Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-06
Kansas Legislature

Kansas LEGISLATURE
! Topeka, Kas., March 4.--Intb the afternoon
the senate passed on third reading bill au.
thorizing the county commissioners to con
struct and improve roads on.petition of one.
f'ffh Of the voters Sustained BY majority
vote-To establish county high schools;
for the regulation and support of common
schools, and to authorize cities to establish
and maintain free libraries and reading
rooms.
In the afternoon the house adopted this
resolution in memoriam:
! WHEREAS, 1t has seemed good in his Wis
dom to the Good of the universe to call
from the spere of actions finite, to the realms
Of infnity the Hon. James S. Merritt there
fore,
Resolved, That in the removal of our hon.
ored citizen the house of representatives of
the state of Kansas but recognizes and hum
bly, yields to the wise DEGREES of high heaven;
Resolved, That the state Of Kansas has
sustained the irreparable loss of zone of her
most jealous and tireless citizens;
Resolved. That the sympathies of CRATE
full and sorrowing people be and are hereby
extended to his griei-strieken family in this
their saddest affliction;
Resolved. That copy Of these resolutions
be officially transmitted by the house to
the family of the deceased, be ordered
published in the official state paper and be
spread upon the house Journal. Signed
by the committee-Messrs. Finch, Anthony.
Hatfield, Billingsley and Phil Kelly.
The bill to devote the lands left of the
100000 acre grant and twelve sections of
Salt Springs lands to geological survey was
amended by taking away from it the first
class of lands named and then passed.
The senate bill TT transferring the balance of
the railroad fund IN the state treasury and
the above mentioned residue of lands was
passed. The joint resolution passed to
submit IN amendment to the constitution
increasing the number of justices of the
supreme court. The Roberts bill
passed to establish chair of
pharmacy in the state university.
Mr.. Bonds new bill for the organization
Of mutual life insurance associations was
discussed at length but not concluded. The
investigation committee on the sale of Nor
NAL school lands made report conde,nling
such sale and recording the conclusions
from the evidence, the fault principally fall
ing upon President Sharpe, of the Normal
board, charging that such sale was made by
collision and fraud, with suggestions of for
gerry, and that such sale should be set aside.
The committee to visit Olathe and con-
denim work done in the construction of the
new west wing blame the board of charities,
the architect and superintendent.
The house killed the senate resolution
asking that the residue of the Usage lands be
put in market. Final action was had and it
is ordered by the legislature to publish all
laws of this session which take effect on
publication in newspaper, in the daily
Commonwealth. Bills were passed as fol-
lows: Senate bill to establish bureau of
labor and industrial statistics; the house bill
enabling Dickinson and Morris counties to
build jais.
In the morning the report of the commits
sion on the revision of the calender was
adopted. The senate concurred in the reso-
luton dismissing the suits against the Kan
sas Pacific railway. While the guns were
firing in honor of President Clcveland's in
auguration, the militia bill was passed.