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WHAT’S DOING IN
THE LEGISLATURE
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By James R. Lowell
Whatever the shortcomings of
the last two house legislature, it
must be admitted that it did righr
by Nebraska’s state :»:sl:cutions.
The appropriations bill provides
$3,903,880 from tax funds for man
agement of the institutions, con
siderably above the appropriation
two years ago, and $416,578 for
improvements.
State educational institutions
haven’t fared so well, however,
what with the university cut down
to $3,442,180 and the four teachers’
colleges to $1,195,356 for the bien
nium.
As a consequence of a visit
made by Senator Gallon, chairman
of the upper chamber’s finance
group, and C. W. Eubank, the new
ly appointed board of control
member who will go on the payroll
July 1, to the Hastings insane
hospital, that institution is to have
a new building.
The $200,000 balance in the capi
tol construction fund is to be used
to build the new structure. The
house had passed a bill to return
this money to the counties. Many
Nebraskans believe the legislature
is making a big mistake by taking
this money out of the capitol fund.
They say it means that the beauti
ful edifice never will be finished so
far as the murals are concerned.
Fountains must be placed in the
four inner courts and considerable
work done in the basement before
the structure can be termed really
completed.
The old main building at the
Hastings institution which is to be
replaced is a veritable fire trap
and in a wretched state of repair.
It is of wood construction thruout
and was built in 1888. It houses
about 730 patients, or about twice
as many as it was originally in
tended to handle.
Plans are being made to install
a well and irrigation system at the
Norfolk hospital for the insane. It
is needed to water the hospital
gardens.
Planting work and purchase of
equipment for the newly acquired
state institution at Genoa has pro
gressed rapidly. A tractor and a
gang plow were purchased out of
the $35,000 appropriation made by
the legislature.
Another appropriation in the
sum of approximately $100,000 is
to be made to put the place in
readiness for occupancy. Inci
dental, the legislature passed a
bill changing the name of the in
stitution to “Genoa State Hospital.”
A campaign pledge made by
Governor Cochran has been fulfilled
with the passage of a bill giving
depositors in a failed hank the
right to select the person who will
act as its receiver. It permits a
majority of the depositors and
creditors in a failed bank to appoint
their own receiver, instead of hav
ing the bank liquidated by the
state banking department.
Another banking measure com
ing from the legislature enables
the organization of banks of a min
imum of $10,000 capital in villages
of less than 1,000 population. It
does not disturb the $25,000 mini
mum in larger towns.
Still another piece of hanking
legislation recently signed by the
governor authorizes deposit of ir
rigation district funds in banks and
permits the bank to pledge their
asset for security.
The legislature succeeded in
hanging up a new record, altho
attendant honors are dubious.
Tuesday was the 100th legislative
day for the house, while the senate
was 11 days behind. The previous
record was 99 days ftir the house,
with the sessions of 1913, 1921 and
1933 holding the claim. The short
est session on record was in 1925
when the house folded up its tent
£.fter 65 legislative days.
The legislature decided against
a state police force as embodied in
j
a bill introduced by Senator Callen,
and also put the skids under the
sales tax provision for raising old
age pension funds in benator
O'Brion's bill.
Instead of a sales tax, the gov
ernor’s plan of financing the pen
sion will be followed. It requires
reappropriation of the $4,000,000
state relief fund, so that $4,000,000
of state and federal funds will be
available for pensions annually. A
head tax of $2 instead of 50c as
at present is proposed to raise
$500,000 annually, thus providing
a total of $5,000,000 a year, half
to come from the federal govern
ment, to give qualified Nebras
kans a pension of $30 per month.
The plan for establishing prison
industries at the men’s reforma
tory and state penitentiary as re
cently revised by the house of rep
resentatives provides $80,000 in
stead of the $315,000 asked for by
the board of control. All but $10,
000 is to be used in buying equip
ment, while the sum mentioned is
for a revolving fund.
The work program includes meat
packing, making shoes and clothing
at the penitentiary, and expansion
of dairying and printing activities,
and instllation of a metal furniture
factory at the reformatory where
a plant has already been estab
lished for making automobile li
cense plates and metal signs.
