Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-21


on third reading: ID. B. y, placing ap-
polntment OF appraisers Of School
houses, when there Is a charge In school
house sites, IN the County Superintend-
ent. ii. B. 81, permitting issue of third
grade certificates to teachers a second
time. Mr.. AnthOny's II. B. $40, re-
curing statistics of hOnOrably discharged
soldiers. This bill also extends the cen
sus law to unorganized counties, and pro-
V1des Tor proper officers to take such cen
sus therein.
III. b. So, authorizing Larned and Pleas
ant Valley township, Of PaWnee county
to appropriate money for highway pur-
poses.
81. B. 226, correcting boundary line be
tween Harper and Sumner counties.
II. b. 164, authorizing the Topeka school
board to submit proposition to issue
bonds TO build more school houses.
ii. B. 255, legalizing the plats and sur
veys of the city Of Hanover.
ID. b. 40, for the relief Of r. II. Tim
norman of Smith county.
II. 3. 1872, to legaliZe certain leVies and
taxes IN Lyon county.
ID. b. 232, to authorize WyandOtte
county to issue Z per cent funding bonds
to redeem its outstanding bonds matur-
II. B. Isl, to vaeate the La Cygne Gem
etery.
H. B. 272, funding bill for Washington
county.
II. B. $50, to authorize Lyon county to
build a bridge.
II. B. 292, legalizing sale of school
land in Greenwood county to II. Q. Jack
son.
House bill 80, authorizing Lincoln
county to create a bridge fund; and to as
sumo the bonds Of Indiana and ElkhOrn
townships
House bill 294, authorizing school dis
tricts in unOTganiZed counties to levy
taxes for school purposes.
House bill $40, changing the ma me o
Knowles to Haddam City.
House bill 800, amending section los
of the civil code.
II. B. 293, authorizing Justices of the
Peace of the township to act as Police
Judge in cities Of the third class, in GER
tain cases.
II. B. 291, appropriating $48 and inter
est, from the school fund to j. @. Foster.
ii. B. 266, authorizing Lincoln county
to transfer certain surplus funds in its
treasury to the general revenue fund.
II. b. l49, funding bill for Sheridan
county.
H. B. 145, ceding to the United States
jurisdiction over the site of the Soldiers
Home in LeaVenWOrth county.
sENATE-FEB. II.
In Senate forenoon, the whole session
was taken up by Senators II. B. Kelley
and LlOyd's Freight Rate Bill, and
amendments, which was finally, In com
mittee of the whole, made the special
order for tomorrow at 2 p. m.
In the afternoon, the Senate agreed to
House amendments to the Senate bill
fixing terms Of court in the Fourteenth
Judicial District.
MI ~ Z
the motion of Senator Redden to recon
slider the motion by which the enacting
clause was stricken out. After the exer-
else Of a great deal Of parliamentary
strategy, the calling Of the roll, ordering
the previous question and a call of the
House, the motion prevailed.
The appropriation bills for the Agri-
cultural College, the State University
and the Topeka Insane Asylum, passed
to a third reading.
Senate bill No. 1873, to secure to labor
ers engaged in and about coal mines and
manufactures, the payment of their
wages at regular intervals, in lawful
money of the United States, was passed
to third reading, subject to amendment
and debate.
HOUsE-FEBRUARY II.
Petitions were presented: Marshall
| and Nemeha counties, for a maximum
! freight rate law.
Among new bills are one by Mr.. Har-
! desty, providing punishment for dam
| age done to irrlgatlng canals; one by Mr..
| Veatch, changing time for terms of court
In Washington county; one by Commit
! tee on Assessment and Taxation, over
hauling the Assessment law in Most Of
! its features.
Mr.. Miller, of Miami, introduced a con-
current resolution fsvoring the passage
of Congress of the Mexican War Pension
Bill.
The following bills were put upon their
third reading and passed:
Burton's House bill 123, guarantee fund
for mutual fire insurance companies.
Wallace's House bill SO, fixing salaries
by County Clerk and Treasurer Of Jewell
county.
Ogden's House bill 81, vacating State
road from Reading to Burlington.
CarrolI's II. B. q, authorizing cities Of
the first class to provide parks.
MOsher's II. B. Is, declaring section
lines in Edwards and Finney counties
public highways.
Whitford's S. B. 10, funding bill for
School district No. 6 of Anderson county.
Green's S. B. So, relating to cOntinu-
anCes and appeals Of cases IN Justices
courts.
Lloyd's S. B. %, fixing terms of court
In the Fourteenth Judicial District
Mr.. Bucks II. B. pa, relating to releVy
of certain taxes in cities Of the second
class.
Mr.. Matlock, Of Harvey, insisted that
his II. J. R. 5, providing for an amend
ment to the constitution, had been re-
ported favorably by the.Judiciary Com
mittee, and wanted to know why it had
been dropped from the calendar. The
records showed that it had been indef-
nitely postponed by the House by adOp-
ton Of the report of the Judiciary Com
mittee recommending that action.
II. B. 367, reported by the Temperance
Committee, was made a special order for