Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-02-14
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings OF the Biennial Ses-
sion at Topeka. with Record OF Bills
Introduced and How Disposed OF.

The legislative apporIionment bill,
agreed upon in republican caucus, was
introduced in both houses on the 6th-by
Fitzpatrick in the Senate and Hayden in
the house. Gov. Staniey's recommended
ton urging the creation of a state fire
marshal to investigate fires was killed
by the senate The bill to require in
Surance companies to deposit about as
much money with the state treasurer
as they received in premiums on Kansas
business for the protection of Kansas
insured was also defeated. The bill to
suppress the practice of hypnotisrn was
passed The joint resolution accepting
the abandoned Fort Hays military rescr-
walton from the federal government
passed both houses. The house adopted
the senate concurrent resolution in
structing the attorney general to begin
suit against the state of Colorado to
prevent it from diVerting the waters of
the Arkansas river. The house fees and
salaries committee reported adversely on
the bill to increase the pay of district
clerks, coroners and probate judges. But
Ter, of Wyandotte, introduced a resolution
to resubmit the prohibitory amendment.
The senate on the 7th passed the follow
ing bills: To provide for the registra-
ton of voters temporarily away from
home; placing Mother Bickerdike homo
at Ellsworth under control of the man
ayers of the state soldiers home; max
ing November and December open season
for quail; giving. state board of health
absolute power to enforce its quarantine
regulations; enabling LeavenWorth coun-
ty to build bridge across the Kaw river
at Linwood. Senator Carpenters resolu-
ton for a constitutional convention was
| killed, II to 16 The senate committee on
public buildings decided in favor of Par
| sons in the state asylum fight and Clay
| Center gave up the fight. The senate
| passed the bill to pay the Santa Fe rail-
| road $43, 900 for bringing the Twentieth
| Kansas regiment from San Francisco to
| Topeka. The house passed the senate
| bill alternating the terms of district court
|
| Pittsburg.
Prohibition won a signal victory on the
| Sth when, by a vote of 81 to 80, the
| house in committee of the whole recon-
mended the bill comforting upon county
| attorneys absolute power to force wit
nesses to testify regarding sales of
| liquor. The senate in committee of .he
| whole, Endorsed Miller's bill requiring
| road taxes to be paid in cash. Senators
Allen and Householder were appointed
| to investigate the charge that certain
state employees were dividing their sal
| aries with state officials. Among the
| bills passed by the senate were these:
| Providing for revision of the statutes;
| changing the date of farm tenancy to
| February l; to raise salaries of supreme
| court judges to 5000 a year; permitting
| the garnisheeing of wages above 81 a
week for grocery bills; giving veterans OF
the civil war preference in state APP
| pointments. The senate refused to name
q committee to visit Hutchinson to IN
| vestigate the feasibility of establishing
| a state salt plant there. The house killed
| the bill urged by Gov. Stanley to pro-
| vide for a tuition fee at the state uni
versity, normal school and agricultural
| college, Mason'S bill making it a INSIDE
| meanor for a person to recklessly handle
firearms was also killed.
| In the house on the 9th Representa-
| tive Weilep introduced a bill providing
| that no lumber firm belonging to COM
| bine shall be allowed to institute a suit
for the collection of debt. Lawrence pre-
| scented a
| It was pushed through to second reading
| and referred to the temperance commit
| tee. The house in committee of the
| whole recommended Martins bill pro-
| Viding that person related to mem
| Der of a school district board S husband
| or wife, son daughter, should be
| eligible to the position as teacher unless
| employed by unanimous vote of the board
also the bill to prohibit the carrying of
concealed weapons. The bill makes a
razor a concealed weapon.
Among the bills passed by the senate
| on the 18th were these: To prohibit the
| practice of hypnotism; to require mer-
| chants to furnish seats for clerks; to
| give sheriffs authority to summon by
| ISLANDERS as jurors; to give inmates of the
| national soldiers home at Leavenworth
| the right to vote in the county they came
from. The senate killed these measures:
| To change municipal elections from
| spring to fall; for voting machines; pro-
! hibiting candidates for Office from hiring
| hacks. The house recommended for pas
| sage the good roads bill and the bill au-
| thorizing a cadet corps at the three state
| educational institutions. Nofztger, of
| Harper, introduced a bill giving the
| guardian of an habitual drunkard the
right to sell the property of the drunkard.
| Weilep presented bill in the house pro-
| Viding for separate schools for white and
| colored pupils in secOnd-claSs cities. The
| house passed the bill providing punish
ment for a husband who abandons wife
| or child.