Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-13
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

An effort will be made to get the
stock yards bill up for consideration
In the house. 1t is now before the jul
dietary committee, and Waggener is
making little effort to get the commit
tee together to report on it. He was
attorney for the stock yards company
In its litigation growing cut OF the
passage of the law before and, of
course, feels friendly to the concern
now. But plan was devised by some
of the representatives to try to lift
the bill out of the judiciary commit
tees hands, and put it on third read
ing, subject to amendment and debate.
Upon this motion a roll call will be
demanded, SO as to put the members
on record.
The house and senate conferees
have agreed upon tax bill and will
report it back to both branches at
once. 1t is the bill passed by the
house, with these amendments: The
interrogatories are knocked out and
the state tax commission is author
lied to prepare some interrogatories
not quite SO searching. The clause
taxing grain dealers upon the average
amount of business they do in year
was stricken out. Grain dealers will
be taxed upon their capital stock. The
tax commissioners are to be appointed
for the first two years by the governor
instead of by the executive council.
After that, they are to be elected.
The secretary of state and the state
| treasurer are made members of the
| state tax commission. Township
trustees are made deputy assessors.
Property will be taxed at one-third its
true cash value.
The most restless of the legislators
do not expect final adjournment be-
fore late next week. The fifty-day
limit has already expired and the legis-
lators are now working without pay.
The house has adopted the following
| concurrent resolution concerning final
adjournment; Resolved by the house
of representatives, the senate concur
ring therein, That the consideration of
house bills and joint resolutions in the
house and of senate bills and joint
resolutions in the senate, shall cease
Saturday at ~ o'clock, midnight,
March 7, and that the consideration of
| all bills and joint resolutions in each
| branch of the legislature shall cease
| Tuesday at ~ o'clock noon, March 10.
| Provided this resolution shall not ap-
ply to appropriation bills presented
| by the ways and means committee,
senate amendments to house bills or
house amendments to senate bills.
| The introduction of all bills, exceps
| appropriation bills, was stopped at
noon Friday in the house. From now
on the time will be taken up in con-
sidering bills on the calendar.
Senator Noftzger railroadcd a bill
| through the senate which is intended
to discourage the marriage of old SOL
diers to young and gii6y girls. It pro-
vides that no woman shall be admitted
to the Soldiers home unless she is
over 40 years old and was married to
the soldier before 1892, except in spe-
cial cases where the wife is an invalid,
and where the husband is an invalid
and needs the attention of a wife.
Girls are allowed to stay at the home
until they are IS years old. Boys
must leave it when they are 16.
In order to show the navy depart
ment that Kansas appreciates the
honor of having battleship named
after her, joint resolution was
adopted, appropriating $500 to buy a
silver set for the new battleship Kan 4
sas. Early in the session concur I
rent resolution was adopted by both
branches of the legislature urging Sec
rotary Moody of the navy to name one
of the new battleships Kansas. TheI
request has been granted.
Waggener put motion through
just before adjournment Wednesday
night to place his substitute tax bill
on the calendar for third reading,
subject to amendment and debate, and
made special order for Thursday.
This places the bill ahead Of the reg
ular tax bill, which is still in COM
mittee of the whole. The house is
being lined up to pass the Waggener !
substitute. e. IN.
Enrght put up two new bills Tues
day. One repeats the public; utility
bill of 1897. requiring water com~
panies to give the city all over per
cent of their net earnings Yhe other
abolishes the city courts of Kansas
City, Kansas.
The house worked in committee of
the whole at its night session Wednes-
day night. Among the bills recon-!
mended for passage were the follow
ing: BY Hutchinson - Preventing
minors from marrying without the
consent of. their parents. Probate
judges are held liable for issuinc
licenses to minors. = By watkins
Placing business colleges under the
supervision of the state superintend-
ent of schools. BY Foche-Requiring
fences across the public roads to be
torn down in Rawlins, Jewell, Scott
and Phillips counties. By Billings
Looping off taxes where farmers build