The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-03-18
THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
1t AdJourus Sine Die After an Eventful
SessiOn-What 1t Did.

o'clock last night, after one of the
stormiest sessions ever known in the
history of the state, the Legislature
adjourned sine die. Both houses had
been in session all day with about if
teen members and half IA dozen sena-
tors, waiting on the governor and en-
rolling force.
Among the more important general
bills passed were the following:
The Australian ballot tin.
The Douglass anti bribery bill.
Two house bills compelling railroads to stop
passenger trains at county seats and to main
tain telegraph Offices at county seats.
A bill aboliShin excess fare on railroads
and preventing conductors from collecting eX
cess fare when passengers fail TO purchase
tickets.
An appropriation of 81, 100 for the payment
of a bounty on sugar manufactured within the
state according to u contract made by the leg
Appropriation OF $500 for experimenting in
the destruction OF chinch bugs at the state
university.
Making an appropriation OF 81 900 for the
preservation of the public health against an
epidemic Of cholera.
The miners screen bill by which miners will
now be paid for slack as we'll as lump coal
A grain shippers bill compelling railroads to
put In track scales ut every station shipping
100 cars per annum.
The legislature was in session five
days over the regular Legislative term
of fifty days, but by reason Of the con
troversy between the Douglass and
Dunsmore houses there were only
eleven days in which legal BUSINESS
could be transacted by the legislature.
The number of bills passed is POS, of
which l03 are senate bills and 102
originated in the house. The total
number of bills introduced was $40.
Usually the house puts through a
great many more bills than the senate.
but this time the house had only a
limited time in which to work.
While everyone was expecting that
the legislature would make a great
record for economy and reform
it is a remarkable fact that the appro-
priations, with one or two exceptions,
are as liberal as they eve were. No
material reductions were made in any
of the appropriation bills for the cur
rent expenses of the state institutions
or any of the departments of the state
government, and quite a number of
the educational and charitable institu-
tions have in addition received large
sums for extensions andimprovements.
Among the appropriations made for
that purpose are: $50, 900 for a new
wing for the state normal school at
Emporia; $50, 900 for a physics and en-
gineering building at the state uni
versity at Lawrence;. $50. 900 for a IL
brary and agricultural science hall
and steam plant at the state agri-
cultural college at Manhattan;
$40, 900 for another wing at the Osa-
watomie insane asylum; SIS, 900 for an
assembly hall at the deaf and dumb
asylum at Olathe; SIS, 900 for a new
wing at the imbecile asylum at Win
RaIh. GA 00n fnt. IN addition 70 fha
state reformatory for girls at Beloit;
SIS, 900 for a steam plant for the sol
diers orphans home at Atchison;
S., 600 for a system at the peni-
Tertiary; $4,000 to continue the for
estry stations at Dodge City and Wa
Keeney.
Among the other appropriations
made are: Sixty-five thousand dollars
for the Kansas exhibit. at the worlds
fair, $500 900 on the state printing for
the next two years, $50, 900 for the eX-
penses of the legislature, So, 900 for the
state horticultural society, 81, 900 to
pay the bounty on sugar manufac-
tured in Kansas and various other
smaller appropriations.
A number of appropriation bills
passed by the house failed to go
through the senate. Among these
were $50, 900 for a new state normal
school at La Crosse; 500, 900 for COM
pleting the construction of the state
reformatory at Hutchinson; SIS, 900 for
an addition to the state reform school
at Topeka.
The legislature passed only one
joint resolution for the submission to
the people of a proposition to amend
the constitution. They are to vote at
~. .a.4 49, .1o.As1. - A. .zz
ton of giving equal suffrage to
, women.
1t is the first legislature that has not
appointed a half dozen investigating
committees of one kind or another.
The only investigating committee now
out is instructed TO investigate the
charges of boodling against James f.
Legate, Fred j. Close and Attorney
General John T. Little.
Many of the most important meas
ures on which there was a great dell
| of discussion were killed. Among the
, dead bills are the following: The
maximum freight bill. killed because
the house insisted on the election OF
railroad commissioners by the people;
the appellate court bill, killed by the
, senate because the governor could
, not appoint the judges; the
congressional apportionment bill, be-
cause 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 be.
cause the two houses could not agree;
= the judicial apportionment bill, killed
! in the house, the bill giving the COVER
nor the supervision of the agricultural
department and the appointment of its
officers, killed in the house; anti-lot.
terry bill, killed in the senate; because
Y of house amendments, the bill to reg
' ulate the sale of oleomargarine, killed
! in the senate; the bill for the revision
t of the statutes failed in both houses
r bill making appropriations to com
plete the state house, left on the
house calendar.