The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-02-13
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
condensed Proceedings or the Sessions OF
Senate and House from Day Co
Day at Topeka.

Senator Findlay introduced a resolution
In the senate on the 18th to twist the tail
of the Standard oil octopus. He wants
the legislature to investigate the opera
tiors of the trust in the state, to inquire
into conditions existing in the oil fields
and see if convict labor can be employed
10 develop the oil industry. Senator Por-
ter has scored one point in his fight to
have a state manual training school es-
tablished at Pittsburg. He has succeeded
in getting the senate ways and means
committee to upturn its former verdict
and report his bill for passage. "A bill
against lynchinS, prepared by several
leading negroes of Kansas. has been in
troduced in the house by Waggener. Lee
lands resolution ordering the Kansas
senators in congress to vote for the Gu
ban reciprocity treaty went through the
house without dissenting vote. The two
branches Of the legislature are st logger
heads over bill appropriating $500 for
postage for Secretary Coburn's biennial
report. The house committee on ways
and means reduced 1t to $780, and the
house passed the bill as reported by its
committee. The senate refused 20 concur
and the bill has been sent to a conference
committee.
Senator Hurrell has evolved practical
plan to reduce the cost of state printing.
He gets at the root of the matter by linn
iting the amount of printing to be done.
Under Hurrell's bill, introduced In the SEN
ate on the 5th, all of the reports or the
state officials and state boards must first
be submitted to the governor. He is to
consolidate them and print 500 copies of
the consolidated report. In addition to
this 500 copies of each separate report are
| to be printed. Senator Wulfekuhler in
troduced the charter bill for cities of the
first class. Three resolutions to change
| the state constitution were recommended
| for passage by the senate in committee
| of the WHOLE. The house spent the day
passing bills on third reading which had
| been recommended by the committee of
| the whole. Bills relating to educational
affairs were slaughtered right and left
| by the house committee on education.
| McMilIans snake eating bill has been
reported for passage in the house. Hol-
| lenbeck's bill, providing that nine jurors
can return a verdict, has been killed in
committee.
Senator Aliens bill giving district
judges the right to suspend sentence dur
| ing good behavior was recommended for
passage in the senate on the 9Th after a
debate covering almost the entire day.
Aliens resolution to change the consttu-
| ton so that nine members of a jury can
| return a verdict was defeated in the SEN
ate when it came up for final passage
In order to revive 1t Allen changed his
vote. from aye to no and moved recon-
| sideration. This will require the senate
| to pass upon 1t again. Senator White
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| change the constitution through the SEN
ate. It requires foreigners to live in
| this country five years and take out full
| naturalization papers before being al
| lowed to VOTE. .Husey, of Sedgwick, in
/ troduced in the house petition from the
! State Labor society urging the passage
! of the bill to employ convict labor in con-
| structing highways. The bill prohibiting
| the use of trade marks for fraudulent
purposes was passed. A big batch of bills
| was introduced.
Senator Findlay introduced a bill
against grain trusts in the senate on the
| 9th. The Allen parole bill was defeated
| by a vote of 20 to 16. A motion to recon
slider was carried and the bill will come
up again. .Waggener, Of Atchison, intro
| duced bill in the house to repeal the
| bucketshop law passed in 1899. McLaugh-
| lin, of Cherokee, offered a resolution de-
nouncing the attack on Venezuela and
| commencing Minister Bowen for his
| brave stand. By a vote of Is to II the
| joint committee on taxation declined to
| wipe out Waggener's amendment to the
| tax bill exempting mortgages and notes
| from taxation. Bills were also introduced
| to create a state fire marshal and dairy
commissioner.