The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-09
NO INDIANS DELEGATES
House Committee of the whole Votes
TO Keep Leahy Out.

| Guthrie, o. T., Feb. S.-(Special)-Ihe
! house in committee of the whole this af-
ternoon voted against the admission Of
| the duly accredited delegate from the In
dian reservations. The question of admit
| ting II. J. Leahy as a delegate from the
| Usage country came up on the motion of
! Representative Doyle that Mr.. Leahy be
| allowed seat in the house during the
| balance of the session. Representative
Thomas offered a substitute that the GER
| tificate be not recognized and no special
privileges be accorded the holder thereof. |
| Messrs. Doyle and Hadley IN support OF
the original motion, contended that the |
| residents of the Indian reservations were
| obliged to pay heavy taxes to Oklahoma !
and as a matter of simple justice they |
should be accorded representation in the |
legislature. Mr.. Thomas. speaking for the !
substitute motion, contended that the real
citizens of the reservations, the Indians |
were not seeking representation, and de-
nounced the white people living on the |
reservations as persons who had moved |
there to live off the bounties distributed |
among the Indians by the government. The
substitute was adopted by a vote of y to 8. |
The house was somewhat SHY in at
tendance this morning, six of the men,
bers. Representatives Wood Wilkin, Nal
ley, Olmstead, Clarke and Smith being alb
sent to visit the Colored university at
IIangston and report as to the needs of
that institution. Four bills were taken up
and passed: House bill 40, by McElrath,
regulating the practice Of medicine; house
bill IS, by Holiday, repeating section 45,
chapter Is. of the session laws of 1897 lin
oscfc IF met aF |
house BID S. by Hartshorn, changing the
name of Mrs. Ella Lumpkins Of Alva, o.
T., to Mrs. Ella Clarke; house bill 3d. by
Merton, exempting from taxation the notes
and mortgages Of building and loan as
sociations chartered, organized and doing
business in this territory, and which are
given by the members of such association
upon real estate located in the territory,
and which real estate is subject to taxa
ton under the laws of the territory.
The house in committee of the whole
this afternoon reported unfavorably on
house bill No. so, 10y Jones, authorizing
cities and towns to issue bonds for pub
lie improvements; on house bill 116. pro-
viding for trial before justices of the peace
without intervention of a jury in certain
cases; on house bill 81. providing for
board of equalization; on house bill 10, re-
lattng to equalization boards; house bill
81. limiting the powers of the territorial
board of equalization.
The following new bills were introduced
in the house this morning:
No. 1913. by Jones Cby request)-An act to
regulate the practice of barbering, Great
ing territorial board of examination and
inspection. commissioners, and prescribing
penalties for violation of the act.
No. 194. by Doyle-An act TO secure liens
of judgments of probate and justice courts
and provide for their enforcement.
No. 135, by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
paragraph SO and repeating para graph "a,
article l, chapter 10. laws of 1898. relating
to trials before justices Of the peace.
No. 1885, by Sherer-An act authorizing
the town of jefferson, Grant county, to
issue bonds for public buildings.
Representative Williamson has two
nephews in the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment in Manila.
Representative Stevens is distributing
Roy Cashion buttons to his friends in the
legislature.
The fatal defect in the present law gov
erning the inspection of burning fluids is
the lack Of penalty provision. The pres
ent legislature viii ro-ce.y this.
That the house acted wisely in not rush
ing through the bill authorizing cities TO
issue bonds for public improvements IS
shown by the fact that already half the
towns in the territor yare preparing TO
issue bonds for public buildings.
l. f. Niehart. a Guthrie man. wants a
legislative appropriation to aid him in ex-
perimenrng on a process for the extinc-
ton of bugs and insects.
The members of the legislature last
night attended Z complimentary perform
ance at the opera house given by the era
ham-EarIe company.
The Democrats and PO9UIsts Of the |
lower house are prepared to make a hard
fight on the Havens bill for a constitu-
tional convention unles amendments are
accepted that viii ensure Democratic and
Popuiist representation IN the convention.
''GristmiH' Jones got his first rebuff
when the house voted TO convent az 10
O'Clock. instead Of O'Clock. as heretofore.
Cost OF Nicaragua Canal.
The estimates as TO the cost Of construct
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