Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-28
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


makers In Biennial Session nc Topeka.
In the senate on the 2ist the bill making IL o
penltentiary oflense 10 sell mortgaged property
was reported favornbly. The bill providing
that no city with 1000 or more inhabitants shall
be included In the corporate limits OF any town
ship WAS reported fayorably, as was the meas
ure TO place oil state institutions under civil
service. Senator Young's bill reducing print
ers' fees for county printing and legal notices
30 per cent was passed, 20 to g. Bills were In
PRODUCED as follows: BY Lewelling, TO exempt
homesteads having improvements OF $500
from taxation TO appropriate S6,4i39l for q de-
ticiency to pay salaries Of district iudgesi
by Mosher, for state control OF inspection
weighing and handling OF grain; to reduce the
price Of sleeping car beoths providing that
legal notices may be posted instead OF pub
lished In counties containing less than 5000
people and that copy OF the ballot be mailed
by the county clerk to every voter in the coun-
ty instead Of publishing 1t in newspaper II
also provides that county officers may contract
with outsiders to print the official ballot, thus
making the weekly papers compete with the
big houses OF the city.
AMONG the bills introduced in the senate on
the ed were; For the maintenance Of q state
institution for the cure OF drunSnrds to require
banks TO pny taxes on the capital stock as shown
by the report Of the directors, also ON all de-
p0sits loaned out; 10 compel eastern corpora
lions owning Kansas lands TO pay taxes on the
same whom duei making q diploma OF the state
normal school valid as o life certlfate; giving
all cities Of the first second and third-class the
right to receive certain per cent rental from
oil franchises. The following measures were
reported unfavorahly: 10 abolish the state
poll tax; to provide for county assessor;
for n lien on crops for labor or machinery en-
YN1Ouads fnr h,.oR nd ~ nj Ton ffar
made goods; to abolish the office of coal oil in
spector and commissioners Of forestry and ASH
cries In the house Speaker Street announced
additional standing committees, Among the
bills introduced were: BY Rothweiler, to pro-
hiblt the giving or accepting Of railroad passes;
by Walters, that banks be tuxed on full capital
stock and all deposits by Ingle, compelling
trains to stop at every station; by Brown, of
Cowley excluding voters In cities OF the first
and second-class from participating in election
Of county school superintendent; by McKeever,
compelling railroads to carry bicycles
OF passengers free; by Rutledge, to pre-
vent the diverting OF the channel OF
the Arkansas river for irrigation purposes;
by Finney OF Woodson to abolish the office OF
state grain inspector board Of irrigation, the
labor bureau coal oil inspector forestry and
silk stations and board of public works. and
that oil penal institutions be managed by one
board, that all eleemosynary institutions be
managed by one board OF charities and all edu-
cational institutions be managed by one board
OF regents.
On the 29d these bills were presented: To
protect tenant against landlord and to prevent
the pooling of rates on insurance. These bills
were reported favorably: BY Cooke, TO create
ponds for the storing of water; by Harris, to do
away with tax titles to land and provide for a
fudioial tft1a IN no Inn ton ~ Nha
rate of interest from ten to eight per cent to
prohibit the issuance Of passes to any person ex-
cept the board Of railroad commissioners and
railway assessors; reducing the rates on Pull
man sleepers; to exempt from punishment the
wages of worlSmen to provide for loaning the
permanent school fund TO citizens of the state.
go. In the house BotlSin Of Reno, introduced
bill providing severe punishment for those gull
ty Of rape or seduction.
BY q vote of "a to II the senate on the 25th
voted to exclude D, O. McCray, q newspaper
man, from the floor of the senate. Among the
bills introduced was ono to list all property at
actual cash value; to permit women to vote for
president; to absolutely prohibit the sale Of
cigarettes; to compel railroads to furnish free
transportation TO stock shippers; to approprl-
nte $40 900 for o normal at Stockton and to sun
press uuack doctors, Among the bills recon-
mended for passage were; Allowing Jefferson
and Douglas counties to bridge the Kaw at Lee
compton; to prevent blacklisting; to prevent
discrimination against union labor; to make
all securities uncolleotable unless stamped by
the county assessor as listed for taxation, to
place all pepal institutions of the state under
control of three men. :. In the house Barkley,
OF Elk, introduced resolution to exempt corn
from taxation for one year from March
/, by Dingus for the treatment OF drunkards at
Keeley institute at the expense Of the coun-
ty where the drunkard lives; by Jaquins, re-
curing foreign life insurance companies to in
vest so per cent of their funds or Accommodations
receievd annually from Kansas policy holders
IN bonds and mortgages on unincumhered Kan