Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-01-26
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

PROVIDES SoU.UOO to that purpose as starter.
c. p. Bolmar is appointed clerk of the
house committee on ways and means. Mr..
Bolmar held a similar position with the
joint ways and means committee during all
the sessions from 1874 to 1884.
Governor MorrilPs message was read in
both houses and referred to special commit
tees to be apportloned to appropriate stand
ing committees.
New bills appear in each house at the rate
of from thirty to fifty day.
The election of J. K. Hudson state printer
is related in detail elsewhere.
Hackbu of Leavenw worth, has a bill
which provides that it shall be unlawful to
mine coal at the state coal mine at Leaven-
worth except for state and charitable insti-
tutious and for local wagon trade.
The senate rec slved message from Gov
ernor Morrill, saying that the records of his
office were SO imperfect that he was unable
to find out what had been done. He with
drew the name of Senator Lands for the
position on the board of charities, and all
other appointments which had been made
but not confirmed.
Cubbison has bill which makes all chattel
mortgages given to secure an Indebtedness
bearing greater interest than 10 per cent
per annum void.
Caldwell has bill to encourage irrigation.
1t appropriates $4,000 for the years 1895
and 1896, to be expended under the direction
of the state board of agriculture in making
experiments. These experiments to be
made on school lands belonging to the state.
Ingle has bill which makes it the special
duty of owners of land, renters and road
overseers to lay for the Russian thistle on
all occasions and exterminate it.
The committee of the whole house APP
proved that part of Cubbison'5 bill which
makes gam bling at a gaming house felony
with penitentiary penalty of from one to
five years.
Both senate and house have created COM
mittees to look after matters pertaining to
e e l. II,
Senator Sterne has bill giving district
judges the power to dissolve grand juries.
Hanna, of Graham, has house bill to put
road taxes on a cash basis and to provide
for the election of one supervisor for each
township.
Mccarthy, of jefferson, has bill before
the house to make the terms of township
clerk, treasurer and trustee three years each,
one to be elected each year so that there will
always be two old members on the township
board:
The house passed the Cubbisou anti-gam-
bling bill after defeating this amendment
to section 1; This section shall not apply
to any state. county or district fair nor to
any meeting for the trial of speed of
horses"
Mr. Gardenhire, of Shawnee, has bill
making an appropriation of $1,000 for
ward building and $4,000 for an admins
trative: building at the Topeka insane asylum.
opinion on the law governing the employ
ment of enrolling clerks, to the effect THAI
they must be paid % cents per folio for
their work instead of So day as has Teen
the custom.
Speaker LobdelI named as the committee
on militia, Beck man, chairman; Bender,
Raemer, Byers, Hollenbeck, Schlyer and
Hart And as committee on rules, Hunt,
Kelley, Blair, Lambert of Lyon, Wilson OF
Barber, and Rothweilers.
Mr.. Raemer introduced a bill to allow
county commissioners, after hearing proper
testimony, to exclude territory from the
boundary lines of cities OF the third class.
Concordia and Ness City appear in house
bills additional candidates for the loca-
ton of normal schools.
The senate had long debate, through
both forenoon and afternoon session, over
what should appear in the senate journal
concerning the joint convention to elect a
state printer. The republicans asserting
that the action of the joint convention
should appear in the senate journal, and the
populIsts opposing by the Argument that as
the senate was in session during the time
of the joint convention, that there was
no joint convention, and consequently
no election of printer. The debate closed
by the appointment of committee tore
port what the journal entry should be.
Mr.. HaInes, of Wyandotte, has a bill in
the house appropriatng 81. 100 for each ifs
cal year for the State Horticultural society.
for adrect tax of $4,000 and one-half mill
levy, for the years of 1895 and 1896. for the
completion of the state house. half mill
on each 500 assessment would raise cents,
that is, a man would pay about cents for
every 500 of property in his pc session.
The Woman's RefOrmatory bill in the
house provides for commission of three to
buy a site for $1,000 and $4,000 for first
years work in building and $4,000 for first
years maintenance and $4,000 for second
The institution to he under the
control of a board of five managers, APP
pointed by the governor, two of whom are
to be women.
Senator Dennison has bill giving charge
to county commissioners of all orphans and
m nOrs, to a certain degree, sending such as
they are compelled to to the Reform school
and keeping all under IS years of age off
from the streets after o clock at night.
Senator Armstrong has bill to estab lish. .
free employment agencies in cities of the
first class.
Senator Reed has a bill to prohibit the
granting of franchises to corporations in
cities of the first, second OF third class. and
empowers each town to own, operate and
construct such plants as. may be necessary.
The bill also provides for the formation of
an insurance league such that each city will
control its own insurance
House bill No. 139. by Lewis, provides for
the appointment of five commissioners,
who shall be appointed by the governor,
tract for the boring of artesian wells in
the western part of the state. Under this
bill that part of the state lying west of the
99th meridian is divided into five irrigation
districts, and these commissioners are to
be selected, one from each district. and not
more than two of said mmissioners to
belong to the same political party. The
bill provides for the appropriation of $l00,-
600 for the purpose of carrying on these ex-
periments.
Meredith, of Reno, has a bill in the house
which, in the absence of probate judge
from his county confers the powers of his
office temporarily upon the clerk of the dis
trict court.
So far the house has appointed SO employees
and the senate 104. The house has not yet
selected its enrolling clerks.
The essential provi ion of Senator Scots
libel law i that no suit for criminal libel may
be considered against newspaper unless
the person who believes himself iibeled has
first requested from the publisher a retr
ton and it has been refused. 1t provides
that the publisher shall have three days, af-
ter the reque for 4 detraction. to ascarta u
the facts, and if suitable detraction is theu
made the cause for the action is hereby re-
moved. The theory of this law is simply
that an error corrected with the same pub
licity given to its circulation in the first
place is not libel.
CANCELLING Policies. = Representative
Street has introduced bill to prevent the
csncelIing of insurance policies without no.
tice.
FoR BETTER RoADs.-Seaton, of Atchison.
has very elaborate bill in the house to reg
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