The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-04
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Of Proceedings.

christened "Inter- State Commerce.. -. -.
Among the petitions presented in the House
were: For a law regulating freights and fares:
for the reduction of interest on purchase mon.
ey of school lands from 10 to per cent; and
for prohibiting driving cattle through Cove
County-the latter exciting extended debate.
Among the bills introduced were: To extend
the time for the payment for State schOoi
lands lying west OF the sixth merldi El; an
less; in relation to hedges along highways; to
change time for electing township ofilcers;
two to protect wool growers; appropriation
for the OssawattOmie Insane Asylum; to
create st. John County; for the protectlon OF
fish; to provide tor the non FORGETTING OF nfe
insurance policies; appropriation Tor the
ture. The Legislative appropriation bill
passed.
THURSDAY, Jan. %.
"A resolution was offered in the Senate that
the Committee on Railroads be instructed to
prepare bill regulating freight and fares.
After much discussion and amendment 1t was
laid on the table. A resolution was adopted
instructing the State Auditor to give full par.
ticulars concerning taxes paid by telegraph
and express companies.
In the House, Mr.. Wilmington. of Crawford
County, proposed by bill to submit an amend
ment to the Constitution to admit of female
suffrage. A resolution was adopted calling
upon the Governor and Attorney. General to
enforce the law under which certain rallroads
hold their the point
the State, as such law demands.
bill passed appropriating ssO.0 900 to pay the
mepbers of the House their monthly salary
in Advance. 1t was ordered that. In order to
allow the different committees the use OF the
House during the morning, but one session %
held daily, beginning at 80 p. m.
FRIDAY, Jan. 81.
Mr.. Greene, of Douglas, introduced in tho
Senate a concurrent resolution asking the
Kansas delegation in Congress to facilitate
the settlement of the status of the ceded lands
in the Indian Territory. Among the bills in
troduced were one providing for a short term
Kansas University lawful certificates for pub
lie school teachers. The Legislative Appro-
priatiOn bill coming from the House was
amended SO as to provide for the salaries OF
the Chaplains and passed. The proposition
of the House to give each member Sc worth OF
postage stamps passed, but the House reso-
luton for 81 600 additional pamphlets OF rules;
Department of the Kansas Pacific on the sub
jeot of destitution was read. bill requiring
quarterly settlements with County Treasurers
was considered in Committee OF the Whole.
The House resolution relating to printing the
temperance bills was tabled. ADJOURNED
till Tuesday.
Among the bills introduced in the House
were the following: Granting the wife equal
privileges with the husband in certain cases );
to provide for the payment of taxes on i'm
prOvementS on school lands; changing the
boundaries of the counties of Davis and Dick
insOn; to repeal the privileges of hremen; to
prescribe certain qualifications for druggists;
to change the lines OF several western 1 S conno
amendments, was brought up and passed. The
Committee on Elections recommended that
Mr.. Turner, of Sheridan. be admitted to a seat,
declaring the election in Caney Township,
Montgomery County, legal, and that j.. Z.
Rood was the legally elected Representative.
After lengthy and somewhat acrimonious
discussion, which extended the session until q
late hour, the committees report was adopted.
Adjourned till Monday.
SATURDAY, Jan. p.
There was no session of either House.
The various committees met and transacted
a large amount of business The Committee
on Charitable Institutions, and also the Com
mittee on Public Buildings, went to Leaven-
worth to inspect the Penitentiary and to visit
the Home for Friendless Women.
MONDAY, Jan. "a.
The Senate was not in session.
In the House a number of petitions were
presented. one tending to the protection OF
quail and one in relation to the cattle disease.
Twenty seven bills were introduced, among
them the following: To provide for the re-
demption of real estate under certain cond1-
tions; establishing register for births and
deaths; to provide for the health and safety
of persons employed in coal mines; to defino
what shall be deemed lawful barbed wire
fence; in relation to drive wells; tor the
government Of the State University; to es-
Goat in the osDo time County, dSr nn aeins
an appropriation for the Normal
School. The various standing committees
made reports on numerous bills. The Com
mittee on Judicial Apportionment were
granted more time for considering the bill to
create the Judicial District. The Judiciary
Committee recommend the indefinite post
ponement of number of bills, and their re-
port was adopted.
TUESDAY, January Is.
In the Senate petition from the Farmers
Alliance Convention was referred to the Com
mittee on Railroads. The bill relating to dis
eases of cattle was reported from the Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce, with q
recommendation that it pass. The Senate
concurrent resolution relating to the public
lands in the Oklahoma Territory was laid on
the table. The resolution in reference to the
Price raid claims was adopted. The resolu-
ton to memorialiZe Congress relative to con-
tagious diseases of domestic animals was also
adopted.
In the House, Mr.. N. Green, of Riley, offered
a resolution as asubstitute for one introduced
by Mr.. Osborn, of Greenwood, directing the
Attorney General to begin quo ,carranto pro-
ceedings against the Kansas Il Pacific Railway
Company for an abandonment OF its powers
and duties as corporation to the cOnsOldiat.
ed company, and also against the consolidated
company for Selling, possessing and holding
said franchises. The committee to which was
referred the dedication of the Hall of Repre-
sentatives reported that owing to the unfin
it was deemed appropriate that such dodica-
ton should be deferred.