Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-23
3 KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


AOSAOCACC near Tue SSoNN
house.
Labette and Montgomery counties
are separated from Cherokee county,
the two first named forming a new ju-
dicial district.
Legislators get pay for only so days
but the employees of the two houses
will draw per diem until final ad journ-
ment, and a number of them longer,
who will be kept on the pleathat they
are needed to put things in order.
The house appointed a committee to
revise the calendar: thus measures of
Importance will get to the head and be
first considered.
Committee clerks and doorkeepes
will scatter this week as committee
work is about finished.
The Twenty-first Kansas regiment
has been given the privilege by the
legislature to place tablet in the state
house
The house passed the bill providing
that the railroad assessors shall assess
the express companies: also the bill
preferring the wages of employees of
corporations in insolvency; also giving
county attorneys authority to appoint
stenographers.
The governor having vetoed the bill
requiring the state soldiers home to re-
ceive Robert McCanse and a ii. Nal
authorizing the home to receive them.
The bill authorizing the state board
to assess the property of telegraph
and telephone companies was passed
by the senate.
The house accepted the senate amend
ments to the jury law allowing the
judge to select jurors from bystanders
when the regular panel is exhausted.
The senate passed all of the appro-
It'll L. 81
institutions, aggregating 81, ESQ, 900.
When the house county attorney in
QUESTION bill reached the senate its en-
acting clause was stricken out by a
vote of 10 to II.
Messrs. Babb, of Sebgwick, and
johnson, of Decatur, made speeches
against the bill to organize cadets in
the state colleges, taking the ground
that it is wrong to cultivate a Spirit of
| militarism among young people.
The senate has defeated one of the
| proposed schemes to multiply boards
by defeating the bill for plumb hers
board.
The house passed the county attor-
ney inquisition bill; the anti-grain
| trust bill; the cadet corps bill; the SEN
ate joint resolution for biennial cleo
! tions; the doctors bill for examination
! of doctors and to exclude fakes and
! quacks; forbidding school officers from
| employing relatives as teachers; the
| anti-cigarette bill; the bill for inspec-
| ton of brands on cattle that are to be
! shipped, and butchers to exhibit hides:
! the bill for appointment of officers of
| cities of the second class "a senate BILL:
| the bill allowing counties with more
! than s, 900 people to construct macadam
roads: bill to allow the use of voting
| machines, and forty local bills.
The bill for the completion of the
state house has passed the senate.
The house approved the bill which
places a fine upon each act of selling
or disposing of cigarettes or cigarette
| papers. Favorable action was taken
upon the bill providing for cadet corps
at the state institutions. The good
roads bill was approved. 1t provides q
2-mill general tax for macadam roads
and Is per cent on that amount ON al
property within one half mile of the
road to be improved.
The bill authorizing the use of voting
machines was approved; also the bill
| for re-appraisement Of state schoo
lands
Bills were approved ia the senate fol
mill state school tax and for
mills county school tax; also the bill
requiring registration for primaries
A senate committee killed the bill
for a tuition fee at state institutions.
The house passed the bill to create
court of Cancellation. with judges a
81. 200 pear, TO handle labor disputes
Governor Stanley has vetoed specia
bills granting admittanee to the state
soldiers home on the ground that i
would be a bad precedent.
The house passed bills: to authOriz
cities Of the second class to fund thei
floating debt; to provide for the ap
pointment Of state brand inspectors
for the consolidation of weak schoo
districts; to give Cherokee county
district court of its own; to requir'
boards of county commissioners to pro
vide for the support of county teachers
Institutes.
The bill to change municipal elec
tions from spring to fall was killed b.
the senate committee, and also tn
voting machine bill
The senate killed the bill to Great
; the Office of state fire marshal.
The senate passed two house bills; t
prohibit the sale of morphine, cocain
and choral except upon prescription
and the house school district disorgaI
= ization bill.
The senate passed these senate bill:
to permit towns, townships and coun
ties to dispose OF railroad stock; to Civ
old soldiers the preference in the put
lie service; providing for codifying tn
laws of Kansas
t The senate has passed the bill r.
4 quiring merchants to provide seats fo
women clerks.
The house ways and means commit
: tee killed the bill for the payment c
p outstanding Price raid scrip.
q The senate defeated the bill to rails
the salaries of district judges to s., OO'
L The bill requiring city boards of educ;
: ton to pay the cost of the bonds {
their treasurers was defeated.
4 Governor .Stanley1s parole bill hi
passed both houses.
The house killed the bill for paymeI
o of railroad taxes in cash. The bill al
o thorizing township graded schools
defeated.
o The senate passed bill making tt
possession of liquor evidence OF gui
& of jointists. The same bill is extrem
e ~ stringent in othe particulars. and
t thought to be a cincher on joints,
n Senator Crum, of Linn, introduced
bill for the election of public print&
in and for Linn county. That offici
is to have one-half legal rates for publ