Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The kansas Legisla furc.

Twentv-three bills were introduced into the
House the 18th. among them one to provide
for the health and safety of persons employed
In and shout the coal mines Of Kansas and pro-
viding Tor the inspection of the same; also to
prompt hunting or trapping upon grounds of
another withouI the owners consent making
IT a mis- eanor; also. TO prevent unauthorized
ana incompetent persons engaging in the prac.
nee OF pharmacy, and to regulate sales of
pOlsOns, etc., and to create Boaed Of Pharma-
cy..: The Senate confirmed the following
appointments of the Governor: Richard b
Morris, Superintendent of Insurance: James
ketner, Major General of militia: Isaac Stod-
den and John e: Watrous, Brigadier Generals;
thomas Moonlight, Adjutant General; Harry
e. lnsiey, Paymaster General: Harry A Lewis
assistant AdJutant General; X. A. Trimble
Surgeon General; John Hoenscheidt, ]. c.
Murdock and w L. Huffman, Aids-de-Camp
A number of changes were made in the stand
ing committees. Mr. Green presented a con-
current resolution for joint committee to in
vesdgate the construct on of free library
building IN the capitol grounds.
No business was transacted by the Legisla-
ture the 18th, an adjournment having been
taken to the 10th to enable the architect to
make some needed improvements in the cap
ltol building. The Speaker improved the
tees.
In the House the 10th large number of
bills were introduced among them one amend
ing justice fee bills, one for the relief of DUR
chasers of normal school ands. one prov ding
Tor the increase of the capita stock of railroad
compan 2, one to fix terms of court in the
Sixteenth ID strict, another 10 Regulate fares
and rrels hts on raj roads; one for the re ief of
sufferers IN the Quantr II raid at Lawrence,
ana Legislative appropriation bill Also a
joint resolution Tor submitting a PROVOST on
Tor Constitutional Convention; also a resolu-
ton 10 create committee to investigate the
management of the stock ards at Ken as
Nan. The Speaker announced the Stand ng
committees. In t Senate n JOINT resou-
non was introduced recomme nding that a vote
a fknOr
question OF holding u CONSTITUTE. nal Conven-
uon An al pOrtonment bill was introduced
Dy MI. Brown. Senator Everest introduced a
yolnt resolution for the submis-io of a prOpO-
sltlon at the general election in 1884, to amend
article ID IF the Const tuition by striking out
sectlon 10, which prohibits the manufacture
ahd sale OF lntoxicat ng liquors, except for
medical. sc1entii and mechanical pui poses.
In Joint CnventiOn of the two Houses
T. ID. Ihacher was reelected State Printer.
In the House the l7Ih the Speaker pre-
sented a petition relating to the law regarding
the practice Of medicine. A number of bills
were introduced, one TO provide uniform cheap
textbooks for the schools of the State: one
providing a penalty for carrying concealed
weapon; several CCngressior al apl ortionmpnt
DIS, and one to protect guests of hotels from
lire. All bills relating to the practice of med
icine were OrleIe1 referred to- a special COM
mittee of seven physi .ians. The most of the
day was occupied in debates upon matters of
little general interest. In the Senate, Mr..
THAT her, from the Judiciary Committee, re-
ported a number or dis ana recommend q
their passage, on regulating procedure be-
fore justices of the Peace in certain cases,
being an amendment TO al ow three-fourths of
jury TO render veI dict i'm civil cases. A
message was received from the Governor
transmitting list of pardons granted during
the Years 1851 and 1882. A bill was introduced
by Mr.. Buchan to amend the Prohibitory Law
so ms to al Ow all persons to sell for pur oses
named in the Constitution by paying a license.
Adjourned.
Twenty bills were introduced and passed
their first reading I'm the House the 18th. The
Committee on judiciary reported several bills
for indefinite pOstpOnement. Upon q motion
to adopt the report of the committee a spirited
scussiOn on point of order took PLACE. The
pc Mt of order IA sed was that the motion to
adopt such rept TT was out of order. The
Speaker dec ded the point of order not we'll
taKen, upon which an appeal from the decis-
ion of the Chair was taken by the member from
alb tie. Mr.. Ed spoke at some length, and
ga that such decision was UNIV arr anted by
the rules and established a most dangerous
precedent. If the House could adopt the re-
commendat on of n comm ttee for indefinite
post pOnement of any bill. before il was read to
the House, many OF the most meritorous bills
might be cons gned to oblivion without ever
having been paced upon the calendar. The
House by 81 to 40 refused to sustain the
Speaker. The Senate passed the b II Great
ing the Eighteenth Judicial District, and a bill
amending an act regulating the jurisdiction
and procedure before Just ces of the Peace in
cases of msdemeanor" The Senate then went
into Committee of the Whole and the rema II
der OF the session was devoted to bills upon
their third reading