Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-05

Mr.. Edwards bill, TO provide for dis
posing of rubbish in offices OF Registers
of Deeds, was passed. 1t directs the de-
livery of orders of satisfaction of mort
cages to parties interested.
Mr.. Bolinger's bill, to vacate part of
the public square in Uniontown, was
passed.
Statutory list of weights and measures
was changed by passage of bill adding
rice corn and sorghum seed, 56 pounds
each per bushel, and English bluegrass
seed 90 pounds. Also, washed plastering
hair pounds, and apples so pounds.
Mr.. Hatfeld's bill, to establish the SUI
perior Court of Sedgwick county, was de-
feated-5O to 20.
Mr.. Hatfeld's bill, to legalize certain
levies and taxes in Sedgwick county,
passed.
Mr.. Lowers bill authorizing Morris
county to build a bridge across the
Neosho river passed. Also MIR. Johns
toms bill fixing salaries of County Clerk
and Treasurer of Ness county. Also Mr..
Bucks bill relating to garnishments in
al6O NIL hdthCiN VIA
authorizing cities to contract with sewer
age corporations. Also MIR. Bucks bill
relating to selection of juries. Also Mr..
Vance's bill authorizing the attorney
General and county attorneys to sue out
iniunctions to restrain nuisances.
Committee of the whole House consid-
cred the bill reported by the Select Com
mittee on geographical survey. to create
a Board of Survey, and approved 1t. The
Committee then took up the bill from
the Select Committee, for sale OF lands
belonging to the State to create a funG
to be expended by the Board of Survey
in making deep borings. Mr.. Buck OPP
posed this in the interest of the Normal
School which is asking part of the
lands. Pending discussion the Commit
tee arose.
The evening session was employed by
the farmers talking over the road laws.
A bill introduced by the Committee on
Roads and Highways, which constitutes
the township board board of highway
commissioners, was considered, and its
passage recommended. Another bill re-
ported by Committee on Elections, re-
lating to township officers, was recon-
mended for passage. Also MIR. McTag-
CARTS bill to authorize Cherokee township
of Montgomery county, to issue bridge
bonds. Also Mr.. Bonds bill to punish
Misrepresentation of breeding stock.
sENATE-FEB. "a.
The Senate in the forenoon had but
fairly got to work on the bill fixing sala-
ries of county officers, when the special
order, the House Temperance bill, was
announced, and the whole forenoon was
taken up in random debate on multi
tude of amendments without any definite
result.
In the Senate, afternoon session, two
school bills were passed by the commit
tee of the Wholesome to allow counties
and school districts to adopt uniform
school books, and the other relating to
the support of common schools, and fix
ing the duties Of county superintend-
ents.
Senator John Kelly's substitute 70
Kelly and Lloyd's maximum rate rail
road freights upon wheat was recon-
mended for passage in committee Of the
whole, as follows:
CcCtlOu l.. 1uc VI hdllIOdu SOlll-
missioners shall from time to time, upon
complaint by any bona .tide shipper OF
other person interested, if they deem
such complaint reasonable, investigate
the same, and shall direct such changes
in the freight rate charges of any rail-
road company doing business in this
State, upon any commodity or kind OF
freight mentioned in said complaint; and
the schedule containing such freight rate
charges so modified shall be posted by
the railroad company thus affected as
the Board of Commissioners shall direct
Said Board of Commissioners Shall on
like complaint and investigation, also
direct any change in the classified
ton of any commodity or kind of
freight, from any class to any other class,
as may be deemed reasonable and prop
er. Before making any change as herein
provided, either in freight rate charges
or classification, the Board of Commits
sioners shall give at least ten days no.
tice to the railroad company whose rates
of freight charges or classification it is
proposed to change, and such railroad
company may appear by its agent or
other person and show cause, if any, why
such proposed change should not be
made; certified copy of such changed
rate of freight charges shall be furnished
by the Board of Commissioners to the
managing officer of the road affected,
and shall take effect from such date as
said board may direct; and certified
copy of such changed schedule of freight
rate charges shall be deemed and taken
in all courts of this State as prima facie
evidence of the reasonableness of the
freight charges of the commodity or kind
of freight upon which such freight rate
charges have been changed, and the GER
tifcate of the Commissioners, together
with the schedule of freight rate charges
containing the rate 80 changed, shall be
held prim0 facie reasonable freight rate
charges established by said Board of
Commissioners in all suits against such
railroad company whose freight rates
have been SO changed, until the contrary
is proven.
Sec. 2. For a violation of any of the
provisions of this act, the railroad COM
pany 30 violating shall be subject to the
same penalties and liable in the same
manner and to the same extent as pre-
scribed in the act to which this act is
supplementary.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in
the official State paper.
Senator Humphrey, President pro tenn,
in the chair.
The Senate went into committee of
the whole, Senator Green in the chair,
on the special order.
S. B. No. 264, an act relating to assess
ment and taxation, and amendatory of
sections 4S, A, 66, 1913 and 147, of chapter
"a, of the Session Laws of 1876, being an
act entitled "An act to provide for the
assessment and collection of taxes"
House bill No. 81, an act to amend Sec
ton IL of article of chapter "a of the
of 81 a. j