Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-24
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
House and Senate Choose Presiding ON
Gers and Begin the Grind-Prlngie
for Speaker.

| lively tilt over the employe question.
| Senator Wolfekuhler introduced con-
current resolution indorslng United States
| Senator Harris for position on the 18TH
milan canal commission which. under the
rules. went over one day. Not single
bill was introduced and an adjournment
| was taken after being In session less
| than an hour. The house met and heard
| the journal read and II was then an
nounced that the chief clerks force was
not yet organized for business and an adj
| journment was taken until the next day.
Senator Morrow, of Washington, intro
duced a resolution on the 10Th providing
that all claims against the state Tor
miscellaneous purposes must be hled
with the ways and means committee at
| once and that the committee shall re-
port the bill for passage within the next
30 days. The rule against lobbyists was
| ordered enforced. After a short session
an adjournment was taken to the l9th....
A flood Of bills greeted Speaker Pringle In
| the house, So bills being read the first
| time. A resolution was introduced to
seat ]. D. Miller. republican. as repre-
sentative from Lincoln county and II
was adopted. Among the bills intro
duced was one that when a husband will
fully abandons his wife or wife her
husband, and either Is convicted Of the
crime, he or she shall be sentenced to
three years at hard labor In the peniten-
tiary. Another bill makes the destruc-
ton Of prairie dogs compulsory on the
part of land owners.
The senate was not In session on the
18th. The house adjourned until the
10Th, az was expected. and consequently
| there was general exodus OF legislators
| from the Kansas capital. Most OF them
predict that no legislation Of Importance
will be accomplished during the coming
week, or ut any rate until after the sem
ato:ial caucus. which will probably occur
on the 2lst The election Of state printer
occurs on the goth and the caucus Will
probably be held on the 18th.
| The senate was in session less than
an hour on the 18th and about the only
business transacted was the introduction
of bills 1t was the first time that the
senate had reached that order of business
| and bills by the score were put In the
hopper. In matter of public Importance
Senator Caldwell's stock yards bill over
| shadows all others. In the house ODon-
nell. of Ellsworth, introduced bill to
prohibit epileptics, Predetermined and In
sane people under the age of 40 years
from marrying. 1t fixes penalty OF
81. 900 on the minister or official who mar
ries such people and Furnishes the people
|
ment. Williams, of Stanton. wants 10
minimize the danger from Texas fever
and other contagious diseases among cat
tie on the plains by compelling the owner
of dead cattle to burn the bodies within
"a hours after death ensues. Another bill
| introduced created the position OF state
bacteriologist.
Lieut.. Gov. Hanna on the Goth an
nounced the committees in the senate.
Senator Cubbison introduced one very
| brief bill. 1t read: SECTIONS ", 81, I'D
and 46, chapter %, of the laws of 1868, are
hereby repealed" But II is more impor-
tant than 1t looks ION its face. 1t Is
bill to wipe out the double liability act.
Senator Smith, of Edwards. introduced
several bills. One provides for an appro-
priation of $4,000 a year for bounty on
sugar beets. Another provides plan
| for people to sue the state. Other bills
of Importance introduced were: For a
| county tax for common schools; Dill
to create n department of applied ZOO
ology at the agricultural college to exter-
inmate prairie dogs; creating state fish
| hatchery and making the FISH warden also
game warden. =. The first bill OF the ses-
sion was passed by the house. 1t was
an act to authorize the state 10 make
penitentiary contract with Oklahoma. A
resolution was adopted asking the fed
eral government to name battieship
Kansas. Enright. of Wyandotte, intro
duced several bills of Importance to Kan
sas City. other bills introduced were TO
preyent the marriage of minors without
consent Of parents; to establish a state
fish hatchery In Pratt county and to Gre
ate a board of examiners to regulate the
business of plumbing. A resolution was
introduced by Waggener asking voters
to call n constitutional convention.