The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-03-17
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE
Important Measures Passed and Others
That Were Killed During the Session Of
the Legislature.

Important Measures Passed and Others
That Were Killed During the Session OF
the Legislature.
Among the bills of Importance that
passed both houses at the late session
of the legislature were the following:
The Australian ballot law, which goes into
effect at the next general election and thereaf
ter all elections in llansas-state, county, city
and special-are TO be conducted under the
Australian system
law compelling all corporations and per.
SONS, except railroad companies and agricult-
ural corporations. to pay their employees week.
ly; penalty OF per cent If not paid
Speaker Douglass bill to prohibit the corrupt
use of money a. elections.
mortgage redemption law, providing for a
redemption period of eighteen months after sale
under foreclosure, but where the court or judge
shall find that the lands and tenements have
been abandoned or are not occupied in good faith
as homestead by the family OF the debtor. the
period OF redemption shall be six months from
the day OF sale; during the first nine months
the defendant owner has the exclusive right Of
redemption: for the next six months creditors
may redeem from each other. The terms of
redemption are: The reimbursement of the
amount paid by the holder of the certificate
together with interest and costs of suit after
redemption, the property is not subject to fur
ther execution for any deficiency arising upon
the sale, and is not subject to execution for the
liens of creditors who did not avail themselves
Of the privilege of redeening during the re.
demption period.
A law amending the tax law by which the
March penalty of per cent Is knocl>dd out,
making reduction OF 33,s per cent before the
sale OF the property, and after the sale OF the
property for taxes the tax certificate is to draw
Is per cent interest instead OF 2i per cent as
now
Senator Forney's bill for the protection of
shippers of grain, seeds and hay, which requires
railroad companies to construct scales for the
weighing of grain at every station from which
100 cars of grain are shipped: the company is
authorized TO collect p cents car for each car
weighed Shippers are empowered to collect
through the courts dam ages forlosses of grain,
seeds and hay which occur while the shipments
are in transit. providing the shortage is more
than one fourth of one per cent.
The bill repeating the law of 1886 by which
railroads are authorized to collect excess fares
of from 10 to % cents from passengers who neg
lect to purchase tickets before entering the
train.
Senator Browns valued policy" insurance
bill, requiring insurance companies in case of
total loss of property to pay the face of the
policy unless there has been wanton destruc-
tion Of property. The practice now prevails
among insurance companies of insuring prop.
erty for more than its value aid scaling dSwn
in case of loss.
The bill making itoillegal TO require a gold
contract in notes, mortgages and other obliga-
tions, and making silver as well as gold u legal
tender for all debts in Kansas.
Senator Dumbauld's bill for the preservation
of the public health against epidemic cholera
Senator ForEeys bill making it unlawful to
shoot quail or prairie chickens except by the
owner of the lapd.
Two house bills looking TO the Improvement
of the facilities of county seats One of them
provided that railroad trains shall be compelled
10 stop at county seats and the other compelled
telegraph companies TO maitain an operator at
each county scat
Sereeuage bill asked for by all the miners
in the state
bill repeating the law By which poll tax is
collected in cities of the first class. Atchison
and Fort Scott excepted
An act continuing the experimental station
at the state university OF Kansas, at Lawrence,
established to promote and conduct expert
ments for the destruction of the chinch bugs
by contagion or infection.
A bill providing for the acceptance Of certain
grades from some of the higher educational in
stitutions by the state board of education and
to provide for the issuance of teachers GER
tificateS
A bill submitting to the people Of Geary
county the question of restoring the name TO
Davis.
Senator O'Bryan bill giving the police COM
missiOners of cities of the first class power to
appoint EOIiCe IL III lUelT
one is necessary. Her salary is to be Sc 0 a
year. This bill affects the cities of Topeka,
Wichita Fort Scott, Kansas City, LeavenwSrth
and Atchison.
A bill disors sauizing Garfield county, creating
Garfield township, adding it 10 Finney county,
and proving that the officers of Finney coun-
ty shall take charge Of the money and prop
erty of Garfield county, pay the necessary
debts and collect the taxes of Garfield county.
Representative Stromquist's bill to except
the Scandinavian United Aid association of
Galesburg from certain regulations Of the in
surance laws.
Among the important local bills passed was
one establishing high school in Labette
county authorizing the city of Osawatomie 10
issue bonds to fund the city Indebtedness; re-
ducing the salaries of officers of Marshall,
Jewell, Dickinson, Mitchell, Washington, Sher-
man, Cloud, Smith, Clay and Coffey Counties
to author re the ocity of Wellington to issue
bonds for rebuilding the public schoolhouse Of
WELLINGTON recently destroyed by the cyclone;
to authorize the city of Neosho Falls 10 pure
chase public park to authorize the city OF
Law-Snce to issue bonds for the purchase OF
the gas works and water works: to au-
thoriZe tine issuance of bonds for
the construction of q Touring mill at
Russell Springs vacating the townsites OF
Shockeyville Surprise, Appomattax, Golden,
Zienville' and Conductor in Grant county, and
C-esson in Rocks county; authorizing the com
county: providing for public libraryoat Kan
sas City, Kan: establishing a county industrial
school at Wichita: 10 authorize Haskell county
to vote aid 10 the Montezunla, Trinidad g.
Western railway; authorizing city of Chanute
to issue bonds for waterworks; to authorize
city Of Girard to vote bonds TO rebuild water
works; to authorize city of WaKeeHey to build
a Touring mill: to authorize the cities OF
Grainiield and Grinnell 10 vote bonds for a
Touring mill
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS LILLED.
Many of the most important meas
ures, on which there was great deal
of discussion, were killed. Among the
dead bill :, are the following:
The maximum freight BILL killed 70; the SEN
ate
The appellate court bill, killed by the senate
The congressional apportionment bill, because
the two houses could not agree.
The bill for the reduction of fees and salaries
Of county officers, killed in the senate.
The free school book bill and state uniformity
bill, dead, because the two houses could no,
agree
The judicial apportionment bill, killed in the
house.
The bill giving the governor the supervision
of the agricultural department and the appoint
ment of its officers, killed In theSlouse.
Anti lottery bill, killed in the senate because
Of house amendments.
Inc DILL 10 regulate the SAFE OF oIeOnlarslrlne
killed in the senate
The bill fcS the revision of the statutes failed
in both houses
Bill making appropriation TO complete the
state house, left on the house calendar
A Business View Of 1t.
After the wife of a telegraph opera.
tor had expressed herself fully on his
staying out SO late she became still
more exasperated by his refusal tc
make any reply.
Miserable wretch! have you nothing
to say in justification of your outrage
GUS conduct?'
Nothing at all. 1 was just making
little calculation"
What calculation?'
Nothing, except that if you had
sent that all over the wires to Boston