THE FRONTIER. PUBLISH FT* EVERY THURSDAY By Tus Fnomrin I*hiktinh Co. O’NEILL, ~ NEBRASKA. OYER THE STATE. Box Bcttk county Is without a^lol lar of indebtedness. Ai'uoiia has a democratic club in active working order. A MiMiii.it of rabid dogs liuve been killed at Ashland and vicinity. This sheriff of Have county is in pos session of the American bunk at Beat rice. Tim school* at Valley have been closed during the prevalence of scarlet fever. Dawks county will usk for no aid and docs not even have to organize a relief society. Tiik Methodists of Haskins have com menced the erection of a church, lit will cost about S2,r>oa Sii.uk cases of diphtheria have again developed in Hastings. There hus beea one very sudden -death. (iKx. Tiiavkk is giving here and there throughout the state his "Recollections oflirantund Lincoln." Nix loaves of bread for 10 cents does not longer prevail in Nebraska City. Thu war has been declared off. At Valley Elinor Rowers wns de clared insane by the c ounty board lust week and taken to the Norfolk asylum. Ninkty cuses aro before the present term of the district court of Narpy county’ seven of them being criminal. Jonx I’kw of Hebron cut from one -V cottonwood tree on his farm ten cords of stove wood, and yet tho tree was not all consumed. Tim Vuletine district of country re ports n big fall of snow, eleven or twelve inches, making the ground in fine shape for plowing. Tim 10-yoar-old son of M. Chapman, a farmer living south of Nelson, had both hands blown off by a gun which ho didn't know was loaded. A district Young Men's Christian association has been organized with a membership of eighteen. J. I). .Forbes ' of 1'onca is the president Rkv. P. Njoiii.km of Fergus Falls. Minn., hut located at Wakefield, .where he will be come the pastor of theSwed ish Evangelical Lutheran church. Tun defalcation of ex-Treasurer Rod well of Union township, llutler county, .Amounting to 9350, has been settled by his bondsmen, and Rodwell has gone to •Ohio. This interstate encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will meet At Superior May 15 to .determine it* jilace of holding the next interstate re union. A. H. Siiokmakkii, a veteran of Bro ken Bow, has received notice that his pension has been suspended. He will at once take steps to have it it re stored. W. V. Corn-offers a reward for the • conviction of the party or parties who I poisoned a few grey hounds at his ranch. The dogs cost hi8h several thousand dollars. Tiik harness that was stolen from A. B. Scott of l)o Witt February 5, 181)5, ■ was found iu the north part of town, hid in a manure pile. The thieves are . known and will be arrested. At Shelby Mrs. June Patterson, fa • miliarly known ns ••Grandma,” died at the age of 89. She has resided in Polk -county a quarter of a century, leaving A family of respected and prosperous .children. Pai'I'khinm is being pretty thorough ly discouraged in Burt county. The •county commissioners are drawing the line close and nearly everyone opply ting for county aid must go to the poor .house to receive it. ltKroHTs were received at Beatrice of 'tho wholesale thefts of harness of all descriptions from farmers a few miles cast of that city last week. The thieves were traced to Beatrice, but have not yet been apprehended. Ai'Hii. 1 work will commence on thi aew opera house at Pierce. The struc hure will be 44x90 feet, and thirty-tw< ieetin height The seating capacity will be 800. The Call says it is to Is the finest opera house in northeaster! Nebraska. Rot Mookr, a boy of 15 years, com mitted an act of burglary in Harvard by entering the house of Mrs. M. W. Wilcox by opening the door with a false key and ransacking the place and carrying off 913 in money he found on the premises He 1b in jail now. Mark, the 14-year-old son of H. L. Miller of iloldrege, was killed while playing around the Burlington tracks He attempted to cross the track be tween two carp, to which an engine was attached. His head was cut off and the body dragged some distance. Kevbkn Church of Nebraska City swore out a warrant for the arrest of his son, Kcukcn 1). Church, charging him with insanity. Young Church gained some notoriety a year ago by commencing suit against the State uni versity for refusing to grant him a diploma. Mr. and Mits. \\oocs of Papillion were in Fremont last week. Mrs. Woods is the mother of Charles Carle ton, who is condemned to hang on the Sjitlt of April, for the murder of August Oothman, and she is circulating peti tions to be presented to the governor, asking that the sentence be commuted to imprisonment. The Callaway Central l'elief commit tee has sent out over 2,000 letters to the newspapers of the country containing an appeal for funds with which to pur chase seed. The money contributed is •to be deposited with the Omaha Na tional bank, and will be received either ** a ff'ft or as a loan. In the latter case the committee will undertake to handle it the same as any other loan. Marv Burns of Hurt county, was pronounced insane and sent to the Nor folk asylum last week. The young ladv is A mute, about 20 years of age and well educated, having attended an Omaha school for six or eight years. An inheritance is also due her frost a relative in Iowa. ■Tub police jot Beatrice made a raid on a gambling den in the central part at the city