Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-11

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formerly mentioned happened to occur in
the most important county in the state he
could not help Il. The hill was then recon-
mended for postponement. which was later
rescinded though with a majority not suf-
ficient TO carry a constitutional amendment.
Following r. the roll call on the motion
TO non-concur in the committee report in
definitely p~ostponing the Miller Joint reso-
luton. r.. r. es. for the new theory Of
taxation:
Yeas-Banning, Bartos. Bodinson, Brown,
Buhrman. CAIN, Diers. Cox, Donohoe. Full
Ter. Henry, Ketchum. King, Miller, Oils,
Raymond, Tanner. Tfbbets. Vulpp-lo.
~Nays-Besse. Buck, Gammill, Hatfield,
Howell, Klein. Laverty. Majors, Myers.
Randall, Ransom, - Thompson, Warren,
Wiltse-1A.
Being n constitutional amendment and
requiring a three-fifths vote, or twenty,
on final passage, and many Of the affirm
alive votes being undoubtedly compliment
airy in character, the proposition hos little
CHARGE Of final passage in the senate.
Ransom Loses In House.
Once again has Taylor of Custer county
secured the scalp of the boss OF the SEN
ate and II now bangles from his belt even
though his victory may be temporary. He
secured In the house this afternoon an
amendment TO the Oils physical valuation
bill providing that stock yards and street
railways should come under the operations
Of the bill. These items had been cut out
Of the original measure by the senate.
"The senate amendments said Taylor,
simply exempt one small railroad from the
operations Of this law. I see no reason why
one road should be exempted and other
railroads included. All should be treated
alike The platform provides a pledge for
the physical valuation OF railroads. The
democratic party has promised this meas
ure to the people and simply because a
prominent member of the party happens to
be the attorney for this railroad Is no rea-
son why we should exempt that road
The Taylor amendment was carried al
most unanimously.
Noyes of Cass offered an amendment
TO the section which provides that the rail-
way commission shall make appointments
with the consent of the governor. He asked
that the governor be cut out OF the section.
Nettleton favored the amendment and made
a speech. and then Gerdes and Richardson
saved any further talk on the measure for
the present by securing favorable action
on a motion for the committee to report
progress on the bill.
XIII Normal school Bill.
The bill of Henry Of Holt providing for
an appropriation of s125,oO for the estab-
lishment of two normal schools. one of
which was to be located in the Sixth con
gressional district. was killed with little
ceremony. Henry secured a roll call not to
concur in the report of the committee Of
the whole. which showed fifty-five votes
against him.
The house in the committee of the whole
recommended II r 442. a road bill. for
passage. The bill was prepared by the COM
mittee on roads and bridges.
Governor Helps Labor Bureau.
Governor Shallenberger is going to the
front shortly for the state labor bureau.
He notified a committee which called upon
him this afternoon that he would by a
special message or some other way inform
the legislature that he desired and be-
lieved the labor bureau should have 1900
or 5000 increase in it's appropriation for
current expenses. A bunch from the Omaha
Ad club. consisting of r.. e, Sunderland,
T. W.. Harwood and E. A. Higgins, called
on the governor this afternoon and later
the governor consulted with Miss Cora
Schlesinger, clerk in the labor bureau.
Then he announced he would help the de-
partment.
Speaker Goes for Lobbyists.
While the house was in the committee
of the whole this. afternoon a number of
persons interested in legislation came upon
the floor of the house and lobbied the mem
bers. Speaker Pool, who was in his seat
on the floor, at once went TO the speakers
chair, dissolved the committee and ordered
the men out. He personally escorted one
person out OF the room.