Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-04
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings of the States Law
makers i'm biennial Session at Topeka.

N<%iNSAo IG1ESIA
Condensed Proceedings OF the States Law
makers in Biennial Session at Topeka.
In the senate on the Goth Helm presented q
sweeping antitrust bill; Prichard, to prevent
the cancellation of insurance policies without 20
days notice; Lewelling, giving mechanics and
artisans lien for labor performed; Titus, pro-
viding for the election OF county printers bien-
nially. The senate kilIe1 the bill to appropriate
81 800 for sending out the biennial report of the
secretary Of the state board of agriculture. d.
O. McCray. the newspaper correspondent who
was barred from the floor Of the senate, pre-
sented a written apology for the article he had
printed. and he was permitted to attend the
senate's sessions. A bill was introduced COM
polling the deposit with the state OF
ROO in cash for every homeless child
brought into the state, the sum to be forfeited
In case the child shall commit any criminal
foffense-. The house killed the bill making it
felony to trespass in orchards and reported for
passage the bills to reform the divorce laws, to
prevent the mining OF penitentiary coal except
Tor penal and charitable institutions and for
investigation of the Cowley and Kingman
county bond sales
In the senate the 27th bills were intro
duced as follows: To appropriate 1925, 600 tocom-
plete the Hutchinson reformatory; to provide
Tor the payment of hve-eighths of cent per
pound bounty for the manufacture of sugar in
Kansas; to make tn proceeds of the sale of.prop-
erty under foreclosure proceedings to satisfy
the mortgage in full; to exempt from attach
ment for rent one-third of a crop raised by ten
ants; to elect street commissioner, clerk and
marshal OF cities of the second-class; to pre-
vent the issuance of passes to voters at times
Of election; to establish a branch of the state
Agricultural college, state normal and
4 public park at the Fort Hays mill
ltary reservation; to revise the present
banking law, making directors responsible for
any crooked dealings OF the bank and providing
heavy penalties for making false entries 49, In
the house Speaker Street introduced a rigid
measure against issuing and accepting passes.
The speaker also appointed committees to in
vestigate the Cowley and Kingman county bond
deals and to investigate ex-Coa1 Oil Inspector
Taylor'S accounts. The house also SuS-
tanned the report of the ways and means COM
mittee in cutting down the current expenses for
the state university to $50 900.
THE senate on the 28th adopted resolution
requesting the Kansas delegation in congress
to work against the issuance OF government
bonds, the retirement of the greenbacks and
not to oppose tariff legislation. The senate
also, by vote OF % to IL, refused to take up the
Snow-Hudson state printing controversy
Among the bills introduced were: Providing
for uniformity of textbooks by school district
vote; to reduce the price of marriage licenses;
permitting law graduates OF the state university
to practice in any court in the state; to do
away with the rebate full tax payments; to
appropriate 81, coo annually to the state
poultry association. Among the bills re-
ported for passage were: To place all
penal and charitable institutions
der civil service: to secure uniformity
in listing and taxing of bonds and mortgages; to
prevent the Inspection and dOcKage OF hOgS IN
public stock yards In the house these bills
were passed: Making the husband and wife
competent to testify against each other in di-
vorce cases; empowering clerks in cities of the
second and third-claSS to administer oathS
The bill to exempt corn from taxation for one
year was killed in committee These bills were
reported favorably: To prevent blacklisting of
employees; to prohibit persons leaving campfres
burning along the roads, and to license eX-union
soldiers to canvass in the state Among the
bills introduced were: To remunerate persons
suffering damage from the herd law; requiring
tuition fee of $40 for admission to the state
university, and to compel fire insurance
panies to settle losses on bases of value agreed
upon at time property is insured
THE senate on the 29th took a test vote on the
question of establishing more normal schools.
The result was tie, II to IL. The bill author
iZing the school fund commission to loan school
funds to citizens of the state good real estate
security reported for passage, was the
measure to levy a tax of three to five mills on
all property for the support of common schools
Hart introduced a bill giving medical colleges
bodies of convicts dying in the penitentiary
also inmates of state institutions, warehouses
and poorhouses. The appointment of Webb
McNal1 for insurance commissioner
frmed.. In the house Speaker Street
nounced the appointment of three additional
standing committees. Among the bills intro
1uced were: Providing for patriotic exercises
In the public schools: providing that none but
practicing attorneys be eligible to the ONCE
of county attorney; for the taxation of fire in
surance companies; for the election of railroad
commissioners.
IN the house the 30th Ury presented his
Dill to consolidate several western counties
Other bills introduced were: By Outcalt, to
give women the right to vote for presidential
electors; by Henley, to permit the OF
Vict labor upon Kansas roads: by Brown. OF
Cowley, to provide for the appointment by the
governor of state board of examiners OF rail-
road telegraphers. The committee on printing
reported favorably Taylor's bill cutting fees of
the state printer. The house, by vote of 20 to
1, passed Hackney's bill to appropriate $4,000
verSity.