SYNOPSIS OF NEW STATE LAWS
DIGEST OF WORK DONE BY THIRTY-FOURTH
NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
OVER A THOUSAND INTRODUCED
Nearly Three Hundred New Bills Were Enacted During the
Session, are Now Laws, and will be Incorporated
in Statutes of Nebraska.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Following is a synopsis of the measures
passed by the thirty-fourth Nebraska
legislature at it^ session just finished,
and which will be placed as laws upon the
statute books. In the house there were
introduced 766 bills, and in the senate
29C. Of them only but a trifle over one
fourth succeeded in reaching the gover
nor's hands and receiving official sanc
tion.
SENATE FILES.
S. F. 1—Provides for a public ware
house system for handling gram.
S F. 2—Provides for the consolidation .
of Omaha, South Omaha, Florence, Dun
dee and Benson, on vote of majority of
those living in territory affected. Emer
gency clause attached.
S. F. 3—Legalizes warrants issued in
Polk county. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 9—Provides for me sterilization in
certain cases of defectives in state insti
tutions.
S. F. 12—Provides for pensions for
mothers of dependent children.
S. F. 18—Authorizes the levy of a 2 mill
tax in Douglas county for the support of
the poor.
S. F. 21—Revises provison tor paving in
cities of second class, so that material
may be indicated in petition. Emergency
clause attached.
S. F. 22—Permits organization of school
districts by county unit, in counties less
than *.000 inhabitants.
S. F. 24—Provides pensions for firemen
In cities having less than 23.000 inhab
itants.
r. —rruviaes compensauun in
juries received by volunteer firemen in in
corporated villages.
S. F. 26—Provides that railroads shall
furnish shippers of live stock with trans
portation for shipments of one or more
cars.
S. F. 29—Authorizes county agricultural
societies to acquire title to land.
S. F. 31—Provides for a state parole
officer.
S. F. 35—Legalizes the profession of
“chiropractic” in Nebraska.
S. F. 36—Provides for working prisoners
in city and village jails on streets.
S. F. 37—Provides that an order for
service by publication on non-resident de
fendants may be made by judge of dis
trict court in vacation.
S. F. 38—Offenders may be bound over
after their preliminary examination to’
the next jury term of the district court.
Emergency clause attuebed.
S. F. 4C—State treasurer authorized to
receive moneys granted under educational
acts by national congress. Emergency
clause attached.
S. F. 42—Providing a two-year course
in the state normal for training of rural
teachers.
S. F. 45—Makes shooting on public
highways unlawful. Emergency clause
attached.
S. F. 48— Limits municipal tax levies to
mills exclusive of special assessments
and levies for payment of bond issues.
S. F. 49—Provides that village trustees
iiiust be bona fide residents and lose office
w hen they move out of village.
S. F. 50—County judges fee bill.
S. F. 51—Extends power to sell land
for delinquent taxes to include special
assessments of all kinds.
S. F. 52—Provides for rotation of names
on ballot where there is more than one
candidate for office on the same ticket.
Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 53—Extends burglary statute to
cover entering telephone booth of pay
station. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 54—A joint memorial to congress
on the subject of irrigation.
S. F. 55—Extends the charter of char
itable societies.
• S. F. 57—Provides for service by publi
cation in cases where defendant's flame
is not known.
S. F. 59—Authorizes guardians to mort
gage trust estates, under direction of
county court.
S. F. 61—Prohibits the sale of opium,
morphine, cocaine and other ‘‘dope” under
stringent penalties. Emergency clause
attached.
S. F. 65—Regulates the maintenance and
operation of electric transmission lines.
Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 67—Provides manner in which
water supply may be purchased for irriga
tion districts. Emergency clause at
tached.
S. F. 68—Provides regulation for the use
of ditches in irrigation districts.
S. F. 69—Regulates the matter of bond
Issues by irrigation districts/
S. F. 74—Makes unlawful overdrawing
on banks without arrangement for credit.
Emergency clause attached.
5. e. u—fixes salaries oi memoers oi
fire and police department in Omaha.
S. F. 78—Authorizes levy of special tax
for fire fighting equipment in cities hav
ing over 5,000 population.
S. F. 80—Repeals law requiring testing
of grain by vertical section.
S. F. 83—Repeals requirement for state
ment by legislative candidates as to
choice for U. S. senator.
S. F. 85—Raises the requirements for
the examination and registration of
nurses. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 94—Provides for a city planning
commission for Omaha.
S. F. 101—Extends embezzlement stat
ute to cover cases in which defendant has
part ownership in property embezzled.
S. F. 102—Extends forgery statute to
cover letters and oltier writings.
S. F. 105—Provides instances in which
supreme court judges are disqualified to
act in cases pending before them.
S. F. 106—Provides how vacancies on ir
rigation boards may be filled.
S. F. 107—Provides for vocational train
ing in public schools.
S. F. 109—Makes county superintendent
a non-partisan office.
S. F. 119—Provides for listing and re
turn to assessor of all goods in storage.
S. F. 120—Authorizes county boards to
compromise and pay dormant judgments
and claims.
S. F. 124—Regulates business colleges
and prescribes form of tuition notes takes
by them.
s. F. 125—Provides for issue*“of 6.000
copies of session laws 1915 session.
S. F. 126- Provides that no candidate at
a primary who is defeated may afterward
be a candidate by petition.
