The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-17
TO PUNISH SPOTrERS.
senator Rvan Introduces B,li In the Kan
sas senate Making Detective NCrk
Crime-Otber Mea .urea.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. Ex-senator Ry-
an, of Crawford, has introduced bill
making "spotting" and detective work
punishable. 1t provides that it shall
be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to discharge an emplove
on the accusation of a "spotter" with
out giving him a copy of the accusa-
tion, with the name and address of the
"spotter."
The senate passed the Lupfer anti
oleo bill bv a vote of 2S to 3. One of
the chief provisions of the bill is that
requiring hotel and restaurant keep
ers To place on every dining room table
a card on which shall be printed in
letters one-half inch in height in black
ink IA $ tatement as to the kind OF but.
ter or substitute therefore used.
The senate, by a vote of 81 to 3,
passed the bill amending the state
textbook law. This bill provides for
state uniformity of high school books,
charts, maps and globes used by the
schools of the state.
The bill to allow city councils to pay
the mayors OF cities of the second class
n salary of 5000 year has been recon-
mended for passage by the house com
mittee of the whole. At present the
salayy of mayors of cities of the second
class is 81 year.
The house passed BrooIe's bill pro-
hibiting the practice of hypnotism up
on children. The terms of the bill
are:
! That any person or persons who shall within
I gl.t al. .l.H
aye 10 practice or u 'sist or become a subject la
| giving public, open exhibitions, ssances or
shows Of hypnotiSm, meSmarism, animal
magnetism or so-callet psychical forces shall
| be guilty Of a misdemcuGor and on conviction.
be fined not less than 30 nor more than 100 or
I be imprisoned In the county jail not les, than
/ ten da,s nor more than three months, or by
both such line and Imprisonment
| The house, without n vote in opposi-
ton, passed the Harris bill prohibit
| ing state officers and employees from
holding municipal Offices, by vote
of "a To 0 the house also passed the
Newman bill 20 remove the political
disabilities of all ex-confederates.
Among the other house bill. passed
were the following:
To provide for au inspector OF lead and zinc
mines.
Permitting foreign guardians to institute and
defend suits In the courts OF this state
10 punish body snutchers and persons who
purchase bodies Of them.
Transferring Usage county to the Northern
department OF the court OF appeals
To prohibit probate judges from issuing tenn
porary injunetions to be enforced longer than
the next term OF court
TO protect hotelkeepers, hotels and boarding
house keepers from deudbeats
Giving school boards authority to designate
legal holidays
10 abolish the ONCE OF election commss ion
| er in all hrst-claS cities except Kansas City.
Permitting legal voter to vote In cities Of
the first and second class without registering
under certain res rctions
To prevent the writing OF fire insurance II
the state through dummy agents
Providing for the payment Of poll tax II
cities OF the second class
To permit the inmates of the state soldiers
home to vote at Fort Dodge.
To prohibit the operation OF bucketshops In
the state
Limiting the output Of prison coal TO tn,
needs OF the state institutions and keeping the
product Of the prison mines out OF competition
with free mined coal
Compelling counties to give bounty for vol
and cayote scalps.
To give cities OF the second class enlarged
powers concerning the construction OF sewe
| systemS