Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-12
KANSAS LEGISLATURES.


Twenty-First Session.
sENATE-FEBRUARY %.
In the Senate during the forenoon, the
Committee on Claims reported against
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
postponed.
In the afternoon the appropriation bill
for the Executive and Judicial Depart
ments, the bill for building and remov-
ing the imbicile 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-FEBRUARY 70.
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. Mr.. Corwin's
bill for formation OF township mutual in
surance companies was defeated. MIR.
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
q roll call. A number of resolutions were
offered and laid over. Among them an
other looking to dismissal by the Attor-
ney General of actions pending against
Samuel Lappin. There was another
which would constitute the Governor,
Secretary of State and Attorney Cen
eral q commission to inquire into the
matter of the Price raid claims and re-
port to the next session of the Legisla-
ture.
The Senate resolution to adjourn sine
die Saturday noon, March 9TH, was con-
Cured in.
The following bills were read third
time and passed. Mr.. Cox's bill to en-
power Wakarusa township, of Douglass
county, to build a township hall. Mr..
CAROLS 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,
butterinc and oleomargarine, occupied a
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 township house at Win
chester, passed.
Mr.. Gillett introduced 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 jeff Davis, was referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
The resolution of Senator Jennings.
asking Congress to dispose of the frao-
tional portions of sections of Usage re-
serve and ceded 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
Ia the Senate.
On motion of Senator Buchan, reso.
luton passed to adjourn so as to pay the
respects of the Senate in body to the
remains of Hon. James S. Merritt, q
former member of the Legislature, as
they passed the depot of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad, on the way to his late
home at Wamego, from Washington
City, where he died.
The State House Appropriation bill
passed, making a levy of half mill
and having proviso to take $75, 900 Out
of the general fund to commence work
at once and replace it when the money
shall be collected.
In the Senate, this afternoon, he bill
making an appropriation to erect 6
building for the Imbecile School at Win
field was passed The amount appro
priated is $4,000.
In Committee Of the Whole, appropria
ton bills for State printing, to pay pei
diem, mileage, ETC., of regents, trustees
and directors of State institutions, were
passed to third reading.
The bill to provide for Grand JuIies, il
Committee of the Whole, passed to {
third reading. This bill provides fol
uries at two terms in each year, with {
proviso that when 20Otaxpayers petition
the Judge for Grand Jury, such jury
shall be empannelled.
At the evening session, an invitation
was sent to the Senate by S. j. Smith
General Superintendent of the Unio1
Pacific Railroad rendering transporta
ton to theSenate bill to attend the
funeral of Hon. James S. Merit al
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; te
establish the state entomologist, etc.
Senator Miller took the Chair al
Speaker pro tenn and Senator Cranes bill
t. secure lien for services Of stalliont
and jacks passed on third residing.
HoUsE-MARCH 2.
The House resolution relating to set
Element of quo uarrdnto proceedings
against the Union Pacific Railway Wa
recalled from the Senate.
The Labette delegation secured con
sideration of Mr.. kelso's bill providing
for alternate terms of court at Oswegt
and Parsons. MIR. II. c. Cook attacked
the measure in an exhaustive argument
Mr.. Kelso plead for the passage of the
bill. An amendment was agreed te
which would provide for submission O.
the question to a vote OF the people. MIR
J.B. Cook opposed the bill. The enact
ing clause striker QUITO to "a.
Mr.. Thompson secured action in com
mittee of the whole upon his bill to au.
thorize School District No. of Harper