Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings of the Biennial Ses-
sion at Topeka, with Record of Bills
Introduced and How Disposed OF.


Introduced and How Disposed OF.
Both houses of the legislature on the
10Th adopted resolutions denouncing the
burning of the negro Alexander at Leav-
enworth. and demanding that a rigid
investigation OF the matter be made The
first bill passed by the senate was one
allowing legislative district to elect a
representative to fill a vacancy within
ten days after the vacancy occurs. SEN
ator White introduced a bill providing
that all township officers be chosen for
two years. Other senate bills were: By
Simons, to enable the state in criminal
case to take a change of venue to an
other county in the same judicial dis
trict; by NOftzger, to repeal the grand
jury law; by Porter, requiring prison.
made goods to be branded; by House
holder, to make the term of tenancy on
farms begin on February 1; by Mcknight,
to prohibit the coercion of employees by
corporations, firms or individuals Among
the house bills were: By Hoag, making
it a felony to employ a child under If;
by Lfngard, eXempting from taxation
mortgages secured by real estate; by
Johnson, prohibiting hypnotism; by
Sweeney, giving counties the right TO
destroy poll books after two years.
In the senate on the 18th Fitzpatrick,
of Chautauqua, presented a bill to create
a state oil refinery in southern Kansas,
also to establish a state salt plant at
Hutchinson. Noftzger, of Harper, wants
the Office of state fire marshal created -.
In the house the following bills, among
others, were presented: To repeal the
Parsons asylum act; to repeal the mort
gage law of 1898; to compel butchers to
keep a record of the brands of cattle they
kill to reduce the legal rate of interest
from 10 to per cent. The house judiciary
committee killed the bills to repeal the
woman suffrage law, requiring preference
to old soldiers in the public service, to
destroy the graindealers' combination and
to rebate taxes on all lands planted to
shade and fruit trees. The bill to prevent
fusion ted
favorably.
The senate on the 18th passed a bill
authorizing Topeka to vote bonds to
cure additional Santa F'e railroad shops.
A resolution against hazing at West Point
went through unanimously. Measures
were recommended for passage fol-
lows: To give preference to claims of
employees against companies which fail;
to give husband and wife the right to
testify against each other in divorce
trials; to require prison-made goods to
be branded. John Martin, fusion NOM
inee for judge Of the Shawnee county
district court who was defeated by T. T.
Hazen, filed a contest in the senate.
Among the senate bills introduced were:
By Cubbison, to increase the salaries of
| supreme judges from $1,000 to 5000 per
year; by Ward, to appropriate $500, 600
for the Kansas semi-centennial EXPOSE
| ton in 1904; to require uniform system
| of bookkeeping in Office of county treas
| urer; to provide for a supervisor of nat
ura1 gas and to prevent the waste of nat
| ural gas; to require the adjutant general
| to turn over to the G. A. r. all tents
| in his possession; providing that at gen.
| eral elections the polls shall open at 8
a. m. and close at p. M. The senate ad-
| journed until Monday....In the house
| Speaker Barker announced his commit
| tees on assessment and taxation and
| state affairs" Emil Grosser is chairman
| of the former and J. B. Remington Of
| the latter. Several local bills were rec
commended for passage, one being TO au-
| thoriZe Anderson county to raise funds
| to build a courthouse. Among the house
| bills introduced were: To punish per-
| sons who ride on trains without transpor-
| tat1On without consent of the conductor;
| to prohibit township assessors from fixing
d fictitious basis of assessment; to drive
| Quack doctors out of the state; to allow
| county superintendent 81 for each school
| visited. The house at noon adjourend
| until p. Monday.
| In the senate on the 21st Mcmillan in
| PRODUCED a bill providing for a railroad
| state auditor, whose duty it shall be to
| examine the books of railroad companies
| and ascertain their receipts and expendi-
| lures, and whether there is discrimina-
| ton. Mcmillan also introduced bill to
| prohibit absolutely the issuing of railroad
| passes. Senator Codding would have the
| schoolbook commission advertise for bids
| for new books at the expiration of present
| contracts. Other senate bills presented
| included the following: BY Smith, requir-
| ing life insurance companies to deposit Sc
| curities with state treasurer equal to the
aggregate value of all policies issued IN
| the state; by Hurrell, levying a fine of
| $500 and a Jail sentence of six months
| for violation of an injunction order in a
| liquor case, and providing for state
search and seizure; by Carpenter, appro-
| priating $4,000 for an executive mansion
| at Topeka; by Cubbison, raising salaries
| of district judges from $500 to $500.
/ In the house ReeS, of Ottawa county, in
| troduced a bill providing that a sheriff
shall forfeit his office whenever a priS-
| oner is taken from his custody by mob,
| and in addition shall be liable for any
| damage that may be done to property
| or person. Other house bills presented
| were: By Honnell appropriating $50 900
| for a Kansas exhibit at the Buffalo eX-
| position; by Stavely. requiring the pay
! ment of road tax in money; by Bowman,
| to tax land mortgages as real estate; by
| Landry, making it misdemeanOr for a
| lawyer to drum up cases; by Mason,
for a commission to revise the Kansas
| statutes; by Butler, to prohibit the en-
| pIoyment of vehicles by candidates or
| officers of political organizations for
| hauling voters to the polls; by Nation,
| requiring railroad companies to have de-
| pots warm for two hours before train
| time; by Lawrence, authorizing the wife
| or guardian of a habitual drunkard to
dispose of his property without court
order. A score of petitions were presented
salt plants. The anti-grain trust bill
was ordered printed. Speaker Barker an
nounced Il house committees and the
house adjourned to 10 a. m Tuesday.
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