The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW.
The Work Accomplished at the
Late Session.
Stringent Anti-Gambling Laws Enacted
The New Appellate Court Bill and
Other Meassres-Cost of the
State Government.
The kansas Gambling Laws.

Among the most important measures
enacted by this legislature are those
commonly known as the ''Cubbison
gambling bills" and are numbered
house bills l, and 3. While these
laws bear Mr.. Cubbison's name. they
were drafted by an organization known
as the Good Citizens league" of Kan
sas City, Kan, the president Of which
is DR.. Dougherty, the well known
anti-gambling lecturer and preacher.
House bill No. was introduced the
second day of the session, at o'clock
in the afternoon. Upon motion of Mr..
Cubbison the bill was placed upon Sec
ond reading Immediately after its in
PRODUCTION. Upon the second day of
the session the house entered into COM
mittee of the whole and after an
hours session the bill was reported
back to the house for passage
and was at once placed upon third
reading and passed with but few mega
tive votes. A bill of such general i'm
portance was never passed in such a
short time by a Kansas legislature.
Within ten days after its introduction
and passage in the house of representa-
tives the bill passed the senate and be-
came law. House bill Nos. and
followed house bill No. i at a rate
calculated to demonstrate the earnest
ness of the Legislators, and also to dis
hearten the gamblers, who imagined
themselves safe in the Sunflower state.
House bill No. is what is known as
the lottery law proper, and provides
that any person convicted of running
a lottery or of being in any way con-
nected with one, shall be deemed guilty
of a felony, and the punishment is
fixed at hard labor in the penitentiary
for term of not less than one year
nor more than three years. The same
punishment under this law is also in
store for the man found guilty of sell
ing lottery ticket or acting as agent
of a lottery company. The law also
prohibits lottery gambling of any kind
follows;
ANY person who, by way OF lottery, or by any
scheme in the nature OF lottery dispOSeS OF
any property OF value. or under the preteXt OF
a sale, gift or delivery OF any other property or
any right, privilege or thing whatever. dis
poses. or offers, or attempts to dispose OF prop
erty, with the intent TO make the disposal
thereof dependent upon, or connected with any
chance by lot, dice numbers. game hazard or
other gambling device, whereby such chance
or device is made an additional inducement to
the disposal or sale OF such property, and who
ever aids, either by printing or writing, OF is
in any way concerned in the setting up. man
aging OF drawing Of any such lottery or in such
disposal, or offer or attempt to dispose OF prop
erty by any such chance or device, shall be
guilty Of felony and upon conviction shall be
punished BY Imprisonment at hard labor in the
penitentiary for term OF not less than one
year nor more than two years.
1t also makes it felony punishable
by term of two years in the peniten-
tiary for owners of buildings or shops
to permit such gambling in their build
ings.
House bill No. ., which was the Sec
ond bill to pass the house of representa-
tive, provides that every person who
shall set up or keep any table or gam
bling device commonly called A B c,
faro bank, Z o, roulette, equality
keno, wheel of fortune or any kind of
gambling device orgaming table, shall
on conviction be adjudged guilty of a
felony and punished by Imprisonment
and hard labor for term not less than
one year nor more than FIVE years.
House bill No. provides that any
person found guilty of directly or indi-
rectly betting any money or property
at any common gaming house or any
place kept for gambling house, shall
be deemed guilty of felony and pun
ished by Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for a term of not less than
one year nor more than three years
1t also provides that any person who
is convicted of betting upon any game
of chance, whether at gaming
table, bank or gambling device,
Or upon the result of the move
ment of any wheel or other device,
or the throwing of dice or the playing
of cards, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be
punished by fine of not less than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred dol
lars, or by Imprisonment in the county
Jail not less than ten days nor more
than thirty days, or by both fine and
imprisonment
House bill No. !, which was delayed
and did not become a law until near
the close of the session, is one regard
ing the selling of pools or betting Upon
horse racing. 1t prohibits the selling
of pools or betting upon any
elsewhere, except a provision of
ten days wherein betting may
be INDUCED in in any enclosure
where the races actually occur This
provision was made in order to exempt
county fairs and make the races little
more interesting by the Kansas coun-
trymen stalking a part of their hard
earned dollars upon the winner"
The Appellate Court BIZ.
Another important measure enacted
during the session just closed was that
creating an appellate court. The su-
preme court of Kansas has been pray
ing for relief for a number of wears.
In the supreme court commission
which expired March 1, 1923, after a
term of six years, the supreme court
was granted temporary relief, but with
the expiration of the commission the
court was then four years behind
with its work, and at this time
1t is estimated that the court
is at least eight years in arrears in its
work, so that the establishment of two
appellate courts for a period of five
years is matter of greater Importance
than has been usually conceded.
The bill creating the appellate
courts was introduced in the senate by
Senator billiard, of Bourbon county,
but was remodeled by conference com
mittee near the close of the session.
Its provisions as finally adopted divides
the state into two departments to be
known as the northern and southern