The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-06
WHAT THE HOUSES DID
The House Bills Passed by the
Senate
AND SENATE BILLS PASSEI

BY the House, being u COAAps>N 49,
Statements showing Which Did the
Hest Work.
The following are the senate bills of
more than local importance, which were
passed by the house during this session
of the legislature:
Establishing an appellate court.
For the protection of fish in Kansas
waters.
Relating to certain contracts for the
conditional sale. lease or hire OF railway
and street railway equipment, by Senator
Sterne
Providing for the destruction of gam
bling paraphernalia.
For protection from prairie fires and
for the construction of reservoirs
To prevent the obstruction of streets
and highways by railroad trains.
For the destruction of noxious weeds.
Providing for the enrolling and en-
crossing of bills by printing.
To cover into the state treasury the IN
expended balance of the cholera fund
Authorizing corporations to issue pre-
ferred stock.
Granting a pension to Erwin H. Covey.
To establish Grand Army museum IN
the state capitol
Exempting real estate and personal
from taxation.
Providing for the election of railroad
directors so that some old members may
be on the board all the time
Creating the office of state accountant
Levying q tax Of 3 per cent on the fire
insurance premiums for the support of
fire departments.
To exempt from legal process to bene-
fciaries the proceeds of life insurance
policies.
To provide for the classification of
prisoners in the state penitentiary for
the description and conditional liberation
of the same
Relative to recognizance stipulations,
bonds and undertaking and to allow GER
tain corporations to be accepted as sure
ties thereon.
Making an appropriation for the
bounty in certain sugars manufactured
in Kansas for 1898.
For the relief of Mary E. Thorpe and
her minor children.
For the exchange of supreme court re-
ports by the state librarian.
House Bills Passing the Senate.
House bills that passed the senate, of
more than local consequence, were:
House bill, by Cubbison-to prohibit
lotteries-passed Jan. 30.
House bill, by Cubbison-in relation to
ambling-passed Jan. 30.
House bill, by Cubbison-to prohibit
gam bling-passed Jan. 80.
House bill, by Cubbison-to prohibit
book making and pool selling-passed
Feb %.
House bill, by polishing
Shawnee county circuit court-passed
Feb 49,
House bill, making appropriation and
levy for completion of state house
passed March !.
House bill, by Rohrbaugh-to elect
city clerks and city attorneys of cities of
first class-passed Feb. 81.
House bill, declaring Feb % a legal
holiday-passed Jan. %.
House bill, by MISUNDERSTANDING
for the erection of bridge over the
Kansas river at Topeka-Passed Febru-
airy 90
House bill, by Eckstein-P Prescribing
penalties for accepting bribes-Passed
February %.
House bill, by Notwithstanding
Kansas City to levy for school fund de-
ficit-Passed February l.
House bill, by Seaton-To provide
monuments TO mark position of Kansas
troops at the battlefield of Chickamauga
aud Chattanooga February "A.
House bill, by Bone-Providing for
the health and safety of persons employ
ed in mines-Passed February 81
House bill, by Hanna-To legalize
printers atidavits of publication notices,
passed February &c.
House bill -, by = To furnish free
seed for the farmers in the Fifth, Sixth
and Seventh districts-passed Feb. g.
House bill, by Blair-To apportion the
state into eight congressional districts
passed Mar 2.
House bill, by the committee on irriga-
tion-Providing for the creation of a
board of irrigation, directing certain i'm
provements and sppropriating $4,000
therefor-passed Feb %.
House bill, by Veale-For the appoint
ment of commissioners to take deposit
tons, etc, in other states and nations
passed Mar. l.
By ways and means committee, appro-
priating $4,000 for coal for needy settlers
in western Kansas-Passed Feb. To-
House bill. abolishing six judicial dis
tricts-Passed Mar 3
VETOEs FOUR BILLS.