The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-22

Tho uerennial barber bill has been rec
commended for passage by the house COM
,nit,ee of the whole, but il had TO run
the gauntlet of a lot of opposition. The
hin creates a BARRIERS commission OF
three members, appointed by tne COVER
nor and every barber in town OF more
than 5000 popula don which comes within
the provisions of the bill. must take a
examination and procure license. The
idea is TO make barber shops sanitary
and to prevent the spread Of contagious
diseases
The total appropriation from the state
for the state university for the coming
two years will be s3s0,0oo. This amount
has been agreed upon by the house COM
mittee on ways and means and Chancel-
lor Strong. This means an appropriation
of $50 900 for q law building.
The house has passed the bill offered
by Campbell of eMade which provides for
a constitutional amendment allowing the
state to take a change of venue in cases
where a jury can not be secured, by a
vote of IS to 1. This is four votes more
the constitutional majority Of four
votes required.
The house in committee of the whole
has recommended for passage the follow
ing bills:
To prohibit splitting in public build
ings, by Hutcheson.
To establish a state fiscal agency in
Kansas, by Senator Sponable.
To repeal the law requiring candidates
and committees to file statements of elec-
ton expenses, by Peck.
To require that state funds be left in
banks in the counties where they are
collected, till needed by the state, by
Gobel.
To prohibit the coercion of employees,
by Husey.
To lengthen the terms of county COM
missioners to four years, by Stavely.
To prohibit railroads from blockading
public highways for longer than ten
minutes. by jerks.
To raise the clerk hire in the Office Of
clerk of Shawnee county, by Senator
CLANCY.
To require county boards to pay what
the law allows for the printing of cleo
ton ballots. by Jones of Norton.
TO authorize county attorneys to hire
The house this morning killed Senator
Whites constitutional amendment reso-
luton to require foreigners to live in
the United States five years before vot-
ing. The vote was 45 for the resolution
and 7against it.
Fitzpatrick constitutional amendment
resolution against special legislation also
was defeated, 1t having failed to receive
the necessary two-thirds majority. The
vote was 7S for the resolution and "a
against it.
The speaker appealed in vain for order
n the house this morning. The members
were unruly, the lobby was big and
noisy, the sergeats-at-arms and door
keepers fell over one another in their eff
'orts to nave about in the discharge of
alleged duties. and the pages boxed, wres-
led and threw paper wads. Bucklin en-
oyed the confusion. He said it remind
ID him of the good old ways of Pop
when all the delegates talked
It once.
The senate has passed the following
bills:
NoftZger's measure providing for the
of county high schools. 1t
provides that one-third of the electors of
| township may secure by petition TO the
county commissioners a submission to
1ote on the question of establishing a
county high school. If the proposition
,arTies the county commissioners are to
appoint three trustees to hold until the
lection of a new board of township high
'chool trustees. No tax for teachers
wages or contingent expenses for any
rear can exceed 10 mills. Two or moro
ownships may unite for a high school
Findlay's bill for the election of coun-
lmen in cities of the third class so that
hree old members shall always be on
he council.
Carpenters amendment excepting
ew mutual benefit insurance companies
rom the supervision of the insurance de-
'artment
Tapp's bill to authorize county commits
toner's or city councils to appropriate
money for soldiers monuments.
Wulfekuhler's bill to appropriate s., 900
4 aid of n district school at Lansing
Wulfekuhler's bill making IL the duty
{ the warden of the penitentiary to con-
ey discharged convicts to the county |
eat in which conviction was obtained. It |
arries an appropriation og 5000.
The ways and means committee meas |
re making appropriations for the insti- |
fntfOn he ind I
he next fiscal year.
Tapp's bill to enable Sedgwick county |
D obtain stenogrepher for the county |
ttorney.
The senate has adopted the house con- /
urrent resolution giving the governor |
over to reject items appropriating |
honey while approving the rest of the |
Ill. The vote was 80 to 5, Clancy. Con- |
ad, Ffndlay. Householder and Noftzger
oting against ii.
Bevington's bill providing that no con- |
ract entered into by district school |
oard with 4 teacher should be binding |
ntil ratified by the county superintend- |
Mt, has been killed by the house commit |
ee Of the whole. Adams. of Butler, and |
enks, OF Franklin. led the fight on the |
i'll, which. IN fact. had but few friends |
Lynchings probably will become unpop- |
lar in Kansas IL Bale Waggener's bill. |
7hich was recommended for passage by |
he house committee of the whole be |
ONES a law. The bill provides that where |
person is lynched by a mob every |
member of the mob is liable to imprison- |
nent in the penitentiary for from two |
o twenty-one Years and every person |