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THE LEGISLATURE.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 10.—(Special to
the Frontier.—With the week ending
on Feb. 13th, the present session of
the legislature is half dead—that is,
it lias consumed now one-half of the
sixty-day session, and, if it is to ac
complish anything of real value to
the state, the work must be done in
the thirty days to come, or the mem
bers remain without pay and serve
the state for glory.
That there is little hope for legis
lation of importance is indicated by
several unmistakable signs, among
which, perhaps the most important,
is that in addition to the failure to
accomplish anything in the time al
ready passed, the democratic major
ity shows signs of internal division
to the serious extent that during the
past week on the iloor of the house in
open debate, the accusation of “liar”
has been passed between leaders of
the majority party.
This serious rupture, which ex
hibits to the public wounds that
may not be healed during the present
session, took place between Taylor of
Custer and Clark of Richardson, both
or whom were unsuccessful candidates
for the speakership and both of whom
have been leaders of a certain section
of the party in the house. Taylor of
Custer was engaged In opposing an
amendment to the Sink bill, which
limits freight trains to a length of
fifty cars. The amendment opposed
by Taylor was made by the railroads
committee and proposed to place the
whole subject under the jurisdiction
of the state railway commission,giving
it the right to prescribe the length
of trains and the size of train crews.
Clark of Richardson favored the
amendment and was opposed to Tay
lor’s proposition for a Hat fifty-car
law, and asserted that the railway
operatives of the state did not favor
the law as supported by Taylor and
desired other legislation, the bills for
which the railway men’s organiza
tions had drawn and placed in Clark’s
hands. This drew fire from Taylor,
who launched into a scathing review
of the attitude of Clark on measuies
of the character under debate. He as
serted that Clark's course before the
ways and means, railroads and judi
ciary committee had not been in line
with what Clark had advocated when
he was running for election, and
broadly intimated that all of Clark’s
motives were questionable. Clark in
terrupted the speaker on a question
of personal privilege, denied the impu
tations of Taylor, and in a burst of
impassioned oratory characterized all
that Taylor had said as ‘‘a d-lie.”
The house was immediately in an up
roar and cries of “sit down” filled the
chamber. The presiding officer re
stored order and Taylor continued, his
only apology being to say that he had
only been speaking of his observation
of events and that if his observations
were mistaken he begged a hundred
pardons. The incident practioally
closed with this and Taylor had the
satisfaction of seeing his contentions
win over Clark’s opposition, but the
fact remains that the little outburst
discloses a deep-seated division among
the majority members of the House,
which will not be adjusted during
this session, and its influence on legis
lation will no doubt be seen in the
final result which will show that
legislation of real importance has been
neglected, while minor matters and
personal ambitions for leadership have
been fought out to the detriment of
the people._
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no means being neglected by the
democratic patriots who own and
operate this session of the legislature,
is the matter of increasing the num
ber of state offices and commissions
whereby additional members of their
party may be hooked onto the pub
lic pay-roll. Every legislative week
so far has shown numerous proposals
of this kind, arid the past week is no
exception to the rule. Of course, the
proposal to increase the offices is al
ways hooked on to some proposition
that looks fairly good on the surface,
and is thereby calculated to receive
some public approval, but the fact re
mains that the prime object and in
tent of 90 per cent of these mearures
is to provide places at the pie counter
in the hope of strengthening the
party in the future. Among the
measures of this character dropped
into the legislative hopper during
the past week may be cited the bill
by Bowman of Nuckolls, appropriating
$50,000 for a “seed wheat commis
sion,” to handle which commissioners
are provided at a salary of $5 per day.
Wilson of Polk has an innocent little
measure for an assistant dairy com
missioner at a good salary, which
practically means a division of the
pure food bureau which has hereto
fore been successfully and easily
handled by one man. Fogarty of
Greeley provides for a state live stock
commission, of which the governor
shall be state veterinarian, and shall
appoint three assistants who are in
terested in live stock. Of course, the
commissioners draw pay. Bates of
Cass offered a bill reorganizing the
State Printing Board, replacing the
state treasurer, with the governor,
and giving him authority to appoint
the secaetary of the board, another
salaried job for a waiting democrat.
Mr. Bates is himself a printer in his
private capacity and in order to over
look nothing, while the opportunity
oilers has quietly dropped in a little
bill requiring the treasurer of every
school district in the state to print
once a year a financial statement of
all the transactions of his office. As
the number of school districts is large,
this in itself will provide a piece of
democratic patronage of no small
dimension. _
So the dance goes merrily on from
week to week, and If the people do
not obtain legislation which they de
sire and need, they may find satis
faction In knowing that a large crowd
of democratic office-seekers are being
carefully provided for in the laws that
are on the road to enactment.