S. F. 131—Defines a legal newspaper to
have circulation of 200 copies weekly and
to have been published at least 52 weeks.
S. F. 133—Board of education in Omaha
' to tie elected at large instead of by wards.
S. F. 134—Board of education in Omaha
to be nominated by petition.
S. F. 135—In Omaha the board of edu
cation is authorized to permit use of
school buildings for neighborhood meet
ings.
S. F. 136—School tax in Omaha shall
not exceed 25 mills per annum.
s. F. 139—Defines live stock remedies,
regulates their sale, requires registration
fee from manufacturer, importer or deal
er. and provides a penalty of not more
than S100 for violation. Emergency clause
attached.
S. F. 140—Authorizes the giving of a
cash bond for security for costs In cases
where required of a non-resident.
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S. F. 141—Provides regulations for the
sale of concentrated feeding stuffs. Emer
gency clause attached.
S. F. 142—Regulates sale of agricultural
seeds, provides for their inspection, fixes
standards of purity and provides penalty
of not more than $100 fine for violation of
act. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 144—Authorizes cities or counties
to acquire by eminent domain land need
ed to protect streets and roads.
S. F. 148—Adds a college of pharmacy
to the state university.
S. F. 149—Provides for a public defend
er in Douglas county to defend in felony
cases at a salary of $1,200 per annum.
S. F. 162—Incorporates the grand lodge
of the A. F. & A. Masons. Emergency
clause attached.
S. F. 164—Amends statute (8199 Rev.
Stat. 1913) relating to procedure on re
versals in supreme court, providing for
special mandate to court below, and for
stay of proceedings there, on new appeal.
Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 166—Grants the U. S. government
the right to appropriate and use all flood
waters within the state.
S. F. 172—Provides regulations as to
the testing of cream by the food commis
sion. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 189—Makes Lincoln’s birthday a
legal holiday.
S. F. 192—Exempts rural telephone
lines without switchboards and farmers’
mutual companies of less capital than
$5,000 from making annual reports to
stato railway commission.
r. ■ —neguiaies me manuracture,
sale and distribution of anti-hog cholera
serum and viru$ and prohibits same ex
cept where authorized by live stock sani
tary board. Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 201 —Repeals present law with re
gard to seining and authorizes the chief
deputy game warden to seine out coarse
fish when necessary.
S. F. 211—Authorizes all incorporated
villages, towns and cities to levy a tax of
one mill for music and amusement fund.
S. F. 219—Provides that grand and petit
jurors may be served by mail. Emergency
clause attached.
S. F. 225 Provides for resurfacing as
well as paving streets in Omaha.
S. F. 227— Authorizes levy of % to 2
mills for park fund in cities 5.000 to 25,000
inhabitants.
S F. 228— Defines term “week” in con
nection with published notices to mean
any seven consecutive days.
S. F. 241—Provides for consolidation of
school districts of cities and villages
where consolidated with a metropolitan
city. (Applies to Omaha merger.)
S. F. 249—Raises sheriff's mileage to 10
cents per mile and his pay for boarding
prisoners fixed at 50c per diem, except in
Douglas county, where it is fixed at 2
cents.
S F. 259—Permits levy of 45 mills in
school districts on submission of same to
voters
S- F. 261 Authorizes villages and cities
of the second class to levy a 3 mill tax
for the purpose of supplying hydrants,
etc., necessary for a public water supply.
Emergency clause attached.
S. F. 262—Authorizing the issuing of
bonds for the construction of public
buildings in cities from 5.000 to 25.000.
S. F. 267—Makes it duty of attorney
general to resist and defend suits arising
over infringement of patents relating to
concrete bridges.
S. F. 289 - Provides that drainage dis
trict may pro rate ba<‘k funds where same
have accumulated.
S. F. 291 —Fixes salaries of officers in
cities 5,000 to 25.000.
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HOUSE ROLLS.
H. R. 2—Relates to drawing and sum
moning of juries in counties having more
than one hundred thousand population.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 3 Provides th.Jt *the county
boards in each county in the state shall
at the election in 1016. submit the ques
tion of the adoption of the highway com
missioner system.
H- R- *—Relates to building and loan
associations and fixes amounts they may
loan to members; permits investment of
idle funds in U. S., state, county, town
ship or school district securities.
H. R. 5—Provides for establishment of
an accredited twelfth grade county high
school in any county in the state where
none such now exist and defines qualiflca
j tions of those who may vote bonds for
such purpose. Passed with emergency.
H R. 13—Provides for perpetuation of
corners of land surveys, by county’sur
veyor, upon notice by road overseers, when
same are likely to be lost or destroyed:
fixes fees therefor and provides penalty
for failure to notify such surveyor. Passed
with emergency.
H. R. 14—Provides for survey of sec
tions into legal subdivisions; county sur
veyor to restore lost or obliterated cor
ners and rules for such survey. Passed
with' emergency.
H. R. 21—Provides for cumulative vot
ing and voting by proxy by stockholders
of any company incorporated under the
laws of Nebraska.
H. R. 22—Amends statute against as
sisting prisoners to break jail or place of
confinement to includa the assisting of
any prisoner accused or convicted of
crime against the laws of the United
States or any state or territory thereof.
H. R. 26—Relates to animals afflicted
with contagious or lnfectiotts diseases,
provides for their inspection and appraisal,
for indemnification if killed, and provides
penalty.
H. R. 29—Appropriates $150,000 for hos
pital at the state medical college in Om
aha.
