Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-17
SENATE STEPS ON
CLUB LICENCES
Feasure of Senator Marshall Fails
to Secure Endorsement in
the Upper House.
LAHNERs AND FISHING PARTY
tFrom a Staff Correspondent

tfrom a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Feb. 1s-Cspeciai.) -senstor
Lahners OF Thayer county has been given
authority to give fish dinners with Dutch
lunch trimmings just as often as he wants
20 and invite In his friends to sup with
him and make merry. senate file No. 1872,
by Marshall OF Lancaster, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The Marshall bill would prohibit clubs,
etc, from serving beer. whisky, cham
payne and other mild drinks without first
having secured a license in the manner
provided by law for saloon licenses. The
senate took up the bill this morning. and,
after much discussion on and off the sub
iect in which Senator Lahners said 1t
was the right Of every American citizen
TO invite in his friends and have some fun
and beer and things without being com
PEELED to take out a license, the senate
rudeIy stepped on the bill this way:
Ayes-Beal. Douthett, Hoagland, Kie--
chel, Mallery, Marshall Quinby ana
Shumway-S
Nays-Bedford. Brookley, BuhrInan.
Bushee. England. Gates, Grace. Henry,
Kohl, Krumbach. Lahners, Mates, P1ller,
Robertson, Ruden, Sandal, saunders,
Spencer, Spirk, Weesner, Wilson OF Dodge
and Wink-22
Not Real Test.
The vote cannot be taken as test OF
the relative standing OF the drys and vets
in the upper house, however, as many
voted against the bill who were opposed
20 allowing clubs TO have liquor under any
conditions.
Lahners won lasting fame for certain
fishing party by citing It as an instance
Of personal liberty that the proposed
legislation would remove. At this par
tlcular fishing party. held down in Thaysr
county one Sunday afternoon after
hard weeks work In the fields, the sena-
tor was host and had furnished a key OF
beer. The senator admitted this.
Moreover, he said that they had an
"adful' good time and that II was per-
fectly innocent. He even exhibited pic
ture Of the party. the same being passed
around among the senators.
The picture showed a good catch OF fish,
but there was no beer in sight. The beer,
explained the senator. was inside. The
explanation from the satisfied faces of
the happy fishermen was hardly neces-
sary.
For Personal Liberty.
After describing the fishing party. SEN
ator Lahners wound up with q personal
liberty plea, asking the senate not to
abolish fishing parties of the future, to
which every member OF the senate had q
cordiel invitation.
Senator Marshall. author OF the bill, ex-
planned TO the senator from Thayer that
unless he considered himself a social or
ganization. any party that he might wish
TO give would not be affected. However.
the day was lost.
The Lancaster county member said that
there was not q single small town in
Lancaster county that did not have its
club and that these clubs were many
times worse than the open saloon. Ray
mond, Malcolm and sprague were among
the towns he mentioned.
Beal OF Custer said that he was q men,
Der OF a number OF clubs and that they
| had managed successfully to eonfine their
conviviality to grape Juice parties.
Sandal of York said that he would be
more In favor OF licensing saloon that
he would OF licensing club. Gates OF
sarpy. author OF the bill for the repeal
Of the Fort Crook saloon limit said that
he was bitterly opposed to the sale OF
liquor by clubs. inAsmuch as the same
could not be regulated.
Although he apparently spoke for the
bill, he voted against II.