Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The railroad bill as received from the Senate
wnlcn nau peen amended by substituting the
senate OH, urew forth an animated discussion
A motion 10 non-concur was agreed to by a
vote OF W 10 "a The Congressional Apportion-
ment was the special order for the afternoon
SESSION. Inc Dill reported by the Standing
Commluee vas approved without the change
OF county. There were efforts made to secure
several cnanges, but the Committee of the
Whole sustained the Standing Committee. The
concurrent resolution instructing the Attorney
General 10 commence proceedings against the
Leavenwortn, Lawrence and Galveston Rail-
railroad 10 compel it to comply with the terms
of its charter, passed TheSenate considered
various bills in Committee of the Whole. The
CongresslonslAp portionment bill was partially
coisloersu, nVe sections forming five districts
being adopted. The nomination of George
Cmmethum. Of Leavenworth. as member of
the Board OF Trustees Of State Charitable In
situations, was rejected.
In the House the 18th, two bills were intro
duced- number of petitions were presented
and large number of bills read a second time
and referred. Mr.. Crichton's bill for the pro-
lection of birds passed. A message from the
Senate was received. in which IL announced its
refusal to recede from its amendment to the
railroad OH. The House likewise refused to
recede and Conference Committee was asked
for. large number of bills were considered
in Committee of the Whole. The Speaker ap-
pointed Committee on Calendar, consisting of
Messers. Charlesworth, Dixon, Orner, Carroll
and Rash, with instructions to report as soon
as practicable. Its duties will be to go through
CdlcHudT ana strike on all unlmpOrtant
bills, and report a calendar of only such bills as
they may deem important The Senate by
q vote OF IL TO Is. decided not to take the in
itiat1ve in asking for a Conference Committee
upon the subject of railroad legislation.
Five petitions were presented in the House
the 10Th, four of them praying for railroad
legislation. Two bills were introduced, and
number read a second time and referred.
Upon third reading the bills passed were an
act to provide for the health and safety of
persons employed in and about the coal mines
OF Kansas, and providing for the inspection of
the same; an act to change the name of Usage
Mission TO Neona; to regulate the terms of
court in the Seventh Judicial District, and a
number OF local bills. The Speaker announced
the Committee of Conference on the Railroad
bill The House went into Committee of the
Whole for consideration of appropriation bills.
49, In the Senate a resolution passed to revise
the calendar daily and advance important bills
In Committee of the Whole q number of bills
were favorably reported. The Fish Commits
noners Appropriation bill was favorably
recommended. Also Senate bill making ware
house receipts and bills of lading negotiable
and the parties issuing them responsible. The
President appointed Conference Committee
on the Railroad bill. A bill to allow cities of
the second class to make levy of ten mills
Tor school purposes was favorably recon-
mended.
In the House on the Goth more petitions
were presented asking for railroad legislation
few bills were introduced and number
read a second time and referred. The con-
gressional apportionment bill passed also the
Agricultural College Appropriation bill Also
number of bills of local character Mr.
Speers Lawrence Raid bill was killed in Com
mittee of the Whole, but the vote was after
wards reconsidered. At the evening session
the House passed five Senate bills, viz: TO
authorize Leavenworth County to build n
bridge: to cancel assessment and taxation on
certain property in Fort Scott; fixing terms of
court i'll the Fifteenth Judicial district. The
Anderson County Bridge bill, and four House
bills. Tho Senate passed the Congressional
AppOrtlonment bill, as reported by the minority
Of the committee, by vote of % TO 9. The
Senate passed the House bill providing for
terms of court in the Sixteenth Judicial dis
trict, and the bill TO remit the taxes due from
LeaVenworth County, which were used in the
erection of a court house and old accounts due
from other counties; also an act to amend an
act to provide for assessment and collection of
taxes. a large number of bills passed at the
Afternoon session. Among them the bill relat-
ing to the attachment of land and the filing of
notice thereof; concerning lunatics and drunk
ards; providing for the protection of mechanics
In the foreclosure of liens; providing for the
organization government and compensation Of
the militia of the State of Kansas; to enroll the
late soldiers and their widows and orphans of
the late armies of the United States residing in
the State of Kansas, and an act relating to
banks and banking corporations, and requiring
published statements thereof.
Several bills were introduced in the House
the 2lst, and bills read a second time and re-
ferred. The House in Committee of the Whole
devoted the morning session to the considera-
ton of bills on the calendar In the afternoon
the House agreed to Senate amendment to tho
Sixteenth Judicial District bill and to the Poiti-
cal Disabilities bill. The rest of the session
was devoted to the system of assessment pro-
posed in four bills reported by the committee
on that subject. The system provided for q
State Inspector of Assessments with 81 GOO
salary. II was defeated. One bill of the series
was approved, making il mandatory on County
Clerks and County Commissioners to be
governed by valuations fixed by theState Board
OF Equalization in all levies and extensions of
assessment rolls. ..... In the Senate a bill was
passed taking Linn County from the Sixth
Judicial district and adding IL to the Tenth An
act fixing the salary and prescribing the duties
of certain county officers in counties having
5000 inhabitants or more and making counties
of 200 inhabitants subject to the law of 1876,
passed. The House Congressional Apportion-
ment bill was then taken up and the Senate
bill was substituted for IL and passed. House
bill to authorize the Board of County Commits
sioners of Butler County to repair certain
bridges passed, also House bill to amend Sec
ton Is of Article IL, of Chapter ~, of the laws
of 1876, approved March 4, 1915. A large mum.
Der of bills passed, when the Senate went into
executive session.
One petition for railroad legislation was
presented in the House the I'D. Many bills
were read a second time and referred. No new
bills were introduced. Senate bill to amend
an act to incorporate and regulate cities of the
first class, and to repeal all prior acts relating
thereto, approved March 4, 1881, was taken up
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole upon the consideration of the ap-
preparation bills The State University APP
preparation bill was taken up and considered
at length, pending which the committee rose
and the House adjourned. In the Senate a bill
passed providing that township officers shall
make reports before the annual elections. The
appropriation bills were placed at the head OF
bills reported by committees. The Capitol AID
preparation bill was placed on third reading
subject to amendment and debate AmonC
others the following bills passed: Authorizing
County Commissioners to construct roads or
petition of a majority of the land owners alone
and adjacent to the line of such road; to pro
vide for the health and safety of persons EN-
ployed in and about the coal mines of Kansas
and providing for the inspection OF the same
| TO amend section of article of chapter 30 OF
the general statutes of 1858, being an act t.
regulate elections an d TO repeal said section 2
A number of local bills also passed.
~
The trial of E. d. Mosely, son Of Mrs. Mar
tin who was convicted a few months ago o
the murder of Mrs. L. NJ. Nuger by strychnin,
| poison, was concluded last week at Emporia
the jury after being out FIVE hours findins
him guilty of murder in the first degree, b,
counseling, aiding and abetting the defendan
Mary Elizabeth Martin in the commission O
said murder.
/ The Governor appointed Amos Harris, o
Wichita, Judge of the Eighteenth Judicia
I District-the new district recently created b,
the Legislature
Otto Brand, thirty-seven. master
mariner of Hull. England, was hanged
lately for the murder death resulting
from cruel treatment) of an apprentice
/ on the high seas. The British authori-
ties are resolved to repress cruel action
to seamen and helpless boys, and the
Secretary of State. in view of the de-
tails, turned deaf ear TO Brands plea
that he Ibid not mean to kill him."