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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1909)
y K ! I X lawmaking branch of the state govern- i ment, with a large majority in both houses and a democratic governor ready to place the seal of approval on nil I demociatic legislation the party had a ' clear track and an open order from the j people to redeem all its promises fcr j remedial and progrep sive legislation. What w as the result? Some two hundred and two of the avalanche of proposed laws presented to the legislature were enacted, most ! of them trival and of small importance, j many of them relating to local incidents of no interest to the state at large, numbers of them making room at the public pie-counter for democratic office seeken and perhaps less than a score of them of any importance to the state generally. The legislation costs the taxpayers of the state a round one hundred thou sand dollars, that being the appropria tion for legislative salaries and expen ses for the session, or an average of $L,fif5 for every day the legislature was in session and an average of $300 for each law enacted, good, bad or in different. This is the return, apparently, that the people of Nebraska received for the hundred thousand dollars spent on the democratic legislature. But what did they actually receive? That is "another story." Results have proven that the demo cratic party as an organization was so incompetent that a considerable portion of the legislation, enacted at a cost of nearly seventeen nundred dollars a day of the tax-payer's money, has been found fatally defective in the courts, is shown to be contrary to constitutional provisions and is in consequence null and void. .. Suit after suit followed to annul the careless and unconstitutional acts of the democratic legislature, the latest one being brought to court by Judge J. J. Sullivan,.himself a demo cratic candidate for supreme judge, to defeat the occupation tax placed on corporations by the legislature. The first litigation growing out of the late session of the legislature to use and usurp the functions of the state canvassing board and to recanvass the vote on the constitutional amendments certify the same to the governor, have him make his proclamation declaring r'the amendments carried and then ap point four judges of the supreme court all of which duties had been performed according to law by the Etate canvas sing board and the governor long be fore the legislature convened. This litigation was styled State ex rel. Old ham v. Dean, 121 N. W. 719, resulting in a decision in favor of th action of the state canvassing board and Gover nor Sheldon in canvassing the vote and the appointment by Governor Sheldon of the judges of the supreme court. Another suit was state ex rel. Ragan v. Junkin, attacking the constitution ality of the so-called Donohoe nomina- : J : -l l .:. .1 i s nuii cuutuuunui miu juumui eiecuun TO introduce fine materials, clean methods, scientific equipment into the making of soda crackers was one triumph To actually hake into them a subtle goodness, a real individuality, never before known, was another triumph But to effectually protect them so that the fullest benefit of these fine materials, this careful, cleanly baking, this unique goodness comes to you unaltered, was the crowning triumph that gave the world Uircda Hoscyit 0 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY law. This suit resulted in a holding by the court that the act of the legislature was unconstitutional. The court's opinion was rendered August 18, 1909. The next law assailed was the act entitled, "An act to amend sections one (1) and twenty-two (22) of sub division thirteen (13), chapter seventy nine (79) of the Complied Statutes of Nebraska for 1907, and to repeal the said original sections as they now exist and to provide for an emergency." The real purpose of this act was to remove from office the present member of the state board of education and to author ize the democratic governor to appoint a new board. The constitutionality of this act is in question in a suit entitled State exfrel. Thompson v. Majors et al. Another act passed by the legislature and which is assailed in the courts as unconstitutional isthe"bank guaranty" act. The suit was commenced in .the federal court and a temporary injunct ion has been issued, restraining the enforcement of the law until final rder of the court. Another act passed by the legisla te e, the constitutionality of which is challenged in the courts, is the act taxing corporations. This suit was commenced in the district court and will soon be submitted on demurrer. Perhaps one of the most insipid acts of the late legislature is chapter 83 of the Session Laws of 1909. This bill, as oriiially drawn nnd introduced by Senator Randall, fixed proper penalties against railroads and railroad officials for failure to enforce the same. The committee to whom the bill was refer red removed all the penalties provided for in the bill against the railroads and their officials flfecteda thereby, and rendered the act of apparently no vital eiTect. Another act of the late legislature, which hits been rendered impossible of enforcement, is House Roll 353, relat ive to the charge of transportation for residum fuel oil or fuel petroleum, by reason of errors which crept into the . enrolled bill through the incompetency of the engrossing or enrolling clerks in 1:;iling to enroll the amendments made ,r tl ereto by the Ferate. Even some of the "pie-counter" bills intended to make jobs for democrats n the public payroll wrrc so faulty that the democratic politicians have not nttcmpttd to exercise authority under them nnd "claim the jobs"-notably the new law giving the appointment of the secretary of the printing board to the democratic governor-a law that wa3 passed expressly for the benefit of a democratic member of the late la mented legislature who was to "have the job." This is a glimpse of democratic com petency and efficiency as evidenced by the democratic-legislature. Whenever tested with responsibility the democra tic party has failed to "make good." To avoid the responsibility for its re cent failures the democratic party is this year out on a "non-partisan" plat form and is raising a cry for the elec tion of democratic candidates as non partisians. This deceives no one- it is the democratic plan to avoid the re sponsibility for the recorded acts and failures of the democratic party. 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X 15 Boars Fall ami Winter 21 Sows Yearling and Fall This stuff is strictly Expansion Wan 3t27$, Onward Price G773 and S. P. of the Perfection Blood. The lot will be thin fleshed, but no better blood lines can be found in this part of the state. You are invited to attend this sale. I JOHN R. PEARSON, Clerk. I COL. R. WILKINSON, Auctioneer. T' " 'IlI1 f rTr- l"il"""w'wui i 7