Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
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PROHIBITION SCORES ONE
Resolution to Submit Amendment
Passes the House.
ACTION OF SENATE UNCERTAIN
Senate Passes Bill for One Board to
Have Supervision of All the
State EducatiOna Insti-
tutiOns.
ACTION OF SENATE UNCERTAIl
(From a staff Correspondence

CFrom a Staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, March 11.-(Special. )-For
the first time during the present session the
public took a personal interest in the pro-
ceedings of the house today when a final
vote was reached on the resolution to re-
submit the prohibitory amendment. The
resolution passed the house by a vote of
s. to 81, with three absent.
The fight was started this morning by
Balluff offering an amendment which was
in effect to pledge the next legislature to
make an appropriation for the purchase of
the breweries and saloons before the
amendment Is finally put to a vote of the
people. This received only twenty-five votes.
An amendment offered by Harding strik-
ing out certain words In the resolution
said to be unnecessary was adopted. Then
an effort was made to close debate, but
this failed and about II o'clock general de-
bate was commenced. The house refused
to adjourn and the opponents Of the reso-
luton started in to consume time and wear
1t out. Speeches in opposition were made by
Miller OF Bremen, Sullivan and others. AL
most the entire discussion was upon minor
matters and but little was said on the
merits of the amendment as a temperance
movement.
There is the usual speculation as to what
the senate will do with the resolution.
There are two committees it may go to.
The committee on suppression of intern
perance is composed OF Senator's Cosson,
Mates, Smith OF Mitchell, Nichols, LARA
bee, Francis. Hoyt. Bennett, Chapman,
Gates, Adams, Taylor and Ream. Not more
than four. of the committee could be GER
tainly counted as for the amendment. It
might be sent by President Clarke to the
committee on constitutional amendments,
consisting of Senators Burgess, Clark, Gill;
land, Maytag. Saunders. Bennett, Gates,
De Arman, Foley, McManus and Ream.
This committee is in about the same condi-
ton as the other one, There has been some
speculation as to whether President Clarke
is for or against the resolution. Speaker
Feeley showed all through that he is
strongly opposed 20 1t and has used his
position to fight The passage of the meas
ure. 1t is certain that Clarke will not do
this, but he will not be found among those
seeking to force it to the front; in fact,
he is sufficient of a politician to see that
it would be just as we'll to permit the reso-
luton to remain quiet until such time as a
suitable sitting committee will take hold OF
the matter,
Vote on PrOhibitOry Amendment.
The following was the vote in the house
on the resolution to resubmit prohibition
in Iowa:
Ayes-Allred, Anderson, Arney, Bauman
Beans, Beebe, Berry, Bae, Bonwell, Bow
man, Burt. Cooper, Cousins, Crummer.
Cunningham, Dabney, Daily. Darrah, Da-
wilson, Dawson, Derrough, Dowell. Dewey
layson, Fox, Fulton. ~Goodykoontz, Grler.
Eackler, Hanson, H~iekenlooper, Holmes,
Huffaker Hunter, Ide, lnman. Jacobs.
Jewell, Johnson. Jones, Kellogg, klay, Lar
rabee, Lee, McCleary, Meredith. Moore OF
Wapello, Penn, Perkins, Reaney, Ripley.
Schee' Sheldon. Smith, Stillman, Stoddard.
Swan. Thompson, Weldon, White, Wilson,
Zeller.
Nays-Bslluff. Bascom, Boettger. Bonn
garden, Byerlys cslkins. Cassidy, Corrie.
Harding, Harvey, Kendall. Kull, McDon-
aid; Marston, Miller Of BreIher, Miller of
Schultz, Sullivan, Swift, TegeIer, Tilton'
Ward. Wolf, Mr.. Speaker.
Absent or not votins-Blackmore, Bran
UhIIties Bills waiting.
There are several bills in the legislature
for the purpose of more effectually con-
trolling public utilities. The most promising
is what is known as the Smith-Lee bill,
which enlarges the power of the Railroad
commission and gives it some control over
all those corporations which are not now
under regulation in some way. This bill,
with the White-Grier bill, has been re-
ferred to a committee Of the house TO be
framed up. The bill in the senate known
as the Van Law bill which merely gives
TO he city councils the right to investigate
has been defeated once, but 1t is again be-
fore the judiciary committee and may yet
be passed. A new utilities bill has been in
troduced by Senator Adams.
One educational Board.
The senate this afternoon passed the
Whipple bill for one board for the state