Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-07

women.
! in the forenoon, removing disabilities,
/ had not received a tWO-thirds majority.
| and If was bv. consent left in its p0sition
on the calendar for third reading.
Mr.. Edwards bill, to provide for dis
! posing of ubbish in Offices Of Registers or
| Deeds. was passed. 1t directs the deliv-
cry of satisfaction Of mortgages to parties
/ interested.
Mr.. Bolinger's bill, to vacate parts 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, So pounds
! each per bushel, and English bluegrass
seed. % pounds. Also, washed plasteTlng
hair, 4 pounds and apples so pounds.
Mr.. Hatfeld's bill, to establish the Su-
periOr Court Of SedgWlck county, was de-
feated-50 to %.
Mr.. HatfeId'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 Mr.. John
stOn's bill fixing salaries Of County Clerk
and Treasurer of Ness county. Also Mr..
Bucks bill relating to garnishments
in district courts. Also Mr.. Hatfeld's
bill authorizing cities TO contract with
sewerage corporations. Also Mr.. Bucks
bill relating to selection of juries. Also
Mr.. Vance's bill authorizing the attorney
General and county attorneys to sue out
injunctiOns 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 other bill
from the Select Committee; for sale Of
lands belonging to the State to create a
fund to be expended by the Board Of Sur
vey in making deep bOrings. Mr.. Buck
opposed this in the interest of the Nor
nal School which is asking a 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 re commended. Another bill,
reported by Committee on Elections, re-
lating to township officers, was recon-
mended for passage. Also McTaggart's
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 a multi
titude Of amendments without any def
mite result.
In the Senate, afternoon session, two
school bills were passed by the commit
tee Of the whOle-One 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 dnties of county superintend-
ents.
Senator John Kelly's substitute for
Kelly and Lloyd's maximum rate rail-
road freights upon wheat was recon-
mended for passage in committee Of the
whole, as follows:
SECTION l. The Board of Railroad
Commissioners shall from time to time,
upon complaint by any bona Jide shipper
or other person interested, if they deem
such complaint reasonable, investigate
! the same, and shall direct such changes
in the freight rate charges Of any railroad
COLl DhAy uOlug DubluCEB III BLl15 CIdJEg
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 or 1OithOlu complaint and
investigation also direct any change IN the
classification 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 Com mis-
siOners shall give at least ten days no
| tlce to the railroad company whose rates
of freight charges or classification it is
proposed to change, and such railroad
company may appear by It's agent or
other person and show cause, if any.
why such change proposed should
not be made; certified.
! 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 a certified copy of such
changed schedule of freight rate charges
shall be deemed and taken in all
courts of this State as primG
facie evidence of the reasOnableness of
the freight rate charges of the cOmmOd-
ity or kind of freight upon which such
freight rate charges have been changed,
and the certificate ofthe Commissioners,
together with the schedule of freight
rate charges containing the rates so
changed, shall be held prinsa facis Tea-
sOnable freight rate charges established
| by said Board of Commissioners in all
suits against such railroad company
whose freight rates have been so chang
ed, until the contrary is proven.
SEC 2. For q violation of any of the
provisions of this act, the railroad COM
pany so violating shall be subject to the
same penalties and liable in the same
manner and to the same extent as pre-