Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-22
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.


sis of the bills passed by the house and
senate. AlsOa synopsis of the bills
passed by the house and killed by the
republican senate. When the republi-
cans attempt to blame the alliance fol-
not passing good bills, you can show
them how the senate killed every good
bill that the house passed. Read fol
yourself.
The following House bills were con-
Cured in by the Senate, and are now a
part of the laws of the state:
To authorize the sale of alcohol by
wholesale druggists and dealers in pho.
tographers' supplies, and for other pur.
poses.
ApportloninG the state of Kansas in.
to Senatorial and Representative dis.
tricts.
An act TO abolish survivorship in
Joint tenancy.
An act to establish an experimental
station at the State University of Kan
sas, TO promote and conduct expert.
mentS for the destruction of chincl
bugs by contagion or infection, and
making an appropriation therefor.
Requiring moneys coming into the
hands OF county treasurers in certain
counties to be deposited in banks.
For the continuance and maintenance
of forestry stations.
Act constituting eight hours a days
work for all workingmen employed by
the state, county, city or townships.
An act to regulate warehouses, the
inspection. grading, weighing and hand
ling OF grain.
An act relating to the sale of real es-
tate for delinquent taxes i'll such cOun-
ties as shall adopt the provisions of this
act.
Joint resolution recommending the
calling OF a convention to revise, amend
or change the constitution of the state
Of Kansas.
An act prohibiting combinations t.
prevent competition among persons en-
gagged IN buying or selling live stock
and to provide penalties therefor.
The house committee on banks and
banking prepared a bill regulating and
controlling all banks within the state OF
Kansas, and submitted it, not only to
the leading bankers of Kansas, but of
the west. The senate had also prepar-
ed bill regulating the banks of Kan
Sas, but the house substituted for it the
house committee banking bill, and ii
was passed by an almost unanimous
vote of the house, and by large major
ity in the Senate. This Till will put an
end to the era of wild cat" banking in
Kansas.
The following are some important
bills that passed our house, but were
defeated by the Senate:
. ooraflIl ati ba lao
adopted the Iowa schedule of IreIgntS
and fares, increasing Them, however
nearly 70 per cent. above The Iowa rail
road rates, which was all average re-
duction OF present Kansas rates OF /;
yer cent. This bill also provided LhaI
no more should be charged Tor Shor
haul than for long one. 1t also pro
Yided for election OF railroad commIs
siOnerS by direct vote OF the people
with power to change freight rates a.
conditions required. The republican
senate refused to even consider this bill
The present railroad commissioner.
used their influence against the cOnSld
Grafton OF the bill and showed that they
were opposed TO the people and were thu
mere employees or corporations. On III
subject that came before us was as per
SiStent fight made as on this transpOr
tation question. Every railroad attor
ney in the state was present, in addi
ton to the railroad officials, and il
order to show spirit of fairness they
were all allowed to come before thu
committee on railroads and show VIII,
freight rates should not be reduced
All the evidence was sifted, and aftel
weeks of hard labor by the committee
the bill was formulated and presented
to the house. The republican minority
fought the bill with all the weapons OF
parliamentary law, the oft repeated tale
of widows and orphans owning the wat
cred stock on which western producer.
and consumers are made to pay tribute
were rehearsed, but our lines did no
waver and we sent it over to the sen
ate. This bill was introduced into TIT
house on February 13, and referred t
the committee of the whole. Owing t.
the tact that the original bill got los
IN the safe Of the republican state prIn
ter, it was February 18th before thi,
bill passed the house, but no effort was
made to consider it in the senate, il
spite of the fact that eighteen days in
tervened before adjournment.
Bills were also passed by the hous,
reducing fares on railroads to "a cents
per mile, and prohibiting the issuing O.
free passes, and compelling railroads Il
furnish freight cars on five days notice
The senate refused to even consider
this measure.
The house also passed bill that, haC
1t become law, would have driven un
Scrupulous shylocks who are robbins
the people by uSuriOqs interest OF
from % to 100 per cent. per annum GU
~ ha bot nr fnrnn6 IN
honest, law abiding citizens, by loaninl
their money at a legal rate of 10 Pc
cent. The bill provided for forfeiture
of both principal and interest in case o.
usury, and is nearly copy of the New
YORK laws on the subject. The senate
Judiciary COMMITTEES killed this bill OF
The ground that it would drive capita
out of the state, thereby admittins
there is no penalty on the statute books
of the state, and that the borrower i.
wholly at the mercy OF the lender.
We passed an equity OF redemption
bill giving to the mOrtgagOr two years
to redeem his home after foreclosure
making the property encountered salts
fy the mortgage and no personal judg
ment. 1t reduced the cost of foreclOS
ure, and would have acted as stay law
to existing contracts for two years al
least. Governor Humphrey, in hi:
famous Gath" interview, said that one
irm of lawyers alone had $1,000 fore
closures. 1t was to relieve this class oil
our state citizens in danger of losing
their homes that the bill was passed
besides, with such a law on the statute
books of every other state in the union.
with one exception, we thought that
Kansas homes should have equal pro-
lection with those of other states. The
promise of such law has been made
for at least eight years by the republi-
can party represented by the Senate,
yet IN the face of these facts the Senate
amended the bill IN every conceivable
way that would hamper and kill its
object. and then attached 3 clause that
IL should not apply to mortgages already
giUen. They sent it back TO us, and
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