The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-02-15
FROM TOPEKA.
OUR LEGISLATIVE soLoNS.

TcPfKa, Kan February 8-The senate
to-day passed bill making the fiscal year
end June Both, and refused to pass the
bill giving the use OF the legislative halls
To hold tine terms of the United States
courts in.
THE SCHOOL FUND.
Ii also passed bill TO allow the perma-
nent school fund to be invested in school
district bonds.
A TEST CASE.
Also a resolution TO bring a test case be-
fore the supreme court To decide the con-ti-
tutional number Of members Of the house.
STATE FUNDS.
II was agreed in committee to pass bill
to have the funds of the state put into ten
banks, and they pay four Per Cent. on daily
balances.
IN THE HOUSE
the senate resolution thanking the Presi-
dent for sending troops South, and the
Kansas delegation for voting against the
compromise bill, was passed, after two
hours fiiiibustering by the Democrats.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
The ways and means committee was in
W cAduiluc tiic TCCuuHts ti the
Centennial Board and all the state ins,i,u-
tions.
ADJoURss ON THE 10Th.
TorEKA, Kan, February 9.-The Senate
voted to-day to adjourn on the 10Th inst.
VARIOUS BILLS
On the third reading, the bill TO invest
the school fund in school district bonds was
defeated.
A bill providing for the ssle of Universe
ty bonds was rejected.
A bill to relieve Confederates from disa-
bilities, was rejected in the house.
The bill to slow Leavenworth county to
refund its bonds at sixty cents on the dol
lar, passed, and a large amount of business
was done in committee Of the whole.
ADJOURNED
TOPEKA, Kan, February l0.-Both
houses adjourned to-day at noon till Mon
day.
The following resolutions passed the
house to-day under suspension of the rules
by vote Of IS to %:
Whereas, 1t appears from the Associatea
Press dispatches that after the attention of
the lower house of Congress. was called to
the fact that J. Madison Wells and Ihos.
c. Anderson were confined in damp, dark
dungeon Of the cellar of the Capital, and that
the confinement in said cell had caused the
ssid J. Madison Wells to become pick, and |
that the said Wells was an old man and not |
able to withstand the poison of said cell, |
and that said house paid no attention to |
said matter, and confined said witness in |
said cell I; therefore be it
Resolved, That We earnestly and indie-
nantly protest against those outrages per.
petrated BY the pre@ent Democratic house,
as stated herein, and that We regard the |
same as an act Of party spirit and malice
begotten in hatred and calculated to de-
stroy the sacred rights Of every citizen to
proper and human treatment.
THE STATE LEsnLATrRE.
TOPEKA, February II The Senate To-
day appointed special committee to draft
\ bill providing State land Commissioner.
A long time was spent on . bill to allow
townships to adopt the herd Law, bat no
conclusion Vas reached.
The House granted the use Of the Capitol
for two hours for the Odd Fellows and
Aasons to hold their annual session in.
A resolution to appoint q committee
10 visit other States to examine
he working of reform schools WIS defeated.
The house also passed . ,esolution Al.
most unanimously. expslling all CORE
'pondeus of the Kansas City "TimesD
rom privileges On the floor or gallery until
hat paper aPoloeised for calling Republi.
,ans damned fools" for voting for the res !,
tuition of sympaty for Wells and Ander. /,
on Of the Louieiana returning board.
rHE IHf,Isr Arrpr &
TOPEKA. Kan, February l3.-In the :
eoase the subject Of . reform school v,o "a
!iscsrd, asd fnally 4 vas recommendsd I
bat coooi.eioa e appointed b - :
Governor - viif di1Hent places IN DE-
49, and deesds vheze 70 puf l. and 70 -
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