and .succeeded in capturing * number of well-known citizens of sporting tendencies. The parties were given a mid-night tearing in police court, and wero heavily fined and the broken up and tbo paraphernalia i confiscated • I A o vmj« Also 4 class is being organizea by the management of the Young Men’s Christian association at Fremont to enlist the attention of small boys. Wiiii.k Mr. Miller, an old bachelor farmer living aUmt one mile east of Uiiykin, was preparing supper, two un knuwn men called at the door and usked permission to go in and get warm. As soon as they entered they attacked the old man and beat him un mercifully, leaving him unconscious. They then ransacked the place and got about t'O. Cr.AKKXCB II. (11IA1IA1I, a printer, lost his right foot while attempting toeross in front of a train of ears on the Iturl ington in Idncoln. lleing in a hurry lie crawled between the cars. W hile so doing tlie engine let up the slack and (iruhnin's right foot was caught between the bumpers and so badly crushed that amputation was necessary at the ankle joint Tim efforts of the directors and stockholders of tho North Platte Na tional bans, which hus been in the hands of a receiver for several months, have proven unsuccessful, so far as con cerns reorganizing and reopening the bank. Receiver Doolittle will proceed to close up the affairs of the bank as soon as possible. It is thought that depositors will be paid in full. Owino to the heaviest pressure of tho aid business being over, the local com mittee at North l.oup has made public a regulation that heaeafter no aid will be distributed on any days other than Tuesday and Friday, which indicates that the more serious labors of the committee are over for tho season, and unless cold weather intervenes it is hoped that the work may hereafter be only nominal. Fi.oiia, tho 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dolton, was fa tally burned at Filley during the tem porary absence of the child's mother. Mrs Dobson was washing clothes and had gone out to hang clothes on the line, when the child's clothing caught (ire from the stove. The child's screams brought the mother to her rescue, but hho was burned so badly that she died of her injuries II. J$. Fiikiiiik kson of Fremont, who won a barrel of prizes in bicycle races last year, has received a letter from tleorgo It (iidcon, chairman of the L. A. W. racing board, stating that tho protest and charges against him in the race at the Chautauqua, grounds last June, In which he was accused of re wwvtug n vuau uau uct'u wiur drawn, which places him in good stand ing in the U A. VV. Bixby’s Book, 200 pages of rhyme by the "Driftwood” man on the Lincoln Journal, is before the public and is meeting with encouraging sale. The selections are the poet’s choicest gems and cover a wide range of subjects, rendering the book of absorbing inter est to all classes of readers. One dol lar pays the bill and insures to the per son ordering a publication faultless in binding, paper and contents Probably the oldest woman in Ne braska, certainly the oldest Indian woman, died at her home on the Omaha reservation last week at the age of 115 years She was quite a relic of ancient times and was the mother of a noted Ponca chief. She claimed to have known the great explorers. Lewis and C lark, personally. It is positive that she had in her possession pots, urns and cooking utensils that were used by the Indians at least seventy three years ago. Tine Fremont papers publish a long article by Mr. Oxnard of the Norfolk sugar factory, giving full instructions as to the preparation of the ground for tlio raising of sugar beets, and the cul ture of the crop from the seeding to the marketing. It will doubtless be read with great interest in that vicinity, as the farmers and land owners have al ready contracted to raise several hun dred acres of the crop for the Norfolk factory, and others are preparing to join the procession.. Miss Mary Bradley, aged 24 years, was found in a comatose condition by the side of a hedge fence by Fred Fisher at Vcrdon as he was going to church. She was taken to his home and every thing done that could be for her recov ery, but she died. The coroner's jury, after-viewing the place and examining witnesses, rendered a verdict that the deceased came to her death by despon dency, exposure and cold by lying on the cold, wet ground all night on the night of March 9, 1895. Ir any further proof was needed that Henry Hueske of this county, says a Beatrice dispatch, was a victim of the FI be disaster, the recoipt of a dupli cate draft from Bremen to the widow for money which he was bringing home with him would establish the fact. The Lincoln Journal learns that Hueske only put a part of his money in the form of a draft and that quite a large sum was lost with him. The widow received the draft several days ago. The proceeds of it will aid herself and family greatly in their distress. The largest and most valuable load of cobs over sold in Svtiu'hsp. Syracuso Journal, was brought in last week by Henry McCartney, four miles west of Nebraska City. The load con tained 10,5110 cots by actual count, and was sold to the pipe factory. The stan dard gauge requires the cobs to meas ure one and five-eighth inches in diameter and all but .">00 met this re quirement