Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-30
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
judiciary Committee Fixes Upon a Capital
Punishment BilI-WOuld Preserve
the Old Pawnee Capital


Topeka, Kan, Jan. 2G.-The senate
judiciary committee reported favor
ably the bill providing for capital
punishment for murder in the first
degree in Kansas. The bill gives au-
thority to the jury to fix the SEN
tence. That is the duty of the Judge
under the present laws. The execution
must be within the penitentiary walls
at such date as the judge in his SEN
tence may fix, not less than one year
nor more than 15 months after said
sentence.
Senator Mcknight wants the state
to preserve the old building on the
Fort Riley reservation in which the
First Kansas legislature sat, and in
order for the state TO acquire it for
historical purposes, he introduced a
resolution urging congress to give the
state title to one acre of land on which
the old building stands.
The bill to provide for the deposit of
state funds among the various banks
of the state, under proper regulation,
was introduced in the senate by Sem
ator Noftzger, of Harper. 1t provides
that the state funds shall be given
to the banks offering the largest rate
OF interest on state deposits, provid-
ing the banks are satisfactory to the
governor, attorney general and treas
urer, and that they give security for
the deposits. No bank shall be al
lowed to have more state money than
it has paid up capital stock
The senate judiciary committee
recommended for passage an amended
bill introduced by Vincent. 1t pro-
vides that the executive council shall
on the first Monday in July each year
select a newspaper in each county of
the state, which shall be known and
designated the official county news
paper.
Senator Wulfekuhler introduced a
bill providing for the erection of a
bridge across the Kaw at Linwood
Senator Smith introduced bill Gre
ating free employment agencies in
cities of the first and second class,
under supervision of the committee of
labor and industry.
Senator Carpenter introduced "a bill
relative to an appropriation for Il
Kansas exhibit. at the 1908 Louisiana
Purchase celebration at st. Louis.
Sweet presented bill to prohibit
persons stealing rides on railroad
trains; Dooley, to prevent the waste
of natural gas and prescribing a pen
atty for setting fire to gas.
The house judiciary committee rec
commended the passage of Richard
sons county attorney inquisition
bill" The provisions of this, bill were
in the original Murray psohihitory
act, hut the supreme court held that
particular section.x 70 be uncon-
stitutional, because H conferred jul
dicial authority upon the county at
torneys. 1t virtually gives county at
torneys power to compel witnesses to
testify regarding the sales of liquor
Speaker Barker appointed addi-
tional committees Friday. The chair
men are: Political rights of women,
L. p. Hawkins; cities of the second
class. T. L. Hogue; judicial appor-
tionment. Milton +. Pogue.
Both houses adopted the resolutions
drawn up by joint committee de-
ploring the death of Queen Victoria
and extending sympathy to the royal
family.
The bill providing for state board
of barber examiners was favorably
| reported; also the joint resolution
providing for a constitutional amend
ment favoring biennial elections.
Both houses adjourned until four
o'clock Monday