Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-02-08
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


In senate and house on the 18th reso-
buttons were introduced inviting Mrs. Car
RE Nation to address the legislators for
hour, but the resolutions were tabled.
In the house Green, of Cowley, introduced
bill providing for state insurance of
farm, detached city and village property.
Other house bills presented were: BY
Seaton, to prevent the sending of flowers
to prisoners, to make train robbery cap
ital offense and for a $780, 900 Kansas ex-
hibit at the st. Louis exposition; to pre-
vent the sale Of patent medicines by ped
dlers; to strengthen the liquor injunction
law. The house recommended for passage
Bucklin'S bill to prohibit the combines
of grain dealers, also Adams bill re-
pea1ing the law limiting bank loans to
four times the banks capital stock. The
house killed Smiths wide tire law. The
house and senate passed bills requiring
all convict-made goods to be branded.
The senate passed the bill to permit hus-
band and wife to testify against each
other in divorce trials
The house passed many bills on the
I'd, with barely a quorum. Among them
were: To require merchants to furnish
seats for their clerks; to pay jurors in in .
sane cases whether the person is adj
judged insane or not; to give Douglas
county the right to build a bridge over
Wakarusa river; authorizing Leavenworth
county to build a bridge over the Kaw
river at LinwOOd; to change the name
of the village of Charlottesville, Chase
county, to Clements; to provide for cap
ital punishment for first-degree murder
Among the bills introduced were these:
Making the term of state bank commits
sioner two years and fixing the salary at
$1,000 per year, instead of s., 500; exempting
from jury duty attorneys, physicians,
pharmacists, preachers, teachers. ferry
men. fremen and all persons over 60
years of age; to make splitting m
churches, schools and other public build
ings a misdemeanor.
By vote of Y to AZ the house on the
sOth seated Owen (rep). the contestant
for the seat of Hackett CUSTOM. Of Bour-
bon county. Among the bills recon-
mended for passage were: For biennial
elections: prohibiting boards of education
from employing relatives as teachers;
requiring mutual hail insurance compa-
MES to deposit $4,000 with the treasurer
of state; to prohibit the sale of cigarettes.
Adams, of Butler. presented bill to
consolidate the reformatory and peniten-
tiary boards. BiddIe has a measure to
fix the fees of insurance road agents"
at $40 per day....In the senate the fol-
lowing bills were recommended for pas
sage: To appropriate $4,000 to build
or buy a governors residence in To-
peka: to give county attorneys additional
power to force people to give testimony
against jointists; to give husband and
wife the right to testify against each
other in divorce cases.
In the house on the 31st the judiciary
committee killed Riling's bill to abolish
the days of grace on notes. The educa-
ton committee killed the bill for the es-
tablishment of a state normal at Con-
cordia. Landrey's bill to prohibit jackleg
lawyers from operating was also reported
unfavorably. Hayden presented petit
ton signed by 500 people urging the legis-
lature to pass a compulsory education
law. The senate passed Porter's bill
amending the law Of 1898 which created
the state association of mines. The prop
osition to change the constitution to wipe
out off year elections was referred to
the judiciary committee. The bill to re-
quire farmers to trim their hedge fences
was knocked out by the committee on
roads and bridges. The cigarette bill was
recommended for passage by the temper
ance committee. The senate committee
on state affairs killed the bill recon-
mended by Gov. Stanley to place the
three state educational institutions under
one board Of regents.
The senate in committee of the whole
on the LIST pushed through the Pestana
anti-fusion bill The measure was adopt
ed by a strict party vote, even Senator
Leidy, who had opposed certain provi-
slons of the bill, lining up with the re-
publfcans. Among the senate bills intro
duced were: Appropriating 5000 for a
monument to the late Cyrus K. Holiday
at Topeka; to make train robbery a cap
ital offense: to give voters absent from
home opportunity to vote; making
wife or child abandonment g. misdemeanor
THE house passed the joint resolution
to accept the abandoned Fort Hays reser-
walton.