The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-02-17
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
CONDENSED Proceedings of the Senate and
House-The Bills Introduced
and Passed.

In committee Of the. whole the house on the
9th killed the Fogle bill passed at the extra
session providing for state society OF mines
Populists voted for the bill The house passed
the Grafton bill providing in effect that any
reputable college in Kansas may grant teach
erss certificates to its regular graduates The
house Judiciary committee reported favoranly
the bill to work penitentiary convictS on the
public roads Among the house bills intro
duced was one which makes wife competent
to testify against her husband in criminal
assault case lin the senate motion was
made to go into executive session to consider
appointments by G ov. Stanley. but 1t was de-
feated. II to- l6 Gov Stanley. nominated
Charles F. Scott. Frank g. Crowell and J. W.
F'orney to be regents Of the state
university. The senate passed Senator Far
relly's bill empowering the senate to convene
in extra session after the adjournment Of the
regular session to hear the Stuart Falcon
contest case from the Twenty-second judicial
district The senate again recommitted the
state oil inspection bill The senate commit
tee of judiciary introduced a bill authorizing
Crane Co.. Of Topeka, to compile and publish
q revision of the statutes The work is to be
done at no expense to the state the publishers
to get their pay from sales Of the statutes.
The house, by a vote Of "a to o, passed New
mans bill to remove the political disabilities
OF. all ex-confederates In Kansas The house
also passed the following bills, among others:
Prohibiting the practice of hypnotism upon
children: prohibiting state officers and en-
ployes from holding municipal offices: to pro-
vide for an inspector Of lead and zinc mines:
permitting foreign guardians to institute and
defend suits in the courts Of this state: to pun
ish body Snatchers and persons who purchase
bodies Of them: transferring Usage county to the
Northern department Of the court of appeals;
to prohibit probate judges from issuing tenn
porary fnjunctions to be enforced longer than
the next term Of court: to protect botelkeepers.
hotels and boarding house keepers from dead
beats; giving school boards authority to desig-
nate legal holidays: to abolish the Office of
election commissioner in all frst-class cities
except Kansas City: permitting a legal voter
to vote in cities of the first and second class
without registering under certain restrictions:
to prevent the writing of fire insur-
ance in the state through dummy agents;
providing for the payment of poll tax in
vote of 81 to g. passed the bill amending the
state Textbook law. It provides for state uni
formity Of high school books, charts. maps and
globes The senate a'so passed the Lupfer
anti-Oleo bill by q vote of 70 to 5. One of the
chief provisions OF the bill is that requiring
hotel and restaurant keepers to place on every
dining room table q card on which shall be
printed In letters one-haf In height in black
ink q statement as to the kind of butter or SUBJ
stitute therefore used
In the house on the 10th the joint committee
delegated to inspect the binding twine factory
in the Minnesota penitentiary made its report
recommending that similar: plant be estab-
lished insthe Kansas psnitentiary at Lansing
The house, 50 to 35. killed the bill by Adams. of
Sedgwick providing that an accused person
cannot be tried for any offense greater than the
one of which he was first convicted The house
passed the bill providing salary Of $40 per
| annum to mayors of second-class cities Of over
5000 population The committee on elections
reported on the election contests OF Walters
(rep VS. Elder (pop). and OF SCOTT ,rep) VS.
Marks (pop) In each case the populist was
| sustained. The senate passed bill appro-
priating 80 907. IS to citizens who loaned the
state money for replacing the burned electrical
engineering machine shops at the state uni
versity. The senate also passed the deficiency
appropriation bill. providing for the payment
| naming unpaid because OF the insufficient ap-
preparation two years ago The sum appro-
priated aggregates s17.880
THERE was barely a quorum present in the
house on the 18th and several motions to adj
iourn were made and lost The house then
went into committee of the whole to consider
bills on the calendar A resolution was adopt
| ed rendering the members of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment the thanks OF the legislature
for its gallant conduct in the. action at Manila.
THE senate committee on railroads on the
18th reported adversely on the bill to reduce
Pullman rates, but the senate, by q vote of IL
to 9. ordered the bill placed on the calendar.
The senate voted down Senator Harris bill au-
thorizing the issuance of three-year certificates
and life certificates to graduates of the state
university. state normal school and state agri-
| cultural college Senator Pritchard introduced
| bill authorizing an appropriation to erect a
state normal school at Stockton The house
| set Thursday at two o'clock to consider the
SeatOn resolution for a constitutional conven-
ton. Wheatley, OF Cherokee. introduced q
bill making the state oil inspe ctor'S office 2
| salaried office and requiring that all oil inspec
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