Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Large Appropriatisa Ter Western Kanaes
sufRsrers-stats Heard Of Irrigatioa.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. lin just ten
minutes from the time Mr.. McTaggart
introduced his bill IN the senate pro.
viding for . Grand Army museum In
the capitol building, IN emergency had
been declared, the bill had been passed
To second and third rssding and was In
the hands Of The secretary bsing sent
to the house. There was not dissent.
Ing vote.
Mr.. OBsysn introduced bill estab-
fishing . state normal school st Wich'
ita and providing Tor the purchase Of
the Garfield university building. Mr.
Brown also had bill providing for .
state normal school at Lacrosse.
The senate committee ON irrigation
has agreed upon bill creating state
board Of irrigation and survey, 70 b.
composed Of the governor, the chan
cellor Of the state university, the presi.
dent Of the state agricultural college,
the secretary Of the state board OF
agriculture and . practical irrigation.
list, who shall be appointed BY the gov
ernor by advice and consent Of the
senate.
A bill was introduced providing for
licensing grain warehouses and the ap-
pointmcnt Of inspectors and weigh
masters, and providing that all fees re-
ceived for weighing and inspection
shall go to the state, and the inspectors
and weighmasters be paid by the state.
The fees shall be rs cents per car for
weighing and Is cents per car for In
specting.
/ A bill was also favorably recommend
ed for passage which fixes the rate Of
legal interest at per cent. and pro-
vides that any greater interest charges
shall be deemed usury and both inter-
est and principal shall be forfeited.
An act was passed providing that the
state should pay no more for the care
Of insane persons maintained by coun-
ties than was actually paid out in their
support. Heretofore the state has paid
counties $3.50 per week for each person
so maintained.
An act was passed authorizing coun-
ty commissioners to levy tax and
build poor houses. Two or more coun-
ties may join in establishing q joint
poor farm.
Senator Parker's bill was passed,
which provides that no railroad train
shall stand across any public highway
for more than five minutes.
The house adopted Mr.. Streets reso-
luton calling upon congress TO make
eligible to receive pensions Kansas SOL
diers who lost their health in the expe-
dition led by .. ]. Crawford in 1860
against marauding Indians in the Pan
handle Of Texas.
Mr.. Iupfer's resolution protesting
tgaintt thu proposed issue Of govern.
ment bonds and calling upon the Kan
sas delegates In congress to work for
the silver status OF ls73 was tabled AS
was also Mr.. Barkley's resolution in
structing the Kansas senators and re.
ouestiny her renrcsentatives in con.
rress To vo,. against President Cleve.
lands pronosed bond scheme
Mr., t,ardenhire obtained consent to
Introduce n Joint resolution promising
10 amend the constitution 50 as 10 Give |
to women the rluht of suffrage.
The house passed the last Of Mr.. Cub.
bison's gambling bills. known MS house
hill No. 4 an net to prohibit bool,mak.
inc and pool selling. Pools sold within
an inclosure on horse races actually
run are excepted. All other pool sell
Inc is punished by a fine of 81, 900 and
Imprisonment In the county iail for
one year.
The bill appropriating slOO, 900 TO
buy seed grain for the people in the
Sixth and Seventh congressional dis
tricts, barring Mcpherson, Jewell,
Rice, Mitchell, Harvey, Sedgwick. But
Ter, Sumner, Harper, Reno and King.
man counties. and including Morris
county. was passed. The bill provides
that the state board of railroad COM
missioners shall buy the wheat and ap-
portion IT among the counties accord
inc to the population, and the county
commissioners shall sell it to the farm
ers who are not able to buy elsewhere.
on credit, to be paid for out Of the crop
of 1895. When the purchasers nav for
the grain the money shall revert to the
treasury
Honse bill bv Benetiel provides that
n dinloma granted bv the state normal
school and the dinlomas GRANTED IN
graduates Of the school Of arts Of the
stata university shall he n volid certia.
cate tn teach in the public schools Of
anv c;tv mr. countv in the state
Houss hin bv Bene6el nrovides that
M nerson shall be ELIGIBLE to the Office
of snnerintepdent Of nublic instruction
in nnv county unless he is a qualified
teacher of tho state
Mr Hanna introduced a b,ll nrov;d. :
inn for the election of the state hoard
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