The Iola register., 1899-03-03
LIVE STOCK BILL.
Kansas Senate Adopts BiIl To Prevent AL
legged Combinations OF Commission
Men-No Exhibit at Paris.


Meu-No Exhibit at Paris.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. Ex-senator
Kings bill, designed to break up the
alleged combination of commission
men at the Kansas City stock yards
passed the senate-26 to six. Senator
thinner, of Wyandotte county, was
the only fusion member who voted
against the bill. Republican senators
who voted in the affirmative were:
llessin, johnson, Stocks, Ward and
Matthew'S The bill was literally
amended by the senate. Two
sections were stricken out bod
lily which required each COM
mission merchant to obtain
license from the executive council and
give bond of 50. 900. The bill, as it
stands, is intended only to prohibit
any com bination, agreement or trust
which may stand as barrier to full
and free competition in the buying
and selling of cattle at the stock
yards. The bill is of much interest
and Importance to Kansas City locally
and the live stock industry generally
A big batch of appropriation bills
priatiors for naari,, alI % ,ha cbarita.
hIo and ,,anal inst;,u,ions and for the
state agricultural college. The list
follows:
blind asymm and also the following. For re-
pairing and extending sewerage system and
connecting with city sewers, $40; aud for NIL
ing In pond in grounds l,t0l
I For agriculture and dairy building at agri
cultural college s25 900 for erection and eouip-
ment Of buildings for mechanical and civil Gu
gineernF departments, 2l.bJo -,,,,
,Lnins @ um aPpropr,ot,on ui o'o"Do ~. IL"
tory, p.SoI for ba,,cry corridors nnd electric
plant aud equipment. The salary Of the super
intendent Is raised from $50 to 1000
ApproP'.amE ,lho5 '-oV} ior Ine frII,%n ] 1i ,
! Iris
Approprlatng 10000 for building IA roadway
trom Atchison city limits 20 soldiers orphans
nome, ,.o., -, ,,,,
ayers Of Mother Biekerdylle home at Leaven-.
worth.
Kansas will have no display at the
Paris exposition. At least, there will
be no appropriation made at this ses-
sion of the legislature for it, The
Willis bill, appropriating $50 900, was
placed on final passage in the house
and it only got So votes. Fifty-six
members voted against it.
The house, by vote of 20 to 35,
passed the general county fee and sal
airy bill.
The house killed the bill providing
for maximum rate to be charged by
BARRIERS.
The house passed the Wilev bill, pro-
viding for the assessment and taxation
of transient property. This will catch
the cattlemen in western Kansas. who
have heretofore slid many of their
herds through without having to nav
any taxes.
The house passed bills appropriate
ing $50, 900 for the erection of a laun-
dry building and hospital at the Osa-
,yatonia as,lun, ord 81 ton for tba
- .-",',Nt',
hans"s BeoioRic"l survey
The house ways and means commit
tee recommended for MASSAGE the Gov
bu1 ornro,,r;,tir, o. oon g., 4bo &C.
IPPl shOOO
VaollshihehI OF orlch pIaht ab the
penitentiary.
The judiciary committee of the
house l,;llod S,aro,son,s rim ,,ol,;rc,
.Io'I. S.1N "a III a.,
slanuer ielony. ~ aiso hllleu une
Hoag Dill, providing Tor the establish
ment of free employment agency in
every citv of the first and second class
70 be controlled hu Tho stota lobor