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Show I Nebraska Sugar Bounty, !r ',' f Omaha, Neb. Dec. 1U. -A specia), to to' tlio Bee from Lincoln, Neb. aoy: The j ' Supreme court hua decided that the h payment by State Auditor Motire of aomc $40,000 in warrants ior sugar . bounties to the Oxtiard company is J illegal. Tho opinion, written by Com- ' tnisaioner Irvine, was handed down this J afternoon. There was no dissenting opinion filed. The bill passed by the J last session of the Legislature provided lor the payment of live-eights of a cent per pound by the State as a bounty for 7 all sugar made by new manufactories I . started aubsquently to tho passage of tho bill. This bounty was made con- J J tingont upon the manufacturers paying ' lor HUgar beots at the jate of $5 a ton. The bill carried no appropriation for the payment of this bounty, nor wus any Hubsquent nppiopriation made for ' this purpose. but tlie manufacturers went ahead and paid $5 a tonor tnejr ! beets, and along in December lust ap plied to State Auditor Moore for tne accrued bounty. The Auditor issued tho warrants for $50,000. The position of the Auditor was attacked in several quarters, and Attorney Gfiu-iul Churchill advised State Treasurer' hartley hart-ley to pay no money on the warrants ., when presented. This action, of 'course, discredited the warrants, and the com pany in whoso favor they weru drawn has go fur failed to hypothecate them. The incoming Legislature is confidently .ojepected to remedy this defect in the bounty law, as farmers have found it an' -excellent thing. |