People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-24
NEW LAWS.
Important Acts That Passed the Kansas
Legislature, and Others That Failed.


Australian system
A law compelling all corporations and per
sons, except railroad companies and agricult-
ural corporations, 20 pay their employees week.
ly; penalty Of per cent If not paid
Speaker Douglass bill TO prohibit the corrupt
use Of money at elections.
A 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
Their execution for any deficiency arising upon
the sale, and is not subject 10 execution for the
liens Of creditors who did not avail themselves
Of the privilege Of redeeming during the re
demptiOn period.
\ law amending the tax law By which the
March penalty Of per cent is Knocked out
making reduction OF S3,a 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 "a per cent as
now.
Senator Forneys bill for the protection Of
shippers Of grain, seeds and hay, which requires
railroad companies 10 construct scales for the
weighing Of grain at every station from which
100 cars Of grain are shipped; the company is
authorized TO collect . cents car for each car
weighed Shippers are empowered TO collect
through the courts damages for losses Of grain,
seeds and hay which occur while the shipments
ere in transit, providing the shortage is more
than One-fourth Of one per cent.
The bill repeating the law Of 1888 by which
railroads are authorized TO collect excess fares
Of from 10 10 p cents from passengers who l. 2
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.
ton Of property The practice now prevails
among insurance companies of insuring prop
erty for more than its value and scaling down
in case Of loss.
The bill making it illegal to require gold
contract in notes, mortgages and other obliga.
tiOns, and making silver as well as gold legal
tender for all debts in Kansas
Senator Dumbauld's bill for the preservation
Of the public health against epidemic cholera
Senator Forney's bill making it unlawful to
shoot quail or prairie chickens except by the
owner of the land
Two house bills looking to the improvement
Of the facilities Of county seats. One OF them
provided that railroad trains shall be compelled
to stop at county seats and the other compelled
telegraph companies to maitain an operator at
each county seat
A sereenage 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
situations by the state board Of education and
TO provide for the issuance Of teachers GER
tiliCates
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 police matron If in their judgment
one is necessary. Her salary is 10 be 500
year. This bill affects the cities Of Topeka,
Wichita, Fort Scott, Kansas City, LeavenwOrth
and Atchison.
A bill disorganizing Garfield county, creating
Garfield township. adding it to 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 Stromquists bill 10 except
the Scandinavian United Aid association Of
Galesburg from certain regulations Of the in.
surance laws.
'Ameng heimportant local bills passed was
one establishing a high school in Labette
county; authorizing thecity Of Osawatomie TO
issue bonds to fund the city Indebtedness; re
duciDg the salaries Of officers Of Marshall,
Jewell, Dickinson, Mitchell, Washington, Sher-
man, Cloud, Smith, Clay and Coffey countless
to authorize the city Of Wellington TO issue
bonds for rebuilding the puStic schoolhouse OF
Wellington recently destroyed by the cyclone;
TO authorize the city Of Neosho Falls 10 pur-
chase public park: 10 authorize the city Of
Lawrence to issue bonds for the, purchase Of
the gas works and water works; to au.
thorize the issuance Of bonds for
the construction Of a Touring mill at
Russell Springs; vacating the townsites Of
khOckeyville, Surprise, Appomattax, Golden,
ZionVille and Conductor in Grant county. and
Cresson in Rocks county; authorizing the com.
pletion Of the court house at Ottawa, Franklin
county; providing for public Library at Kan.
sas City, Kan; establishing county industrial
school at Wichita; TO authorize Haskell county
to vote aid TO the Montezuma, Trinidad &
Western railway; authorizing city Of Chanute
TO issue bonds for waterworks; TO authorize
city of Girard to vote bonds to rebuild water
works; 10 authorize city Of WaKeeney to build
Touring mill; to authorize the cities Of
Grainfeld and Grinnell TO vote bonds for
Touring mill -
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS KILLED.
Many of the most important meas
ures, on which there was a great deal
of discussion, were killed Among the
dead bills are the following;
The maximum freight BILL killed by 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 salarie,
Of county officers, killed in the senate.
The free school book bill ana state uniformity
bill, dead, because the two houses could not
agree
The judicial apportionment bill, killed in thu
house
The bill giving the governor the supervision
of the agricultural department and the appoint
ment OF its officers, killed in the house
Anti lottery bill, killed in the senate because
Of house amendments.
The bill to regulate the sale of oleomargarine
killed in the senate
The bill for the revision Of the statutes failed
in both houses
Bill making appropriation to complete the
state house, left on the house calendar.
Land Commissioner Stone Resigns.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-The presi-