Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-07
KANSAS LEeIsLATURE.
Twenty FIRST Session.
sENATE-FEBRUARY q.


were passed tO-wit: To provide facilities
for the department Of Natural history in
the State University; for additional build
ings, ETC., for Deaf and Dumb Institute;
for deficiencies of expenses of Commits
sioner Of Fisheries; for deficiencies in
conveying prisoners to the Penitentiary
since 1879; and that for payment Of State
Agent Crawford was ordered to third
reading, subject to amendment and de-
bate.
Bills passed on third reading to create
the 18th, goth, and 2lst judicial districts
That for the 18th is a House bill and
therefore becomes law.
In afternoon session of the Senate, in
committee of the whole, Senate bill No.
48, authorizing interpretations for all LAW
full purposes, was indefinitely postponed.
Senate bill No. 116, making aPprOpria-
tons to reimburse the permanent school
fund for money paid for fraudulent
school lands, Senate bill No. 123, to es-
tablish a Soldiers Orphans Home, and
Senate bill No. So, regulating the receiv-
ing, TRANSPORTATION and delivery of grain
by railroad, were each respectively or
dered to a third reading, subject to
amendment and debate.
Senate bill No. 81, to regulate public
warehouses, and WarehOusing and IN
spection of grain was stricken from the
calendar.
Senate bill No. l78, regulating the
State Library, aud repeating chapter 1l2
laws of 1870, chapter 143 laws Of 1871,
and chapter 1876 laws of 1873, elected a
long debate, and received general amend
ments. The salary Of Librarian was
fixed at 81 800. AproVisO was offered by
Senator Redden, authorizing law books
to be taken from the capitol for use in
the trial of cases in the different District
Courts under such regulations and imi-
tatiOns as the Board of Directors may
make.
The enacting clause was stricken out
of Senate bill No. 10I, "to amend an act
relating to counties and county officers"
HoUsE-FEBRUARY p.
Forenoon session nearly taken up by a
discussion Of the journal of the previous
day. At afternoon adjournment the mo-
ton was made to adjourn, which under
the rules would be until 10 Of next a. m.
The special order for the evening was
suggested after adjournment had been
declared, and the motion to adjourn was
reconsidered and another motion carried
to adjourn till 7:30.
1t was argued that there was no power
to recOnvene the House after the first ad
jOurnment. The Speaker ruled the even
ing session regular as the action relating
to adjOinment had been unanimous, and
without objection.
Senate amendments to the Sheridan
county funding bill were cOncurred in.
Also to the bill ceding Jurisdiction to the
United States over the LeavenWorth
Soldiers home.
Ali bills relating to insurance were
added to the special order for next Tues
day p. IN.
Bills were considered in committee of
the whole, Mr.. Roberts in the Chair, and
acted upon as noted: S. B. relating to
payment of wages Of coal and other
miners in lawful money only. This was
slightly amended and when PASSED by
the House must go back to the Senate
Passage recommended.
Mr.. IL. C. Cooks bill, to prevent the
recording of deeds and mortgages which
are faulty in description of the real estate
or are improperly acknowledged. Sent
back to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. JOhnstOn's bill, to limit pay of
County Clerk and Treasurer of Ness cOun-
ty to $500, was recommended for passage.
Mr.. Bucks bill, giving the same right
of garnishment in District Court as the
law permits in Justices Court. Approved
Mr.. Hatfeld's bill to enable cities to
contract with sewerage corporations. Ap-
proved.
Mr.. Bucks bill intended to make the
duty of officers plain, in the selection of
uries; approved.
Mr.. Vance's bill giving County Attor-
neys and the Attorney General the power
to sue out injunctions against nuisances
upon information and belief and with
out bond; approved.
Committee on Agriculture's bill to
compel hedges along high ways to be cut
down to five and a half feet every year
was talked about long time and the
Committee arose before 1t was disposed
of.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES %.
In the forenoon appropriation bills
were passed to a third reading: For De-
psrtment of Natural History in State
University; for Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
and for deficiency of Fish Commission;
for conveying prisoners to the Peniten-
tiary, and about twenty local bills.
Senator Barker made a report as chair
man Of special committee on peniten-
tiary investigation. This report censures
the management Of the penitentiary and
makes many suggestions for reform. 1t
details the account Of defalcatiOns of
Clerk Pusey, and states them at $4,000.
In Senate in the afternoon the bill to
create Board of PardOns passed a third
reading.
Senators Kelly and Loyd's maximum
freight bill was taken up and discussed at
great length, and continued till tO-mor-
row.
In the evening session, the House Tenn
perance bill occupied the whole session
in Committee of the Whole, and the
Senate adjourned after continuing the
bill, till tomorrow at IL o'clock.
HOUSE, FEBRUARY, %.
Petitions were presented from Chero-
kee and Mitchell counties for Municipal
Suffrage for women.
Appropriations for VIM. Edgar who
was injured at a fire at the Osawatomie
Asylum, and for G. L. De Randamie, who
was injured at the State House while in