Mr. McCartney realized more for his load of cobs than three ordinary loads of corn would bring in the market even at present prices. Thk Maccabees of Nebraska met in Lincoln last week and elected officers as follows: i’ast commander, R. ,1. Coles, York; state commander. \Y. L. Brown, Lincoln: lieutenant comman der, J. E. Fitzgerald, South Omaha; record keeper, M. J. Durkin, (irand Island; finance keeper, A. N. Steele, Aurora; sergeant J. \Y. Lewis, Crab Orchard; master-at-arms, J. \V. Tan ner, Fullerton; sentinel, M. C. Reming ton, Antelope; Picket, Walter Hainey, Grafton. There are seventy tents in the state. Rrn. Bhay of the Presbyterian church at Aurora, started east last week. Ho is chairman for the relief department for the presbytery and his time is very much occupied with that work. His committee has distributed thousands of dollars, mostly in western counties. No moiik applications by the farmers of York county for relief in the way of grain for seed and feed will be consid ered. ns the limit has arrived. The i number of applications received, as iig- | ured up by Relief Agent Smith, are 237. j Of this 56,256 bushels were' oats and j 10,694 corn. If all applications now on ' hand are accepted, the cost to the coun- ( ty will not bo over £7,000. NEBRASKA ASSEMBLY A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH HOUSES. Many mils Now n^lof Pushed Through —Insurance Matters—T be Irrigation Measure—IIllls Recommended for Passage—An Appropriation for Unfits Ished Buildings—The Sugar licet In* dustrj—Seed for Nebraska's Drouth Stricken—Miscellaneous Matter* The Nebraska Assembly* Sfnattl— In the Semite on tlio 11th several remonstrances against the passage of the 1>1U to permanently locate the state fair at Lincoln, and two or three against tlio amendment to the .oleomargarine bill were read. M-nate tile ;9, which permits co-ope rative mutual- Insurance companies to charge a policy fee on policies Issued, was passed. 1 louse roll fwO, providing that county officers may invest In seed and feed grain surplus precinct bond funds.left on band aft* r bonds are paid off, was passed with ttie emergency clause. Senator lialin’s anti-cigarette bill, senate tile Hi*), which provides that no one shall manufacture, sell, keep for sale, or give away cigarettes or the material from which they are made, was taken up renater Akers brought in a ragged little bootblack. who stood up in the aisle and puffed at a cigarette. The senator said he intro duced the boy as an ob ject lesson. Chair man l aid well ordered tne sergeant at-arms to “Take the 11. tie fellow outside whore he can have a good smoke.” Without disposing of the bill the committee arose and asked leave to sit again. The re port was adopted by the senate. Senate Ale M, Watson's bill to comptelelegrnph compa nies >o charge a uniform rate between all points In the state, was taken up and then referred to the judiciary committee. Sen ator Pope moved that it bo referred to the committee on miscellaneous corporations, but accepted the amendment of Senator W at soil, making the reference to the judi ciary committee. House roll 102, Moltt’s bill providing for a state board of educa tion, was taken up. Bee of Furnas moved t * recommend the Indefinite postponement of the Dill. Mc.NItt opposed the motion, and it was defeated by one vote. Then followed a long discussion of the bill, finally result ing in the adoption of amotion to recom mend the bill for indefinite postponement. ! House roll 108 was considered. This is by ; Johnson of Douglas and authorizes the ap- ! pointment of special counsel in civil cases in counties having more that7^,000 popula tion. The committee agreed to report pro gress and ask leave to sit again. House.—The house on the llt.h, after re cess, went Into committee of the whole with Harrison in the chair, to consider bills on general file. House rolls Nos. 55, 10 and :,98, stock yards bills, were recommended for In definite postponement. '1 he committees substitute for McNltt’s bill, house roll No. lit!, to establish a btate Board of Educatioh and to define Its powers and duties, was then taken up, it having been agreed that it should follow consideration of the stock Eoned. House roll No. 430, to regulate all iuds of public printing, and provide fora supervisor of printing at an annual salary of §1.500, was recommended for passage. House roll No. 80, by 1'erkins, providing for the destruction of the Russian thistle, was amended out of existence and so perforated with allusions to buffalo burs and.ox-cycd daisies that It became worthless as an in telligent measure. House roll 1311. by Allan, was then reached. Ricketts moved that wlieu the committee arose it recommended the bill back for passage, and Howard moved to amend by indefinitely postponing the same. Rhodes wanted to know if this bill was not one to remove the appointing power of Police and Fire commissioners from the governor. Ricketts repled and explained the provisions of the measusc. Howard said he had been informed that the bill had been drawn in tiie direct interest of the Ameri can Protegtivc association. He did not know this to be a fact, but had been told so. Tlio vote then recurred on Howard's amend ment, which fell by tlio wayside by a big majority and Ktckett's motion to recom mend its passage prevailed by a corres i onding vote. Senate.