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m jii THE BED CLOUD CHIEF. -ajTW WYll' NEBRASKOOOSE PROCEEDINGS OF LOWER LEG ISLATIVE BRANCH A. Condemn! Rmtime of tlir Wnak c- ootnpllihpil During thp l'aul Week Action uu Hill lllr. l Tliursduy, .Inntinry Hr. Tuesday's .lotirnul was only read in part, fuuthcr reading being dispensed with. The committee on printing reported that Jacob North it .Sons were prepar ing all bills as quickly us possible ex plaining that deltiy was caused by the inability of the proof readers to read proof in time. A resolution by Orosvonor that r.00 topics be printed of llou.se roll 137, a bill to amend the revenue laws of the itate, was amended to provide that 1,000 bo printed. It was then adopted. Several new bills were read the Hrst time. The most Important was House roll 178, by House, whleh provides that any newspaper published in any county In the htatc. In German Swedish, Bohc mian or English, having a dally, tri weekly or weekly circulation of l.fiOO must publish the proceedings of the county board therein. On motion of Hums the sergeant at arins was directed to procure Hags and Iritpe them back of the speaker's chair. When the house convened in the afternoon, it had the Skipton con tempt case before it. as well as the Benjamin-Israel contest. Judge Skipton was brought before the bar of the house and the warrant read. On motion of Fisher of Dawes, Mr. Skipton was given an opportunity to speak. He asked that the chief cleric to whom ho had given them, be required to read his reasons for not banding over the ballots in question. . The arguments set forth by Judge Skipton for his failure to comply with the request of the house were from the legal standpoint that the county court of Flllmoro county, being a part- of the co-ordinate branch of the state gov ernment, was not amenable to the house, and further, that as the ballots were a part of the evidence in the case pending before his court ha had neither & moral nor legal right to let them out of his jurisdiction. He said that the. statutes provided methods by which the legislature and the county judge rfl may obtain ballots in contested elec- ' ilon cases, lly virtue of the provision that both could not have the ballots at the same time, he was in possession and the legislature was not. Iu his concluding paragraph he says: "What relief for this predicament (here may be I shall not venture to suggest to your honorable body, oth r than to recall the fnct that hereto fore the remedy seems to have been found in a special net of the legisla ture. What means your honorable body may bo able to devise I know not, but will repeat that whenever I - havo proper authority lor the delivery to your honorable body of any evi dence in my possession that such (-violence will bo cheerfully furnished at the appointed time, and that it will not be necessary to employ any coer cion or to give vo.it to any vituperative or malicious epithets in order to com pel a surrender of such evidence." He rvas asked by Fisher: "Will you produce the ballots now?'' "No, S)lr," Bald the judge. Ho was ques tioned by others. The outcome of a long debate was that In; was held iu .contempt of the houso and lined 550 and $18 costs. On motion of l'rlueo of lllall the tine assessed was remitted on Icondltlon that Judge Skipton pro duce tne ballots within twenty-four hours. In the matter of the contest botween 'Benjamin nnd Israel, the committee on privileges and elections reported that It had counted the ballots cast and found that Israel had received 1,137 and Benjamin 1,032. Leaving out pre cincts objected to Israel hud 1,005 and Benjamin DM The committee recom jEQonded the scat be given to Israel. VThe minority report emphasized the "question of eligibility. The house topk up the reports and was iu the uidst of their consideration when ad journment was had. Friday, January UO. Preliminaries in the house occupied fulto a little time yesterday morning. As soon as the house was ready to en ter Into the day's work, l.ane of Lan caster asked in regard to the Benja-tnln-lsrael contest, unci wanted to knovrif Israel hud resigned as judge of Dundy county. On being Iu formed that he had, Mr. Lane thought that Israel was entitled to the scat, Inus much as he had received a majority of the rotes cast. Fisher of Dawes detailed the manner In which the vote had Immmi