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THE LEGISLATURE*
What's Being Done by the State Law
Making Body at the Capital.
Lincoln Feb. io.—In the last
two days, in which bills might be
presented, the house received a
total of 238 new measures, while
there were 146 in the senate.
This brings the total of bills offer
ed in the house to 871 and in the
senate to 457, a grand total of
1,328. The legislation offered in
the closing days of bills intro
duction ranged all the way from
a senate bill by Bartling to in
crease the pay of the governor to
$7,500 per annum to a house bill
by Scheuth of Platte requiring
each person selling eggs to stamp
upon them their own name and
the date they were laid in order
that they might be returned to
the original seller if unmarketable,
no matter how far from the
original point of production they
might have been before reaching
the consumer.
In the early days of the week
the house was somewhat startled
by a vigorous resolution intro
duced by Schipley of Dodge in
which the activities of the tele
phone interests of the state were
denounced as attempting to direct
or control pending legislation and
unnamed newspapers were alleg
ed to be subsidized by these
companies in their effort to direct
legislatidn. The resolution called
for a thorough investigation of
all these allegations. The resolu
tion was discussed, laid over to
another day, and finally returned
to its maker for revision. After
subsequent introduction in some
what milder form, a committee of
three, with Schipley as chairman,
was appointed to make the in
vestigation and report to the
house.
On Tuesday H. R. 3, by
Fuller of Seward, was passed by
the house by a vote of 51 to 40.
This is Fullers county ownership
telephone bill and provides that
county commissioners may levy a
tax for the purpose of establishing
a county telephone system. The
bill received the recommendation
Of the committee of the whole by
a vote of 70 to 18, but on its final
passage support for the bill had
dwindled until but 51 could be
polleed for it, thus passed by the
bare number of votes required.
On Wednesday the senate
passed the Bartling so-called
“Sunday base ball” bill by a vote
of 2^. to 8. This bill permits the
playing of Sunday ball; unless
forbidden by an adverse sentiment
in the localities, to be expressed
by city or village officers, or the
county commissioners, as the case
may be. On the same day the
house ratified the proposed amend
ment to the constitution of the
United States, providing for the
direct election of United States
senators. • /
On Thursday the house had
under consideration in committee
of tho whole two important pro
posed amendments to the state
constitution, the one offered by
Bollen of Knox, providing for a
new method for the submission
and adoption of future proposed
constitutional amendments, and
further provides that a majority,
as voting on the amendment only
shall be sufficient to adopt it, re- •
gardless of the total vote cast at
the election at which it is submitt
ed. This is a most radical de
parture from any previous pro
posed method of amending the
constitution, as heretofore a
majority of all votes cast at an
election must be recorded in favor
of an amendment before it could
be adopted, whereas the Bollen
bjll provides that a mere majority
voting directly on the amendment
shall be sufficient to carry it.
This will make it almost as easy
to amend the constitution of the
state as to change a village
ordinance. The other important
amendment to the constitution
was the Norton bill to change
the present constitutional theory
of taxation, based on the uniform
taxation of all property, to a new
system, including an income tax,
and the inclusion or exclusion of
any class of property for taxation
as statutory law might in the
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future direct. Both of the above
constitutional amendment pro
posals were recommended to be
placed on their final passage by
unanimous vote. The senate
passed the Bartling bill, S. F. 18,
providing that citizens absent
from home on election day could
vote wherever they might be, and
have the vote transmitted by mail
or their home voting precinct.
During the week both houses
got down to the real work of
passing bills, the senate closed the
week with a record of a total of
thirty-one bills passed while the
house registered twelve bills on
which a final vote had been taken.
Of these measures only three
had passed both houses and been
sent to the governor. Of these
two were house rolls 8 and 9,
which carry the solary and
expense appropriations for the
legislature, the only other is H.
R. No. 1, which is the bill adopt
ing the work of the state codi
fication committee, which for the
last two years has been 'engaged
in codifying the statutes of Ne
braska. The work was found
*0 be well done and was
uanimously adopted by both
houses as the law of Nebraska.
The bill to ratify this action is
now in the hands of the governor
for his signature.
