The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-26
$4,000 FOR WOLF BOUNTY.
Nebraskan introduces Bill to Pay Up
Long Standing Claim.

Long Standing Claim.
Lincoln. Feb. 25.--Bygland intro
duced a bin appropriating 100000 20
be used in paying claims for bounty
for shooting wolves and other animals
which claims have been pending a
long time.
The house committee reported forty
three bills, Of which twelve got the
axe by way of indefinite postponement.
Among those favorably reported is
the bill which makes the governor
head of the state printing board
Among the bills postponed is the one
requiring county judges qualifications
of at least years practice at law
and the bill making the maximum
telephone long distance charge 25c for
less than 100 miles and permitting five
minutes talk. Leidigh's new charter
bill for cities of population from 5000
to $4,000 was passed, as was also
Kuhls amendment to the primary cleo
ton law calling for the drafting of a
platform before the nominations are
made and for county conventions the
last Tuesday in July.
w. j. Taylor of Custer county had
the house take from the standing com
mittee on live stock and grazing two
bills fixing charges to be made at the
stock yards. Then he had the house
resolve itself into the committee OF
the whole and recon- mend one bill for
engrossment and passage and the 9th.
er back to the committee The bill
recommended for passage cuts yard
age rates about 20 per cent below the
present charges and limits the charge
for hay and grain to 80 cents above
the market for the previous day.
State Dispensary Bill.
To replace the present saloon license
system in Nebraska with a state dis
pensary, having local branches
throughout the state, and to prohibit
the sale of liquor as private bust
ness is the object of bill introduced
in the house. The bill creates a board
consisting of the governor, attorney
| general and secretary of state, which
shall supervise the state dramsnops,
| fix prices and exercise Jurisdiction
| over the business
After a stack of petitions two feet
high, containing $4,000 names, $4,000
of which are voters names, had been
introduced, Senator Hatfield, by re-
quest, introduced a bill calling for the
submission to the people of the propo-
sition of a constitutional amendment
to prohibit the sale or manufacture of
| liquor in Nebraska.
Senator Randall's bill prohibiting
drinking on trains, passed by vote
OF q to 2, Senators Howell and Klein
voting against it,
Senator Miller introduced a bill to
prohibit boys under eighteen years of
ago "s,"- tobacco IN nnv form.
! Sepator Ransom's Sunday baseball
bill came up for third reading in the
senate and, lacking two votes Of
enough for passage, with Senators
Donohoe of Holt and Henry of Colfax
absent, it was recommitted to the
committee of the whole for specific
amendment to make OF apply only to
Douglas county.
Senator Brown of Lancaster intro.
duced bill to prohibit the issuance
OF watered stock, making the issuance
of stock dependent upon the order
of the railway commission and only
upon actual value.
Humphrey of Lancaster introduced
bill providing for commission to
govern the public institutions of the
state and putting the officers and EN-.
ployeeS of the institutions on a civil
service basis.
House roll 58, by Taylor of York,
was before the senate. 1t provides for
separate tax on the equity on land
and the mortgage, and makes both
part OF the tax on the land. 1t is
claimed investors in mortgages have
been holding up their loans pending
action on the BILL and 1t was asserted
that action should be had on it at
once, since March / was the usual
date for closing land deals. Much op-
position to the measure was shown
and 1t was finally postponed Indeh-
nitely.
Action which practically results in
killing the bill providing for the
changing of mutual accident insurance
companies into stock companies was
also taken. The bill was postponed,
while another measure was introduced
along the same line, providing that
such action may be taken when ma.
jority of the policyholders agree to it,
but the voting of proxies is not per.
mitted, thus making such a change al
most impossible.