Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-14
/: KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

general to handle the irrigation suit
against Colorado.
Both houses have agreed to send
joint committee to confer with the
Missouri legislature about .anti-grain
trust legislation. The house commit
tee on employees decided to discharge
81 employees.
A senate committee has killed the
scheme to create the Office of state fire
marshal
The house passed bills: To permit
quails to be killed in November and
December; to pay the expenses of the
travelling libraries; for maintenance of
the state soldiers home; to pay the
Quantrel raid claims
Senator Smith has a bill making
lynching crime punishable by death
or life Imprisonment.
The house passed the bill to pay the
Santa Fe for bringing home the Tween
tieth Kansas; also the bill to provide
for registration of voters who are away
from home; the Mother Bickerdyke
Home bill; the bill giving the state
board of health absolute power to en-
force quarantine regulations.
The senate passed the house bill for
the destruction of prairie dogs.
The legislative superintendent bill
Under it Greeley county loses its repre-
sentative and is attached to Wichita
county. Brown county gains one rep
resentative. Atchison city and the
county outside are now separate dis
tricts; the bill divides both city and
county in forming new districts. wv
andotte and Douglas counties are
treated in a similar manner. Several
other counties are changed to fit the
differences in the growth of their
towns. Sedgwick county is so divided as
to give each district = portion of the
city of Wichita.
Both houses have adopted the joint
resolution accepting the Fort HAYS
reservation from congress.
Secretary Barnes of the Horticultur-
al society has secured what he was
after from the egislature-addition
powers and fair treatment.
The farmers in the senate killed tho
bill to require attorneys to pass exam
ination.
The Mother Bfckerdyke home al
Ellsworth will be adopted as state
institution.
Both houses have declared against
repeating the law to create another in
sane asylum.
The senate has passed the bill sug-
gested by the governor for the parole
of prisoners.
The house, by a vote of 1O2 to 4.
adopted the joint resolution accepting
the gift by congress of tine Fort Hays
reservation.
There is bill on the house calendar
to make it misdemeanor to allow
weeds on farms to go to seed. Its au-
thor is Mr.. Heberling, of Usage county,
who is watching for a favorable oppor-
tunity to take vote on it.
The senate went home Saturday, but
the house remained and worked on
third reading of bills; 80 of them being
passed, largely local bills. Under the
present law the jury making an exam
ination of cases of insanity, get no fees
unless the patient is declared insane.
One of the bills passed changes this.
One of the bills passed makes the costs
payable by the estate of the insane
person; If declared sane the county to
pay the costs, except when the Jury
declares the proceedings to be without
good cause, the costs are to be assessed
against the party filing the informa-
ton and he will be committed to Jail
until the costs are paid. Another bill
passed provides that proprietors must
furnish seats for female clerks; and an
other that an employer must not coerce
his employee to join any labor organize.
ton.
The sub committee to draw up
substitute for the several railroad bills
are: Seaton, Rees, Miller, Grosser and
Mason.
An effort will be made to provide by
law way for the veterans at the Kan
sas national homes to vote.
Senator Morrow has introduced for
Supt. Nelson, a bill providing a state
levy of mills to be divided among the
counties in proportion to the number
OF teachers employed.
There are prospects for the passage
of statutes that will result in civil
service in the charitable institutions of
the state.
Senator Henly has bill providing
forworking convicts in the peniten-
tiary on country roads.
Wagner is asking to be selected as
the location of the new Sacred Heart
abbey.
The house approved by vote of 81
to 80 a county attorneys inquisition
bill 1t provides that witnesses
brought before that officer who refuse
to testify against jointists can be taken
before a justice of the peace who can
punish for contempt of court
6The senate in committee of the whole
voted approval by small majority of
the road tax bill, which requires pay
ment in cash.
The governor has signed the resolu-
ton accepting the Fort Hays reserva-
ton.
The house approved the bill for
state board to examine and register
doctors. And so the boards multiply
instead of getting fewer.
Members are threatening to hold up
the executive appropriations in case
the governor refuses to sign local bills
that are passed.
killed the bill providing for fees to be
paid by students at the state schools.
Speaker Barker refused to have a lot
Of his bills making appropriations
punched and passed by one roll call.
The BARRIERS are numerous around
the state house in the interest of Sena-
tor Cubbison's bill for state board to
examine BARRIERS.
The senate passed the bill relating
to competency of man and wife in di-
vorce and alimony cases.
The appropriation bill for the State
Historical society provided for a raise
of $500 in the salary of Secretary Geo.
w. Martin. The house cut this off by
vote of A to 40, because Martins
newspaper at Kansas City, Kas., is a
non-union Office.
A majority of both houses decided in
caucus not to pass resolution calling
for a constitutional convention.
The house assessment and taxation
committee has prepared a bill to re-
lieve counties from liability to the
state for unsolicited taxes.
Petitions come in from all parts of