, Feb %. - Especially - The
Omaha charter bill. which places the en-
pioyes Of the engineering department OF the
CITY government on a civil service list
and provides the levy for the various de-
partments for the biennium. passed the
house this afternoon by a vote OF n TO e.
with the emergency clause II became
necessary in order to save the emergency
clause for the Douglas delegation to secure
call Of the house. and when this was
done Besse. Quackenbush and a number
OF other fusionists who had voted against
the bill at the solicitation OF the Douglas
members changed their votes 70 yes The
bilf was introduced by Lee. and Il had the
solid support OF the Douglas delegation.
though Mayor Dahlman and a few OF his
friends worked strenuously against IT,
Tucker introduced a bill in the house
which provides the county commissioners
In counties OF over 10000 population shall
let the contract for feeding the prisoners
In the county Jail to the lowest and best
bidder after advertising for bids This
takes the jail feeding out OF the hands
OF the sheriffs In the counties affected
Sheriff Mcdonald OF Douglas county was
stirl here today trying to get hold Of sou,e-
one who would agree to kill the bill. having
failed to prevent its being introduced.
stock Yards Bill shows Tn.
Numerous other measures of Importance
were dumped into the house hopper this
afternoon, among them being a stock yards
bill by Harrison OF Otoe. providing the
stock yards companies cannot charge more
than Is per cent for corn and hay over the
market price. Another by Cone OF saund-
ers. in brief. provides a penalty for viola
ton OF the Harsh elevator bill passed two
nd for
railroad to construct a sidetrack to an
elevator or TO the site where the elevator
is to be built Cone is of the opinion the
sidetrack should come first.
Hopewen Again Breaks Tie.
For the second time the senate this after
noon went on record in favor of woman suf-
frage by passing Aldrich's joint resolution
memorializing congress to submit a woman
suffrage amendment TO the constitution to
the several states. For the second time,
also, it required the vote or Lieutenant
Governor Hopewell to break the tie on the
resolution. When the vote came up to
engross the resolution for passage last
week the vote stood IL ayes II nays a1a
II absent. The lieutenant governor saved
the day for the resolution by voting In
favor of IT,
Today when it came up for final passage
the vote was ls to ls one senator being
absent. and again Lieutenant Governor
Hopewen cast his ballot for It. The house
has already killed the same resolution. 80
there is little likelihood of its ever reaching
congress There was no discussion on the
bill. The vote first taken stood Is ayes and
II nays. but Burns OF Lancaster Topped
to the Affirmative and tied the vote. Then
McKesson moved the call OF the house.
but this was raised when il was found
Latta of Burt was the only senator absent,
and he was out of the city. The verihcation
Of the vote Resulted in no other changes,
so 1t was up to the lieutenant governor to
decide the fate Of the measure. The roll
call was as follows