Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-27
LEGISLATORS MARX TINE
Not Bills Enough to Shape for Them
to Keep Employed.
SENATE OPPOSED TO JUNKETs
Burns Day Celebrated IN the House,
Father NuRent Making the Adj
dress--GiIIiIand wants to Have
an official state song.
OFrom a staff Correspondent.l

VI ApAh n oNdii iANeBuAlhthA
DIES MONIES. Jan. 26.-(Special.)-The
legislature practically did nothing today,
because there is not as yet a sufficient
numbel of bills before either branch to
enable the committees to get down to Sc
rious work. The house this afternoon
put ia two hours celebrating the ami
versary of the birth Of Bobby Burns
with songs. recitations and an address by
THE eloquent Father Nugent. The COM
mittee to arrange the program for a spe-
ci1l Lincoln day celebration was COM
pletel and II is expected that this will be
elaborate.
There is disagreement as between the
two houses as to whether or not there
should be junketing committees to go to
the various state Institutions and find
out II the work is being done as reported
by the trustees, regents and the Board
of Ccrtrol. The house passed a resolu-
ton twice and the senate has not acted.
To-day IT was discovered that the senate
was likely to kill off the entire scheme
and the last of the resolutions was with
drawn for the time being, while a confer
ence can be arranged between the leaders.
A unique thing today was the introduce
ton of a resolution in the senate by
Gillilland TO make a state song and to
"a lhdN lOWd' btdulllul lONd,
shall be the state song Of the Hawkeye
state II was written some years ago by
Tacitus Hussy of Des Moines and has
been sung many times in public with
splendid effect.
A bill by Senator Proudfoot was passed
by the senate which permits courts to
waive the requirement of an inventory
of personal property in the settlement OF
estates.
Opposed to Newspaper Bills.
Senator Burgess would, by law, make it
impossible for a publisher of a periodical
to recover for a newspaper or magazine
taken out of the postoffice, unless the pub
Usher had a written order for the same,
and would change the contract rights Of
the parties with regard to the receiving and
paying for a periodical where payment is
not made in advance. Under the present
law newspaper publishers have the same
right as others IN regard to the enforce
ment Of their contract rights in court.
Debate on the Road Question.
The first debate of the session occurred
over a highway proposition. Senator Gil
Inland wants the law fixed so thai traction
engine owners must lay planks over brick
and cement culverts and bridges before
they can cross. Senator Maytag objected TO
this, The debate turned upon the advisa-
bility of giving encouragement and per-
mission to the authorities to build culverts
and bridges. In opposition to the bill II
was urged that where these are built right
traction engines do not harm them, and
that with highway improvement uppermost
in the public mind, It would be even better
to have a requirement that all such cul-
verts be made so that traction engines
.,auI $500. T. h mt
when the bill got tied up on an amendment.
Health Taxes.
Senator Hunter Introduced an important
bill to give cities the right to levy a 2-mill
tax for health purposes. He also introduced
the bills to give cities a right to use the
highway funds raised within the cities and
the bill TO permit assessing to property
owners the cost of sewer repairs.
An insurance bill that will be fought by
the insurance combine was introduced by
Schultz, which provides that an insurance
note must bear on the face the fact that
it is given for insurance and such a note
is not coIlectsble in court unless the COM
pany shows it has complied with the Iowa
laws. Other bills today:
BY Dodds-Offering SlC0 reward for horse
thieves.
BY Grier-To remove banking and NUM-
cipal accounting departments from state
auditors control.
BY White of Story-Car service or de-
murrage bill.
BY Schulte-Making Illegal insui ance notes
unless the insurance company has complied
with the Iowa laws.
BY Allen of Pocahontas-Weed commits
sion and weed determination.
BY Cosson-Limitlng time of criminal APP
peals to six months.
Attack on Insurance Dill.
Senator Quigley of Clayton, on behalf OF
the democrats. is out in a statement in
which he attacks the scheme to make a
transfer of the department OF insurance
so that it will be placed under Governor
Carroll. He bases it on the assertion that
under Governor Carroll it would be very
much more expensive than under Auditor
Bleakley. The democratic party in its state
platform endorsed the plan of removal last
year when Carroll was auditor of state.
1t Is regarded as certain that the insurance
interests will make a hard fight to keen
the department in the hands of 'the present
state auditor.
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