Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-02-27
KANSAS. LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings OF the Sessions OF
Senate and House from Day 60
Day Topeka.

senate and House from Day 60
Day Topeka.
After half hours debate in the senate
on the Nth Senator Allen got his parole
bill through and naessaged It to the
house. Senator Tapp, In committee of the
whole, got his soldiers monument bill
passed Senator Findlay's bill to prohibit
the operation of a grain trust in Kansas
was favorably reported. Senator Aliens
Dill to compel the governor to sign death
warrants so that murderers must be
hanged was killed by the senate judiciary
committee. Senator Tapp has introduced
this bill: THAT no union or Spanish
American soldier or sailor, his widow
or children, shall be placed in a poor
house when he or they become destitute,
but shall receive aid from the county and
placed upon roll of honor and not treat
ed as paupers- Kansas will not be
bothered with any constitutional conven-
ton for some time to come. The house
STAYED it off at least two years by defeat
ing the Waggener resolution. providing
for convention. by a vote of 81 to 30.
Adams, of Butler, introduced bill regu-
latfng the operation of the state peniten-
tiary Irvine plant. The house. In commit
tee of the whole, amended the Kirkpat-
rick corporation bill so as to wipe out
the present double liability law and then
recommended IL for passage.
The senate on the 18th passed the Fits-
patrick congressional reapportionment
bill without a single change as intro
duced. Senator White introduced a bill
to more effectually prevent the spread
of infectious diseases of live stock. The
fish warden bill creating a state fish
hatchery and providing for stocking it
was passed. The house in committee of
the whole recommended state depos-
tory bill for passage. Waggener, OF
AtchisOn. introduced bill to amend tho
crimes act. Enright's barber bill was
recommended for passage The Kirkland
bill, demanded by the travelling men OF
Kansas, was passed. Among the bills
.Q0ff f7n6 hyyf Tho of
the whole for passage were these: BY
Hutchinson. to prohibit splitting in
churches and public halls; by Peck, to
repeal the law requiring candidates to
file statements of election expenses; by
Husey, to prevent employers from CO.
ercing employees against joining labor
unions.
Senator Cubbison. by request. intro.
duced in the senate the 10Th new pri-
mary election bill for the benefit Of that
class of voters who support "citizens',"
peoples" and independent" tickets in
municipal campaigns. Senator Caldwell
theatergoers. The senate has begun tho
consideration of the new tax. bill Sem
ator Whites constitutional amendment
resolution to prohibit foreign-born PEG,
pie from voting until they have been in
the state five years and taken out their
final naturalization papers was defeated
in the house. The Waggener lynching
bill was passed Waggener's bill to re-
peal the bucket shop law was killed. So
was Bevingtons bill giving county SUI
perintendents the right to pass upon tho
applications Of teachers. Lows bill, pro-
viding thataa sheriff who allows lynch
ing to take place in his county shall for
felt his Office; was also defeated. These
three constitutional amendments will be
voted upon by the people at the general
election in 1904: To provide for election of
state printer by the people; to permit the
governor to veto separate items in APP
Precipitation bills; to give the state the
right to take change OF venue in Grim
hal cases.
Senator Mcknight introduced in the SEN
ate on the goth the bill to lop so sections
Of land off. the northern part OF Morris
county and add it OF Geary. The people
on the 80 sections nearly all favor the
change. Senator Leidy Introduced a reso-
luton providing for a senate committee
Of three to visit the state hospitals for
the insane at Topeka and Osawatomie to
investigate the management OF said hos
pitfalls and the treatment of insane pa
TENTS. appropriation bills are now roll
ing into both houses in large numbers.
Efforts are being made to get them all
through within the next week. The ways
and means committee OF the house intro
duced the penitentiary appropriation bill.
The bill introduced by Perkins. of Leav-
enworth, requiring that all prison-rnade
goods be branded. was defeated by the
house in committee of the whole by
vote Of 40 to "a.
The Legislature tried the experiment Of
meeting at nine o'clock on the morning of
the 21st. 1t was a failure, as there was
not quorum in either hall at the time
fXcd for meeting 1t was nearly ten
o'clock before more than 20 senators and
IS representatives had appeared. Many
of the members had gone home to remain
over Sunday. Little of Importance was
done in the. senate....B. P. Waggener's
justifiable homicide bill, designed to per-
NIT man to take the law into his own
hands and kill the defamer of his charac-
ter or that of any member of his family,
was under consideration in the house.
1t was laid over for further hearing.
The anti-cigarette bill has made its ap-
spearance on the records. 1t was intro
duced by DR.. Farris. of Sumner The
Waggener bill to suppress lynchins was
recommended for passage.
Valuable Picture Bought for Little
st. Louis, Feb. 21.-A genuine De
Vinci Madonna, worth thous2nds OF
dollars, was sold by a secondhand
dealer in Carondelet for SO to ST.
TouiS man who sold If f0 a friend