H. R. 32—Establishes a supreme court
commission.
H. R. 36—Provides that physicians and
surgeons may file liens for professional
services; written notice thereof to be
served upon person from whom lien is
claimed.
H. R. 40—Relates to the practice of
dentistry.
H. R. 44—An act to fix the date for the
use of money, to regulate the lending of
money. Roan shark bill.
H. R. 46— Appropriation for state uni
versity.
H. R. 47—Provides penalty for receiving
stolen property of less value than $35.
H. R. 49—Relates to hours of labor by
women; hours not limited except in
cities above the 5.000 class.
H. R. 50— Appropriates $2,000 as nucleus
fund for relief of blind in the state.
H. R. 51—Fixes first Monday in June of
■ each year for annual school meeting.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 52—Exempts firemen who have
been members in good standing for five
or more consecutive years in fire or hook
and ladder company from jury service.
H. R. 53—Authorizes issuing of exemp
tion certificates to those who have been
members in good standing of any fire or
hook and ladder company for a period of
five years.
H. R. 54—Creates a municipal court in
cities of metropolitan class; jurisdiction
co-extensIve with district court in sums
not exceeding $1,000; no change of venue
from this court. Salary $2,500 per annum
clerk $1,200.
H. R. 57—State university appropriation
of 93 per cent of the \ mill levy. Passed
with emergency.
H. R. 58—Provides that sale, contract,
agreement or assignment of wages of
head of family is void unless executed and
acknowledged by husband and wife.
H. R. 60—Appropriation for payment of
inclde“tal expenses of thirty-fourth ses
sion legislature of Nebraska. Passed with
emergency.
H. R. 61—Appropriation for payment of
members, officers and employes, thirty
fourth session legislature of Nebraska.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 64—Provides for pension of $10
per month for widows of retired police of
ficers, so long as they shall remain such
widows.
H. R. 65—Provides that county boards
may levy upon taxable property of county
for construction of a court house or Jail
upon petition of 55 per cent of legal
voters of a county. Passed with emer
gency.
H. R. 67—Omaha city judges may ap
point constables.
H. R. 68—Property subject to inherit
ance tax. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 70—Provides penalty for wrongful
possession or use of any badge or card
of any society or lodge.
H. R. 74—Bonds for continuance in ac
tions of forcible entry and detainer.
H. R. 77—Relates to endorsement, by
prosecuting attorneys, of names of wit
nesses on informations after same are
filed.
H. R. 78—Relates to peremptory chal
lenges; reduces number of such chal
lenges upon part of defendant, in certain
cases, and increases number of such chal
lenges upon part of the state in similar
cases.
H. R. 79—Relates to continuances in
justice courts; provides for seven days,
after return day, instead of thirty days,
in first instance.
H. R. 81—Provides ror non-election of
constables, and in cities of the metropoli
tan class reduces number of justices of
the. peace from six to two.
H. R. 82—Defines territorial jurisdiction
of justice of the peace; restricted to dis
trict from which elected.
H. R. 83—Defines each county in state
as a separate justice of the peace dis
trict; Omaha a separate district.
n. ri. w—xtept-ais uie pruwsiun ui.u
clerks, under direction of court, report in
cumbrance by mortgage, judgment or oth
erwise in partition sales of realty.
H. R. 91—Appropriation for Elizabeth
D. Davis, whose husband was stabbed
and killed at state penitentiary.
H. R. 92—Relates to vesting and trans
fer cf real and personal property belong
ing to religious societies; district court
given jurisdiction to decree transfer, upon
hearing after notice, through trustee ap
pointed by court.
H. R. 94—Relates to personal injuries
from defective streets in villages and
cities of second class; costs cannot be
recovered against such village or city un
less due notice is given. Passed with
emergency.
H. R. 104—Provides for aid to county
fairs, same to be first applied to payment
of premiums.
H. R. 105—Provides for trimming of
hedge fences, undergrowth, etc., and the
burning and removal of same. Passed
with emergency.
H. R. 107—Provides that at least seven
months of school be taught in districts
having from 20 to 75 pupils.
H. R. 114—Reduces legal carrying capa
city of bridges built anew or repaired by
county board on other than main traveled
roads between the cities and towns from
twenty tons to fifteen tons.
H. R. 119—County boards in each county
instead of Justices of the peace, made
overseers of th# poor, except in towns or
cities as may be otherwise provided by
lam-.
H. R. 122—Provides that where two or
more defendants are on trial at same time
the county attorney shall be allowed per
emptory challenges for each of such de
fendants.
H. R. 128—Provides that when land is
taken for railroad right-of-way, not more
than 40 acres may be taken for “all other
purposes"; original provison was 20
acres.
H. R. 137—Provides for public welfare
board in cities of the metropolitan class.
H. R. 138—In counties under commis
sioner system the county road fund is
placed under control of the county board,
same to be expended by the overseer of
the road district under the direction of
the commissioner of his district. Passed
with emergency.
H. R. 139—Relates to road overseers
and subjects them to removal from office
by county board upon failure to perform
duty. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 140—Relates to drainage districts
and provides for complete record for re
ceipts and disbursements; penalty for
failure.
H. R. 142—Appropriation for sewerage
system for hospital for insane at Ingle
side. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 144—Regulates private employ
ment agencies and places same under
rules prescribed by commissioner of labor.
