The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-23
THE SENATE.
a Eli Aimed at the Topeka Insurance
Board.


a Eli Aimed at the Topeka Insurance
Board.
The senate is getting down to business.
State printer and senatorial cAucuses
have interrupted business up to this time,
but the joint session at noon marks the
last of this kind of affairs and the senate
will now have nothing to do but attend
to business.
The first order of business, the intro
duction of bills, was marked by several
bills of interest.
Senator Forney introduced bill APP
propriating $685. for Mrs. Mary f Lease,
for costs. attorneys fees and salary in
contesting her claim to membership to
the state board of charities. 1t went over
under the rules. The court held that
Mrs. Lease was right, and she claims she
was therefore member of the board all
the time and entitled not only to her sal
ary. but cost ofs defending her rights
The auditor, however, refused to admit
her claims. Mrs Lease is said to have
paid Eugene Hagan alone $500 attorneys
fee
Senator Smith of Smith county sub
mitted bill to restrict the practice of
medicine and sale of drugs by itineraut
venders.
The bill provides that such practices
shall be wholly in the hands of men of
good moral character and graduates of
some chartered medical institution.
Peddlers of nostrums and ointments may
carry on their trade by paying a license
of $40 year to the state board of health.
Senator Sterne offered a bill making
appropriation for the purchase of addi-
! tional land for the Topeka reform school.
| The land in question comprises about $50
! acres owned by John NJ Brown. Mr.
Brown wants about $4,000 for the land
The ways and means committee ad-
vanced bill appropriating $4,000 for
the current expenses for the next two
years of the reformatory for girls at
| Beloit.
! Senator Shearer introduced bill max
| ing a small appropriation to cover de-
| ficlency in the funds of the state board
of pardons. The board two years ago
found the records of the office in a de-
moralized condition. and the governor
told the board to straig hten them out if
they had to call for help. The bill was
later in the session withdrawn.
Back to the Country.
Senator O'Bryan advanced a measure
for the vacation of addition to the city OF
Wichita. Among the other bills were:
! By Senator Parker for the recording OF
assigned mortgages; by Shearer. giving
the town of Frankfort authority to erect
a high school: by O'Bryan, removing the
political disabilities of S. H. Woolback
by Armstrong, giving Earl NJ. Hisington
a minor, the rights of majority. Alto
gether seventeen bills were introduced.
Senator Brown advanced a bill calcula-
ted to break the back bone of the insur-
ance board. 1t ia aimed at the Topeka
board, which prints what are called ''ad-
visory rate Sheets" but which are gener-
ally supposed to fix and control all insur-
ance rates in Kansas
The bill is entitled: "An act in regard
to persons publishing, editing and dis
tributing to insurance companies any
pamphlet, leaf1et or other paper upo1
which shall be written or printed the rate
on any insura BILE property or risk within
the state of Kansas for compensation, OF
doing certain other acts herein specified
in the matter of regulating and main
taing fire insurance rates, and agents o
com mpanies using such rates; and subject
ing such persons and their said acts t
the provisions and penalties of chapter
257 of the session laws of the state o
Kansas for the year 1888"
Section one of the bill provides: ''An,
person who shall publish, edit and regu
larly distribute to any insurance com
pany any pamphlet, leafet or other pa
per upon which shall be written o
printed any rate on insuraDle Dropertl
or risks in Kansas, and who shall fo
such services receive a compensation
T from any insurance company or perso
who are agents or attorneys thereof: o
shall make maps, the objects of whic
are to expose the desirability of an
! property as fire risk; or shall directl
or indirectly assist in regulating an
; | maintaining or fixing a rate of insuranc
: in the state; and who shall by such put
lication aid or assist any insurance com
? panles IN procuring a rate; or any pei
son who shall publish advisory rate
: which are designated to furnish informa
tion by which rates arbitrary or Other
: wise are placed on any insurable proper
r ty in Kansas, shall be subject to the per
alties of section 257 of the laws of 1889.
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