None of the prison made goods
are to be sold in competition with
private industry, making state in
stitutions and governmental agen
cies the only legal customers for
such goods.
Newly created laws provide that
a three-member state workmen’s
compensation court is to be set up
as recommended by Governor Coch
ran in his inaugural message to
the legislature;
Fixing pay of police magistra
tes in villages up to 1,000 popula
tion at $50 per year, and in second
class cities and large villages at
$150 per year(this law is the work
of Von Seggern of West Point;
Requiring consolidated, school dis
trict busses to pick up children
living along a paved state highway
instead of making them congre
gate at a shelter house;
Requiring the county treasurer
to furnish the assessor with a com
plete list of all car owners to
whom licenses are issued (this
measure was originally intended
to require car owners to pay the
taxes on their vehicles before a
license would be issued;)
Enabling residents of a school
district to force an instalment tax
method of financing construction of
schools instead of the issuance of
bonds (this provides a “pay-as-you
build” plan for schools).
Final disposition of bills to abol
ish the state railway commission
and the state land commissioner’s
office was made last week, with the
first named bill being put to death
and the latter put on the statute
books.
While the legislature spared the
life of the railway commission, they
verbally took off pieces of hide
from members of that body, and a
bill was passed taking supervision
of public utilities and common car
rier securities away from the com
mission.
Lusienski, of Columbus, father
of the bill, said: “The present
setup of the railway commission
is the poorest in personnel the
state has ever had. The members
are constantly bickering with each
other and are always pulling three
ways.” He predicted that the next
move would be complete abolition
of the commission.
The blue sky department also
came in for some verbal castigation
on the part of the solons. Dunn
of Lancaster declared:
“That bureuu has been nothing
more than a joke for years. 1
agree that we have a bunch of poli
ticians on the railway commission,
but the blue sky department is no
better.”
Governor Cochran sponsored the
bill which he signed recently, trans
ferring responsibility for the 1,»
600,000 acres' of state school land
from the state land commissioner
to the board of educational lands
and funds. Leo Swanson remains
as secretary, however, as a provis
ion permitting the board to name
some member other than the land
commissioner as its secretary does
not go into effect until 1037.
The new rural public power dis
tricts stand in the offing as the re
sult of filing petitions to create
them. Former Attorney General
Sorenson is attorney for the pro
jects.
The Roosevelt Rural Public Pow
er District at Mitchel is one of the
districts, and the other is the
Southern Nebraska Rural Publi<
Power district. The former is lo
cated in Sioux and Scottsbluff coun
ties, and the latter includes Adams
Phelps, Harlan, Furnas, Kearney
Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer, Fillmore
Webster, Franklin and Gosper.
The enabling act created by the
legislature in 1933 made it possi
ble to form such districts.
Meanwhile, the Platte Valley'
Power and Irrigation project has
completed plans for distributing
power over much of Nebraska and
connecting with the lines of the
Loup River project at Columbus.
A high voltage line will be built
from the power house near North
Platte to McCook, thence east to
Gage county where it will be uti
lized in operating a $500,000 rural
electrification project for which
plans have already been made.
From Gage county the line will
proceed to Lincoln and Omaha
(lines from Columbus will also
serve Nebraska’s metropolis). A
line carrying 110,000 volts will ex
tend eastward from North Platte
to Kearney, thence straight east
to a point six miles north of Hast
ings, thence due north to Grand
Island and east along the river to
Columbus, thus completing a syn
chronated power network.
It is likely that lateral lines will
be run Sidney to North Platte and
from Hebron to Columbus.
The Massa?hussetts Bonding &
Insurance Co., which refused to
write the bond for Nebraska’s
state treasurer early this year,
thereby causing a furore which re
sulted in the state going into the
bonding business, can continue to
do business in this state, Sta".< In
surance Director Moose has ruled. |
GAMBLE’S TRADE-IN SALE!
Boys, your worn out bike is
worth up to $15.00 at Gamble
Stores on a new one—Bike Tires,
25c—Old Baseballs and Diamond
bails, 20c—Gloves and Mitts, 75c—
Fish Line and Flashlights, 25c.