canvassed. Weaver of Richardson questioned the legality of Israel's right to the eat. Detweiler of Douglas quoted law on the subject, upholding claim of con testant. Benjamin, the contestee, said he did not want to beg any question. He hud come to Lincoln as a man. If God 2pared his life, he would come to the legislature in two years and if any of the present members were there, he would remember and do all lie could to even up. Other members were heard and then the question recurred on Wheeler's .motion to adopt the minority report Lost, 52 to 47. The majority report was immediate ly adopted by the same vote. Evans if Adams raised the point of order thai the contestee could not vote on his own case. Held by speaker to be well taken, 'and Mr.tBetrjatnln ,was oot allowed, to vote. , M On motion of Burns of Lancaster the chief justice of the supreme court yvvia asked to swear In Judge Israel. lie win not in the building and the house took u reecsss till 3 o'clock. When tho houbo couvened at 3 o'clock, Mr. Burns succeeded In find ing Chief Justice Harrison, who ap peared and administered the oath of otllce to Judge Israel. The latter then ijtbk hi" soat on tne llr ,f"louBO mil No. 113, appropriating 100,000 for pay of members, officers Mid employes of the legislature, re ceived U7 votes nnd was declared Sassed with emergency clause. House fell No. 121, appropriating 840,000 for the expenses of tho legislature, was read and passed with 05 votes. The houso then went into committee of tho whole to consider bills on gen eral file and considered House roll 13, reducing salaries of county judges, clerks, treasurers nnd sheriffs. After much debate the committee adopted a motion made by Pollard of Cass to rlso and report the bill for Indefinite post ponement. . i Saturday, Jnnuury Ml. Immediately after preliminaries iu the house yesterday, reports of stand ing committees were received. House roll '.3, declaring the plowing up of a public highway to boamlsdennor, was reported for passage by the committee on roads. Housu roll 5, amending the statutes so that In case of felonies, except trea son, arson, and murder, information by grand jury is necessary, was re ported for indefinite postponement. Kasterling moved to amend that the report be concurred in. Lane of Lan caster raised the point of order that a motion to indefinitely postpone could not be amended, (Irosvonor of Hamil ton called attention to the fact thn the ruling was contrary to the mint procedure, and asked tiiat the rule be made a part of the record. A motion by Kasterling to make the report a special order for .1 o'clock was voted down, and the report was adopted. Speaker Clark satisfied the members that his ruling was correct, not only according to Roberts' rules of order, but also by Heed's parliamentary rules. Utile 122 of the latter says: The mo tion to indefinitely postpone is not only debatable, but throws open the whole question to debate. Inasmuch as an afliriuatlve vote on this motion may decide the main question the merits of the question must be open for discus sion. The motion cannot be postponed. Housu roll (I, by Kasterling, which is n slight change in the manner of tiling information by county attorneys, was rccoiutnoiided'for passage. On motion of Burns a committee of three was appointed to act with a senate committee relative to admis sions during balloting for senator. Later the committee reported that ad mission be 1)3 ticket, each member to have two. An anti-foreign alliance resolution by (Jrell of Sarpy was tabled. A motion by i'ollard of Cass that committee on printing bo given entire supervision of the purchase of supplies was indefinitely amended. On motion of l'rinee of Hall, Mr. Benjamin, the member unseated, was allowed pay nnd per diem. Tho Fillmore county contest case was up again, nnd a motion by Olmstend of Douglas that County Judge Skipton be brought before the bar of the house to show cause, if any, why he still re fuses to deliver the hullots, prevailed. At 4 o'clock the sergeant-ut-tirnis ap peared with Judge Skipton. The speaker asked the judge to make a statement. That gentleman said he had no more to say than he had said. Olmstcud moved that he be imprisoned in the Luucuster county juil.for six hours for contemptuous behavior in the presence of the house. Tile merits of the nmttcr of punishment were entered