Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-07
SUNDAY VISITS
Defeat CHARTER
DIET PROPOSAL
Five Measures on File
And Session May Be
Completed in Next
M Two Weeks.

Lincoln, March Especial y
For the first time since the constitu-
tionai convention has been in. ses-
sion it invoked a call of the House
FOR the purpose OF trying to get
enough votes to pass measure
which had been recommended for
passage in committee of the whole.
The vote stood 81 for to SO against.
Fifty-one votes were needed to make
il pass, but it was discovered that
many Of the members had slipped
away TO their homes for over Sun
day and SO the call was raised. j
The proposition up was proposal
81, which would put license fees and
fines under the game warden's de-
paftment back into the department
for prosecution of the work of the
department instead of going into the
school fund as now.
Five Proposals Pass.
Five other proposals, however.
met better fate and were passed
They were:
Proposal 31l, which creates a
board Of pardons composed of the
governor, = attorney general and
secretary of state. This passed 81
to0. ~
Proposal 124 increased the amount
the state may go into debt from
100000 TO $500.000. Passed 64 to 7.
Proposal 326 makes the English
language the official language for all
public records and for the teaching
in common school branches in
public, private and parochipl schools.
For n, against 0.
Proposal 325 provides that the leg
islature nor any political division
shall not make appropriations from
public funds or grant lands or other
property to . sectarian or denomina-
tional school or institution that is
not under the supervision of the
state. Passed, IS to 0.
Districts for Regents.
Proposal 322 provides that the re-
gents of the university shall be
elected by districts, one from each
of the present six congressional dis
tricts, those elected before adoption
to retain their terms.
In committee of the whole pro-
posal No, 332 was recommended for
passage. This proposal provides for
the election of railway commission
ers by districts. A large amount OF
ofatofy resulted from the appear
ance OF the. proposal which was
finally amended to provide that the
jurisdiction of the commission
should not extend to publicly owned
common carriers, except as provided
in the article. This amendment was
introduced by TePoel of Douglas
and in effect takes from the commits
sion authority over not only pub
licly owned common carriers and
utilities, but local public utilities pri-
vately owned.
Recommend Corporation lin.
Another proposal, No. $50. cover
ing corporations, was recommended
for passage. This proposal reads
that mo public utility corporation
incorporated under the laws OF any
other state or country shall be per-
mitted to do business in this state
unless such corporation shall be-
come a body vorporate pursuant to
and under the laws of this stats"
Corporations now doing business
are given year to incorporate.
Only FIVE proposals remain on
the general file for consideration III
committee OF the whole, but the
whole 40 which have passed and
which will probably pass will have
to go through the committee of the
whole as reported back by the
phraseology committee
It is the general opinion that two
weeks more ought to end the ses-
sion.