Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-02
No Telling Just When the Actual
Adjournment Will Occur,
RAILROADS GET ALL THEY WANT
King of Polk Administers Rebuke to
the Members.
CLOSE CALL FOR GOVERNORS BILL
senator Ransom Has II In Hts Pocket
and Says Nothing when Motion
was Made which Would
Kin ~.
lrrom a staff correspondentN


technically the last day OF the session,
but Just when the final motion 10 adjourn
will be made is a problem. The engrossing
Of a large number Of bills and their signing
by the presiding officers in the presence OF
the two houses will require considerable
| time and though the record will show ad-
ournment was taken on April l it may I've
the Sd before the legislators really set
away.
sample of Legislative WORK.
| As an indication of the nonsensical acts
of this legislature reference may be made
| to the passage of S. f.. d, by Fuller OF
| Seward. This 6 provides that the State
| Board of Equalization shall not raise the
assessment of any county without first
having notified said county and given its
| officials an opportunity to appear and pro-
| test.
That is a rule that has been followed by
J the State Board of Equalization since there
was such a board. Every year asscssoIs
are brought in as witnesses and property
owners and county officials have always
been given hearing whenever 1t was con
templated to make raise.
| The legislature passed that bill for one
and only one, reason The democratic
party pledged the people to lower the val
uation of property. When the bill was
| first introduced It provided that the stale
board could not increase the aggregate
valeu of the property above the aggregate
OF that returned by the county assessors.
There was such row raised by the people
of the state over that bill that 1t was
| amended to provide above.
Railroads Get what They want.
"The railroads have got all they want
| from this legislature" said Senator King
| in discussing a report of the committee
| railroads on the oil rate bill. THE railroad
| committee has not injured them any and
has done nothing that will affect them"
| The measure was reported from the COM
! mlttee with a number OF amendments the
trainers of the bill, but not the introducer,
| Wilson of Polk, considered destructive of
the real intent of the easure The bill was
| intended to permit the shipment of kero-
sene no matter whether in carlots from the
southern states at such freight rate that
the oil could be brought into competition
here with the Standard OIL company prod
ucts But the bill was amended to pro-
vide that only crude oil and resduum oil
for fuel purposes could be brought to Ne
braska under the rates provided and then
in CARROTS the rates on these classes alone
being lowered to the point of competition.
The Standard Oil company controls all the
tank cars and the greater part of the out
put of the class of oil on which the freight
was lowered, according to the statement
of the sponsors of the bill and while the
bill originally provided for competition the
bill will not actually permit any change in
conditions as they now exist.
When Senator King registered his objec-
ton Senator Oils, chairman of the rail-
road committee. made a formal protest,
but made attempt to argue the question,
merely declaring the comttee had done
what it wanted to do. The deocratic MEM
bers were herded behind the recommended
tions Of the railroad committee recommend
ing the bill to pass as amended.
The bill came up for third reading late
this afternoon and then It was found that
a mistake had been made in engrossing it
and the amendments Of the committee on
railroads were not attached to the bill at
all and it was necessary to defer action
until later date.
Governor signs Bills.
Governor Shailenberger signed the fol-
. lowing bills today:
S f. 263, by Cain--Correctng history
of Richardson county drainage district
s. f. 264, by Cain of Richardson
Amending the Nemaha county drainage
Ii, X. 2Ss, by Talcott-For new Nor
= NAL school board.
, II. r. 169, by Bushee Of KKimball-No-
tiCe by publication may be made in Va
$ cation OF district court on application
p TO the district Judge.
| h. II. 5l2, by Committee on Claims
Attorney general, auditor and governor
: may fix the maximum rate for premiums
u il. r. 847. % by sc6eeie ad Dof's Of seward
years use of drainage outlet Of LAM
across other persons property vests
f. r. 2O2, by McVicker-Permits the
issuance of bonds by counties for drain
"a "a
ii. r.. sS, BY Leidigh Of otoe-Places
clerk Of the supreme court and his office
e H. r isS, by Raper-Authorizin
Sq SSsrGs of SO soePS metal
ID r. a25 by p9o Of Jo9nsSIGOgnty g
able and i'd PiHdigent consumptives. S ss' cur
H. II, 1856, by Bowman OF Nuckols--
EeguirnE, Trims, road % oYerSeers Ssr to enforce the
OF hogs dying of disease.
T. r l72, by Shoemaker OF Douglas
e FForeign-born citizens must take out
second papers In five years or forfeit the
| right to vote.
No Beer Inspector.
, Senator Howell today reported from the
: committee on municipal affairs the bill for
a state beer inspector to have IL postponed.
! He said that at this late day there was no
time to give the measure adequate consider
alton and while he regretted TO do il he
. was perforce compelled TO turn down a
good proposition by way OF remedial legis-
! lation. The senate concurred.
e RHnsom's Trick Fails.
@ The democrats were forced by Senator
p Brown, a republican, TO pull Governor
d shalenbergers bill to prohibit watering
corporation stock from the pocket of Sen
d ator Ransom today and place il where il
s was later ordered to third reading on
4 | motion OF Senator Diers OF York
s The bill had been considered by the
n judiciary committee In connection with the
e bill OF Taylor OF Custer granting municipal
suffrage TO women owning property and