Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-18
WORK OF TIE LEGISLATURE
Important Measures Passed and Others
That wero Killed During the session OF
tho I.eRIslature.

Important Measures Passed and Others
That wero Killed During the session OF
the Legislature.
Among the bills of Importance that
passed both houses ut the late session
of the legislature were the following:
The Australian ballot law, which goes into
effect NJ the next general election ana tncreai'
ter ull elections IN Kansas-state. county, city
and specal-arc 10 be conducted unaer tno
Australian system
law compelling all corporations ana per-
sons, except railroad companies ana agrieuit'
ural corporations, TO pay their employees week
~; u penalty OF 3 per cent II not paid
Speaker Douglass bill 10 prohibit the corrupt
use OF money NJ elections.
a mortgage redemption law, providing Tor
redemption period OF eighteen months AFTER salc
under foreclosure, but where the court or Judge
shall lind that the lands and tencments nave
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 crcul'ors
may redeem from each other. The terms Oh
redemption arc: The reimbursement OF inc
amount paid by the holder OF the certihcate'
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 Tor the
liens OF creditors who did not avail themselves
OF the privilege OF redeemnS during the re-
dcmption period.
law amending tho tax law by which the
March penalty OF per cent is Knocked out
making reduction OF 33's per cent before the
sale Of the property, and utter the sale OF inc
property for taxes the tax certificate Is 10 draw
Is per cent interest instead Of - per cent US
now. J..
Senator Forneys bill for the protection OF
shippers of grain. seeds and hay. which requires
railroad companies 10 construct scales LOT INC
Weighing of grain NJ every station from when
100 cars OF grain IRE shipped: the company IL
authorized 10 collect - cents u car for each car
weighed Shippers are empowered TO collect
through the courts damages for losses OF gra,H'
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 1856 by when
railroads are authorized to collect excess iares
Of from 10 10 2o cents from passengers who neg
lcct 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
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 II illegal to require gold
contract in notes, mortgages and other oDhRa'
TONS and making silver us we'll as gold legal
tender for all debts in Kansas.
Senator Dumbauld's bill for the preservation
OF the public health against epidemic cholera
Senator Forneys bill making II 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
10 stop Mt county seats and the other compelled
telegraph companies TO maitain IN operator NJ
each county seat.
screenage 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, Ut Lawrence,
established TO promote and conduct expert
ments for the destruction OF the chlnch Duss
by contagion or infection.
A bill providing for the acceptance OF certain
grades from some OF the higher educational in
situations BIZ the state board OF education aud
10 provide for the issuance OF teachers GER
tifcates.'
A bill submitting to the people OF Geary
county the question OF restoring the name 10
Davis.
Senator O'Bryan bill giving the police COM
missioners OF cities Of the first class power to
appoint police matron II in their Judgment
one IL necessary. Her salary Is 10 be 500
year This bill affects the cities OF Topeka
Ennona Cify worth
and Atchison.
bill disorsanizing Garfield county, creating
Garfield township. adding It TO Finney county,
and proving that the officers OF Finney coun'
" 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 10 except
the scandinavian United Aid association OF
Galesburg from certain regulations OF the In
aurance laws.
Among the important local bills passed was
ono establishing high school In Laoette
county; authorizing the city OF Osawatomie 10
issue bonds 10 fund the city Indebtedness; re-
ducipp the salaries OF officers OF Marshall.
Jewell. Dickinson, Mitchell. Washington, Sher-
man. Cloud, Smith. Clay and Cofey counties:
20 authorize the city OF Wellington TO issue
bonds for rebuilding the public schoolhouse OF
wellington recently destroyed by the cyclone;
10 authorize the city Of Ncosho Falls TO pur-
chase public park: TO 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 Tor
the construction OF Touring mill Mt
Russell Springs; vacating the townsitcs OF
Shockeyville, Surprise, Appomatiax, Golden,
zlonyille 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 u county industrial
school at Wichita: TO authorize Haskell county
10 vote aid TO the Montezumn, Trinidad q
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
n Touring mill: TO authorize the cities OF