The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-25

house over the stock yards bill passed bv
the senate yesterday. The measure SIM
ply breaks down trust prices in the hand
ling and selling of cattle at any pubic
stock yards in Kansas. The bill follows:
ANY stock yards in this state into which
stock is received for the purpose of ex-
posing or having the sac exposed for sale,
and doing business for a compensation,
and which shall receive an average daily
receipt for preceding twelve months of not
less than 100 head of cattle or $50 head
of hogs or sheep, is hereby declared pub
lie stock yards. Any person, company or
corporation owning or operating any stock
yards in this state and doing business
with the public or for a compensation.
whether operating public stoclL yards or
not, shall annually, on the 31st day Of
December, file with the secretary of state
an itemized and certified statement set
ting forth the number of head of stock re-
ceived during the year, the maximum,
minimum, average and total of the differ
ent charges for the various services made
during the year. But the executive coun-
Gil may on the receipt of satisfactory
proof that it will be for the public good,
declare any such stock yards a public
stock yards for the purposes Of this act.
at shall be unlawful for any firm or
person, or for any company or companies,
or corporation or corporations, or organi-
cation or organizations, incorporated or
unincorporated, to make or enforce or at
tempt TO make or enforce, any rule or reg
ulation of any kind whatever which may
in any manner prevent full and free COM
petition in the buying or selling of live
stock at any such public stock yards or
which provides for or aids or encourages
the buying or selling of stock at a higher
rate OF commission than the person. COM
pany or corporation would prefer to buy
or sell said stock.
EVERY violation of this section shall be
punished by fine of not less than 800 nor
more than 81, 900 for the first offense, and
not less than 500 nor more than g, 900 for
a second or any subsequent offense. And
any person, organization or organizations,
corporation or corporations, owning or
operating any stock wards in this state
which shah permit within its stock yards
any violation Of this act shall, for the
first offense. be punished by fine OF not
less than $50 nor more than $780, and for
the second offense by having their charter
and franchise revoked and being forbidden
to do business in the state, and the court
shall in addition to revoking the charter
Of said stock yards company appoint a
receiver to wind up the affairs of said COM
pany
Any stock yards company or corpora
ton or persons or persons owning or oper-
ating any stocks yards. and any person or
persons or company or corporations or or
ganization, doing business at any such
stock yards as livestock commission mer-
chants, or any dealers in livestock in any
such yards, who shall personally or col
lectively prevent, or attempt to prevent,
the free and competitive sale of any live
stock at such rate of commission as the
parties interested in such sale prefer to
buy or sell said stock at. or who after SUCH
sale is made attempts 10 boycott or injure
the business Of any such person. firm, or
corporation. by reason o fthe rate of COM
mission charged, or to prevent or embar-
rass or annoy such person, firm or cor
poration in continuing TO do business at
such stock yards by reason OF any such
commission charged, shah be punished as
provided in section Of this act.
Section / It is hereby made the dutv
Of the attorney general OF this state to en-
force all Of the provisions OF this act. To
that end. in addition 10 the criminal prose-
cutions 20 enforce the fines and penalties
provided, he may by civil action enjoin
any person, firm, association or corpora
ton from violating this act, and dissolve
any corporation for violation Of this