into, resulting iu the adoption of the motion to imprison. Bower of Hall introduced a bill to establish a statu normul school at St. Paul, and appropriating $.10,000 there fore. The house, in committee of tin; whole considered housu roll 1 1 and 18. Tho first was recommended for indefinite postpotueiueut, the latter, making public road plowing a mlsdcanor wits recommended for passage. Adjourned. Monday .lull nary Sli. The house at Its session of Saturday transacted but very little business, putting in most of its time wuiting of the joint session to. arrive. As soon as he could' gain the speak er's notice. Burns of Lancaster offered a motion that all persons be prohibited from canvassing on tho lloor of the house. Agreed to without division, Fisher of Dawes submitted a petition from tho Nebraska women's suffrage association, protesting against the passage of the bill to do away with thu ofllco of oil Inspector. Tho"asoel ntion say the inspector btands between the public and bad and dangerous oil. New bills were introduced and others rend second time. Burns moved that the time of meeting of each committee be an nounced by thn speaker together with the numbcVof the bill to be considered. Carried. The house adopted a motion by Pol lard of Cass that when the house ad journ it bo till 11 o'clock a. in. Monday. Wilcox of Lincoln introduced a mo tion appointing Fisher of Dawes and Prince of Hall attornuys for the houso in habeas corpus proceedings insti tuted to secure the release of F. Skip ton from custody, where he was put under yrdcr of the house. The motion prevailed without discussion. Tho senate was announced nnd the joint convention was immediately called to order. " ' Turtilay, Jnuunry 34, When thu house convened yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in thu absence of Chaplain Seabrooke, Representative Kastmun led in prayer. He asked di vine blessing on the work of the week iu view of its great importance. Tho judiciary committee reported, recommending for passage bills as fol lows: Honse roll No. 22, relating to guard ians and wards. House roll No. 21, relating to guard ians and wards. House roll No. 31, amending section (102 of the civil code. , Tho trouble over bill files was again brought up iu a resolution by Thomp son of Merrick, Instructing the print ing committee tohuvu the bills printed with wider margins. Ho had found difficulty iu the manugutnent of his iuie ;ir. r.vuntr suggested tnai the, whole trouble was with the tile anif not with the bills. The 11 lo wus a cheap one, utterly unfitted to hold a largu number of "bills. He suggested that the Keystone flics heretofore used with a patent appliance for holding the bills, together were tho ones the house wanted. MUbourn of Kearney thereupon moved that the printing committee be instructed to purehuse Keystone files for tho use of the house instead of the ones furnished by the secretary of state. The motion curried. The senate was announced and fur ther business stopped. The house upon reconvening after joint session immediately resolved itself Into committee of the whole. House roll No, 22, by Lane, providing a repealing clause for the act com posing sections 20 and 31 of chupter 34 of Uie statutes relative to guardians nnd wnrds was recommended for pas sage. House roll No. 24, by Lane, a similar bill, rc-cnactlng section 20 of tho same chapter, was also recommended for passage. Houso roll No. 31, by Kvnns, remov ing obsolete matter from section 002 of thu civil code was recommended for passage. The report of the committee of tho whole was unanimously adopted. Tho house then adjourned. Weilnemlny, January an. The houso transacted no business yesterduy before the committee on en grossed and enrolled bills reported the legislative appropriations as correctly enrolled. The speaker signed them in tho presence of the house. Residents of Cuming county asked for nu act compelling the removal of a dam In the 'Klkhorn river. Another petition asked for the passage ot an act permitting the. free passuge of fish on all rivers. Other petitioners asked that a law be passed providing a pen alty for discharging lire arms along public highways and also making thu penalty for embezzlement more severe. Bills were, read for the first and sec ond times, after which Kasterling of ltutfulo moved that thu committee on printing bo Instructed to