The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-02-22

Coadsnsed Proceedings OF the Biennial sss
sion IS Topeka. with Record CT BElls
Intr0dueed and How Disposed OF.

The house on the 18th by an cverWhelrn-
ing vote killed Hauett's bin providing
capital punishment in frst-degree murder
cases By vote Of 50 70 = the house
passed the OH providing for a court OF
Cancellation and arbitration Other bills
passed were Compelling county Contri-
buttons to teachers Institutes: giving
county superintendents power to diSor-
game school districts and providing pay
for conveying children to school Rich
ardson's county attorney inQuisition Dill
was killed In the senate, - to IL By a
vote OF "a to the senate passed the htl
to appropriate 10000 to complete the
state house. The senate passed All the
bills on the calendar for the support OF
state Institutions The measures carried
appropriations aggreEattng $50 CO. The
house expunged from the record with
only one dissenting vote, the note from
King Edward VII thanking the legis-
lature for its resolutions Of sympathy IN
the sorrow Of Britain over the death OF
Queen victoria
The bill OF Cubbfson, Of Wyandotte, to
raise the salaries Of supreme court JUS
tees to $500 a year, failed to pass the
senate on the 18th. Only four senators
voted for the bill and g against it. Other
bills passed by the senate were: To pro-
hfbit the sale Of morphine, cocaine and
choral except upon prescription or a
reputable physician. This bill has passed
the house and viii now 90 to the gov
ernOr for his signature; providing for
the Reorganization Of school districts
and the transportation Of school pupils
to and from school This is also ready
for the governors signature. The bill OF
Pestana, Of Russell, providing death
penalty for train robbery, was rec
commended by the judiciary committee Of
the senate. The senate and house ways
and means committees recommended Tor
passage the bill aporOpriating SIS, 900 Tor
the construction OF a home for the gov
ernor on the state house grounds. Repre-
sentative Hamer, OF Lyon county, intro
duced a bill giving women the right 20
vote for presidential electors. Gov. Stan
ley's bill providing for the conditional re-
lease and parole Of prisoners was passed
by the house. It has already passed the
senate and viii soon become a law. The
house killed the Nichols bill providing for
the payment Of road taxes in cash.
The house on the 18th passed Luling's
bill for the protection Of game birds and
fOrbidding the shooting Of quail for q
period Of five years Among the bills
passed by the house were: To permit the
organization Of joint irrigation districts
in two or more counties; to prevent the
waste Of waters in irrigation districts;
providing that after property is bid in
by the county for three years in success
sion the sheriff can issue a fee simple
deed to it to the person who buys it
from the county, thus doing away with
tax deeds. Among the house bills in
trOduced were: BY Bucklln, providing
for a state grain commissioner who shall
cagO, Duluth and Galveston, and who
shall handle on commission all grain
shipped by Kansas farmers; by Green,
providing for the Herr. George theory
Of taxation. Senator Branine introduced
a bill providing for state tax of one
tenth Of one mill for the next two
years TO be used in the erection Of a
monument to the Kansas soldiers Of
1S61-1S65. This will raise about $4,000. The
senate passed a bill to wipe from the
statute books the court of visitation law,
declared to be unconstitutional.
BY a strict party vote on the 18th the
senate unseated George 3. Ross (DOD),
Of the Thirty-fifth senatorial district, and
seated Robert Findley, rep The vote was
q to g. Senator Carpenter presented a
petition from negro voters pleading for
the passage Of Smiths bill providing that
all persons convicted Of mob violence shall
be subject to capital punishment. Smiths
bill to provide for the compilation and
annexation OF the Kansas laws was
PASSED. 1t provides that the books shall
be sold to Kansas people at So per set,
and to nOn-residents for IS per set. The
senate ways and means committee has
referred back to the whole house the bill
to appropriate $4,000 for a Kansas ex-
position. It viii now 90 on the calendar
and will be fought out on the floor. The
bill to establish a branch of the state
normal school and agricultural station at
Fort Hays passed the senate. 1t already
passed the house. The house committee
appointed to visit Hutchinson and inves-
tigate the feasibility of establishing a
state salt plant there reported against
The plan.