The Red Cloud chief., 1915-03-18
The Legislative Grind

About thirty OF the county treasurer,
OF the state were iu Lincoln ON Fyilnv
! having called u meeting to meet with
state treasurer Hall, for the purpost
Of considering the demands Of the
state treasurer that rCmittanccs he
made 10y each of the county treasur1rs
at the end OF every month. 1t is re-.
| ported that matters are in the same
condition rs before the meeting and
that the state treasurer's orders are
still in force.
$1,000 is the bill rendered for print
| ing bills for the present session OF the
| legislature. All Of which reminds us
OF the fact that this item alone exceeds
the total for all other incidental eX.
penses OF the session Both House and
Senate have done away with the print.
ing OF amendments to bills under con.
tract and the same are provided the
members from mimcograph machine
with help already in the employ OF the
state. aifording saving OF many
hundreds Of dollars.
Five proposed constitutional amend.
ments are now on the general file of
the Senate, in addition To the submiss.
ion OF the question Of whether or not
the state shall vote on the question of
n constitutional convention. A motion
was adopted by the Senate this week
that none OF the bills submitting a
constitutional amendment should re.
ceive consideration until the one hav-
ing to do with the proposed convention
was first disposed of. Mr. Krumbach's
committe reported the convention plan
for consideration the middle Of the
week and before many days the vote
will have been taken that will decide
the matter for this session. 1t is
known that u majority OF the Senate
favor the convention idea, but whether
the necessary twothirds can be secured
is II question. 1t does not now appear
that it could be had
The Senate afforded an attraction
for the public Friday which was not on
the calender. When the Omaha dele.
CATION arrived at the parting of the
ways on some legislation up before the
body 1t was then that senator Dodge
arose in his place aud made the open
charge that in the last legislature
Lieutenant Governor McKelyie had
| secretly bargained with the Omaha
Gas Company and had given that
public service corporation all that they
asked for In the legislature, at the ex.
pense of the Omaha tax payers. The
eXleutenant governor has issued d
very forcible denial
The bill appropriating the money
necessary for the maintenance OF the
state government has been thrashed
out on the floor of the House and plac-
ed on third reading. The friends OF
each department tried to raise the
amount allotted to each particular
Office but In the main the bill MS re.
ported out by the committee was put
through with few changes. The Ne.
braslta National Guard were cut prob.
ably the worst OF any having been
limited to s37 800 when they asked for
Sl25,OOO. The Normal schools appro.
priation was increased by SjO,00o over
he amount specified by the committee
1t is estimated that a saving of about
1900, 900 over previous bieuniums has
been effected by the careful apportion.
meut of the stnt IS funds by the ri.
nance commit 4.
What was scheduled to be the Il ght
of the session went otfNith little excite.
neut Senate File No > the south
Omaha annexation bill was mp for con.
sideralion last Thur day, An amend
meut WAS offered which provided fer q
vote Of TIA" people of the .crri ;ory
which was TO hc annexed. Another
amendment leaving the question to all
the voters Of both Omaha and South
Omaha WAS suggested Both amend.
meut> were rejected ana the bin was