—Several matters of more or less moment to the state occupied the attention of the senate on the 12th. After receiving a number of reports from standing commit tees the senate took up several pieces of un tin ished business and completed them. The governor’s message returning the change of venue bill without his approval was read, and McKesson’s motion to pass ihe bill, tlie governor’s veto notwithstanding, was made a special order for 11 o’clock tomorrow. The senate went into committee of the whole to consider the $200,0 ti relief bill. The bill as it passed the bouse appropriated $ 0.000 to be disbursed for supplies, especially seoci grain, by the State Relief commission. Akers ottered an amendment which ho claimed would give the governor the right to appoint a new commission, and in sup port of his amendment he related in detail many of the complaints that had come to him of the incapacity of the present com mission. Aker’s amendment was shut oft by Me Koeby, who offered a sub stitute for the entire bill Thesubstltuto ap propriates $200,000 to be divided among the co'- ntles of the drouth stricken district, no one county to rocelve more than $i,U00. The amount to be given to each county Is to be determined by the State Relief commission and disbursed by the state treasurer to the county bonrds. This bill was, after some amendment, agreed to and ordered engross ed for third reading. The railroad commit tee reported Dale’s an ti-pass bill with the recommendation that it bo placed on gen crul tile. Dale moved that the rules be sus pended and the bill ordered engrossed for a third leading. The motion was defeated by a vote of 9 to 9, after which the senate ad journed. House.- In the house on the 12th. the hour having arrived for the special order of the day, consideration of the general appropri ation bills, the house went Into committee of the whole, with Speaker Richards in the chair, as chairman. Une of the bills, house roll G31, the salary list, was then taken up and considered. The salary list of the gov ernor’s office was recommended without change. On reaching the adjutant gener al s office Howard moved to strike the office out of existence and voted for it alone. Jen ness moved to restore the office of deputv labor commissioner, which had been dropped by the committee on ways and means, to gether with the salaries, $1,5 ?o per annum for the deputy and $1,000 for a clerk. The amendment was carried. The appropria tion of $5,000 for the biennum was made and the labor bureau restored to its Dosltion on iuv binary u.^i. i ue onico or tne secretary of state was reached, and a stenographer added at a salary of Sl.tOO for the bieunutn. An assignment clerk was added to the office of the commissioner of public lands and buildings at a -alary of Sl.txo. The salary of the stenographer of the supreme court was raised from &> 0 to $000. The clerk of the banking board was given an assistant at a salary of #».OjO per annum. No change was made in the list of the In dustrial school at Kearney unlilthe attend ing physician was reached, when his salary was raised from to $KX) on motion of be lucked ants. The salary list of the Insti tute for the Blind at Nebraska t ity was in creased from SH.VTl to S16.S0 •. Chapman offered an amendment that the committee’s report recommending hut one secretary of the Hoard of Transportation be amended to Include three secretaries at each per annum, or a total appropriation of $12,000 for the biennium, t hapman’samendmentcar rlE?’ i ♦A*.set»°«nd ?ss.i1stan.t physician was added t. the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane at a salary of Si.20 • per annum. The appro priation for the university at Lincoln rec V.n'Tne,bK,d by the commiteto was $1.5,u0u. 1 his was amended to$11*0,2115 on a showing by Munger that this was money to be drawn from the university temporary and not front the general fund of the state. Barry moved that the stenographer dropped in the governor s office by the report of the committee, at a salary of $l,20u. be restored which motion prevailed. Judd moved ati amendment to the list of the Industrial School at Ceueva that a family manager and two teachers be added at a salary of *■«> per annum, which prevailed. The nil! hou>e roil No. 631. was then recommended for p stage, and the committee rose and re ported, and the report was adopted. Senate.—In the senate on the 1 ,th there was a large amount of routine busines.no less than forty-one being disposed of. Most of these were indefinitely postponed, while the rest were placed on general file. Hol brook endeavored to bring the beet sugar bill to the front by moving that it be made a special order fora o’clock tomorrow afternoon, beveral senators objected, as bFri!