Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-03-15
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Wednesday
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Inc the house bill which prohibits the sale
of uEcured meat, etc. After considerable
debate such molten was decided to be out
OF Qfder az Gna6 tlLLie'
The most i'm ottant bill which passed this
morning was the one regulating the rates
Of interest. The rates are 8 and 10 per cent
and forfeiture of all usoriOus interest and all
interest above per cent where over 10 per
cent Is paid It provides that all costs Of
suit shall be paid by the u5urer. Most of
the senators voted for it, giving sas reason
thsE If was the b-st that could be cot. It
has got to 60 to the house for concurrence.
The senate refused to adopt the house
resolution to change the constitution so as
to have $50 members OF the house.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 2 O'Clock the senate went into exseu-
tive sessiO a and after a few minutes the
doors were open. 1t IS understood that the
following appointments were sent IN; d.
@. Jones, Shawnee county; w. Q. Schenck,
Usage county; h. @ Mu8grOye, Rush
county; j. w. Jenneys Saline county; w. d.
Hill, Butler county; i. Swallow, Jefferson
county,, and h. 4. Williams of johnson
county as members of the state board Of
health. Regents Of the A Agricultural college:
John b. Hessiuger, A. p Forsyth of
Montgomery county: Joshua Wheeler. AtCh-
isOn county, and Morgan CarOway, of Barton
county.
Regents of the State Normal school: j.
s. West, Bourbon county; r. Hatfield, Sedg-
wick county, and Charles W. Hull, Phillips
An effort was made to advance bills, which
took up a great deal of t1mes The COM
mites made lot of reports, probably the
last of the session, except on house bills
which may yet come in.
The senate then went on to third reading
of bills and continued at it until the time of
adjournment.
EVENING SESSION.
The senate agreed to the capital appropria-
ton bill amendments and it is now law
There were not a half dozen votes against 1t
IN both houses.
Of .fv4Ee, rg-v-
the state board OF charities to succeed A. T.
Sharp, and Harrison Kelley TO succeed Mr..
Crump. The other members of the board
are Kirk, Rhodes and StOtler, who are old
major general of the National Guards.
The following were appointed br1gadlers
general of the state militia: A. N. Fuller, of
Iopeda, br1g9dler general OF the third dis
trlcG: Adam Dixon, of B6IleVille. brigadier
general of the fourth district; Murray Myers
of Wichita, brigadjer general of the second
district and s. l.. Patrick, of Ottawa, briga-
der general or the hrsG district, d. N. Rob
erts, of Lawrence, was appointed adjutant
general, and W. d. Ford, OF Pittsburg, as
sistant adjutant general.
The following were appointed members of
the governors staff:
Il. F. Best, quartermaster general; Frank
M. BonebTake, of Topeka, paymaster
general; g. 9. = LOgh14in' lieut @II
han, of Wichita, lieutenant colonel
and A. d. @. and W. Il. Avery, lieutenant
colonel and A. u. q.
For commissioner of forestry the gov
ernOr appointed Martin Allen, of Ellis; for
fish commissioner, j. d. Brumbaugh, of
Cloud county.
The name of Davis county was changed
to Geary. 1t had previously passed the
house.
A constitutional amendment providing for
seven judges of the supreme court has passed
both houses.
There seems to be a probability that no
appropriation will be made for the fish or
silk commissioner.
The house bill to extend the term of the
supreme court three years was passed.
HOuse-bill for providing state inspector
of oils was killed.
The house this morning passed the capitol
appropriation bill, le7ying tax of 2-5 of a
mill the first year and p mill the second
year. 1t goes back to the senate with a
slight amendment.
Third reading of bills, reports of confer
ence committees, considering amendments
to senate bills, ETC., were under considera-
ton till the time of adjournment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house was mainly on third reading of
bills, mostly for appropriations The most
exciting time was over an attempt to have
the horticultural society make a synopsis Of
It's report and print IL with the agricultural
report, instead of having the horticultural
society report printed separate. The fight
was between the Agricultural and HOrticul-
Gural BOcl6J16B5 an Ola one Guhg mas D69u go
ing on for years but it never before broke
out in the nails of the legislature. The
Horticultural society was allowed to publish
its report.
EVENING SESSION.
The report of the conference committee
on the university bill was agreed to and that
is now law.
The appropriations were very liberal. A
number of appropriation bills were cOnsid-
/ cred, fought over inch by inch, and passed.
! The bone of contention OF the session,
! however, was the Hutchinson reformatoEy.
/ There seemed to be a feeling that a mistake
was made originally for providing for this
/ institution, that there was no need for 1t.
| By stopping appropriations now the state
| would lose title to the land aud that has be-
| come very valuable, it being found to be
/ uuderlaid with salt. 1t was stated on the
! floor that people in the interest of Hutch1n-
| son were working against the apron IatIon
! as they wish to get hold OF the land. The
! fight was long and bitter. An effort was
made to cut the appropriation down to a
/ nominal sum, just enough to take care
/ of the property, but this was voted down.
| A vote was taken on the passage Of the orig
| inaI bill, which appropriated $4,000 each
! year for two years but it failed to pass, not
/ receiving a constitutional majority. The
/ matter will come up again.