People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-24
TOpeka Letter.

EDITOR VOICE: Since The cOnyel-
ing of the legislature have expected
to write letter for your perusal, but
it seems 1 have been so busy that 1
have neglected to do so.
To day l find that we are not in
session and will not convene until
four o'clock, therefore / have a little
spare time.
1t may seem strange to you why the
senate should adjourn and not keep
in session longer hours. l will say to
you that while the senate is in session
from ten to twelve in the morning
and from two to four in the afternoon
and sometimes little longer,ls about
the only time we are idle. Tie fact
OF the matter is that there is very
little done in the way of legislation
while in session.
Our work consists Of committee
work. l for instance, am on six
committees; namely, Ways and Means;
Municipal Indebtedness; District
Apportionment: Penal aud Charitable
Institutions; Cities Of the First Class;
Public Health and Education and
Employees, also chairman Of the COM
mittee on Engrossed Bills.
All bills introduced In the senate
coming under any of these heads are
referred to these committees and they
must be read, examined and passed
upon by the various committees before
they come before the senate and we
are kept from early morning until mid
night on these various committees,
working on these bills; so you see the
short sessions and the adjournings for
some times over day is for the pur-
pose of passing on these various bills
before presenting them to the senate.
have been requested to give to
your readers list of the bills l have
introduced. By your permission, Mr..
Editor, l will give you short synop-
sis of the principal bills l have intro
duced. They are as follows:-Senate
Bill, number So; relates to surveying;
regulating the fees taxed to the sur
veyOr of lands or lines bet 6een lands
owned by different persons, so that
when forced survey is made, that in
case the lines are correct, then the
person who caused the survey pay the
cost, and In case the survey is not
right then the cost of the survey
made, is charged to the persons own
ing the land on either side.
Senate IS: An act to establish acode
of civil procedure and to amend sec
tion 80; compelling the plaintiff
bringing the suit upon note or other
wise to bring said suit in the county
where the defendant or defendants
live.
Senate Bill 81. An act prohibiting
the making of contracts for the pay
ment of contingent rates of interest;
or in other words, prohibiting the col
lection of interest upon note which
was not intended to bear interest.
Senate Bill IS; An act amending
section 2977, general statutes of 1889
and compelling executors and admin
istratorS to give bond if they desire
to take an appeal, or in order to pre-
vent designing persons from getting
away with the money left to
orphans.
Senate Bill go; An act to amend
section 3412 general statutes 1889 also
3442, relating to Mutual Insurance
company; one allowing the Mutual
Insurance companies to insure country
school houses and churches; the other
reducing the charge One-half in max
ing out the report to the state depart
ment.
Senate Bill 1O2; Regarding the fees
and salaries of the county officers of
Sumner county, leaving out the con-
stitutiOnal objection set out by Judge
Burnett.
Senate Bill 2l8; An act providing
for the letting Of contracts for the
maintenance and repair of public
highways to be adopted at the will of
the people of the township.
Senate Bill PIG; Al act providing
for the vacation of streets, alleys and
other public reservations and the
changing of corporate boundaries of
cities; or, in other words, to provide
way by which unplatted farm land can
be taken out Of incorporated cities,
the action being brought before the
county commissioners with the privi-
lege of an appeal to the district
court; or, as it we're, providing the
same kind of means to get out of the
limits of the incorporated cities as
are already provided to get into them.
My object in this bill was to pro-
vide way that this enormous lot of
land, now being farmed, and which is
included within the corporations of