The Iola register., 1899-03-03
BANKING BILL LOST.


Topeka, Kan, March 1. The house
yesterday killed the banking bill
framed by the house committee on
banks and banking. On final vote for
passage the measure received only As
votes
The penitent tiary appropriation bill,
which gives the institution S207, 900
the next two years, passed the house.
An effort was made to strike out the
allowance of 81, 500 for tobacco for con-
Vlcts, but the members thought that
men who were in the habit of using
tobacco should not be deprived of it.
The house disposed of number of
bills, among them the following:
The bill making the onice OF police Judge in
cities OF the first class appointive instead Of
elective was passed
The hill creating the office OF custodian OF
the capitol and statehouse grounds was passed
Bill by the committee on taxation restrict
ing the levy for school purposes In cities OF the
first class to six mills killed. 1t was shown
that the passage OF the bill would curtail the
terms OF school from nine months to six
Fairchlld moved to strike out the enacting
clause and the motion prevailed
Bill by committee on militia reorganzing the
national guard OF Kansas passed. IL Is along
economical lines and does away with one major
general two brigadcr generals and other ap-
pendages to the governors stan "
Bill passed appropriating t2i. 0f2 to reimburse
various persons for individual subscriptions
toward the Kansas display at the Omaha ex-
position Gov Lecdy pledged that those con-
tributng would be repaid
Biz nppropriatng t2ti l2s for the care OF the
destitute and insane for whom there Is no
available space in the state asylumS The
various counties pay this amount out and are
REIN mbursed by the state biennialy
Banking committees bill to authorize treas
urcrs OF cities townships, lod res and other or
ganizations TO make general deposits In banks
was killed.
An act to prohibit township assessors in n
county from getting together each spring ana
fixing basis for valuation of personal proper
ty was passed.
The bill by Senator Cooke to author
iZe the state school fund commission
ers to loan the school funds on real
estate was killed in the senate. There
were II votes for the bill and II against
it. Twenty-one are required to pass
bill.
The senate killed the bill authoriz-
ing George w. Crane to revise and
publish the statutes of Kansas
The senate passed Senator Hanna's
bill supplemental to the Farrelly anti
trust law of 1897. 1t makes void and
non-enforceable any evidence of in
debtedness given in whole or in part
for any commodity manufactured by
any trust or combination.
Among the other senate bills adopt
ed were the following:
To protect farmers from expressions by ele-
vator men and to prevent combinations In re-
straint of trade.
To provide penalty for coercing or making
demands that employees OF corporations or in
dividuals do not belong to labor unions
Authorizing the department commander OF
the Kansas G.. A Il. to report to the governor
annually and providing that the board of county
commissioners. city councils OF all cities aud
township boards shall have authority to grant
the use OF any public buildings, or portion
thereof to posts of the grand army, without ex-
pense or at n nominal cost
TO provide for the taxation OF insurance con-
tracts with companies not authorized TO do
business in Kansas