The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-13
sumE KANSAS HAPPENINGS.

ld,ws Passed ut the JDeciaI setAiCa.
The special session of the Kansas
legislature ended Monday. 1t assem-
bled on the afternoon of December %.
and after 10 working DAYS IT. quit with
record of having passed 35 bills Fol-
lowing are the more important bills
passed and signed nv the governor:
To authorize treasurers Of cities Of the third
class to compromise delinquent road taxes
Creating the court OF visitation for the con-
troll of railroads
Providing for the taxation Of insurance and
guaranty companies four per cent of the gross
premiums of foreign companies and two per
cent OF the gross premiums OF American COM
panies
Repeating the metropolitan police law
Creating court OF common pleas for Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties. subject to vote of
the people
Requiring state society Of labor and indus
try, whose secretary shall be the state labor
commissioner
Creating the State Association of Miners.
whose secretary shall be the state mine in
spector
Authorizing mutual companies to insure -
against loss by hail
Providing for the organization and regulation
Of fraternal beneficiary societies.
Amending the stock yards law in relation to
charges
Reducing telegraph tolls and placing tele-
graph companies under the control of the court d
of visitation.
Amending the schoolboolS law
Providing for the election OF city attorney
and city assessor in cities OF the second class.
Repeating the old railroad commissioner law.
To determine ties in the election of officers in
cities Of the second class.
Placing express companies under the control
Of the court of visitation
Reducing the fees Of state printer.
Creating the board of fire and police COM
msSioners Of cities Of over 10000 inhabitants
For the creation OF private corporations.
This act requires, among other things, that
corporations shall pay fee of one.tenth of one
per cent Of their capital stock to obtain q
charter
Providing for the election Of state superin-
tendent Of insurance In 1870
For the correction Of evils Of the Australian
election law The bill provides that only one
local ticket may be placed under the same
party appellation.
Following are some of the bills in
troduce that failed to pass:
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 commissioners to
lease unoccupied school lands
10 pTonlOlI TallfOau companies from bonding
their roads for more than the actual cost
To provide for civil service examinations
To prohibit pawnbroEers from charging more
than "a per cent interest per month.
Providing for state uniformity OF high school
books
Breidenthals guaranty fund bill for the pro-
lection OF bank depositors
TO authorize counties to build telephone sys-
tefs Dv direct tax
An ant-pass law
TO repeal the Murray law
TO elect county printers.
Providing the state insurance department.
To repeal the oil inspection law.
Requiring the governor to sign the death
warrant
Providing tor better inspection OF coal mines
TO repeal the law giving the governor power
to investigate the conduct OF state officers and
boards,
supplemental railroad bill
chattel mortgage bill.
a special finding bill.
Initiative and referendum.
IiesubmiSSion.
Constitutional convention.