Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-03
LEGISLATORS In
A GREAT TANGLE
Parliamentary Mixup Over Bill to
Close Saloons at Seven in
the Evening. v"
MEASURE FINALLY DEFEATED
Ransom Holds Up Sink Bill to Whip
Latter in on Charter.
HALL COUNTY MAN DEFIANT
Last Day for Introducing Bills Has
Passed in Senate.
BILL FOR GRAIN INSPECTION
Oils of valley, who Fathers the
Measure, Says ~ VIII Ne OF As
distance 10 the Omaha
Grain Msrket.
Ransom Holds Up Sink Bill to Whip
Latter in on Charter.
HALL COUNTY MAN DEFIANT
Last Day for Introducing Bills Has
Passed in Senate.
BILL FOR GRAIN INSPECTION
(From a staff CorrespondentN J

| LINCOLN, March 2-(SpeciaL AFTER a
parliamentary tangle such as even this
| house has seen but on one other occasion.
| the bill by johnson of Burt, requiring the
| closing of saloons at z O'Clock, was recon-
mended for indifinite postponement by the
house. the vote against the bill being Is, to
| Al for It.
| In the committee of the whole the bill
was recommended for passage by vote
| of 10 to 49, The vote taken In the house
| was on a motion not to concur in the re-
port OF the committee and to indifintei
postpone the bill.
| A half dozen times there was q call 1
the house and equally often the call vi
| raised. While under the call. Taylor j
Custer moved to adjourn until 0o'clot
tomorrow. on a point of order raised by
| Wilson of Polk the chair ruled the motion
| out OF order. Others made the same mo-
tion and the speaker ruled them out of
der. Then Taylor explained that he made
the motion merely In order that every
member should go on record on the bill
This brought forth a remark from Holmes:
| The gentleman from Custer refused to
| vote the other day bill, and It comes
with poor grace for him INTO try to put
members on record"
| Then Clark of Richardson made the same
remark and the house laughed.
All of this was going on. Of course. while
the roll call was stopped.
Finally Taylor said. Let 'er go! I will
change m yvote from no to aye, so can
move reconsideration of the action in the
morning"
Vote ON PostponinE Bill.
The roll call on the motion not to concur
in the report of the committee of the
whole, but to Indefinitely postpone the bill
resulted as follows:
Yes-Bates, Boland. Bolts. Butt Chab,
Clark, Connolly, Dolezal, Dostal, Fannon.
Fogarty, Fries. Gerdes, Hadsell. Harrng-
ton, Hector. Heffernan, Holmes Hospod-
sky. Howard, Johnson of Adams, Kelley.
kotouc. kraus, Lawrence, Leidigh. LUZ,
Murphy, McVclSer, Pickens, Pilger, Ritchie
Rathsack, Scheele, Shoemaker, Sink. skeen
Stedman, Stoecker, Swan, Talcott, Taylor of
Custer, Thomas, West, Mr. Speaker-4s.
No-Armstrong, Baker, Barclay, Barrett,
Begole, Black, Bystone. Boelts, Bowman,
Brodrick, Brown of Sherman, Brown of
Lancaster, Bushee, Bygland; cooperrlder.
Eastman, Evans, Greig, Griffen, Groves,
enry, Humphrey, Johnson of Burt Killen,
Kuhl, Marlett,,, Miller, Moore. McColl'
Noyes, O'Connell Raines, Raper, Saberson,
Schoettger, Smith. Taylor OF York. Taylor
of Hitchcock, Wilson, Worthing, Young
Al.
The argument offered in opposition TO the
bill was "home rule" Shoemaker, who de-
llvered the principal speech against the
measure. said the democratic party had
|
was the opportunity to make good Under
the present law. he said. every community
has the right to regulate the saloons and
say just when they shall close and open.
There is no occasion, he said, for the state
TO pass a general law on the subject.
IF you believe in home rule" said Harry
of Holt do you favor county optlon7"
County option is not home rule" de-
clared Shoemaker with much heat. 'Tf we
give home rule to the people OF this state
we will leave the laws that every com
munity has the right to regulate these mat
ters they choose"
Taylor Takes shot at Douglas.
Taylor of Custer, told the house he had
heard so much about home rule from
Douglas county that he had seriously con-
sidered introducing bill which would pro-
vide that none of the bills passed should
apply to Douglas county. He then pro-
ceeded to tell the members that no bill
assed but what IT did in some way cur
tail the liberties of some one for the gem
eraI good.
During his speech against the bill, Boets
of Merrick county made some remarks
about higher civilization. recalling the
time Boelts blew out the gas shortly after
his arrival here.
KuhI tried to stop the debate. but his
= motion was ruled out of order and McColl
insisted that It be kept up indefinitely for
the lack of harmony among the democrats.
he said, was music to the ears of the rO-
publicans.
Ransom Threatens Sink.
As a reminder to Senator Ransom or for
other reason when the stock yards bill
came up in the house this afternoon, Butt
and Shoemaker of the Douglas delegation
both voted for it and Stoecker failed to
, vote The bill will now go to the senate
, where it Will remain until something hap
pens to the Omaha charter bill.
Incidentally Sink OF Hall county was in
formed today by two senator's that unless
he voted for elective police commission
in Omaha his bed sheet bill would be hung
up Indefinitely in the senate. Sink sent
word back to hang 'er up and take the
, consequences" but he would not be bluffed
into saddling an elective police board onto
Omaha.
The Tanner charter bill has been held
up by the house committee on cities and
towns for at least week. When the
measure came up before the committee this
afternoon Jerry Howard proposed several
> amendments, and while these were being
discussed Sink of Hall received word that
his sheet bill was being held up in the
| senate until ne got rlBht with the Douglas
:, senators on the elective police commission
. | for Omaha.
!, Sink at once got busy and moved that the
20 next hearing on the South Omaha oharatr
bill be set for Wednesday of next week.
=. The committee agreed 10 this.
= Last Day for Bills.
!. Today was the last day for introduction
n Of bills in the senate. The total number
:. was 4M as against as introduced two years
d ago The total number OF bills In the house
this wear Ia I'll making 4 inlal a nn...-