CONGRESS—AS SEEN
BY A NEBRASKAN
Navy Graduates — Thirty-five
more days before graduation for
the senior class at the naval acad
emy and the Nebraska boys who
graduate in June to become naval
officers are all excited. Some of
them are going to be stationed on
airplane carrier and cruisers. How
ever, right now they are the whole
show at the school which is all
aflutter with color and graduation
excitement. There are all kinds of
athletic events, LaCrosse, bout
races, ball games, etc. At night
there are dances and teas in the
afternoon and the proud parents
are starting to reserve rooms at
Annapolis. When the cadets grad
uate there will be 1,600 cadets on
parade; 1,600 sweethearts of the
cadets (they call the girls “drags”
in the navy); 1,600 proud parents
and thousands of relatives and
visitors.
Potatoes—Are we importing too
much foreign farm products?
There are agruments for and
against that question, but former
Governor Brewster of Maine be
lieves we are. He is interested in
potatoes. He believes that the im
portation of foreign potatoes in
the United States has caused a
slump in the price of potatoes
raised in Maine, and he went to
see the President about it this
week, and he quotes the President
as saying that he will not allow
any reductions in the taritf rate
on foreign potatoes shipped into
this country.
The Derby—There seems to have
been a reason why there were so
few congressmen and senators pre
sent in the House and Senate dur
ing the past few days, and that
reason was the Kentucky Derby.
Many of the senators and congress
men attended the races, and some
of them apparently guessed right.
Those who are back from Louis
ville tell stories of great crowds,
chilly weather and wild parties. It
seems that if anybody was com
fortable in Louisville the night be
fore the Derby and during the
Derby, it was the horses which ran
in the race. They say it was im
possible to get a decent room, and
taxicab drivers charged $15 to take
you from town to the racetrack,
and then the overcoats were too
thin to protect human beings from
the terrible cold and dampness.
Gallons of rye, bourbon and scotch
were consumed, and if the stories
were true, it was a hilarious time
the night before and the night
after the Derby.
Jobs—Uncle Sam has 5,000 peti
tions for jobs. Crowds of hopeful
job seekers are growing by leaps
and bounds every day. The Gov
ernment has rented a vacant store
building to speed up the handling
of employment applications. Clerks,
laborers, doctors, plumbers, and the
once-rich, wait patiently in lines
for a blue sheet that might prove
, the ticket to some kind of a job.
, One office handled 5017 applications
, the first week it was open. One
I place was so crowded that the
doors were closed. If you are not
there when your number is called,
it is just too bad, and perhaps you
have to wait another week.
Smoke Screen—The have a club
in Washington called the Congress
ional Club, and the wives of the
congressmen and senators are
members. They have a very beaut
iful building in the northwest part
of town, where they hold card
parties and dinner dances frequent
ly. The other day they had a
“breakfast” at noon, in honor of
Mrs. Roosevelt, and the wives of
the members of the Cabinet. These
prominent ladies sat at the honor
table, and one lady who attended
said she was surprised to see so
many ladies seated at the honor
table smoking cigarettes. She
thought that there was so much
smoke coming from the lips of
these ladies who were guests of
honor that it resembled, a smoke
screen, and she was unable to dis
tinguish the faces of prominent
women in Washington.
Good Grass—Mrs. Roosevelt had
her annual tea on the lawn of the
White House grounds from four
to six o’clock about 5,000 people
walked in a long line thru the east
gate and thru the grounds to shake
hands with her, and then they went
to little tents and drank lemon
ade and ate tiny sandwiches and
cookies. It was a beautiful day
and the south lawn was in wonder
ful shape. A congressman from
Kansas leaned over and whispered,
“Gee, wouldn’t some of our cows
grow fat on this wonderful grass?”
They are going to have a uni
cameral legislature in the Phil
lippines and will try it out very
similarly to the way the unicam
eral government will be tried out
in Nebraska. In the meantime the
Phillippine Commissioners will en
deavor to put laws across which
will give the Phillippine Islands
some benefits of free trade with
the United States, and members
of the House Committee on Insular
Affairs are watching every move
the Phillippine Commissioners are
making.
