The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-02-10
KANSAS LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


ordinances of this kind, but it is claimed tEat
first class cities at present can not pass such an
ordinance The bill gives cities the power 10
cut weeds In case property owners refuse' ana
charge the costs up against the properly US
other taxes.
Topeka, Jan. 30.-Bills in the house are:
Bill Al, by Mason. To prohibit the mortgage
ing of exempt personal property without Jolh1
consent OF husband and wife.
Bin 4s2, by Adams OF Sedgwick. To make the
office OF police judge in cities of the hrst-ciass
appointive. ,
Bin aSi, by Jaquins. To permit people to fish
with anything except seines and dynamite.
Bill 4S5, by Harper. Toprovide for the trans
fer OF cases in the appellate OF court. -
Bill 4SS, by Wilcox. To regulate undertaKers
The bill provides for the creation OF state
board OF tmb liners to be composed OF nVe
members whose duty it shall be to examine
persons engaged in the embalming business,
and to grant such persons license, II they pc
qualified for the work. License shall cost 90,
and any undertaken violating the act shall De
fined from $50 to 300.
Bill 4S9. by Lawrence To prohibit railroad
companies from employing any but competent
engineers, conduc RS and dispatchers inc
bill requires that engineers shall nave Ser'eu
three years as tiremen.
The board Of charities under direction OF
Senator Jumper, member of the board, mas
asked for the resignation of Matron Mrs. Baer,
of the girls industrial school at Belolt.
The movement to get n bill through the mouse
allowing all fee officers to retain the entire
amount of fees collected by them was choked
black in the face yesterday by the committee on
fees and salaries, which reported Brooke feSo,
luton for n special committee to investlgate
the matter back with the recommendation that
it be not passed.
Topeka, Feb. 1.-The senate by q vote Of Il to
10 has defeated Senator Stones bill abolishins
legislative investigating committees
Senator LupferS bill providing for county
instead of district levy for school purposes
was also defeated.
The bills PASSED by the senate were as fol-
lows:
BY Hart Organizing joint school district Mol.
Norton and Decatur counties.
BY Jumper-Authorizing Usage City to levy
20 mills tax tax for school purposes.
BY CrosSan-Maling receivers appointed by
courts amendable to the laws relating to en-
beZzlcment
BY Titun-Providing state insurance for pub
lie school property.
BY MISUNDERSTANDING roads now in Howard
county, and formerly in Chautauqua county, es'
tabished by officers of Chautauqua county.
BY Anderson edng a small tract of shaw
nee county to Jefferson county TO enable the
latter to build bridge across the haW
The house committee on ways and means eSti'
mates that the appropriations Of the legislature
will keep within S l0O,0J) The appropriations
the legislature of 1897 were s., 4j4 769.0i.
There now are 521 bills in the house. The SEES
sion is neorly four weeks gone, yet only fifteen
bills have passed to third reading
The hovSe passed the senate emergency bill
approprating $500 to rebuild the building at
the Topeka insane asylum, lately destroyed by
fire.
Topeka Feb. 2-The house disposed of every
bill on third reading. Below are the most I'M
pOrtant OF those passed:
House bill %, by Campbell-To provide fol
the appointment OF resident attorneys for nom
resident parties upon whom to serve notices,
papers and records in suits hereafter brought in
the courts of this state.
House bill 5. by Seaver--To prohibit probate
judges from practicing law in their own courts.
House bill 80, by Mason-To amend the law
requiring civil procedure.
House bill So, by Crosby-To provide for the
DISCRIMINATION of partially depopulated town
ships.
House bill 81, by Francis-To authorize the
owners of land not in an Incorporated city to
lay, maintain and operate natural gas pipes for
the purpase of furnishing tho residents on said
lands with natural gas for light and fuel
House bill Is, by Babb-To authorize boards
of counties along the Arkansas river to appre-
pirate money to fight the diversion of waters of
the river.
House bill 81, by Wheatley-To regulate the
carrying Of concealed weapons.
House bill ~, by Masonic amend the en-
be zZlement law.
The DeBard bill-House bill ito amend the
mortgage law, was defeated.
Topeka Feb. 3-Following are important
house bills on second reading:
House bill No. 5s0-An act relating to the state
and local board of health and the practice of
medicine surgery and midwifery regulating the
same regulating the sale Of drugs, ,noStrumS,
and appliances, providing for penal
ties for the violations of its provisions, and be-
ing supplementary TO chapter 129 of the Session
Laws af lsS5-MaSon.
House bill No 567-An act to provide for
lien Of grain for threshing the same, providing
for the enforcement ofsuch lien and prescribing
certain penalties therein.-BeeZley.
House bill No. 572-An act prohibiting the
mayor and any member Of the city council of
cities OF the first, second or third class acting as
adversely to said city in any litigation
in which said city may be directly or indiro silly
interested, and providing penalties for the VIC
latiOn thereof.-WilcoX (by request).
House bill No 59}-An act entitled IAN act to
regulate the assessment and taxation OF prop
erty, to provide for the slection of county boards
Of assessors, and the repeal of laws conflicting
herewith. Adams Of Sedgwick.
John Seaton of Atkinson introduced a reso-
luton in the house this morning requiring all
state boards in buying supplies to secure them
from Kansas firms where articles purchased are
made or handled by Kansas merchants
At this mornings session of the house Bro oke
of Shawnee introduced n bill authorizing a levy
OF onc-fourth OF one mill on each dollar Of taxa
bic property in the state for the purpose of COM
pleting the state house. The bill also authorizes
the executive council to employ state architect
at salary not to exceed $500 per month for the
time actually employed
The Twenty-third regiment of Kan
sas colored men at Santiago will be
out in few weeks
The curfew ordinance in many Kan
sas towns is enforced just about as
rigidly as the prohibition law.
One of the subjects which is upper
most in the minds of western Kansas
farmers at present is the one which
relates to the most economical and adj
vantagious method of heading and
Kaffir corn.
ANY excitement or disturbance of
the animal system always affects the
milk COW. In April, 1898, the Kansas
Agricultural college purchased 12head
of cows from Lincoln county, which
had to be forwarded by rail for over
100 miles. Records were kept from
each individual milking and it was
found that, with the ride, homesick-
ness and change of feed, it took nearly
two weeks for these cows to return to
their normal quantity and quality of
milk. Observations since then have
demonstrated that any unusunl ex-
citement or disturbance always influ-
ence the milk flow.