Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-09
END NOT BEFORE MONDAY
Last Long Day Piles Up Work for
Clerks in Legislature.
MATRAU BILL MAY GET THROUGH
Prince NonpnrtIsan Measure Killed
ana Other Providing for AppOInt-
i've Body Has Been substt-
tuted by Members.
1From a staff Correspondent


LINCOLN, Neb., April ESPECIAL Amy
chance for final adjournment of the legls-
lature was lost for Saturday night when
II was announced that the clerical work
in the enrolling rooms was so far behind
that It would not be reported before Sun
day morning and possibly not then. The
long and detailed maintenance and sala-
ried bills were not only the occasion OF
tiresome fussing between the conference
committee, but we're also a long time in
1.-THE enrolling roOns. After bills are
amended they must be copied I'm long hand
before they are ready TO be signed.
The legislature cannot adjourn until all
bills are thus engrossed and signed by the
presiding officer Of the last house to act
upon them The house passed all of the
bills up before it In the middle OF the
afternoon The senate has still some bills
for consideration. After all bills are passed
and amendments agreed to, the house must
still remain in session until they are en-
crossed and signed.
The outlook tonight makes It reasonably
certain final adjournment win not come
until Monday though all but a handful OF
members will leave before that night.
/ official FRreweIls.
Saturday morning was the occasion for
I
citation In the senate Lientepsnt Cover
nor Hopewell was presented with pair
/ OF diamond studded cuff links and Ser
/ geant-atArms Costello received gold
/ headed cane.
In both houses confusion grows as the
last hour approaches The younger mem
| bers of the house in the brief moments
of recess that become frequently neces-
sary wander about the halls intoning IN
mournful accents, how dry they are, -
etc. The senator's, being more staid and
a trifle bored, are busy watching their
pages pack up their books and papers,
preparatory to treklSing back to their de-
lighted constituency.
May Pass MatrOn Bill.
After the morning slaughter Of board of
control bills, the senate had reactionary
fit of conscience and reconsidered the post
poned Prince bill, changed 1t to agree with
the Matrau bill and then passed 1t. The
house also had its reaction against It's neg
lect OF the platform pledges, shared by
both parties, and Norton of Puk tried to
get fifty-one votes to resurrect the Seleck
board OF control bill He could only get
forty-seven, however and had TO give up
The Prince bill came to the senate as
the sole survivor OF the half dozen bills
for a non-partisan board to CONTROL al
state Institutions excepting educationa
ones. The board was to be elective by It's
provisions and the senate being opposed tC
the elective method of choice as no
really non-partissn, defeated II. The dead
Matrau bin, however, provided for an ap
pointive board and the senate put the
Matrau bill under the enacting clause OF
the Prince bill and passed It by a bar,
twenty votes. II win now be up to tn,
house to concur in the amendment. II tn,
house fails the party pledge viii be en-
tirely unfulfllled.
Hearing on Medical Bill.
Governor Aldrich will not give his de
cislon upon the appropriation OF 500 90
for the medical department of the state tC
be spent IN Omaha until he has given both
sides a hearing.
Monday afternoon at 4 O'Clock he vii
hear the doctors and others interested u
a public meeting to be held I'm his office
Two Conferences Fail.
The two houses seem unable to agre,
upon senate file 49, the Volpp bill for
four-year term for senators and a rails,
in salary for all legislators The hous'
does not look kindly upon the idea Of Civ
ing the upper house the privilege of sitting
through two sessions and three different
conference committees have been appointed
in the effort to reach an agreement.
Fight on Telephone Bill.
Assertions that the telephone lobby has
spent large sums OF money and has beer
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