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Exemption Law Sparks Fight in Fifth Nebraska Session
Lincoln reports on the fifth Nebraska territorial sessiontension over homestead exemptions dominated debate. Rankin pressed sentimental arguments for shielding homes from lawmen as county and state officials sparred over acreage limits eightytwo in the upper house. Clerical quarrels over the public printer and partisan clashes followed, with Furnas and Morton leading rival presses and The News attacking the process as Democracy’s enemies.
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A. M. Rankin
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R. W. Furnas
J. Sterling Morton
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Albany
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Brownville Advertiser
Nebraska City News
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Democratic Organization
Bolters
Janus
Democratic Party
People’s Men
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