Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-02-07
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings OF the Sessions or
senate and House from Day to
Day nc Topeka.


Day at Topeka.
The election of Chester I. Long as
limited States senator to succeed w. A. |
Harris was formally declared by the leg
islature at noon on the 18th. The joint |
session was held in Representative hall.
The Journals of the two houses. showing |
the vote taken on senator on the 2itn'
were read. The senate journal showed:
Long, 30; Harris, o. The house record
was: Long, 80; Harris. 20. Total poth
houses: Long, 123; Harris, 20: AFTER tne
vote was announced President Hanna
said: "Chester I. Long, having received
n constitutional majority Of both houses,
as shown by the journals. / declare him
elected United States senator for term
of six years, beginning March next.
Senator Vincent, Of Reno introduced q
bill for a state fair. In the house jones'
of Norton, introduced bill giving the
executive council the power to buy the
patent right for voting machine Tor the
state of Kansas. The sum OF $lO.VOO Is APP
propriated for that purpose. Many other
| bills of more or less Importance were IN
troduced.
Senator Stewart introduced joint reso-
luton In the senate on the 18th to re-
duce the fees of state printer % 1-3 per
cent. Without attempting to revise the
entire schedule of fees for different
| classes of work the Stewart resolution
provides that, when the state printer
presents his bill for any job OF work
under the prevailing rates. the secretary
of state shall scale 1t down one-third.
Tapp's bill holding the owner Of build
| ing responsible for any damages sus-
| tanned by workmen by reason of defective
scaffolding was killed. Two different
Joint resolutions to change the state con-
stitution In regard to the right OF sur
frage of foreign-born people were intro
duced in the house. Under the present
| constitution foreigner only has TO be In
the state six months and take out his frst
papers to enable him to vote. Hill, OF
Russell. put in a resolution to require
n residence here of three years. Lin
| ton. of Smith, put in one to have the
limit extended to five years and to re-
ouire the foreigner to become natural
ICED citizen. Several other bills OF more
or less Importance were INTRODUCED.
Speaker Pringle announced some more
committees.
The senate spent all the forenoon on
the 30th in preliminary skirmish on the
Hamilton-Geiger judicial contest case
from the Seventeenth district. The par
ties to the contest were then asked to
get I'm an agreed statement OF facts COW
ering rs many points as possible ana
submit II to the senate on the I'd. In
the house the bill to extend the Fellow
servant law to all classes Of employees
came up for action. Mclaughlin and Adj
ans, of Sedgwick, each introduced Dill
extending the law to all employees. The
bills were sent to the judiciary commit
tee. which committee sent them back
with majority and minority reports. The
hill was finally defeated. The judiciary
committee killed 80 bills in less than two
hours. The farmers scored a point when
they got their bill making chicken steal
ing n felony. punishable by prison sem
tence. placed upon the calendar. Speak
err Pringle announced few more COM
mittees. Several bills were recommended
for passage in committee OF the whoie.
Senator Allen is after the pool room
GENERATORS of Kansas City. Kan. He IN
PRODUCED bill In the senate on the "a
prohibiting their operations. Senator NC
Millan's snake-eating bill came up Tor
consideration and after much debate and
the injection of few amendments was
reported for passage. Senator Kennedy
of Coffey, Is alarmed over the appropria-
lions and is hammering them down..
In the house kirkpatrick. OF wilson,
wants TO check the enactment of so many
local laws, and with that end In view In
troduced a resolution to reaffirm one. OF
the old provisions of the state constitu-
tion. which has become a dead letter
through the work Of the supreme court.
The provision is to the effect that no spe-
cial law shall stand II general law COW
ering the same subject can apply. Rep
resentative Adams, of Butler, introduced
a resolution instructing our senators at
washington to vote for the Panama canai
treaty. Speaker Pringle announced the
remainder of his committees.
Senator Henley believes that the most
nppropriate plan for commemorative the
deeds of Kansas soldiers In the civil war
and the Spanish-American war would De
to erect a fine gymnasium building at the
state university and dedicate II TO their
memory. In accordance with this plan
he introduced bill In the senate on the
I'd asking for an appropriation OF SlVV'VVu
for that purpose. Senator Smith intro
duced a bill providing for juvenile court
TO look after unruly children. 1t clothes
the probate judge with parental Juris-
diction over all incorrigible children UNI
der the age of 16 years. Nine bills We're
passed by the senate and messaged TO the
house. Evans. of Lynn, put Dill IN the
house hopper asking for $l6S.4l 1oi
the state normal school at Emporia TOT
the next two years. Won Trebra, OF La
bette. presented a petition signed by
about 100 OF his constituents asking the
legislature to enact law creating Sc
cret service department for the state
Rroadbent's bill regarding insurance III
suicide cases was recommended for pas
sage by the house in committee OF the
whole. Eleven local bills were omni-
bused through on one roll CALL