Amoung the bills passed by
the senate, and sent to the house
for concurrence, the following
may be of interest: S. F. 2 by
Smith, 2 per cent occupation tax
on express companies; 11 by_
Bushee, punish theft of water
from irrigation ditches; 22 bty
Krumbach, requires pardon
board to give notice to county
attorneys and judges hefore
hearing applications; 27 by
Schumway, state aid for high
schools teaching agriculture; 28
by Bartling, Sunday base ball
bill, 43 by Smith, state engineer
furnishes all plans for all bridges;
53 by Dodge, minors not 2o be
employed in saloons, barrooms or
I Royal
BakingPowder
I AMs Healthful OuallttesfnMod
I Prof Prescott, of the University of
1 Michigan, testified before the Pure
I Food Committee of Congress, that the
I add of grapes held highest rank as an
1 article of food and he regarded the re
i suits from baking with cream of tartar
| baking powder as favorable to health.
|| Royal w the only Baking Powder made
I from Royal Crape Cream of Tartar.
not only keeps cold out, but I
conservesbody-warmth;body- I
fat serves the same purpose, I
it enables us to resist unsettled 1
elements and serves as the ■
great source of our body-heat. I
Greater body-warmth means I
richer blood, more fat, not E
obesity but fat which the body I
consumes for warmth, vitality, I
resistance-power—as a furnace G
fonsumes coal for heat— I
Scott’s Emulsion does this. I
A teaspoonful after each I
meal makes body-warmth— I
healthy, active blood—I
sharpens the appetite and I
makes all good food do good. I
It drives out and keeps out colds I
by raising endurance-power B
and creating strength. |
Reject substitutes for SCOTT'S, f
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. 12-«1 I
night messengers; 64 by Hoag
land of Lancaster, regulation of
cold storage warehouses and food
kept therein; 105 by Kemp mak
ing it felony to take opiates, in
toxicants, firearms or explosives
into penitentiary or a county jail;
119 by Bushee, penalty for
fraudulent advertising of real
estate; 123 by Hummel, prohibits
agricultural societies from receiv
ing larger anounts of county aid
than represented by their annual
amount of premiums paid.
In the house H. R. 22 by El
wood, Village trustees required
to organize on first Tuesday in
May; 46 by Bollen, constitutional
amendment permitting verdict by
five-sixths of the jury in civil
cases, and in criminal, where not
felony; 68 by Wood, permits
shool levy of 35 miles on the
dollar; 84 by Anderson of
Kearney, allows farm mutual in
surance companies companies to
insure implements and vehicles;
151 by Knudson, removes in
part the present legal exemptions
as to wages due to a wage-work
gr; 166 by Banks, a joint resolu
tion to ratify the proposed amend
ment to the constitution of the
United States, providing for the
direct election of United States
senators.
The very limited number of
bills disposed of leaves a total of
almost 1300 to be considered and
acted upon in the less than 40
remaining days of the session.
When it is recalled that an average
of something like 200 to 250
proposed bills become laws during
a session of the legislature, the
citizen interested in some specific
measure may easily figure the
slight chances for sugces^ of his
bill unless it be one of unusual
public importance and well in line
with the general trend of legis
lative thought. To make a
mathematical statement based on
past experience, the indications
are that an average of two bills
out of every 13 proposed will
probably pass at the present
session.
Helvey News Bukeau.
How Is Tour Boiler?
It has been stated that a man’s
stomach is his boiler, his body is his
engine aud his mouth the tire box.
Is your boiler (stomach) in good work
log order or is it so weak that it will
not stand a full load and not able to
supply the needed energy to your
engine (body)? If you have any
troubl with your stomach Chamber
lain’s Tablets will do you good. They
strengthen and invigorate the stomach
and enable it to do its work naturally.
Many very remarkable cures of stom
ach trouble have been effected by
them. Eor sate by all dealers. Adv.
A Permanent Income Tax
Globe Demoorat: Representative
Hull of Tennessee is undoubtedly
correct in his prediction that an in
come tax will be an integral feature
of the American fiscal system. Eng
land and many other European
countries have had suoh a tax for
many years. In some of these nations
this is made the elastic form of
taxation, being lowered or advanced
to meet surpluses or deficits. Suoh
a handy tax as this will be is likely to
be a fixture with us in these days of
Mllllon-dollar sessions, when the tariff
and the internal imposts prove in
sufficient to meet the regular outlay.
In a country which grows at the rate
of 1,600,000 population every year, the
cost of maintaining its government
must necessarily increase pretty
steadily, even if there be a sincere de
w - |, , | | - m - ■
I
sire for economy, and economy In
governmental expenditure is not a
popular fad among legislators in these
days.
"One of the important results of an
income tax will be the curbing .of un
necessary expenditures,” says one of
phe Democratic leaders. When a
great part of the government’s income
Is derived by a direct tax upon the
citizens of the nation they will
scrutinize more carefully the appro
priations made by Congress. The
chances are that this is a mistake.
The Income tax will strike only a
comparatively small portion of the
people. The great mass of the
population will escape it. Though In
theory one of the most equitable of all
imposts, itMs necessarily a class tax.
