Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-07
: KANSAS LEGISLATURE.



which requires county commissioners
to appropriate 500 to assist in conduct
ing normal institutes.
Among the many bills passed in the
closing hours of the session was the
bill sustaining the contract made with
the people of Lansing when they deed
ed their lands to the state for the use
of penitentlary, that they should get
their coal supply of the state at about
what it cost.
The bill to authorize the state board
of assessors to assess the property of
telegraph and telephone companies is
passed.
The county attorney inquisition bill
was somewhat modified and passed. 1t
is thought to have been shorn of the
weaknesses of the old law.
The doctors got through their bill
for a board of examiners at last.
The law permitting the establish
ment of mutual livestock insurance
companies was repealed.
The house finally killed the appro-
priation for the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo.
Money was voted for all the private
hospitals in the state.
The bill was passed giving cities of
the first, second and third classes the
right to grant franchises to light, water
and power companies.
The bill championed by Mr.. Rreiden-
thai relating to the organization and
control of trust companies was passed.
The biennial election bill has been
signed by the governor.
The bill to allow old soldiers at the
soldiers home to vote passed the sem
ate.
Both houses :have passed and the
governor has signed the act which
makes a prize fight "a misdemeanor,
with Jail penalty limited to one year.
A proposition to submit to the voters
at the 1902 election an increase of the
pay of members of the legislature has
been adopted in both houses. 1t pro-
poses to pay members $500 for attend
ing the regular session and SIS day
for special session, together with ae-
tual travelling expenses in lieu of mile
age. Regular sessions are not limited
as to the length, but the constitution
limits SPECIAL session to 80 days.
The senate Judiciary committee APP
proves the bill giving counties the right
to lease lands held by tax title.
The senate defeated a second time
the bill to permit the school fund board
to compromise bonds of western coun-
ties.
The legislative apportionment was
sent to the governor.
The Legislature made the Quindaro
negro school u present of 1000.
The house having cut out the addi-
tions to salaries of state house clerks,
and for a number of other officials. from
the executive and judicial appropria-
lions as passed by the house, the senate
put back their former figures and sent
the bill back to the house
The legislature has passed a bill
making train robbing punishable by
imprisonment, the limits being for life
and for ten years.
The special Legislative apportion-
ment bill making the legislative and
commissioner districts the same in
Sedgwick county is passed.
The bill relieving counties from pay
ing uncollected state taxes 60 the state
is passed. By bill which has passed
the Beloit Industrial School for girls
can purchase IS acres of land which it
now leaS eS.
The senate, after ordering 1000
worth of calendar holders, reconsidered
the action.
The house ways and means commit
tee decided to adversely report the ap-
preparation for the Kansas semi-cen-
tennial exposition. The committee
recommends $50, 600 for a Kansas ex-
hibition at Buffalo and sec, 900 for one
at st. Louis.
The house passed the legislative ap-
portionment bill. The anti-fusion
election bill has passed the house and
gone to the governor.
The bill giving women the right to
vote for president died on the calendar
The same fate was met by the resolu-
ton of sympathy with and encourage
ment to the Beers.
The bill which gives county the
right to acquire absolute title to prop
erty bid in at tax sale for three success
sive years, is passed by both houses.
Senator Smiths anti-hobo bill has
gone to the governor. 1t gives train
men authority to arrest trespassers on
trains.
The Kansas agricultural appropria-
tions, as passed, includes $40, 900 for a
herd of thorough bred stock.
The Parsons asylum appropriation
was extended for two years by the ac-
ton of both houses.
All of Governor Stanley's appoint
ments up to date were confirmed by the
senate.
The senate threw away the whole
batch of bills relating to county Off
GERS fees and passed bill relieving
sheriffs, district clerks county clerks,
treasurers, and probate judges.
The house killed the bill to prohibit
persons from stealing rides on railroad
trains.
The house passed the railroad bill
with nearly a unanimous vote, the
same as the senate had done.
The double header railroad bill was
defeated.
The cattlemen had four bills passed
by the senate giving the Live Stock
Sanitary commission more authority;
providing for inspection of brands of
cattle before shipping; preventing
dou bic taxation on cattle; permitting
gates to be placed across roads inside
their pastures.
The house passed the Grattan text
book bill and the senate will consider
all the bills of that sort at one time
under special order.
Bills were reported adversely to the
MUSE W eSIapilsn minimum rate Tor
fraternal life insurance.; to keep light
ming rod agents out of Kansas; to give
| second and third class cities the right
to vote for ownership of waterworks;
for taxing franchises; to stop hiring
convicts to manufacturers; to create a
| state fish hatchery.
The senate passed the bill providing
for ventilation of mines.
The house has passed the railroad
bill and sent it to the governor. The
bill establishes a board of railroad
commissioners with power to fix and
enforce rates when complaint is made
of unjust discrimination.
Both houses responded to message
from the governor concerning prize
fighting and in a very short space of
time a bill was nassed hu both honsar