Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
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3 KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

by the senate.
The house accepted the senate amend
ments to the jury law allowing the
judge to select jurors from bystanders
when the regular panel is exhausted.
The senate passed the bill repeating
the mortgage redemption law.
The senate passed all of the appro.
priation bills for the support of state
institutions, aggregating 1,250, 900.
When the house county attorney in
QUESTION bill reached the senate its en-
acting clause was stricken out by a
vote of 10 to II.
Messrs. Babb, of Sebgwick, and
johnson, of Decatur, made speeches
against the bill to organize cadets in
the state colleges, taking the ground
that it is wrong to cultivate spirit of
militarism among young people.
The senate has defeated one of the
proposed schemes to multiply boards
by defeating the bill for a plumbers
board.
The house passed the county attor.
ney inquisition bill; the anti-grain
trust bill; the cadet corps bill; the sem
ate joint resolution for biennial cleo
tions; the doctors bill for examination
of doctors and to exclude fakes and
quacks; forbidding school officers from
employing relatives as teachers; the
anti-cigarette bill; the bill for inspec-
ton of brands on cattle that are to be
shipped, and butchers to exhibit hides;
the bill for appointment of officers of
cities OF the second class Ia senate bill);
the bill allowing counties with more
than 5000 people to construct macadam
roads; bill to allow the use of voting
machines, and forty local bills.
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state house has passed the senate.
The house approved the bill which
places fine upon each act of selling
or disposing of cigarettes or cigarette
papers. Favorable action was taken
upon the bill providing for cadet corps
at the state institutions. The good
roads bill was approved. 1t provides a
2-mill general tax for macadam roads
and Is per cent on that amount on all
property within one half mile of the
road to be improved.
The bill authorizing the use of voting
machines was approved; also the bill
for a re-appraisement of state school
lands.
The bill to change municipal cleo
tions from spring to fall was killed by
the senate committee, and also the
voting machine bill.
Bills were approved in the te for
a 2 mill state school tax and for
mills county school tax; also the bill
requiring registration for primaries.
A senate committee killed the bill
for tuition fee at state institutions.
The senate has passed the bill re-
quiring merchants to provide seats for
women clerks.
The house passed the bill to create
court of Cancellation, with Judges at
81, 200 pear, to handle labor disputes.
Governor Stanley has vetoed special
bills granting admittance to the state
soldiers home on the ground that it
would be bad precedent.
The house passed bills: to authorize
cities of the second class to fund their
floating debt; to provids for the APP
pointment of state brand inspectors;
for the consolidation of weak school
districts; to give Cherokee county a
district court of its own; to require
boards of county commissioners to pro-
vide for the support of county teachers
institutes.
The senate killed the bill to create
the Office of state fire marshal.
The senate passed two house bills; to
prohibit the sale of morphine, cocaine
and choral except upon prescription;
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ization bill.
The senate passed these senate bills:
to permit towns, townships and coun-
ties to dispose of railroad stock; to give
old soldiers the preference in the pub
lie service; providing for codifying the
laws of Kansas.
The house ways and means commit
tee killed the bill for the payment of
outstanding Price raid scrip.
The senate defeated the bill to raise
the salaries of district judges to S., 900.
The bill requiring city boards of educa-
ton to pay the cost of the bonds of
their treasurers was defeated.
Governor Stanley's parole bill has
passed both houses.
The house killed the bill for payment
of railroad taxes in cash. The bill au-
thorizing township graded schools is
defeated.
The senate passed a bill making the
possession of liquor evidence of guilt
of jointists. The same bill is extreme
ly stringent in othe particulars, and is
thought to be a cincher on joints,
Senator Crum, of Linn, introduced a
bill for the election of public printer
in and for Linn county. That official
to have one-half legal rates for publ
cations coming from the county clerk S
| Office and full rates for all else, with
local commercial rates for job printing
The governor has approved the bill
for the holding of district court at
Pittsburg.
The senate passed the house bill for
a heating plant at the Winfield imbe-
Gle asylum.
The bill providing for a restoration
of capital punishment was killed in
the senate.
Senator Miller's good roads bill has
passed both houses. Constitutional
majority was barely secured in each
house.
The bill to prohibit the practice of
candidates hiring carriages to carry
voters to the polls was killed in the
house.
Morton Albaugh prepared the bill to
| re-apportio1 the state into representa-
tive districts.
Mr.. Green of Cowley introduced a
state dispensary bill, and repeating the
drug store license law.
The deed of trust bill met its fate in
the senate when the clause was reached
which provides that the money received
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credited on the note.
The leaders declare that the railroad
bill will be like the old commissioners
law with the provision added giving
the commission the right to go into the
courts to enforce their orders. The
main fight will be as to who shall elect
the commissioners.
The bill is approved by committee
which provides for raise of the sal
aries of the district clerks of Harvey
and Mcpherson counties to $1,000 a
year.
Committees are. as usual, travelling
over the state, inspecting the state in
situations.
The house passed the Allen county