Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-03-27
SUPPLY BILLS
COME MONDAY
Not Likely to Get Consideration in
the Senate Before that
Date.
NUMBER OF INCREASES ARE MADE
House Was Liberal with Cash, but
the Senate More So.
ADJOURNMENT FIRST OF APRIL
Probably Necessary to Turn Back the
Clock at That.
NO MORE PAY FOR LEGISLATORS
Yesterday Last of the sixty for
the Senators and House Passed
that stage Several
Days Ago.
House Was Liberal with Cash, but
the Senate More So.
ADJOURNMENT FIRST OF APRIL
Probably Necessary to Turn Back the
Clock at That.
NO MORE PAY FOR LEGISLATORS
CFrom a staff Correspondent }


LINCOLN, March 26.-(Special )-Appro-
priations probably will not occupy the at
tention of the senate before Monday. The
salary bill will he ready first, carrying an
increase of about $4,000 above the figures
agreed upon by the house. and the general
maintenance bin will follow, with an in
crease of $S21, ,291 over the total as It passed
the lower body. The bills will be reported
back from the finance committee tomor-
row.
'"rhe committee intends to take care OF
the state institutions of Nebraska" said
Chairman Miller OF Lancaster. in explain
ing the increase. THE state Is not too poor
to do So"
The senate made increases as follows
in the house bill among a number affect
ing the general expenses of state instltu-
tions and departments: For attorney gen.
eral in enforcing Junkin antitrust act.
5000 more than house allowed, or $1,000;
commissioner of labor. 5000, the house
having allowed N.OOO State Banking board
for expenses of additional examiners. $14.4Oo.
the house having allowed $1,000; State His
torical society to permit publication of his
torical reports of the state, $500 above
what the house allowed; an increase of
$500 for the State Board of Health, the
house having allowed $500, to provide for
the collection of vital statistics; an increase
of $500 in the fund for armory rent of
the National guard, the house having al
lowed sl5SO0.
University Appropriation.
In the provision for the state university
the fund OF 100000 for the purchase of
new athletic field and additional grounds
for the campus is not changed. Two bills
have passed appropriating 10000 for ex-
perimental farms in western Nebraska and
the question was raised whether this money
should not come out of the general fund
The committee made a recommendation for
provisional appropriation of $4,000 from
the general fund to insure the bills would
be effective
Several increases were recommended in
connection with the asylums and state in
| stitutons, the maintenance fund at the
asylum i'm Lincoln being raised from $780,
600 to $4,000. at Hastings from s250.OOO to
$275,O00. and at Norfolk from $4,000 to $780,
OO0 The su moi $4,000 was allowed for a
new wing at the Hastings asylum.
| In response TO a request made by w. II.
Thompson OF Grand Island. the committee
incorporated in the bill an appropriation
for sewerage at the Grand Island home,
the house having allowed 81 900. 1t has been
big lift to the sewerage system OF Grand
Island. Mr.. Thompson was in Lincoln to-
day looking after the matter.
The committee recommended an addition
| of 5000 TO the sum of $1,000 appropriated
| by the house for office expenses OF the
Railway commission and inserted $4,000 for
| the expense of making the physical vslua-
tion Of railroads. The house refused to
make an appropriation for the state fair
at the request of the Board of Agriculture,
| but the committee, thought the institution
needed 100000 for live stock coliseum or
| live stock pavilion. which is recommended.
The item of normal training in high
schools, as 1t left the house, was $75.OO0;
the senate recommended a cut to $4,000
! The provision for the state veterinarian,
in vie wof the demands of the stock inter
ests of Nebraska was raised from 5000 to
$4,000, and the sum for printing supreme
court reports was raised from 5000 to
$4,000.
| Following is a tabulation of the changes
| by departments and institutions: