The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-04
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IMPORTANT BILLS
a List That Passed and Failed t
Pass

and they have become laws BY reason
Of the governors failure to sign Them
as the law provides that if the governor
does not sign a local bill within three
days after it has passed both branches
OF the legislature it becomes a law with
out the signature At the beginning of
the session the governor threatened to
veto all local bills which were sent to
him after February Is He repented his
assertion. and although not signing the
bills he did not veto them and allowed
them to become laws by reason Of the
law of limitation
The important bills which have been
enacted into laws are:
Regulating railroads.
Knocking out fusion.
Relating to foreclosure Of money lien
mortgages.
Providing for free employment agen-
cies in first class cities.
Providing for cattle brand inspection
in western Kansas.
Organizing mutual hail insurance
companies.
Providing for the parole of prisoners.
Permitting soldiers in the federal SOL
diers' home to vote.
Relating to the registration of absent
voters.
Permitting railroad and travelling men
to vote away from home.
Apportioning the state into represen-
ta-tive districts
Cutting out exemplary damages in
libel suits.
Giving the live stock sanitary COM
mission additional powers.
Making stealing a ride on train
crime. The trainment are clothed with
authority to make arrests.
Prohibiting prize fights and boxing
contests
To prefer the wages of employees of
defunct corporations
Providing for the care and control of
neglected children.
Creating a state board OF medical reg
istration and requiring physicians to be
examined
Recognizing the system Of managing
the state charitable institutions and pro-
viding for the trial of persons charged
with insanity before a medical board in
Giving the state board Of health
power to enforce its quarantine rules
accepting the abandoned Fort Hays
military reservation and providing for
the establishment Of a branch normal
school and agricultural experiment sta
ton thereon.
Raising the fees for the inspection Of
grain
Giving a district Judge the right to
punish for contempt Of court without
trial by jury
Recognizing the state militia on reg
ular. army lines
Consolidating school districts and en-
abling school boards to transport pupils
to adjoining districts
Providing for tax commission to re-
wise the tax laws of the state and report
to the next legislature.
Making joints nuisances and decIar-
ing that government liquor stamps shall
be prirna facie evidence Of the existence
Of a Joint
Prohibiting the sale OF morphine, CO
caine and chloral except upon prescrip-
ton of a reputable physician
Placing the Mother Bickerdil1e home
under the control of the state
Accepting Pixies Pawnee Indian VIII
lage IN Republic county and appropriat-
ing money to fix 1t UP.
Abolishing off-year county elections
and providing for a constitutional /
amendment to make township officers
elected on even numbered years.
Giving the sheriffs the right to call in
bystanders to serve on jury when the |
regular panel is exhausted
Providing for the vacation OF about Is /
additions and toWnsites-
The legislature killed number of bills |
but it allowed more to die on the calen- |
dar and thus saved themselves the trou- |
bic OF voting on them The important /
bills which were allowed to die are:
Creating a board to examine teleg- |
raphers as to their competency.
Creating a commission to inquire into /
the business OF plumbing and the fitness
Of men engaged in it
Regulating the barber profession and /
creating a state board Of examination
Providing for q state natural gas 1
supervisor.
Creating the Office OF state grain COM
missioner.
Creating a state chronological board +
Providing for board to examine sta
tionary engineers
All bills relating to pure food drugs.
pharmacy, etc.
Senator Smiths bill to prevent mob
violence never got off general orders.
His bill authorizing the state to desig-
nate an official paper in each county
met a similar fate
To compel county commissioners to
rock piles.
Authorizing cities to establish shotgun
guarantees against smallpox
on a n a 4
by convict labor.
Authorizing the board of railroad as
SCISSORS to assess private freight cars.
Prohibiting the employment of child
labor.
Permitting corporations to be charter
I'd without paid up capital
Requiring brands on live stock to be
registered with the secretary OF state
Permitting convict labor to be en-
oloyed in the construction Of roads
Requiring voters to register for prim-
AIRY elections the same as for regular
elections
Prohibiting railroads from running
'doubie-header'' trains
Requiring the assessment Of all prop
srty at full cash value
Providing for the trimming of hedge
'ences.
Establishing boards OF public utilities
n cities of the first class.
Permitting the recovery OF three times
he damages sustained from the opera
ions Of trusts
Providing for the establishment of
graded schools in townships.
Establishing a general form for ne
potable instruments.
authorizing prosecuting witnesses in
criminal cases to employ additional
counsel
Providing a penalty for killing birds
Y detroying their nests
Authorizing the burning Of all trees
Infected with the San Jose scale.
APPROPRIATIONS ARE HIGH {