The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
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| The council met at 10 o'clock.
By consent Mr.. Clevinger, from the COM
mittee on federal relations, reported back
house concurrent resolution No. II. relat-
| ing to bringing the public lands in Beaver
county under the operation of the commit
tation clause of the land laws. The COM
mttee so amended the resolution as to in
clude also the late Cheyenne aud Arapahoe
country. As so amended it was con-
Cured in.
The following bills were introduced:
! BY Mr.I IPringey: No. l04. an act regu-
| lating proceedings in actions for forcible
entry and detainer. Ordered printed and
referred to the judiciary committee.
| BY Mr.. Shaffer: No. 105 an act to amend
| the code of civil procedure Ordered
printed and referred to the judiciary COM
mittee.
| The committee on county affairs recon-
| meuded the passage of house bill No. 81,
authorizing counties. townships and school
districts to register warrants The bill
was read the second time.
a minority of the Judiciary committee
recommended the passage of council bill
No &C. This bill amends section of arti-
Gle of chapter II. by making it read as
follows:
''A person taking, receiving, retaining
or contracting for any higher rate of it,
terest than the rate of II per cent per an
Rum shall forfeit all interest and principal
received, retained or contracted for. And
whenever greater rate of interest has
been paid than II per cent per annum, the
person paying it or his personal repre-
sentative may recover the excess from the
person taking it, or his personal repre-
sentative, in an action in the pr, per
court"
This is not the only one of Mr.. Wrights-
mans bills that meet with popular ap-
provai.
Council bill No. 95, amending the act
locating the agricultural college, was
withdrawn from the committee to which
it was referred and ordered printed.
On motion of Mr.. PItmaD the report Of
the judiciary committee on house bill No.
81 was adopted and the bill rejected This
is bill legalizing conveyances effectively
acknowledged and was intended to meet
an emergency in the history OF FL Reno.
The Conncil then went into committee
of the whole house for the consideration Of
council bill No II, an act TO regulate the
collection of freight bills by freight CON-
pauies 1t having been adopted, the COM
mittee was directed to report recommend
ing that the bill pass, subject to debate
aud amendment.
Council bill No. 20 was then considered.
After adopting several amendments the |
committee rose and reported progress and /
asked Leave to sit again. This bill re-
quires railroad companies to furnish 7
double-deck cars for the shipment of hogs
and sheep
During the discussion in committee /
Mr.. Fegaa said that, i'll view of the fact /
that another bill now pending requires /
railroad companies 10 furnish separate 1
cars for the transportation of white and /
colOred persons, he saw no reason why the [
same provision should not separate hogs /
as well
Mr. Ross said they had no black hogs in
Cleveland county.
Mir Lane said that he would vote for
separation, in case either the black or the
white hogs objected TO transportation III
the same comparr ments.
After bill No. 20 was disposed OF. mo-
tion was made to adjourn till tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock. Several members
strenuously objected to adjournment for
80 long a time, in order TO attend poiiti-
cal convention, while at the same time APP
pealing to congress for thirty additional
days in which TO transact the business Tor
which the legislature has been called to-
gether.
The vote Oh adjournment stood ayes 3
noes Z, Messrs, Cauuon, Mccartney aud
PrinGey making up the ayes.
Recess till t o'clock p. m
AFTERNOON SESSION.
On reassembling the council went into
committee OF the whole on tie order OF the
day.
Council bill No 99 was first taken up
This is an act TO auJnorIze proceedings n
Justices courts against garntsdees. After
making several amendments and discus
ing the bi! for an hour, the comm itte,.
rose and recommended that the bill. ssi
amended, be passed..
Mr.. Shaffer announced that DR. Neal,
the director of the agricultural college,
was in the city aud wished TO lay before
{ ne council some views and plans relative
TO the affairs Of the said college T8e
council agreed 70 hear him tomorrow
morning.
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