Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-02-28
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Iroceedings OF the Sessions OF
senate and House from Day to
Day at Topeka.

Senator Cubbison, by request. intro
duced In the senate on the 10Th q 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 the
consideration Of the new tax bill....Sen-
ator Whites constitutional amendment
resolution to prohibit foreign-born .peo-
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. Waggenefs bill to re-
peal the bucket shop law was killed. So
was Bevlngton's bill giving county SUI
perintendents the right to pass upon the
applications Of teachers. Lows bill. pro-
viding that a 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 1901: To provide for election of
state printer by the people; to permit the
governor to veto separate items In ap.
preparation bills; to give the state the
right to take change Of venue In Grim.
inal cases.
Senator Mcknight introduced in the sem
Of land off the northern part of Morris
county and add II OF Geary. The people
on the so sections nearly all favor the
change. Senator Leidy introduced a reso-
luton providing for 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
tients. 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 penitcntiary appropriation bill.
The bill introduced by Perkins, of Leav-
enworth, requiring that all prison-made
goods be branded, was defeated by the
house in committee Of the whole by a
vote of 10 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 a quorum In either hall at the time
fixed for meeting. 1t was nearly ten
o'clock before more than 20 senators and
SIS 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 a 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.
It was laid over for further hearing.
The anti-cigarette bill has made its ap-
pearance on the records. 1t was intro
duced by DR.. Farris. Of Sumner. The
Waggener bill to suppress lynching was
recommended for passage.
In the senate on the sd these bills.
among others. were introduced: Requir-
ing seed houses to put label on all sacks
or packages OF seed showing the age of
the seed;-giving educational institutions
the right to establish lighting and heat
ing plants; requiring coal mining COM
panies to put In escape shafts at all their
mines; providing that any day on which
a state. county or city election Is held
shall lie declared a. legal holiday IA
resolution was adopted by the house re-
questing congress to submit to the elect
ors an amendment TO the constitution
providing for the election OF senators by
direct vote Of the people. All bills va
eating townsites, additions. streets. ave-
nues and alleys have been incorporated
into one general vacation bill and the
measure passed. O'Donnell's bill regu-
lating marriage, Francis bill to cut down
the expense of state printing and Hutch
esons anti-spitting bill were also passed.
Senator Smiths bill providing for the
sentence Of prisoners was
engrossed in the senate on the oath. The
Codding bill, changing the present sys-
TEN of issuing teachers certificates. was
for passage. Two insur-
ance bills by Senator Allen were passed.
The Cubbison-E nright bill regulating the
barber profession and creating state
board to examine BARRIERS and issue IL
censes has passed the house and been
engrossed in the senate....The house de-
ferred consideration Of the tax bill, which
was a special order for the afternoon
session, until the next day. Switches"
can ply their trade in Kansas for an
other two years. After a red hot discus |
sion, participated in by the doctors and
lawyers, the enacting clause of the bill
against Switches was knocked out. |
of Marion, has introduced bill |
10 encourage the construction of ponds
on farms. These bills were sent to en-
grossment: Fixing the price of supreme |
court reports at $3.50 instead Of $3.50; per- |
the employment of attorneys to |
assist county attorneys in the prosecu- |
ton of criminal cases In counties less |
than 10000 populations; authorizing john |
son county to build macadam roads.