Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-07
THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


case of insolvency. To give county
superintendent 81 for each school
visited.
The house brought the senate to
time in short>order Wednesday on the
woman suffrage question. Tuesday
night the senate spent two hours dis
cussing the bill to permit women to
vote for presidential electors, and fin
ally passed it. The galleries were
packed with women, and SO was every
available bit of space on the floor of
the senate. Several senators talked in
favor of the bill because they believed
that the house would kill it. But the
house turned the tables Wednesday
morning. Word was sent to the SEN
ate that if the bill came over to the
house the revision committee would
stick it at the top of the calendar and
force its passage. This threat did the
work. The senate reconsidered the
vote by which the bill was passed and
upon roll call the bill only got four
teen votes, seven less than a constitu-
tiOna1 majority. The senators who
voted for the bill last night and
against it today, were: BuschOw,
Crum, FuIHngton, Fulton, Gabriel,
Mcknight and Stewart. Noftzger led
the fight against the bin Tuesday
night and, assisted by the threat of
the house today, he had no trouble in
killing it. The women lobbyists, in
Guiding Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns, of Sa-
lima, and Miss Helen Kimbler, of Par
sons, are greatly chagrined.
Senator Smiths bill making it
crime to steal ride on a railroad
train, was passed by the house Tues
day night. 1t has already passed the
senate. It clothes trainmen with au-
thority to arrest persons.
Every person who shall climb upon,
hold to or in any manner attach him
self to any locomotive engine or
freight or passenger car, or train or
trains of any character, while the
same are in motion or standing still,
or who shall ride or attempt to ride on
any locomotive engine, railroad train
or trains of any character, or in or
upon any part thereof, for the purpose
or with the intent of stealing a ride
thereon, at any place within this
state, shall be guilty of misdemean-
or; provided, that this section shall
not apply to any emplOye of rail-
road company operating such train.
locomotive or car, nor to any other
under legal authority of such railroad
company.
Every locomotive engineer, fireman,
conductor, brakeman or other employe
of any railroad company who shall
knowingly assist, aid or abet any per-
son or persons mentioned in section 1
of this act, in the violation thereof, or
who shall take, receive or accept
money or thing of value from any
person or persons violating section
Of this act, shall be guilty Of INSIDE
meanOr.
Authority is hereby given to and
conferred upon railroad conductors,
brakemen and engineers Of railroad
trains to Immediately arrest any per-
son or persons violating section 1 OF
this act, without warrant or other
process, and to call upon any -bystand-
ers or others for assistance, whenever
the same may be necessary to enable
them to make such arrest.
Every person who shall be convict
ed of a violation of any of the offences
mentioned in the preceding sections OF
this act, shall be punished by impris-
onment in the county Jail for a period
not exceeding thirty days, or a fine OF
| $25, or by both such fine and tmpris-
| onment.
/
Representative Mason's sugar beet
! bounty bill was passed by the house
J Wednesday. The bill provides that
! the states shall give a bounty of 81
per ton for sugar beets raised in the
: state which carry II per cent of sugar
An appropriation OIL $4,000 is made to
pay bounties for the next fiscal year
Mr.. Mason says this is certain to en-
courage the sugar beet growing in
Western Kansas.
The bounty bill was passed in the
face Of the fact that extensive expert
ments by the state agricultural college
! and the United States department OF
agriculture, covering a long series OF
years, have proven all but conclusive
Iy that Kansas is south OF the line OF
profitable sugar beet culture. Very
! few of the thousands of samples OF
sugar beets grown in every section OF
| the state have shown a sufficient per-
centage Of saccharine content to justi-
fy their manufacture into sugar.
When the order of consideration OF
reports was reached Wednesday, Pes
tana, chairman Of the elections COM
mittee, called up the report on the
Buschow-Hop contest. The majority
report was read, followed by the read
| ing of the minority report. Senators
Pestant, Branine, and Morehouse
made brief talks in favor of the adop-
ton of the majority report. The fus-
ionists kept silent The majority re-
port was adopted by strict party
vote Charles Buschow was then call
ed to the stand and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Richter swore him in. Hopkins
vacated his seat and Buschow began
his senatorial duties.
The Leavenworth Chronicle recent
" charged that the Carr Coal Mining
Company of that place was sinking a
shaft in proximity to the penitentiary
! for the purpose of connecting with the