ascertain the causo of the delay In printing the bills. Kvnns of Adams stated that ho had repeatedly Interviewed the printer and had received only promises. Mr. Knsterllng'b motion carried. Kvaus of Adams moved to reconsider the motion ordering thu Keystone tiles to be purchased. The motion carried and the original motion wum tabled. After convening, following the. joint session, adjournment was taken till morning. Among new bills introduced were: One by McCarthy to prevent trusts and combines! two by Siecke. the first to prevent construction of dams that prevent free pasi.igc of llsh and pro viding for flsliways, the second, pro hibiting llsh eutchlng except by hook and line. One by Burns for stnto series of school text books and appropriating 9100,000 therefor; one by Burns impos ing 5 per cent excise tax on express companies; by Chittenden for new buildings at Beatrice feeble minded Institute. Latter Around tlie World. How long docs It take n letter to travel around tho earth? This ques tion recurred to C. II. Foster ot Clinton oarly last March, says the Clinton Democrat. Ho concluded to give It i trial, and on March 10 ho dropped a letter In the Clinton postofllco address ed to himself care of tho United States consul at Calcutta, India. In one corn er was the request to forward to Hono lulu, Hawaii, if not called for in ten days, while the firm's card on the en velope insured Us final return t Clin ton. Ten cents In poeugc stamps paid Its passage. On Dec. 20 the long ab sent letter came back to Clinton and wan returned to Its owner. Several of the post marks are illegible, but tho Calcutta postmark bears date of April 21 only a littlo over u month from Clinton, which was good time. Then It was forwarded to Honnolulu, reach ing there on Juno 3. It was turned over to the United States consul, who kept It until Dec. 6, nftlxlng his official stamp. On Dec. 7 It was again post marked by tho Hawaii postoflice, reach ing hero thirteen days Inter. Tho wholo trip took nine months and ten days, reducing tho not time of the trip around the world to four months and "uoven days. Time to Call a Halt. From tho New York Post: Among the beat stories by a well-known angler Is one about a Scottish laird who was one day relating to his friends at tho dinner table the story of a flno fish he had caught. "Donald," said he to the servant behind his chair nn old man, but a new servant, "how heavy was the fish I took yesterday?" Donald neltr.r apoko nor moved. Tho laird repeated tho question. "Weel," replied Donald, "It was twnl' pund at breakfast; It had gotten "to achtoen at dinner time, and It was sax-and-twonty when ye sat down to supper wl' tho captain." Then, after a pau3o, ho added: "I've been tellin' lees a' my llfo to. please the ahooters, but I'll be dashed if I'm going to tell Iocs noo, In my old age, to pleasa tho rushers!" Til Clever ArtUt. Not infrequently the art student falls in arrears for tho rent of even hla airy .porch on the, "alxjemc" and landlords have scant sympathy for beings who can "soar to tho empyrean," but can't pay cash. One young man, six months in arrears, know that his landlord was keeping a watchful eyo on his trunk, which stood opposlto the door, feeling sure that while It was there tho owner would not depart. Our artist painted a portrait or b.ts trunk on the wall op poslto the dW and in the night took hlmsolf and his belongings quietly away; nor was ho missed for several days. Good work sometimes serves very inartistic ends. Catholic World lie Would Kick Anyway. The discipline of the older section ot tho country Is not rouoh more se vere than that of tho newly settled re gions, where they think the easterners aro absurdly finical and only a shade less fUBsy thanvthoJ English. Ahotel clerk beyond tho Missouri onco ad vised a Bostonlnn In n friendly spirit never to register from Boston. "Why?" tho Innocent Bostonlan Inquired, "Be cause," answered tho clork, "out hero wo alwayB glvo a man from Boston the poorest room In tho house. Wo know ho Is going to kick anyhow, and so wo kIvc hi hi something to kick about." flooil at Arithmetic. Lady (In employment otTlco) "Ai there la only my husband and niyscll In tho family, I think you ought to be willing to como for leas than you ask. There are only two persona to cook for." Domestic "But, mum, when I'm wld you there 'ud be throe." NEBRASKA