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

FEBRUARY &

Ltcb.
Senator Lowe presented a resolution
pOstponlng the special order (beIng the
constitutional convention question: till
Wednesday evening at o'clock
Adopted.
The house concurrent resolution il
favor of the granting of a reasonable pen
sion to all soldiers In the rebellion wa.
| taken up.
The whole subject was, on motion, re-
ferred to the committee on military
affairs.
Several resolutions of the same char
acter were referred to the same commit
| tee.
House concurrent resolution IN regard
| to inequalities of taxation, and proVid
ing for committee OF four on the part
| of the house and three on the part of the
senate was passed, and the chair ap
pointed Senators White, Granger and
Rush.
FERMENTATION OF BILLS
Bills were introduced relating to mort,
cages on personal property; providing
for q report OF the Price Raid Auditing
Commission and making an appropris-
ton.
Several bills were passed second. and
third reading. Among them the bill To
provide tor paying for postage stamps.
A confidential message was received
from the governor by his private secrets-
~, Hon. James Smith.
On motion OF Senator Picker the sen
ate went into committee of the whole,
Senator Young in the chair.
The bill providing that diplomas OF
graduates of the law department of the
State University shall be certificate to
practice law being taken up, the enact
ing clause stricken out
The act relating to the study of physi-
ology and hygiene in the free schools
was indefinitely postponed, q similar bill
from the house being before the senate.
Senate bill No. "a, to amend school
laws, section 50, laws of 1881, chapter
151, section 8, being under consideration.
Senator DOnnell made an explanation OF
Its objects. He said as the law how
reads, If young lady gets third grade
certificate. and fails to get school, she
is forever debArred. It ts to prevent
this injustice that this amendment is
proposed. The bill was recommended
! for passage.
Senate bill No. n, endowing the State
Normal school with the additional
! twelve sections of land now owned by
/ the state.
Senator Kellogg explained that these
sections are called "salt springs" and
were not originally granted to this OBJ
ject, solely because, when the other
grants were made these "salt springs
lands were supposed by some to contain
valuable mineral, but il Is now ascer.
tanned that they are permeated some
what with alkali, and are not very good
anyhow. It was the original intention
| OF the government 10 give them to this
purpose.
Senator Barker suggested some OK
h. r
| Senator Kellogg, and SAID that be
would be surprised to find out how
much more those lands were needed fol
the state university. A series of qaes-
lions back and forth between these two
senators brought forth q good deal oil
reading and speaking.
Senator Blue said the discussion had
| shown that the question was broader
| than he anticipated. He was inclined
to think that these lands might be bet
ter disposed of than by giving them tc
| one Normal school. He thought the
State University needed the funds to BE-
derived from these lands much more
/ than the present Normal school. he
l was impressed with the idea that the
advantages derived from the Normal
school we're confined principally TO 10
calities within q few counties around the
institution. In reply to an inquiry of
Senator Kellogg Is to whether the State
| University had not received seventy two
sections, he said that he did not know
and did not care. It was state institu
ton, and he would rather give it Loo
/ sections, he was for building mp THU
institution and making 1t the equal Of
the Michigan University, and one of the
best universities of the country.
Senator Kellogg SAID he sgreed ths
the state ought TO take good, decent car,
of the University and of the Agricul
tural College. It was especially impor
tant to take good, decent care OF thu
Normal school, which was to send on
the teachers TO form and mould and pre-
pare the youths of the state for the highe
institutions.
The bill was laid over.
The Price raid bill introduced by Sen
ator Sheldon sppropriates to the suffer
ers by said raid all the moneys due from
the United States to the state of Kansa
for expenditures during the rebellion
| and in Indian wars.
The senate went into executive session
and soon after adjourned without report