Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-02-16
: KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


sion ut Topeka, with q HoDoro Oh baib
Ihtroduced and ffow Dispossd o.
Prohibition won q signal victory on the
sth when, by q vote OF 81 20 30. the
house in committee Of the whole recon-
mended the bill comforting upon county
attorneys absolute power to force Wit.
nesBes to testify regarding sales OK
LIQUOR. The senate In committee Of The
whole, Endorsed Miller's bill requiring
road taxes to be paid In cash. Senators
Allen and Householder were appointed
to investigate the charge that certain
state employees were dividing their sal
aries with state officials. Among the
bills passed by the senate were these:
Providing for a revision Of the statutes:
changing the date OF farm tenancy 10
February 1; to raise salaries Of supreme
court judges to 5000 q year; permitting
the garnisheeing Of wages above " q
week for grocery bills; giving veterans Of
the civil war preference In state APP
pointments. The senate refused to name
a committee to visit Hutchinson to IN
vestigate the feasibility Of establishing
n state salt plant there. The house killed
the bill urged by Gov. Stanley to pro-
vide for q tuition fec at the state uni
college. Mnson's bill making It a misde-
firearms was also killed.
In the house on the 9th Representa-
tive weilep introduced a bill providing
that no lumber firm belonging to COM
blne shall be allowed to institute suit
for the collection Of debt. Lawrence pre-
scented a bill to legalize joint-smashing.
II was pushed through to second reading
and referred to the temperance commit
tee. The house in committee OF the
whole recommended Martins bill pro-
vidlng that no person related to MEM
ber Of a school district board as husband
or wife, son or daughter, should be
eligible to the position rs teacher unless
employed by unanimous vote OF the board;
also the bill to prohibit the carrying OF
concealed weapons. The bill makes
razor q concealed weapon.
Among the bills passed by the senate
on the 18th were these: To prohibit the
practice OF hypnotism; to require mer-
chants to furnish seats for clerks; to
give sheriffs authority to summon by
ISLANDERS as Jurors: to give inmates OF the
national soldiers home Mt Leavenworth
the right to vote In the county they came
from. The senate killed these measures:
To change municipal elections from
spring to fall: FOR voting machines: pro-
hibiting candidates for office from hiring
hacks. The house recommended for pas
sage the good roads bill and the bill au-
thorizing q cadet corps at the three state
educational institutions. Nofztger. Of
Harper. introduced bill giving the
guardian of an habitual drunkard the
right to sell the property OF the drunkard.
Weilep presented bill In tho house pro-
viding for separate schools for white and
colored pupils In second-class cities. The
house passed the bill providing punish
ment for q husband who abandons wife
or child.
Both houses on the 18th passed Senator
Miller's good roads law. Under Its pro-
visions the county commissioners have
absolute control Of the construction and
Improvement of public roads. BY vote
Of &c to 81 the house passed the county
attorney ''inquisition" bill. enabling q
more rigid enforcement Of the prohibitory
law. The anti-grain combine bill passed
the house. 81 to s. Both houses passed the
bill providing for biennial elections In
each county. BY a vote Of O. to 81 the
house passed the bill prohibiting school
boards employing relatives as teachers.
unless by unanimous vote OF the board.
The senate killed Cubblson's trust deed
law. The house killed Seatons bill max
ing train robbery q capital offense. The
senate, by q vote OF IS to 10. killed Smiths
bill prescribing hanging for first-degree
murder. Green. Of Cowley. introduced q
bill providing for q state dispensary
which shall be modelled after the state
dispensary In South Carolina. except
that Kansas will make no profit on liquor
sold ana will compel state dispensing off,
GERS to purchase the best liquor In the
market. BY eliminating profit Mr.. Green
expects Il TO be easier to drive out Joints
and saloons.
The Kansas senate on the 18th. by
vote OF "a to Z. passed Smiths substitute
to Cubbisons deed Of trust law, which In
reality Is the reestablishing Of the old
mortgage law which was repealed In 1893.
The senate spent an hour in debating tenn
perance measures. A bill was passed re-
iating to the illegal sales Of liquor. de-
claring places where II was sold to be
nuisances and providing means for county
attorneys to suppress them. Senators vot-
ing In the affirmative were: Allen. Bra
nine. CLANCY. Coddlng. Crum. Fitzpatrick.
Fullington, Henley, Householder. Hurrel.
Kennedy. King, Miller. Morehouse, Nor
row, Nofztger, Pestana, Peterson, Ross.
Simons. Smith, Sponable. Stewart. White
and Wright. Senator's voting In the neg
alive were: Carpenter. Fulton. Gabriel,
Mcknight, Mcmillan, Vincent. Ward and
wulfekuhler. Senators absent or not
voting were: Caldwell. Conrad. Cubblson.
HOPKINS, Porter ana Iupp. Inc senate
passed the bill authorizing district Judges
TO select jurors to I'LL vacancies on the
Jury from bystanders. The house passed
q bill making II a misdemeanor for any
person to sell cocaine. morphine or chlo-
raj except upon the prescription Of ply
sician. The house judiciary committee re-
ported adversely on weilep's bill permit
ting debtor to repudiate any mechanics
lien for lumber II he proves that the
holder OF Il belongs to trust. The house.
in committee of the whole. recommended
for passage the bill providing for board
of Cancellation and arbitration. It Is not
a compulsory arbitration act.
The Wreck Relieved to he the Lucerne.
st. Johns, N. F., Feb. 14.-It is al
most certain that the steamship Lu-
cerne was the victim of the disaster
near Bacalieu. A message from the
agent to the owners yesterday even
ing said: Unidentified wreckage, the
same as Lucerne's fittings, found at
Lead cove" The owners and mariners
conversant with the facts agree that
the ship has gone. Her loss involves
30 lives, 90 of her own crew and seven
others, shipwrecked seamen and pas
sengers.
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