SENATE PROCEEDINGS OF UPPER LEG ISLATIVE BRANCH A tot eel net Summary of thn Doing of a Week A Mitt or HUM, ltmntii- Hum, I'M;, Ai'lrtl Upon. Tliurmlity, lanuarjr ll, The reuding of the Journal was dis pensed with In the senate yesterday morning, after having been fairly started, and thesciiuto tit once entered Into consideration of business. Several new bills were read. Bills on second reading were taken up and referred. Van Duseti of Douglas moved Iheu that tho senate postoflice be closed on Sun days and no salaries for help In that department be allowed for that day. The motion carried. Carmody moved that the committee of the whole consider senate llle No. 23. Several senators were without files. Pages brought and distributed tho files. Senator Steele took the chair. Senator Talbot shIiI that there wero only two Hues of the proposed bill which were umeudatory of the law now In force. It Is an uct to amend section 077 of the civil code of precccduro providing for a bond in appeal cases. Senator Farrell of Merrick stated his objections. He explained the hard ship upon persons who might be strangers iu the community and who would be unnble to get a hond. The bill ho thought was in the Interest of the loan nnd trust, companies, who never made a loan on more than one third of the value of a farm. Mr. Talbot explained that the ob ject of his amendment, was to insure an indemnity to the man who secures n judgment? awarding nlin a piece of land and the man in possession goes to tho supreme court to take advant age of the congested condition of that court and holds possession of the dis puted property for perhaps two or thrco years, merely under u bond not to commit waste. This condition, Tal bot said, sometimes returned a man's property to hlin when the supreme court 11 u u lly got around to the case after nn unlawful possessor hail lived on the farm during the time tho up- peal wns pending. Tho bill proposed to require a bond that would only cover a reasonable rent thut would re imburse him for the time thut his farm was wrongfully withheld, O'Neill of Holt thought tho bill ought to be moro specific ns to what constituted a reasonable rent. Farrell of Merrick spoke again in which he said that the loan companies wero fairly well tultcn euro of under the present law, but thut the injustice resulted to the poor man who through hardship or drouth had found himself unable to meet his obligations. Senator Miller of Buffalo took the floor in opposition to the bill nnd said that ho opposed haste. He thought the loan companies were not entitled to special credit. They had been gov erned by selfish considerations. He thought thn senator introducing thu bill assumed thut the man who took tho appeal to the supreme court was always in the. wrong. A division was hud on the question of recommending tho bill for pussago which carried by a vote of 1H for and 11 against. The fusion members vot ing against the recommendation. I'rlriay, ,lanuury SO. After routluo business In tho senate yesterday morning new bills were In troduced. The senate ran out ot busi ness at 11 o'clock mid n recess was taken. The discovery of senate file No. 12 on general file caused the sen ators to po Into committee of thu whole. Senator Miller of Buffalo, who introduced the bill, explained that the object of senate tile No. 12 wos to pro hibit the platting of encumbered land into city, town or village lots, lln said lund companies and townslte com panies operating along railroads often platted town lots without going to thu trouble of perfecting title to the land. Ho thought a great deal of the trouble could be avoided in tho future by pass ing a bill of this nature. Talbot of Lancaster favored the ob ject of tho bill, but he believed pro vision should also be iiiiulo for vacating platted property, Platting had been overdone in many towns and cities and relief should be nffurded by law. This proposition was favorably re ceived, but its incorporation meant an overhauling of thu bill, so the com rcitteo of the whole aro:o without ac tion nnd reported progress. Tho committee on engrossed bills re ported that scnato file No. 23, relating to appeal bonds, was correctly en grossed. The bill wns read the third time, and placed upon its passuge. It wns passed by a vote of 31 to JO, re publicans voting in theufllrmutivu and thcvfuslonlsts in the negative. Thobllb