The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-15
LEGISLATURE
HAS STOPPED
Final Adjournment Came Yes
terday.
FIVE HOUSE BILLS LOST
Until These Could be Found
the House Could Not Adjourn.

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The legislature adjourned sine die at
o'clock yesterday afternoon. When
Lieutenant Governor Hanna declared the
senate adjourned, only Senator'S Moore
house and Noftzger were present. Rep
Tesentatives Dougherty. Leland. Hayden
and Billings witnessed the end in the
use.
Owing TO the fact that the journal force
was not up with its work, the senate
wished final adjournment not TO come
until Monday, but Governor Bailey insist
ed that the session close yesterday as he
wished to go 10 Baileyville today TO
spend a week on his farm and rest up.
Adjournment would have been taken
about $3.50 o'clock had Ii not been dis
covered that five house bills had been
lost in the shuttle II was an hour before
they could be located and when the last
message had been brought from the gov
ernOr by Private Secretary H. J. Bone
Dousherty OF Harvey introduced a con-
current resolution setting o'clock as
the time for final adjournment. This was
agreed to by the senate and promptly on
the houf the gavel fell in both houses
and the legislature Of 1903 was at an end.
Considerable comment was caused
among the few members present yester-
day by the fact that the session com
menced on January Is and ended on Fri
day, March 81 There was some discus
sion TO whom it would be unlucky
The general opinion was the people
Among the bills signed yesterday b.
Governor Bailey and messaged back TO
the house and senate were the following:
Regulating the speed and operation of
automobiles.
Providing for indeterminate sentences.
Allowing state or municipal officers or
employees to retain as their residence the
place from which they were elected or
appointed. SEYX
Permitting foreign corporations to en-
force liens in this state.
Prohibiting the operation of slot ma
chimes in the state.
Making an appropriation for the Topeka
State Insane asylum.
Authorizing the establishment of foot
paths along public roads outside of city
making an appropriation for the state
printer.
Leealizing the premiums awarded by
the Central Kansas Fair association of
Hutchinson.
Appropriating 100000 for the Kansas
exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position.
Fixing the liability of insurance COM
psnies.
Prohibiting the coercion Of employees
from joining labor unions
Providing for the inspection as to the
purity of commercial fertilizers by the
secretary OF agriculture.
Allowing townships TO levy a tax of
mills for the Improvement or the con-
struction Of macadam roads
making an appropriation for the state
geological survey.
Repeating the law requiring candidates
20 file statements OF their election ex-
penses.
Providing for service by publication on
non-residents or dead persons.
Revising the charter act for first class
cities
Providing for the consolidation of rural
school districts
Making appropriations for miscenane-
Gus purposes.
Making appropriations for the execu-
tive and judicial departments.
Providing that misrepresentation made
BY person in securing suret, company
bond shall be no defense against its col !
lection.
Requiring that epfleptic patients only
shan be admitted 10 the Parsons State /
asylum.
Enlarging the jurisdiction OF justices
of the peace in replevin suits
Establishing a state fish hatchery.
Making appropriations for the state
oil inspectors. state gram inspectors 1
and state live stock sanitary depart /
ments.
Providing fer the admission Of army /
nurses TO the Mother Bickerdyke home
Allowing cities and countless to vote I
bonds 10 build soldiers monuments.
Providing for the appointment OF a 1
commissioner To investigate the validity 1
OF the outstanding Price raid script.
Requiring trolley wires Of electric lines |
20 be AT least twenty-five feet above the 1
tracks AT railroad crossings.
Relating TO farmers institutes
Allowing persons holding professional /
certificates To be elected county super /
intendcnts
Prohibiting the employment OF children /
in hypnotic exhibitions
allowing cities Of the first. second and I
third class to purchase public utilities.
and u grant persons or corporations
franchises for public utilities.
Charles II. Luling. state superintendent
OF Insurance is sending out notices TO the
various burial Insurance companies doing
business in the state that they must take
out charters and secure certificates Of au-
thority from the insurance department
before continuing business or that under
the law passed al this session OF the leg
islature they would be liable TO fne Of
500 There are several burial insurance
companies operating in this CITY Pn 70
the present time the burial insurance
conpa have not come under he SD
perVlsion Of the insurance department as
there has been no law regulating them
ana they have been doing business. IN
most Instances IS partnerships. Attor-
neg General Coleman. however held that
they were doing an Insurance business
and the new law was passed 10 bring
them under the control OF the state su-
perin1endent OF insurance.
FED CHILDREN TO BEARS