The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-01-25
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE
Condensed Proceedings OF the Biennial Ses-
sion at Topeka. with Record Of Bills
Introduced and How Disposed OF.
Both houses of the legislature on tho
18th adopted resolutions denouncing the
burning Of the negro Alexander at Leav-
| enworth. and demanding that rigid
Investigation of the matter be made. The
first bill passed by the senate was one
allowing a legislative district to elect
1 representative to fill vacancy within
| ten days after the vacancy occurs. Sem
ator White introduced a bill providing
| two years. Other senate bills were: By
! Simons. to enable the state in a criminal
case to take change of venue to an
other county in the same judicial dis
! tr1ct; 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 1; by Mcknight.
to prohibit the coercion of employees by
corporations. firms or individuals. Among
the house bills were: BY Hoag. making
1t felony to employ child under II;
| by Lingard, exempting from taxation
mortgages secured by real estate; by
Johnson. prohibiting hypnotism; by
Sweeney. giving counties the right 20
destroy poll books after two years.
In the senate on the 18th Fitzpatrick
OF Chautauqua. presented bill to create
| state oil refinery in southern Kansas.
also to establish a state salt plant at
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 I'm the public SERVICE to
destroy the graindealers' cOmbinati on and
to rebate taxes on all lands planted to
shade and fruit trees. The bill to prevent
fusion of political parties was reported
favorabIy.
The senate on 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 as fol-
lows: To give preference to claims of
employees against companies which fail:
to give husband and wife the right to
testify against each other in divorce
trials; to require prison-made goods to
be branded. John Martin. fusion NOM
inec for judge Of the Shawnee county
district court who was defeated by L. T.
Hazen, fled contest in the senate.
Among the senate bills introduced were:
By CubbisOn, TO increase the salaries of
. supreme judges from 5000 to $1,000 per
year: by Ward. to appropriate 100000
for the Kansas semi-centennial EXPOSE
ton In 1904: to require a uniform system
of bookkeeping in Office of county treas
urer; to provide for a supervisor of nat
ural gas and to prevent the waste of nat
ural gas; to require the adjutant general
to turn over to the G. A. r. all tents
In his possession; providing that at gen.
eral elections the polls shall open at 8
a. m and close at p. m. The senate adj
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 ]. B. Remington of
the latter. Several local bills were rec
commended for passage. one being to au-
thorize Anderson county to raise funds
to build a courthouse. Among the house
bills introduced were: To punish per-
sons who ride on trains without transport
tatfon without consent of the conductor;
to prohibit township assessors from fixing
a fictitious basis of assessment: to drive
quack doctors out Of the state; to allow
county superintendent 81 for each school
visited. The house at noon adjourend
until p. m. Monday.
In the senate on the 21st Mcmillan in
troduced a bill providing for a railroad
state auditor, whose duty it shall be to
examine the books of railroad companies
and ascertain their receipts and expendi-
ton. Mcmillan also introduced bill to
prohibit absolutely the issuing of railroad
passes. Senator Codding would have the
schoOlbOok commission advertise for bids
for new books at the expiration of present
contracts. Other senate bills presented
included the following: BY Smith, requir- |
ing life insurance companies to deposit Sc
curities with state treasurer equal to the
aggregate value of all policies issued in |
the state; by Hurrell,. levyirg a fine of
$y00 and Jail sentence Of sly "a
for violation of an Injunction order in |
liquor case, and providing for state
search and seizure: by Carpenter, appro- |
priating $4,000 for an executive mansion
at Topeka; by Cubbison, raising salaries |
of district judges from $500 to s., 600. go
In the house Rees, Of Ottawa county, in |
troduced a bill providing that a sheriff
shall forfeit his office whenever a pris-
oner is taken from his custody by mob,
and in addition shall be liable for any
damage that may be done to property
or person. Other house bills presented
were: By Honnell. appropriating $50, 900 !
for a Kansas exhibit at the Buffalo ex-
position; by Stavely. requiring the pay
ment Of road tax in money; by Bowman, |
Landry, making it a misdemeanor for a |
for commission to revise the Kansas |
statutes: by Butler. to prohibit the en-
ployment Of vehicles by candidates or
officers of political organizations for
hauling voters to the polls; by Nation. |
requiring railroad companies to have de- |
pots warm for two hours before train |
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