The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-03
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

Condemned Proceedings Of the Senate and
House-The Bills Introduced
On the ed the house killed the bill to create
state board Of embalmers The measure to
ABOLISH the state board of pardOnS was recon-
nended for passage Among other bills rec
commended for passage were: Compelling in
surance companies to settle losses within 20
lays after proof of loss is made: providing for
Uniform insurance policy: exempting masons
ana odd fellows from the law governing bene-
nciary societies; requiring every physician to
have diploma from reputable college. or to
nave been in active practice five years. or to
pass an examination before the state board
Gov. Stanley messaged the house that he had
signed the bill establishing q binding Irvine
factory at the state penitentiary
THE senate on the 23d passed Senator Kings
Dill which seeks to promote free competition in
the buying and selling of stock at the Kansas
City stock yards The senate passed bills
making appropriations for nearly all of the
state charitable and penal institutions of the
state. By a vote Of So to 50 the house killed
the Willis bill appropriatns Sc. 600 for Kan
, sas exhibit at the Paris exposition. The house,
by vote OF ~ to IS. passed the general county
fee and salary bill The house killed the bill
providing for q maximum rate to be charged
by BARRIERS The house passed the Wiley bill
providing for the assessment and taxation of
transient property.
BOTH houses of the legislature on the Gath
paid honor to Lieut. Commander C p. Rees. of
the navy. who was with Dewey on the Olympia
in the battle OF Manila and who visited the
legislature upon invitation. The senate by q
vote OF % to ID. passed bill providing that the
state shall pay its Spanish war volunteers the
sum of IS each per month. in addition to the $40
paid by the government The senate passed
the appropriation bill Of i2, $50 for the forestry
stations at Ogallah and Dodge City. BY a
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providing for the erection and maintenance Of
colored industrial school at Quindaro. to be
run In connection with the Western univer-
sity negro institution of learning. BY
strict party vote the house adopted a resolu-
tion to revise the calendar and advance impor-
tant bills The house adopted the senate reso-
lution for adjournment March The house
passed the Ryan bill providing for the payment
OF wages in lawful money of the Unit d States
The Burkholder bill raising the minimum term
OF school from four to six months year was
defeated In the housa The house passed three
bills creating city courts at Fort Scott, Coffey-
vile and Atcnison.
In the senate on the 25th Lieut. Gov Richter
named Senators Farrelly, Battey and Hanna q
committee to revise the calendar. BY vote
Of 10 to Is the senate killed the railroad bill
providing for maximum passenger charges of
2h and ~ cents and prohibiting passes The
senate passed Senator Cookies bill providing
tor loaning the state school funds to private
citizens OF Kansas The senate passed the bill
appropriating funds for the state normal school
as follows: Salaries for the school year. 49,.
QUO: new boiler house. $18. 900. 90. The house
passed the following bills. among others: To
prohibit the removal of buildings from lands
upon which taxes have become DELINQUENT to
extend the life of the court of appeals until
April l. 1901; providing for the payment OF all
wages In lawful money and not in scrip The
house killed the Burkholder bill, raising the
minimum term of school from four to six
months q year.
THE house on the eth instructed Speaker
Osborn to cable the following message to the
twentieth Kansas boys at Manila: Col
Funston, Manila: Kansas legislature unanf-
nously congratulate Twentieth for gallant
eonduct on the field" BY q vote of 43 to % the
aouse killed the bill requiring all physicians to
aave diploma or pass a regular examination.
8y an almost unanimous vote the house re-
pealed the law creating a board of pardons
Among other bills passed by the house were:
providing for new insane asylum: to prevent
she discounting OF claims for q cash settlement
~ insurance companies: providing for a uni
orm policy OF insurance and authorizing the
attorney general and insurance superiutend-
snt to prepare the forms to be used in
KANSAS hereafter; amending the insurance
avs OF II so that all fines collected for the vio-
,atfon OF that law shall go into the state school
:und amending the law governing the bene-
hciaty societies to exempt the Masonic and Odd
Fellow orders; to create a commission to COM
promise the interest on the bonds in the state
school fund that are now delinquent: authoriz-
Ing the issuance OF three year certificates to
graduates Of state university and schools of
equal standing The senate passed the bill re-
organizing the state militia into a brigade, to
consist of l2 companies in stead O; 10 The bills
appropriating 47.2)o for the state soldiers
home and for the establishment of employment
agencies in the cities were also passed
In q Rough State
Here is poem which you may pub.
fish in your paper" said young man,
with eyes in a fine frenzy rolling, as
he entered the editorial door 81