The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-02-05
Howell and Tinl1ne
Bills Will Receive
Hearing This Week
Arguments to Be Heard by
Committee OH Cities and
Towns-Others
Come Up.
BY p. G. POWELL.
Staff Correspondent, The Omaha Bee.

Sss''H >OsaSoPoiiuSht, AHO OIudlid Dee.
Lincoln, Feb. 4.-tSpeciall-Ne-
braska's Legislature faces a week of
strife. First and foremost is the r.
b. Howell bill placing power for call
ing special election for voting bonds
to build municipal light plant in
Omaha in the hands of the Metropoli.
tan Utilities district instead of the
Omaha city council
Arguments on that bill are TO be
held Tuesday night before the house
committee on cities and towns. Those
arrayed on opposite sides will be here,
their hair little grayer. their forms
Il trifle more stopped. but their spirit
undaunted TO fight as they have each
session for six years.
Timme Hearing Thursday.
On Thursday night the committee
ON cities and towns will umpire an.
other hearing which has unlimited
possibilities for a pyrotechnic display.
1t will have to do with the Timme
bill which would place all public serv.
ice utilities in Omaha under the city
council instead of the Nebraska rail.
way commission.
The strength Timme can muster TO
put this over or how seriously the
public service corporations consider
the measure is not known at this
time. However. 1t involves a question
Of home government" which has
been the subject of considerable politi-
cal debate
May Hill Language Bill.
There is the Strehlow Collins -Elsas-
ser bill calling for repeal of that part
OF the language law which forblds
teaching of foreign language In COM
mon schools which has been referred
to the education committee. Talk 70
any member of the legislature tonight
with few exceptions and he will say
that the bill will never get out of the
committee. Many admit 1t is the
hope. that IL meets oblivion behind the
four walls Of a committee room, as the
bill Is sharp on all sides and IL put
to vote may mean political death of
more than one aspiring member, the
same as it did two years ago.
Everyone asserts the fate OF the bill
depends largely on the effort put
forth by its introducer3 TO demand
hearings on 1t and create n demand
for the entire personnel OF the lower
house 10 decide on its merits rather
than the limited number OF members
who make up the education com.
mlttee.
To date. every measure marked
dead by n committee has been nc
cepted as a corpse. with the excep-
ton OF two; one. which. by the way.
was n bill killed by the education COM
mittee was lifted yesterday by the
lower house over the corfmittee's
head and placed on general file.
The attitude of the committee In
handling the bill probably VIII become
known this week. according to the
members. The fact that all introduc-
ers are American Legion men is q
new factor that must he contended
with in handling the measure.
Other Measures Come Up.
In addition. there are income tax
and code revision and repeal meas
ures all of which promise 10 spring
into the llinellght shortly.
All of the half dozen bills TO repeal
the code, establish the Bryan system
OF an executive council and the Lamb
system Of cutting elective officers to
three are. In the hands Of the judi
ciary committee presided over by r.
+. Dysart of Omaha.