°R ,hat th*y weie not yet ready to give the hill the i areful consideration its impor tnnee deserves. The motion was voted uowu by the application of the two-thirds »ule. The vote stood 19 to Jl. although it was announced as 19 tola by the secretary. ; Under the rule of tho senate It requires a two-thirds majority to take a bill from its pl 25 fr< m the appropriations for 189. biennium. Governor Holcomb sent in a message referring to the Nehraska Dakota boundary line. The adjutant general was then ullowed $500 for office expenses and the National Guard $30,000. an increase of $ 0 In office expenses over 1893. Howard tried to reduce the guard Item to $10,000 and then to $20,000. for the office expenses of the superintend ent of public instruction the appropriation •of 1893 was $9,925. The present bill originally appropriated $9,8;,o. 1 his was amended and so recommended for passage, by adding $1,0'jo for an .extra clerk. The bill goes to the senate carrying an appropriation for this office of $1 an increase over 1893 of ?925. The present bill recommended for of fice expenses of the attorney general $1,6 <0. 1 he amount allowed for traveling expenses, $'*0. was stricken out. leaving a total appro- ! pelation of $1,100, or $20j above the biennium appropriation of 1893. For expenses of the 1 office of the commissioner of public lands i and buildings the bill as it came from the ways and means committee provided for $2,300 The sum offcioOof this was for new carpets and furniture. Harrison tried to raise this amount to $ 50, but the committee wouldn’t have it that way. The total ap propriation for 1893 was but $1,900. The gen eral appropriation bill has made no provis ion for the office expense's of the la bor com missioner, as nothing had been provided for this office In the salary list considered yes terday, an amendment was moved and car ried appropriating $2,001 for the biennium, an increase of $1,000 over the appropriation of 1893. ^ Senate.—In the senate on the 14th the anti-cigarette bill came up. Tlie house measure was substituted and recommended for passage. Senate filo No. 114, by Hitch V.WVFY, lu nuiciiu AOI.'UUU UI Ulti V,OUC OI Civil proceedure, was recommended for passage. The senate, while in committee of whole, took legislative cognizance of the dog. Senate file No. 146, by Kathbun, provides that the dog shall be included in the list of domestic animals recognized by the statutes and provides further that If anyone shall maliciously kill a dog valued at *35 or more he shall bo subject to impris onment In the state penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years f* the dog is worth less than $35, the person killing It shall be lined not less than 5> nor more than 5100, or imprisoned In the county jail not more than three months, or both line and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. The bill also provides severe penalties for the crime of poisoning dogs Willi intent to kill them. The senate, after some debate, agreed to the bill and It was ordered engrossed for third reading. It was amended for passage. Stewart declared the bill one of the most iniquitous pieces of leg islation attempted at the present session. The senate, he said, had frequently made itself ridiculous, but never more so than in attempting to pass this measure. Ho had had four valuable horses killed in ten years by dogs which were not worth a square meal, lie declared that 999 dogs out of every •Out) ought to be killed anyway. Among the bills also considered in committo ■ of the whole during the afternoon and recom mended for passage were the ones prohibit ing the display of brass knuckles, slung shots, billies and loaded canes In shop win dows, the one prohibiting bucket shops and gambling in grain, and the house bill en abling cities of the lirst and second class to Issue bonds for tlie purpose of purchasing or erecting electric light plants or water works systems. House.—In the house on the 14th the gen eral appropriation bill was completed in committee of the whole and, with the salary bill, which has already been engrossed for a third reading is ready for action by the senate. The total net increase In the bill over the appropriations of 1893 Is 517,890. This includes the penitentiary appropria tion, which is tills session smaller by S26,23o than in the 1893 biennium appropriation. Without counting the penitentiary matter, which two years ago contained quite an amount for repars of buildings, the net In crease is #44,135 over the 1893 appropriation. The greater portion of this increase is for pew additions to and repairs of state Insti tutions. The Industrial home at Milford was first In line among unconslderod items. The 1893 appropriation for this institution was 519,750. The new bill provides for $20, £00, and the items were unchanged by amendment. There was appropriated for the Home for the Friendless at Lincoln for the t iennum of 1893, &8,13,700. The 1893 appropriation The bill goes to the senate for wA ne DU1 y°es to the senate for 5102,<00, a decrease of 526,235. The following miscellaneous appropriations were also re commended by the committee: Suppor . h * - ---- Supportof Mate 1 oultry association, $2,000; expenses of state Historical society, 52,000; expenses of state presidential electors in 1896, 5 00; for state sinking fund for reimbursing the fund for same amount tied up in the Cap ital National bank. $180,101.75: resetting and repairing cupitoi uouers, S3.000, expenses of examining count.wtreasurer’s offices, $3,000; for printing reports of the btatc Board of Agriculture, Si.iOO: printing reports of State Horticultural Society, $i,00j. Senate.