Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-16
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g KANSAS LEGISLATURE. :


Both houses have agreed to send a
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 billed the
scheme to create the Office of state fire
marshal.
The house passed bills: To permit
quails to he killed in November and
December; to pay the expenses of the
travelling libraries: for maintenance OF
the state soldiers home; to pay the
Quantre1 raid claims
Senator Smith has a bill making
lynching crime punishable by death
or life Imprisonment.
The legislative apportioument bill
has been introduced in both houses.
UEder 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 Wy
andotte and Douglas counties are
treated in similar manner. Several
| other counties are changed to fit the
| differences in the growth of their
| towns. Sedgwiclx county is so divided as
| to give each district a 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 the
] TO at 70
| ination.
The Mother Bickerdyke home at
Ellsworth will be adopted as state
! institution.
Both houses have declared against
repeating the law to create another in
sane asylum.
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
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 employe to join any labor organiza-
ton.
The sub committee to draw up a
substitute for the several railroad bills
are: Seaton, Rees, Miller, Grosser and
! Mason.
A bill was introduced in the house
making it a sufficient defense in an ac-
ton for smashing a saloon to show that
the property destroyed was used in the
operation of a joint, A motion to ad-
vance it to third reading as an emer-
gency, was defeated 81 to 20.
The leaders declare that the railroad
bill will be like the old commissioners
law with the provision added giving
the commission the right to go into the
courts to enforce their orders. The
main fight will be as to who shall elect
the commissioners.
The bill is approved S,Y committee
which provides for a raise q the sal
aries of the district clerks Of Harvey
and Mcpherson counties to 81 zoe &
year.
Committees are, as usual. travelling
over the state, inspecting the state in
stitutions.
The house passed the Allen county
court house bill.
A Joint committee is at work revising
the laws governing the state charitab BILE
institutions. These laws have been
passed from time to time as new in
stitution has been established, and
tinkered afterwards, causing a batch
of statutes not in harmony with each
other.
The house adopted a resolution ask
ing congress to pass law prohibiting
the insurance of liquor tax receipts in
Kansas.
The mileage accounts of the mem
beers of the house aggregate So. 400: thai
of the senate will be So, 900 or over. Al
mileage is velvet as every member car
ries passes.
An effort will be made to provide by
law way for the veterans at the Kan
sas national homes to vote
l Senator Morrow has introduced FOL
Supt. Nelson, a bill providing a stat,
levy of . mills to be divided among tn,
counties in proportion to the humble
of teachers employed.
; There are prospects for the passag,
1 of statutes that will result in civi
t service in the charitable institutions o
the state
Senator Henly has a bill providin,
forworking convicts in the peniten
tiary on country roads.
Wagner is asking to be selected a
q the location of the new Sacred Hear
a abbey
;. The house approved by vote of 6
. to 80 county attorneys inquisitiol
bill, 1t provides that witnesse
brought before that officer who refus
:, to testify against jointists can be take1
before justice of the peace who cal
punish for contempt of court.
e 6The senate in committee of the Who'll
: voted approval by small majority O
O the road tax bill, which requires pay
ment in cash.
e The governor has signed the resolu
ton accepting the Fort Hays reserva
: ton.
o The house approved the bill for.
:. state board to examine and registe
IS doctors And so the boards multipl
! instead of getting fewer.
!" Members are threatening to hold II
q the executive appropriations in cas-
the governor refuses to sign local bill
i that are passed
= The house committee on educatio