The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
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On Tuesday the Conference Commit
tee on the bird law" reported on the
disagreement between the two House:
agreeing to bill which prevents the
shooting of prairie chickens from Angus,
10Th to January l, and cuails during
November and December. In commit
tee of the whole motion to raise the
grade of teachers was agreed to. Those
receiving a first class certificate must
understand entomology, botany and in.
dustrial drawing.
The bills which have heretofore been
recommended for passage by the CON-
mittee of the whole were read a third
time and passed, including the two rail-
road bills.
A bill to allow the counties of Doug
las, Franklin and Anderson to make the
best terms they can with the L. L. & G.
r. r. about the bonds of those counties
which that company holds was agreed to.
A bill to make sure the listing of mort
cages for taxation was also passed upon.
A bill to suppress three card monte was
also agreed to.
In the House the chairman of the
committee of ways and means said that
the estimates for appropriations which
were published yesterday in this column,
were not correct, being In some instances
too high and in Others too low. He did
not believe that they would foot up to
over 100000.
The testimony in the Mowry case was
ordered printed.
A number of bills that had been per.
fected in committee of the whole passed
on third reading, including the prohibit
ton bill.
The House agreed to the amendment
made by the Senate in the bill to pay
newspapers for Publishing the constitu-
tional amendments, raising the amount
to Sc, 2S5. by q vote of 50 ayes to 20 nays.
The House also agreed to the amend.
ments to the bird bill, which only needs
the signatures Of Gov. Osborn to become
law.
The House then went into committee
of the whole on the appropriation bills.
The first one agreed to was to give Byron
Sherry 1925, due him as circuit judge in
Leavenworth county.
The next bill was the Concordia nor
NAL school which after a long debate
had its enacting clause stricken out by
vote of 43 to AZ. The State Printer got
an appropriation for $2,65l.46. The
next bill that came up was the new cen.
tennial bill, which was recommended for
passage by; a large majority. 1t appro.
PIRATES $4,000. 1t provided that seven
additional members of the board of man.
ayers be appointed, which makes ten new
members to be appointed.
In the evening the bill giving the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum $14.050 was carried.
An effort was made to change the centen-
NAL bill but it failed.
On Wednesday the, Senate went into
executive session and confirmed the re-
appointment of T. G. Bowles as one of
the trustees of the insane asylum. A
number of bills that passed the commit
tee of the whole on Tuesday and were
noted in this column yesterday, passed
on third reading.
In committee Of the whole bill was
agreed to provide for uniform school
books in the schools of the State, and not
to be changed oftener than once in five
years. Also . bill to exempt from taxa
ton all farm products harvested within
. year.
In the afternoon grist of local bills
were considered in committee of the |
whole.
Also . bill to provide for printing 81, 900
copies of q digest of the agricultural
report. 1t is to contain 272 pages and
TO cost 80 cents per copy.
In the evening the whole session was
spent in the consideration of the appor-
tionment bill, without perfecting it.
In the House the amendments to the
Eskridge railroad bill were agreed to.
A bill was also passed putting railroads
IN . par with other property as regards
he foreclosure Of mortgages.
A bill also passed to prevent the water
ng of stock Of incorporated companies
Also one allowing q Probate Judge to
rot keep bis 6ffce et the county seat in
having less than 5000 inhabi-
ants except during eoyrt, and allowing
county boards to say In counties ofIless
han 5000 inhabitants whether county