The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-02-19
Legislative.

In the senate the house resolution
requesting the county attorney Ct
Shawnee county 10 bring 5. &. Pome-
ROY to speedy trial was indefinitely
postponed in the senate by vote of
fifteen to seven.
The bill TO repeal an act to provide
for county auditors was read 4 third
time and passed by vote of nineteen
TO one.
The house civil rights bill passed the
senate with some amendments attach
ed.
\ new liquor law has been intro
duccd in the house. The Lawrence
Tri6one SAYS in regard 10 it that those
who demand more stringent laws than
now exists woald do well 10 remem-
Der tina, the laws already amount to
prohibition where the people demand
Al. 1t j. not the passage Of laws that
protect society, but the endorsements
of the laws. Ii those who are clamOr-
ins about more strengent liquor laws
would 90 TO work and enforce those
which already exist they would give
some proof that they are in earnest in
what they demand and not simply talk
Ing to be heard.
The congressional superintendent
committee OF the two houses Of the
legislature have submitted reports EN-
bodving their views. as TO the manner
in which the state should be districted.
The majority report Of the senate COM
mittee offered by Mr. Murdoch. pro-
vides for those districts as follows:
First District-The counties of
Leavenworth, Doniphan, Brown, Mem
aha, Marshall, Washington, Republic,
Jewell, Smith, Phillips, Norton. Ora
ham, Brooks, Osborne, Mitchell, Cloud,
Clay, Ottawa, Lincoln, Riley, Potta-
wottomic, Jackson, Shawnee, Jeffer-
son, Atchison, and all the territory
living north of the second standard
parallel.
Second Dis.rict-Thc counties of
Montgomery, Labette, Cherokee, Craw-
ford, Neosho, Wilson, Bourbon, Allen,
Anderson, Linn, Miami, Franklin,
johnson, Douglas, and Wyandotte.
Third District-All that portion OF
the state not included in the first and
second districts.
The majority report of the house
committee, offered by Mr.. Reasoner
provides for these districts as follows
First District-The counties OfDOn.
iphan, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall
Washington, Republican, Jewell, Smith
Phillips, Norton, Decatur, Rawlins,
Cheyenne, Atchison, Jackson, POtto
wattomic, Riley, Clay, Cloud, Mitch
ell, Osborne, Rocks, Graham, Shcri.
den, Norris, Sherman, Russell, Lincoln,
Ottawa. Jefferson, and Leavenworth
Second District-The counties OF
Wyandottc, johnson, Miami, Franklin
Douglas, Shawnee, Usage, Cofey,
Waubansee, Lyon, Davis, Morris, Chase
Dickinson, Marion, Harvey, Saline
McPherson, Reno, Rice, Pawnce and
tie adjoining underlined territory Ness,
Gregg, Ellsworth. Barton, Ellis, Stand
ard. Rash. Gore, Scott, Wichita ant
Greeley.
Third District-Thc countiey Of An
derson, Linn, Bourbon, Allen, Wood
son. Greenwood, Butler, Sedgwick
Crawford, Neosho, Wilson, Cherokee
Labette, Montgomery, Howard, Cow
ley, Sumner, Harper, kingman. Bar
bour, Parker, Comanchc, Iowa, Clark
Footc, Seward, Arapahoe, Grant, Kan
sas, Slower, Stanton, Hamilton, Sey'
oyah, Cimifi, Buffalo and IIodgeman.
Senator St. John introduced a reso
luton asking that the constitution b.
amended so as to allow women tn
right of suffrage.
The senate passed house bill memo
ralizing congress to pass an act regu
lating railway companies III thei
charges for freight and passage.
The senate on Friday put 4 quietu
on the bill RENTING the tax penalt
on delinquent taxes. In committee o
the whole the bill was SO amended a
to provide, by way of cqualizing mat
tiers, for the repayment of taxes I
those who had paid before the penalt
accrued. In this shape the bill wa
voted down by the decisive vote G