The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-02-26
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

v NNNCNV LIuIOLH WILL
The Adoption OF the Missouri Deed Of
Trust Law FavorsbIy Reported.
t 10Th DAY.
The senate adopted resolution recommend
Ing the appointment Of Senator Harris on the
Isthmlan canal commission,
One hundred and eleven local bills, some
senate and others house bills, were put upon
third reading and omnibused through, The
. rules provide that every bill must be read in
the senate before 1t Ia passed, and every sena
tor, sergeant-at-arms, page clerk, doorkeeper
r and reporter took bill and when the time
was called all began to read at once.
The bill to prevent Sunday theaters was
) killed in the senate Judiciary committee
The house spent most Of day on local bills.
There was thin house and at times there was
! no quorum. There were no bills taken up to
which an objection was offered, yet there
were 70 local bills approved in committee Of
court house at Troy heads the list Another
was to authorize Riley county to build court
house.
The local option resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution providing for
local option was killed in house committee.
The Osawatomie asylum, by bill, asks $4,000
for an ice plant, 5000 for stand pipe and
81, f00 for inacadam road.
The bill permitting condemnation Of land on
railroad right Of way for elevator sites, has
been killed,
BOTH DAY.
The big Joint committee recommended the
passage of the new tax law, striking out Wag-
mortgages. The bill provides for listing prop.
erty at full value and assessing 1t at one-third.
Lobbyists from the state institutions who
are pressing for large appropriations, find
strong sentiment in the legislature against
giving them all that they ask. The senate Is
in more liberal mood than Is the house,
A broom factory bill has appeared in the
senate. II provides for the manufacture Of
brooms at the Hutchinson reformatory. Tt
provides for ~, OV0 for plant and 2O,OOO for II
revolving fund,
The senate killed the long train bill which
provides that every train Of over five cars
must have full train crew and that there
must be an extra brakeman for each additional
ten cars.
Both the senate and house agreed to a reso-
luton memoriazing congress to submit an
amendment providing that United States SEN
ators shall be elected by direct vote of Tie
people. Only two members voted against the
resolution and it will be Immediately sent to
congress-
Waggeners bill has been favorably reported
by the house Judiciary committee; which bill
provides for suits for damages against individ-
| ,ia1u for ocoo 1tu mn hop oip no h, a ,,,nb
3!sT DAY.
The joint tax committee amended the new
tax law increasing the gross exemption from
500 to SiOO. There was mich contention over
this, point and Its adoption by the joint com
mittee created much surprise.
Eleven resolutions to amend the constitution
are before the legislature; eight came from the
house and three from the senate, AS but
three can be submitted to the people by the
same legislature, competition for position may
defeat them all.
There are several congrt ssional reappOrtion-
ment schemes all Of which have basic theory |
that no member must be cut off from his pres
ent district.
Mr., Kirkland, Of Saline, Is ready with another
bill in case the new tax bill is defeated. He
has introduced bill making an assessor liable
to imprisonment for failure to assess all prop
erty, both real and personal at its full value,
Mr.. Williams, of Topeka, introduced bill
making the willful and malicious destruction
Of the property Of another to the value Of $50
or under, a misdemeanor, to be punished with
a fine not to exceed $500, or six months in Jail
or both. Where the property no destroyed Is
over the value of s20 such work is made a
felony to be punished by Imprisonment not to
exceed five years
BIND DAY.
Senator lamps bill secured the approval Of
the senate. 1t empowers cities to appropriate
money for monument to the memory Of old
soldiers.
There Is strong delegation in Topeka from
Winfield and Arkansas to watch the bill which
would divide the district court Of Cowley coun-
ty...
The senate passed Aliens parole bill, which
gives gives trial judges the authority to parole
young men and boys convicted Of any crime
except treason, arson, robbery, murder and
forcible rape.
The bill to prohibit the operation Of a grain
trust in Kansas has been reported favorably in
the senate.
The bill prohibiting lawyers from employing
solicitors to bring them business has been re-
ported adversely by the senate Judiciary com.
mittee.
The senate has killed the bill to compel the
governor to sign death warrants in cases OF
condemned murderers.
There is a bill in the senate for state geolo.
gist at $1,000 with $500 for extras.
The Judiciary committee Of the house has a.
vorably reported the bill providing for deed
Of trust law in this state. The bill is copy Of
the Missouri law.
The bill to require all prison.made goods to
be branded has been reported favorably.
The house passed the bill to extend the time
of maturity Of school land certificates twenty
years and reducing the interest from six to
four per cent.
The house adopted resolution instructing
the insurance committee to investigate the
reason for the advance Of fire insurance rates.
Arid DAY,
The senate Is the first to pass a congressional
bill. There Is little prospect
Of its being passed by the house
The senate has passed the fish warden bill
treating state fish hatchery and providing
Tor stockingi 1t. The warden is to receive 1880
4 year salary,
The house has passed the measure changing
the system Of handling state taxes. The bill
provides that all state taxes collected shall re-
main in the county treasures to be drawn out
in monthly installments in amounts estimated
by the state treasurer sufficient to meet the
demands upon the state treasury for the +
month. 1t IS expected that the senate will en-
lorse this bill.
NEW COMPANY For CASA company
of capitalists from Neodesha, Chanute
and Independence has secured leases t
On $4,000 acres of land near Mulvane
Ind has shipped two complete drilling 5
outfits from Chanute to Mulvane, and /
the work Of placing them and begin. '
ming operations will 70 forward at t
once.
WAS FROM KANSAS Mrs. d. S.
Slower, wife Of ex-Liout Gov. Slower, q
If Kansas, died Of paralysis at Albu- t