The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-12
ALBEIT To HELP
DRAFT BANK BILL.
Columbus Attorney Will Furnish
Legal Advice on Measure.
FOR TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS.

Bill to Compel Competing Lines to
Make Them is introduced by Leid.
igh-Senator Ransom's Supreme
Court Bill Is Passed.
Lincoln, Feb, 5.-The house today
took up the proposition of a bank
guaranty law by deciding to employ an
attorney whose salary is limited to
$500, to draft an act with which the
legislators expect to carry out the
Bryan campaign pledge for bank
guaranty law in this state. Judge AL.
bert of Columbus has been selected
for the place, and with the assistance
of p l.. Hall of this city, banker
will undertake the work at once
Judge Albert is in the city and today
had conferences with the banking
committees of the two houses.
The decision to employ an attorney
was made by motion of Representative
Kuhl Of Cedar county. Considerable
talk has been heard, especially by
partisans, who declare that the work
of drafting such a measure should
have been delegated to the attorney
general
Representative Kuhl explained that
there were so many legal compiled.
tons in such a bill that he consid.
cred it wise to have the assistance oil
a strong attorney.
The bill prohibiting the sale of liq'
uors on trains was placed on the gen.
eral file, where it probably will re.
main The bill requiring country sa.
loonkeepers to pay license of $4,000,
as against the present rate of $500,
was also killed today
For Telephone Connections.
A bill was introduced in the hoase
by Leidigh of Otoe providing for com,
polling physical connections of com.
peting telephone systems.
Senator Ransom introduced a bill
for a comm ssiOn of three appointed
by the governor to revise and codify
the laws OF the state.
Senator Howell put in bill permit.
ting the sale of liquor containing less
than per cent of alcohol on Sunday
of a city, where the investment IN the
park amounts to 100000.
The senate and house decided tc
join with the Grand Army of the Re.
public in the observance of Lincoln
! day here Feb. IL. The senate passed
the Tanner bill, making the city treas
urer of South Omaha eX-ofcio county
% pT NJ.
! county taxes, and also passed the Joint
resolution by Howell memorializing
congress to permit the issuance OF
$50O,O00,0OO for waterways.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
was introduced in the house. 1t pro.
vides that those at present under sen.
tence of death, or who may be sen.
fenced before the new law becomes eff.
fective, cannot avail themselves of the
law.
The senate passed the anti-discrimi.
nation bill, providing that certain com.
modities shall not command higher
price in one town than in another,
freight rates being considered.
Convicts for Road Making.
Boells of Merrick has a bill provid.
Ing for the employment of convicts on
the roads, the county commissioners
of any county being allowed to make
requisition on the warden for any mum.
Der up to twenty-five. Life convicts
cannot be used in such employment
The Gates bill permitting saloons to
be opened again at Fort Crook was
passed by vote of 80 to 81.
Senator Ransom's bill, removing
from the supreme court the power of
suspension of a death sentence when
a writ of error has been filed. was
passed by the vote of 25 to g.
A joint resolution for the initiative
and reieredum was introduced into the
senate. This provides that a petition
signed by 10 per cent of the voters is
sufficient for the initiation of a vote
for law, and per cent for referring
one back to the people
The house worked itself into fer.
ment over the bill providing for the
taxation or real estate mortgages and
for deduction of the amount of such
mortgages from the assessed value of
real estate. In committee of the whole
approval was given the bill by a sub.
stantial majority.
Mayor Mccabe Convicted.
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