The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-02-21
J KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

the two first named forming a new iu-
diciaI district.
but the employees of the two houses
viii draw per diem until final adjourn-
ment. and a number of them longer,
who will be kept on the pleathat they
are needed to put things in order.
The house appointed a committee to
revise the calendar; thus measures of
first considered
COMMITTEES clerks and doorkeepes
will scatter this week as committee
work is about finished.
The Twenty-frst Kansas regiment
has been given the privilege by the
legislature to place a tablet in the state
house
The house passed the bill providing
that the railroad assessors shall assess
the express companies; also the bill
preferring the wages of employees of
corporations in insolvency; also giving
county attorneys authority to appoint
StenOgraphers-
The governor having vetoed the bill
requiring the state soldiers home to re-
ceive Robert McCanse and A H Nal
comb, the house passed another bill
authorizing the home to receive them.
The bill authorizing the state board
to assess the property of telegraph
and telephone companies was passed
by the senate
The house accepted the senate amend
ments to the jury law allowing the
Judge to select Jurors from byStanderS
when the regular panel is exhausted.
The senate passed all of the appro-
prlat1on bills for the support OF state
institutions, aggregating ST, $50, 900.
When the house county attorney in
QUESTION bill reached the senate its en-
acting clause was stricken out by
vote of 9 to IT,
Messrs. Babb, of Sebgwiclz, and
johnson, of Decatur, made speeches
against the bill to organize cadets in
the state colleges. taking the ground
that it is wrong to cultivate a spirit of
mi1itarism among young people.
The senate has defeated one of the
proposed schemes Tl1x no. 6S
by defeating the bill for plumbers
board.
The house passed the county attor-
ney inquisition bill; the anti-grain
trust bill; the cadet corps bill; the SEN
| ate joint resolution for biennial cleo
| tionS; the doctors bill for examination
of doctors and to exclude fakes and
| quaclzs; forbidding school officers from
employing relatives teachers; the
| anti-cigarette bill; the bill for inspec-
! ton of brands on cattle that to be
| shipped, and butchers to exhibit hides;
the bill for appointment of officers of
| cities of the second class "a senate bilD:
| the bill allowing counties with more
| than 1000 people to construct macadam
| roads; bill to allow the use OF voting
| machines, and forty local bills
The bill for the completion of the
| state house has passed the senate.
| The house approved the bill which
places fine upon each act of selling
| or diSposing of cigarettes or cigarette
! papers Favorable action was taken
upon the bill providing for cadet corps
at the state institutions. The good
| roads bill was approved. It provides
| 2-mi11 general tax for macadam roads
! and IS per cent on that amount all
property within one half mile of the
The bill authorizing the use of voting
machines was approved; also the bill
| for re-appraisement of state sch DOL
| lands.
| Bills were approved in the senate for
| a mill state school tax and for 3
| mills county school tax; also the bill
| iSfT for MI
| A senate committee killed the bill
| for tuition fee at state institutions.
| The house passed the bill to create a
| court of Cancellation, with Judges at
| $1,000 a pear to handle labor disputes.
Governor Stanley has vetoed special
| bills granting adnittance to the state
would be a bad precedent.
| The house passed bills: to authorize
| cities of the second class to fund their
floating debt; to provide for the APP
/ pointment of state brand inspectors;
for the consolidation of weak school
| districts; to give Cherokee county a
| district court of its own; to require
| boards of county commissioners to pro-
vide for the support of county teachers
| institutes
! The bill to change municipal cleo
tions from spring to fall was killed by
| the senate committee, and also the
| voting machine bill
| The senate killed the bill to create
| the Office of state fire marshal.
/ The senate passed two house bills; to
prohibit the sale of morphine, cocaine
and choral except upon prescription;
| and the house school district disorgan-
| ization bill
The senate passed these senate bills:
to permit towns, townships and coun-
| ties to dispose of railroad stock; to give
| old soldiers the preference in the pub
| lie service; providing for codifying the
| laws of Kansas
The senate has passed the bill re-
! quiring merchants to provide seats for
| women clerks
The house ways and means commit
| tee killed the bill for the payment of
| outstanding Price raid scrip.
| The senate defeated the bill to raise
| the salaries of district judges to s.. OOO-
| The bill requiring city boards of educa-
| ton to pay the cost of the bonds of
| their treasurers was defeated
Governor Stanley's parole bill has
| passed both houses
The house killed the bill for payment
of railroad taxes in cash The bill au-
thorizing township graded schools is
| defeated
The senate passed bill making the