—In the senate on the 15th the final vote on Watson’s bill to abolish the death penalty In Nebraska came during the forenoon and the measure was given the re quired constitutional sauction of seventeen votes and no more. The bill not only abol ishes capital punishment, but adds to the present law’ two provisions which recite that “if any person shall aid, abet or pro cure any other person to commit any felony, every person so offending shail. upon con viction thereof, be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for any time between the re spective periods for which the principal of fenders could be imprisoned for the princi pal offense: or, if such principal offender would on conviction bo Impris- ned for life, then such aider, abettor or procurer shall be imprisoned for life, the same as the prin cipal offender would be.” The following provision is also added: If any person shall purposely and of deliberate and premedi tated malice, or in the perpetration or at tempt to perpetrate any rape, arson, rob bery or burglary, or by administering poi son, or causing the same to be? done, kill an other; or if anyjjerson, by wilful and cor rupt perjury, or subornation of the same, shall purposely procure the con viction of murder in the first degree of airy innocent person, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first degree and upon conviction thereof shail be imprisoned in the peniten tiary during life. The first thing the senate did after the r.oon recess was to pass the RlcKeeby substitute for the house re ief bill, appropriating £200,000 out of the si ate treasury with which to purchase grain for seed ana feed for destitute farmers in the urolith stricken district of the state. The bill passed by a vote of 59 to 1. with two senators absent. On the original roll call cross. Hitchcock, Lindsay. Moan and >teu fer voted no. But after the roil call had teen completed all these senators changed tneir votes to the affirmative except i ross. ino bill that has passed th? senate has oc ^asionycl more feeling than this measure. Ane bill as it was passed by the house, ap propriated $20u,tfi0 to be expended by the i-taie Belief commission The commission was authorised to reserve 94,000 of that sum for •expenses. This bill passed the bouse, but the opposition was strong to prevent the addition of tho emergency clause. The substitute provides that ?.:OJ,OtX) shall be taken from the state treasury and distrib uted among the several counties In the drouth district. No county is to receive more than 94,000. The State Relief commis sion has no part In the distribution of the funds, but it is authorized to designate the amount that each county shall receive. Housjs.— In theihouse on the 15th house roll No. 651, the salary division of the gen eral appropriation hill, was put upon its passage tho first thing, and passed. Boder mati, In explaining his negative vote, said that the amount of $2,OOJ per annum voted to tlio governor’s private secretary was plainly unconstitutional. For this reason ! he declined to support the measure, and a number of populists were with him. The j vote on final passage of tho bill was 7* to 15. i Other bills were passed as follows. House j roil No. 283, by McNitt, to provide for free I attendance at public High schools. House i roll No. 491, by Cole, td authorize the com | mis.siouers of Hitchcock county to apply j $3.000of the fund known as the Culbertson j irrigating and water power bond funds to ; the payment, on the bonds maturing Janu i ary 1, lsM. House roll No. 8, by Jones, to j authorize the organization of mutual plate : glass insurance companies. House roll No. ! 214, by Robinson, to provide for the relief of j Maurice Lee, authorizing the Hoard of Pub* i lie Lands and buildings to issue to him a j contract for land. House roll No. 358, by > .lenkins, to regulate stock yards and pro | vide punishment for violations of the , provisions thereof, 58 to 9. House roll [ No. 1*9, by Allen, to provldo for the appointment of fire and police commis sioners in Omaha, was, after a call of the house and continued disorder, put upon Its passage, and failed to pass witu the emer gency clause, by a vote of 28 to only 00, two less than the required number. The bill was then put upon Its passage without the clause and passed. House roll 264, by Har rison, providing that claims against cities of the first class having less than 25,000 and more than 8,000 inhabitants shall be presented in writing with a full account of the items verified was then passed. The governor announced that he had signed house roll No. 27, providing for fine and im prisonment of persons unlawfully wearing the fireman’s national Dutton: No. 5.‘>0, au tnorizing county commissioners to use the surplus of precinct bond funds for the pur pose of procuring seed grain, and senate file No, 15, making it the duty of district courts to appoint a competent number of bailiffs to wait on the grand jury, with an allowance of $2 per day. _ Concerning Our State Institutions. Senator Tefft for the senate committee on public lands and buildings made a report of the result of the trip of Investigation to tho state Institutions. The report generally commends the management of the Institu tions and. after specially noting the condi tion of each in detail, concludes as follows: •‘In our inspection of the public buildings we were Impressed with the idea that it would be for the best Interests of tho state that a general superintendent of repairs, charged with the duties of making and su perintending and making repairs and erec tion of buildings, be appointed. With the superintendent of repairs and erection recommended, the carpenters at the various lnatltnHnno tn At c ... 