The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-02-08
KANSAS LEGIsLATURF
GondsuEe6 EE1EuzI7lsz.E
sion at ToPeI1, with q Record OF BIS
introduced and How Disposed OF.


Ia the house on the s1st the judiciary
: cQlnrlfttee killed Rulings biz 10 abolish
the days of grace on notes The eduCa-
ton committee killed the bill for the es-
adjustment Of e state=H0rma1 at Con-
Cordia-- IaudTeT'E bill to prohibit 1acEleg
lawyers from operating was also reported
unfaT8Eably. Hayden presented a petit
ton signed BY 500 people urging the legis-
lature TO pass a compulsory education
laW--.-Ihe senate. passed Porter's Oil
amending fhezIaW Of 1893 which created
the state association OF mines. The prop
osirion to change the constitution to wipe
out 9M year elections was referred TO
the judiciary committee. The biz 20 re-
oufre 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 COMMITTEES
on state Affairs killed the bin 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 1st pushed through the Pestana
anu-fusiOn bill The measure was adopt
ed by q strict party vote, even Senator
Leidys who had opposed certain provt-
EfOns Of the bill, lining Up with the re-
pubhcans- Among the senate bills intro
duced were: Appropriating $500 for
monument to the late Cyrus K Holiday
at Topeka to make train robbery a cap
itsl ofense; to give voters absent from
wife or child abandonment a mfsdemeanOr
THE house passed the joint resolution
to accept the abandoned Fort Hays reser-
Walton.
The house passed many bills on the
% 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 LeayenWOrth
county to build a bridge over the KaW
river at LinWOOd; to change the name
Of the village Of CraWfordsville, Chase
county, to Clements. to provide for cap
itaI 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
g, 600 per year, instead of 81 500; exemptinE
from jury duty attorneys, physicians,
pharmacists, preachers, teachers, ferry
men, hremen and all persons over so
years Of age; to make splitting n
churches, schools and other public build
ings a misdemeanOr-
Among the bills Dassed by the senate
on the 4th were the following: To allow
husband and wife TO testify against each
other in divorce eases; TO consolidate
sparsely-pOpulated districts; to require 200
petitioners for a grand jury; prohibiting
'dOuble-headers" on railroads. Among
the bills introduced were: By Henley,
providing for convict labor on the pub
lie roads, 10 repeal the alien land law
instructing the attorney general to pro-
coed against Colorado irrigation COM
panies that are diverting the waters Of
the Arkansas river.
The house in committee Of the whole on
the 5th recommended for passage Bow
mans fish bin. 1t absolutely prohibits
the catching Of fish in any Kansas stream
except with hook and line. Nation, OF
NeOshO, introduced the textbook bill pre-
pared by the legislative committee Of the
state teachers association. The house
then passed the bill by Adams 70 allow
bankers to loan more than four times
the amount OF capital stock Grattan in
trOduced Gov. Stanley's bill providing for
the payment OF a 50 tuition fee for ad-
mission to the university, normal school
or agricultural college. SeatOn, Of Atchf-
son, introduced his bill to prohibit the
marriage Of a person under Indictment
or in jail. Among the bills passed by the
senate were the following: By Smith, to
encourage the use OF wide tire vehicles
by eXempting such vehicles from taxation;
by Smith, giving townships the right to
establish free libraries; by Crum, to make
the quail season November and Deem
Der; by Miller, to provide for the i'm
prOvement OF public roads; by Tapp, to
require merchants to FURNISH seats for
their employees. for use when they are not
waiting on customers. The Pestana anti
fusion election bill, by vote Of g to 8,
was passed by the senate.