The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-03-06
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Senate Passed Bill which Creates State
Fair Association.


Fair Association.
8STH DAY.
The senate voted for $4,000 for a soldiers
monument, but Senator, Taps bill prohibit
Ims 'V WAS handled roughly %
pf Tho senate ways and means committee ia.
| vored the bill to establish broom factory, at
thought that the s55,o0J figure to build and
| equip the plant might be cut to $2O,OUO. For
| the revolving fund Of 80 .00J the committee
was q unit in its approval.
The bill introduced by Adams, of Sedgwick,
| requiring RAILROADS. to pay demurrage OF "
| day for each car it fails to get to shipper
sitter the expiration Of IS hours has been killed
| by the house railroad committee.
The house killed resolution ordering the
| Kansas commissioners to the ut. Louis fair to
set aside $1,000 Of its funds for horticultural
The anti-buclet shop law still stands, the
| efforts made by Battle Waggener to repeal 1t
| having failed in the house.
submission OF an amendment to the states to
permit the election of senators by direct vote
| of the people.
refunding of the bonds now held in the state
schoolfund.
37TH DAY.
The senate passed Whites bill governing the
inspection of cattle shipped into she state. 1t
does away with inspection by state inspectors
of cattle which have been passed by U. y. In
The senate committee to revise the calendar
are Leidy, CLANCY, Smith, Sponable and Cub
| bison.
The pay of legislators will stop on March 2,
but the pay of an employees will go on until ad,
journment. The work now mapped out Will
require more time and there is an understand.
ing that final adjournment will be held OH
until March Z. There have been 81 bills passed
and sent to the governor which arc nearly all
local bills so,
Both houses have. passed the bill giving
boards of education Of End ane Bird class cities
absolute right to make the school levy instead
of making recommendation to the city council.
Adams, Of sedgwick, has had his bill passed
to trees done by companies using telephone
and telegraph wires in cities. To comply
with the law it will be necessary to use longer
poles. nm
carpenter shop, and total of $4,000 for
maintenance and repairs as per house bill.
The house slaughtered Waggeners bill Gre
ating the office of public administrator in every
county.
The house approved the bill appropriating
$40, 90 for new buildings at the state soldiers
home at Dodge City and 5000 for n water
plant.
18TH DAY.
Both houses passed the bill making chicken
backed by the Anti Horsethief League.
among bills passed BY the senate ns o are b pr9
yn for the hi a H
the people: the bill requiring that IN cities OF
the third class the election Of councilmen shall
be so arranged that there shall always be three
old members
The house approved Mr.. Nations bill re-
curing that all scrip issued by any person or
corporation in payment of wages must be re-
to- dpf dotyg md ha
scrip unredeemed at the end of that time shall
bear interest at the rate of six per cent per an
num-. -.
of IS 600 for the employment of additional coun-
sci and to pay for the expense of prosecuting
the anti-grain trust and the anti-school book
trust cases now before the U. s. supreme court
has been turned down by the house.
BOTH DAY.
The senate passed bill providing for the
erection of 100000 soldiers monument IN the
capitol grounds and for an annual tax levy of
one-tenth of a mil to provide the funds; the
executive council to have the direction of the
work. ~
ulating the use of automobiles. The bill to ex-
empt rs per ceet Of wages was also approved.
Like action was taken on the bill for thu cleo.
ton of railroad commissioners; and the bill
pla cling inter-urban electric lines under the
control of the railroad commission and Tapp's
bill requiring street railways to put conduc-
tor on each car.
The house in committee approved these bill
For deposit of state funds in banks which offer
the highest interest authorizing county high
schools in counties having population or less
than $500: permitting the condemnation OF
land for reservoirs for the storage of water
The local option bill was killed by the house.
4OTH DAY.
The senate passed the tax commission bill by
a vote of "a to IA. This is the most important
measure before the legislature at this session.
1t is now up to the house.
The state fair bill as passed by the senate
creates state association of seven directors to
conduct fair. The directors are to be chosen:
Two by the Kansas board of agriculture; one
one by the dairymen; one by the hort1cultur-
lists; one by the poultry association and one by
the Miners union. The terms OF office OF the
directors are to be three years.
The house house in days session passed rs
bills. They include: An act requiring prop
erty owners in cities Of the third class to cut
weeds and keep sidewalks in repair; an act to
admit soldiers widows and orphans to the
Mother Bickerdyke home an act striking out
the mo nomination. feature of the ballot law;
an act providing for the establishment of coun-
ty high schools. There were number OF local
bills passed.
A MEMRER Is S1cK.-Representative
e. B. Shermehorn, of Cherokee county,
is in Topeka hospital sick of pneu-
monia.
SEEK BETTER CLIMATE.-On account
OF climatic conditions a colony of Ger
man Catholics from Iowa and Nebraska
are to move to Mitchell county. The
purchase of lands for them near Beloit
is arranged for. One of the strongest
Catholic settlements in Kansas is in
Mitchell county, and at Beloit SOS, 900
church is just being completed.
FALL RIVER GAs.-The Standard Oil
Company las leased 5000 acres for oil
and gas around that place, paying 81
an acre and agreeing to give one-eighth
of the oil.
TEST AT observation-disclosures Ha-
worth, of the Lawrence university,
state geologist, tested the Winfield gas
well and found it 10 have a flow OF