The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-03-19
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings Of the States Law
makers in Biennial Session at Topeka.

Condensed Proceedings Of the States Law
makers in Biennial Session at Topeka.
SENATOR JUMPERS bill prohibiting the gov
ernOr from ordering investigations OF state 0f-
Gc5rs passed the senate on the 10th Among
the other bills passed by the senate was one re-
quiring foreign life insurance companies to
pay ~ per cent tax upon premiums received
from business In Kansas, and apprOpriating
$4,000 fOF state printing for the year ending
June 30, 1898, and $4,000 for the year ending
June 90 1892 The bill to compel WHteFWOTks
and lighting companies to give all over six PEE
cent Of their net Profits 70 the city was killed
The house. by q vots Of 75 to a.
killed the initiative and referendum resolution
The house passed the anti PinkertOn bill. The
house also passed the bill which prohibits prl-
Vate contract Of convict labor, and requires the
warden Of the penitentiary to employ the sur
plus convict labor on state roads and upon
other work exclusively for the state. The judi
cial appropriation bill was passed, and slight
reductions were made In several departments,
including a cut TO 81 800 Of the salary Of the
governors private secretary. The Dill to con-
solidate the irrigation board and the forestry
commission was passed.
THE senate on the 1ltn killed these bills.
Providing for four-yeGrs term for state Ofi-
GERS; to repeal the metropolitan police law; re-
curing justices and district judges to summon
witnesses TO testify regarding liquor law violas
tiOns, Both houses agreed on amendments TO
the textbook bill and it was sent to the gov
srnOT; also on the state university apprOpria-
ton bill, which provides lor & reduction OF 12E
per cent IN the salaries Of professors Both
houses passed the bill placing the clerk OF the
supreme court on q salary Of g 900 per year. ...
The house passed Hanna's bill requiring al
Waterworks and lighting plants to turn over to
cities where they operate all In excess Of six
per cent Of their net profits, and authorizes
cities Of the first second and third class to
purchase and construct light, heat, water
and power plants. The house committee to in
vestigate the accounts Of ex-State Coal Oil In
spect0r Taylor made its report recommending
that the matter be turned over to the attOr-
ney-general for his consideration. Among the
other bills passed by the house were: Raising
the annual dues Of pharmacists to al; amend
ing the Australian ballot law; placing the
penitentiary and state TeformatOry under one
board Keifer's bill to investigate the methods
Of trusts and corporations was killed
THE 18th was the last day for the considera-
| ton Of general bills in either house. No gen
eral congressional apportionment bill was
| passed and the only change made in the present
law was to put Shawnee county in the First
district in exchange for P0ttaWatOmie, which is
put Ia the Fourth district. Among the bills
| passed by the senate were: To regulate the
/ inspection Of oil; regulating the board Of re-
gents Of the state agricultural college; to dis
pose Of the dead bodies Of paupeTs and crimi-
/ nails to medical colleges; the anti-PinkertOr
/ bill; levying tax Of 4 lilo mills fol
| general revenues. Resolutions thanking The
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and the pOpulist majority
! for courteous treatment were presented by
Hessin (rep.) and passed. The senate, by
/ vote Of 80 to /, declared S. 4 Riggs, pOpulist
elected Judge Of the Fourth judicial district II
] place OF Charles A. Smart, republican 20. Tn,
| house passed a general bill removing the dis
| abilities OF about 100 ex-cOnfedeTate soldiers
The house voted to discharge the cOmmitte,
! appointed to investigate stock yards bribery
! charges. The house committee appointed I,
! investigate charges against District Judgt
Hazen, OF Shawnee county, reported in favor o
/ the judge, declaring the charges we're o
not sufficient Importance TO warrant attention
/ The house passed Senator Matthews
insurance bill, which makes severa
radical changes in the present methods Of in
| surfing property, The house killed the follow
/ ing bills: To compel semi-monthy payment o
wages by corporations; to retire the chancello
from the state university board Of regents; Il
regulate express companies and reduce charge
Of same, The house passed the bill for the as
sesSment and taxation Of telegraph and tele
phone companies. Both houses got into
Wrangle over the general appropriation bill ant
an adjournment was taken until nine o'clocl
Saturday morning.
The senate and house On the 18th met in ad
journed session on the general appropriation
bill As agreed upon it carries q sum approx
mating g., S17, 755 for the financial needs Of tn
next tWo years. Cuts were made in the salarie
Of nearly all state appointive of1oes, excep
bank commissioner and labor commissioner
The salaries of all elected state officers, includ
ing supreme court and district judges, were IN
changed. All employees In the state offices
however, from the governors ONCE dow
were reduced in salaries. Among the appoint
i've officers salaries that suffer reduction are
Board Of railroad commissioners; secretary {
the state board Of agriculture; secretary Of tn
state historical society; state mine inspector
| superintendent Of insurance. secretary Of tn
state board Of health governors private seore
tary; acknowledgement Salaries OF appellat
court judges were cut from $500 to $500
The legislature rescinded its aetio
with regard to the sppointmeE
Of q committee TO investigate bribery charge
and appropriated IS 900 to conduct th0roug
investigation. The committee consists Of Rel
resentatiyes Outcalt, Ravanscraft and Crime
and Senators Householder ana Cooke Co
Leedy appointed Senators King and Campbe
and Representatives ". F. Brown Ed T. Hael
ney and @. ". johnson as members Of II
commission to confer with commissions frol
Texas and Oklahoma regarding reduced freigl
rates TO the Gulf Of Mexico