The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-04-11

emergency, a bill was passed providing
Tor the organization of cadet corps in
all the colleges of the state These
corps viii be disciplined and trained
Just soldiers are
The temperance element of the state
had its wants fully satisfied in the en-
acoment OF three laws which strength
en- the Murray law and will enable the
o1ncers to enforce constitutional pro-
hiol1lon II they or their constituents
want 1T enforced The laws enacted
TINS session We're the Hurrel nuisance
Oil, the county attorney bill and the
Bowman bill, giving the prosecntine,
witness the right to employ counsel
to assist the county attorney in the
prosecution of the case.
The maintenance of schools in the
sparesly settled districts of the west
has always been big burden to the
limited number of taxpayers of that
section This Legislature came to their
relief by enacting a law providing for
the wholesale consolidation of school
districts in sparsely settled cornnuni-
ties and giving the authorities the
power to provide transportation for
pupils to and from school.
In the future the Mother Biclerdike
home at Ellsworth will be maintained
by the state 1t has been a private in
stitution in the past. However, the
state viii now take care of the aged
mothers and wives of soldiers the
same as 1t does of the soldiers them
selves.
y couple of measures were. passed
which viii result in the more prompt
payment of taxes. The principal one
gives a county the right to foreclose
On property after having bid it in for
three years in succession for taxes and
sell 1T, giving an absolute title. The
other gives county the right to rent
property taken in tax sale. These
laws viii lead people to pay their tax
es- If they don't they Will lose the use
of it and also the title to it after
three years.
Kansas viii never Il gain be disgraccd
with prize fights. Gov. Stanley got
through stringent bill against that
brutal sport and in order to shut up
every loOp-hole the bill makes it a
crime to engage in 4 boxing match.
Several bills were passed of direct
benefit to the 1aboring classes. Hoag's
bill relating to foreclosure on purchase
money liens will enable homeseel<ers
to borrow money and build homes
Under the old mortgage law this could
not be done Laboring men can now
get homes built and pay for them on
monthly payments. Another bill that
brings then welcome relief is the, one
which prefers the wages of employees
OF corporations, partnerships and in
dividuals in case of insolvency If a
firm goes to the wall now the wages
of its employees must be paid before
any other claim The bill to require
| merchants to provide seats in their
stores for their employees is the third
Dill OF benefit to employees, especially
women clerks.
The sugar beet bounty law which
gives farmer 81 ton on all sugar
beets raised by him which carries IL
per cent. sugar is certain to de-
ve1op the sugar industry of west el.-l
Kansas.
Tramps will have hard sledging in
| the state after this. Or rather they
will have a hard time riding, for a
bill was passed making it crime to
steal a ride on n railroad train and
clothing the trainmen with authority
| to make arrests for the violation of
| the act.
In the past counties issued bonds
to aid railroads and in return got
stock in the roads which they could
not sell. They had to meet the bonds
all right but could not sell their
stock They We're generally frozen out
of that through the REORGANIZATION
scheme After this they can dispose
| of their stock and apply the proceeds
| to the payment of the bonds for a bill
authorizing that to be done WAS
| passed.
| An industry which was given a dead
| ~ blow by the Legislature was that of
| train robbery Under n law passed
train robbery is made crime punish
able by life Imprisonment in the pen
| itentiary.
Farmers row join mutual hail
insurance concerns without fear Of be-
| ing gold bricked,'' for the reason that
a stringent law governing the organi-
cation and operation of hail insuran
concerns enacted.
Big oil concerns can no longer waste
| natural gas in the gas and oil belts.
In the past il the oil companies in
| boring for oil struck gas they would
| let it all escape and then resume their
| boring for oil The legislature en-
acted a law prohibiting the waste of
natural gas and fixing heavy penalty
| for its violation.
Big estates, or in fact estates of any
| size, will not escape taxation in the future
as bill was passed requiring probate
| judges to list the property of all estates
/ for taxation
Merchants in the various towns of the
I state will be protected from fakirs
through the new law against t.peddlers-''
The Carpenter bill providing for the de-
portation of nonresident insane paupers
will save the state at least 500 coo a year.
Kansas has been the dumping ground of
other states for years 1t will play that