Dodge City times., 1889-02-21

4 VfOpfl86aOu0 lOt tuo OLpL0o ooJIuu ~ AtCu
ison. A fight commenced on the ealary O
the superintendent, which in the bill wa
fixed at &, 80 year.
Tho special committee which had bee,
sent to examine the institution reported il
favor of reducing the salary to $1,000. Th
debate was kept up { II time of edjournmen
| without coming to vote.
| uIK1xooN SESSION.
The Atchison appropriation bill passe'
about ss recommended BY lhs sub-commit
tee. The supeTintendent's salary was re
The bill establishing an industrial schoo
At Beloit- 1t also appropriates S25. 900 for
building on forty acres of land to be giveI
| by the city of Beloit. 1t put the control o.
the school into the hands of the board o.
| charities. 1t provides that any girl unde
l6 years, who shall be c,nvicted of any of
fense known to the laws and ponished by i'm
prisonment shall be sent to this institution.
II also allows the probate judges and court:
of record to send girls there with the con.
sent of parents, etc, who are inc0rfigab.e
and perpetually disregard the commands OF
parents or lead vagrant life or resort to
criminal places or practices Or refuse to
perform labor suitable to their years, etc
The bill was recommended for passage. The
bill provides that all of the officers of ths
school shall be women. The house cont M
ed in committee of the whole on appropria-
tion bills till adjournment.
EyENIsG SESSION.
At the evening session the appropriation
for the university occupied the whole time
and finally was recommended for passage.
The total allowed the institution for the
coming year Is $S4, $40. which is 81, COO less
than was asked for in the bill.
Among the items cut ont of the bill, az
originally introduced, were the following
ck. sn n. f,pn tor
S72); for steam coils in Snow hall, 81, 100
steam pump and fixtures, $3.50: for coating
steam pipes. $780, piano, $500: models fol-
department of art, 500.
Friday.
SENATE.
ToPEKA, February 15.-At the forenoon
session il took nearly an hour to get through
with the routine business.
The ho1r of II having arrived the senat
went into the committee of the whole on the
until the hour of adjournment without COM
ing to any definite conclusion.
The bill as introduced reduces the rates OF
interest to and 10 per cent and provides
certain penalties where any excess Is
charged. The fight in the committee is 10
decide just what tina. penalty shall be and
the views OF senators vary very much.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The proposed usufy laws were again up
for q third or fourth time. 1t creeps out
that the bankers in the senate. instead of
being opposed to usury laws as it has been
supposed they would be, are the strongest
Of any of the senators for them. 1t is N
the main the bankers who advocate not
only usury laws bat they wan. not only a
forfeiture of the excess but a forfeiture of
the principal and some of them go SO far as
to make the taking of interest in excess of
that allowed by the bill should make the
person 80 taking it punished by imprison-
ment.
Ths reasons in the main given by the
bankers are, that the banking business is an
honorable one, and those engaged in it are
perfectly willing to take such rats as is
allowed by the bill, but they want to reach
the curb stone brokers, the men who loan
small sums at high rate of interest and
take as security chattel mortgages. These
men are called tiends, thieves and danger
GUS to the community. Another class or
. enators argue that usury laws are a dead
letter on the statute books, and that money
is like any other commodity, worth what it
will bring. This bill has called forth more
eloquence than any yet before the senate.
The whole afternoon was spent on this
were offered fixing the price of making a
coat and to charge any more would subject
the tailor to fine and Imprisonment. Also
another amendment to fix the price of at
torneys' fees and so on, with amendments
of a similar nature.
EVENING SESSION.
The senate this evening went through
great grist of local bills and did some other
work. No final vote was reached on the
usury bill, although considerable time was
scent on it. The senate did not adjourn
till 1920, q. m.
HOUSE.
As coon as the usual routine business was
concluded the house vent on to the third
reading of bills and spent the whole fore
noon thereon.
There is nothing whatever to report of IN
terest to the general public on such occa-
slons, except when bill CT importance has
been reported by the committee of the whole
and it is evident that It is doubtful whether
it will pass on third reading or not aud then
it should be reported. There we're no such
bills to-day.
The ladies' who had been coaching the girls
reform school we're jublant on its final
passage went in a body to the senate
to see that it did not fall by the
way. The most important bill passed was
the one providing that no mortgage shall be
given ON personal property exempt from
execution without it is signed by the wife
as well as the husband.
As q take off on J. V. Admire's bill to
change the name OF Kansas City, Kan, one
of the representatives from Wyandotte
county brought in bill to change Admire's
name to John Valentine WhItecrown.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house again went on to third reading
and had enou sh members present to give
constitutional majorities till they reached
the proposed amendment to the constitution
the legislature to hold a session for
seventy days and the members to receive
vote. There was call of the house which
took up considerable time, but it did not
result in getting votes enough to pass it. So
tho vote was reconsidered and It will come
up again when the signs ara more favorable.
Without getting through with third read
fng of bills the house went into COM
mittee of the whole on the calendar and
then took action which this reporter con-
siders very vicious. On motion about sew
enty-five bills were recommended for pas
sage without any consideration whatever.
They were put on the calsndar for third
reading subject to amendment ana debate.
1t was stated that thy were all
local bills, but no one can tel
without careful scrutiny whether there
may not be concealedin in some of them legis-
Iation OF q general nature, and that may be
very unwise. We have seen such things be-
fore, and never knew of time when such a
course WAS taken that evil did not grow ont
of it. The only hope that bad legislation
will not come out of such a course lies with
the senate, and it is doubtful if that body
gets time to give these bills the considera-
ton which they ought to have.
After these bills were disposed of the COM
mittee considered some general bills. but
they were not more SO than many of the So
called local bills Just acted upon.
Adjourned.
EVENING SESSION.
The house passed about 80 So called local
bills this evening. 1t killed the bill to re-
duce the salaries of county officers, as the
senate had already done. The irrigation
question was discussed long time. Two
bills IN regard to the subjec. were recon-
m snded for passage. The house did not ad-
journ till after midnight.
Saturday.
SENATE.
ToPEkA, February l6.-At the forenoon
session the first thing to come up was grant
in lava rsf ahsapco fil M,-do, ASxn.