Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-04
KANSAS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
eka. Feb. co.'s a result OF the desire o
member to have some pet measure ad


probable disastrous results Of a confiagration
there. Yesterday the house cuInmittee on
amining the fire escapes of the institution, with
a view of lettering their condition II possible.
An Oddly in the shape OF bill has been rec
commended for passage by the house committee
of the whole. 1t empowers the county treas
urer OF Haskell county to levy a small tax to be
paid the county treasurer OF Finney county TO
build road IN Ffnney county.
The house. after amending the senate con-
current resolution relating TO the time when
the introduction of bills must cease, has adopt
ed it. The time now fixed for the cessation OF
the introduction OF bills is tomorrow at noon
Topeka, Feb 21.-The senate, in committee
OF the whole, recommended for passage the fol-
lowing bills:
and S1th judicial districts
A bill regulating the fees of Labette county
officials.
Regulating fees and salaries of officials in
Mcpherson county.
An act compromising the Of11cIdl Stenographer
Of the second judicial district.
Relating to elections in Eureka.
Defining certain school districts in Green
Relating 10 school districts in Hodgeman and
Finney counties.
Yachting block in Clinton Douglas cour-
Disorganizing school district No. 81 in Grant
county.
Legalizing the acts of the superintendent of
public instruction in Greenwood and Elk coun-
ties in disorRaniZing joint school district 81
Relating to county high school in Bourbon
county.
ty.
Topeka Feb. Ex-Governor Stanley today
signed the bill through which the state legtsla-
ture aims to relieve Kansas farmers of the ex-
actions OF the binding Irvine trus,-
The house did nothing but consider bills I'M
day The fight Of the forenoon session was
upon DILL formally aOolishing the board of
own discretion to appoint a classifying clerk
who shall have charge of all applications for
pardon.
About all the house was for abolishing the
board and upon a vote for adoption only four
men voted to retain the present system.
When the house called to order this
morning Gregory of Usage made a motion to
adjourn. He said that not legislature in the
nation had the braZen disregard for the MEM
DRY of the revolutionary struggle and its men
to go work on this national holiday. The
people, he said. would not respect the legiSla-
ture for continuing its work on the birthday of
George Washington The motion was voted
The house adjourned after transacting con-
siderable business
Topeka, Feb. 23-The senate ways and means
committee has recommended for passage the
following pension bills:
Appropriating $1,000 to Mrs. Mary Usher, of
Topeka, whose husband was killed while as
sisting in moving boiler from the Moeser
| company's factories to the state house.
Paying c. E Shaher $3.50 for injuries incurred
| by being stabbed by an inmate of the insane
asylum slnIn, urs Sarah x A., s,oo-foru.r,v
matron of the reform schoOl-for injuries re-
ceived by the fall of a step-ladder upon which
she was at work.
The senate ways and means committee has
decided uoOn one feature of the miscellaneous
appropriation bill. which will contain ap
preparation of S23 900 to reimburse the railroads
| and private individuals who subscribed the
funds for the Kansas exhibit at the Omaha ex-
position.
! Two years ago the legislature declined to
| make appropriations for the exhibit. but public
| spirited citizens came to the rescue and Kansas
was represented
Topeka, Feb 24-Governor Stanley today
signed the following house bills:
An act to authorize and require the county
commissioners of Shawnee county TO issue
| bonds to refund certain Indebtedness OF the
county.
| An act to change the names OF certain per-
sons.
| An act to disorganize school district number
no. Sc. "-"ii county anu ''''>- - e'-''i ~
An act to take part of school district No % in
Riley county and attach it to district No. 80 in
Clay county:
! All consideration of senate bills in the senate.
| except messages from the house, and all con-
| sideration of house bills in the house, except
messages from the senate, and excepting in
! noon Wednesday. No business will be trans
! acted by either house, except the consideration
of messages from the Governor. after March
| The house sat down on Mr.. Elders motion to
( recall Senator Lupfer'S oleo bill from the agri-
| culture committee and advance 1t on the calen-
Adjourned
Topeka, Feb. 25-The house today passed the
bill extending the terms OF the present Judges
| day of April, 1901. This will give the next leg
| islature a chance 10 continue these courts in
| definitely if the amendment to the constitution
! to increase the number of supreme court judges
| fail to carry.
Wise's bill 20 prohibit the removal of build
| ingS and other Improvement from lots and
lands upon which delinquent taxes remain I'M
paid.
Seaver's bill in relation to releases of real
Moore's bill reapportioning the representa-
gerrymandered by the populist legislature two
years ago
Flannelly's bill legalizing certain defective
patents for state lands
A batch of As bills were railroaded through,
including the Topeka and Wichita city court
bills
| A number of bills were read during the noon
hour today while some of the members were at
dinner.
Adjourned at usual hour
Up in Jewell county the other day q
woman died suddenly. Her son and
son-in-law were in the county Jail do
ing time for chicken stealing, and at
tended the funeral in charge of the
: sheriff. They must have felt misera,
bly, small.
Every year we hear of some wonder
full new use to which corn stalks are
, to be put. This year they are discov
: cred to be immensely valuable in the
manufacture OF paper and aboard
So far, however. the corn stock mar
ket remains steady"
| Reports from the papers published
out in the stock territory indicate
} that the loss of cattle during the re-
cent trying weather was comparative
1y light.
II. Van Leeuewen is the butter anC
cheese expert of the Effingham cream
: cry. There has never been any par
: ticular hurrah about him in Kansas. i
: appears, but he stands so we'll in hi!
: line of work that Wisconsin sent fo
: him to conduct the state dairy schoo
D up there this winter, and wants hin
to come. back again next year.
S You can gamble on it now tina
= spring is headed this way. The an
e nual distribution of government seed
: is on.
The Kansas editors have pledge
? themselves that hereafter they will
a not vote to put conventions at Topeka
g editorial or otherwise