Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26
THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
The Senate Passed the Biii to Erect SOL
disrs' Monuments MANY Bills Killed
In the House

senate after much oratory yesterday
Only two senators voted against it,
Smith and Caldwell. Smith said hi
did not want to build any monument,
to dead soldiers as long as living sol
diers were in want Caldwell voted
against 1t on general principles.
Senator Leidy is fighting hard fol
his bill to compel attendance of chill
dren at schools. II is known as q
truancy act. Under it each county
is divided into five districts and q
truant officer appointed by the coun-
ty board for each district.
The senate also favorably reported
the bill to exempt only 10 per cent.
Of wages from punishment, the bill
to elect railroad commissioners by di-
rect vote of the people, the bill plac-
ing interurban electric lines under the
control of the railroad commission
ers, Nrtland's bill to protect occu-
pants in hotel and boarding houses
from fire, the Codding bill requiring
applicants for admission to the bar
to undergo an examination by the
supreme court. Wulfekuhler's bill
creating a board of pubic utilities in
first-class cities and Tapp's bill COM
pelling street railway companies to
put q motorman and conductor on
each electric car.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation to visit Kansas in May.
For the protection Of the president
and also the governor, Senator Allen
has introduced this bill in the SEN
ate:
"Any person or persons who shall
assault with intent to kill or assault
with intent to do bodily harm, the
president of the United States, the
vice president, any member of the
cabinet or the governor of this state,
shall, on conviction, be guilty Of a
felony and shall suffer death. When
any person or persons shall be con-
victed under the provisions Of this
act the governor shall, within 80 days
after such conviction, sign the death
warrant and the warden Of the state
penitentiary shall at once carry out
the sentence of the law as directed
in such death warrant, provided that,
where the governor of this state
shall be assaulted, it shall be the
duty of the lieutenant governor to
sign such death warrant"
10 stave off the lobbyists here
clamoring for the legislature to pay
the Price raid scrip and union scrip
the senate ways and means commit
tee put In two bills. One provides
for the appointment by the governor
of a commissioner at q salary OF ST.
900 to pass upon the union scrip.
The other provides for a court OF
claims to pass upon the Price raid
claims and all the outstanding Guam
trell raid claims, and in fact, all other
claims growing out of the destruction
of property during the war.
1t will be known tonight whether
the tax bill prepared by the legisla-
ture committee is to be killed in the
senate or checked up to the house
for disposition. The bill has been
standing on the calendars as a spe-
cial order in both branches, but Is
pushed aside with charming regular
ity. The house wants the senate to
kill the bill. Then the responsibility
for no tax legislation will rest on
the holdover senator's. If the senate
passes the bill, then it will be up to
the administration to show its hand,
because It controls the house. The
senate has agreed to take the bill up
to-day and decide what II viii do
with II,
Senator Morrow stated last night
TINT in the event ths big tax bill
failed In thu senate, he would try to
pass d bill fixing a penalty In the old
law against trustees who fail TO do
their duty; requiring the assessment
Of property at It's true cash value.
and cutting the tax levies to one
third the present rate.
The house refused to concur In the
senate amendment TO the Neosho
county courthouse bill. This amend-
ment provided that the question
should be submitted to vote Of the
people Of that county. Senator Car
penter backed the amendment. Rep
resentative Nation wanted the bill
without the amendment. The con-
ference committee, headed by Nation
for the house and Carpenter for the
senate, met yesterday afternoon and
reached an agreement. The house
conferees accepted the Carpenter
amendment.
Farris, Of Sumner, secured unani-
nous consent TO withdraw his anti
cigarette bill. He said he understood
that the house will kill the bill as
soon as II reached 1t and he wanted
TO save II the trouble.
Kings bill providing that one man
shall not hold more than one politi-