amends me third subdivision or section 077, code of civil procedure, relating to supersedeas bonds. The umended por tion of tho bill reads us follows: "Third When the judgment, decree or order, directs the sale or delivery of tho possession of real estate, the bond shall be iu such sum us the court, or judge thereof In vacation, shall pre scribe, conditioned that thn appellant ornppeallnnts will prosecuto such up- ficul without delay, nnd will not dur ng tho pendency "of such uppeul, com mit, or suffer to be committed, any waste upon such real estate, and if the judgment be affirmed, he will pay the valuo ot tho use. and occupation of the property from the date of the un dertaking, until the delivery .of the possession pursuant lo the judgment, and all costs." Miller of Buffulo, Canaday of Kear ney, and Prout of Gage were appointed as a committee to confer whh a like committee of the house to arrange for tickets oi admission to nil joint con ventions of tho two houses. Half an hour was spent itt idleness by the senate In waiting on the house to gut ready for tho noon joint con vention. Tlie senate reconvened at 3. A num ber of Senate files were reported and sent to general file. Van Dusun of Douglas presented a resolution citing that the supplies fur nished by tho secretary of state were not in accordance with the requisiton of the senate secretary, directing their return, and providing that future sup plies bo secured by the printing com mittee. Went over one day under the rules. Adjourned. Nutnrriny, Jununry Ul. In the senate yesterday morning Noyes of Douglns, chairman of the committee on education, submitted a report recommending tlie pussago of senate tile No. s, by Farrell, to re quire school boards to provide suitable Miter closets, and the passage of sen ate tile No. 0. by Canaduy, providing that the terms of members of boards of education shall begin thn first Mon day In May. The report, was adopted nnd the bills were placed on general file. O'Neill of Holt Introduced a Joint resolution to submit a proposition In thu year HUM) for a constitutional con vention. House rolls appropriating SliO.OOO for salaries of officers and cmplt.ves of the legislature mid SlO.odu for Incidental expenses of the leglslutvre, were read the first time. Senate file Nos. I Hit to is. were read the second time and referred to com mittees. After the order of business had been called the senate remained at ease un til the time for the joint convention arrived. Tho senate reconvened after the noon recess at 3 o'clock. On recommenda tion of Currle of Custer, chulrmuii of the committee on accounts mid ex penditures, tlie secretary of state was instructed to buy SI 13 worth of furni ture for committee rooms. The list of furniture comprises twelve revolving chair utV.i.7,i each, six rocking chairs at .52.7.1, light chairs at Jjl.Mi. one re volving chair at S.'i.Mi, one table at SKI. Semite file No 32, by Talbot, was In definitely postponed on recommenda tion of the committee on privileges and elections. The bill corrects fig ures iu the ballot law, but the commit tee deemed tlie correction unnccessitry. Lieutenant (Inventor Ollbert uti earthed a rule which requires reports of standing committee to He over one nay. lie proceeded to enforce the rule ami it was suspended temporarily in order to admit of action on a report of the committee on privileges and elections on senate tile l.'i, a bill intro duced by Van Duseu, relating to pri mary elections The committee re commended that the bill be passed and the report was adopted. The senate, ufter some debate, amending the motion that each sena tor be allowed two tickets to tho joint session so us to provide two tickets for the president of the senate, to em ployes and newspaper reporters, adopt ed the recommendation of the commit tee In relation to admissions. While this subject was up, Steele of Jefl'ursou, an old soldier, suggested that a little moro mlllturv stvle would suit his ideas. He said tiiu house was called up and remained standing while thu senate uiurched into tho joint con vention, and ho had noticed thut tho senators dropped into chairs one at a time. He thought the senators should remain standing and all bo seated ut once. The chair said the suggestion com ported with his idea of thu dignity of the occasion. Van Duseu's resolution relating to furnishing