Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-03
Member Who Voted No Recorded in
Its Favor to Make the Number.
HOUSE REFUSES TO CORRECT VOTE
Passage Of Bill as Punishment TO
Omaha Senator'S for Their Action.
WILD TINE IN CLOSING HOURS
while waiting for EnErossinE Come
mittee to Report Members In
duIEe In All Kinds of
Horse Play,
(From a staff Correspondent

(From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, April 2--(Special)-The clos
ing hours Of the senate were calm and
peaceful. that body indulging in no un-
dignifod antics while waiting for the en-
crossing clerks to complete their work so
adjournment could be taken. Not so with
the house. Speaker Pood was presented
with a gold watch by the members and
employees and after this wass off hands the
lively times commenced. Everything that
was loose was thrown around, desks
broken and altogether II was the widest
orgie ever seen the chamber.
At o'clock it seen the engrossing
clerks could not complete their labors this
evening and a recess was taken until
o'clock tomorrow morning.
After frequent calls of the house and
after the sergeant-at-arms had been
dered to go to Havelock and look up East
man and to Omaha to look up Killcn, and
Groves of Lancaster had beer escorted to
the hall by his physician. the house passed
the bill by Senator Wntse, amended, to
close all saloons in the state at o'clock
in the evening and to open at a. m.
The bill was at once taken to the senate
and the amendments concurred in there
The action of the legislature in passing
this temperance measure at the last minute
OF the last day of the session after killing
a o'clock closing BILL is credited to the
Omaha senators. The action of the sena-
tors in standing out for the interest OF
the stock yards angered many members
Of the house. who took the opportunity to
get even Governor Shallenberger also
came in for his share of credit because he
vetoed the Fort Crook bill and thus lost
one vote against the s o'clock closing
measure.
When the bill was discussed In the house
yesterday It was amended to leave Omaha
out entirely, but after the report of the
conference committee the physical valu-
alton bill and It's adoption by the house.
Omaha was at once put back in the Witse
bill in retaliation.
Bill Really Failed
! The bill received just fifty votes in
the house and later IT was discovered that
Fogarty had been recorded in the affirm3>
tive. when he voted in the negative. When
Fogarty's attention had been called TO the
mistake, he informed the house that he
had voted in the negative and desired to be
so recorded. Humphrey Of Lancaster and
Taylor OF York objected to correcting errors
in a roll call, because to change the Fogarty
vote would be to lose the bill. SO when
the motion was put to make the correction
! II was lost.
Bushee Of KimbalI voted no on the bill
when the roll was first called, but when
| he discovered Il lacked only one vote
and to save time he changed to yes. In
explanation 70 his first vote Bushee said
| he believed the bill was meant to deceive
the temperance people OF the state on the
attitude of the democratic party on the
| temperance question.
| Killen and Eastman were the only mem
| haru oHC ptgit anA
! told the house that Eastman had gone TO
Havelock and that Killen had gone to
Omaha last night, expecting TO be back
| this morning. Taylor of Custer insisted
that the sergeant-at-arms bring the men
! in. even If he had to look for them in
| Havelock and Omaha. While the ser
geant-at-srms was fixing to put on his
trotting harness to head for Havelock
Eastman came in and voted yes.
Then the lobby became so full of in
terested persons trying to Influence the
members way or the other that the
speaker ordered it cleared and the doors
locked
Groves then came in white as a sheet,
having been taken i'll at the morning
! session. He was accompanied by his ply
sician. He was led to his seat and then
while he stood, pale and trembling, the
bill was read to him and he voted yes
This was the signal for tumultous ap-
plause from the gallery and floor Groves
| was then excused for the session.
| The bill originally provided that saloons
| which sold liquor on Sunday should lose
their license and the house judiciary COM
mittee amended It TO close the saloons at
s o'clock.
Vote on the BnI.
Following was the vote on the bill in the
house
|
J Barrett, Begole, Black, Bystone Boelts
Bolts. Bowman, Boyd, Brodrick, rown OF
Bygand Case. Eastman, Evans, Fogarty'
| Fries Gates, Greig, Griffin Groves Hai'-
rTington, Henry, Humphrey johnson Of Burt.
IO'Connell, Raper Roberts saberson.
sehoettger. smith, Snyder, Swan, Taylor
OF York, Taylor Of Hitchcock. Taylor OF
Custer, Thiessen. Weems, Wilson. Worth
| Nays-Bates Boland Butt Chab Clark,
Connolly Dolezal. Dostal Ellis. Gerdes
Graft, Grueher, Hector, Heffernan, Holmes
Hospodsky, Howard, Johnson Of Adams.
Lux, Murphy, McYicker, Pickens, Phger,
Ritchie, scheele, Shoemaker, Sink, Skeen
Speaker-3S.
Thomas of Douglas sent up a written
protest against recording Fogarty in the
affirmative. Kuhl moved 20 make this a
part of the records of the house but ON
motion OF Wilson the Kuhl motion was
tabled. Then on motion Of Wilson all ref
erence TO the Thomas protest was eE-
plunged from the records.
Senator Wiltse brought up IN the senate
the matter OF concurrence In the house
amendments TO S. F. 2s9 during the after
noon and II was pushed TO vote with
scarcely a word OF debate The vote first
came on motion OF Senator Ransom not
TO concur in the house amendments. which
resulted as follows:
fes-Bartos, Besse, Bodnson, Buck, Buhr.
man. Diers, Fuller. Howell Klein, Layerty
| Ransom, Tanner, Tibbets, Volpp-il
| No-Bannng. Brown. Cain, Cox, Donohoe
0ammill Hatfield Henry, King, Majors
Miller, Myers. Oils, Randall. Raymond,
| Thompson, Warren, Wiltse-18
y ketchlim Of ThaYar Was absent In ths