Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-25
WHAT THE EXTRA SESSION DID.

| both branches and sent to the governor
for his signature:
An act creating a court of visitation
and placing all railroads under its con-
| troll.
An act to repeal the metropolitan po-
lice law.
An act creating a court of common
pleas in Cherokee and Crawford coun-
ties.
Weilep's bill regulating fraternal in
surance orders.
Legislating number Of farmers into
pharmacists.
An act to vacate streets in Coolidge.
An act authorizing the improvement
of roads in Phillips county.
JOhnson's bill to elect city attorneys
and city assessors in second class cities.
Placing express companies under con-
troll of the court of visitation.
Vacating streets in Wichita addition
to Kinsley
Harbaugh's bill providing for hail in
surance.
An act requiring township treasurerS
to make annual settlements with the
township board.
An act reducing the printers fees in
Rawlns, Norton, Cheyenne and Barton
counties.
An act creating state society of la
Dor.
An act repeating the laws creating
and maintaining the railroad commls-
sioners.
An act appropriating money to pay
the legislative expenses.
Fixing basis for Kansas City stock
yards to charge for feed.
A legislative appropriation act.
An act to decide ties in the election
of officers of second and third class
cities.
An act holding railroads liable for
damage to stock injured in transit, pro-
viding no passes are issued to the ship
per.
Requiring county treasurerS to turn
back to cities of the third class delin
quent road taxes collected from tax
payers In said cities.
An act providing for special school
levy in Scott county.
Transferring money from one fund
to another in the state treasury.
Changing the assessment laws slight
ly.
An act creating a state society of
mines.
LegaliZing Kearny county records.
Legalizing Seward county warrants.
Reducing telegraph tolls and placing
telegraph companies under the control
of the court of visitation.
Zimmer's bill creating board of po-
lice and five commissioners for Kansas
City, Kan.
An act to perpetuate the text book
commission.
An act to compel the district clerk of
Shawnee county to turn over certain
funds to the county treasurer.
y bill enabling county assessors to as.
sess bridges across the Missouri river.
Farrelly's bill taxing insurance COM
panies per cent on their gross premi-
ums received on Kansas business.
Leaving the future maintenance of
the Sumner county high school to
vote of the people.
An act providing for the election of
the state superintendent of insurance.
An act reducing the fees of the state
printer.
Bush's corporation bill.
A legislative appropriation bill.
SOME BILLS THAT FAILED.
Here are some of the pet measures
the pops killed:
To abolish the live stock commission.
To abolish the board of pardons.
To prohibit the sale of cigarettes to
minors.
To reduce the legal rate of interest.
TO repeal the garnishment laws.
To prohibit the sale of prison coal on
the market.
To permit the school fund commits
sioners to lease unoccupied school lands.
TO prohibit railroad companies from
bonding their roads for more than the
actual cost.
To provide for civil service examina-
tions.
70 prohibit pawnbrokers from charg-
ing more than q per cent interest per
month.
Providing for state uniformity of high
school books.
Breidenthal's guaranty fund bill for
the protection of bank depositors.
TO authorize counties to build tele-
phone systems by direct tax.
An anti pass law.
TO repeal the Murray law.
To elect county printers.
Providing for state insurance depart
ment.
To repeal the oil inspection law.
Requiring the governor to sign the
death warrant
Providing for better inspection of
coal mines.
TO repeal the law giving the governor
power to investigate the conduct of
state officers and boards.
A supplemental railroad bill.
A chattel mortgage bill.
n special finding bill.
Initiative and rofapdup,