Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-09
KANSAS -LEGIsLATuRE.
Condensed Report OF the Weeks Proceed

| Condensed Report OF the Weeks Proceed
ings at Topeka.
THE senate was not in session the 2Sth....
The populist house was the only branch of the
legislature in session and it did not transact
| any business no quorum being present
| THE senate met at o'clock the afternoon
OF the 3Oth and no quorum being present ad-
| 1ourned until morning Speaker Duns1nore
called the popuist house to order at 2 O'Clock
No quorum was present and no attempt made
10 do business He announced the committees
on Judiciary, assessment and taxation, educa-
! ton mines and mining and fees and salaries.
On the Judiciary committee he appointed Speak
er Douglass of the republican house chairman
| at 5:5O the popuiist house adjourned The re-
| publican house met at o'clock The elections
committee reported in the cases of Clark against
| Tucker, in Linn county, and Nichols against
| w oodwOrth, In AtichiSOn county in favor of
Clark and Nichols Clark and Nichols were
| sworn in and became members of the
| republican house. Speaker Douglass then ad-
dressed the house, going over the situation, and
| declaring that the other organization could
| make no laws and that the legal organization
had been waiting from day to day for proper
recognition Until We get this recognition
! continued MI Douglass. I'VE Will stand firm
| for what we know to be right and hold out for
| the principle of self government feeling that
| we have the approval of our consciences and of
| the people, whose servants are At3:3
| the republican house also adjourned.
| ABOUT fifty bills were introduced in the SEN
! ate on the Slst Senator Sheerer presented
| one creating q I've stock commission and re-
pealing the present law. The bill gives to
the commissioners increased power and j wider
| scope Several appropria ton bills were intro
! duced, one OF which is to continue the chinch
bug lnoculating experiments of Chancellor
| Snow. The committee railroads reported
| favorably the bill 70 prohibit the blacklisting
of discharged railway employees. and the COM
! mittee on education reported favorably The bill
| providing for the establishment OF a state nor
NAL school al Garden City. At the afternoon
session The senate, in committee of the whole,
considered Senator Taylor's bill to prevent
FOL,
| was reported favorably and the ad-
| iourned- The rival houses met at
/ O'Clock and engaged in much
talk but little business. The concurrent
resolution urging congress, to pass the Chero-
| kee strip bill discussed at some length on
the populiSt side. All OF the members were
anxious to@ave the strip opened, but there was
some difference of opinion to who should be
| entitled to take land MIR. Hunt, OF the re-
publican house, offered a resolution that "our
! misguided friends who squatters on the
nerth side of the hall interested in the
| opening Of the Cherokee strip therefore,
solved, that the constitutional house of repre-
sentatives of the state of Kansas hereby IA
vors the squatters and hope they mav each and
all obtain homeSteadS in the strip, and the
sooner such hoIneSteads are occupied the
greater will be the glory OF Kansas The
| resolution was adopted amid laughter. IN the
AFTERNOON Speaker Douglass read a letter he
had received from s peaker Dunsmore and his
! reply At 4 o'clock the republican house ad-
| iourned and soon after the populist house did
| likewise
i In the senate on February 1 Mr.. Baker in
| troduced Il concurrent resolution protes ting
against any adverse pension legislation by con-
| gress declaring that the preservation of the
! union worth all it cost in blood and treas
ure. The resolution went over. Senator Hell
mich introduced bill providing that all county
officers shall be appOin ted by the board of copn-
~ commissioners and given to the lowest COM
petent bidder for the Senator Taylor's
lottery bill was then considered in committee
of the whole The republican house
called to order at the regular time and took up
| the order or business Bills were introduced
and the house went into committee OF the whole
| for the consideration of bills the calendar.
Some discussion had few bills. but
action was deferred until all could be printed
When Speaker Dunsmore called the populist
house to order he read dispatch from the
| Oklahoma house extending congratulations
upon the election of Judge Martin When
| Speaker Dunsmore finished it's reading Speak
err Douglass announced that it would be
ceiveHa and placed on file, which created d laugh
| Both bodies took a recess and soon after meet
! ing in the afternoon the republican house ad-
, lourned The pOpuilSt house adjourned at D
! O'Clock.
! IN the senate on the ID the contest cases were
reopened by Mr.. LeedE, chairman of the cleo
| tons committee who asked that the commit tee
| be Empowered to send for persons and papers,
| or to take evidence at the homes OF Witnesses.
The two cases which the committee is pressing
are Roth VS. Scott and Mar1ley W Metcllf
| Senator Baker made "A minority report against
| the claims of contestants. Senator billiard
I
| with instructions to submit to the senate the
! information it has which the report is based
| A long debate followed The latter motion was
| defeated by 23 to Il, Senators O'Bryan and Dill
| lard, democrat IS ana Senator Taylor, populist,
| voting with the minority. The report of the
| committee then adopted Senator Tay-
! lor's gambling bill was then considered, amend
! ed and passed by % yeas to IL nays. Both the
! republican and popIiiSt houses met at the usual
| hour and the populists took a recess until
| O'Clock The republicans went through the reg
| ular order of business. Two bills were passed.
| One was the worlds fair bill 1t provides for
! commission of seven members to be appointed
| by the governor. no more than three of whom
| shall come from any one political party. It
| appropriates $1,000 to defray the expenses of
| collecting exhibit and OF placing it on exhi-
! bition in Chicago and provides that out of the
! appropriation those who have voluntarily con-
| tributed the worlds fair fund shall be re:m-
! bursed The other bill was that Introduced by
! Speaker Douglass in relation to brides cleo
| tons. The BODY then adjourned until morning
! In the afternoon the populist house convened
| and over fifty bills were introduced Mr. New
! man introduced u resolution asking for the ap-
! pointInent OF committee OF five 10 investigate
| the charges made ag ainst Gov. Humphrey last
spring by J. b Hudson Mr Mcko lser in
troduced resolution in regard to the tharge of
! q corrupt bargain between judge 30 kin and
| Judge Hutchinson who was appointed dye in
! Botkin's place. which went over The house
| then Indulge d in talk AM after dcfea ling
| resolution Tor night sessions adjourned
/ THE senate spent good portion of the tine
4
recating any revis of the pension laws III
Daily MIR Jumpers substitute was adopted and
/ at neon the sen lte adjourned until Monday.
| In the republican house Mr. Greeaiee read
protest against the action of the 'olher side
! who, he ch Urged were in league with the rail-
roads Mr.. Douglass introduced bill 10 abol-
| ish the metropolitan police stem. Mr.. Sher-
man offered a bill apDropriaiing 1000 for the
Kansas educational exhibit at Chicago. In
| committee of the whole the house considered
Mr. TroItman'S bill relating to the foreclosure
! OF mortgages upon real estate and thea aG-
lourned until Monday afternoon The populisf
| house met in the afternoon and y large number
/, of bills were introduced Among these
! was ami Piakerton bill. which was offered
| by the railroad committee Another biIl pre-
scented makes drunkenness or the part of q pub
tic officer d nISsieIneaRcr and cause for forfeit
| oi Office The resolution for The appoint
ment OF u committee &c invcsti rate n charges
made By J. Il Hudson against ex-GoY- Hum
phrey adopted ar the E1tchin Botlzir
inves tigation resolution was inded .liteiy post
| pcned Adjourned until rnarni-E
| SCIENCE AND SCiENTISIS.
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