The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-03-01
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings Of the Biennial Ses~
sion at Topeka, with q Record Of Billa
introduced and How Disposed OF.

Condensed Proceedings OF the Biennial SeSs
sion at Topeka, with q Record of Bills
Introduced and How Disposed OF.
The senate passed the bill of Peterson,
OF Norton, providing for the appointment
| of board of tax commissioners to revise
the tax laws of Kansas. The board Is to
be made up of two senators, appointed by
the president of the senate. and three
members of the house, appointed by the
speaker of the house. The senate dis
posed of the Buschow-Hopkins contest by
seating Buschow (rep.), by q vote of
q to 6. The house passed Hurrelrs bill
relating to the sale of liquors, declaring
places where 1t is sold Illegally to be nui-
sances The bill has already passed the
senate and now goes to the governor. The
vote for passage stood 70 to g. By vote
of 50 to A the house refused to advance
the "double-header" bill to third reading
and have it made a special order. This
is regarded the death blow to the bill.
The textbook bill, which is practically a
re-enactment of the present fusion law,
was recommended for passage by the
committee of the whole in the house.
MO LEG
The senate on the 21st decided the SEN
atorial contest of Land vs.. Caldwell, from
Bourbon county, in favor Of Caldwell
(fusionist), the sitting member. Branine in
the senate and Butler in the house pre-
sented bills providing that any person
convicted of raping a woman under Is,
carnally or unlawfully, or of forcibly
ravishing a woman older, be punished by
confinement at hard labor not less than
five nor more than q years, and shall in
addition be unsexed. The senate appro-
priated $4,000 to buy blooded cattle for
the state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan. The railroad bill. adopted by the re-
publican caucus, passed the senate by
unanimous vote. The bill to provide free
kindergartens in the public schools in
second-class cities was killed. The house
passed Representative Millar's bill pro-
hibiting the double taxation of cattle. It
Is designed to make cattle feeding in Kan
SaS easier. The house passed Landry'S
bill providing for free employment
agencies in cities of the first and second
class. The house passed a resolution in
troduced by Davis, Of Bourbon, in favor
of the election of United States senators
by direct vote.
Each house devoted an hour to the OBJ
servance of Washingtons birthday on
the I'D. The senate recommended for pas
sage these bills: Providing for the de-
portatiOn of nonresident insane persons,
paupers and other dependents; to repeal
the alien land law; authorizing the or
ganization of companies to run farms;
giving the school fund commissioners the
right to compromise the bonded indebted
ness against certain Kansas counties The
fee and salary bill of Branine, of Harvey,
was discussed by the senate in commit
tee of the whole and recommended for
passage. 1t raises the salaries of county
officers on an average of about ten per
cent. By strict party vote the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for an executive man
sion passed the house. A fight was made
on the bill appropriating $4,000 to pay
the Santa Fe for bringing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco, but
1t passed the house as it came from the
senate.
When McMillan's resolution for the ini-
IN, fbo
senate on the 23d, motion to indefinitely
postpone was carried. The bill to make
road taxes payable in cash was defeated.
The senate appropriated $500 to maintain
the live stock sanitary board. The Par
sons asylum bill passed both houses AMI
was sent to the governor. The house, by
a vote of Il to Is, passed the Grattan
schoOlbook BILL The house passed the bill
appropriating $4,000 for governors man.
sion and the bill appropriating $41, 900 to
pay the cost of carrying the Twentieth
Kansas regiment from San Francisco to
Topeka. Gov. Stanley has signed the
house bill prohibiting the sale of NOR
phfne, cocaine and choral except upon
prescription: also the bill providing for
voluntary disorganization of school dis
tricts and making arrangements to con-
vey children to school in sparse districts.
BY vote Of 81 to 8 the house on the
18th passed the railroad bill. which pre-
passed the Kansas national guard a nob BIZ
providing among numerous other things.
annual encampments of the militia COM
panies. The house passed the bill reap
Forthcoming the state into senatorial and
representative districts: Halletts bill
providing for biennial elections was rec
commended for passage by the house in
made the following appointments and
Regents of the agricultural collegeF. D.
Coburn, Wyandotte: J. S. Mcdowell,
Smith: r: j. Brock. Riley. and s. J.
Stewart, Allen; Directors Of the peniten-
Norton; Mark Tully. Montgomery. State
Fort Scott; The senate passed the fol:
loving bills, among others: To repeal
to provide for the deportation Of pauper
insane people; to provide for an increase
In the fee for the inspection of grain;
to authorize the organization of farming
corporations; providing for a uniform
urers offices; to prohibit persons stealing
rides on trains. The legislature had a
joint session to witness the presentation
to the state board of agriculture by
banner won for Kansas butter at the ST.
Paul convention last week.
Massacre of Missionaries and Children.
London, Feb. 26.-The Reuter- Tele-
gram company has received the fol-
lowing from Shanghai, dated Febru-
airy &c: prince Tuan, Prince Chwang
Lu and Gen. lung Flu Hsiang are still
taking refuge at Hing Hal Flu, prov
ince of Kan Su. Two native Chris
tians from Kui Hua Cheng, in the
northern part of the province of Shan