The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-06
A DEGENERATE PLANT.

A DEGENERAlE PLANI.
tribute them throughout the state during
the early summer.
Two appropriation bills-one to pay the
per diem and mileage of the officers of the
state educational and charitable institu
tions and the other to pay the expenses o.
the present session of the legislature ant
appropriating S27, 500 to pay the expenses
of the Botkin trial-have passed both
houses and been signed by the governor.
The committee on banking had its bill
upon third reading this morning and final
passage. The bill provides that the banks
shall be under the supervision of an ex
aminer to whom statements at specified
intervals are to be made
The house didn't know much about the
bill, it being very long and being read end
discussed before the house near midnight
the evening before when there were only a
few members present, and they were
sleepy. Most of the members were fright
ened by the mere word "bank" and voted
against it. 4 call of the house was made,
and the sergeant-at-arms rushed out and
brought ia five members. The few Alli-
ance members who had voted AYE"
stampeded at the end of the roll call and
changed their votes from aye to no. Elder
voted ave. The vote stood SO for and AZ
against. Heber arose to a question of
privilege, stating that the bill was dis
elimination against state banks, and he
was a state banker He thanked the
members who voted ave. A motion was
made to reconsider the bill, but it was
lost. This ends the banking legislation
for this session.
The alien land bill appeared on the scene
again this morning. On account of certain
amendments there will have to be a con-
ference committee on it.
Douglass moved that in the third reading
of bills he be given a chance to amend the
fees and salaries bill, so that in the gen.
cral reductions the four big counties would
not be excepted. He said his people want
ed a reduction, and the other night when
the bill was up for consideration, he was in
the chair and couldn't take part in the dis
cussion. He didn't want his county to be
excepted. He thought conference COM
mittee could regulate the salaries for his
county all right
After some discussion over the parlia-
mentary condition of the BILL it was de-
cided to substitute the house bill for the
senate bill. This strikes out the exception
clause of the big four counties, and in
cludes them with the rest of the counties.
The conference committee will straighten
up the differences in sizes of counties and
reductions of salaries. The bill was read
a third time at noon today while the mem
bers were gone to dinner.
The dentistry bill has passed the house.
and will pass the senate. The conference
committee on the sugar bounty, which
recommended q of cent per pound and
the payment of earned bounty, made a
report. The senate committee only made
slight amendments in the phraseology. A
vote was taken by roll call. The vote was
affirmative ana practically unanimous.
Doty, Heber and Morris voted against it.
Patterson explained that the feeling
against any bounty at all on sugar pre-
vailed in the house, but they had to agree
with the senate mandates or else the
bounty would have gone on at 2 cents,
when it viii now only be q of a cent.
Doolittle was also against any bounty. He
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was very nauseating.
An act providing for the holding of
terms of the district court in Cowley
county at Arkansas City for the trial of
criminal actions was put on third read
ing.
Nixon, of Cowley, said that only about
one-fourth of the people of Cowley were
In favor of it. The other three-fourths
were against it. He moved that it be in |
definitely postponed
Douglass defended the measure He said |
ii was just He related that two days |
before Andrews died he sent him Doug |
lass) a note asking him to push the bill |
through. The note was written in |
trembling hand, and Douglass said ne had !
been true to Andrews and got it upon |
third reading. He thought Arkansas |
City was flourishing young city and de-
served this court.
Brown, of Harvey, believed that Arkan- |
sas City should have the court. He hoped |
the motion to indefinitely postpone would |
not prevail.
Most of the members had slipped out. |
and for that reason the bill failed to pass
by vote of 46 for and 19 against