Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-21

present voted against il and APP
plause followed.
When this amendment was out
of the way, Sturtevant OF Atkinson
presented another amendment, al
most identical with the one that had
been voted down In his amend
ment he said it would be sin for
the legislature of Nebraska, after
having countenanced private and
parochial schools in the state for
years, TO about face and wipe them
out utterly. He said there was no
religion in patriotism, and when the
bows were called to the support of
the colors in fight for world free
dom in the world war, the question
as to their religious faith or whether
they were graduates of private,
parochiai or public schools was not
asked. Their patriotism was taken
for granted.
He said that he had come from a
long line of Baptist preachers but
that he had observed the self-sacri-
ficing work Of the Catholic sisters
in the schools and had been con-
WINGED that their efforts were toward
the promotion of good citizenship
as we'll as good Christians.
One Head in State.
He contended that his amendment
proposed only one head for the
school system of the state, that head
to be the state superintendent, in
stead Of more than the 90 heads that
would be represented by the coun-
ty and city superintendcnts in car
rying out the provisions of the law.
Jacobson Of Dawson accused
Sturtevant of having signed the
Burney bill, which sought to wipe
out the parochial schools and said
his present words were inconsistent
with his previous acts.
That's true" replied Sturtevant.
II have more than once bought a
cocoanut in good faith, and when |
broke it open found that it was
rotten"
"The gentleman from Holt comes
from the home of the present day
'Mollie McGuires, interrupted
Naurer of Gage, who took the floor
IL want to show what these angels,
these nuns of the Catholic schools
produce" He then began to read
from a paper purporting to give
statistics of the Milwaukee house of
correction, and listing the inmates
according to their religious affili-
alton.
Good of Nemaha, objected to the
reading, which was sustained by
the chair, who put the matter of
hearing the reading to vote Of the
house and that body voted almost
unanimously to shut off Maurer.
Advise Consideration.
Hostetler of Buffalo and Foster
Of Douglas, advised the members
of the committee of the whole to
give close. deliberate and careful
consideration to the amendment and
not try to railroad the bill through
the committee. This was resented
by DR.. Jenison, in the chair, who
said that he had made no move in
this direction and Foster explained
that no such aspersion had been cast
on the chair.
Mckee of Otoe, exclaimed: I'VE
were elected to come here and rep
resent Americans, let us vote Amer
lean. The bill as recommended by
the committee on education is
American.
Hardin of Harlan county, held
that should the house pass the bill
as prepared the supreme court wo,ld
hold It unconstitutional for the rea-
son that in succeeding sections it
did not hold the common or public
schools of the state to the same re-
uuirements that it did the private or
parochial schools, and therefore It
would be class legislation and rot
constitutional.
A vote was then taken on the
Sturtevant amendment, which was
lost by a vote of IA for aad 48
AGAINST