The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-05-02
Code Fund
'Deadlocks
Legislature
Adjournment Taken Until To-
day in Hope Conference Can
Agree on Appropriation
for Secretaries.
Bryan Alleges Shortage

Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Lincoln, May 1.-Failure of the
house and senate to agree on whether
the governor should be given an ap-
preparation of 5000 for code secre-
taries in the face of a certain veto of
the Mathers-Dysart bill, which pro-
vides for grouping state activities un-
der constitutional officers. resulted IN
a deadlock in the legislature tonight
AS q result both house and senate ad-
journed until 9 in the morning in the
hope that conference committees
working on the discrimination might
agree.
The house took the position that as
the Mathers- Dysart bill passed by
both bodies eliminated code secre-
taries, an appropriation for payment
of something that should not exist
was pot necessary. The senate con.
tended inasmuch as Governor Bryan
1hynounced the Mathers-Dysart bill
Would be vetoed as soon as 1t was en-
crossed and sent to him. that the gov
el.nor should retain the code and
2 should have money for salaries of sec
retaries.
Concur ON Expense.
This one argument is all that is
keeping the Legislature from adjourn
ment. The house and senate both con
Cured in all other items of biennial
expense by accepting the blanket ap-
preparation bin and all other bills call
ing for expenditures.
H. hi fftfsa
as fixed by the joint house and senate
conference committee. inclusive Of
the 100000 for code secretaries which
may be stricken out tomorrow, are 81
067, ,3S0S3 less than for the last bien-
MUM and s1.e03.6Ss less than expendi-
lures recommended by Governor
Bryan in his budget Following are
figures in full:
Expenditures for last biennium, in
cluding reductions of special session.
$23,939, ,51927 OF this amount $751;
533,239.96 was raised by taxation and
s5.405 .27931 was raised from cash
funds and fees collected.
Expenditures recommended by Gov
ernor- Bryan for the coming bien-
mum. s21,S72,13s.44. OF this amount
s1s,S51. .55S.9s would have been raised
by taxation and s5,o20,579.46 from
- Fsh funds and fees collected.
Expenditures decided upon by the
legislature, $40, 26S. .449.44 for cot s-g
biennium. OF this amount si5,1s5,-
4s9.9s will he raised by taxation and
s5.0S1 .97e.46 by cash and fees col
lected.
Bryan Gives Statement.
Governor Bryan at noon today call
ed newspaper men in his office and
made two announcements. One was
that he would veto the Mathers-
Dysart bill, and the other was his
early statment that there was s4,
100000 deficiency in the state treas
Try was true
While members OF the senate ex-
pressed the opinion that If the gov-
ornor believed this statement was
true he should have presented facts
and figures weeks ago 10 prove it. they
appointed a committee composed of
Wilkins, Robbins and Banning, TO re-
main after the session and go over
state finances thoroughly TO discover
whether such a condition of affairs
really existed.
At the time the governor first made
this statement a committee from the
house and senate was appointed 70
investigate. The committees found
that instead of deficiency existing in
the treasury as the governor claimed
there would be a balance on hand at
the end of the biennium, June 30
From the time the committee submit
ted this report until a few hours before
the legislature was 10 adjourn. the
governor never made any attempt to
tefute the committees statement.
An during the day members of the
house and senate sang and played
FRANKS while waiting for the confer
ence committee TO agree on the $780,
900 appropriations for code Eecre.
fariea.