Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-06
MEDICINE LODGE. WEDNESDAY MARCH 1895.
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

Feb 2.-In the house Colonel Veale OF
hawnee introduced volum nous petition
signed by little over 81 O0) persons from
seyenty-eight counties asking that the pro-
hibitory amendment be resubmitted Speaker
Lobdell about three minutes afterward. took
q bundle Of papers containing the names of
more than 5000 citizens. protesting against
the res submission of the amendment State
Architect Seymour Davis reported that the
boilers in the west wns of the capitol were in
dan ,erous condition AMI liable to explode
any time He also reported that the air pipes
were out OF order and that the air forced into
represen tatlve hall came from the damp base
ment and the en- cine room The report
created a sensation A resolution appropriate
ing 4O) for temporary repairs was passed.
Representative Moore of Saline county in
troduced bin to abolish the state board of
railroad commissioners Mr. Moore also has
bill in the house to give the board power to
enforce It's orders The special questions bill
was rcconstdered and a sain debated but no
decision was reached.
In the senate the tax atiOn and assessment
bill was tabled The rest of the session was
spent in unimpor tant routine work
Feb I'm the senate Milton Brown joint
resolution to submit propo sition to the peo-
pie to amend the constitution to prohibit
the issuance of railroad passei to public Of
ticials was defeated The senate recommend
ed for paSSa the bill granting Mrs Altha
Brig Stricken, DIR. Eva Hardin and others
the aiSht to vote for presidential electors.
Sterne introduced a bill requiring that all
products of the state penitentiary be plainly
labeled as such. The senate committee on
printing reported favorably on the house bill
which cuts down the rate Of legal printing in
the newspapers about 80 per cent A number
OF bills were passed
The house recommended the passage of
bills for the establishment of state normal
schools at Fort Scott. Concordia Wichita
nV11f rrnnf how kNolt. Of 10
live stock commission ONCE, and for ad-
journment sine die February 2S The irriEa-
tion bill was passed by a vote OF 76 to 2S The
bill creates state board OF irrigation, to
be composed of three members, appointed
bs the governor, at salaries of 81 0)0 a year
and appropriates 5000 to carry the work
and to make the experiments Both houses
adjourned over Washington birthday.
Feb 23-The senate passed forty seven
bills, all OF a local nature but one. and that
directed the executive council to set apart
suite OF rooms in the state to be uoei as
Grand Army museum.
In the house thirteen new bills were intro
duced, all local Most of the day was spent
in committee of the whole the Wichita,
Conc ordia and Great Bend normal school
bills. They were recommended for passa 9
after hard ii hit Bills for the establishing
OF state normal schools at Fort Scott and La
Crosse were defeated
HCu 80 - NC senate passed. the mousse lrrF
CATION bill after making some amendments
The house bill prohibitin, pool selling on
horse racing or anything else was passed.
The bill appropriatin N,0JJ for the relief of
Mary e. Thorpe, whose husband was killed
while on guard duty at the penitentiary, was
passed The anti bribery bill was also passed.
number OF appropriation bills were passed
In the house seven new bills were intro
duced House decided that no new bills
should be introduced after noon to- morrow
House passed bills PROTECTING fish aboliS hing
six judicial districts, the compromi>e appel
late court BILL to prevent b; acllsting of M
ployes by corporations House then went
into committee of the whole the assess
ment and taxation bills but adjourned with
out any action
Feb 26 6-The entire morning session of the
senate was consumed in railroadin through
lOj local bills All the CLERKS aUl many of the
senators were pressed into service to read the
various measures and for an hour two q
veritable babel pervaded the senate chamber.
The afternoon devoted entirely
to consideration of the house fee and
! salary bill By the time the house bill came
out OF the committee on fees and salaries it
was so changed that its author would never
! have fathered it The committee amend
ments put all county officers except probate
| Judge upon salaries instead OF fees This in
! cludes sheriffs, re- listers and clerlxss of court
The bill was then passed by a party vote.
In the house sixteen new bills were intro
! duced, which makes the score of bills in
troduced in the house 1O1i. The agricultural
college building and repairs bill was passed.
1t carries SIS, 900 The house passed the SEN
ate bill making an appropriation for curr9n t
expenses of the Topeka insane asylum for
the biennial period also the bill maxim 9
appropriations for the OSawatomie insane
asylum the acts making appropriations for
the state agricultural collie ;e making ap.
! preparation for the chinch bug expert
ment station: covering back into
the treasury the balance of the cholera fund
! appropriation and authorizing a school dis.
trict in Thomas county to issue bonds to fund
an outstanding iudebt edneS5. At O'Clock
the house went into committee of the whole
! for the consideration of the railroad bills The
committee continued the discussion of the
railroad question up to the hour of adjourn
! ment without action.