Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-02-03
KANSAS LEGISLATURE

Jan. 29.-The Normal school question
came up for discussion in the Senate. The
committee education reported that it
had under consideration bills establishing
schools at Wichita, Stockton, Norton and
Concordia, and asking that the sentiment
ot the Senate on the question be ascer-
tanned To this end a resolution was
offered declaring it to be the sense of
the Senate that at least two Normal
schools be established. After heated de-
bate the motion was defeated on a tie vote
II to IL The committee has not vet de-
cided what to do. Hart introduced a bill to
authorize medical colleges to use for scien-
tlhc purposes, within the state, bodies of
convtctS 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
mestic 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
panies are taxed 2s per cent on their net
Kansas premiums and foreign companies
ance were also introduced.
Jan. 28.-Almost the entire time 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 mt of silk culture; reducing
the fees and salaries of Barton and Chero-
kee county officials; to tax all money in the
possession of persons March 1 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 Jacquins, 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 que stions of the day.
Speaker Street introduced bill to prohibit
railroads from carrying free, electors to
their homes to vote. 1t provides a heavy
| fine or Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
persons who give such transportation, and
also Tor persons who accept such tranSpOr-
tat1on 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 tory; to provide for
the payment of fve-eighthS of a 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
| 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 7S, Burton 43, General Caldwell ..
Senate: Harris %, Burton 10, King /. Har-
RS voted Tor 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
long parliamentary wrangle, Brown of
/ Pratt, one of the Populist leaders moved
| that the resolution be so 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 aim oSt unanimous vote.
| Senator Helm introduced d bill designed
to knock out of existence all of the trusts
| ana com b1neS 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
| aatural course of events. It does not apply
| TO corn and cattle when in the hands of the
| raiser. 1t provides fine of from 800 to
| 5000 and enables the person or persons
| so damaged to recover their measure of
| damage by snit Eighteen more bills were
| thrown into the senatorial hopper and the
aumber now in has passed the 800 mark
| Jan. 25--Representative Jaquins of Cow
! ey county introduced a bill in the House re-
| 7ulrlng foreign life insurance companies to
invest so per cent of their funds or accumu-
| lat1ons received annually from Kansas pol
| Icy holders in bonds and mortgages on un-
| ncumbered Kansas real estate worth so
| per cent more than the sum loaned there on.
any insurance company which shall fail to
| comply with the provisions of the act shall
| forfeit its right to do business in the
| state, and its license shall be revoked The
| House resolution authorizing the speaker
70 appoint a committee to investigate the
| actions OF the state school fund commits
| ItonerS and also the coal oil inspector was
| reported favorably by the committee The
ways and means committee filed its report
killing the bill to appropriate $165 600 to
| erect additional buildings at the state uni
| Fersity, and also reduced the annual appro-
| pr1aton from 800, 900 to $50, 900. The an
| preparations asked for by the state agricul-
| turaI college were also cut down materially
| The ways and means committee made a IA
4 f.
| providing for change in the constitution
to one general election. It provides that
| state officers shall be chosen for a four wear
| :erm and bars second term; that county
oficers shall be elected every two years and
| United to two terms
| BY vote of "a to IL the Senate denied the
| privilege of the floor to D. o. McCrarv. a
well known newspaper man. The action
| was taken because McCrary had written
| story for St Louis paper detailing rumor
that the American book trust lobby had die
| Sated 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-
| 'ure. Tne session was brief, in order to
| permit committee worky
Jan 2S.-The House devoted the forenoon
% the correction of the journal and at noon
| adjourned until p m. Monday. The Sem
| ute was not in session
Investigators Named.
| TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 29.-Speaker
Street has appointed Brown of Cowley,