Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-03-02
BANKING BILL LOST.
Measure Framed bv the Kansas House
Ranking Committee Fails to Pass
Important BlIIs Meet with Favor.

Topeka, Kan, March 1.-The hous,
yesterday killed the banking bill
framed by the house committee OF
banks and banking. On final vote fol
passage the measure received only 4
votes.
! Inc penitentiary appropriation bill
which gives the institution S297, OO(
the next two years. passed the house
An effort was made to strike out the
allowance ofSl, 500 for tobacco for con.
vlcts, out 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 office OF police Judge in
cities OF the first class appontiye instead OF
elective was passed
The Dill 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
hrst 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.
Fairchild moved to strike out the enacting
clause and the motion prevailed.
Bill by committee on militia reorganizing the
national guard Of Kansas passed 1t is along
economical lines and does away with one major
general, two brigader generals and other ap-
pendages to the governors staff
BIZ passed appropriating s2l. O7s to reimburse
various persons for individual subscriptions
toward the Kansas display at the Omaha ex-
position Gov. Leedy pledged that those con-
tributing would be repaid
Bill appropriating s244, 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
reimbursed by the state biennially
Banking committees bill to authorize treas
urers OF cities, townships, lodges and other or
CARNATIONS to make general deposits in banks
was killed
An act to prohibit township assessors in q |
county from getting together each spring and |
liking basis for valuation OF personal proper
ty was passed.
The bill by Senator Cooke to author
lze 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-
ng George W. Crane to revise and
publish the statutes of Kansas,
The senate passed Senator Hanna's
Dill supplemental to the Farrelly anti
rust law of 1897. 1t makes void and
uncomfortable any evidence of in
|ebtedness given in whole or in part
or any commodity manufactured by
ny trust or combination.
Among the other senate bills adopt
d were the following.
TO protect farmers from expressions by ele.
ator men and to prevent combinations in re-
trant of trade.
10 provide penalty for coerclng or making
emands that employees of corporations or in
ividuals do not belong to labor unions
Authorizing the department commander of t
he Kansas g r. to report to the governor
lnualy and providing that the board OF county
city councils of all cities and
wnshlp boards shall have authority to grant V
lie use of any public buildings, or portion L
creof to posts of the grand army, without ex- a
'nse or at nominal cost
To provide for the taxation of insurance con-
acts with companies not authorized to do
lsiness in Kansas