The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-03-18
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE
Regular Session.

FRANKFORT. n.y., March 1l-SENATE-Ll6
passage of the election bill by the senate
Thursday over the governors veto was dis
tinct and signal victory for Senator GOebel the
author of the bill, who has conducted the fight.
for its passage from the start. The house Will
certainly pass the bill Friday over the vetO.and-
that will end the prettieSt fight of the session.
The senate met again at $3.50 Thursday aft
ernoon and the Governors veto of the bill
transferring Jackson county from the Eighth
congressional district to the Eleventh district
was taken up and acted on without debate, and
passed over the veto by a vote of "a to D. On.
motion of Senator BrOnstOn the house bill pro-
h1b1t1ng the use or sale Of cigarettes In this.
state was called from the committee and put
on its passage. The bill passed by vote of %
to z, and it is said that the bill is so stringent
that the sale Of tobacco in any form will be-
prohibited by its provisions.
HOUsE-At IL o'clock the senate appointed a.
committee to notify the house that it was ready
to proceed to the election of three prison COM
miSSioners A moment later the senate re-
paired to the house of representatives to take
the vote. The republican senators refused to
go, as Senator Will Henry Jones said the
whole thing was illegal The republicans
of the house also declined to take part
in the election, and most of them left the hall
during the joint session. The roll call showed
90 present, and the three nominees of WedneS-
day nights caucus, Henry George, James M.
Richardson and Edward Finneu, were placed
in nomination by Representative Trimble and
all three were voted for at the same time, each
receiving 95 votes. and each was declared
elected
FRANKFORT, March 12.-SENATE-Senator
Eimore asked Friday that the conference COM
mittee on the school book bill make some re-
port. In the debate that followed hot words
passed between BronstOn and Gilmore, but
peacemakers kept them apart. The governors
veto of the house bill repeating those
sections of the anti-mOb law that au-
thOrize the employment of guards to pro-
tect property was then taken up but
as a quorum refused to vote it was postponed
until Saturday. The house bill to appropriate
s., 400 to buy "a acres of land for Lakewood asy
lum passed. Yeas, %; nays, 3. House bill re-
quiring the appointment of one female ply
stefan at each asylum passed. Yeas, 26; nays. Il
The Tracy house bill defining what shall con-
Stitute embezZlement, was defeated
HOUsE-The house went the senate one bet
ter Friday and had a sure-enough hammer
and-tOngS scrap, but it came up without any
personalities. n regular fist fight took place
between Depp, the pOpulist from Barren cOun-
ty. and Jack Mills, of Clarke county. Mills
came near using a knife on Depp. The sem
ate local option bill that makes the
county the unit in voting out whisky,
instead of the precinct, was practically
killed when, by vote of SO yeas to 81 nays,
the house declined to recommit it to a
committee with leave to report at any time.
The bill now has to go into the orders of the
day behind dozens of other bills and can not be
reached except by a two-thirdS vote, which it
can never get The Goebel election bill was
reported by Senator Voters as having passed
the senate over the governors Veto and it was
taken up at once, debate shut of by the pre-
ViouS question being ordered and vote taken
on it at once. 1t passed. Several men tried to
explain their votes, but were howled down,
and their voices drowned out by shouts and
handclapping.
FRANKFORT, KY, March 15-SENATE-The
resolution directing the auditor to report to
the next legislature the amount of taxes col
lected on whisky up to September, 1899, and
the value of whisky upon which taxes should
be paid, cost of collection, and other Informal
tion was adopted. The house bill creating an
extra circuit Judge for Louisville was killed
| by being refused its third reading. The house
resolution to pay the expenses OF
| the Bertram-PowerS contest (S125 each) in the
house was adopted The Sargent house bill to
enable children Of slaves to inherit parents
| property was passed. House bill ia, authoriz-
! ing a county to issue turnpike bonds, If ma
! joritY instead of two-thirds of the voters au-
| thoriZe the issue, was defeated because the
| constitution says a two-thirdS vote is neceS-
Sary.
| HoUSE-The senate bill known as the local
! option bill was killed Monday when a motion
to take it up for consideration was defeated by
a vote of 80 yeas to 48 nays. This is regarded
| as a test vote even if the bill were put it's
| passage, but it will never reach a final vote
! now The GOebel joint liability bill, which
| permits an aggrieved party to bring Joint suit
| against both master and servant, was de-
! feated by a vote Of 40 yeas to IS nays.
| The motion to take up the senate bill requir-
| ing telephone companies to charge the same
rates in all cities of the same class was defeat
ed. The senate bill providing that stockhold
| erS in newspapers shall not be liable for double
! the amount of their stock was passed. resO-
| luton providing for joint session of the SEN
ate and house Tuesday morning at IL o'clock
| to elect the state election commission was
| adopted. The republicans and Senator Bron-
ston tried to break quorum, but failed The
remainder of the session was occupied with
reading enrolled bills
i FRANKFORT, March 16.-The legislative ses-
| sion of 1898 is a thing of the past. The gavels
| have raped for the last time and the legisla-
| tors are returning to their constituents. At
| o'clock Tuesday night committees were APP
| pointed by the senate and house to notify
the governor that they were ready to
adjourn. The committees visited the
| governor and he informed them that
| he had no further communication to
| transmit The house adjourned at 7:40, and at
| 7:45 o'clock Senator BronstOn moved that
| the senate adjourn sine die, and when
| Chairman Goebel put the question every
! body voted yea, except Doorkeeper Bob
| Tyler, who voted mo" in a loud voice he
| said to emphasize his regret over the cut
| ting of of his per diem. The legislature
/ passed something like go bills, the larger num-
| Der of which are still in the governors hands,
| and he may approve or veto them at his leis-
ure in the next ten days. The sessions work
can not be properly judged till the governor
| passes on the numerous bills still in his hands.
number Of important bills have been passed