Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-01-25
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
condensed Proceedings of the Biennial Sess
sion at Topeka. with q Record of Bills
introduced and How Disposed OF.

condensed Proceedings of the Biennial SEES.
sion at Topeka. with Record of Bills
introduced and How Disposed OF.
The senate and house met in joint ses-
sion at high noon on the 18th and bal.
foted for state printer. w. Y. Morgan
(rep.) received 103 votes and Grant W. !
Harrington Qusion) AZ votes Morgan was
declared elected. Senator Cubbison'a
doubleheader bill, introduced in the SEN
ate, was prepared by the Railway Train
mems organization. The whole system
of managing the three state educational
and agricultural col3ege-wfn be changed
In the event the .Branine b.;l introduced
In the senate becomes law. 1t wipes
out all of the three boards OF regents
and creates one board of six regents 20
run all three institutions, Among the
other bills presented were the following:
to enable nine Jurors to retu-l verdict:
to give 81 ton bounty on sugar beets
containing II per cent. of sugar and ap-
propriate $4,000 to pay the same. This
measure is to promote the beet sugar
industry In Kansas; to permit thraShers
to have lien on the grain foe their pay
to repeal the fish warden law; to repeal
all equal suffrage laws: to pay the rail.
roads $4,000 for hauling the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers home: to pay the wages
OF employees first out of the assets of
corporation or firm that has failed; for q
constitutional amendment to do away
with the 500 exemption allowed the heads
of families: to amend the pre:,ent election
law so as to prevent fusion; to make thu
positions of city clerk, marshal, street
commissioner and assessor in cities of thu
second class appointive; to pl Divide for the
establishment Of civil service in the state
institutions: to amend the Contempt law
SO that jury trial cannot be demanded:
to give man or wife the right to testify
against each other in divorce cases; ~
| abolish the days of grace on notes; to ex-
empt the garnishment of wages under s6
a week; to restore the citizenship of in.
mates of the reformatory; to permit
school districts to drill for gas; to provide
for deeds Of trust: to amend the grant
jury law, making it more difficult to OBJ.
tain a grand jury; to consolidate school
districts in sparsely settled communities
of the state. to be settled by a vote Of
the residents of the districts Interested:
to require all life and fire insurance
companies doing business In Kansas tc
deposit. with the state treasurer bonds
or other securities in the sum of the
premiums received for Kansas business.
Both houses of the legislature 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 a 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 a 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 I; by Mcknight.
| to prohibit the coercion of employees by
corporations, firms or individuals. Among
| it felony to employ child under Il;
| by Lingard, 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.
| 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 1893; to compel butchers to
| keep 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. tic
| destroy the graindealers' combination and
| to rebate taxes on all lands planted to
| shade and fruit trees. The bill to prevent
| fusion of political parties was reported
| favorably.
| The senate the 18th passed a bill
| authorizing Topeka to vote bonds to Sc
| cure additional Santa Fe 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 tc
| testify against each other in divorce
be branded. John Martin, fusion nom.
inee for judge of the Shawnee county
district court who was defeated by Il. T
1 HaZen, filed a contest in the senate
| Among the senate bills introduced were
| By Cubbison, to increase the salaries OF
! supreme judges from 5000 to S., 900 pei
year; by Ward, to appropriate s30a, O0(
| for the Kansas semi-centennial exposi-
ton in 1904; to require a uniform system
of bookkeeping in office Of county treas
urer; to provide for supervisor of nat
ural gas and to prevent the waste of nat
ura1 gas; to require the adjutant general
| to turn over to the 6. A. r. all tents
in his possessions; providing that at gen
eral elections the polls shall open at
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.
| thorfze Anderson county to raise funds
| to build a courthouse. Among the house
bills introduced were: To punish per
suns who ride on trains without transport
tation without consent of the conductor
to prohibit township assessors from fixing
| fictitious basis of assessment: to drive
quack doctors out of the state; to allow
county superintendents 81 for each school
visited. The house at noon adjourenc
| until p. m. Monday.
WIN Not Issue Reward for Arrest.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 17.-Gov. Stan.
| lev decided last NIGHT that be would
not issue an offer for a rev. II fol
the arrest of the perpetrators of Tues
days negro burning in Leavenworth