Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-02-28

which they reside, and in NO case shall the
mates OF any city or county poor house il
this state.
The senate bill about county suditor
passed amendedso that counties With 50, OO
inhabitants shall have them, and those from
25CO0 to 1900 can on the petition of zee
fourth of the tax payers.
A bill which vacates about 125 town site
belonging to the Santa Fe railroad passed.
bill has been before the committee OF
ways and means eometime providing for
reorganization ofthe state board Of agricul
ture and providing for the governor to ap-
point commissioner of agriculture to TAXI
the place of the secretary. 1t was reported
against.
Al one time twenty clerks and member.
| were reading twenty bills Q. one time. Oi
course, no one could hear a word said. Ther
one roll call decided them all passed. They
were claimed to be local bills.
Thursday.
SENATE.
ToPKKA, February 2l.-The reading of III.
| journal was dispensed 18th this morning,
as it has been for the past two weeks.
Petitions continue to come in, many OF
them aboct matters that have beea already
passed upon. aud either adopted or defeated.
The bill providing for grand juries came
back from the house as amended, as noted
in last nights proceedings. The senate re-
fused to concur in the amendment, so it
goes back to the house, which, if il does not
recede from the amendment, will ask for q
conference committee.
The rest of the forenoon. or most of it,
was spent in reading the judicial apportion-
ment bill for final passage. 1t received the
necessary two-thirds vote and now goes to
the house. 1t will be remembered that the
HI faR rtr-
seven districts. That bill was defeated in
in the senate, which passed its own bill pro-
riding for thirty-six districts.
After the third reading and passage of a
few bills, questions of privilege come up.
Tie readers of this report remember that
early in the session the senate passed a bill,
reducing the age Of consent from Is to Is
years, and further, that a charge OF rape of
of any woman between the age of II and 16,
the defendant could prove the reputation of
the woman, and If bad the charge of rape
could lot be sustained. Ths passage of
this bill has caused great commotion all
over the state. Petitions by the 1000 have
been poured into the house to kill the bill.
The conclusion has gone out that the bill
reduced the age o. consent to IL years with
out any qualifications Whatever. So much
has been said in the papers about
this, and so many denunciations
of senators have been made, tina:
senators thought they should clear them
selves of these unjust charges agrinst them.
These explanations lasted much of the after
noon. The real points made in favor of Il
bill was that many women under is years 0.
SRge were bad aud had used this law to black
mail a great many mon. Numerous circum-
stances of this were related. The speeches
drove the Ladies out of the senate chamber.
EVENING SESSION.
A committee was sent to Hutchinson
sometime ago to examine into charges
agains. the board of directors of the reform
story in course of erection there, of not
using convict labor whoa they ought 10.
They We also directed to report if the in
stitution could not be changed into some
other enc.
They have reported that the commission
ers we're acting in good fat, in not en-
ploying convict labor, bat the committee
think it would have been better if they had
done so. The committee recommends an
appropriation of 100000 for the year 1899:
and 100000 for the year 1891; 10000 of
which last 100000 is 10 be used in estab-
fishing q salt plant to be operated by the in
mats. The state has $40 acres OF fine land
for the reformatOry grounds, and it is all
fine salt land, with deporIt of 300 fees of
salt underlying the whole area at less than
900 feet under the surface. The land has
neither coal or miperal to be developed, and
the salt plant was hit upon as last resort
by the committee. The committee says that
there is no doubt that the lands are capable
Of furnishing salt enough. the revenue upon
which would pay the entire expenses of the
state, but they do not favor policy OF put
ting private enterprises in competition with
convict labor to that extent. The land is
estimated to be worth at least $500 900 to-
dsy. The state has thus far expended b 1t
$4,000 on II. After the $4,000 contem-
lated by the appropriations recommended
have been expended, the state will till be
$4,000 head.
Considerable time was spent on insurance
bills, but nothing definite was arrived at.
Then a whole batch of ap. ropriation bills
were passed. among them Que to send a
commissioner to the Paris exposition. 1t
wa, 1880 when an adjournment was had.
HOUSE.
At the forenoon session there were a few |
petitions presented and bills introduced and |
then the house went into committee of the |
v hole to consider a number of insurance |
bills.
These bills will call forth. if possible, a |
more lengthy debate than the fenate had.
Mr.. Burton occupied all of the time to the |
in arraigning State Superin- |
tsndeLt of Insurance Wilder for derel;ction |
in d1ty. What called forth this speech Just |
now is the fact that Wilder had but two days |
ago revokej the license of two mutual COM |
panies in Topeka to do business.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After the third Re adiug and passage of two |
bills the house went into committee of the |
whole on the special order, the insurance
business. Under the present law the insur-
ancs department can. without appeal refuse
any company the right to do b lsiness in the
state: or to clncel any permit heretofore
given to do so. from which decision there is
no appeal. The bill under consideration is
to ch ange this rule and allow courts to de-
eide the question. A complaint to the su-
shall be heard, the attorney
genera repres sntiny ths state. If the super
lntendent decides against the company it
can take an appeal to the district court
This hill was amended and discussed for
ong time and fnaily recommended for
passage.
EVENING SESSION.
long lime was spent on q bill providing
IN oversight on banks and changing the
1ankirg law material y
Quite number Of bills were passed, in
,:uding the senate bill to restrict the owner
ship of real estate TO American citizens.
Friday.
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