Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-14

the appropriation Of $4,000 for the Sol
diers' Home which had passed the House.
The House resolution asking the At
torney General for information In regard
to the Pusey defalcation was indefinitely
In the afternoon the appropriation bill
for the Executive and Judicial Depart
ments, the bill for building and remOv-
ing the imbecile school to Winfield, and
the bill to establish the Office Of State
Entomologist and appropriations for eX-
penses Of the Office, passed to a third
reading.
HoUsE-FEBRUARl
The following bills were read third
time and passed, except as voted. Mr..
Bryant's bill for formation OF mutual
livestock companies. Mr.. Collins bill
for formation and reputation of mutual
fire insurance companies. MIR. COrWin's
bill for formation of township mutual in
surance companies was defeated. Mr..
Slaven's bill TO punish malicious mis-
chief Senate bill repeating funding law
for LeavenWorth Of 1879,
In afternoon session the House con-
Cured in the Senate's amendments to
several house bills, each one requiring a
roll call. A number of resolutions were
offered and laid over. among them an
other looking to Dismissal by Attorney
General of action pendiIt, against Sam
uel Lappin. There was &hother which
would constitute the Governor, Secretary
of State and Attorney General, COM
mission to inquire into the matter of the
Price raid claims and to report to the
next session of Legislature.
The Senate resolution to adjourn sine
die Saturday noon, March 7th, was con-
CURED in.
me- f,IIOvziDo, 1,ilIs vvera read q third
time and passed: Mr.. COxs bill to en-
power Wakarusa township, of Douglass
county, to build a township hall. Mr..
CarrOlPs bill to authorize Boards of Edu-
cation in cities Of the first class to take
additional bonds from City Treasurers.
Mr.. BurtOn's bill to punish the manufac-
ture and sale Of impure dairy products,
butterine and OleOmargarine, occupied
large part of the afternoon. There were
attacks upon it in all the patent forms;
by amendments, substitutes, criticisms,
roll calls, etc. 1t finally passed. a COM
promise bridge bill for Reno county was
passed. Mr.. Wilhelm's bill to authorize
the erection of a township house at Win
chester, passed.
Mr.. Gillett introduced a bill to change
terms of court in the Sixteenth District,
and got it advanced on the calendar for
third reading.
sENATE-MARCH 2.
This forenoon the response of Frank
Bacon, Commissioner to the New Or
leans Worlds Exposition, to the resOlu-
ton of censure passed by the Legislature
in regard to the joint reception of the
Liberty Bell and ] left Davis, was referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
The resolution of Senator Jennings,
asking Congress to dispose of the frac-
tiOnal portions of sections of Usage re-
serve and coded lands at fifty cents per
acre, passed.
The proposition of the Commonwealth,
to publish the laws in the Commonwealth
and eighty other newspapers, which had
previously passed the House was passed
IN the Senate.
On motion of Senator Buchan, a resO-
luton passed to adjourn so as to pay the
respects Of the Senate in a body to the
remains of Hon. James S. Merritt, a
former member Of the Legislature, as
they passed the depot Of the Union Pa
citic Railroad, on the way to his late
home at WamegO, from Washington
City, where he died.
In Senate, this afternoon, the bill
making an appropriation to erect a build
ing for the Imbecile School at Winfield
was passed. The amount appropriated
is $50, 900.
The State House Appropriation bill
passed, making q levy of half a mill,
and making a proVisO to take $4,000 out
of the general fund to commence work
at once and replace it when the money
shall be collected.
In Committee of the Whole, appro-
priation bills for State printing, to pay
per diem, mileage, etc, of regents, trus-
tees and directors of State institutions,
vryoV.a r,ncoaH 70 q third raadinC
The bill to provide for Grand Juries,
in Committee of the Whole, passed to a
third reading. This bill provides for
luries at two terms in each year, with a
prOviso that when 200 taxpayers petit
ton the Judge for a Grand Jury, such
jury shall be empanneled.
Bills passed a third reading fixing the
terms of court in the Thirteenth District;
naming the counties and fixing the times
of holding the courUs in the Eighteenth
District; and providing for an additional
term Of court in the county of Republic.
Four local bills also passed.
At the evening session, an invitation
was sent to the Senate by S. J. Smith,
General superintendent of Ethe Union
Pacific Railroad rendering trains per-
taken to the Senate transportation to
attend the funeral of Hon. James S. AIer-
rift at Wamego In committee of the
whole, the bill relating to salary of
county superintendent passed to third
reading.
On third reading the following bills
passed: the Appropriation bill for exc
cutive and judiciary departments; to
establish the state entomologist, and to
make appropriations, etc.
Senator Miller took the Chair as
Speaker pro tenn and Senator Cranes
bill to secure a lien for services of stall
lions and jacks passed on third reading.
HOUSE-AIARCH ..
The House resolution relating to settle
ment of quo 1CarrantO proceedings against
the Union Pacific Railway was recalled
from the Senate.
The Labette delegation secured cOnsid-
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