Among the many interesting
sights in Washington, there are
three which are outstanding; one
is the Constitution of the United
States, one is the Declaration of
Independence, which can be found
1
1 in the library and the other is the
Capitol of the Nation. The Con
stitution and Declaration of In
dependence have faded out to such
an extent that both of these are
hard to read.
I -
It seems that everybody in the
United States is here in Washing
ton trying to get a slice of the
five billion dollar work relief pie.
It seems definite now that the
states are going to get in propor
tion of this money to the number
of men and women now on relief,
and the money will not be put out
on the basis of population.
F. H. Chapelle, of the Nebraska
! State Legislative Board., BVother
i hood of Locomotive Firemen and
j Enginemen, came in today. He
I used to work at South Sioux City,
! and knows a lot of the Northwest
ern R. R. boys, including Lou Wad
dick.
Mr. Norris of New York came in
to say that he knows all about Ne
braska. He says he knows Anton
DeGroot of Madison real well and
wants to know when watermelons
will be ripe in Madison county.
KARL STEFAN.
ANNOUNCING!
A new' Blackstone Electric Wash
er at only $34.95 in actual Black
stone quality—Delivered to you
from all Gamble Stores. Time Pay
ment plan, $5.00 down, with small
carrying charge.
City Council Proceedings
O’Neill, Nebraska,
May 8, 1935.
The New Council Met and Org
anized.
Present: Mayor Kersenbrock,
Councelmen, Norbert Uhl, John
Protivinsky, Thos. J. Brennan, Levi
Yantzi, H. E. Coyne, W. H. Harty.
Minutes of previous meetings
read and approved.
City Treasurer’s Statement for
the Year of April 24, 1934, to May
1, 1935, read and. approved.
Upon motion the following bills
were allowed:
On General Fund:
I). I). Hunt _ $100.00
Bob Williams _ 3.75
Uhl Transfer . 2.50
Mrs. R. L. Arbuthnot .. 14.00
Bert Gunn _ 3.00
On Water Fund:
H. E. Coyne ..$54.27
Arbuthnot & Reka .... 1.72
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FRANCIS DEMPSEY
Standard Servisman
O'Neill
It Makes a Real
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Difference in Qasoline
You'll be surprised—agreeably surprised—at the difference
you notice when you run your car for the first time on a
gasoline that contains Tetraethyl. And it's easy to tell
whether the gasoline you buy does contain this valuable
anti knock fluid. Simply look for that little metal sign (re
quired by law) on every Standard Red Crown pump.
Tetraethyl is the finest known anti-knock fluid—the very
same valuable fluid which (in larger quantity) goes into
premiunvpriccd gasoline. You get it now in every drop of
that famous Live Power gasoline—Standard Red Crown.
HERE’S WHERE YOU GET IT:
Standard Oil Service Station
Fifth and Douglas
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Mattie Soukup __ 18.47
Continental Oil Co. _ 29.13
Ed Hagensick_4.30
The Mayor made the following
appointments for the ensuing year:
Appointments:
City Attorney—Emmet A. Har
mon.
Police and Pound Master—Chest
er Calkins.
Engineer at Pump Station—Jesse
Scofield.
Medical Adviser and City Physi
cian—Dr. L. A. Carter.
Street Commissioner — H. E.
Coyne.
The Mayor named the following
committees for the ensuing year:
Streets and Alleys—Coyne, Prot
ivinsky and Harty.
Lights—Uhl,Brennan and Harty.
Water—Brennan, Protivinskyand
Uhl.
Sewer—Protivinsky, Coyne and
Harty.
Walks and Crossings — Harty,
Coyne and Yantzi.
Parks—Yantzi, Coyne and Prot
ivinsky.
Auditors—Harty, Uhl and Coyne.
Custodian of city property—Levi
Yantzi.
Finance Committtee — Brennan,
Coyne and Harty.
Moved, seconded and, carried that
the appointments and committees
as made by the Mayor be confirmed.
Moved, seconded and carried that
H. E. Coyne, be made chairman of
the City Council.
Motion by Councilman Brennan,
seconded by Councilman Protivin
sky, that the Chief of Police be
allowed $5.00 per month for gas
and oil. Motion carried.
Upon motion the application and
bond of P. B. Harty for an on and
off sale beverage license was ap
proved.
