Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-30
Nebraska
STILL TALK WOLF BOUNTES
Broome's Measure Aimed at the
Pests of the Western Plain
Given Lease of Life.
RAILROAD BILL SUSPECTED"
tFrom a staff corrcsponaentO

(From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Jan. p. % Especially -- The
committee on live stock and grains.
which appears TO have fallen heir to all
the matters which were formerly turned
over to the mineral committee. now abol-
ished, has had turned over to II Broomes
bin providing for the. payment Of wolf
bounues by counties. The house yester-
day indefinitely postponed, the bill but
Broome made an eloquent plea foi an
other chance and the house gave permits
sion for the bill to come back for further
consideration.
with Richmond of Douglas in the chair
the committee of the whole took up and
reported for passage II. r. ia. which
provides for building bridges. An amend
meut which brought out sreat deal, OF
discussion at former session. making
fiGteen-ton bridges the minimum weight
instead of twenty-ton structurs, was again
the bone of contention. The committee
having the bill in charge fixed It up by
providing that all wooden bridges should
be OF fifteen-ton capacity and all others
twenty tons and that in repairing wooden
bridges three-inch plank should be used.
watchdOEs Active.
Some OF the watchdogs in the house
thought they scented a hot trail this
morning. when Miners bill came up, Civ
ing the Northwestern Railway company
the right TO acquire = forty-acre tract
OF school land near Long Pine, which
Il had under lease, which was about
TO expire and upon which It had con-
siderable, improvements in the way Of
buildings and trackage. Osterman
thought it was scheme TO give the
railroad company chance to get lot
of land along its ight-of-way. Miner
was out at the time the discussion came
up and so Nichols OF Madison explained
the features of the BILL During the dis
cussion. Miner came in and asked that
the bill go back to the railroad COM
mittee and permission was given.
Close Season on Quail.
Considerable time was spent II. r.
S. providing that no quail could
be killed in the state for five years
and give all the year round protection
to plover, doves, swan, white crane
Chinese pheasants and other game birds
brought into the state for propagation
purposes. Chambers of Douglas at
teIupteu 10 yet the DHl pooe-
poned, but was unsuccessful and the bill
was sent to third reading. Moseley OF
Lancaster tried to amend the bill, which
calls for a fine of S25 for killing out Of
season and put It backsto the old amount
of So, but was unsuccessful. The extra
money will so to pay for extra game
wardens to enforce the law.
County High Schools.
House roll No. 8. the Hoffmeister bill
recurring county boards TO establish
county high schools, was recommends
| for passage in spite of its being vigor-
ously attacked by Mr.. TrlImble and
others. 1t was explained by the bilPs
! friends that 1t carries no penalty and so
IL the board should fail to carry out the
law in a county where no such school is
desired there will be no harm. done.
Another bill approved BY the committee
of the whole was house roll No. 1Oi, by
Gormisy; providing that where county aid
Is given tc fairs the money so appro-
priated shall be used first to pay pre-
Iniums.
Speaker Jackson announced that he was
signing house rolls Nos. go and 81, the
legislative appropriation bills for salaries
and expenses. These are the first bills
to 90 to the governor.