Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-07

TOPEKA. Seventeenth Day in Session.
To cut down pay of members from the usual
figures it is proposed to forbid payment for
| SUNDAYS AND ADJOURNED DAYS.
In the house Mr.. Douglass, of Sedswick,
offered resolution declaring it to be the
sense of both houses that members can draw
salary only for those days that the legisla-
ture is actually in session. The resolution
was referred to the committee on judiciary.
Mr.. Dryden offered similar resolution.
| DESTITUTE IN WESTERN COUNTIES.
Mr.. Caster offered resolution, which wsr
lsld over under the rules, declaring it neces-
| sary for the state to provide out of the public
| funds food and seed for the destitute farmers
| of the western counties, and also urging the
people of Kansas to forward subscriptions as
rapidly as possible to the suffering settlers OF
that section.
ST. FRANCIS CONFIRMED.
The bill was passed by the house to legalizs
q certain election in Cheyenne county and to
declare the town of St. Francis the perma-
nent county seat.
LOCAL BILLS.
There being a light attendance, only SO
members of the house being present, the
through large batch of local bills.
APPROPRIATION BILLS IN.
In both houses another large lot of new
bills were introduced; among them the ways
and means committee of the senate intro
duced eleven regular appropriation bills.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
The house concurrent resolution to send q
memorial to congress asking that the Chero-
kee strip be opened for settlement was not
concurred IN by the senate.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Governor Humphrey has sent to the SEN
ate number of appointments; they were
considered in the senate in executive session
and all were confirmed. Only three of them
are new appointments; the others are for
second terms; the three who have Just been
appointed by the governor are newspaper
men. John 5. Gilmore, editor of the FIRE.
donna Citizen, Is made one of the directors of
the penitentiary to succeed ID. Z. Cornell,
who resigned, and W. T. zoe, editor of the
Independence Tribune, is appointed one of
the trustees of the state charitable institu-
tons; and Charles f. Scott, editor of the
lola Register, is appointed a regent of the
state university and all the supreme court
mmissioners-SlmpsOn, Green and Strang
we're reappointed.
THE HUTCHINSON EXPLORATORY.
Attorney General Ives, who was requested
by the house to give an opinion regarding
the legality of a change of the Hutchinson
RefOrmatOry to an insane asylum, and
whether the state would not forfeit its title
to the section of land donated by the city of
Hutchinson to the state for the establish
ment of this reformatory at Hutchinson,
presented his opinion to the house and says:
$50 long as the property is made use of
for the purposes mentioned in the deed, the
title is in the state subject to the restrictions
of the right to use for such purposes; that
while change of use might not directly
forfeit the title, yet it might involve the state
in litigation and the courts might enjoin the
use of the property for any other purpose
than that mentioned ia the deed and such
circumstances might occur or be brought in
to existence that the title would be forfeited"
A NEW MORTGAGE BILL.
The house judiciary committee has framed
an entirely new mortgage law covering the
whole subject OF mortgage ana introduced g
bill. The bill as introduced abolishes the
present method of foreclosing mortgages,
doing away with large part of the expense,
and it also 81 YES the debtor right to redeem
and to occupy the land for two years after
sale under foreclosure. 1t contains many
provisions for the protection of all parties in
interest and is accompanied by an extended
report from the committee. Under this bill
it will not cost to exceed so to foreclose an
ordinary mortgage, while heretofore it cost
at least S75.