The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-05
KANSAS LEGISLATURE

Jan. 2o-The Normal school question
came up for discussion in the Senate The
committee on education reported that 1t
had under consideration bills establishing
schools at Wichita, Stockton, Norton and
Coneordia, and asking that the sentiment
of the Senate on the question be ascer-
tanned To this end a resolution was
offered declaring 1t to be the sense of
the Senate that at least two Normal
schools be established. After a heated de-
bate the motion was defeated on a tie vote
~ TO IT. The committee has not yet de-
| CT ded what to do. Hart introduced a bill to
authorize medical colleges to use for scien-
tifc purposes. within the state, bodies of
convicts dying in the penitentiary and in
mates of state institutions, work houses and
poor houses The medical college is to file
bond with the secretary of state for the use
Of each body for medical or scientific pur-
poses
An act to classify insurance corporations,
both fire and life, and provide for state tax
on their premiums, was introduced by Rep
| resentative Haywood of Kearney in the
House. The bill places insurance in three
classes-state, domestic and foreign. Do
nestle companies are those organized under
the laws of Kansas; state companies those
organized in other states of the Union out
side of Kansas; foreign companies, those of
foreign nations. Domestic and state COM
pdHltS are tdAeu "a per cent VII tuSll iCl
Kansas premiums and foreign companies
per cent. Several bills of miLor import
ance were also introduced.
Jan. 2S-Almost the entire tirle of the
Senate was consumed in the consideration
of bills by the committee of the whole.
Among other bills favorably reported upon
were these: To prevent the dockage and in
spection of hogs in public stock yards; to
dispose of the Peabody silk station by sale
to the highest bidder; to repeal the law for
the encouragement of silk culture; reducing
the fees and salaries of Barton and Chero-
kee county offlcials; to tax all money in the
possession of persons on March l OF each
year.
The house, upon third reading passed
these bills: BY Botkin, making husband
and wife competent to testify against each
other in divorce cases; by Merrill, repeating
certain sections of the law relating to jury
commissioners; by Jac9nins empowering
city clerks of cities of the second and third
class to administer oaths.
Jan 27.-In joint session William A. Har-
ris was formally declared elected United
States Senator. Mr.. Harris briefly defined
his position on the gu. stionS OF the day.
Speaker Street introduced bill to prohibit
railroads from carrying, free, electors to
| their homes to vote. 1t provides heavy
fine or Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
persons who give such transportation, and
also for persons who accept such transpor-
tation. Representative Ingle of Smith in
trodueed bill to declare unlawful and void
all contracts, agreements or trusts, made
with view to lessen free competition in the
importation or sale of articles or to control
the price thereof
In the Senate bills were introduced as fol-
lows: To appropriate 1925, 900 to complete
the Hutchinson refor ma tory; to provide for
the payment of FIVE eighths of cent per
pound bounty for the manufacture of sugar
in Kansas; to make the proceeds of the sale
| of property under foreclosure proceedings
satisfy the mortgage in full; to exempt
from attachment for rent one third of a
crop raised by tenants; to elect street COM
missioner. clerk and marshal of cities of
the second class.
Jan. 26.-Both houses voted separately for
United States senator. In the House Harris
received rs, Burton 43, General Caldwell q
Senate: Harris IS, Burton 10, King l. Har-
ris voted for King. The House spent almost
two hours in debating the various phases of
the proposed investigation of school fund
commissioners and coal oil inspector. After
a long parliamentary wrangle, Brown of
Pratt, one of the Populist leaders, moved
that the resolution BE- 30 amended as to in
clude an investigation of the school fund
commissioners under Morrill, and the coal
oil inspector under Lewelling. This carried
by an almost unanimous vote.
Senator Helm introduced a bill designed
to knock out of existence all of the trusts
and combines that now or may hereafter
exist in Kansas. 1t provides that all agree
mentS with trusts for any and all purposes
are void if the purpose or intent or effect is
to force an advance in the price of any COM
| modify by restricting its manufacture or
sale, or in any way interfering with the
| natural course of events 1t does not apply
| to corn and cattle when in the hands OF the
raiser. 1t provides fine of from 500 to
IS, 900 and enables the per s3n, or persons,
| so damaged to recover their measure of
damage by suit Eighteen more bills were
thrown into the senatorial hopper and the
number now in has passed the 800 mark.
Jan. 5,-Representative Jaquins of Cow
! ley county introduced bill in the House re-
quiring foreign life insurance companies to
invest 80 per cent of their funds or accumu-
| lations received annually from Kansas pol
| icy holders in bonds and mortgages on I'M
| incum bered Kansas real estate worth 5O
per cent more than the sum loaned there on.
ANY insurance company which shall fail to
comply with the provisions of the act snail
forfeit its right to do business in the
state and its license shall be revoked. The
| House resolution authorizing the speaker
to appoint committee to investigate the
actions of the state school fund commits
sioners and also the coal oil inspector was
reported favor ably by the committee. The
WAYS and means committee filed its report
killing the bill to appropriate S165,000 to
erect additional buildings at the state uni
versity, and also reduced the annual appro-
priation from 100000 to $4,000 The APP
preparations asked for by the state agricul-
tural college were also cut down materially.
The ways and means committee made ia
vorably report on joint resolution No. 4,
providing for a change in the constitution
to one general election. 1t provides that
state officers shall be chosen for four year
term and bars second term; that county
officers shall be elected every two years and
limited to two terms
BY vote of "a to IL the Senate denied the
privilege of the floor to D. o. McCrary,
we'll known newspaper man. The action
was taken because McCrary had written
story for a St Louis paper detailing rumor
that the American book trust lobby had die
tated the appointment of three members of
the Senate committee on education and had
known who the chairman was to be three
weeks prior to the meeting of the legisla-
permit committee work.
Jan 23-The House devoted the forenoon
to the correction of the journal and at noon
adjourned until p. m. Monday. The Sem
ate was not in session
Investigators Named.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 29.-Speaker
Street has appointed Brown of Cowley,
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