Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-02-18
KANSAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.


Special-A bill amending the law regarding
the assignment OF mortgages was passed
The total number of bills in the house up to
date is 651, nearly 200 less than the total num-
Der introduced at the session of two years ago.
Every day now the senate and house have a
batch OF petitions introduced. against result
mission signed by the people all over the state.
bout 5000 names have already been sent in
protesting against resubmitting the prohibition
It takes 10000 to pay the mileage Of the mem
bers OF the house alone. and probably two-t thirds
The man in the house who had to travel the
greatest distance to get to Topeka is Josiah
Cheyenne county. He travels 942 miles and
gets SI42-
Topeka, Feb. About the first thing the
house did this morning after the chaplain's
prayer was to adopt resolution commencing
Senators Baker and Harris for their vote to
ratify the peace treaty Monday. Not vote
was given IN opposition to the adoption of the
resolution. The fight at Manila failed to cause
the excitement here that a much less important
engagement did during the with Spain.
The bill making grave robbery felony was
passed on third reading with only two votes
against it in vote of 81, only 90 voting on the
The oIeo bill which died so unanimously last
Saturday in the house, has come to life again In
the senate Senator Lupfer of Pawnee has .
bill. similar to the one introduced in the house
by GrosSer, prohibiting the sale of colored Oleo
Lupfer says he intends to make it a law, for
getting how many strong men have fallen by
the wayside in fighting oleo.
Heretofore persons selling mortgaged proper
ty in Kansas were not guilty OF felony unless
law was changed, so far as the house was con-
cerned, this morning, by the passage OF a bill
lowering the amount to twenty dollars, by u
vote of &C to 80.
Topeka, Feb. s.-The house today passed
Represen tatiVe McKeeverS bill to readjust the
fees to be paid the Superintendent of insur-
ance. The bill leaves the fees the same at
preSent. except that Kansas companies do not
have to pay the 81 fee for registering policies
1t is designed to foster home companies.
The senate at 2 o'clock this afternoon took up
as a special order the educational committee
bill to compel Kansas high schools to adopt the
| books provided by the state law passed in 1897
This bill also provides that no books, maps
| to Kansas schools until first approved by the
state school text book commissioners.
The state labor society which adjourned last
night adopted constitution which provides
for an assessment of five per cent upon all la
Dor organizations of the state. the money to
be applied in doing work not provided for IN
a resolution was adopted requesting the leg
islature to enact law authorizing the payment
of per diem and mileage to the members of the
society the as is now paid to the members
of the state board Of agriculture.
Topeka Feb s-The senate committee on
cities of the second class, Sheldon chairman has
recommended for passage Senator Anderson s
bill changing the boundary line between Pot
win and Topeka, moving the same from the
west side Of West street TO the center OF the
street
Representative Brooke's bill to prohibit max
ing subjects of school children in hypnotic ex-
hibitions was passed by the house today by a
vote of IS to 6.
Representative Brooke has introduced the
bill into the house to make appropriations for
the Improvement of the reform school and it is
now in the hands of the ways and means COM
mittee. 1t makes an appropriation OF S35.OO0
| for new cottage large enough for IS boys,
| $4,000 for industrial building in which the
boys may be taught manual trades. s., 600 to re-
| place the barn which was burned some time
ago, and 80 600 for general repairs.
The board of pardons law seems destined to
| remain on the statute books. Notwithstanding
Representative Fairchild'S repeated efforts to
| have it repealed and Governor Stanley'S rec
with.
| Topeka, Feb. lO.-There was brief quarrel
| in the senate today during the discussion of
Senator LupferS'S BILL defining butter, ana re-
curing all butter and oleomargarine to be la
/ belled, so consumers by the sign
| what they are eating if they can not otherwise
discern the difference between butter and oleo-
margarine.
| The special pharmacists bill, by the provis-
| ions of which lot OF alleged druggists are au-
| chaSers, has passed the house, but it did not
! have many votes to spare. The vote stood 6s
for the bill TO % against it. It requires 63 TO
pass a bill. Six names were added to the bill
| by the committee public health when it
| came up for final passage, making total OF
| forty druggists who are given the special priv
| ilege. allowed pharmacists, without first prov
ing tiId1 IheE eIG " %, II u ufS ~
passing an examination before the state BOARD
The bill to limit the output of the peniten-
tiary coal mines to the needs OF the state 1nstl-
| tutions, and which caused considerable dis
| cussion in the house committee of the whole q
few days ago. has been passed by the house by {
vote OF "A to A.
Tol1eka, Feb. 1.-THE senate suspended the
! rules and passed the house bill appropriating
O9O7;'9 to pay Lawrence citizens moneys o!
house and electrical engineering machine shops
and to replace the machinery, all belonging Il
! the educational equipment of the university
and which was destroyed by fire March on I'D
1898.
| The house committee of the whole has turned
down Mr.. Brool5e'S bill to prohibit officers from
J acknowledging deeds in blank The bill made
persons who signed the blank deed guilty of
rnisdemeanor, and this is what defeated TIT
bill
| 1t has been the custom of all previous Iegisla
lures for the sergeant-at-a to furnish al
members with pocketknives part of the
stock of supplies All state purchases of tina
character are made through the secretary O
state, and Secretary of State Clark has stopped
the supply of knives for members of the house
whole recommended for passage Senator Ton
Anderson's bill creating new city court in To
courts to civil recovery suits involving no NOR
than 81.
Advertisements of real estate anC
loan agents are beginning to take VI
considerable space in many of th'
Kansas papers
An effort was made last week at st
Marys to get the citizens interested il
a waterworks project. 1t did not catcl
on, however, and the project has beer
abandoned.
A Kansas boy at Manila says tina
human bones litter the ground in tn
vicinity of the old prisons just as but
) falo bones used to lie scattered owe
the prairies of Kansas.
Humboldt, with a population o
: something in excess of sixteen hun
} bred. has sixteen secret societies.
Some years ago coal was diseovere'
in the vicinity of Logan. In the spring
a shaft will be sunk for the purpose O
5 ascertaining how extensive the deposi
is, and whether it will pay to work ii
The discovery of coal would be
great thing for northwest Kansas
People in the eastern part of the stat
who kick on the price Of coal woul
A fall dead if they had tosput up for fue
as is done in western Kansas.
l The one lone. solitary wolf that rel
3 resented the net result of a circle hun
: down in Summer county was kille
l with a club.
The car containing the new mi
: chinery for the brick plant has a
r rived at Cherryvale where an engin
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