Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-02-28
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings of the Biennial SEES.
sion at Topeka. with Record OF BflIs
Introduced and How Disposed OF.

| The senate passed the bill Of Peterson
OF Norton, providing for the appointment
Of board of tax commissioners to revise
| the tax laws of Kansas. The board is tc
be made up OF two senators, appointed by
| the president of the senate and three
members of the house, appointed by the
| speaker of the house. The senate dis
posed of the BuschoW-Hopbins- contest by
seating BuSchoR (rep.), by vote OF
q to g. The house passed HurrelPs bill
relating to the sale of liquors, declaring
places where l. is sold illegally to be null
sances. The bill has already passed the
senate and now goes to the governor The
vote for passage stood IS to g. By a vote
of 50 to fl the house refused to advance
the 'double-header'' bill! 90 third reading
and have it made special order This
is regarded the death blow to the bill
The textbook bill, which is practically a
re-enactment of the present fusion law
was recommended for passage by the
committee of the whole in the house
MO LEG
The senate on the 21st decided the SEN
atoria1 contest of Land VS.. Caldwell, from
Bourbon county, in favor of Caldwell
Gusionist), the sitting member. Branine in
the senate and Butler in the house pre-
convicted of raping a woman under Is,
carnally or unlawfully, or of forcibly
ravfshing a woman older, be punished by
confinement at hard labor not less than
five nor more than q years, and shall in
addition be unsexed. The senate appro-
priated $4,000 to buy b1ooded cattle for
the state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan. The railroad bill, adopted by the re-
publican caucus, passed the senate by
unanimous vote. The bill to provide free
kindergartens in the public schools in
second-class cities was killed. The house
passed Representative MilIar's bill pro-
hib1ting the double taxation of cattle. It
is designed to make cattle feeding in Kan
sas easier. The house passed Landry's
agencies in cities of the first and second
class. The house passed resolution in
troduced by Davis, of Bourbon, in favor
of the election of United States senators
by direct vote.
Each house devoted an hour to the OBJ
serEance of Washington's birthday on
the 22d. The senate recommended for pas
sage these bills: Providing for the de-
portation of nonresident insane persons,
paupers and other dependents; to repeal
the alien land law; authorizing the or
ganizatiOn of companies to run farms;
giving the school fund commissioners the
right to compromise the bonded indebted
ness against certain Kansas counties. The
fee and salary bill of Branine, of Harvey,
was discussed by the senate in commit
tee of the whole and recommended for
passage. It raises the salaries of county
officers on an average of about ten per
cent. BY strict party vote the bill an
propr1ating $4,000 for an executive man
sion passed the house. A fight was made
on the bill appropriating $4,000 to pay
the Santa Fe for bringing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco, but
II pcSS0Q the mousse as II came the
senate.
When McMil1an's resolution for the mi
tiative and referendum came up in the
senate on the 23d, a motion to indefinitely
postpone was carried. The bill to make
road taxes payable in cash was defeated.
The senate appropriated So 600 to maintain
The live stock sanitary board. The Par
sons asylum bill passed both houses AMI
was sent to the governor. The house, by
vote of II to 25, passed the Grattan
schoolbook bill The house passed the blu
appropriatfng $35, 600 for governors man
sion and the bill appropriatfng $4,000 to
pay the cost of carrying the Twentieth
Kansas regiment from San Francisco to
Topeka. Gov. Stanley has signed the
house bill prohibiting the sale of NOR
phine, cocaine and choral except upon
prescription; also the bill providing for
voluntary disorganization of school dis
tricts and making arrangements to con-
vey children to school in sparse districts.
BY vote of 81 to the house on the
viousiy passed the senate. The house
passed the Kansas national guard bill
annual eneampments OF the militia com
pan1es. The house passed the bill reap
representatiYe districts. Haiiett's bill
providing for biennial elections was rec
committee Of the Whole. GOV Gov Stan Stanley ~
made the following appointments and
Regents of the agricultural College,. D.
SSohipthFn' WYan66otte; j s: McDowe4,
SInlIns X. j. Brock, R1Ioy, ana >. j.
Stewart, Allen. Directors of the peniten-
tiary-E. G. Elicit, Butler; E. E. Ames.
Norton: Mark Tully, Montgomery. State
agent at Wa,sghlington--W. w. Martin,
lowing bills, among others: To repeal
the four-tines limit of the banking law;
to provide for the deportation of pauper
insane people; to provide for an increase
IN the fee for the inspection OF. grain;
to authorize the organization of farming
corporations; providing for a uniform
system Of keeping books in county treas
urers offices; to prohibit persons stealing
rides on trains. The legislature had a
joint session to witness the presentation
to the state board of agriculture by
the State Dairymen's association of the
banner won for Kansas butter at the st.
Paul convention last week.
Massacre of Missionaries and Children.
London, Feb. 26.-The Reuter- Tele-
gram company has received the fol-
lowing from Shanghai, dated Febru-
airy 90: ''Prince Tuan, Prince Chwang
Lu and Gen. Tung Flu Hsiang are still
taking refuge at Hing Hal Flu. prov