The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-13

state accountant to be attached to the govern
| or's office. The salary attached to the office
Two Joint resolutions for a change in the
| constitution in regard to the right OF suffrage
| of foreign born people are before the legisla-
| ture. Hill, Of Russell, put in resolution TO
| require a residence here OF three years. LIN
| ton, of Smith, put in one to have the limit ex-
tended to five years and to require the Foreign
| err to become naturalized citizen.
Among new bills is an act authorizing the re-
funding of the legally existing bonded indie t.
edness of disorganized and merged school dis
| tricts ,.r .,,. 4,,.4
where there are less than ten pupils IN school
district that levy sh Il be made Tor their
and to pay for their tuition. :. =, -,
The house took the "chiclSen stealing" bill
away from the judiciary committee and will
The senate tried to get the house to change
its provision for committee to investigate the
harvester trust by house committee by ask
ing that joint committee be appointed for
that job The house refused the cooperation
of the senate.
Senator Porter introduced bill providing
for commissioner to investigate the unpaid
Price raid claims and report to the legislature
of 1905.
The senate committee on insurance has
killed Noftzger's bill requiring foreign insur-
ance companies to invest 40 per cent OF their
gross income on Kansas business in Kansas Sc
curitieS.
The house cut the appropriation for postage
on the report of Secretary Coburn to @00O.
The sentiment of the house was that Mr.. Co
burns book should be sent as freight to county
clerks and be distributed by them.
M f ba is whch TO wifi i'm
struct Senator Burton to vote for Cuban reel
procity.
Senator Allen. of Doniphan, has introduced
his fourth or fifth insurance bill, making
dozen when added to others before the senate.
The senate refused to concur i'll the house
amendment cutting down the item for postage
on Secretary Coburn's report.
The appropriations asked for the chief edu
cationa1 institutions for the next two years
are: For Kansas University, over S5OO,OOO;
for the state normal school at Emporia, about
$l6S, 4l2.80; for the state agricultural college
pairs at the Fort Hays normal school and
5000 each year for current expenses.
Mr.. Waggener has a resolution in the house
providing for placing bust of John j. ingalls,
in statuary hall of the national capitol
The house judiciary committee has recon-
mended for passage resolution offered by
Francis, of Allen, granting the governor au-
thority to cut out out any items in approprla.
ton bills, which he considers "grafters
claims"
It is hard to get the approval of the judiciary
committee OF the house, which Stays bills by
the who esale.
Members of the house are busy studying the
new tax bill.
the Wichita high school BILL and the commit
tee on cities of the first class acted favorably
on the bill permitting Wichita to vote bonds
for an auditorium.
2lsT DAY
Bailie Waggener induced the big tax bill
joint committee to exempt mortgages and
notes from taxation, and, as his amendment
has it, "other evidences OF indebtedness"
Later the the members saw that this might ex-
emnt railroad bonds.
the house.
Senator Allen would by law authorize in
surance companies to invest in school funds
Senator Porter's bill for a manual training
department in the public schools is likely to
become a law.
a slot machine, or permitting 1t to be operated,
a felony, with the penalty of one to five years
in the penitentiary.
The committee of the whole house acted IA
voraby upon number of bills, among them
one authorizing school district No 5, of Har-
per county, to make levy for school purposes
and bill to authorize high school in Stohr-
vile township, Harper county.
A bill is before the house providing :for the
publication of Noble Prentis history Of Kan
sas, which the state employed Mr.. Prentis to
The house passed the bill which requires alb
stractors to give bonds; also n bill requiring
young men to study law in lawyers office
two years before admission to the bar.
The house passed bill exempting pharma-
csts from jury service.
22NDD DAY.
Senator Hurrell has evolved a plan to re-
duce the cost of state printing Several bills
to remedy this have been introduced this SEES
sion Hurrell gets at the root of the matter
by limiting the amount of printing to be done.
A car,tc CTS to nfi aia nd
tically unlimited and as o result a lot of use
less repor. and other stuff is printed.
The bill providing for state examiner to
check up county treasures was killed by the
house ways and means committee. The same
committee favors the bill to increase the sal
airy of the governor, and opposes the bill to in
crease the salaries of the supreme court judges.
The judiciary committee favors the bill to
wipe out the law requiring candidates for
office to file election expense statements.
There is a house bill to provide for the con-
struction of good roads by king for that pur-
pose the property for one-half mile ON each side
of the road.
AGAINST REsUBAussIoN.-Av vigorous
fight is to be made by the prohibition
lists against any effort to resubmit the
prohibitory amendment. Petitions are
being sent to members of the house
protesting against any legislation look
ing to resubmission.
A TRACKMAN's SAvINGs.-A section
hand working in Wallace county was
killed by train and it was found that
he had 81, O56 dollars on his person. 1t
represented his saved earnings during |
sixteen years of working at the poorest |
paid job on railroad.
JUNIOR WARDEN--At Abilene Grand |
Master Dewey installed Thomas L.
Bond, of Salina, as grand junior war
den of Masons in Kansas, to which |
position he was recently appointed to
succeed the late Judge Ellis. The in
stallation ceremony conducted by the |
grand master, was attended by many |
prominent Masons
LARGEST IN THE CITY.-The Presby- |
terian church at Clay Center is to have |
an addition for which 81, 900 has been
raised. The addition will make this |