Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-20
MEMBERS DEMAND
PAY FOR EACH DAY
Spent IN LINCOLN
Effort of Fries to Adjourn to
Permit Committee Work
Falls by Wayside in
Lower House.
FOR NEW CONSTITUTION
Representatives Pass Bill to
This End Without Any
Opposition.
QUICK COMES TO SPEAK
FOR NEW CONSTITUTION
QUICK COMES TO SPEAK

Lincoln, Ncp., jan. lS.--(Speclal
Telegram. Just before adjournment
tonight, Representative Soren M.
Fries of Howard county, chairman Of
the claims committee, made an effort
to save the state some money by try
ing to have the legislature adjourn
until Monday.
I'VE have done nothing to speak OF
today and there is nothing to do to-
morrow" said the Howard county
statesman, "and it costs the state
81 900 for salaries alone every day we
are in session. | believe we should
not convene tomorrow but let the
committees get to work and get bills
out so we can work Monday"
The effort OF Mr.. Fries to save the
state money lost, 4o voting against
adjournment until Monday, % for and
% absent
The house has now worked IL days
Of the 20 allowed for introduction OF
bills and EOS have been introduced.
Three have passed, two OF them being
appropriation bills for salaries and
employees.
Herbert NJ. Quick, a member Of the
Federal Farm Loan board, addressed
the house this afternoon after talking
to a crowd at St. Pauls church ear
lier in the day.
For Constitutional Convention.
For the second time the Nebraska
house went on record unanimously
for a constitutional convention, when
il passed the Norton bill on third
reading. In order to get as full an
expression as possible, call Of the
house was ordered. There were 80
votes for the measure, II being ab-
sent The bill, H. r. No. 2, now goes
to the senate. 1t requires a three
fiiths majority in each branch, the
same as constitutional amendment.
! II. R. No. 2, the Hoffmeistcr bill
providing for the forfeiture Of unused
fright OF way held by railroad COM
panics, also passed the house. 1t re-
ceiycd 81 votes to 5 against.
4 Some time was s4spcut On the How
ard bill, H. R. No. 4, providing that
| all municipal work for the cities Of
Lincoln and Omaha should be done
on an eight-hour basis, with so cents
per hour as the minimum wage. This
| bill is intended to apply to contract
work, the same as to city employees.
Mr.. Peterson announced himself in
sympathy with its purpose, but
thought it needed some amending to
make it legal in form. Mr.. Flans-
burg was opposed, taking the ground
that competition should govern in
kthc letting Of municipal contracts.
| On Peterson's motion, the COMMITTEES
of the whole reported progress and
asked leave to sit again.
Farmer members of the Legislature
were able to advance in committee OF
the whole this morning albill which II
it becomes law will make the basis
of school apportionment of pupils ins
stead OF average daily attendance.
Peterson of Lanscaster endeavored to
amend the bill by making the basie
regular attendance
| Grain Car Distribution.
The committee OF the whole took
Up the Liggett-Norton bill, backed BY
farmers elevator and live stock or.
CARNATIONS, providing for distribu-
ton Of grain cars to shippers in time
of shortage, in proportion to their
average yearly shipments. This had
been favorably recommended by the
railroad committee, with slight
amendments.
Mr.. Murtey, himself an elevator
owner, proposed an amendment to
strike out the proyiso allotting cars %
the basis of yearly shipments, which
he said would give the big shipper an
advantage he ought not to have over
smaller competitors. When there is
a shortage, declared Murtey, one
elevator is likely to have as much
grain awaiting shipment as another.
irrespective of how much business
they may do at other times of the
year.
| ,jMr. Jacobson, another elevator man,
] was heartily for the bill asc it stood.
He contended that the elevator owner
who pays the best price to farmers
for their grain gets the most Of it, and
is a benefactor to his community.
This, he thought, made the rule Of
average yearly shipments fair and
proper.
"rhere is no such thing in Ne
braska, or in any market in the United
States, as one dealer paying any less
than his competitor for grain" re-
torted Murtey. IF he does not pay
: the same price, he does not get the
grain"
The bill was laid over without
action on the amendment, to be taken
up again at the next sitting.