The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-13
LEGISLATION DYING
Local Bills Outrank all Others
in Number, 10 to !.
LAST DAYS FARClCAL
Members Indulge in Horse
Play but Roast Some, loo.
+ DAYS FARClCAL

about 400 laws, not counting those PaS''eu
Yesterday, have been enacted. Fully ~
rer cent of all the bills which will be
placed on the statute books are OF
local or private nature. More Local and
private bills have been passed at this ses-
sion than at any other in the history
of the state.
The stock yards bills. reducing the
charges for yardage about % per cent,
is one of the few important measures
which have gotten through the mill. The
tax bill was killed by the house, and
the congressional reapportionment bill
was given it's quietus in the same body.
Among the general laws enacted, not
counting appropriation bills or the bills
passed yesterday, the following are those
of the most interest:
To prohibit matchmaking.
Establishing a state manual training
school at Pittsburg.
Providin gfor cities of the first and
second class to levy a tax for the estab-
lishmept and maintenance of parks.
Raising the governors salary to 5000
a year.
Amending the election law by knock
ing out the square behind the words No
Nomination"
Requiring manufacturing concerns to
protect their employees by constructing
safeguards around machinery.
Providing that the polls at elections in
cities of the first class shall open at 6
o'clock in the morning and close at z
o'clock in the evening.
To suppress mob violence.
Relating to the employment of attor-
neys to assist county attorneys in coun-
ties having less than 10000 population.
Reducing stock yards charges Is per
cent
Prohibiting splitting in buildings used
for public purposes.
Allowing husband and wife to testify
against each other in suits for alimony.
Allowing private corporations to de-
crease their capital stock.
Providing that no hunter shall kill more
than twenty-five wild birds in day.
To promote the attendance Of pupils in
schools and provide for truancy officers
ia enforce the law.
To regulate the business of plumbing
and creating boards to examine persons
following the plumbing trade.
Permitting trust companies to invest
only one-half Of their capital and sur
plus in bank stock.
Reorganizing the Kansas National
Guard along the lines provided for in
the Dick bill, passed by congress, which
makes the militia of the country re-
serve force to the regular army.
fe-fot &c
| officials and boards to be published and
requiring that they be embodied in one
| volume.
Fixing the minimum capital for state
| banks at $4,000.
Providing for the election of county
commissioners to conform with the BIZ
ennial election law; also township of
| ficers
Providing for bounty of 20 cents on
| gopher scalps.
Providing for the levy of a tax for
the determination OF prairie dogs.
| Making the life of a chattel mortgage
two years instead of one.
To prohibit railroads from obstructing
| public highways with trains.
| Limiting the amount of Indebtedness OF
first class cities to IS per cent of the
assessed valuation.
! To protect antelope.
Providing for manual training instruc'
ton in the public schools of Kansas.
Making it unlawful to use or wear the
badgs of a secret order unless one is
a member Of it.
Approving the contract for keeping Ok
lahoma prisoners at the state peniten
tiary-
Recurring persons to bring suits FOL
damages against railroad companies IN
| the county where the accident was sus
tanned. or where the railroad has its
| headquarters.
Providing for the appointment of ex
| ecutors TO look after the estates of per
sons who die intestate.
Regulating the practice Of dentistry.
To prevent snake eating exhibitions.
Requiring that all persons desiring L
be admitted by the bar be examined b!
! the supreme court
Giving the state board of health powe1
to supervise the location of waterwork
plants and sewers.
To protect Chinese pheasants.
Providing for a state barber board Il
regulate the barber trade.
Increasing the salary of the state SUI
perintendent OF public instruction from
Se.Ooo to $50 year
Making the State Poultry association
state institution.
Requiring hotels and public lodginl
houses 10 be equipped with fire escapes
Providing for professional certificate.
Tor teachers which may be renewed ever.
two years without examination.
The indeterminate sentence bill wa.
pasted BY the house yesterday and vii
go TO the governor today for his signatur
The bin is practically copy Of the In
diana law. Il provides that no person
except those convicted q murder an,
treason shall rot he sent 10 the peniten
tiary Tor a specified time but shall b
sentenced for a period not exceeding tn
maximum nor less than the minimum
term provided for by Law Tor the crim
Tor which the person was convicted an
sentenced. The board Of directors Of IN
peniten,isry i authorized To parole pris
oners at any time after they have serve'
one years Imprisonment y their condUc
has been Evcd and the board thinks thei
release Is not Incompatible with the we'll
fare of society.
The bin vas backed by the stat
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framed ard introduces by Senator Fro
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