Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-02-28
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday.
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Tuesday.
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ToPHxA, February IA the fo-enoo
| ses ,ICn he JM mites reported on q goo
| many bills, evidently aiming to clear up tn
! business before them. At 1870 routine bus
| ness was completed and third reading q
| bills was ia order.
Anon the bills passed was one making
| q misdemeanor to wear badges at the G.
r, unless authorized to do go.
A long act in relation to public schools il
The executive and judiciary appropriation
bill was also passed.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate did not adjourn till p. m.
and so did not convene till 3 O'Clock. IL q
once attacked the interest bill again.
The point at issue was to make all fees TO
making papers or anything connected viii
the papers, If paid by the person borrowing
shall be considered to be a payment on thu
interest. This was voted down.
Then the consideration of the bill by sec
tons having been concluded substitute
was offered for the whole bill, which Is prac-
tically reenactment of ths law now OF
the rtatute books, except changing it from
aud u per cent. to and 10 per cent
1t will be recalled that the original bill as
amended provided for the 6 and 10 per cent
clause. but it provides that where any great
er interest is paid double the amount can be
collected back.
The debate was kept up till the time OF
adjournment without bringing anything to
focus.
EVENING SESSION.
The senate at the evening session finished
the discussion on the usury bill and recon-
mrnded it for passage. As 1t passed II
provides for forfeiture of the entite inter
est in case of all usurious contracts, and II
tho usurious interest has been paid. the
debtor has the right to have all such pay
ments of usurious interest credited as pay
ments upon the principal; and IN case
where the principal and usurious interest
have both been paid the debtor may recover
back double the amount Of the usurious in
terest in an action at law.
The bill also contains a section which rem
ders void all provisions in a contract which.
in effect, provide that higher rate of In
terest shall accru as penalty for a default.
Another proviso protects innocent holders
of negotiable paper from plea of usury,
but provides that in such cases the persons
paying the note may recover double the
amount of the interest paid from the person
originally eIacting the usury.
1t is materially different from the house
bill, and will certainly be settled by con-
ference committee.
A large number of bills were passed on
third reading.
The sixteen new counties get $50 each
for normal SCHOOLS, the same as the old
ones.
The house bill establishing a girls school
at Beloit passed in committee. but will meet
some opposition on third reading.
The first thing taken up this morning were
the bills providing for the inspection of live
animals intended for food aud prohibiting
the sale of the uncrred meat of uninspected
cattle, etc.
There were two bills on special order-2SS
and 665. 1t was claimed that the former
was unconstitutional because it regulated
interstate commerce.. l. required the
county commissioners to appoint an inspect
or and no meat could be sold unless killed
In the county after INSPECTION. The the Dry
that this was unconstitutional was that it
prohibited the sale of meat brought from
without the stale. The other bill provided
that cities should appoint the inspectors and
govern the sale. IL was claimed that this
would be police measure and therefore
not unconstitutional. The debate on these
bills and the subject generally continued till
noon without coming to any definite vote.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The discussion on the bill referred to in the
report was kept up till p. m. The
pending motion was to indefinitely postpone
ID. b. 2os, which was voted down by q large
The bill was then taken up by
sections and discussed. The first motion wa,
to leave it optional with each county to ap-
point inspectors, instead of mandatory, as
the bill provides. This was voted down
after long debate. Some other amend
ments were offered by the enemies of the
bill and voted down and others BIZ its
friends which as a rule were adopted.
The debate continued till the time of ad-
without any definite result.
EVENING SESSION.
House bill 2S8. providing for beef inspec-
TOR, etc.. was killed, and the other one, Cos,
was reached. amended and passed. 1t leaves
the appoin tment OF inspector, etc. with the
city authorities, and that all cattle mus be
killed in the county in which the cities are
The proposed constitutional amendment
act passed, changed to u ninety days ses-
'ion and So per day for services.
A bill to provide for inspector of oils
passed the committee of the whole.
Three bills IN the interest of miners were
agreed upon, one tor the better protection
IF life in mines, one in relation to weighing
he coal and one provid I'd for payment of
wages in money twice each month.
Wednesday.
TOPEKA, February at is evident now
o every member, what old ones knsw at the
opening of the session, that all attempts to
suspend rules to allow bill on the calendar
n to put bills on special order results in
.reat delay of business and generally DELAYS
he very bills intended to be advanced.
t Is a lesson that new members always have
% learn.
The house having amended the university
bill, SO as not to allow the re-
tents any pay except their actual expenses,
he question of concurrence in this amend,
nent came up and caused considerable de-
'ate. 1t was not coacarred in snd went
Jack to the house. Tbs who Q forenoon was
pent in routine business.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate at once took up the Judicial
pportIOnment bill. It creates seven new
districts and regulates the time of holding
curt in all the counties of the various dis |
riots. All went along smoothly till tbs fer |
itory IN the southeast part of the state, |
specially Labette and Crawford counties.
Then the flood gates of eloquence was again |
rened and kept open all the afternoon,
EVENING" SESSION.
AFTER much debate the senate passed the |
1dicial apportionment bill. The following |
re the changes and the new districts:
sixth dlstrict-Linn, Bourbon and Craw-
rrd.
Eighth district-Davis, Dickinson aud
iOrris.
Eleventh district-Cherokee, Labette and
Twelfth district-Cloud, Republic and
VashinRton.
tourteenth oistrict-Lincoln, Russell and |
Ellsworth.
Sixteenth district-Pawnee, Edwards,
iarfieid and Hodgeman.
Seventeenth district-Phillips, Norton,
Decatur, Rawlins and Cheyt nne.
Nineteenth distric.-Sumner.
Twenty first dIstrict-Msrshall, Riley and
lay.
Twenty third district-Ellis, Trego, Cove,
.ogan and Wallace
Twenty fourth district Harper and Bar
er.
Iwenty-seventh 6istrict-Ford, Gray, Fin
ey. kearney and Hamilton.
Ihlrflath disfricf-0 ffawa and Ssiiaa