The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-03-15
WHAT WAS DONE

amount appropriated two years ago. In the
matter of schools aud charitable institutions
the appropriations were very liberal. yet ex-
aibit careful discrimination.
The two houses of this legislature enacted
laws which made gam bling in pubic gam-
cling houses, and the keeping of such houses,
felony.
They prohibited pool selling, except at
county fair, in the state. The exception
only applies to fairs not held for period Of
not more than two weeks consecutively.
They made it felony for a public official
to accept a bride.
They passed a judicial apportionment bill
and wiped out six judicial districts of the
thirty four.
They changed the law in regard to cities
of the first class SO as 10 make the offices OF
city treasurer, city c ERIK and city attorney
elective instead of appointive, a. at present.
They authorized cities Of the first c ass to
fund their Indebtedness, contracted for In
ternal Improvements.
They passed law requiring county treas
urers in counties of less than SO,U0O inhah-
itants to deposit the county money daily in
commissioners.
They made Washington's birthday legal
holiday.
They passed a law requiring that Enclosed
and abandoned wells shall be filled or en-
clos d. This refers to wells left unprotected
on abandoned lands IN the western part of
the state.
They created the Office of state accountant,
whose duty it shall be to examine and audit
the accounts of state officials and institu-
tons.
They abolished the Office of state veterina.
rian.
They s.ablished Grand Army museum
for the storing of Grand Army relics.
They esta blished two appellate courts. with
jurisdiction in civil cases, where the amount
involved does not exceed 5000.
They passed a law for the protection OF
fish, making it unla wful to catch fish with
anything except the hook and line between
the 18th of May and the 18th of August in
each year, and provided for the appointment
of fish warden in each county having
streams, whose duty it shall be 10 see that
the law is not violat. ID.
They made the carrying on of lotteries or
selling of lot cry tickets felony.
They auth rIzed cities of the second class
to vote bonds for the purchase of water
works and electric light plants.
They turned back into the treasury the I'M
expended balance of the cholera appropria-
ton.
They did away with the enrolling clerks
and provided that bills hereafter should be
enrolled by printing instead of being written.
They established the industrial reforma-
tory at Hutchinson for criminals of q certain
class, between the ages of 16 and IS, and
appropriated $97,O eco to put it in operation.
They appropriated $4,000 to make expert
mentS in irrigation, under charge of board
of irrigation.
They pa sed law VII Oh provides for the
clearing out of dead chattel mortgages which
now cumber the vaults of every Office of
register of deeds in the state.
They appropriated 100000 to buy seed
grain for western settlers.
They provided for the erection of monu-
tah IN RI a nf
Kansas soldiers ON the fields of Chickamauga
and Chattanooga.
They exempted from taxation the real
estate and personal property belonging to
the Grand Army Of the Republic in the state.
They strengthened the prohibitory Law by
license to sell liquor by persons who have
not permits under the state law prima facie
evidence of guilt in cases Of prosecution.
They appropriated $4,000 to buy coal for
destitute settlers.
They pa-sel law for the destruction of
the Russian thistle.
They provided for the levy of tax in the
western counties to be used in preventing
prairie fires.
They appropriated what will amount to
s275.O0O to carry on the building of the state
house. and 5000 to fit up and beautify the
grounds.
They authorized the establishment of kim
public funds.
They authorized the listing of judgments
for taxation, and provided that all judy
ments not listed shall be Invalid in one year
after rendition.
Tn y vacated great numbers of boom
towns and additions: relegatlng them to
farm purposes.
The statutes will hereafter prevent the
obstruction of streets and highways by rail-
road trains.
They authorized corporations to issue pre-
ferred stock.
They provided for the election of railroad
directors so that some ola members may be
On the board all the time.
They levied tax on the fire insurance pre-
mums for the support Of fire departments.
The exempted from legal process to bene-
fciaries the proceeds of life insurance poll
cies.
They provided for the class fication of pri-
soners in the state pen,tentiary for the des-
cription and conditional liberation of the
same.
They made an appropriation for the bounty
on certain sugars manufactured in Kansas
for 1893.
They abolished the Shawnee county circuit
court.
They authorized Shawnee county to erect
bridge over the Kansas river on Kansas
avenue in Topeka.
They enacted provision for the health and
safety of persO employed in mines.
The bill which provided that q drundard
might be sent to an inebriate cure at pub
lie expense was defeated in the senate to-
wards the closing hours.
The house passed q new fec bill for the
state printer but the senate took no action
on it. 1t materially reiuced the fees allowed
by the law in force.
The congressional apportionment was not
passed, leaving our present seven district
representatives and one at large.
This subject. now due to our readers. might
have been more complete and satisfactory,
but for the botch work among the clerks in
both houses: notably the docket clerks from
whose records the information would natur.
ally be sought for.
The trouble is that there we're too many
clerks which has caused positive in formation
unobtainab'e until their work is sifted out
and brought into some kind of order in the
Office of the secretary of state.
Every department of Legislative work was
cumbered by from five to twenty times the
number Of persons needed to do the work
we'll. The presence of these crowds of
clerks hampered those who might and
would have done good work if left alone.
As far az the above goes it is believed to
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