The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-18
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE



of the precinct, came up as a special order
in the senate. Senators, GOebel, ShankS
and Alexander asked that the bill De
referred back TO a law committee for
further hearing and to consider the consti-
tutional questions in the bill After an
hours wrangle the friends of the bill agreed
to recommit the bill to the committee on
ligiOn and morals, with the underS landing that
the committee will give the opponents of the
bill hearing and report next Tuesday. The
GOebel election bill providing for u board of
election commissioners to appoint election OFF,
GERS came up as special order. An amend
ment was adopted providing for settling con-
tests in races for governor and Lieutenant gov
ernor by selecting a board of contest by lot
from the senate and house. Passed by q vote
of 20 to ID.
HOUSEHOLDS reported favorably: To au-
thOriZe trustees of SiXth-claSS towns to con-
struct treets and sidewalks; to authorize SUI
perintendentS Of public works in cities Of sec
Ond class to order sidewalk repairs at the
expense of abutting property owners; for ben
eft of pauper idiots and lunatics by paying
for time lost in failing to hold inqueStS at
proper time; providing that county judge
can not grant an injunction except when the
circuit judge is out of his district. The house
committee public health decided Thursday
afternoon to report favorably the bill to re-
quire the osteOpath healers TO obtain a certifi-
cate and pay license like any physician.
Some of the OsteOpaths are here fighting the
bill and hope to have a substitute offered in
the way Of a compromise.
FRANKFORT, Feb. I2.-SENATE-In the SEN
ate the bill transfer Whiteley county from
the Third appellate court district to the Sew
enth district was amended by substitute Of
fered by Senator Goebel which provided for
transferring Bell, Harlan, Leslie Letcher and
Perry counties from the Seventh district to
the Fifth district, and also putting Whiteley in
the Fifth district The bill as amended passed.
carriers in the delivery or receiving newspapers
was passed unanimously, p to 0. The bill to
create state board of pharmacy and make
the pharmacy law apply to smaller towns was
discussed. but recommitted without a vote.
The bill to prevent the SEEMING of private
lakes and ponds without the owners consent
was passed.
HOUSE-Bills introduced Authorizing the
mayors and county judges of each county to
fix the hotel boarding house and restaurant
rates for their county. 1t provides that the
maximum rate for frst-claSS hotels shall not
| exceed S1.5O per day, boarding houses 80 cents
| per day and restaurants p cents per meal The
| food supplies shall be pure and wholesome
and cooked in a firSt-claSs manner The beds
and bedding shall be kept clean and neat and
as plentiful as the weather demands
| FRANKFORT Feb. I5.-SENATE-The follow
! ing bills were introduced Monday: To amend
| section 428 of civil code by adding the follow
| ing words: But no such actions shall be
| brought by an heir, deviSee, legatee or distri-
| butee within nine months, or by a creditor
within six months next after the first personal
! representative qualified" to authorize the
! auditor to relinquiSh CLAIMS for taxes on prop
| erty due since 1889. in order to prevent
J clouding of title to amend section II of
! the charter of Louisville by striking out of
! said section after the words ''One board to the
| other. Senator ShankS called up the bill TO
allow trust companies to be organized and
| fc6 in q0yr tN- and mas
| imOuSly.
! HoUsE-The committee on constitutional
| amendments reported favOrably Monday the
! bill proposing amendment to the cOnstitu-
| ton to allow the people to vote on the PROPOSE
| tiOn to move the state capital from Frankfort
to Lexington. Representative Chinn moved tc
| suspend the rules and take up the McChOrd
railroad freight rate bill. Ittakes a thirds
vote to suspend the rules, and the opponents OF
| the bill thought they could defeat the motion.
but it carried by 81 to %, and the bill was taken
up.
FRANKFORT, Feb 16-SENATE--The senate
had long and exciting light Tuesday over the
Roberts local option bill, which came up as a
| special order in that branch. The bill strikes
a blow at the liquor traffic and would mean
local option in every county in the state where
the country vote is larger than that in the in
corporated towns in them. 1t was introduced
| by Senator Roberts, the preacher SEN
ator from Owsley county and warm
ly championed by the biggest lobby that has
| been here on any measure this winter The
| lobby was made up of ministers and represen-
! tatives of the w. c. T. U. and other such or
! CARNATIONS. Senator Bronston and several
other leading democrats joined the advocates
of the measure and forced the opposition, led
| by Senator Goebel to break a quorum to pre-
| vent its passage.
! HOUSEHOLDS introduced; Prohibiting the
| running of trains on Sunday except those car
rying perishable freight; repeating the act
which prohibits insurance agents from giving
| a part of their commission to the party in
] Sured an inducement to secure business:
i providing for continuous sessions of magiS-
trateS' courts in cities of the second class; re-
/ Quiring night cars on street railway lines in
cities of the first and second class; authOriZ-
! ing third-class cities to incorporate themselves
| into insurance companies for the purpose OF
| insuring property in such cities at rate in
| competition with foreign insurance companies
| The bill requiring the school census in cities
Of the first class TO be taken annually, instead
of every five years, was passed by vote of ~
| to II.
! FRANKFORT. Feb. H.-SENATE-The local
/ option bill came up in the senate Wednesday
on the appeal from the decision of the chair
a lively parliamentary battle was expected
md the Hobbies were crowded with the friends
and opponents of the bill. President pro tenn
| GOebel took the chair pending the appeal
Senator Hays moved to postpone the whole
matter till Thursday on account of the illness
of Senator Alexander. who took the
! appeal The motion defeated
| yeas TO- nays 10. The question was
/ then put on sustaining the chairs decision and
resulted-yeas 49, nays 0. No quorum voting
the appeal remained undisposed. Further con-
sideration of the bill was postponed until
| Thursday. The house bill to regulate the man
ner of paying miners, amended by way of
substitute offered by the committee was
! passed. The substitute provides that the
miners shall be paid in lawful money on or be-
| fore the 10th of each month for the previous
onth's work. or else the operator must issue
to them tereSt-bearing due bills
! HOUSE-The house spent over four hours
| Wednesday discussing the Bronston prison
| commission bill. and finally passed it by a vote
If 69 to 81 All the republicans present voted
against the bill and eight democrats The bill
- passed provides for the election by the pres
ent legislature of three prison commits
| sionerS. for two. four and six years re-
| Spectively. who shall take charge of both
| penitentiaries ut once and conduct them
under the present warden system The salary
Of the commissioners is fixed at s.. OOO Repre-
| sentative Williams moved to reconsider the