Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-06
FLOOD or new
BILLS POURS
IN AT LINCOLN
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not to introduce a bill during the
session.
for the regulation of nearly every
thing except the laws of the uni
verse and run al the way from the
prohibition of card playing in cigar
stores, pool halls and similar places
to the adjustment of capital punish
ment of accomplices in murder and
other felonious crimes.
One bill provides that eggs shall
be sold by weight, another that all
commodities shall be sold by weight
rather than measure. so long as the
latter is not specified in a con-
tract.
Another bill provides for the sale
of pure seed, another the destrue-
ton Of tuburcular sows another regu-
lates the price of funerals in an eff
fort to abolish the high cost Of dy-
ing as we'll as living.
After Booze Runners
One bill makes the governor a
race track commissioner and an
other limits the pardoning power Of
the states chief executive, while still
another turns over all confiscated
bootlegger automobiles to his ex-
cellency, the governor.
Bootleggers are the bright and
shining marks at which prohibitory
guns are aimed. 1t is proposed
they be forbidden by law from
carrying firearms, from giving fic-
titious names when arrested, from
using a boat to smuggle contraband
goods into the state, and state pro-
hibition agents are authorized to
erect barriers across the booze
routes" to keep the illicit purvey-
ors of John Barleycorn from going
lover the top"
1t is said that one member over
looked getting a bill drawn to
make it unlawful for any bootlegger
to charge more than $40 per quart
for whisky of less than 90 proof and
90 days of age until it was too late,
All magistrates and judges will
also be required to furnish the
names of all persons violating the
prohibitory law.
Mattresses Under Law.
The governor is also to become the
custodian of all confiscated booze,
no matter what its quality or dy-
manic power. First offenders of the
bootlegging law are to be let off
lightly by one law, which provides
that such persons shall not be im-
prisoned in the county jail for more
than a year.
Mattresses and walters, according
to the provisions of one bill, shall be
compelled to undergo a physical ex-
animation by health officials before
they can get certificates to follow
their vocation.
One bill appropriates $500 for a
fish nursery, another $250,00O for a
building to house the state library
and supreme court. Another mea-
sure proposes to spend 100000 for
a state reformatory for women, an
other 100000 for use of the State
Board of Agriculture and $4,000 for
new street car terminals at the state
fair grounds.
The sum of 100000 is to be made
available for bonuses. to be paid SOL
diers and sailors Of the state who
served in the world war and $4,000
to perfect an organization of the
same. Then there is $150,000 for
custodiai home for male prisoners
convicted Of misdemeanors, $4,000
for the purchase of additional land
for the state insane asylum at Nor
folk, $4,000 for the investigation Of
the cornstalk disease, $4,000 for the
purchase Of land for the Girls Re-
formatory at Milford, $4,000 to
eradicate scabies, 100000 for build
ing to shelter the State historical
society and library.
Height Of Skyserapers.
There are bilfs to regulate the
height Of Omaha buildings, to fight
hog cholera and grasshoppers, to
cure social diseases, bills to provide
that no person can be eligible to
public Office who cannot interpret
the constitution of the United States
and sing the "Star Spangled Ban
ner," a law providing for the sta
bling Of horses of rural school
pupils, Pullman accommodations for
cattle and hog shippers, and salary
bills galore.