Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27

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GENERAL REVENUE FUND FROM JULY 1. lsSs. N
JANUARY !, 1885.
Receipts.
Balsnce on hand July 1, 1885, S27s $40 81
Collected on taxes. etc to Jan l. 1SS4 pa 454 ~
From Capitol Extension Fund........... Ais a.
From Insurance Fund (estimatedl-.. S0Oi7 Os
From Library Fund ....................... 65y1 So
From Penitentiary Fund.-.............. s5 005 "a
From Railroad Commissioners Fund. 1900 %
Tax roll OF 1888 COLLECTED in 1SS4...... 6666OO 90
Disbursements.
ApproPriatiIons OF 1873 49, III g
Five per cent. OF tax uneolected roll
BALANCES al on hand Jan l. S SGS9
Walton offered a resolution instructine
the Attorney General to give an opinion as
to whether the Military and Railroad funds
might be transferred to the General Reserve
Fund. He stated that the total amount
which could otherwise be made available
would be less than $4,000.
The House declined to go into Joint SEES
sion TO hear DR.. Holcombe talk on the foot
and mouth disease, but adopted a resolution
inviting the Senate to visit the House at four
O'Clock to hear the gentleman talk, After
he made his address, the substance of which
iourned.
In the Senate on March Goth a resolution
offered by Everest passed, asking the Audi
tor of State for information concerning the
valuation OF live stock as listed for taxation.
Wares resolution concerning the A. II.
q 5 F,e road came up and Collins offered an
amendment instructing the Railroad Com
missiOnels to continue their Interpretation
of the law, approving the spirit in which
hovT haNy rod z
duties, instructing them to make tariffs for
single haul over one or more lines of road,
and where the roads cannot agree upon a
fair division for the same, the Commission
ers shall apportion and adjust the same
between the two or more lines of road.
Buchan objected to. attempting legislation
by resolution, and said the railroads did not
deserve such stabs as were attempted.
Blue thought it perfectly right to sit down
on a manager of road who proposes to tell
the people they don't know what they
want.
Buchan said the Legislature had no right
doing their duty, in which CLARK agreed with
him.
Finch had failed to hear of any point
along the road whererelief had been given.
Ware said that all railroads in the State
mOny with the law.
Thatcher said this resolution proposed to
| fix maximum rates, which the Senate had
before said it would not do.
Senator Aller said that maximum rates as
fixed by the Commissioners would ruin
LeavenwOrth.
Hackney offered. as a substitute for the
whole subject, a resolution reciting that the
/ Top ritS nf tho hofVTyaav,
missiOners and the roads were proper sub
| jects for future legislation. On motion of
Metsker, the whole subject was tabled.
Among bills introduced were the follow
! ing: Attaching Finney county to Ford
county for judicial purposes; authorizing
the sale of certain railroad stock in Cloud
county.
The bill auth orizing water companies to
condemn land and water for supplying
cities with water works, passed.
| Metsker offered preamble and resolu-
| ton rquesting our Senators and Represen-
! tatives in Congress to use all honorable
means to secure Federal legislation to pre-
vent the spread and secure final extirpation
of the foot and mouth disease in the United
States. twas tabled.
The bill providing for dead line passed.
1t commences near the southwest corner of
| COmmanche county, and runs north to the
Arkansas river, on the east line clifford coun-
! ty thence west along thatTiver 10 Dodge City,
| thence north to the north line of Ford cOun-
| ty, thence west to the west line of Ford
! county. thence north to the northwest cor
ner of Ness county, thence awest to the
northwest corner OF Lane county thence
north to the northwest corner of Sheridan
county, thence west along the northern line
of Thomas county to the northwest corner
of Thomas county, thence north along the
west line OF Rawlins county to the north
| line of the State, thence west to the west
line of the State, thence south to the south
west corner of of the State, and thence
east to the place of beginning.
The House bill providing for the appoint
ment of a Veterinary Surgeon was taken up
and discussed at length. An amendment
providing that the Veterinary Surgeon
should lecture in the Agricultural College
was defeated, and the bill finally passed with
out amendment. (This bill has been pub
lished in this paper.)
The bill attaching FInney county to Ford
county for judicial purposes passed.
In the House on March both among che
bills introduced were the following: To es-
tablish Superior court in Shawnee county:
to remove the political disability Of ThOe.
B. Strong; for dead line across the center
Of the State to prevent the spread of con-
tagious diseases.
A resolution was offered sustaining the
Railroad Commissioners and endorsing
their power to fix maximum rates, which
was laid over.
A concurrent resolution was introduced
relating o sufferers by the Cheyenne Indian
raid of 1878 and their claims for losses.
A request was presented for an invesiiga-
ton into the alleged vacancy in the l11th
district.
In Committee of the Whole, the Vet
Urinary Surgeon bill was favorably recon-
mended, all amendments being voted down,
and the bill passed.
The bill to establish a Live Stock Sanitary
Commission wds amended so as to provide
that it shall be appointed every two years
also. leaving the branding and manner OF
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