1 . l. _. where necessary in teaching the inmates the trade. Your committee is not in favor generally of increasing the officers of the state, especially at this juncture, but the officer would cost little money, ana intelli gent supervision is an item of first impor tance. ‘•Without indulging in criticisms of past methods, your committee recommends that in contracts made in the future the idea should be prominent that the supplies con tracted for should be obtained at the very lowest, obtainable price. The state Is a lar>. e consumer and wholesale prices should be obtained whenever possible. “The burden of supporting our various In stitutions Is large enough upon the taxpay ers at the best, and should be lightened in every conceivable way consistent with good supplies and good service. In the item for instance, in these institutions the state con sumes 22,344 tons, and purchasing thus largely the state should have the same ben efit as other purchasers of like amounts. “i our committee would strongly recom mend a uniform system of bookkeeping as far as possible, insisting that ali book keepers keep their books brought down practically to date and not be allowed to let them run several months behind. “Pay rolls should be often scrutinized and made as near uniform, taking into consid eration the charcter of service, and re trenchment insisted on wherever possible. In a few words, business should only be con sidered In the management of the institu tions. “In regard to the cash funds of the vari ous Instit utions of the state your committee recommends that the board of public lands and buildings should consider these funds as being applicable for the legitimate uses of.the various institutions more especially in the way of extraordinary repairs and supplying extraordinary demands of the in stitutions, and recommends that they form ulate some system of rules by which the vouchers will show the purpose for which these funds were expended, which vouchers shall be carefully scrutinized and approved by the board. “Your committee has considered the question of abolishing the name of the asy lum for the incurable Insane at Hastings and placing the three institutions for the care of the Insane on the same basis and recommend that the same be done.’* The Russian Thistle Bill. The senate has recommended passage of the above bill as drawn by the interstate conference at St, Paul, Minn., on February 14. This conference was held between dele gates from the legislatures of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, the delegates from this state being Senator Stewart and Represen tative Lamborn. Several bills had been in troduced covering the subject, but the con ference bill was substituted for them all. The bill makes It the duty of every person or corporation who shall be the occupant of any real estate in Nebraska to cut down and destroy all Russian thistles growing thereon or in the highways adjoining the same so often as to prevent their going to seed. It is made the duty of the county clerk of any county wherein is growing any Russian thistles to annually puolislk in a newspaper of general circulation, commencing the first week in June of each year, notifying all occupants and owners of land in such county to destroy such thistle forthwith. If the parties so notified neglect or refuse to de stroy the thistles it Is made the duty of the road overseer of each road district in the county to destroy them at the expense of the party, persons or corporations so neg lecting. The road overseer is rennirefl unnuaiiy present to the county board a statement Riving the description of each tPv«c\.°»r p£r<^Fi °* tend upon or adjoining which he shall have destroyed Russian this tles and the amoum of charge to each tract, and said amounts shall be placed on the tax list and become a lien on such lands, to be collected as other taxes on the same. If any person shall knowingly dispose of any grass or other seed in which there is mixed the seed of the Russian thistle he shall be fined U.> for each and every offense, and shall al so do liable for all damages resulting from me sowing of such seed, the damages to be recovered in an action at law. Report on the Penitentiary. The chairman of the special penitentiary investigating committee, Wait, reported as follows: Your committee appointed to Investigate newspaper reports as to cruelty and inhu man treatment of inmates of the state peni tentiary finds that such reports originated irom statements made by three ex-convicts named * rank Jones, whose real name is A. i ' i’ rank Kennedy and Peter llec That the affidavits made by said ex convicts to Governor tdlas A. Holcomb, cn rgmg cruel and Inhuman treatment and F®ne Si,?1^management, a copy of which is herewith submitted, have since been sub stituted by a counter affidavit, herewith submitted, setting forth that the statements there made were false in every particular, and ti at they were induced to make these »»5Hrncnts,by1nil aspirant for the office of warden anti nis friends for a money consid eration. ^ our committee is not empowered by the terms of the resolution to send