The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-23
THE HOUSE.
4 Bill to Prevent the Operation of Bucket
Shops.

4 Bill to Prevent the Operation of Bucket
Shops.
The house was called to order bv
Speaker Pro TEN Cubbison at 10 O'Clock.
Few visitors were present at the opening
and even the enrolling clerk contingent
had not yet arrived
Mr.. Hopkins of Finney, introduced
bill to prevent the operation of bucket
shops. 1t defines what bucket shop is
and prescribes punishment for their
operation, which is declared to be mis-
demeanor. Fine and imprisonment are
the penalties given.
Another bill by Mr.. Hopkins provides
for the establishment of state normal
school at Garden City and calls for an
appropriation of $4,000.
A state board of ar rbitration is provided
for in bill by Mr.. Trueblood, (Populist)
of Usage. The board is to be composed
of eight, one from each congressional
district and one at large. They are to be
elected and the one at large is made
chairman of the board and is to be com
missioner of labor statistics. Whenever g
dispute occurs either one of the parties
may send for the chairman of the board
| Each of the parties chooses two of the
| board of eight, who with the chairman Of
the board constitute board of arbitra-
pay for time actually employed. except
the chairman, who receives a salary as
| labor commissioner.
The following committees we're an
| nouuced by the speaker:
Horticulture and fOrestry-Fitzg gerald,
chairman; Blair. Murphy. Stoke brand,
Miller of Geary, Mott, Winters.
Private Observation-Disclosures, chair
man; Morrow, Powers, Sherman, Tucker,
Mott, n NghswOnger.
immigration = Andrews, chairman;
Wilson of Stanton, Pratt, Haines. Powers,
Schlyer, Sprsgue.
Supervision of journal-Hanna, chair
man; Baker, Butler, Dewitt, Dix, Conger
Hilton.
Political rights of women = Knipe
chairman; Remingt ton, ,Stromquist, Stocke-
brand, Shouse, Ingle, Wright
Cities of the second class-Hopkins
chairman; Caldwell. Frazer. Meridith
Andrews, Smith of Sherman, Newman.
Municipal Indebtedness - Eckstein
chairman; Bucklin, Tucker, Fitzgerald
Neale. True blood, Pancake
County seats and county lines-Lam
bert of Lyon, chairman; Cornell, Brad
ley, Murphy, Satterthwaite, Brown oi
Crawford, Wightman, Ingle, Hart
Federal relations-Lough, chairman
Benefiel, Satterthwaite, Claycomb, Allen
Lewis, .OLEocl.
Public lands-McKnight chairman
johnson of Nemaha, Hill, Heminger
Wilson of Stanton, Lambert of Lincoln
Metzler
Telegraph aud telephone-Smith o
Ottawa, chairman; Goodno, Lough, Sher
N an, Grimes, Hilton, Hart
Separation of Committees.
The committee on rules recommendet
that the committee on congressional ap
portionment. legislative apportionment
labor and manufactures be separated
into four committees as follows: Con
gressIonal appOrtionment, legislative aI
, portionment, labor, and manufacture.
The report was adopted after some oh
| lection of Mr.. Hopkins of Finney.
} Mr. Sherman of Shawnee introduce
. the following resolution:
} Resolved, That the speaker be in
: structed to appoint committee of thre
/ to wait on Mrs. Augustus Wilson and al
} certain what this house can do for her.
The resolution was greeted with laugh
+ ter and ruled out of order by Speake
= Pro Tenn Cubbison.
/ Mr.. Warner offered joint resoiutio
D providing for the submission in the elet
ton of 1896 proposition to amend n
i constitution, section 2 of article 4, so
y shall read: General elections, includin,
township elections, shall be held bien
nIaIly on the Tuesday succeeding th
h first Monday in November, commencin
e in the year 1896"
9 Mr.. Benefited of Montgomery, intro
y duced the following resolution:
n Resolved, That the sergeant at arm
be instructed to permit no persons to OF
) cupy seats at the press table except rel
9 resentatives of the press actually en-
ployed.
a 1t was adopted.
It Mr.. Butler of Bourbon amended b
g resolution for a penitentiary investig
ton SO that the committee should
: composed of five members instead
g three, and the resolution was adopted.
l. The Enrolling Clerk Question.
s. A determination to settle the enrolliu
l. clerk question was shown in resolutiC
by Mr.. Rohrbaugh. 1t is:
y Resolved, That the chief enrollin
'r clerk be instructed to employ such a
n sistants as she may need at $3 day.
10 Mr.. Benedict of Wilson county gre
ID warm in opposition to the resolutio
''In the governors message he reco1
l mended that the enrolment be done a
or cording to the law of 1885. and l am o
i'd posed to this resolution. New
or before in the history of tn
le state has the house be'