Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
DISCOVERY CAUSES SENSATION
Sent Back to Upper House to Be
Corrected.
SAYS NO TRICKERY
Explanation Made to Show Error
Made by Copyist,
PRINCE CONTROL BILL FAVORED
House Advances Number Of Measures
on same subject and Members
Pick Hall County Man's
Measure 60 Pass.



CFrom a staff CorrespondentO
LINCOLN March i7.-(Special Telegran)
Evidence OF a mistake or fraud In the
engrossing OF the Oils stock yards bill
its final consideration by thu
house this morning, and while It was sent
back to the senate for correction the house
postponed the special order TO the after
noon. The bill had been sent to the house
with the enacting clause left out. and II
il had been passed would have been en-
tirely Ineffective. Taylor Of Hitchcock,
author OF the Taylor-Dolezal bill. which II
favored by the stock yards people in pref
ereBce to the Oils bill, called attention to
the mistake.
The discovery OF the defect created an
immediate sensation In the house. There
have been Instances in the past OF treach-
cry in the employees of the engrosslng
rooms whose work II is to make a perfect
long hand copy OF each bill that is sub
mitted for third reading. The longhand
copy is the official bill which is passed
and signed by the governor and a mistake
in il Is the most serious possible one in
the case of the Oils bill Oils himself and
Senator Talcott chairman of the engross-
ing committee of the senate, compared the
bill as engTossed very carefully with the
original bin and were sure that It was
perfect. The mistake may have escaped
them. II fraud was practiced the first
page was probably changed afterward
senate Recalls Bill.
The senate voted unanimously 70 recall
the bill and the house sent II back Senator
Tanner of South Omaha moved to adjourn
Immediately after the senate had gone
through the formality Of ordering the bill
engrossed again, but Talcott insisted that
as matter of personal privilege he be
allowed TO get the bill corrected and sub
mitted for an immediate third reading.
Tanner withdrew his motion and the bill
was passed as corrected by vote OF "a to
5. The five votes against it were cast by
Bartos Of Saline, Horton, Reagan and Tan
ner Of Douglas. and Jensen Of Gage.
Initiative mn Passed.
The report of the conference committee
on senate file 1 the initiative and refer
endum was adopted by both houses this
morning. The senate vote was y to none,
with five absent The house argued the
matter at greater length and some oppo-
sition developed. The vote stood 62 TO IL
at the final roll call
The opposition TO the bill was expressed
by Mockett and the defense was made by
Prince. Many members explained their al
firmative votes by saying that the senate
file as amended was the best that could
be got during the session and for that
reason should be accepted
would Move All Medical schools.
The university removal committee re-
ported to the house this morning that Il
was in favor of moving the whole medical
department of the University of Nebraska
to Omaha II the legislature would appro-
pirate the S90OOO for maintenance and the
100000 for new buildings which are now
up for consideration The report was
adopted.
! The woman suffrage bill by Candy OF
Custer was reported out Of the committee
to the house this morning with the rec
ommendauon that It be passed.
Convinced Not Fraud.
That the omission of the enacting clause
was a mistake and not willfuL fraud 10
substantially proved by examination Of
the engrossed bill itself and the statements
of the clerk in charge OF the bill room
Henry f. Ryan. The engrossed bill has not
| been tampered with since It lett the
engrossing room and must have lacked the
enacting clause when Oils. TalcotE Sec
retary Smith and others examined It and
J the whole senate must have heard Sec
retary Smith read II without the enacting
clause and never noticed the omission. The
cover Of the bill is the original one and
the rlvets which fssten the sheets of the
bill TO it have not been changed so the
top sheet could not have been removed and
another one substituted for It.
Mr. Ryan says: The bill when It came
up for final engrossng had been amended
in the committee OF the whole. 1 gave
the copy TO Mrs. Click. the clerk who
| Ia. ,rA
the committee OF the whole amendments
made an entirely new bill out OF II 1 told
her to copy Just the committee amendments
from a mimeographed copy OF the Journal
They made up the body OF the bill. She
copied the three from the original bin and
then copied the body OF the bin from the
amendment sheet In the Journal there
was not an enHcting clause and CON
sequently she got no enactng clause into
the bill"
Secretary smith and Senator Talcott
chairman Of the engrossing committee, are
lboth convinced that the matter was a mis-
take and not fraud
i NonpartisHn hoard at Control.
Taking up the report OF the Sitting com
mittee the house this afternoon put on
third reading the Prince bill for a non
partisan board of control fot all state in
stituuons OF a penal and reformatory ma
p ture. -Four such bills were presented 20
the legislature. il. h, q, the Prince bill,
which Will be passed, provides for an cleo
tive board OF three. H. X. l2S, by Norton
OF Polk provided for a board TO be chosen
as the legislature might later direct n.
r. lS2, by Matrau, was q Joint resolution
for a constitutional amendment. The office
OF the land commissioner was TO be abol-
ished and a board OF three was TO be es-
tabshed, subject to the appolntive power
OF the governor h. X. 81, the fourth bin
by Mockett, was also for an appointive
1 board.
Prince defended his own bill, declaring
that the people themselves should choose
the members rather than the governor.
Evans OF Adams maintained that the peo.
pie had not the opportunity Of deciding the
qualifications OF aspirants Tor the board
ln a noupartisau manner A. well as ths