Lowell Johnson met with the
City Council and presented the fol
lowing petition.
PETITION
We, the undersigned property
holders in Block “H” and “I”, in
Fahy’s Park Adidtion to O’Neill,
agree to hook up with the sewer if
the City sees fit to extend it be
tween the blocks above mentioned.
It is understood that the fee to be
paid to the City is $1.00 each.
Signed: Lowell Johnson,
August Schroder,
Otto Clauson,
J. C. Bazelman,
Esther Harris,
D. H. Clauson,
J. B. Ryan.
The Mayor appointed Council
men WT. H. Harty, Levi Yantzi,
(Continued on page 8, column 2.)
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O’NEILL & BLOOMFIELD
TREASURERS STATEMENT
CITY OF O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
From April 24, 1934, to April 30, 1935
GENERAL FUND
RECEIPTS:
County Treasurer ..... . ..$ 8,500.00
Licenses, Shows, Peddlers, etc. ______ 671.00
Total ... . . ....$ 9,171.00
WARRANTS ISSUED:
General _$1,418.62
Fire Department _ 472.83
Police _ 1,108.20
Street and Sewer_ 1,657.22
Street Lighting . 3,749.07
Parks and Grounds_ 64.40
Printing _ 405.84
Band . 45.00
Total . $8,921.18
BALANCE SHEET: %
Balance on hand April 24, 1934_ $ 503,38
Total receipts for the year----- 9,171.00
Warrants on hand April 30, 1935 ___ 831.63
Total .... .. $10,506.01
Warrants issued from May 1, 1934 to May 1, 1935 $8,921.18
Warrants on hand May 1, 1934___ 936.21 9,857.39
Balance on hand May 1, 1935.....$ 648.62
WATER FUND
RECEIPTS:
Water collections from April 24, 1934 to May 1, 1935 _ $ 6,083.60
Warrants issued from May 1, 1934 to May 1, 1935. 4,904.19
BALANCE SHEET:
Balance on hand April 24, 1934_____ 455.36
Total receipts for the year..— - 6,083.60
Warrants on hand May 1, 1935 .. .... 136.38
• ———————
Total. ....$ 6,675.34
Warrants issued from May 1, 1934 to May 1, 1935 $4,904.19
Warrants on hand April 24, 1934. ..— 298.03 5,202.22
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 _$ 1,473.12
SPECIAL WATER FUND
Balance on hand April 24, 1934_____ $ 2,500.00
Transfered from Water Fund April 2, 1935... 500.00
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 .... $ 3,000.00
ROAD FUND
Balance on hand April 24, 1934 .._. $ 5.69
County Treasurer—Labor Fund . ... 760.00
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 ---$ 765.69
INTERSECTION PAVING DISTRICT NO. 1
WARRANTS ISSUED:
Registered warrants issued .....$ 4,750.00
Interest accrued -- -- 41.53
Total.—. —.-. $ 4,791.53
Sold Bonds .. $4,750.00
Interest received - 14.25
Additional interest paid - 27.28 4,791.53
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 ..... $ NONE
CURB AND GUTTER DISTRICT NO. 2
Warrants Registered --$ 2,790.64
Deposits . $1,924.78
Warrants paid, No’s. 1 to 7 inclusive $1,750.00
Interest paid 40.37 1,790.37
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 ..—-- $ 134.41
Unpaid Registered Warrants No’s. 8-9-10-11-- $ 1,040.64
CURB AND GUTTER DISTRICT NO. 3
Warrants registered ...—..j—-$ 2,992.07
Deposits $2,286.79
Warrants paid No’s. 1 to 9 inclusive $2,250.00
Interest paid __— 7.73 2,257.73
_ __
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 —-- $ 29.06
Unpaid registered warrant No’s. 10-11-12 .. $ 742.07
CURB AND GUTTER DISTRICT NO. 4
Warrants Registered. $ 2,389.19
Deposit- $1,210.61
Warrants paid No’s. 1 to 4 inclusive $1,000.00
Interest paid_„— -- 4.68 1,004.68
Balance on hand May 1, 1935 $ 205.93
Unpaid registered warrants No’s. 5-6-7-8-9-10 . $ 1,389.19