H. R. 148--Authorizes county boards to
establish and maintain workhouses.
H. R. 148—Relates to state aid bridges
and provides that county boards may.
with consent of state board of irrigation,
purchase, as well as construct, bridges 75
feet or more in length.
H. R. 150—Relates to theft of automo
biles or motorcycles and provides pen
alty. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 151—Provides for election, by
township board, of one of its members as
township highway superintendent, defines
his duties touching township roads and
culverts, and provides for his removal for
cause.
H. R. 152—Fixes compensation of judges
and clerks of election; 30 cents per hour
for time employed.
H. R. 154—Congress memorialized to
pass ship purchase act recommended by
President Wilson.
H. R. 155—Provides that district judge,
in vacation, shall make such order re
specting service upon unknown heirs or
devisees as may to the court seem
proper.
H. R. 156—Provides that district judge,
in vacation, may, upon guardian’s peti
tion, grant and issue order to show cause
why license should not be granted for
sale of ward's realty.
H. R. 161—Township board regulates
use of money by road overseers.
H. R. 165—Appropriates $150,000 for
state aid bridge fund.
H. R. 167—Provides that state banks'
re-discounts and bills pa cable may be
equal to the amount of its paid up capital
and surplus.
H. R. 171—Appropriates money for nor
mal schools. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 172—Appropriation for normal
schools.
H. R. 174—Provides for grant or gift of
endowment funds to cemetery, mausole
um. or burial associations and for care of
burial lots. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 178—Provides for settlement of
estates where administration has not been
had for more than two years from date
of death.
H. R. 185—Provides for mowing and
burning all weeds and grass along public
roads'; that same be done by toad over
seer upon failure of owner and expenses
charged to land involved and collected as
tax. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 190—Authorizes attorney gene.ral
to appear for state in eases affecting
water right? in Nebraska interstate
streams and appropriates money for such
purpose.
H. R. 192—Appropriation for relief of
Sarpy county for costs growing out of
■prison breaking eases.
H. R. 194—Provides for employment of
prisoners by county boards in counties
having more than twenty thousand and
less than one hundred thousand popula
tio, and by mayor and council in cities of
over five thousand and less than one hun
dred thousand inhabitants.
H. R. 195—Regulates manufacture, use
and sale of embalming fluids and provides
penalty.
H. R. 199—Appropriation for relief of
Mrs. lone Story, injured in laundry at
feeble minded institute. Passed with
emergency.
H. R. 200—Provides, at primary election,
that polls open and close at S a. m. and
8 p. re.
H. R. 204—Relates to salaries paid pure
food department inspectors.
H. R. 205—Provides for three deputy
inspectors of weights and measures at
$4.50 per day.
H. R. 208—Makes county attorney ex of
ficio county coroner, without additional
salary, on first Thursday after the first
Tuesday in January, 1917.
H. R. 210—Relates to disposition of
property found upon or near body upon
which inquest is held.
H. R. 211—Relates to readvertising and
sale of real estate by sheriff.
H. R. 217—Regulates stringing electric
wires over railroad tracks.
H. R. 222—Provides for adoption of
Torrens system of registration of land
titles, in counties, upon petition of 10 per
cent of freeholders of a county.
H. R. 233—Provides for additional pay
to members of county boards when en
gaged in overseeing road work.
H. R. 240—Provides that county boards
may acquire lands for agricultural pur
poses from state.
H. R. 242—Appropriation for Cassie
Dye.r, deaf and dumb child, for loss of arm
in laundry machine in charge of state.
H. R. 244—Relates to apportioning costs
of division fences, including hog and sheep
tight fences, and defining same—a legal
fence.
H. R. 245—Relates to Initiative and ref
erendum in municipalities.
H. R. 246—Appropriates money for nor
mal schools.
H. R. 248—Provides penalty for sale, by
butcher, of any unwholesome flesh of any
diseased animal, or sale of any diseased
animal which is living; includes offering
for sale.
H. R. 258—South Omaha charter
amendments.
H. R. 259—Defines boundaries of school
lands in Grant county, per Dixon and Alt
survey. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 260 —Rep. iIs provision that state
auditor furnish himself and state treas
urer with offices, fuel, lights and supplies.
H. R. 261 — Relates to registration of
motor vehicles with secretary of state,
fixes fees therefor as occupation tax and
provides for change in coior of tags each
year. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 262—Empowers state board of ir
rigation to advise with and assist county
boards in plans for construction, repairing
and supervision of highways and bridges.
Passed with emergency.
H. R 263 - Relates to salaries of mayor,
councilmen and excisemen of cities.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 264—To appropriate money for
additional breeding ponds at the state fish
hatchery.
H. R. 269—Provides that all st.ute of
ficers required to make biennial reports
shall, on or before the first day of the
meeting of each legislature, have ready
for distribution, 600 copies by auditor and
.'.00 copies each by treasurer, secretary
of state, commissioner of public lands and
buildings, attorney general, superinten
dent of public instruction, state librarian,
and adjutant general.
H. R. 272—Relates to veterinarians and
regulates their practice.
H. R. 274— Provides for partial closing
of parks in cities, towns and villages con
taining less than 5,000 inhabitants, and
regulates charge for admission thereto;
• annot be closed to public for more than
five days at any one time, and not more
than twenty-five days in any one year;
“closing” construed.
