Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-02-07
KANSAS LEGISLATURES.
Condensed Proceedings of the Biennial Ses-
sion at Topeka. with a Record Of Bills
Introduced and How Disposed OF.

By a vote of Y TO AZ the house on the
Both seated Owen (rep.), the contestant
for the seat of Hackett CUSTOM, of Bour-
bon county. Among the bills recon-
mended for passage We're: For biennial
elections; prohibiting boards of education
from employing relatives as teachers;
requiring mutual hail insurance eompa-
MES to deposit $59,0 coo with the treasurer
of state; to prohibit the sale OF cigarettes.
Adams, of Butler, presented a bill to
consolidate the reformatory and peniten-
tiary boards Biddle has a measure to
fix the fees of insurance road agents.
at $40 per day....In the senate the fol-
lowing bills were recommended for pas
sage: TO appropriate S35, 900 to build
or buy a governors residence in To-
peAa; to give county attorneys additional
power to force people to give testimony
against jointists: to give husband and
wife the right to testify against each
other in divorce cases.
In the house on the 31st the judiciary
committee killed Riling's bill to abolish
the days of grace on notes. The educa-
ton committee killed the bill for the es-
Establishment of state normal at Con-
cordia. LandFey's bill to prohibit jackIeg
lawyers from operating was also reported
unfavorably. Hayden presented petit
ton signed by 500 people urging the legis-
lature to pass a compulsory education
law. The senate passed Porter's bill
amending the law of 1898 which created
the state association of mines. The prop
osition to change the constitution to wipe
out off year elections was referred to
the judiciary committee. The bill to
Quire farmers to trim their hedge fences
was knocked out by the committee on
roads and bridges. The cigarette bill was
recommended for passage by the temper
ance committee. The senate committee
on state affairs killed the bill recon-
mended by Gov. Stanley to place the
three state educational institutions under
one board of regents.
The senate in committee of the whole
on the LIST pushed through the Pestana
anti-fusion bill. The measure was adopt
ed by a strict party vote, even Senator
Leidy, who had opposed certain provi-
s1ons of the bill, lining up with the re-
! publicans. Among the senate bills intro
duced were: Appropriating S., 600 for a
monument to the late Cyrus K. Holiday
| at Topeka; 70 make train robbery cap
| 1tal offense; to give voters absent from
| home an opportunity to vote; making
wife or child abandonment misden eanor
THE house passed the joint reso tuition
to accept the abandoned Fort Hays r2ser-
| walton.
The house passed many bills on the
I'd, with barely a quorum. Among them
| We're: To require merchants to furnish
seats for their clerks; to pay jurors in IN :
| sane cases whether the person is tid-
| judged insane or not; to give Douglas
| county the right to build q bridge over
| Fakarusa river; authorizing Leavenworth
county to build bridge over the Kaw
river at Linwood; to change the name
| of the village of Charlottesville, Chase
| county, to Clements; to provide for cap
| 1ta1 punishment for fIrSt-deSree murder.
| Among the bills introduced were these:
| Making the term of state bank commits
| sioner two years and fixing the salary at
| 1000 per year, instead of $500; exempting
| from jury duty attorneys, physicians,
| pharmacists, preachers, teachers, ferry
| men, firemen and all persons over &C
| years of age; to make splitting N
churches, schools and other public build
| ings a misdemeanor.
Among the bills passed by the senate
| on the 4th were the following: To allow
/ husband and wife to testify against each
! other in divorce cases; to consolidate
/ sparsely-populated districts; to require zoe
| petitioners for a grand jury; prohibiting
| ''double-headers'' on railroads. Among
/ the bills introduced were: By Henley
| providing for convict labor the pub
! lie roads; to repeal the alien land law
/ instructing the attorney general to pro.
! coed against Colorado irrigation com
| panies that are diverting the waters OF
/ the Arkansas river.