supplies for thu senate through thn printing committee was again laid over one day. Monday, January SH. After preliminaries in tho senate Saturday the judiciary committee re ported scnato file No. 1!) back to the scnato without recommendation. Prout of (luge, Introducer of the bill, moved thut it be placed on general file. The motion was agreed to. The hill provides that a divorce may be granted when either party shall be come insane and shall have been con lined'Iu an Insane hospital for u period of five years und Is apparently incura ble, provided thut such insanity has not been caused by the fault or mJs conduct of the party seeking the di vorce. Bills on first nnd second reading oc cupied considerable time. llolbrook of Dodge brought up the question of adjourning after thu joint convention till 10 a. in. Tuesday. Tal bot of Lancaster argued earnestly against missing the opportunity of taking a Joint ballot for United States senator each secular day. He thought it would be unsafe. Van Dusen of Douglas argued just as earnestly that thu legislature hud a right to adjourn He thought no legal complications would arise. Talbot moved to amend the motion by fixing the time, ut 11 a. in, Monday. The amendment was adopted by a vote of ID to 14. Ill committee of tho whole houso roll Nos. 113 and 121, appropriating $'.10,000 for legislative salaries und 340, (mio for incidental expenses of the leg islature, were ordered engrossed for third reuding. Van Dusen of Douglas withdrew his resolution authorizing thu printing committee to furnish supplies to thu senate. The senate repaired to the house to participate In the joint convention, re convened at 12:30 and adjourned till Monday, 11 u. m. Tnriilay, January 'it, Tho senate couvuncd at 1 1 a. m. yes terday. Chaplain Cressmau asked in his prayer for a deliverance of tlie people from the blight of intemper ance. When bills en third reading came up the secretary proceeded to read two bills, the legislative salury appropria tion bill and a bill appropriating $40, 000 to pay incidental expenses of the legislature. After the clerk hud be gun on the second bill Tulbot of Lan caster insisted that a vote should be taken on each Immediately ufter the third reading. He read the constitu tion lo show that no other business could intervene between the last read ing the roll cull on the bill. 'The chair complied with the constitution. House roll No. 113, appropriating 800,000 for salaries of members and employes of tlie legislature, was passed thure being 31 yeas and no nays. House roll No. 121, appropriating 810,000 for incidental expenses of tho legislature, was also passed. At the afternoon session Reynolds ot Dawes presented u petition asking that a joint memorial to congress fa voring woman suffrage bo passed. The petition was recclvetl und placed on file. Several bills wero placed on llle, a uhuuge was made In the work of boiuo of the employes and one or two added, the constitutional limit of an being reached. 200 conies of the Stuto Jpur ual legislative blue book were ordered. In committee of thu whole the sen ate acted on senate tile 12 to prohibit platting of encumbered land intotowu or city lots. It wns recommended foe pussngo. Two files wore passed over.. Over senate file 27, quite n debnto en sued. The bill requires Juries in alt eases to render special findings when so requested by cither party. Hanni bal of Howard opposed tho bill be cause It takes till discretionary power from thu court. Van Dnscn of Douglas opposed It because there was no demand from tho people or tho lawyers for such change. Such u change would bo taken, advantage of by skillful lawyers and would redound mostly to advantage of defendants in personal damngo suits, Ma know of but, one stnto that hits such a law. Knusas hits a similar law, and though Kunsnt Is redeemed, Nebraska docs not wnnt to follow in all things. Attornoys un due the bill would be able to confuse juries by asking numerous questions. Mr. Talbot answered nt length. Ho argued that justice would bo dono to all parties. He declared no power ought to deprivo u lillgnntof the right to ask juries to answer questions re lating to matters of fact. Hannibal of llowaud preferred to trust an h mest judge rather than an Interested lnwyer. Van Dusen moved to recommend that the bill be Immediately postponed. Currle of Custer, spoke in