H. R. 276—Authorizes irrigation or
drainage districts to contract with United
States whereby bonds of districts may be
guaranteed or credit secured for general
irrigation, ditch, or canal purposes.
H. R. 277—Amends election law. ballot
to be not over three columns wide and
marks to be made on left side of candi
dates name.
H. R. 284—Repeals sections 24^4 and
2486, Revised Statutes 1913. relating to re
moval of division fences.
H. R. 289—Paving and oiling streets in
cities of second class and villages.
H. R. 291—Relates to appointment by
district judge of two or more persons as
probation officers, one of whom shall be a
woman.
H. R. 292—Relates to mortgages and
trust deeds less than fee and held .is se
curity for loans, and provides that same
shall not be assessed as part of capital
stock of a bank, nor deducted from the
capital stock nor undivided profits—for
assessment purposes. Passed with emer
gency.
H. R. 293—Provides for auditing ac
counts of board of directors and general
manager of metropolitan water districts
by state auditor.
H. R. 297—Relates to irrigation dis
tricts; generally regulates and alfw de
fines duties of officers thereof.
H. R. 299 Relates to assessments and
bonds for paving and general street work
in paving districts—by mayor and coun
cil. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 301—Relates to drainage of city
lots, such lots to be kept free from weeds
by owner or occupant.
H. R. 304 —Requires express companies
to properly house live stock entrusted to
their care and provides penalty.
H. R. 313—Provides for sale of real
estate belonging to religious societies.
H. R. 316—Authorizes county boards to
establish public roads parallel to and not
more than five hundred feet from railroad
by resolution and without petition.
H. R. 319—A bill for an act for the reg
istration of voters in .ill cities of the first
class having a population of over 4(\000.
H. R. 321—An act providing for payment
of tuition by pupils in city high schools.
H. R. 330—Provides for formation of
water power districts.
n. n. oo i—rveiaies iu cuiiipeiiBauuu
water commissioners nnd fixes maximum.
H. R. 338 — Authorizes cities of first class
having population of more than forty
thousand and less than one hundred thou
sand to require owner or owners of lots
or lands within city to keep same, with
alleys and streets abutting, free from
weeds, provides for such removal upon
failure, of owner or owners and for spe
cial assessment touching same.
H. R. 339—Authorizes city of first class
to require owners to provide sewer con
nections and to make special assessments
therefor.
H. R. 341—Attachment not to issue
against non-resident or foreign corpora
tion unless cause of action arises on con
tract judgment or decree.
H. R. 343 —Repeals act establishing
junior normal schools.
H R. 347—Relates to fees and salaries
of county officials.
H. R. 349—Provides that state treasurer
may invest not to exceed 60 per cent of
current funds in his hands in warrants of
this state or any 6ountv thereof, when he
deems same proper. Passed with emer
gency.
H. R. 360— Appropriation for purchase of
additional land for Norfolk asylum for
inline. Passed with emergency.
H. R. 362—Provides for fire escapes and
other safety appliances on all public
buildings, including school houses, when
two or more stories in height.
H. R. 377—Provides for filing liens for
wells or cisterns.
H. R. 382—Provides for condemnation of
property for cemetery purposes by muni
cipalities.
H. R. 391—Relates to destruction of
weeds on railroad right-of-way and com
pensation therefor.
H. R. 392—Appropriation for normal
schools; money accumulated from endow
ment funds.
H. R. 393—Provides for bond by defend
ant in attachment cases.
H. R. 397—Provides for showing in
court where remittur has been ordered.
H. R. 398 -Authorizes governor to ap
point commission of three to act with like
I commission from state of Iowa to ascer
tain correct boundaries between Douglas
| and Pottawatamie counties.
H. R. 403—Relates to rules and regula
tions governing fire and police companies
I In metropolitan cities.
H. R. 404—Compels railroads to stop
cabooses of stock trains within one-half
mile of Stock Exchange building at South
Omaha.'
H. R. 405—Relates to apportionment of
state school funds: t one-fourth to be
| equally divided between all districts in
state entitled thereto and three-fourths
i pro rata to all pupils in state per reports
of county superintendents, latter based
| upon average dally attendance.
H. R. 406—State auditor make settle
ment with counties for amount due
j state for support and maintenance of in
sane patients.
H. ft. 410—Provides that county attor
| ney may proceed to collect forfeited recog
nizance by ordinary civil procedure.
H. R. 413—Reorganizes judicial districts
of state in part.
H. R. 418—Authorizes county board in
counties containing cities of first class to
grade, pave or re-pave roads and boule
vards and to issue bonds and warrants
therefor.
H. R. 419-Relates to macadamizing,
curbing or otherwise improving streets
in cities.
H. R. 420—Confers additional and sup
plemental power upon council of cities of
first class having over forty thousand and
less than one hundred thousand touching
classification of certain streets, their pav
ing and macadamizing; the formation of
districts therefor and the levying of spe
cial assessments upon realty therein.
H. R. 426- Authorizes st ite banks and
trust companies to subscribe to stock of,
submit to examinations by. and become
members of federal reserve banking sys
tem.
H. R. 429 —An act to require justices of
the peace to pay all fees in excess of a
certain sum into the county treasurer.
H. R. 430— An act to define and prevent
eorrput practices at elections.
H. R. 439—Relates io crediting county
treasurers wBth uncollectable taxes in
scavenger tax sale.
H. R. 443—Appropriation for new build
ing at Norfolk state hospital for insane.
