Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

TruebIOOd Introduces Congressional APP
pOrtiOnment Bill-NumerOus Other Meas
ures.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 0.-Yesterday
Senator Crossen introduced a concur
rent resolution, which was adopted,
urging the appointment of a committee
TO arrange u suitable celebration OF
Kansas day. Senator Young also in
troduced sweeping measure to reduce
Pullman rates. Under penalty of $500,
he would limit charges to 80 cents per
berth for distances less than 100 miles.
Over that distance, the price will be
half cent n mile for births and double
that for staterooms A $50 fine will be
provided for the porter who neglects
any passenger because of not being
clipped"
In the house yesterday these billswere
introduced: To provide for minimum
freight rate on hay and grain; to make
appropriations for the maintenance of
the Kansas agricultural college; to i'm
crease the duties of the railroad com
missioners, and to provide for public
warehouses and public scales and
weighmasters; to prohibit counties
voting aid to railroads or other corpor-
atoms; to compel the trimming OF
hedges along public highways; to pre-
vent garnishment proceedings, and to
prevent transfer of accounts to deprive
debtors of the legal exemptions; for
district ownership Of textbooks; pro-
viding for a bounty for the construc-
ton and maintenance OF reservoirs in
western Kansas. The bill would throw
off all taxes on farms provided with
reservoirs; to protect the grazing lands
of western Kansas from nonresident
cattlemen. 1t provides that non-resi-
dents shall pay certain amount into
the treasury Of the county where they
have cattle grazing. The amount of
rental asked is intended to be prohib-
tive; providing for horizontal cut of
ten per cent. in all fees of state printer.
The house adopted free silver resolu-
ton by a straight party vote, the pop
ulists voting down an amendment for
an international agreement, proposed
by the republicans.
Representative Trueblood to-day in
troduced in the house congressional
apportionment bill making the follow
ing county divisions:
First district--Donphan, Brown, Jackson,
Atchison, Leavenworth, Jefferson, Wyandotte
and Shawnee.
Second dlstrict-Johnson, Douglas, Usage,
It,, Ia nd Inn
Third DISQUALIFICATION, Allen, Bourbon,
Wilson, Neosho, Crawford, Montgomery, La
bette and Cherokee
Fourth distrct-Greenwood Butler, Harvey,
Sedgwick, Sumner, Cowley, Elk and Chautau-
qua.
Fifth Observation-Disclosures Geary, Dickinson,
Saline Mcpherson, Marion, Chase, Morris and
Lyon,
Sixth district cmaha, Mnrshal Washing
ton, Republic, ewell Mitchell, Ottawa, Cloud,
Clay, Riley and POttawatomie
Seventh diStrict-Smth, Phillips, Norton,
Decatur, Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sherman, Thorn
Us, Sheridan, Graham, Rocks Osborne, Lin
coin, Ellsworth. Russell, Ellis, TregO, Cove,
Logan and Wallace
Eighth district-Rice, Barton, Rush, Ness,
Lane Scott, Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton,
Kearney, Finney, Hodgman Pawnee, Stafford,
Reno Edwards, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Grant,
Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Seward, Meade,
Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Kingman,
Barber and Harper.
Representative Taylor offered a bill
in the house to change the jury law so
that the votes of nine of the IL jurors
may fix the verdict; also one providing
that the bodies of convicts who may die
in prison unclaimed, shall be given to
medical schools; also one providing for
a grand jury once year if 100 voters
of county petition therefore.