The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-03-08
LEGISLATURE ADIoURNs.
Kansas Solons Dispose Of Numerous BTls
During the Closing Hours-Gov. STAN
ley's AppOintees Confirmed.

Both houses passed the bill raising fees
/ Tor charterfng corporations on the 9th
and sent 1t to the governor. Mason's bill
encouraging the cultivation of sugar beets
passed the house. The bill carries an ap-
| preparation of $4,000 to be expended in
payments of 5000 year to farmers
The equal suffrage bill introduced by
| Senator Morehouse. which scored q vic
tory In the senate Tuesday night and was
passed by vote Of % to Ii. was up before
the senate again Wednesday and killed
In short order. Lawrence's concurrent
resolution relating to salaries and mileage
OF legislators was adopted by the senate.
It provides that the salary shall be $500
for the session instead of s. a day. The
senate killed the anti-cigarette bill.
Among the bills passed were: Giving
county superintendent 81 for each school
visited: appropriating 10000 to complete
penttentiary offense; making 1t a crime
to steal rides on trains; to exempt fra
ternal associations, insurance companies
and building and loan associations. or
ganized under the laws Of the state Of
Kansas, from city license tax.
The senate on the. 18th killed the bill
to assess property at it's cash value. The
senate passed the bill abolishing off-year
elections for county officers. The senate
passed a bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
st. Louis exposition and $4,000 for the
Buffalo exposition The plan to hold q
Kansas scmi-centennial exposition in
1904 has been declared off. Senator Ward
had the bill to appropriate $500. COO struck
from the senate calendar. Hayden's leg
islative apportionment bill passed the
senate. 1t has already passed the house.
The senate for the second time defeated
the Scott bill. authorizing western Kan
sas counties to compromise their bonded
indebtedness. Both houses passed the
newspaper libel bill. 1t provides that
when newspaper publishes a fair re-
traction of a libel, the plaintiff in a dam
age suit against such paper shall be al
lowed only actual damages. The senate
passed Senator Whites bill providing for
q more rigid inspection of cattle brought
into the state from below the quarantine
line. Among the other bills passed were:
Providing for reappraisement Of western
school lands; creating state board Of
registration and providing for the ex-
animation Of physicians; providing for
the organization of mutual hail associa-
tons; providing for the issuance of bonds
to build irrigation bitches; providing for
the appointment Of cattle brand inspect
ors to inspect stock shipped out Of western
counties.
In the house on the LIST Chairman Fran
els, OF the ways and means committee,
presented the miscellaneous appropria- |
ton bill. It carries $14S SAG. The leg
islature voted 500 each to every private |
hospital In the state. The house killed |
the appropriation for a $4,000 exhibit at |
Buffalo and passed the senate bill ap-
prOprlatlnS $I5,OOO Tor the st. Louis eX-
position in 1903. Gov. Stanley notified the |
legislators that he had signed the bill |
abolishing off-year elections. Senator |
V1ncent's garnishment bill was defeated |
In the house. It provided that all wages |
over 81 a week should be taken for debt. |
Carpenters bill requiring a universal /
system of keeping. books I'm the various |
county treasurer's offices Of the state
has been defeated in the house.
The 1901 session of the Kansas legfsla-
ture practically came to close at mid
night on the I'd. Among the bills passed |
during the closing hours were: Making
wife and child abandonment crime: to
encourage tree culture by exempting land
planted in trees from taxation; author
ling the publication of an additional
$500 copies of Secretary Coburn's biennial
agricultural report; providing for a
bounty Of 81 a ton on sugar beets; pro-
hfbiting members Of school boards from
employing their relatives as teachers G. |
G. Clemens presented bill Of 81, 200 for
attorneys fee in arguing the validity of |
the special session of 1898, but it was
rejected. Gov. Stanley sent these nomi-
nations to the senate, which were con-
drmed: E. B. Jewett, of Wichita, to be
warden of the Kansas penitentiary; to be
Of the state normal SCHOOL, B.
Kellogg, F. j. Altowager and ]. H. Glot-
teller.