H. R. 450—Relates to power of cities of
first class to sell certain real estate be
longing to city.
H. R, 451—Relates to general powers of
cities, towns and villages to pave and
curb streets thereof. Passed with emer
gency.
H. R. 456 —An act for the regulation of
municipal jails.
H. R. 460—Raises limit of general tax
levy in cities and villages to fifteen mills
and for grading and street work to eight
and one-half mills.
H. R. 461 -Empowers county boards in
counties under township organization to
create new townships our of cities of sec
ond class and to change township bound
aries to conform thereto. Passed with
emergency.
H. R. 467 -Provides penalty for destroy
ing any bridge or landmark.
H. R. 478—Provides for publication in
newspaper of personal tax roll in each
county, in discretion of county board.
H. R. 487 Regulates construction of
boulevards in cities of metropolitan class.
n. k. Regulates cost of publication
of tax list in newspaper.
H. R. 492 Appropriation for purchase of
additional lands fur feeble minded insti
tute Passed with emergency.
H. R. 497—Pe units inmates of hospitals
for insane to write letters with limited
restrictions only.
H. R. 499—Relates to application for
admission and expense at hospitals for
insane.
H. R. 500—Changes name of Hastings
insane hospital to “Ingleside Hospital fur
Insane.”
H. R. 501—Changes name of school for
deaf and dumb to "Nebraska School for
the Deaf,” and the name of the institu
tion for the blind to “Nebraska School for
the Blind.”
H. R. 503 -Relates to employment of
prisoners and. manner of crediting their
wages.
H. R. 504—Relates to application and
admission of children to home for the
feeble minded.
H. R. 505—Regulates admission of chil
dren to Nebraska orthopedic hospital.
H. R. 503—Changes name of horn*- for
friendless to “Home for Dependent Chil
dren,-' and regulates admission theret ..
H. R. 51C—Authorizes granting of addi
tional diminution of time to prisoners for
good behavior, diligence and fidelity to
trusts.
H. R. 514—Provides that counties pay
eosts of transporting prisoners to peni
tentiary and return of fugitives from .jus
tice.
H. R. 518—Relates to agricultural soci
eties in counties and raises to 8 cents per
inhabitant the sum which county boards
may trrant in aid thereof.
H. R. 524—Provides that assessors gath
er statistics touching all persons in all
naval or army service of the United
States in time of war.
H. R. 526—Provides penalty for injury
or interference with telephone, telegraph
or electric light wires and fixtures.
H. R. 530 - Provides for creating incor
porated water power districts
H. R. 543—An act relating to commis
sioner districts in counties having over
125.000 population.
H. R. 559—Provides that county clerks
be ex-officio county comptroller in coun
ties having population of 150,000 or more.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 560—Relates to interference with
or injury of irrigation or water power
canals and to stealing water therefrom,
including persons in control thereof.
H. R. 567—Provides tor inspection of
pedigrees of stallions and jacks. Con
solidation bill.
H. R. 572—Appropriation for purchase
of additional land for hospital for tubercu
lous.
H. R. 574—Appropriation for reimburs
ing C. F. Buehholz for four diseased
horses killed by order of state official.
H. R. 608 Litigants have benefit of ob
jections to rulings, orders or judgments
of court without formal notation of such
objections on the record at time made.
H. R. 610—District court may order
county attorney to investigate and report
where offense appears to have been com
mitted and in certain cases to order pros
ecution without such investigation.
H. R. 611—Relates to pleadings in
courts.
H. R. 612—It is unnocesary to object a
second time to evidence once admitted
bv court over objection.
H. R. 613—An acting county judge may
be appointed for full term of said office.'
H. R. 639—Appropriation for relief of
Lucy A Talbert, widow: husband killed
in auto accident caused by ward of the
state.
H. R. 640 -Appropriation for purchase of
land for home for dependent children.
Passed with emergency.
H. R. 641 -Appropriation for new hos
pital building for Nebraska orthopedic
hospital.
H. R. 651—Provides a budget system for
the. state, governor to prepare budget re
port.
H. R. 652 —Provides for state efficiency
survey commission.
H. R. 660 Appropriation for payment of
current expenses, probable and existing
deficiencies and for support and mainten
ance of various state institutions.
H. R. 661—Appropriation for state pen
itentiary.
H. R. 662—Appropriation for buildings
at the Nebraska institution for feeble
minded.
H. R. 663 -Appropriation for buildings
and improvements at Nebraska hospital
for insane at Lincoln.
H. R. 664—Appropriation for building
home for dependent children £}t Lincoln.
H. R. 665 —Appropriation for buildings
and equipment at hospital for tubercu
losis.
H. R. 666—Appropriates $10,000 for
laundry at Milford soldiers' home.
H. R. 667—Appropriates $8,000 for build
ings at the soldiers* home at Burkett.
H. R. 668 -Appropriation for sewerage
system at girls' industrial school at
Geneva.
H. R. 669—Appropriation for improve
ments and building at Nebraska school
for deaf at Omaha.
H. R. 670— Appropriation for dairy barn
and silo at Nebraska industrial home at
Milford.
n. n. w/o—r luwufji IIIUL SCrlOOl DOUM
shall not pay teacher after notice that
such teacher was under previous contract
to teach in some other district.
H. R. 696—The judges of all courts in
the state may appoint a person or persons
to perform the duties of probation of
ficer.
