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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, March 15, 1951 Section B PAGE THREE I CAPITOL ! NEWS , ' ' LINCOLN The week s'arted out quietly enough in the legis lature. The labor committee, by a 6 to 3 vote killed Sen. George Syas' bill to close the Milford trade school. Dr. Frank D. Ryder, state health director, said he was thinking of taking a VA job amid reports of legis lative pressure for his resigna tion. Sen. Arthur Carmody failed to get enough votes on the floor to raise his partisan legislature bill. And the law makers wrestled with the peren nial problem of school land leases. It was just a routine legisla tive week until Friday after noon, when most of the senators had their cars pointed home ward. Then, as a crowded hearing room sat shocked. Sen. W. J. (Lefty Williams, not the most predictable legislator, broke up a meeting of the government committee which was consider ing two of Williams' bills, both dealing with the reorganization of the state administrative de partment. Governor Val Peterson had ig nited the outburst when, an swering a question asked by Sen. Sam Klaver, he admitted that he wr.o "not too enthusias tic" about the Williams bills. The governor questioned the value of the research that it was inadequate and he urged the committee to make a much more careful study of administrative departments before approving the bills. The measures L. B. 315 and 316 are the result of a report by the legislative council commit tee on reorganization of state government, of which Williams was a member. They propose, among other things, setting up a department of taxation and finance which would, for in stance, collect the cigaret and gasoline taxes now handled by the department of agricul.ure. The governor said the legisla tive council committee talked with Agriculture Director Rufus Howard only 15 minutes before arriving at its conclusions. Instead of a legislative com mittee making such a study, the governor suggested, the job might better be done by a "little Hoover commission" as proposed in the 1949 legislature by Sen. Tom Davies of Lincoln. At any rate, he said, the task should be handled by "qualified per sonnel" and not senators "who "are not trained and are not able to spend their full time at the job." That's what got Williams' goat. He jumped to his feet and moved that the bills be killed. Bitterly he said, "When we've as you See as you Save BY GREYHGUE3E HONEYMOON COUPLE ... enjoying an Amazing America Toot . . . everything pre-planned juat aa they wiah. COLLEGE STUDENTS . . . dollara ahead on a week-end trip home. BUSINESSMAN . . . ah! he'a re laxing on the way to hia nest aalea call. DRIVER. . . one oi the world'a beat pleaaant and capablel Greyhound gives you carefree trav. el enjoyment . . . completely re lieved of driving strain! Frequent schedules save time . . . low fares save money. GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT SI done everything possible and then to have the governor of this state stand before this com mittee and say that members of the legislature are not trained and not qualified . . ." When Chairman Karl Vogel ruled him out of order, Williams asked to be excused then stomp ed across the statehouse rotun da, through the senate chamber and into the cloakroom where he jammed on his hat and left the building, a bitter man, in deed. Earlier the same day, Lefty had done better. He was named chairman of a seven-man com mittee to study the operation of the state assistance department to see if something could be done about the red tape which Wil liams said was doubling the cost of the aid program in some counties. Lefty's colleagues had rejected a proposal by Sen. Charles Tvrdik of Omaha that $50,000 be appropriated to hire a private management consultant firm to make the study. Tvrdik's argument was much like that to be made in the aft ernoon by the governor. Legis lators aren't experts in assist ance matters, he said. Why not have some real, professional ef ficiency experts handle the job? And another thing, "Where on God's green earth would a legis lative committee find the time?" he demanded. But the senators liked better the proposal of Speaker Ed Hoyt of McCook who suggested that the legislative council reference bureau, a research agency, be called upon to help. The vote was 25 to 11 and as soon as it was announced, Lt Gov. Charles Warner pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket and named Williams as the com mittee chairman with these members: John Beaver, Beemer; Robert McNutt, Lincoln; Dwight Bur ney, Hartington; Sam Klaver. Omaha: Otto Prohs, Gering and C. E. Metzger, Cedar Creek. Williams said the grouo's first meeting would be this Saturday with public hearings set for fol lowing Saturdays until the probe is finished. The first bill to be introduced this session not surnrisinsly labeled L. B. 1 is having some pretty rough going. Sen. Art'ru" Carmody of Trenton is sponsor of the measure which would set ud under the depanment of ag riculture a division of whea' utilization. It would be financed by a levy on each bushel of (wheat grown in the state. This levy, 5 mills at first, was late cut to 2 and the bill was amend ed to make participation volun tary instead of compulsory. Sen. William Hern of Chad ron, a chairman of the agricul ture committee which kept the bill bottled up for a counle of weeks after its hearing, is one of its staunchest foes. So is Sen Chris Metzger of Cedar Creek. i They badgered Carmody with ; auestions as the bill came up ! for its first floor test. ! But Carmody managed to" get 27 votes to have the bill ad vanced against only eight dis sents. This week, as it came up for second reading, the enemies were plotting more amendments. No bi? blowout this Fourth of J July. That was assured when Sen. Sam Klaver's hotly-contested fireworks ban bill cleared final reading with a 38 to 4 vo'e and its emergency clause still intact. That's the clause which makes a bill law as soon as it's signed by the governor. There had been reports of an attempt to knock off the emer gency clause making the bill; effective somewhere around the ; middle of August so that there could be one last glorious pyro-j technical binge this Independ ence Day. Defeat is something you have to learn to live with in the legis lature, as any veteran who has seen his pet bill voted down can tell you. This week. Senator Earl J. Lee of Fremont knew defeat and he was a little weary of it. For the third straight session, the legis lature has refused to place the calling of a constitutional con vention on the ballot. This has been one of Senator Lee's fond est hopes. When he was told the govern ment committee by an 8 to 1 vote had killed this year's bill and was asked whether he'd try to resurrect it on the floor, he sighed and said, "No, I'm tired of trying to save the world. Let somebody else do it for awhile." 106 North 6th Phone 3200 DELAYED REUNION Because Harold Olson of Blair was onlv six months old when he was separated from his fam- j lly, he didn t discover until last fall that he had a brother three years older than himself. The two were reunited for the first time in 27 years, when called to Minneapolis 'because of the seri ous illness of their grandmother. A Classified Ad in The Journ nal costs as little as 35c. 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