Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-02-16
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Ing radical bill on libel, which II II becomes 4
law win curtail tho privilege Of newspapers very
| greatly IN the use OF cartoons.
Spcclal--A bill amending the law regarding
the assignment OF mortgages was passed.
The total number OF bills In the house up 10
date In dSl, nearly 300 lesa than the total NUM-
Der introduced at the session OF two years ago,
Every day now the senate ana house have q
batch OF petitions introduced against rosub-
mission, signed by the people all over the state,
| -h0ut 5000 names have already been sent In
law
II takes $4,000 10 pay themIleago OF the mem
bera OF the house alone, ana probably two thirds
| rs much 20 pay tho members OF the senate.
The man In tho house who had 70 travel tho
greatest distance 10 got 10 Topeka IN Josiah
Crosby, q populist, who lives Ut 81, Francis,
Cheyenne county. He travels pi9 miles and
gets Sld9.
Topeka, Feb, 7.-About tho first thing the
house did this morning after the chaplain a
| prayer was 10 adopt resolution commencing
| Senators Baker and Harris for their vote 20
ratlfy tho peace treaty Monday, Not q vote
was given IN opposition 70 tho adoption OF the
resolution, The fight NJ Manila failed 20 cause
the excitement here that q much less important
engagement did during the war witch Spain,
| The bill making grave robbery felony was
passed on third reading With only two votes
against II In vote OF 81, only W voting on the
| measure,
The oleo bill which died 30 unanimously last
Saturday In the house, has come 10 life ngnin In
the senate, Senator Lupior OF Pawneo has n
bill, similar 10 the one introduced In the house
| by Grosser, prohibiting the sale OF colorod CLEO,
| Lupfer says he Intends 10 make " law, for
getting how many strong men have fallen by
the wayslde In lighting oleo,
Heretofore persons selling mortgnged proper
| ty In Kansas were not guilty OF felony unless
the amount reached two hundred dollars The
| law was changed, so far ~ the house waa con.
cerned, this morning, by the passage OF o bill
lowering tho amount TO twenty dollars, by q
| vote OF 90 10 W,
Topeka, Fob. s,-The house today passed
| Representative Mokeeyer's bill " rendJust the
fees 10 DO paid tho superintendent OF nsur-
anco, The bill leaves the fees tho same ns nj
| presonp, except that Kansas companies do not
have TO pay the VI fee for registering policies,
II Is designed TO foster home companies.
The senate NJ o'clock this Afternoon took up
MS u special order the educational committees
| bill 10 compel Kansas high schools 10 adopt the
| books provided by tho state law passed In 1897.
This bill also provides that no books maps,
TO Kansas schools until Arst approved by the
state school text book commissioners.
The state labor society which adjourned last
night adopted constitution which provides
for an assessment Of Ave per cent upon all Ia
Dor organizations OF the stato, tho money 70
BIO applied In doing work not provided for In
| the law.
A resolution was adopted requesting the leg
lslature 10 enact law authorizing the payment
OF per diem and mileage TO tho members OF the
society the same Us Is now pnid 10 the members
OF the state board OF agriculture.
Topeka, Feb. The sonato committee on
citos of the second class, Sheldon chairman. has
recommended for pnsYai, senator Anderson 4
bill changing the bo,tn1Rty line between Pot
win ind Topeka, moving the same from the
west side OF West street 10 the center OF the
street,
Representative Brooko's bill TO prohibit maxi
| Ing subjects OF school children inhypnotic OK
hioitions WINS passed by the house today by q
Representative Brooke has introduced the
| bill Into tho house 10 make appropriations for
| the Improvement OF the reform school, and II II
now In the hands Of the ways and means COM
mlttee, IL makes an appropriation OF $4,000
| for u new cottage large enough for rs boys,
$4,000 for nm Industrial building In which the
boys may DO taught manual trades, @,O0O TO re-
place tho barn which was burned some time
ago, and $4,000 for general repairs
The board OF pordons law seems destined to
remain on the statute books, Notwithstanding
Representative Fairchlld's repeated efforts 10
have II repealed aud Governor SANKEY'S rec
concentrations that the board DO done away
| with.
Topeka Feb, lO--There was n brief quarrel
In the senate today during the discussion OF
Senator Lupfers's bill, defining butter, and re-
qulring all buttor and oleomarglrne TO DO la-
| belled, so consumers Gun SEQ "by the sign"
what they are eating II they can not otherwise
discern tho difference between butter and oleo-
| margarine.
The special pharmaclsts' bill, by the provls-
Ions OF which lot OF alleged druggists are au-
thori2ed TO compound polsons for Innocent pur-
chnsers, has passed the house, but II did not
have many votes TO spare, The vote stood o.
for the bill to % against H. 4 requires 6S 70
pass bill. Six names were added to the bill
| by the committee on public health when II
came up for final passage, making total OF
| forty druggists who are given the special priv
| iloge allowed pharmacists without first prov
Ing that they aro qualified 10 deal In drugs by
passing an examination before the state board
OF pharmacy
The bill TO limit the output OF the penlten-
| tnry coal mines 10 the needs OF the state lnstl-
tutions, md which caused considerable dis
cusslon In the house committee OF the whole u
few days ago has been passed by the house by o
vote OF "a to H.
| Tokokn, Feb, 1t.-The senate suspended the
rules and passed the house bill approprlatlng
$50 0OIiO to pay Lawrence citizens moneys by
| them loaned 10 the state 10 rebuild the boiler
house md electrical engineering machine shops
and to replace the machinery, all belonging to
the educational equipment OF the university,
and which was destroyed by fire March on I'D
| 1893,
The house committee OF the whole has turned
down Mr.. Brooke's bill TO prohibit officers from
| acknowledging deeds In blank, Tho bill made
persons who signed the blank deed guilty OF u
mlsdemeanor, and this Is what defeated the
bill
II has been the custom of all previous legsla-
lures for the sergeant at-arms to furnish oil
members with pocketltnivcs us part OF the
stock OF supplies, All state purchases OF that
character are made through the secretary OF
state, and Secretary OF State Clark hna stopped
the supply OF knives for members OF the house
The senate this afternoon In committee Of the
whole recommended for passage Senator Tom
Andersons bill creating new city court In To-
peka and limiting the jurisdiction OF justice
courts to civil recovery suits involving no more
than 81.
Advertisements of real estate and
loan agents are beginning to take up
considerable space in many Of the
Kansas papers.
An effort was made last week Mt st.
Marys to get the citizens interested in
waterworks project, 1t did not catch
on, however, and the project has been
abandoned.
, A Kansas boy at Manila says that
human bones litter the ground in the
vicinity of the old prisons just as buff
falo bones used to lie scattered over
the prairies of Kansas.
Humboldt, with population of
something in excess of sixteen hum
bred, has sixteen secret societies.
Some years ago coal was discovered
in the vicinity of Logan, In the spring
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