Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Stringent Measures for the Suppression o
Immoral Houses-Two Financial Meas
ures.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. sl.-The Cubbi
son anti-gambling bill, known as hous'
bill No. 3, was read the third time il
the senate and passed without amend
ments by . vote Of 80 to4. The twt
democrats, O'Bryan and billiard, ant
Stone and McTaggart, republicans
voted against it 1t makes gambling
felony punishable with Imprisonment
In the penitentiary. The bill wal
passed just a. 1t came from the house
and only awaits the signature Of the
governor and publication in the Of
6cisl paper to become law.
The Cubbison anti-lottery bill, known
- the house bill No. l, was also passed
kwithout amendment, BY unanimoul
vote. This also becomes . law upor
publication In an official state paper.
/, Mr.. Cubbison's house bill No. 2 wal
also passed. This bill differs from bill
snti-gsmbling law, in that 1t is aimed
At the keepers Of gaming houses and
gambling deviceA Upon conviction
such person shall be guilty Of felony
and punished BY imprisonment At hard
labor for not less than one year nor
more than Ave.
The senate joint resolution recon-
mending the calling Of convention to
revise, amend or change the constitu.
tion Of the state, was passed BY vote
Of 2s to g. 1t provides that the electors
shall vote at the election to be held IN
1895 for or against convention to ~
wise the constitution.
Senator O'Brysn introduced . strin.
gent measure for the suppression Of
immoral houses, and an emergency
was declared and 1t went to its second
reading. 1t provides penalty Of from
one to ave years in the psnitentiary
for maintaining any such house or for
being an inmate thereof, and any own.
or OF a house who shall rent II for
immoral purposes shall be subject
to the same penalty. The furniture
Of any such houses may be seized and
publicly destroyed, and any citizen
may maintain an action against such
places to abate and perpetually enjoin.
A bill by Senator Taylor provides
salary Of u, 800 per annum for justices
Of the peace In Kansas City, Kan, In
lieu Of all feea
An act was passed which provides
that when any petitioner calls for
survey Of boundary lines and the lines
as marked are found correct the peti.
toner shall pay the cost Of survey, but
where an error is found or survey has
previously been made, the cost shall 10
apportioned among the interested land
owners.
Senator Cooks pond bill became .
law to-day 70 far as the upper house Is
concerned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Street introduced concurrent
resolution instructing senators and
congressman to work for bill TO PEN
sion the members Of the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Kansas volunteers,
who were frozen and disabled during
the campaign on the frontier in the
winter of 1868 and 1869.
A bill by Hunt provides that all off,
GERS required to give bond may furnish
as security some reliable security COM
pany.
A bill by Andrews provides that for
eign insurance companies shall be re-
quired to invest their funds received
from premiums received from residents
Of the state of Kansas in Kansas bonds
and mortgages and in mortgages on
Kansas real estate.
tucker OF douglas, introduced 'our
bills, one making an appropriation OF
S., 200 for Chancellor SHOWS expert
mental ehihch Dug station one ameha'
ing the act providing for the govern
ment Of the university; one appropri-
ating the money derived from interest
on university iands 10 the use OF the
university ana one approprlating
Sl4o'o WV ior the erection ana equip
ment OF chemistry building hre'
PROOF museum anu shops lor the school
OF engineering.
ulenn introduced Two biils' one per-
mittlng county commissioners 70 sell
lands and town lots bid In at tax sales
Dy the county anu one autnorizlng
the mayor ana council OF clues OF the
third class 10 levy TAX TO MAINTAIN
iree puoiic libraries
Brown, OF Pratt, introduced . reso.
luton calling FOR the Appropriation OF
TO purchase coal Tor western set
tiers. 1t was lad overunder the rules
Mr.. FAINTER, OF Meade county, Oh
Tered In the house resolution direct
ing the speaker TO appoint a commit
tee OF three to investigate the stories
Of exoroitant charges by the Kansas
City stock Yards 70. and report TO the
house and instructing, pending such
investigation, the committee TO which
has been referred bills on the subject
to suspend action. The resolution
was adopted.