The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05
KAxsAs LEaIsIArCRE.
Senate.

Senate.
MORNING. sEssIoN-JANuARY %.
The first business OF the session of i'm.
portance ives the reports of standing
committees.
REPokTKD RACK
Senator Edmonds, from the committee
on agriculture, reported back senate bill
10 amend sections 9, z and 8, of chapter
42. gederal statutes of 1877, with amend.
meEls recommending It's passage.
Also an act TO regulate public ware
houses and waFehousing and inspection
of grain, etc, aud recommended refer
ence TO the committee Of the whole.
Also an act regulating the receiving,
transportation and the delivery of grain
by railroad corporations, and defining
the duties OF such corporations with re-
spect thereto, with amendments, recon-
mending its passage
Senator Granger, from the committee
on fees and salaries, reported back the
senate bill to establish the salaries of
state officers, judges and officers of the
legislature, and to repeal chapter 100, of
the Session laws of 1875, and chapter 80,
of the Session laws of 1876, with amend
ments recommending its passage.
Also, senate bill in relation to fees of
6AGAAAo oAA RCloO1D Conveying
persons TO refoImatoEy and charitable
institutions, recommending the passage.
Also, senate bill TO amend an act enti-
lie d Gan act relating to counties and
county Offices" being chapter % of the
general statutes OF 1858, recommending
that it do not pass.
Also, senate bill regulating fees of
county attorneys, with amendments, rec
| ommending Its passage.
Also senate bill amendatorY of an act
entitled ian act fixing the fees OF certain
officers and persons therein named" be-
ing chapter SO of the general statutes OF
1858, with a substitute for section, re-
commencing passage.
Senator Whitford, from the commit
tee on public health, reported back SEN
| ate bill to create state and local boards
of public health, and to regulate the
| practice of medicine, recommending its
passage.
Also senate bill to amend section 5 Of
| article of chapter so of act entitled San
act concerning lunatics and habitual
drunkards." recommending its passage
Senator Smith, from the committee on
state affairs, reported back senate bill
authorizing and providing for geologi-
cal survey, with petition therefor, and
recommended its passage Also senate
1
ment of a commission to inquire into
the sdvisabilItY of amending the
prison system of Kansas by the establish
ment of a state industrial reformatory,
and making an appropriation to defray
the expenses of said commission, recon-
mendIng its reference to the committee
of the whole.
Senator Crane, from the committee on
railroads, senate bill to compel railroad
companies to fence their roads through
lands enclosed with lawful fence, rec
ommending its passage.
Senator Buchan, from the committee
| on ways aud means, senate bill making
| appropriations for current expenses of
the state insane asylum at Osawatomie,
recommending that it be passed as rec
| commended by the committee.
Also senate bill making appropriations
| for the current expenses of the state in
sane asylum at Topeka, etc, recon-
mending passage as amended by the
committee.
NEW BILLS.
Bills were presented as follows: Re
lating TO cities of tie second class
amending chapter SO, laws of 1879; to
authorize county high schools to amend
"An act for the regulation and
support of commons schools" chapter
122, laws 1876, and TO repeal section 1.
chapter 149, laws of 1851; an act to
amend section 3, chapter 122, laws OF
| 1874, an act supplemental to and amend
| atOry chapter 90, general statutes of
1868, and chapter SO, laws of 1869, and
chapter 1876, laws of 1872, and to author
iZe the condemnation of lands for school
| house sites; to amend section II, chap
ter 81, laws of 1868, IAN act regulating
the jurisdiction and procedure before
justices of the peace in civil cases; an
act regulating the state library and re-
peallng chapter 1873, laws of 1870, and
chapter 143, laws of 1871, and chapter
| 1876, laws of 1878; to manufacture of
sugar; concerning highways; TO secure
manufacturers and owners of railroad
equipments and rolling stock in making
conditional sales and certain contracts
for the sales thereof; relating to grand
| lures, amending section 70, criminal
code. being chapter 80 of general stat
utes of 1868, and to repeal laws in con-
| flict.
LAST READING
The following bills we're read the third
time and passed:
Senate bill to prevent fire insurance
companies from establishing rates on
property, and rating boards, and to pro-
vide punishment therefor.
| SENATE OH 10 am0nQ S0CLlO1 90, clap-
ter 81, article Q, compiled laws of 1879,
being IAN act regulating crimes and
punlshmeDts."
Senate bill to regulate the practice
of dentistry and punish Violators there
| of.
Senate bill entitled 'An act to author
ize proceedings In the district courts
against garnlshees."
Senate bill to prev ent the carrying of
concealed deadly weapons, and TO pro-
vide punishment therefor.
| BY consent, Senator Donnell offered
the following bills: Appropristing the
fund In the state treasury known as "the
military fund" to the completion of GER
tain records IN the Office of the adjutant
| general, and providing for the compile
ton and publication of such records; an
act to amend section 8. chapter 100, laws
| of 1888, ian act to enroll the late SOL
diers, their widows and orphans of the
late armies OF the United States, residing
| in the state of Kansas"
Senator Kimball, by consent, made an
| explanation that he bad had in his pos
session bill in relation to the rights OF
cities to condemn lands for water works
and he desired permission to substitute
a similar bill.
Senate adjourned till 10 a. m. to-mor'
row.