favor of tho motion to postpone and it was adopted, Talbot and Rocko alone voting iu sup port of tho bill. Wfdnrmlay, January 3B, Routine work out of thu way iu (he senate yesterday, Roche of Lancaster, chairman of thu committee on prlvlegen und elections, reported favorably on scnato file No. 1, by Prout, a bill to prevent a endldate's namii from ap pearing on the ballot more than once. The bill was placed on general file. Van Dusea of Douglas, chairman ot the judiciary committee, reported unit recommended thu passage of a sub stitute for somite file No. 7, by Knepper of Butler. Thu original bill wipes out nil sections of tho statutes relating; to support of county agricultural societies by taxation. 'The substitute does not wipe out the luw, but amends It no that thu drawing of a warrant in aid of the county agricultural society shall be opened with the county au thorities. The substltuto bill was placed nu general til ts in place of the original. Senntu fllo No. 203 wns Introduced by Newell of Cuss. It makes the of fices of marshal and city attorney elec tive offices In cities of the second class having morn than 5,000 inhabitants. An acknowledgement of tho pussngo ot a resolution iu thu interests of a pension for (icn. John M. Pulmcr ot Illinois was received and spread upon tho senate journal, (leneral Palmer thanked thu lieutenant-governor and the seuute. Chairmen of standing committees re ported various bills. Noyes of Douglaa from thu rules committee, reported changes lu rules 24 nnd 25. The com mittee struck out the portion ot rule 24 which requires standing committee reports to luy over one day, and merely changed the language iu rulo 25 relat ing to the coilrse each bill shall take. The committee on enrolled and en grossed bills reported that house rolli Nos. 113 und 121, the legislative appro priation bills, were correctly enrolled. The lleutenant-goveriior signed botb bills. Scnatn fllo No. 28, by Fowler, repeal ing sections 017 to 024, inclusive, re lating to arrest beforo and after Judg ment, was reported correctly enrolled. The bill wus then passed by a vote of 28 to 1. Klertlnff a Henator, Following is the result ot the ballot so fur taken in the legislature on Unit ed Stutes-scnutor. The first column represents the separate ballot, the others thu joint bullots: 1st 2d 3d -lth 5th Oth 7th Allen 58 f.H 511 53 SI 53 58 Havward... 28 20 30 40 30 41 43 Webster ... 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Thompson .7777777 Field 4 4 3 2 2 1 Lambertson 3 .14 3 2 2 3 Reeso 2 .2 2 2 2 3 2 Hlnshuw... 2 3 2 2 3 1; Adams 2 1112 11, Foss 2 12 2 2 2 3 Weston 2 2 2 2 2 8 4 Majors 2 2 t Hitfuer 11111 ViiuDusun.. 1111111 Martin 1 2 Cornish.... 1 1 1 1 1 1 ) Davidson... 1 1 1 Little 1 Dr. Kvani' ranltlen Ret of Teeth. Mine. K a onco noted Russian beau ty, wus famous for tho length and aumptuoalty ot her trains. She was al so lavish ot nor smiles. One evening, at somo grand reception. I was gazing at her as Comte Horace do Cholieul led her through a suite of salons. Dr. 1'Jvaus came up to me. We talked about' tho sumptions train. He then asked, "What do you think of hear teeth?" "They light up her face like lunbeamg', tlioy eclipse even the pearls af Mm do Rothschild's necklace." "It ww 1 who provldod them," said the doctor; "no, I'm not Joking." "But aurelythey are too transparent to be of composi tion?" "They aro not ot artlrclal atuf. I chose teeth from the mouths ot twelve Brittany girls to make the ot." "Why from twelve?" "Bacauae tfrt twelve had the proper number of fault iest teeth. Bosldoa, Mme. K. 1 aupar stltlously orthodox. Sho wanted teeth to bo a reminder of the twelve apostles. To please her I Inserted bit ot the true crow la the fold ting." London Truth. Trying to Make It Oat. Theodore "I declared myself, Al fred; but I don't know whether she accepted mo or not. That's what I'a trying to ruako out, you know." Al-fred--"What did you say to her?" Thoodore "I said that I thought the world of her and Bhe said: 'It's a queer world.' That was all, don't you know, and deuced If I know whether It meast sho Is lu lovo with me or sot"-Bc ton Transcript. The (Jueea'a KnalUh. Englishman "I say, ye knaw, what's tho bookago to Boiton?" Railroad Tick-, et Clerk"The whatage?" Englishman "The bookage, ye knaw tho tat Iff. What's the tariff?" Ticket Clerk"! haven't time to talk politics." 'W