The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

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teenth Judicial district.
NEW BILLS.
The following bills were introduced
and passed first reading:
S. b. No. 203, by Senator Richter, by
request: An act providing for the ap-
poinIment of a state commissioner to
the international exposition at Paris,
France, in 1889, defining his duties
and making appropriations to defray
expenses incidental thereto.
S. B. No. 204, by Senator Martin:
An act to enroll the late soldiers, their
widows and orphans, of the lase armies
of the United States, residing in the
state of Kansas, and providing penal
ties for the failure of officers to COM
ply with the provisions thereof.
S. B. No. POS, by Senator Senior: An
act amending section 4, chapter Sc,
laws of 1886, IAN act providing for the
organization. government and extern
sion of corporate limits of cities of
third Glass; etc.
S. B. No. 2O6, by Senator Senior: An
act amending section l, chapter SO,
session laws of 1886, enabling cities of
the second class to extend their cor
porate limits, etc.
S. B. No. 207, by Senator Howard:
An act to amend section ,. chapter IL,
general laws of 1868, relating to at
torneys at law
S. b. No. POS, by Senator Osborn:
An act to incorporate and regulate
cities of the first class and to repeal all
prior acts relating thereto.
S. B. No. 209, by Senate Forney, by
request: An act to encourage the
building and operation of sugar fac
tories in Kansas by exemptiDg such
plants from taxation for five years.
S. B. No. 210, by Senator II. b.
Kelly: An act creating board of
directors of state penal institutions,
repeating section 1, chapter n, of the
general statutes of 1868, and sections 1
and of the laws of 1885.
S. B. No. 211, by Senator FL. b.
Kelly: An act to prohibit persons
from wearing the Grand Army badge
or other emblems of said order with in
tent to deceive, and providing PEN
atty therefor.
S. b. No. 2I2, by Senator Bentley:
An act to amend section Is and %.
of chapter 1871, session laws of 1885, of
the organization and control of mutual
life insurance associations in this
state.
S. B. No. 213, by Senator Bentley:
An act to amend sections l and 2, of
chapter SO, of the general statutes of
1868, to prescribe the time of holding
elections for state, district and county
officers, members of congress and presi-
Dental electors.
S. b. No. PA, by Senator Bentley:
An act making an appropriation for the
erection of buildings for the use of the
Grand Army of the Republic. depart
ment of Kansas, and for charitable pur-
poses.
S. B. No. 2I5, by Senator Carroll, of
Leavenworth: An act to provide for
the maintenance of twenty free BEDS in
S.. Johns hospital at Leayenworth.
S. b. No. ZIG, by Senator Carroll, OF
LeavenWorth: An act making an ap.
preparation for the Kansas Orphans
asylum, for its support and mainten-
ance.
S. b. No. 217, by Senator Carroll, of
Leavenworth: An act amendatory
and supplemental of an act to establish
a code of criminal procedure which took
effect October 81, 1855, being also chap
ter 50 of compiled laws of 1885.
S. b. No. 2lS, by Senator Emery: An
act to require railroad companies tC
fence their right of way before occupy
ing or constructing railroad thereon
| S. B. No. 219, by Senator Wright
| An act to amend section l, chapter So
of the session laws of 1887, providing
for the salaries of certain municipal
bonds, prescribing punishment for vic
lation of the act and repeating Ger
tain section.
S. b. No. 22O, by Senator McTaggart
An act legaliZing certain section lin
roads as public highways in Montgom
cry county, and fixing the width there
of.
S. B. No. 221, by Senator McTaggart
An act to Iemove the disabilities o
| in fh0rQIn named
S. b. No. ODD, by Senator Kelley, o
Crawford: An act in relation to farr
crossings upon and over railways.
S. B. No, 223, by Senator King: A
act to provide for the erection of a
addition to the State Asylum for Id
otto and Imbecile Youth; and for tn
necessary improvements connected
Herewith, and for the purchase
land adjoining the site thereof.
S. B. No. 224, by Senator Tucker: Al
act to authorize township boads t
build town halls.
5. Il. No. 225, by Senator Kirkpat
rick: An act relating to cities and t
the extention of the corporate limit
thereof.
s. B. No. 22G, by Senator Carroll, Q
MAMA: An act to legallZe the lncol
: poration of the city of Fontana, cit
of the the third class, in Miami county
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tee on fees and salaries recommends
S. b. No. 1913. regulating the salaries 9
commisSi onerS of the poor IN certal
counties, that it be amended in sectlo
! one by substituting $4,000 for 30,OOi
and that section TWO be stricken out
and that so it be passed; also 5. b. NJ
1903, providing for retrenchment
: the fees and salaries of county officers
that it be not passed, minority recon
mending that it be printed and referre
: to the committee of the whole. Aftt
! some discussion the minority repoI
was adopted.
Senator Carroll, of Leayenworth. il
troduced a resolution expressing pTC
found regret and sympathy in the deaf
of CONGRESSMAN James n. Burnes, {
| Missouri, an old Kansan of Souther
birth, who has been loyal in time {
. disloyalty. The senator offered tt
: resolution because he knew Mr. Burnt
. as loyal, honest. good man:
Senators Osborn, Kelly, of McPhel
son. and Elliston seconded the resolI
ton and spoke appreciatlvely In SUI
port of it.
The resolution was adopted unan
mously.
HOUSE.
Petitions praying that the Industri;
school for girls at Beloit be made or
of the state charitable institution
were presented as follows: BY Mr.. Nj
Afee, of Shawnee, from lie citizens {
! Topeka; by Mr.. Carpenter, of Osag
from 365 citizens of Burlingame; b
Mr.. Young, of Wyandotte, from Il eli
; liens of Rosedale and 211 citizens
,. Armourdale; by Mr.. Walker, of Atch
: son. from SO citizens of Muscotah: b
Mr. Tucker of Mitchell from 172 cit
) zens of Glen Elder; by Mr.: Malaby,
: Clay, from 1886 citizens of Clifton an
, Clay Center.
Mr.. Smith, of Phillips, presented
petition from the attorneys of Phillips
burg, requesting that the Seventeent
judicial district be so divided as
make a separate district composed
the COMMITTEES of Phillips, Norton, Roof
and Graham.
Mr.. Elliot, of Montgomery, present
ed petitions from the Kansas Academ
: Eof Science, from Roxico improvement
! company and from 236 citizens OF kaI
!. coo praviuO for the massage of a bill