Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-03
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE
Regular Session

! FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. - SE;iTE Few
1 bills introduced Monday; To appropriate as
| DO to improve the sewerage system Of the Cen
| trail asylum at Lakeland: to change the time of
holding circuit court in the Twenty fourth Ju.
licial district, composed Of Pike. Floyd. Mar
! tin. johnson and Knott counties. Bills re-
ported by committees: Act regulating the adj
3 mission Of applicants To practice law; to pay
| Judge BENEFITS widow balance Of his salary
| act for benefit of j. r. Robbins No expression
Of opinion; act To limit fiscal courts in making
| appropriations to officers Reported with a
| substitute: act providing that the court Of ap-
| pcalS should elect male state librarian in 1870
| HOUSE The committee ON elections reported
/ fayorably the Chinn school book bill providing
| for the contract system Of supplying schools
| books II they can not be Il cured cheaper by
state publication; il further provides for
| school book commission Of seven members,
| the governor To he chairman and the supcrin-
| tendent Of public instruction tn be secretary
the contracts for books at certain price, tc
| run Tor "a period Uf five years before "a new con-
| tract Is made. The bill also fixes a maximum
| price OF certain school books. Bills reported
| by committees: To adopt the Barbour
| and Carroll edition Of Kentucky statuteS.
| Approved. To amend the "champerty and
maintenance statute. Adverse report and the
| bill killed; hill defining the term adverse pos
| session" Adverse report and killed. bill cx-
tending the time six weeks in which quail my
| b. killed. Adverse report and killed. num-
bSr Of prominent demOctatic leaders are here
| working quietly To have a very important
| change made in the election laws. The pro-
posed bill. which has not yet been perfected
| VIII provide for a state board of election com
| m'SSioncrS. who shall appoint three commi~-
SinneTS in each county, whose duty il will be- &c
| appoint the election officers in every election
FRANKFuRr, Ky, Jan. 26.-SENATE
introduced Tuesday: To prevent any diScrim-
ination against the currency Of our nation and
ella isTf
provides that where particular kind Of mon
Cy is specified in "a contract il shall he con-
| strued To mean any lawful money of the United
States: to regulate the practice Of pharmacy
and to establish board Of pharmacy. Re-
| cnacts the present law. Senate bill
| M. . came up special OrdCT
| IL provides that road ovcrscers can not u~e
| their own teams and not be interested in teams
Of others in working county roads. The bill
had been adversely reported by the commit
tee and on motion Of senator Siege IL was re-
committed to the committee on agriculture
and manufacturers. Bi.ls reported by commit
tees: To authorize the w." SnU. -. ~
yicts in ear -, lion Of courthOuseS jails pub
lie roads, bridges etc, and To authorize the
working Of viOlatorS Of the penal laws thereon
in payments Of fines, to create a board of peni-
Tertiary commissioners and regulate the penal
Institutions IL this commonwealth.
| HOUSE-Fifty-fivc new bills were introduced
| quirc all passenger trains to stop at county
seats; making II felony 10 sign the name Of
another to a petition. memorial or remon-
STRANGE without permission; To reduce the toll
rate on toll roads for various animals and We
hicleS: To levy tax to erect a state house az
Frankfort aud create board OF state hOu5i
commissioners. Provides for raising SaJOOI:
to amend Section I. Article ). Of revenue law
SO that whisky shall be assessed for county and
city taxes,like other merchandise; to amendSec-
tiOn i.3O6 Of Kentucky statutes 50 that county
roads may he maintained either by taxation OF
bonds allotted, or both; to abolish the Office of
adjutant general; aboliShing the Offices Of SER
| grant-at-arm~, tp>taf. etc. Of court Of APP
prals, and creating office OF special law clerk
to said court; prohibiting any discrimination
against any coin or money in contracts for the
payment Of money; to prohibit the granting al
licenses Ia merchants and druggists to retail
Intoxicating drinks.
FRANKFORT. Ky. Jan. - SENATE
senate committee on charitable institutions
Wednesday afternoon. by a viva voce vote de-
cided To report favoraby the nomination oi
| DIR. T.. NJ Wiley. gold democrat. Of HarrOds-
burg. as superintendent of the Lexington aSy-
lum. a yea and nay vote would have shown
majority of the cOpmittce to be against
Wiley. but the anti-Wileyites did not care q
antagoniZe their friends on the committee. and
the favorable report which. in this instance
means nothing. was allowed to be adopted.
their tight in the house Wednesday. Cefeatina
Mr.. Humphreys bill. which proposed "a
abolish this Office and consolidate il with that
Of county attorney. Mr. Humphreys made q
strong p ca for the bill claiming that its pas
sage would reduce the expenses of criminal
prosecutions in the state sGO.OOO a year Mr.
Chinn. Of Mercer. and Mr.. Bradburn. Of War
rem. both members Of the Judiciary committees
led the fight against the bill Mr. Tracey. OF
Covington made warm fight in the house in
behalf of his bill providing for a more rigid
examination Of applicants for license to prac-
tice law The Judiciary committee had report
cd II adversely, and finally succeeded in hav-
ing its report sustained.
FRANKFORT, Jan. ~ - SENATE Senator
Bronston introduced u bill in the senate Thurs
day which will bring more grief To the rail-
roads, at whom half Of tine most important
bills heretofore introduced have been aimed.
II provides that, in addition to furnishing spe-
cial ears for Negroes the railroads shall also
have first and secOnd-cla,S coaches. and that
fare on second-claSs coaches shall be only half
a. much as on tirSt-claSs coaches.
House The house Thursday passed the
resolution 80 often consigned to its grave here
tofoTe calling on Senator Lindsay to resign as
"a rebuke to his currency opinions. The demo-
| cratic majority, by strict party vote. unseat-
el Representative Power of the Clinton and
| Wayne district. and seated Alvin Bertram the
SrIvcrito contestant. Representative Traver,
Of Campbell county. will Introduce a bill in the
houS" FRIDAY providing for the creation and
government OF suburban districts.
| FRANKFORT. Jan. 29.-SESATE The senate
| by a vote Of II to Ii passed the McChord rail-
road bill II gives the railroad commissioners
power to regulate freight rates.
| House Friday was bill day in the house.
Among these introduced were the following:
Amending the law to roads and passwayS.
giving the right to parties unable To pay a rod
tax Ia work out the same on roads; to require
the penitentiary authorities to advertise for
beef and TO let the lowest and best bidder fur
niSh the same; making others as well as
hcuseholders eligible a. election officers;
amending the law with regard to county can
wasting boards; amending libel laws to permit
more evidence in suit for damages. a. to the
willingness to retract; reducing the limit Of
shares that "A director in building and loan
! aSsociatiOs shall own.