Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-02-09
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings Of the biennial sss-
, sion at Topeka, with Record Of Biils
introduced and How Disposed OF.

The senate IN committee Of the whole
on tho LIST pushed through the Pcstana
anti-fuslon bill. The measure was adopt
ed by a strict party vote. even Senator
Leidy. who had opposed certain provi-
sions OF the bill. lining UP with the re-
publlcans. Among the senate bills intro
duced were: Appropriating 5000 for O
monument to the late Cyrus X. Holiday
at Topeka; to make train robbery q cap
ital offense; to give voters absent from
homo an opportunity to vote; making
wife or child abandonment a misdemeanor
1.-THE house passed the Joint resolution
to accept the abandoned Fort Hays reser-
walton.
The house passed many bills on the
I'd. with barely q quorum. Among them
were: To require merchants 10 furnish
seats for their clerks: to pay jurors In IN.
sane cases whether the person Is adj
Judged insane or not: to give Douglas
county the right to build q bridge over
wakarusa river; authorizing Leavenworth
county TO build a bridge over the Kaw
river at Linwood; to change the name
Of the village OF Charlottesville. Chase
county. to Clements; to provide for cap
ltal punishment for flrst-dcgree murder.
Among the bills introduced were these:
Making the term OF state bank commits
sioner two years and fixing the salary at
5000 per year. instead Of $500; exempting
from jury duty attorneys, physicians.
pharmacists, preachers. teachers. ferry
men. flremen and oil persons over 60
years OF age; to make splitting IN
churches, schools and other public build
ings q misdemeanor.
Among the bills passed by the senate
on the 9Th were the following: To allow
husband and wife to testify against each
NhaR a.. 30 Inf
sparsely-populated districts; to require 200
petitioners for a grand jury; prohibiting
"double-headers' on railroads Among
the bills introduced were: By Henley.
providing for convict labor on the pub
lie roads: to repeal the allen land law;
instructing the attorney general to pro-
coed against Colorado irrigation COM
panies that are divertlng the waters of
the Arkansas river.
The house In committee of the whole on
the 9Th recommended for passage Bow
mans fish bill II absolutely prohibits
the catching OF fish In any Kansas stream
except with hook and line. Nation. OF
Neosho. introduced the Textbook bill pre-
pared by the Legislative committee of the
state teachers association. The house
then passed the bill by Adams to allow
bankers to loan more than four times
the amount of capital stock. Grattan in
troduced Gov. Stanley's bill providing for
the payment OF a SIS tuition fee for adj
mission to the university. normal school
or agricultural college. Seaton, OF Atchi-
son, introduced his bill to prohibit the
marriage OF person under indictment
or In jail. Among the bills passed by the
senate were the following: BY Smith. to
encourage the use Of wide tire vehicles
by exempting such vehicles from taxation;
by Smith. giving townships the right to
establish free libraries; by Crum to make
the quail season November and Deem
Der: by Miller, to provide for the i'm
provement OF public roads: by Tapp. to
require merchants to FURNISH seats for
their employees, for use when they are not
waiting on customers. The Pestana anti
fusion election bill. by n vote OF % to 6, |
was passed by the senate.
The legislative apportionment bill. as
agreed upon In republican caucus. was
introduced In both houses on the 6th-.by
Fitzpatrick In the senate and Hayden In |
the house. Gov. Stanley's recommended |
tion urging the creation OF a state fire |
marshal to investigate fires was killed |
by the senate. The bill to require in
surance companies to deposit about as |
as they received In premiums on Kansas |
business for the protection OF Kansas |
insured was also defeated. The bill TO |
suppress the practice of hypnotism was |
passed. The joint resolution accepting |
the abandoned Fort Hays military rescr-
walton from the federal government |
passed both houses. The house adopted |
the senate concurrent resolution In
structing the attorney general to begin
suit against the state OF Colorado TO
prevent II from diverting the waters Of
the Arkansas river. The house fees and
salaries committee reported adversely on
the bill to increase the pay Of district
clerks, coroners and probate Judges. But
Ter. OF wyandotte. introduced a resolution
10 resubmit the prohlbltory amendment.