The element which will not have to
pay any of it will not be likely to ask
to have it diminished. A more pro
bable effect of the tax will be that It
will help to create surpluses in the
treasury, and as there has always
been a strong prejudice in the Uulted
Slates against treasury surpluses, as
those persons will recall who remem
oer the flush days of Republican as
cendancy of twenty or twenty-five
years ago, extravagance will be a more
probable result from them than
economy.
However, we have adopted the old
European Idea of direct taxes, and
neither party can rightly claim the
creditor the discredit for it. The
proposition was urged on Congress by
Mr. Taft, and by a Congress Repub
lican in both branches it was handed
over to the states by a virtually unan
imous vote of each chamber. It has
received the sanction of Republicans
as well as Democratic states, by the
state, New York, which will pay a
much larger proportion of it than any
other, and by the first state, Dela
ware, which ratified the federal con
stitution, a century and a quarter ago,
as well as by the two latest which
were admitted to the council of the
commonwealths, New Mexico and
Arizona which made their advent in
1912. It Is backed by the'1* voice of
thirty-eight states, and probably will
be accepteil by some of the other ten,
although it already has two more than
the necessary three-fourths. The en
tire nation is behind it. Although
Mr. Taft and doubtless most of the
Republicans in Congress who voted to
submit the question to the people,
supposed'that an income tax would
not be enacted except in some crisis
which would make a serious drain up
on the country’s resources, as a foreign
or olvil war, in which exigency it
would be a decidedly welcome asset
for the government, we are likely to
be saddled with it now for all time.
CiilTCEE
Burlington Specialist.
Dr. W. R. Balding, the Burlington,
Iowa, Cancer Specialist will be in
'Kwing.Nebr., the first week in March.
Any one suffering from this dread
disease should not miss this oppor
tunity of a free consultation with this
well known doctor. Modern methods,
combined with recent discoveries, are
used exclusively and with the great
est success. Adv.
m V
Inman Items.
Earl Green is here visiting his
parents and other relatives this
week.
Mrs. Grant Davis and children
of Stafford visited with relatives
in Inman Saturday.
Miss Jessie Bergstrum of Staf
ford spent Sunday visiting
friends at Inman.
Mr. and Mrs. William Simmer
man and family have moved into
their new home this week.
Clifford Smith of Chadron
visited with his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Smith last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ada'ms of
Chambers visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Wilcox last
Sunday.
Mrs. Nelson VanEvery who
has been in Weeping Water with
her mother who is very ill, re
turned home Saturday.
Daniel O’Donnell, who has
been visting with relatives in
Manitoba, Canada, the past month
returned home last Saturday.
Mrs. Martha McCutchen, who
spent the past month with Mrs.
Wadsworth at Stuart, returned
home Monday morning.
Grace Keyes, who is teaching
school near Stuart,was home over
Saturday and Sunday visiting
with relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Downey
and sons Ora and Dale who have
been visiting in Iowa and Missouri
the past six months returned to
Inman last Friday.
[Have Him Diagnose^Your^^ase I
Dr. E. J. PORTER
A highly successful
Specialist in Chronic
Diseases
BOTH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
will, by special request, be in
O’NEILL, NEB.
AT HOTEL EVANS
Thursday, Feb. 20
where all afflicted people in the com
munity may consult the noted special
I in. 758.740 Strit Bank BUg., Q"»hj|
PubU^Salel
^SSi5«^
Thursday, Feb. fU
12 head of horses, 90 head of oat,e,Q2
shoals, farm ffifZ^/fallrye, 2S
bu. of corn, j99Hfay household
NICK white
1^1 I ■ p w. Phillips, Clerk
Col, M.T. EUiof. r.L.B,.e, a.di,.^-!-——
Joint Said
■ _ n uonrv farm 8 miles north
* *nd 7 east of O’Neil., at 10 a. nr..
Friday, February 21st
<q head of Gottlo* 35
16 head of hoj77 'farmmachinery, etc.
BRENTSON & HECKMAN^
Col. M. T. Elliott,
Public Sale!
EE—IHIB—i—H—IM
3 miles north and 1-2 east of O’Neill
Tuesday, Feb. 18
29 head of cattle, 10 head of horses, 30
shoals, farm machinery, etc., 50
bu. of potatoes, 25 tons of
baled hay.
Lawrence Barrett
Col. James Moore, Auctioneer. Jas. F. O'Donnell, Clerk
Gasolene Engines
Does Fairbanks-Morse
Appeal to you on kerosene or gasolene engines?
I have them at greatly reduced prices.
Magneto Six-horse 1 A G I Small engines, one- ©0*7
at. $140 | half horse. $A#
I am prepared to fit you out yn short notice with Fairbanks. Olds
or associated engines with feed milts or wood saws. I have a large
stock of pumps and windmills, all kinds of farm machinery, pianos
and sewing machines. 31-7
FRANK CAMPBELL
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