The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-03-13
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condemned Proceedings OF the Sessions OF
Senate aud House from Day to
Day at Topeka

1t took n call of the senate on the 4th
to round up the necessary q votes to
pass the Smith bill providing for a semi
centennial celebration in Topeka next
year of the passage of the Kansas-Ne-
braSka bill by congress. The bill to in
crease the salaries of supreme court
judges was killed by vote of p to 6.
Among the bills ordered to engrosSment
were: Providing for the determination
OF prairie dogs; to prohibit the operation
of the grain trust in Kansas; TO prohibit
the employment of child labor in facto-
ries and mines: giving laborers the right
to place lien upon buildings and mate
rial for wages due for labor performed.
THE house sidetracked the Hale con-
gressional apportionment bill. The
Schmidt bill, to lop IS sections of land
off Morris county and attach it to Geary
county, was passed. Among the bills
recommended for passage were the fol-
lowing: Preventing minors from marry
ing without the consent of their par
entS; placing business colleges under the
supervision of the state superintendent
of schools: requiring fences across the
public roads to be torn down in Rawlins,
Jewell, Scott and Phillips counties; lop-
ping off taxes where farmers build ponds
on their farms; authorizing insurance
companies to buy municipal and school
bonds.
The senate fought all the afternoon on
the 5th on Wulfekuhler'S bill to prohibit
the employment of child labor in facto-
ries. stores. offices and mines. Several
amendments were offered and all were
voted down. There was a tie each time.
The friends of the measure finally saw
that they could not muster q votes to
pass the bill and the motion to postpone
Indefinitely was carried unanimously
The stock yards bill was passed by a
vote of 81 to 4. A big lot of bills of more
or less Importance was passed. amons
them one 10 make the sunflower the Off.
i1l N house
bill drawn up by the legislative tax COM
mission was passed after hard Tough!
contest. The house ways and means
committee killed the state fair bill and
the stockmeE have given up hopes of get
ting any legislation along that line at this
session.
The senate on the 9Th passed resolu-
tions providing that $500 silver service
should be purchased for the proposed new
battleship Kansas. Waggener's bin
against lynching was engrossed. The
bill by Jones. of Trego, for the exter
mination of prairie dogs was passed.
The Noftzger substitute for Kirkpatrick
bill modifying the present corporation
law was passed. A bill to discourage the
marriage of old soldiers to young girls
was also PASSED 49, Senator Aliens parole
bill failed of a constitutional majority in
the house. The vote was SO for and 81
against. Barker served notice that he
would call the bill up again on a motion
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the calendar of local bills, leaving only
general bills to be considered.
There was an uproar in the senate on
the 7th when 1t was thought all the SEN
ate bills had been killed by the adjourn
ment until the 9th. The house had adopt.
ed and sent to the senate n concurrent
resolution that consideration of senate
| bills should cease in both the senate and
house at midnight on the 7th. The SEN
ate did not act upon this resolution, but
members thought they had. after the
adjournment was taken, and they were
afraid they had killed several most i'm
portant bills. The house bill amending
the election law was placed on third
reading The Pralle bill to better Kansas
! roads was passed. The bill to create a
commission to examine plumbers in cities
of over 1000 population; the bill requiring
cities of the second-class to so arrange
| the course of studies in high schools
that graduates may be admitted to the
state university, and the Hayden child
| labor bill were passed in the house.
resolution was introduced into the
| senate on the 9th recommending that
when the new battleship Kansas is
| launched the christening shall be made
with water instead of wine. 1t was
voted down. 10 to Is. Senator NoftZger
| bill through and checked 1t up to the
| house. Senator Codding introduced bill
| for the enactment of the nuisance Sec
| tions of the prohibitory law. The HOUSE
passed the bill providing that the Kansas
City stock yards rates should be reduced
| % per cent. and that the profit on hay
and grain should not be over 100 per cent.
| Cubbisons bill repeating the double liza
| bility act was passed.