The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-03-13
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Senate Decides That children shonld BE
Brought Up to Work.

Senator Stewards bill passed the senate, L
| provides that state stitching and blndlng snaii
is. The senate in committee Of the whole ap..
proved bill which increases the salaries OF 10
| state house officials from 500 to 5000 each i,
The senate passed the bill TO make the board
of railroad commissioners elective by the PEG.
pie, after amending 1t 80 as not to require that
The pressure from the people from all over t the
| state caused another effort to reapportion phe
congressional districts.
| When the tax commission bill, as passed by
the senate, reached the house it was battered
| and torn by amendments, Waggener working
| the gatling gun
Among bills passed in the senate are; Max
| ing teachers certificates good in adjoining
counties authorizing cities of the three classes
| to levy two mill tax for the support OF PUBIC
libraries, upon vote of the people 70 raise as,
hatchery bill providing for museum in g. A.
IL. headquarters in the state house. A. ..,t.
The senate killed tho bill requiring the state
board of charities to recognize the tnree
schools of doctors in appointing physicians for
| the state institutions
The bill providing for manual training in the
public sSn9o S Mas f%s Bill sves soo to
| courage manual training. The women,s CLUBS
started it. Leland opposed, saying that the
districts should keep up the expenses OF their
Both houses passed the bill prohibiting the
| harvester trust from making exclusive con nt
tracts, with the penalty that no such contraco
! can be sued on in the courts.
| The hous passed bill to give foreign cor
porations so days to bring suit on business IS
heretofore done in the state, before the aco Is
| effective which provides that foreign corpora
| lions which have no Kansas charter can nave
| standing in the courts. .,
The deed Of trust bill was killed IN tne mouse,
Ill. l.nrt
| performed.
The senate voted down Speaker Pringle's
resolution, adopted by the house, prohibiting
| the employment of prison labor in competition
with free labor. When the senate reached the
general townsite vacation bill and 1t was belng
read, senators discovered that the bill played
havoc with their own towns and began to
kick Further action was postponed. go,
The senate passed the grain inspection Dill.
1t provides that there shall be grain inspector
in every town where there is public ware
house. The fees and salaries OF inspectors are
considerably increased.
The bill to create new judicial district Oh
Allen and Woodson counties has gone to the
governor
The tax commission bill which has passed
the senate having been butchered by amend
ments in the house, Bailie Waggener has intro
duced a new bill. 1t is short and covers the
important points. A.,
salaries of the district judges in Shawnee, wy,
andotte, Leavenworth, Atchison, bourbon ana
Sedgwick counties from 81 $40 to S3OO0 q year.
All the ways and means committee DIS on
the calendar are now disposed of by the house.
45TH DAY.
The senate tabled the concurrent resolution
instructing the United states senators IRON ON
unseating of Reed Smoot, the senntor'elect
from Utah.
The senate surrendered to the house, and ac-
cepted the utimatum of the house that but
S},A0 would be allowed for postage ON Secre-
tary Coburn's report. The bill carries an APP
preparation Of only $500 and provides that
each member of the legislature shall have sixty
books and one FOR every 100 inhabitants OF his
district ~
The senate promptly squelched the bill pro-
hibiting railroads from employing telegraph
operators who were under 20 years old.
The senate passed resolution to give Mrs
Robinson, wife of Charles Robinson. the first
governor Of the state Of Kansas, 5000 WIN
which to secure and place in the rotunda of
the state house bust Of Governor Robinson
Mrs. Robinson would, without doubt, place
such memorial to her husband but for the
fact that her hush nd's will gives all OF his es-
tate, after her death, to Kansas university
The house at night session approved these
bills: Preventing minors from marrying
Without with the consent Of their parents, Probate
Judges are held liable for issuing licenses to
minors. Placing business colleges under the
schools Looping off taxes where farmers
build ponds on their farms.
46TH DAY.
The senate quarreled oyer the bill to prohibit
the employment Of children during whole
session and quit with tie vote. The bill was
then indefinitely postponed, Thesenate passed
the Caldwell stockyards bill.
When the tax bill had been messaged from
the house the senate promptly demanded
conference upon it..
one days pay for each school month for at
tending county teachers associations. Other
bills were passed among which are: To build
and equip law building at the state univer-
sity; to pay counties for keeping destitute In
sane not admitted to state asylums; giving the
school fund commissioners power to buy bonds
where the indebtedness is over the ten per
cent limit prohibiting the operation OF gram IN
slot machines providing for the election or
township officers biennially; providing for a
% cent bounty on gopher scalps.
The house ways and means committee has
| killed the state fair bill. go,
The house finally passed the senate tax elll
bill to reimburse counties for caring for insane
persons who were not admitted to the state
asylums. The bill for the determination OF
| rocket gophers was killed in committee. The
| third appropriation bill for legislative purposes
was passed, carrying $4,000. This brings the
cost of the legislature, up to date, not includ-
/ ing pruning, 10 SllO,OU
LYONS PEOPLE BORE For OLA
large company has been formed at
Lyons to bore for oil. The company
has quite large capital and work will
begin at once on the we'll with the in
tention of going down 5000 feet. 1t is
claimed that the first flow of gas found
in Kansas was in Lyons in 1887 at a
depth of 1900 feet.
KANSAS HoNoRED Mrs Stanley,
wife of Ex-Governor Stanley, has been
elected by the National Daughters OF
the American Revolution as vice regent
for the society in Kansas.
REQUEST For LIBRARY.-J. p. John
sons will has been filed at Arkansas
City. His fortune is still estimated at
between 500, 900 and s2oO,o A part
is to be used for a public library for
Arkansas City when his wife dies Ar
kansas City is already looking around