H. R. 697—Provides for re-registration
of voters in cities of 7.000 to 23,000 in
habitants.
. H. R. 706—Provides that countv clerk
shall perfonn duties of sherifT when lat
ter officer is disqualified.
H. R. 727—Provides for cancellation of
tax certificates after five years if forecTos
ure is not commenced.
H. R. 742—Relative to adjustment of
boundaries of school districts.
H. R. 749—Appropriation for use of
state railway commission to be used for
investigation of railroad rates.
H. R. 750—Appropriation for salaries of
state offieers.
H. R. 751—Appropriation for mainten
ance of state institutions.
H. R. 752—Appropriation for miscellane
ous deficiencies.
H. R. 753—Appropriation for claims
against state.
H. R. 755—Relates to woman’s indus
trial home and proper shelter and care of
penitent women at Milford.
H. R. 756—Relates to boards of educa
tion, provides for their nomination in
cities having population of more than
forty thousand and less than one hun
dred thousand, at primaries at which
members of city commission are chosen;
no filing fee required.
H. R. 759—Provides that all physicians
use prepartion of nitrate of silver upon
eyes of newly bom babies.
H. R. 760—Relates to the construction
of highways and improvement of the same
in counties of 30.000 or more.
H. R. 761—Appropriation for paving
near city of Lincoln near state farm.
H. r! 763—Relates to quarantine by
state veterinarian and by live stock sani
tary board. . .
H. R. 764—Appropriation of money to
prevent spread of foot and mouth dis
ease in live stock.
H. R. 765—Provides that commandants
of soldiers' and sailors' home at Grand
Island arrange for persons qualified to
enter such home, but living outside the
grounds thereof.
H. R. 766—Provides jail sentence for
divorced husband falling to pay alimony.
FOR THEM MAH
NEW8 EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
ffline and Foreign Intelligence Con
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
WAR NEWS.
A general land campaign against
the Turks by British and French
troops is about to be undertaken, ac
cording to reports from London.
* * *
It is reported from Rome that Italy
and Austria have failed to come to an
agreement regarding territorial con
cessions to Italy for her continued
neutrality.
• * •
The British expeditionary forces in
France will amount to 750,000 men,
according to a statement made by
David Lloyd-George, chancellor of
the exchequer.
• * *
Information comes from Austria by
way of Rome that Austria-Hungary is
concentrating troops on the Italian
frontier in view of a possible invasion
by Italian forces.
* » *
Germany is sending troops into
Hungary, and strong support of this
kind is likely to have an encourag
ing effect on the Austrians, whose
resistance has been described as
most determined.
• • »
In the first naval battle of the war
between Turkish and British war
craft, 100 of the crew of the British
transport Manitou were drowned and
a Turkish torpedo boat destroyed off
Chios island, near the Gulf of
Smyrna.
* * •
Seven million Poies, including
2,000.000 Jews, are at the point of
starvation, according to Hermann
Laundau, a Jewish philanthropist,
who arrived in London recently.
Many are eating potato peelings left
by the German army.
* • •
According to lists published in Lon
don nearly 200 German writers are
doing yoemen service for their coun
try, engaged directly in the fighting,
doing work with the hospital and
other adjunct corps, or pursuing their
calling behind the front as newspaper
men.
• • *
Touf Paris, a social register of the
French capital, just issued, contains
the names of 1,500 Parisians killed on
the battlefield up to February 25, 1915.
Included in this number are the
names of twenty generals. 367 other
officers, fourteen priests and 193 ti
tled members of the aristocracy.
GENERAL.
Two Wisconsin inventors have nat
ented a kerosene lamp that is auto
matically extinguished if upset or
even lifted from a support.
* * *
For the first time in its history
Rapid City, South Dakota, voted “dry”
in the recent municipal election, with
a majority of 43 against licenses.
* * *
Patriots’ day, which commemorates
the battle of Lexington fought in the
revolutionary war i40 years ago, was
observed in the Massachusetts build
ing at Panama-Pacific exposition.
• * •
Seventy-five men, many accom
panied by families, have located on
the government townsite reserve at
Ship Creek, the Cook inlet terminus
of the Alaska government railroad.
* * *
Twelve persons were killed and
twenty were hurt at Birmingham,
lnd„ when a five-storv wall of the old
Steel-Smith building crashed down on
a shoe store and a tea company’s
store.
• • »
“Labor organizations when properly
conducted are in my opinion of funda
mental advantage, not only to work
men, but to employers,” was the
statement at San Francisco of Sir
Thomas Shaughnessy, president of
the Canadian Pacific railroad.
• * •
Four hundred and ninety-six ships
passed through the Panama canal be
tween August 16, 1914, and February
14, 1915, according to National Cham
ber of Commerce figures issued.
Tolls were $2,126,832.
The first step toward the arbitra
tion of the building trade strike and
lockout which has thrown 125,000
wage earners of Chicago out of em
ployment was taken. Under a plan
announced by the state board of arbi
tration the difficulties between the
workers and employers will be sub
mitted to a board of three arbitrators.
• • •
Martha Schutz, the 15-year-old
daughter of a well to do farmer of
Connellsville, Pa., was attacked by
two masked women in the outskirts
of Connellsville. One_ of the women
held Miss Schultz while the other
pressed on each cheek the uncorked
neck of a bottle filled with acid.
* * •
Despite the protest of labor leaders,
the New York state senate passed the
bill designed to increase the hours of
labor for women and minors in can
ning establishments from sixty-six to
seventy-two hours a week.
