The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-03
M'MILLAN HAPPY.
His Anti Snake Eating Bill
Passes the Senate.
Hereafter a Reptile Diet Is Not
Legal.
HAD FUN WITH HIM.
Proposed to Add Chiggers and
Crow to List.
HAD FUN WITH HIM.
Senator MorehOuse a Staunch
Champion of Marriage.

Senator Mcmillan of Minneapolis is at
peace His anti-snake-eating bill has
passed the senate. Having passed the
senate it viii probably be given the
endorsement of the house and later that
Of the governor of the state. When that
has been accomplished it will be a mis-
demeanor to eat snakes, lizards, scor-
pions, centipedes, tarantulas or other
reptiles as a part of any public exhibit
ton, and under penalty of heavy fne
and imprisonment. Mcmillan has been
thus far vindicated and has reason to
believe he will be given the further en-
dorsement of all the law making powers
of Kansas. Heretofore he has had rea-
son to have doubts about it.
In the committee Of the whole yester-
day afternoon the senate had lots of fun
with McAIillan's bill. All sorts OF
amendments were suggested for 1t, in
cluding one to forbid the eating of crows
another to make snake eating a crime
only in MeAIillan's senatorial district,
and another making the class OF pro
hibited edibles to extend to grasshop-
pers and toads, flies, f1eas and CHG
gers. Mcmillan began TO wonder II ha
hadn't made mistake IN introducing the
bill after all. but the senate finally let
up on him and passed it.
Senator A1Orehouse, who is q. bachelor,
is the most fervid champion Of the
preservation Of the sanctity of the mar
riage relation in the senate. For ten
minutes he held the body's attention
while he GRATED in favor Of a bill au-
thorlzing the appointment of an attor-
ney for the absent defendant In the case
of a default divorce suit Morehouse
thought it would tend to make the con-
5ugal knot harder to unite and he was
for it. To the other senators it looked
too much like a lawyers graft and it
was killed.
A bill by Senator Carpenter providing
for the appointment of a member Of the
state board of health who shall be a
practicing attorney, was passed by the
+ senate.
AS announced in yesterdays Journal,
a concurrent resolution was introduced
by Senator Smith calling for the ap-
pointment of a joint committee of the
I two houses to consist of thirty-bFe
members, which shah take up and con
slider the proposed tax bill, as drawn
/ by the state tax commission. The reso-
/ luton carried over the protest of one
or two of the minority members of the
/ senate. Ten of the committee viii be
appointed from the senate and twenty
I five from the house Two members
from the senate and six from the house
/ shall belong to the minority caucus. on
! the report of this committee the bill,
4 with the report. will be taken up in the
respective houses. It will doubtless be
tiOn of the committee. This is probably
/ the most practicable way of handling
/ the revised tax bill. It is the most
4 VOlumInOuS measure of the year and If
/ taken UP by the two houses separately
would consume the rest of the session.
After d recess of three days the SEN
ate was called to order at 2 o'clock yes
4 terday afternoon for the transaction of
/ business. After the introduction of sew
i eral bills some of the members wanted
to adjourn because a number Of the
/ senators were absent. Senators Porter
and Allen, however, insisted upon the
continuation of the afternoons session
and for once the senate worked when 1t
might have taken an adjournment
During last falls campaign there
arose a dispute over the residence
/ of State Treasurer Frank Grimes, who
/ had moved from Leoti. Wichita county,
to Topeka and built a house. Grimes
4 claimed a right to vote in Wichita coun-
ty- Senator Buschow has a bill in,
which provides that for purposes of vot-
/ ing no person who shall have been elect
4 ed or appointed TO public Office. shall
4 gain or lose a residence by such election
or appointment
Three or four bills providing for ap-
prOpriatiOns for small charitable insti-
4 tutions were introduced in the senate
A Monday Among them was one for the
4 GoOdlander home a t Fort Scott for ST.
200; and another mercy hospital at the
same place for 1900.
Porter of Crawford has happy idea
day introduced a bill for the appoint
ment of person by the governor to in
/ VesUgate the condition of unpaid Price
/ raid claims" This seems unnecessary
as all such claims can be relied upon to
be found in a healthy condition. A sal
! airy of IS per day is to be attached to
the proposed job.
For the establishment of an inde-
terminate sentence for persons convict
ed Of felony. except murder and trea-
son. Senator Smith has introduced a bill
modelled after similar laws in Indiana
and Illinois It provides that a prisoner
may be paroled on good behavior at any
time at the discretion of the prison
board A law of this kind is said to
have proved practicable in other states.
A Quantreu raid claim of W. H. Fish
er for $500 for reimbursement for house
hold goods destroyed has been filed with
the senate Clancy of Shawnee has in
troduced an appropriation bill for the
Boys Reform school at Topeka. It
asks for the appropriation of $1,000 for
Improvements at the grounds. For cur
/ rent expense $3.50 IL asked.
A bill providing that actions against
corporations created by the laws of
Kansas must be commenced in the
counties where the corporation has its
main Office is introduced by Smith.
Senator Henley of Lawrence has es
tablished precedent for getting
through legislation for the immediate
benefit OF mis- constituency lawrence
has the sum Of S25 coo given by Andrew
Carnegie for the establishment of a
public library but it has no organiza-
ton or person legally qualified to re-
fceive it. Henley yesterday introduced
a bill for the extension Of the state law
providing for library funds to include
Lawrence He had 1t rushed through
tne senate and is now before the house
i of Representatives.
The veterans of the Tenth Kansas
volunteers want their old battle flag to
be taken out Of private hands and
: placed in the office of the adjutant