It was freely charged in the last
political campaign that the railway
corporations of the state looked with
a friendly eye on the candidacy of Mr.
Shallenberger, and that their valiant
support had much to do with the suc
cess of his political aspirations. If
this was true, it might be reasonably
concluded that some return favors
might be expected from the neighbor
hood close in and about the democratic
governor. No one can say positively
that these obligations are in process
of being discharged, but straws show
which way the wind blows, and the
reasons for some proposed laws may
be guessed from whence they come.
It may be a mere coincidence, but
during the past week a bill has been
introduced in the House by Repre
sentative Snyder, of the county of
Harlan, from whence comes also Mr.
Shallenberger. This bill proposes to
repeal the terminal tax law passed by
the last legislature, which permits
local assessors to assess all railway
property within the corporate limits
of the cities and villages of this state
for the purpose of levying thereon
municipal taxes. This law added
millions of dollars to the valuation of
Nebraska railways for taxation and
has been highly objectionable to the
railway corporations for that reason.
While in some of the smaller towns,
it reduced the village taxes paid by
the railways in those towns, the total
municipal taxes paid under this law
last year were vastly in excess of the
taxes paid by the roads for these pur
poses at any time in the past. This
is the law and these are the results
which Representative Snyder’s bill
seeks to re pen 1. The question is per
tinent—are the railway corporations
about to get some valuable recogni
tion for their work in the last cam
paign? _
The guarantee of bank deposits is
grating on the nerves of the demo
cratic legislators, and they are be
ginning to realize that it is a ghost
that will not down. During the cam
paign democratic orators told the
people how easy it would be to guaran
tee deposits without injury to any
other business or interests. They are
reaching the conclusion that the
solution of this problem is at least ex
tremely difficult if at all possible as a
practical working business measure.
Judge Albert of Columbus was em
ployed for $300 of state money to
draft a guarantee bill after the demo
crats of both House and Senate had
fallen down in the effort, has been
working on the measure, and rumor
says it is completed, but for some good
reason the bill has not been intro
duced up to the end of the week. The
rumors that abound explain this in
some degree, and are to the effect
that, while Judge Albert has done his
best, the rough draft of the bill, as
prepared by him has not been satis
factory to either the governor or the
sub committee, charged with its
framing, and the apparently interm
inable labor of framing this bill still
proceeds. Sections of this measure(
which have been given newspaper
publicity during the past week are
not authentic and are tiie guesses of
the correspondent. It may positively
be stated that at the end of the week
the measure had not received the ap
proval of those having it in charge.
It is possible, however, that in des
peration the subcommittee still offer
some sort of a bill during the early
days cf the coming week and thereby
get off their hands a most disagree
able duty. _____
Neither house of the legislature
has so far shown any disposition to
favorably consider proposed legisla
tion for the restriction of the liquor
traffic in any degree, or for the ad
vancement of Woman’s Suffrage. In
every instance, where legislation,
bearing on these items, has as yet
come before the House, it has been
summarily dealt with and extinguish
ed. During the week, the Senate
killed Miller’s constitutional amend
ment providing women with the bal
lot on the same terms as men and
then went farther and also killed
Randall’s bill to give women the bal
lot in municipal affairs and school
election. It has been asserted and
not denied, and in support of the as
sertion, a senator, himself a member
of the Constitutional Amendments
committee of the Senate, has been
quoted as admitting that the Consti
tutional Amendments committee had
been selected for the purpose of head
ing off and killing all anti-liquor legis
lation and all that relating to the ex
tension of the suffrage to women.
Under these circumstances, the
chances for progressive legislation
along either of the lines named seem
very small indeed, and should any
thing of this character, by the merest
chance, pass in the House, it would
apparently with certainty receive its
death blow in the Senate.
Nebraska will be represented at the
Alaska-Yukon exposition, but in a
rather meager way. The appropria
tion for this purpose passed the House
during the week and carries a total
sum $15,000. $3,000 of this sum is set
aside to pay premiums on Nebraska
exhibit at the exposition. This
feature was put into the bill at the
request of some Nebraska cattle
breeders, who desire to exhibit their
stock and feel that NebAska should
arrange a premium list, which would
in some degree assist in defraying the
expenses of their long trip to Seattle.
Senator Ollis and Miller have in
troduced a bill which presents a new
idea of taxation in Nebraska. It pro
poses a constitutional amendment
which will permit the raising of all
taxes for state purposes by levies ap
plying exclusively to the corporations
of the state. This result will be ar
rived at by the classification of prop
erty by kind and character instead of
by valuation as heretofore. It is not
to be presumed that the railway cor
porations will look with favor on this
legislation. A good index of the dis
position of the senate on corporation
questions may be determined from its
eventual treatment of this measure.
It may be interesting for all people to
watch the course of this measure.
