The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-02-17
KANSAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

ointments and appliances, providing for penal
ties for the violations OF its provisions, and be-
| ing supplementary TO chapter l29 OF the Session
Laws nj 1SS5.-Mason.
House bill No. 567-An act to provide for
! lien OF grain fol threshing the same, providinl
for the enforcement ofsuch lien and prescribing
certain penalties thereln.-BeeZley.
House bill No. 572-An act prohibiting the
mayor and any member of the city council Of
cities OF the first second or third class acting as
attorney adversely to said city in any litigation
in which said city may be directly or indirectly
interested, and providing penalties for the vio-
lation thereof.-Wilcox (by requestl.
House bill No 503-An act entitled IAN act to
regulate the assessment and taxation OF prop
erty, to provide for the slection of county boards
OF assessors, and the repeal of laws conflicting
herewith. Adams of Sedgwick.
John Seaton of Atkinson introduced 2 reso-
luton in the house this morning requiring all
state boards in buying supplies TO secure them
from Kansas firms where articles purchased are
made or handled by Kansas merchants.
AT this mornings session of the house Brooke
of Shawnee introduced n bill authorizing levy
of one-fourth OF one mill on each dollar of taxa
bic property in the state for the purpose OF COM
p'eting the state house The bill also authorizes
the executive council to employ state architect
Mt a salary not to exceed $500 per month for the
time actually employed
Topeka, Feb. 1.-The judiciary committee of
the house this morning voted to recommend
change in the state constitution to allow the
election of four more members Of the state SUI
preme court
Brooke of Shawnee secured the unanimous
adoption of his bin against hypnotiSm.
Stephenson of Shawnee introduced this morn
ing a radical bill on libel, which if it becomes a
law will curtail the privilege of newspapers very
greatly in the use of cartoons
Special.-A bill amending the law regarding
the assignment of mortgages was passed.
The total number of bills in the house up to
date is G5l, nearly 200 less than the total num-
Der introduced at the session of two years ago
Every day now the senate and house have
batch OF petitions introduced, against rosub-
mission. signed by the people all over the state.
bout 5000 names have already been sent in
protesting against reSubmttlng the prohibition
law.
1t takes $4,000 to pay the mileage of the MEM
berS of the house alone, and probably two-thirdS
as much to pay the members of the senate.
The man in the house who had TO travel the
greatest distance to get to Topeka is Josiah
Crosby, populist who lives at st. Francis,
Cheyenne county. He travels 942 miles and
gets Sl42.
Topeka, Feb. About the first thing the
house did this morning after the chaplain's
prayer was to adopt resolution commencing
Senators Baker and Harris for their vote to !
-atify the peace treaty Monday: Not vote |
was given in opposition to the adoption Of the |
'esolution The fight at Manila failed to cause |
he excitement here that much less important |
did during the war with Spain.
The bill making grave robbery felony was |
passed on third reading with only two votes |
MEASURE
The oleo bill which died SPONTANEOUSLY last |
in the house, has come to life again In
he senate. Senator Lupfer of Pawnoe has o
ill, similar to the one introduced in the house
~ Grosser, prohibiting the sale of colored oleo.
UPPER says he intends to make it q law for
'etting how many strong men have fallen by
he wayside in fighting oleo.
Heretofore persons selling mortgaged proper
Y in Kansas were not guilty of felony unless
he amount reached two hundred dollars. The
aw was changed, so far as the house was con-
erned, this morning, by the passage of bill
owering the amount to twenty dollars, by a
ote OF GO to 80.
Topeka, Feb. s.-The house today passed
McKeever's bill to readjust the
ees to be paid the superintendent OF insur-
nee The bill leaves the fees the same as at
resent except that Kansas companies do not
ave to pay the 81 fee for registering policies.
is designed to foster home companies.
The senate at 2 O'Clock this afternoon took up
s special order the educational committees
i'll to compel Kansas high schools to adopt the
ooks provided by the state law passed in 1897.
his bill also provides that no books. maps,
harts. globes or other apparatus shall be sold
, Kansas schools until first approved by the
tate school text book commissioners.
The state labor society which adjourned last
light adopted constitution which provides
)r an assessment of five per cent upon all la
or organizations of the state, the money to
G applied in doing work not provided for in
ne law.
A resolution was adopted requesting the leg
lature to enact q law authorizing the payment
per diem and mileage to the members of the
,ciety the same as is now paid to the members
the state board of agriculture.
Topeka Feb 9-The senate committee on
tees of the second class, Sheldon chairman, has
commended for passage Senator Anderson'S
III changing the boundary line between Pot
in and Topeka, moving the same from the
est side Of West street to the center of the
rect.
Brooke's bill to prohibit maxi I
g subjects of school children in hypnotic ex- ,
billions was passed by the house today by a
tie of SO to 6.
Brooke has introduced the
Il into the house to make appropriations for
e Improvement of the reform school, and it is
wv in the hands of the ways and means COM
ittee 1t makes an appropriation of $4,000 |
r o new cottage large enough for IS boys,
O,0OO for an industrial building in which the
'ys may be taught manual trades, $1,000 to re- ,
ace the barn which was burned some time
20, and $4,000 for general repairs.
The board Of pardons law seems destined to ,
main on the statute books, Notwithstanding I
representative FairchildS repeated efforts to 7
we it repealed and Governor Stanley'S rec
lamentations that the board be done away a
tn.
The oldest inhabitants of Kansas are S
wv bucking one another with low 7
stories 7
More ice has been put up in Kansas
is winter than ever before in the '
story of the state.
of real estate and
an agents are beginning to take up G
space in many of the [
ansas papers. I
An effort was made last week at st.
arys to get the citizens interested in .
project. 1t did not catch
!, however, and the project has been
,andoned.
A Kansas boy at Manila says that 1
imam bones litter the ground in the a
cinity of the old prisons just as buff I
10 bones used to lie scattered over /
G prairies of Kansas. v
Humboldt, with a population of
in excess of sixteen hun v
ed, has sixteen secret societies. g
Some years ago coal was discovered
the vicinity of Logan. In the spring =.
shaft will be sunk for the purpose of
how extensive the deposit
and whether it will pay to work it.
lie discovery of coal would be a Z
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