Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-30
HOUSE BALkS At
HEAVY CENSURE
OF THE SENATOR.
Auten of Been Introduces
Sizzling Resolution Directed
Against Upper House, But
It Goes Over.
fFrom a Staff correspondent.l


Lincoln. March 29-(Special.) y
When Representative Jim Auten OF
Boone county came to Lincoln this
week to help pass needed legislation
called for in the special session he
issued a manifesto to the members
that unless they got busy and trans
acted business he would "gIve 'em
hell" pack his grip and go home to
his farm.
He opened up today on the senate
with a resolution which brought out
cheers from the members OF the
house. When it came time to adopt
the resolution on roll cali some of
the members thought it little severe
and it went over under the rules.
How Censure Reads.
The resolution, which was Just
as severe as Jim could find words to
express, read as follows:
Whereas, In this hour of great
distress, when our country and our
liberties are in greatest peril; when
the producers in this session are badly
needed in their respective callings;
when labor is scarce and time is more
than money. the state senate, through
machination. indifference or utter dis
regard for the country's good or the
states needs, has deliberately and
wantonly taken a three-day adjourn
: ment Tor no apparent reason other
than to delay certain business of this
! special session and do the bidding of
the bosses, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this house that the Nebraska senate,
as now constituted and controlled,
has shown itself to be a menace to
the best interests of the state and ma
ton and has recorded itself as a most
robust and unblushing bunch of slack
ers and obstructionists of the public
business, which the members of that
\ body have taken a solemn oath to
faithfully, conscientiously and duti-
tully perform. "
Resolved, That by its methods and
procedure the Nebraska state senate
IS giving aid and comfort to the brew
ers and booze interests, is a monkey
wrench IN the state machinery and
ought to be abolished and relegated
to the realms of inocuous desuetude. /"
Senator'S Silent.
Members of the senate stood out
IN the lobby and listened attentively
to the reading of the resolution. but
none OF them was observed to ap-
proach the Boone statesman and CON
graduate him on his gem OF
thought"
Representative Jerry Howard was
I on deck with resolution aimed a,
the state board OF educational lands
and funds, and calling for an investipa.
ton OF that board for its former ac-
tion in leasing mineral rights to EN-.
ploycs and relatives Of people in til,
state house. This, too, went over
4 under the rules.
Il Miller of Washington and Segelke
OF Platte, who were absent when the
roll was called on the passage of H
r. 4, the Trumblc bill to repeal the
Mockett law, asked to have their
names inscribed on the records a,
voting in favor of the bill. This wa:
impossible, as it was too late, but
they were given permission to have
their explanations recorded In the
minutes of today.
Favor Home Guard Bill.
Il The house considered in committee
of the whole, with Bates in the chair
the home guard bill, which was lef,
over from yesterday as unfinished
business, and II was sent to third
reading with the recommendation that
ii pass. An amendment to the bill
was added, giving the county boards
authority to use funds from the gen.
erai fund for equipping companies
81 the guard when, in their discretion
il was necessary to raise the money.
An amendment was made which
would require the guard to be dis
banded after peace was declared, but
some of the members were of the
opinion that perhaps the great need
sf the organization might come after
The war was over, and the amendment
was defeated.