Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27

KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

JOINT reSolutl' n for constitutional conven-
ton by vote of 6i to 81 after three hours
OF debate The house spent the greater part
OF the afternoon in a discussion of the
Prlce school book bill A committee was ap-
pointed TO prepare substitute bill The
house committees judiciary state affairs
ano raiiroats having under consideration the
several antipass bills. reported uafavorably
on all OF them
In the senate 30 gn introduced bill to
apportion the stats into Ell ght con Ires sional
districts This is the fourth apportionment
bill introduced thrs Gar in the session The
senate committee of the whole recon-.
mended for passage Senator Tay-
lor's bill creatinz tax levy
Of 10000 year for the state univer-
sity. The senate discussed Senator Leedy's
bill to abolish the Office OF state veterinarian
Ihe Dill with numerous amendments and SUBJ
stltutes was re.erred back to the CON-
mlttee on live stock with instructions
to report at its earliest convenience Senator
Jumper introduced bill to prohibit mem.
oers OF the legislature from holdin any other
state Office
Feb h-J9 the house Mr. Lambert of Lyon
moved 10 rt commit the bill, limiting the nnm-
Der OF special questions that can be asked by
either party in the trial of civil action back
to the committee of the whole for further dis
cussion This bill provides as it passed the
committee that not over twenty five special
questions can be asked by either party
to the suit After a long debate the house
refused TO recommit numbr of bills
of a local nature were introduced. The Bal
linyer fees and salaries bill was passed by a
vote of 81 to l6 Those votin, against the
measure were: Bender Brown of Crawford,
Bucklin, Campbell of Doniphan, Forsythe.
Hackbusch, Hart. HILL Ingle, McKinnie,
Metzler. Rothweiler. Seaton, Smith of Sher-
man, Trueblood and f1ilott
The greater part of the day in the senate
was spent in the committee OF the whole. sen
ator Sterneis bill maxim. it q misdemeanor
for engineers, firemen, conductors
brakeman TO leave q train except at the
END OF division was favorably reported.
Senator lands introduced IA bill ad-
yanced to its final reading and secured
its passage all within five minutes This
bill appropriates st. .3}1, which is tho amount
OF state bounty due the Medicine Lod e
sugar manufacturin; company. and divides
the sum among thrty-four farmers who fur
n1shed sugar cane to the mill This sum will
pay about 81 per cent of the farmers claims
Senator Brown got q favorable report on his
Dill which puts high tax upon cattle which
are brought into the state for grazing pur.
poses.
Feb 16-The house considered several
more sections OF tho billiard appellate court
bill Eleven OF the twenty-five sections OF
the measure have now been discussed The
house then considered Repre- entative
ShaeferS concurrent resolution for the ap-
pofntment OF u special committee to prepare
general bill on assessment and taxation and
report to the session of 1895 and adopted it
The resolution amended provides for
committee OF three representatives and two
senators with stenosrapher, at "a a day,
time limited to twenty days The afternoon
bills
In the senate a lively personal discussion
occurred between o Bryan and billiard, the
only two Democrats in the body, over the bill
in 0f ha
hrst class. Both we're called to order The
bill was sent back to committee Scott in
troduced a bill granting women the right to
vote for presidential electors The bill vas
introduced at the request of some ladies who
claim that under the national constitution
the legislative may grant uch right The
afternoon was spent on local bills
teD Is when the senate assembled there
were only twenty one senator's in their places
which Is barely a constitutional majority BY
agreement So called, local bills were taken
up on final passage, and every clerk in the
senate set to reading in concert but upon diff
ferent bills. For short time the senate was
turned into yeritable babel, while senators
he'd to the cloak room in diSmay. Then the
roll was called once and all these bills passed
Into the laws of Kansas so far as the upper
house Is concerned No senator pretends to
know just what he voted upon hey ond his
own particular measure. The senate recon-
mended for passage the act providing for free
text books for all public schools below the
high school The books are to be purchased
by direct tax in the several districts The
state uniformity feature was knocked out
Ia the house twenty new bills were sent to
the clerks desk, which makes the total num-
Der of bills introduced in the hou g this ses-
sion 9i5. The house passed the senate appel.
late court bill, which provides two courts
with three judges in each court The senate
measure was amended. but not in important
particulars.
Feb 10 = The senate passed Senator
Jumpers bill reducing railroad passenger
rates from to cents a mile and prohibiting
the issuance OF passes to public officials The
vote was 81 to 10 Senator Lands bill Is reyu-
latinS the charges of express and telegraph
companies were also passed The text boob
bills were knocked out in committee OF the
whole.
A concurrent resolution by Senator Leedy
calling upon the governor and the attorney
general for the enforcement of the antitrust
law was adopted A favorable report was
made on Senator Sterne's bill to prohibit the
employment Of children under Il years of age.
In the house Dennison introduced concur
rent resolution for the adjournment of the
legislature on February 2a The resolution
went over nnder the rules The house passed
the Dodge City soldiers home appropriation
bill and then took up the irrigation bills
There were two irrigation bills, ona
by Representative Hopkins of Finney and the
other by Representative Russell OF Sutton
The Hopkins bill was recommended for pas
sar e. The bill provides for the appointment
by the governor of state irri alton commits
sion Of three members at salary OF 800
year The duty of the board will be to eztab-
lish twenty experimental stations in different
localities in the West The bill calls for an
appropriation of 100000
Feb. 2l-In the house Colonel Veale Of
shawnee introduced a volum nous petition
signed by little over 81 0Oj persons from
seventy-eight counties, asking that the pro-
hibitory amendment be resubmitte1 Speaker
Lobdell, about three min utes afterward took
q bundle OF papers containing the names of
more than $4,000 citizens, PROTESTING against
the resubmission of the amendment State
Architect Seymour Davis reported that the
boilers in the west wing of the capitol were in
a dan yerous condition and liable to explode
any time He also reported that the air pipes
were out OF order and that the air forced into
represen tatiye hall came from the damp ba5 e.
ment and the engine room The report
created a sensation Aresolution appropriat-
ing s40J for temporary repairs was passed
Representative Moore of Saline county in
troduced bill to abolish the state board of
railroad commissioners Mr. Moore also has
q bill in the house to give the board power to
enforce its orders The special questions bill
was reconsidered and again debated but no
decision was reached.
In the senate the taxation and assessment
bill was tabled The rest of the session was
spent in unimportant routine work
Woman suffrage has been beaten in
the North Dakota house by a vote
of 30 to 25