for persons and papers and incur expense in the investigation, and therefore submit wheth er in the opinion of the house the investiga tion should be further prosecuted. A care rui reading of the charges made by these ex-prisoners will reveal the fact that the contract system of prison labor in vogue at penitentiary is largely responsible for the continual charges and counter charges of illtreatment to inmates, and not because of the inhumanity of Worden Beemer and his officers. Your committee is of the opinion that the management should ie. ? as ter as possible from pollti c&i influence, whichcannot be accomplished while managed under the contract system. Vrtn^Poli.,. i hnnao j ^”1 The house made good*' with ftfcA __* 800! tV hen the Industrial !1'1-'' reached a motim, “°»e reached 1 motion »», ia~'«, salary of tlmsuperinH' l«| recommended by th« lrnd“n‘h KnnnuuiH <« .r Commits Kaup said it was t?„,coni»'i2 raising salaries. Thu 6k10 < his feet. He said tbu!,oaf manded It should ha» kH‘ Kaup thought f wot uiauueu 11 8nou 1(1 have », Kaup thought so too bm^ ■ It was better late thin nie,,ll< increase over the ?om5,Ter lj matter of salaries Is nlum. 8 tA.'ij u nlum. fcsasysgs: Tbehrst move madeawfc',!,: ary life to the Bureau^! ! tics, the deputy labor0™ assistant. Sixthousands'?)*^ prlated for thlspSS"1^ (51 febor comm.ss«ttJ SaOO for expenses per anm, 1 mene clerk was then alE“ : eWu^l^raTa^S'j gJt^uPfeme court U' ®900 and ih^ two bailiffs eiac*?‘ assistant clerk si.' clerk of the banking boarder at a sa'aty of Jl.KOper annum The heavy majority anu grove s bill, house roll No ir valued policy law, 83too i?1 less are any further attenim assault so popular arneaS law has become. The bill fi back as long as possible, something might eventuate?' 0'TJtUIn'nK oresent opinion evident now that the voiced ueneies has been heard w Halrgrove, the introducer i the bill, found himself at 7k. waws, and voted for indefit ment or the apparently v< my rfm1^^ b^Plaming his' I did not believe that the consent to a full and lair fa bill which certainly hassntwS merits could be pkeserveTj modified, or completely dont t committee of the whole by aI I observe a disposition inihe this bill no show for life ! shall vote for its Indefinite POSlM Rejection of the Relic| The senate by rejecting tbcrtfc passed by the house and sufcstla an entirely new bill, has surroula uatlon with complications shifil to defeat the object In passing tk* house bill provided for the spiral $200,000, to be used for the purdal grain and for the payment oltnfif such seed as might be donitdlj states. The senate basrejectedti money, but providing that ltd vided among the counties tbitl After It is divided the money iiil by the counties in the purchwj grain which is in turn to be sold toil era upon any terms that the coal decide to offer. When the motty! back by the farmers it is to be tafl the state treasury again. | The debate in the senate assaul gry phase. Senator McKeeby,siiMfl bill, charged that a combination!! formed between senators onthtl! members of the State Kelief com! defeat the bill, lie said that the m by the house was a measure dry! the Ludden commission for the J securing to itself $4,0n0 intheujl ries. It had been lobbied through!! by the Ludden commission. The ■ commission has undertaken tog! original bill through tin* seuattl that a substitute had been prs#! proposed to take away from them! mission the $1,000, the Ludden coo! under the leadership of l.udden ij bad undertaken to defeat the m Senator McKeeby grew vigorously* in denouncing what he termed tbti commission. 1 Secretary Ludden stood near a] leading from the lobby to the sew! ber, and McKeeby faced him w+ he did not hesitate to charge liitoj face with a desire to thwart the « the measure rather than toforessuj given the State Kelief original bill. Ue said he hadastwj ters and complaints against Lutwj hign, and he would have these cm read or printed if necessary to prowl capacity of the state commission. I Senator McKesson of Lancadfffl led the fight against the senate sj* He said that the senate stood real* aoterized the substitute as a pie«* work. During his addressbecretarjj sat beside his desk, and when w a new bill. Aimed at the Grata It required but a few minute* o* ate to agree to recommend for ator Caldwell’s bill to *upS-, shops and gambling in stocks, granu juries iuuw»v»— . tuepiu ---- --- violations of lu report upon all vi of this act. t . Kin provis The first section of * "V. r*oo.; it shall be unlawful ation, association or copa ation, association oi thir"v‘„untye<'> ny criminal trial 'n a‘.-a|i tile un. ae attorney g«;neraI s! ca„» ■ral sue ‘ -ca,‘ o the effect that tthe ** tne c°u°!.'oS' air and impartial trial in^ l,e«'a ,gi ho offense is allegcti ^^d prej^V: i no uuciibd at* . .,nd P1*®-*.iii ’ ed, because of the bi.i| a ,he h'J i; iihabitants of tl.o .o ‘"^ut *>i hall proceed no. *“![!.,he case “"I ,1th enter an order in .'n,v »iii‘ 0 mu cmci *“ w*rr .« yniuntv • ., eslgnating another■ c , a-i cial district, wherein sud w„j i-y •osecuted and the ae a[ ( ru,ed3 ,ects as If Indicted or W j io county so designate; bls n- ' •> Governor Holcomb aIld co»»u' ie law solely upon legal »■ a ounds. ,-i.nds o*,A e»«^ It Is claimed by fjle"r ,b« gj at It will be passed eve ler*l»«» ito but this is yet to be