The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-21
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
THURSDAY, FEB. II.


Der of bills were recommended for pas
sage, and a few for preference or reiec.
ton. A resolution authorizing the print
ing of 800 additional copies of the first
biennial report of the auditor of the state
was adopted. \ resolution against al
lowing smoking in the senate chamber
was adopted. The sergeant-at-armS was
instructed to procure proper files for the
keeping of bills, to be placed on the desks
of senators. A resolution instructing the
committees on finance and taxation to
present bill providing for the redemp-
ton or sale of lands and town lots when
they have remained in the hands of a
county for three years, the same as by
tax certificates, was adopted. $. j. X. l,
amending the constitution so as to re-
move the $500 exemption in certain ca
SEES, was passed. Seven bills were intro
duced. The president announced the
appointment of the following gentlemen
as members of the committee on crimi-
nal Jurisprudence: Senators Bradley,
Myers, Nichols, Kellogg, Grass, Ping
and Brown.
In the house the committee on coun-
ties and county lines was authorized to
employ a clerk. Seventeen bills were
introduced. A concurrent resolution was
passed, authorizing the committees OF
the two houses on charitable institutions
to visit them. The resolution heretofore
offered by Mr.. Biddle, providing for an
examination into the Indian raid of last
fall, was discussed and laid over. An
assistant Sergeant-at-arms was provided
for. A substitute was adopted for Mr..
Legate's resolution, which directs the in
vestigating committee to allow members
of the house, and senatorial candidates,
when implicated by witnesses before the
senatorial investigating committee, to bc
present in person or by counsel. House
concurrent resolution memorializing
congress to have unlimited silver coin.
age, and to do away with national banks
was made the special order for 3 p. III
next Saturday.
FRIDAY, FEB. IA.
In the senate, the house resolution in
structing our representatives in congress
to vote against the Texas Pacific railroad
subsidy, was adopted. Congress was me
morialized to provide for the payment
of the losses by Quantrell's band of guer
rillas. A resolution announcing il as the
sense of the senate that it was unwise at
this late date, TO pass upon the revision
of the laws, was adoped. S. G. r. 10
vesting in the secretary of state the copy.
ing of the L. S. supreme court reports
was adopted. Thirteen bills were intro
duced. Several of them were by the com.
mittee on revision. s. B. IS, making an
appropriation of $500 each year, for 1880
and 1891, TO the state fish commissioner
was passed. Also, 5. b. 6, an act to avoid
floating liens on real estate. In commit
tee of the whole a number of bills were
considered and disposed of. The state
printer was censured for hardness in
printing the senate bills.
In the house, the speaker announced
the appointment of r. Z. Stevenson, assist
ant sergeant-at-arms, w. a. MedariS
clerk to the committee on county seats
and county lines, and j. A. Hibbetts
clerk to the committee on temperance
The speaker laid before the house pro
test from the members OF the bar in Chase
county against detatching that county
from the ninth and attaching it to the
fifth judicial district, which was referred
to the committee on apportiOnment. In
committee of the whole, II. Bs. 10, 10, 4
102, 106 and 1876 were recommended
for passage; also H. B. IA, with Ger
tain amendments; II. B. GO recon-
mitted to the committee on Judiciary
Leave of absence was granted several
members until Monday and Tuesday OF
next week. Thirteen petitions were pre-
Twenty-one bills were introduced, read
first and second time and referred.
The resolution of Mr.. Legate, asking foI
an opinion from the attorney general in
regard to a certain contract by and be-
tween the state of Kansas and eX-gover
nor S. j. Crawford, as to the legality OF
the same, was adopted. The resolution
of Mr.. Waite, of Pawnee, authorizing
the sergeant-atarms to employ another
assistant, was adopted. The resolution
of Mr.. Barber, in regard to placing the
statue of John Brown in the hall of the
house of representatives, was referred to
the committee on ways and means. II
c. r. 30, instructing our senators and
representatives in congress to procure
legislation to provide against Indian out
RACES on the frontier, was adopted. The
speaker appointed ]. c. Stumbaugh as
sistant sergeant-at-arms, and Miss Ella
johnson assistant enrolling clerk.