Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-02-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kansas Legislature.


Kansas Legislature.
THE Senate was not in session on the
10th -. In the House q bill was introduced
looking to the admission of the Rock Island
rond into the State. The Senate bill ceding
jurisdiction to the United States over certain
ing was passed. The House then went irio
Committee of the Whole, when the bill au-
, thOrizing railroads in certain cases to change
! their gauge and many bills of a local charac.
ter were favorably recommended. Ad-
journed.
THE Senate met at four p. m. on the 1st,
when three bills were introduced and sew
eral bills passed. Among the bills passed
were: An act to authorize cities to establish
and maintain free libraries: to authorize
counties, cities and municipal townships to
isfue bonds to aid railroads in certain cases;
amending the general statutes relating to
fish. and several local bills Adjourned -
In the House quite number of bills were
considered in Committee of the Whole and
favorably recommended. among them the
one fOrbidding hunting on Sunday. At the
afternoon session the usual petitions for
the bills introduced was one to compel
tramps to work in the county Jail and giving
all persons the right to apprehend them.
Among the bills passed was one TO authorize
the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic road to
change its gauge; also the bill authorizing
the establishment of county high schools.
Inc morning session WAS QeVOteu 10 tno con-
sheraton Of the bill in relation to the i'm
prisonment of convicts in the reformatory
at Hutchinson. Adjourned.
In the Senate on February 2, the resolu-
ton providing that the Governor and AttOr.
ney General employ counsel to assist in the
prosecut on of the Walruff case was passed,
after being amended 60 that the payment for
such services should not exceed 2,G00. Sew
eral bills were introduced and several unim-
portant bills passed. In the afternoon
twenty-one bills, mostly OF local nature.
were discussed in Committee of the Whole
and recommended for passage. The bill
changing the law in regard to the death Den-
atty was taken up and discussed, when the
SO that persons convicted of murder shall be
confined in the penitentiary six months, at
the end of which time the warden shall exc.
| cute the sentence by hanging the convict 80
| In the House Mr.. Holman introduced bill to
! regulate the levy and enforcement of a rail-
road tax for common schools. This act is to
enable all school districts to share alike the
benefits of taxes paid by railroads and cor
| pOratiOns for school purposes. In Commit
| tee of the Whole the bill to create board Of
| survey to conduct experiments to determine
| the existence of coal or other minerals in
Kansas. was recommended for passage. In
| stead of accepting the majority or minority
reports of the committee that investigated
! the workings of the Livestock Sanitary
Commission, the House adopted resolution
| instructing a special committee to draw up q
bill on the subject. Ten bills, all local,
passed. Adjourned.
MORE petitions for woman suffrage were
presented TO the Senate Oh the Sd. The Com
mittee on agriculture reported back the bill
| abOlishipg the office of State Veterinarian,
| with the recommendation that it be indeti-
| nitcly postponed A paper from the AttOr-
ney General was presented in which that
official gave the opinion that townships vot,
ing bonds in aid of railroads can not exceed
the limits fixed by the law of 1876. The bill to
authorize counties. cities and municipal
townships to issue bonds for the purpose of
aiding railroad companies in securing and
paying for lands for right of way, depot
grounds and terminal facilities was passed
on third reading, also the bill to enable muni-
pal townships to subscribe stock in any rail-
road and to provide for the payment thereof.
Also number OF local bills passed. Ad-
journed. :. In the House resolution passed
asking the Kansas delegation in Congress to
secure the survey and sale of the military
reservation in Ford County, known as Fort
Dodge Bills passed: An act relating to
switch connections at the crossings Of rail-
roads, and providing for their construction
and maintenance: an act to prevent hunting
and shooting on Sunday, besides a number of
bills of a local character. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th the usual morn
ing petitions for woman suffrage were pre-.
scented. Mr.. Kimbalrs bill relating to capital
punishment passed. The Apportonment bill
was introduced and read second time. The
afternoon was mostly devoted to cOnsdera-
ton of the bill donating salt lands TO the
Normal ScOOl. Adjourned. In the House
the Senate resolution providing for printing
10000 copes in pamphlet form of the speeches
delivered at the Quarter Centennial,
passed after striking out the part referring
to DR.: Cordley's address on the Quantrll
raid. In Committee of the Whole, Mr.. Car
rolls bill providing for the enforcement Of
contracts made by railroad companies in
consideration of municipal. county and town.
snip aid, was recommended for passage. The
ApportiOnment bill was introduced, and the
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 5th another flood
of petitions for municipal suffrage for women
poured in. The House resolution direct.
ing the State Board of Agriculture to publish
10000 copies of its biennial report was con-
Cured in. Among the bills passed were the
following: Relating to the appointment and
employment of hOnorably discharged sol
diers and sailors of the United States; to pre-
scribe the manner of selling the sulphate
and other preparations of morphine: amend
ing the law for the running at large of ami.
mails; making appropriations for the Com
missioner of Labor Statistics, the State Re-
The bill appropriating sI,5D to Frank
Bacon for services as Commissioner to
the New Orleans ;an,,,o exposition caused "a,
till Monday In the House the Consoida-
toin bill was passed by a vote of 95 to 5. This
bill consolidates the cities of Wyandotte.
Kansas CITY, Kan. and Armourdale. The
bill donating salt lands to the State Normal
School was recommended for passage and
placed on third reading without amend
ment. Among the bills passed were: To
create board of survey to conduct expert
ments to determine the existence of coal or
other minerals; to authorize the formation
of companies for the detection and appre.
hensiOn of horse thieves and other felOns,
and for mutual protection. The House then
took up the:Beates Railroad bill. 1t was finally
recommended for passage as amended. Adj
jOurned to Monday.