Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-01-31
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


u Dill cOn1errlng additional auth0rlf
AMI imposing additional duties on til
state board of health with referenc
to the public supply of water an
sewerage systems, and giving tn
board supervision of waters of tn
state.
Parsons won victory in the asl
lum fight. the house judiciary con
mittee killing the bill to repeal tn
law authorizing the building Of th
asylum.
w. V. Church, state superintendent
of insurance, by Biddle, Of Comanch
county, caused to be introduced il
the house two bills. One is to repea
all laws giving the governor contro
OF the state superintendent of in
surance and the other is to repea
certain laws regulating live stock in
surance companies.
The house committee of the Who'll,
recommended for passage Bucklin'
bill prohibiting combines Of grail
dealers. The bill is aimed at the Kan
sas Grain Dealers association ant
kindred associations.
The house committee of the whole
recommended for passage the bill oil
Adams, of Butler, on the repeal OF
the -four times limit banking law
Of 1897 The act of 1897 was passed
to limit the aggregate loans of state
banks to four times their capital. II
the legislature finally adopts the
Adams act it will make an "open
limit" He argued that the national
banks are not limited and state banks
should not be.
The house in committee of the
whole also recommended the follow
ing bills for passage:
BY Mason, relating TO actions
brought to modify judgments.
BY Mason, relating to proceedings
in error in the supreme court.
BY the ways and means committee,
to appropriate $4,000 for postage for
state board of agriculture.
by Hawkins, to repeal the law Gre
ating Elk county high school.
BY Butler, to require merchants to
provide seats in their stores for clerks.
BY Davis, authorizing Bourbon
county to levy tax to build roads.
BY Harris, to authorize the normal
school regents to sell certain lands.
by Brown, to establish a high school
in Smith county.
by Butler, to prohibit employers
from preventing their employees to
join labor unions.
by Watkins, dlssolving certain
school districts in Reno county and
attaching them to other districts.
by Adams, of Butler, making certi-
fed copies of files in the historical
society competent evidence.
The house killed Smiths wide tire
bill
The house passed the bill requiring
the branding of all convict-made
goods.
Among the other bills introduced
were:
BY Senton, to prevent the sending
Of flowers to prisoners.
BY Seaton, to make train robbery
capital offense punishable by death.
BY Roughton, to prevent the sale
81 patent medicines by peddlers.
BY Seaton, to appropriate 100000
for Kansas exhibit at the st. Louis
by Richardson, TO strengthen the
liquor injunction law,
Seaton will introduce Il bill in the
louse making it u misdemeanor for
'heriffs or iailers to allow persons
% send flowers TO prisoners to "exalt
he prisoner in his or her own estima-
'ion.' The bill is aimed at people
Who become maudlin al times of eel
'brated murder trials.
The senate passed the bin authoriz-
ng the governor to parole prisoners.
The first bill to pass the senate
vas one relating to building bridges
n Anderson county.
The senate in committee of the
Whole yesterday recommended these
'ills for passage;
BY Smith, to permit husband and
vile to testify against each other in
li,orce eases.
by Morehouse, fixing terms of court
n Eighth judicial district
BY Smith, fixing terms of court in
hamilton county.
by Stewart, fixing the terms Of
curt in the Seventh judicial district.
BY Porter, to require prison made
Goods to be branded,
By Smith, to encourage the use of
vide tire vehicles
by Miller, to provide for the consol-
dation of school districts.
BY Morehousc, to prescribe the man
'er in which county surveyors shall
stabIish permanent lines and monu-
nentS.
BY Smith, to prefer the wages of
employees of corporations, partner
hips and individuals in case of in
ohency.
The senate judiciary committee rec
for passage the county at
orney's inqusiiion bill.
The senate committee also favor
IDLY reported the bill to amend the
ury law so as to let intelligent men
IL on iurics.
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