Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-02
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

rent resolution No. D, by which the railroad
commissioners were directed to take charge
of supplies sent from other states for the
destitute in western Kansas and to report to
the governor.
concurrent resolution passed by the
house and also adopted by the senate,
calls upon Kansas men IN congress to en-
deavor to secure a constitutional amend
ment by which United States seua tors must
be elected by the direct vote of the people.
The mum Der of bills before the two houses
has reached 700.
The house adopted a resolution providing
for investigation of the sett ement of the
reciprocal tax by Insurance Commissioners
Sni3er.
A bill in the house makes the mayor the
third member of the board of police COM
missioners. The two member to be ap-
pointed by the governor are to hold office
only as long as the mayor. Mem ber5 of the
board are made removable for cause by the
city council in which case the governor fills
the vacancy.
In order TO be eligible to the position of
district judge under house bill introduced
by Cox, of Neosho, man must be prac-
ticing attorney in the supreme and district
courts of the state and must have practiced
law in the district courts of this state for
five years.
The house settled a long and somewhat
bitter controversy by voting, 80 to 80, to
pay enrolling clerks S3 day instead of by
the folio as per law of 1885. Like action
The house in committee of the whole
passed favorably upon mum Der of local
bills. Also Ciaycomb's bill providing for
cancellation on the records of satisfied chat
tel mortgages.
The committee on elections gave a unani-
mous report in the contest of Glenn against
Wightman from Greeley county in favor of
seating Glenn. The report was adopted and
Mr.. Glenn was sworn in.
The house adopted the resolution provid-
ing for committee to investigate Warden
Chase of the pentitentiary.
Under bill introduced by Mr.. Veale of
Shawnee the agent through whom one
party loans money to a third is declared the
agent of the loaner and not of the bor-
rover.
An act which Senator Danner has intro
duced requires that deeds that are not re-
corded within twenty days of their issue shall
not hold good against mortgages.
There is a bill pending before the senate
which provides that any bicycle rider on a
country road on meeting team shall dis
m cunt and stand aside until the team has
passed, and providing a penalty a fine
varying from 81 to 500.
The senate passed bill appropriating
$4,000 to make up deficiency in amounts
appropriated by the last Legislature for state
printing.
The house by vote accepted an invitation
received from Leaven worth to attend a BAN
quet there in celebration of the election of u
Leavenworth man to the Uuited States
senate
If Senator Landis' bill is passed the state
board of public works will be abolished.
The senate railroad committee has intro
duced that historical maximum freight to
bill.
The house adopted Warmers resolution
for committee of three to Investigate the
condition and recent management of the
state charitable Institutions.
Under a bill in the house upon the petition
of two-thirds of the legal voters of any
school district, and if the county superin-
tendent finds that it has not a sufficient
number of children to warrant cOntinu-
ance of a school he may, after posting proper
notices for twenty days, disOrganizs the dis
trict and attach the territory to some other
district for school purposes.
Veale's bill to abolish the Shawnee county
circuit court was favorably reported by the
chairman of the judiciary local committee.
Senator Helm desires to change the laws
to prevent farmer from mortgaA ng
his crop and then sell it without paying the
mortgage.
The anti Pinkerton bill has reapp cared in
the senate.
Stockebrand has a bill in the house which
would require railroads to add to a legal
fence three more barbed wires where swine
run at large
The senate having refused to permit any
mention of the JOINT convention to eect
state printer to appear on the senate jour
nal, Senator Scott prepared a protest
against TINS TeIuSat. L Ne senate refused TO
permit the protest on the journ al because it
gave an account of the said proceedings in
detail. TINS was refused. Then Senator
SteTne offered a protest against this last ac-
tion, also containing the entire substance of
the other protest. This was ad limited by
four of the majority voting with the repub-
licans; they are Householder, King, True
and Taylor. This final action resulted af-
ter the matter had been in dispute TO- ten
days.
Both houses have passed a concurrent res
olution petitioning congress to submit an
amendment to the constitution giving con-
gress power to legislate against trusts.
Senator Scott introduced a resolution to
change the time of voting on constitutional
amendments from general to special cleo
tions, which resolution was laid over under
the rules.
Mr. Sherman, of Shawnee. has a bill for
an appropriation of $1,000 to purchase a
quarter section adjoining the Reform schools
lands.
The committee of the whole senate ground
through the fish pond aud fish commissioner
BILL
Senator Taylor's railroad bill was unfa-
vorably reported by the committee on rail-
roads.
Senator Brown has introduced an act pro-
viding for the repeal of the bill which was
passed some years ago for the purpose of
encouraging the erection of sugar mills.
The senate received message from the
Leavenworth. +. E. Hunt, president; J. w.
Hausermau, secretary, and B. S. Richards.
Senator Brown has introduced bill which
provides that herd law may be suspended
in any county on the filing of petition with
the county clerk, signed by a majority of
the resident voters. A clause in the bill
provides that no such suspension shall en-
dure for more than six months at time.
The house by ADOPTION of a motion by
: Lambert, of Lyons, declared the concurrent
resolution about tfne term OF tIIs president
of the United States, to b. ''all flapdoodle
nonsense" and tabled it.
The house ways and means committee has
reported appropriation bills for plumbing
at the state imbacile asylum, at the Osawat-
omie insane asylum and at Kansas univsr-
sity. Also for the support and m ante
nance of the State Forestry stations at Dodge
City and Ogailah. and the establi hment It
each place for lrrig alton test plants, 1895,
$1,000; 1896. $500: 1897, $7,70).
Speaker Lobdell announced the appoint.
mont of Represa antat yes Hanna, Ho, ,lenb baak
Sutton and Street on the committee on ir-
rigation.
> The committee of the whole house ap-
proved Mr.. Wrght's bill u authorize the
bc@rd of county comm ssioners of Edwards
county to issue the bonds of said county to
fund its outstanding Indebtedness.