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

So to So per month, and adopted.
| Mr.. Roberts resolution constituting the
Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor-
ney General a commission to inquire
into losses by the Quantrell raid, was
adopted.
The House met after dinner, with
Speaker pro tenn. Burton in the chair,
and at once proceeded to business by
having read the following report from
the Judiciary Committee, to whom was
reported the communication from ex-
Gov. Click relative to the pardons issued
during his term of Office:
Mr.. SPEAKER: Your Committee on the
Judiciary, to whom was referred ex-Gov.
Click report of pardons granted during
the years 1888 and 1884, for investiga-
ton of the validity of the reasons therein
assigned, have had the same under con-
sideration and instruct me to make the
following report:
First-The reasons for granting par
dons in cases of misdemeanors for viola
ting the prohibitory law, as assigned by
said ex-Gov. Click, as those assigned by
the applicants for pardons, and in many
instances in disregard of the cross petit
lions and remonstrances of the best class
of citizens, as they appear from the
papers and recorded in the Executive Of
| fee.
| Second-From the records of the case
which arose in the May term, 1884, of
the District Court in the county Of Sa-
line, now on file in the Executive Office,
in which pardons were granted by said
ex.Gov. Click, the structures upon the
Judge and officers of the Court, as as
signed by said Ex-Governor Click, do
not appear 20 have any foundation in
| fact.
| Third-Ex-Gove Click, in grant
ing the most of said pardons for violation
of said prohibitory law, find the papers
and reasons in such cases now on file in
the Executive office abused and misused
the pardoning power by exceeding the
authority in him vested.
Fourth-If the reasons for the pardons
in the Marion, Ellis, Saline, Lyons,
Nemaha, Mcpherson and Cowley coun-
ties cases, and in the case of Blackman,
of Shawnee, be true, they furnish good
and sufficient grounds for new trials,
and Executive interference in such
cases for the reasons assigned is an
unjust. unreasonable and unwarranted
| interference with the rights, privileges,
duties and powers of the Judiciary of
our State, a condemnation of what he,
the Governor, without cause, supposed
would be the decision Of the Supreme
Court.
The Judiciary is coordinate and in
dependent branch of our Government,
and in no way responsible to the Exec
utive department, and Executive inter-
feernce ought never to be had, for the
reasons assigned in the before-men-
toned cases until the remedies pre-
scribed by law have been exhausted.
and such interference is clearly an abuse
of the pardoning power.
J. B. CLoGsToN,
| Chairman.
The bill making appropriations for
boring artesian wells was passed after ad
amendment providing that one-half the
money should be expended west Of the
sixth principal meridian.
The Winfield imbecile bill was defeat
ed.
Several regular appropriation bills were
passed and some local ones.
The evening session was spent On the
appropriation bills.
| SENATE-MARCH 4.
In the morning the report of the com.
mittee of the calendar was discussed and
adopted.
Senate bill No. 2l2, an act to provide
for the organization, government and
compensation of the militia of the State
of Kansas, and for the public defense
was passed while the cannon was firing
in honor of the Inauguration of President
Cleveland.
;. a. INV
II. B. Kelly looking with pride upon the
record of the Republican party as consti
tuting the grandest period in American
history, etc. When he offered the reso'
lutions he remarked that the same guns
that fire to-day in honor of Democratic
success, were fred at the Nation a fe "
years since.
Senator Lowe opposed the resolution
and said: feel in duty bound to resent
: and denounce the declaration Of the Sen
atcr from Mcpherson, that the guns we
now hear being fired in honor of the in
auguration of Grover Cleveland as presi-
dent of the United States are like the
guns fired upon Fort Sumpter, as unpa.
triotic, un-American and unworthy to be
uttered by any man in this Senate or in
this State. The language does the Sen.
ator's we'll known American ideas injus.
tice. l say his language, is SANDER up
on himself, upon the county he repre-.
sents and upon the State of Kansas
The vote being taken by yeas and
nays, the resolutions were passed unan-
imously, while the cannon in the State
House yard was firing salute in homo,
of the Inauguration of President Cleve.
land.
The Senate was in executive session
supposed to be on the Topeka Insane
Asylum for two hours. Nothing was
given to the public.
A bill to authorize county commission.
ers to construct and improve roads;
passed. 1t takes majority vote of the
county and authorizes bonds to be issued
A bill passed to establish and maintain
high schools by counties having over 600
inhabitants.
A bill passed authorizing all cities to
maintain free library.
The H. B. governing cities of the first
class was decapidated. One governing
cities of second class; passed.
HoUsE-MARCH 4.
The House indefinitely postponed the
S. G. r. asking that the residue of the
Usage lands be put upon the market.
4 Senate amendments to the H. C. r.
ordering all laws published in the Daily
Commonwealth and eighty other newspa.
pers were concurred in.
The following bills were passed on
third reading: Senate bill to create a
board of labor and industrial statistics.
Mr.. Coggeshall Jail bill for Dickinson
county. Mr.. Lowers Jail bill for Morris
county.
Bill to provide for sale of state lands
and apply proceeds to use of the Board