Both houses of the legislature have
begun to weed out the apparently
trivial proposals to enact new laws by
the process of indefinite postpone
ment. During the week nearly
twenty-five measures were indefinitely
postponed in the senate, and almost
an equal number were similarly treat
ed by the house. A good many new
members come to their first session
with a desire to settle some neigh
borhood contentions by the enact
ment of a new law, or an amend
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ment of an existing statute. This
leads to a multiplicity of trivial bills
and about the third or fourth week of
the session they begin to fall by the
wayside from the frost of indefinite
postponement._
A trick of the “peanut” of variety
politics was tried in both senate and
house during the week when Scheele
in the house and Fuller in the senate
introduced reports signed by mem
bers of the committee on Soldiers’
Homes, reflecting seriously on condi
tions in the homes at Grand Island
and Milford, and the treatment al
leged to be given the old soldiers
living there. The chairman of both
senate and house committee had not
seen or signed either report which
had been prepared for political effect
only and in the house four of the
six members whose name was attach
ed withdrew their signatures when
they heard the report read saying
they had signed without reading
and under a missaprehension of the
contents. The reports were identi
cal in both houses and were based
on rumors and gossip alone. The
house wiped it off the record when
the truth came out and the senate
sent the report back to the com
mittee on soldier’s homes as did the
house also. Scheele tried hard to get
the report adopted in the house and
Fuller the same in the senate, but
both were knocked out and the trick
failed._
The present legislature bids fair to
be the most expensive ever held in
the history of Nebraska by over one
million dollars. With none of the big
appropriation bills yet in sight bills
are bofore the house calling for over
one and one half million dollars which
added to the lowest possible esti
mates for the general state govern
ment, state institutions, salaries,
claims, deficiencies, etc., as represent
ed in the regular appropriation bills,
will run the total to a sum only a lit
tleshortoftlve and one-quarter million
dollars. The total appropriations of
the last legislature were a little
more than four and a quarter mil
lions, making the present outlook
for spending state money about a
million in excess *of any previous
record—and this was to be an
“economical” democratic legislature
and save the taxpayers money.
Some little scraps of news from the
legislature this week are these: The
senate was “frozen out’’ Tuesday by
the blizzard and adjourned for the
day; Senator Klein was blown against
a tree and severely injured about the
head; Lincoln’s birthday was observed
in the senate by addresses on the life
of Lincoln; the democratic house
killed the bill to give the farmers free
cholera-serum for the prevention of
hog cholera: a bill to prevent Japs and
and Chinese working beside citizens
is in the house; one-fifth of the bills
relate to new jobs for democrats on
the state pay-roll: county stock in
spection by brands to prevent “rust
ling” passed the house; the law to
subtract the mortgage from the value
of the real estate for taxation passed
the house; there is a bill to aid weak
school districts to have six months
school and appropriates $115,000
The following bill was introduced
during the past week by Henry of
Holt:
H. R. 527 by Henry of Holt—Pro
vides for the establishment of two
additional normal schools, one in the
Sixth Congressional district, and both
located where ten acres of land have
been donated for the schgol. Appro
priates $125,000.
BANK VAULTS.
Precautions For th» purpose of Foil
ing the Cracksrhen.
Many banks, especially those In
cities, have their vaults protected'by
an elaborate system of concealed
wires connected to a central office not
so far away, so that the least tam
pering with the combination lock or
any attack upon the door or walls
will give the alarm at the central of
fice, where men are waiting day and
night to run to the rescue. The exact
method and devices that are used are
kept rather secret, for fear the bur
glars themselves might learn too much
about them, but it may be explained
that one part of the apparatus is an
extremely sensitive relay located at
the central office. This delicate in
strumont closes a local circuit which
sounds the alarm the moment there
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Is the slightest disturbance of the hid
den wires at and near the vault, so
that a gang of burglars could hardly
get to work with their drills and their
nitroglycerin before the officers of the
law would be upon them.
•In addition to protecting vaults and
safes from the direct attacks of rob
bers, electricity affords another safe
guard by furnishing light which floods
the premises with its searching beams.
Indeed, many banks, stores and ware
houses rely mainly upon the electric
light, without which the thickest walls
and the strongest and most compli
cated locks would be useless. They
turn it on at night and leave their
window shutters wide open, so that
the interior may be in full view of
the policeman or watchman passing
the windows all night. This makes it
practically impossible for lawbreakers
to work unseen.
To protect the money windows of
banks the teller behind the window
has a concealed push button at hand,
oftentimes placed under the counter
where he can touch It unobserved. If
any one tries to steal any money, the
teller can call an officer instantly in
this way. The circuit is sometimes ar
ranged to close the bank doors also by
an electrically operated mechanism be
fore the thief has time to get to them
and escape,—Harper’s Weekly.
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