The advocate., 1891-03-25

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States.
no amend section 8, chapter %, session
laws OF 1871, bolng On act entitled +" An act
On establish on Insurance department. I'm
the state OF Kansas, and 10 regulate the
companies doing business therein" and 10
compel tho payment OF policies In full or
the rebuilding OF destroyed property,
The attempt 20 reRrrange and change
the fees and salaries OF county officers In
the state resulted In the passage OF two
bills, one By each house, aud the Inability
10 agree. Owing 10 the conflicting Inter-
esta 40 stake IN the different counties OK
this state, the House, through its mom-
berB OF the conference committee, agreed
that each county should arrange and sug-
gest 10 tho committee the amount 10 30
paid 10 each county officer, and after such
report had been made 10 the committee
and tho conference committee bad agreed
% accept II and had reported the same 70
tho two houses, the House promptly passed
tho conference committee bill, but the
Senate refused TO Join therein, and the
measure did not become law
TO provide for an inspector OF hogs and
cattle offered for sale at the stock yards
located within the county Of WyGndOtto,
defining his duties and tenure OF Office,
and removing oil restrictions In trade OF
dead hogs and cattle therein.
Limiting tho power OF counties, town
ships and cities 20 borrow money and
create indebtedness
10 prohibit private banks from doing
business In any other than the individual
names OF the proprletOrs, and providing
penalties for the violation thereof,
To prohibit counties, townships and
cities from voting old except for buildings,
bridges and school houses.
To destroy election returns after the OK
DlratlOn Of i've years.
Comforting upon women the right 10
vote and hold Office.
Act for the prevention OF lotteries.
Act 10 abolish the state board OF pO
dOns.
An act TO amend the code of civil pl
Cedure. This would have reduced II
work OF the Supreme court One-half.
TO punish drunkenness In public Offices
by forfeiture of Office.
Regulating the discharge Of corporation
employees, 20 prevent blacklistlng OF rail-
road employees, and TO provide penalties
for the violation thereof.
To provide Joint rates over connecting
hnes OF railroad In Kansas.
TO authorize county treasurers OF COun-
ties having less than $4,000 inhabitants TO
deposit public moneys In bank or banks
In che counties, and TO repeal chapter ls9
OF the laws OF $780,
no provide for uniform series Of school
books by publication or otherwise, and for
the distribution thereof, repeating any
acts or portions thereof In conflict with
this act This bill, 80 manliestly lust and
proper and In the interest OF the people,
the Senate refused to- pass.
The appropriation for the next two
years, while thousands OF dollars lower
than in the years past, has been swelled
by necessary Investigations and by the
impeachment of one OF the Republican
district Judges OF the state. ItbeCame the
duty OF the present House, forced upon 10
by Republicans living In the thirty second
judicial district, to Investigate charges of
drunkenness, fraud, ETC., preferred against
Judge TheO. B0tkin. The Investigation
resulted In the preierment OF articles OF
impeachment for high crimes and misde-
meRnOrs After the impeachment had
been ordered by the House, we attempted
TO follow the recommendations OF the R0-
publican revision committee OF the Senate
10 abolish the district In the judicial Gp-
pOrtlOnment In Kansas, and at the samO
time relieve the State from the expense OF
the impeachment trial, and the bill was
passed through the house Ab0llshing tho
thirty second judicial district. The Sem
ate refused 10 even consider the bill, which
would have saved the enormous expense
OF impeachment, aud Immediately organ
lied rs q court OF impeachment The exS
p0nses OF the investigation and the
impeachment simply increases the regular
appropriation OF the two years. In Rddi-
ton, the House commenced investigation
OF the construction OF the state capitol,
where over O., 10000 has already been eX-
pended, and At the time OF adjournment
discovered that che end was not reached
and that further investigation should ba
made, and the expense of such investiga-
tiOn can also be added 10 the list of regular
appropriations. This report will bo
printed.
The notorious COfteyville explosion Of