Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-12
House Votes to Receive it and Then
Expunges it from Record.
BACK TO SENATE COMMITTEE
King Has a Bill to Regulate Rates on
Crude Oil.
NO CASH FOR HOG CHOLERA CURE
Bates of Cass Discovers n Job Held
by n Republican and Proceeds
TO Leaislate Him ut
of once.
(From a STAR Correspondents

| LINCOLN, Feb. 1l.-(Speciel) )-Following
the democratic caucus last night the ma
jority party started in both the house and
senate to play politics this morning. Sheee
in the house, and Fuller in the senate each
| introduced what purported TO be a report
o fthe committee on soldiers homes on the
the condition of the two homes. but which
was simply TRADE against the manage
ment of the institutions. The attempt was
so rank that in the house after the report
was received, the action was reconsidered
and the entire matter expunged from the
| records. In the senate the report was re-
| ferred back to the committee.
| Scheele secured the signatures OF Bates,
| Raper, Sink and Bystone to the report,
| each, afterwards explaining that they en-
dorsed only that part OF the report which
recommended the purchase or setting aside
of some land for cemetery at the
| Grand Island home.
When the report was read in the house,
Nettleton of Clay insisted that It was no
| the report OF the committee and that Raper
OF Pawnee had been instructed by the COM
| mittee to draft the report. Scheele insisted
| that he and Fuller were the only member
| of the committee capable of making the
| report because they were tho only mem
bers who really went through the two in
| stitutions The house then voted TO receive
the statement as the report of the COM
| mittee.
Baes then asked that his name be stricken
| from the statement because he had signed
it under msapprehension. He was fol-
lowed by Sink and Blystone and Raper. The
action of the house was reconsdered and
| then, upon motion of Taylor of Custer
the entire matter was expunged from the
| records.
Warm Time in senate.
| Tho presentation OF the report in the
senate created scenes similar to those in
the house and after brief fight the re-
port was committed to the committee on
soldiers homes amid the indignation of
many members of the majority, though
greatly to the discontinue of the Douglas
/ county senators, who, were hoping TO make
some political capital out OF the proceed
| ings.
Senator Fuller of Saline county presented
the report. which was a copy of the one
presented in the house. He said the re-
mainder OF the committee ON soldiers
| homes did not know the facts in the case
and that he had made personal inspec-
tion o fthe premises and thought the re-
port should be adopted.
The presentation Of the report which was
handed to Senator Majors of Nenaha.
chairman Of the committee on soldiers
homes, five minutes before the senate con-
vened, aroused the fighting blood in the
colonel from Peru and he said in strained
tones, following Senator Fuller, that moth
ing had developed in the administration
o fthe two soldiers homes TO warrant the
report the senators had made. There was
nothing to warrant the charge OF misman-
| agement. AS chairman of the committee he
had always stood ready to meet the men,
bers, but there had come to him no word
or intimation tthey desired a meeting and
! the report itself was asurprise TO him.
| He said he had asked the house committee
to meet with the senate committee and dis
| cuss recommendations regarding the two
homes and now as a surprise came this re-
prot from some of the members II was
unfair, without information for the senate
| to adopt It. There were things in IL that
should call for hearing OF the persons re-
| ferred to, but none such had been re-
quested. eli asked the persons accused be
given chance to appear before the COM
mittee.
Goes Back 10 Committee.
Fuller in reply declared 1t was no bust
ness of his il the other members OF the
committee did not do their duty. He and
one member OF the house committee, he
said, had been the only ones to make a
|
members OF the house committee and four
| of the five on the senate committee had
| signed.
| Senator Gammil declared he had signed
the report without understanding its por-
port and too hastily and asked that his
name be withdrawn.
Senator Cain Of Richardson moved that
it be recommitted TO the committee on
soldiers homes.
| Senator King said there was nothing but
mere rumor in the findings. There was no
declaration of facts. He could see nothing
to the whole affair but the circulation Of
| gossip.
Senator Fuller endeavored to secure
recognition from the lieutenant governor
for motion TO have the senate merely
receive the report and not adopt IT at that
| time, but the chair held the motion of
Senator Cain had precedence and with
Hofell and Ransom both objecting every
inch of the way this motion was put and
carried.
THAT is my ruling" said the lieutenant
governor on the disputed point.
Some men when they see they are wrong
will back up declared Howell.
'T am not backing up said the pre-
siding officer firmly
"The motion Of the senator from Seward
was entirely in accord with the rules" de-
| clared Senator Ransom.
| 'T will enforce the rules TO the best OF
my ability" declared the chair. and the
incident was ended.
Text of Report.
Following is the report submitted;
We visited the homes on the 18th and
| 18th instances. At the Milford home we
\ found considerable discomfort among the
| inmates; a good deal OF fault was found
| against the cook. He was accused Of in
| sulting. threatening and pushing the sol
diers about and carrying away from the
home quantities OF provisions One woman
/ in the home complained that she nor other
\ women OF the home were not allowed to
visit the hospital and wait on the sick
/ One soldier complained that he was dis
i charged from the home for no other reason
or charge than writing a letter during the