• e *
Five jurymen were accepted in the
trial wrhich began at Los Angeles of
Charles E. Sebastian, chief of police
and candidate for mayor, and Mrs.
Lillie Pratt, charged with contribut
ing to the dependency of Edith Ser
kin, Mrs. Pratt's minor half sister and
ward.
• » *
The California state assembly pass
ed a bill already passed by the senate
exempting alien school teachers from
the provisions of a statute which re
quires public employee to be native
born or naturalized citizens.
Mrs. Paul Watgner of Gofer
gave birth to four children
girls and a boy.
• • •
Baron Herbert De Reuter
ing director of Reuter's 'i
company, committed suicide
London home.
* • •
A bill providing for compulsory
itary training passed the hous
legislature of Hawaii.
* * *
Predictions of great prosper!ti
the United States were made at Port
| land, Ore., by C’rarles Sumner li-tin
liu, governor of the federal reserve
banking board, who is touring the
Pacific coast.
* * *
Twenty-one city officials and form-r
officials of Terre Haute, Incl.. con -
ed In the election conspiracy <n- -
there are now in the United State
penitentiary at Leavenworth K
serving time for their crimes
* * •
General Villa’s attempt to 1> c
Matamoros was definitely abandoned
so far as the present is concerned
Major General Frederick Fun-t >.. nd
staff left Brownsville for San Anr •!.:->
The general expects, however, t< ;.etp
in close touch with the border <m.i
tion.
• • •
A jury was secured at Tr nica
Colo., for the trial of John R Law
son. international executive cm:
mittee memer of the United Mil
Workers of America, on a chare
murdering John Ximmo, a n
guard, during the recent coai mil.
strike.
SPORTING
The bill to create a commission to
regulate boxing and wrestling and a.
lowing ten-round bouts was del* ated
in the Pennsylvania legislature
* * *
The match between Johnny Kl!
bane, featherweight champion and
Joe Mandot, lightweight, set f< tj
3 at New Orleans, has been ta-1 <•*
* • •
Dick Grotte. secretary of the (l-na. a
baseball club, has Just oomph ted t1
draft of the Nebraska stat- V.igu
baseball schedule. The league is to
open in two weeks.
• • •
It is regarded in racing cic-ies as
virtually certain that racing will be
resumed in Germany this year The
first fixtures will be a series of six
Sunday races at Hoppegarteu near
Berlin, beginning May 16. to test pub
lic sentiment.
* * • «
Eddie Ainsmith, premier catcher of
the Washington / American league
baseball team, was sentenced to
thirty days in the workhouse wit
out option of a fine, in police court
at Washington, after conviction of
an assault upon a street car motor
man.
• • •
In a spectacular finish the Univer
slty of Wisconsin runners beat M ft
gan's team to the four-mile universi-;
trophy in the sixth annual Drake re
lay meet at Des Moines and hung ;
a new record of 18:04 2-5. against
Northwestern university's reco:d o!
18:36:23 in 1912.
* • •
Leonard Zeppela, driving his own
team of sixteen Siberian wolf doe
won the 412-mile all-Alaska sweep
stake dog team race at Nome \
His time for the course was 7S
44 minutes and 37 seconds. 4 h irs.
30 minutes and 17 seconds lower th u
the record established by John 1 ;
son's Siberian wolves in 1910.
• * •
The house bill legislating ten r ;r.d
no-decision boring matches in the
three first class cities of Minnesota—
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth
has passed the senate. 35 to 32. after
several minor amendments were
adopted. Concurrence by the house in
these amendments will be necessary
before the bill goes to the governor
WASHINGTO.N.
A note from President Wilson to
the German ambassador, Count vci.
Bemstorff. vigorously denies pariia
ity on the part of the United Stat- >
to Great Britain.
* • •
Secretary of State Bryan issues
mild rebuke to Rear Admiral Peary
finder of the north pole, for stating
that within 100 years the United
States must hold all North America
or cease to exist as a nation.
* * *
General George H. Harries of
Omaha, who h^is been in command ot
the National Guard of the District of
Columbia since 1897, and a member
of the organization for 26 years, has
filed his application with Secretary
of War Garrison for retirement with
the rank of major general.
* » *
The Atlantic fleet will be reviewed
in New York harbor May 17 by Presi
dent Wilson. Secretary Daniels an
nounced the date at the conclusion of
no-decision boxing matches in the
conferences with Admiral Fletcher,
commander in chief of the fleet
• • •
The supreme court held that the
state of Georgia had denied Leo M.
Frank no right under the federal con
stitution in sentencing him to death
for the murder of Mary Phagan. an
Atlanta factory girl. The court re
fused to release Frank on a writ of
habeas corpus.
• • •
Motoring will he permitted in Ye!
lowstone national park beginning Au
gust 1. Secretary Lane announced
thus opening the last of the great
government reserves to automobil -
Control stations are to be establish i
• • •
Judge McCoy of the District of Co
lumbia supreme court signed an or
der postponing until May 12 the :
junction case of the Riggs. National
bank against Secretary McAdoo . i. I
Comptroller of the Currency \\
Hams.
• • •
The effects of two booms are begin
ning to be felt in the national capital.
Business circles reflect the spectacu
lar activity of the financial barometer,
and political experts are taking stoc->
all along the line, preparing for heavy
action.
