Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-03-19
Contained One Provision Admitted to
Have Been Illegal.
OWE WAS TO ELIMINATE THIS
Mutual Insurance Bills of Bartos Are
Put to Sleep,
0 CHANGE IN PULLMAN RATES
Senate Also ruts Quietus ON BiII
Giving Railway CommtssiOn EX-
pIicIt Authority over
Telephone Lines.
CFrom a staff Corrcspondcnt)

(From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, March observation-disclosures
OF a clerical error in sending copy to tho
printer the guaranty bank bill IL. r. ig3,
was not passed by the senate today, as
| eXpected and there may be delay that
will prevent the hig jolificaton tomorrow
night The amendments were finally
printed correctly and returned to the sem
ate just as that body adjourned.
The bill had been referred to the commits
tee Of the whole for specific amendment
during the morning session, on the motion
of Donohoe of Holt, who declared the pur-
| pose of the move was to eliminate from
| the senate amendments one which provided
| when n bank liuuidates there shall be re-
| turned to it 70 per cent Of the unused por-
ton of the bank guaranty fund which re-
mains in It's possession at the time. The
democrats because of the criticism over
| the provision OF the bill as originally
drafted, which provided none of this money
| should be eturned decided to provide for
the return of this share Of the fund but
later decided that provision unconsti-
tutional.
| In making his motion TO rccommit, Sem
! ator Donohoe said It was for the purpose
of this specific amendment and 9th
purpose. The lieutenant governor ruled
would be before the committee of the whole
and anything the members sought to do
might he done TO IT In spite of the specific
provision, this being the custom in all leg
isiative bodice So far as he could ascertain.
Before the Donchoe motion was put, Sem
ator Randall moved that the bill be recon-
mitted for the purpose also OF changing
the provision with respect to loans, so a
state bank 'nay loan not to exceed 10 per
cent of its capital stock and surplus, the
bin providing 20 per cent, to any one per-
son. He did this, he said, to make the
state banks and the national banks on an
equality in this respect. The motion failed.
Cox, Majors and Gammill voting with the
: democrats dgIm"t the motion.
MutupI Insurance Aired.
Senator Bartos of Saline county made
a long-promiscd talk on mutual insurance
as conducted under the existing Nebraska
laws today, in an endeavor to place ON
general file two bills, s. T. 285 and 236
introduced by himself, with a view Of
prohibiting mutual fire insurance COM
panies from representing to their policy
holders that their inability under such
policies is limited and with a view of
r making other changes in the mutual in
surance law along the same lines. The
\ senate voted down his motion and the
" bills were indefinitely postponed by vote
r of % to IL He secured in support of his
e position the votes of Senators Buck,
= Besse, Howell, Laverty. Myers, Randall.
= Ransom, Tanner, Raymond and Warren.
q Pullman BiII Dead.
d The senate today put the final quetus
> on the King bill lowering by about
= half the charges for berths made by the
Pullman Sleeping Car company In Ne
braska. The committee on miscellane-
: Gus corporations. Of which Senator Tan
Il ner of Douglas is chairman, having had
y the bill since the carly days of the scs-
4 sion, made the report today and the sem
o ate, with roll call concurred in the re-
= port.
II No Telephone BII.
|. In comittee of the whole the senate indcfl-
e nitely postponed the bill by Senator Miller
h Of Lancaster placing the regulation of tele-
3 phone companies entirely in the control Of
; the railway commission. The bin Mr.. Nil
O Ter said, was for the purpose OF conferring
u power upon the commission which Il was
& exercising at present for the modification
10 Of rates and control OF seryice Of the tcic-
d phone company, but which there was some
l. doubt whether the railway commission act
d conferred to the extent the commission de-
sired.
= Senator oils y aVuey offered an amend
- ment for physical connection between COM
petng lines when the public service de-
- mands 1t and the lines are in condition for
the same, provided there should he no con-
nection with exclusive toll lines except at
terminal points.
The amendment was declared a sure way
to kill the bin in that It would permit the
I Bell Telephone company to take advantage
Of the exchanges Of the Independents whcr-
ever It desired ana would deprive the inde-
pendents Of the advantages OF toll business
into which It was extending. Senator Tih-
le bets said Senu Oils had been a dupc in
e introducing the amendment while Senator
. Oils said everyone who opposed the amend
y ment was interested In either one telephone
company or the other ana that the people
would benefit from physical connection OF
telephones and be saved from two-teIephonc
| service. Howell declared members of TN.
railway commission were Interested I'm the
d telephone business and finally Gammim Of
Frontier moved TO postpone the bill anc
the senate cOncurred by a decisive vote.
New Military ode.
rk The senate recommended for passage IN,
in new military code bill by Lawrence o.
a, Dodge, which is merely an amendment o
Z the present law, In accord with IN,
# amended Dick law The measure will per
an init an added appropriation for armory
m rent in Omaha.
o. Campaign Contributions.
,e- Publicity Of campaign contributions wa
the subject Of II. Il. 2i2, by McVickers o
It, Dodge, and II was amended TO provide tha
all contributions to funds above S2j mus
en- me made public. The measure was al
An amendment OF the law already existing an,
mt passed by the republicans, which eovere,
az the same subject. The bin was recon
lig mended 20 pass
It, Physical Valuation bill.
he The Oils physical valuation bill was re
er ferred TO the senate railroad committc
ng today when IL was returned 70 the senat
ad with amendments OF the house, The usua
procedure would have been for the senat