The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-02-27
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condemned Proceedings of the Sessions %
Senate and House from Day Co
Day ut Topeka.


The s~nate on the 18th passed the Fftx-
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 state fish
hatchery and providing for stocking IL
was passed. The house in COMMITTEES OF
the whole recommended a state depos-
itory bill for passage. waggener, OF
Atchison. introduced bill to amend the
crimes act. Enrights barber bill was
recommended for passage. The Kirkland
bill. demanded by the travelling men of
Kansas, was passed. Among the bills
recommended by the house committee 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 on the 18th a new prf-
mary election bill for the benefit Of that
class Of voters who support citizens"
peoples" and independent" tickets In
municipal campaigns. Senator Caldwell
introduced a bill for the protection OF
theatergoers. The senate has begun the
consideration of the new tax bill :. Sem
ator Whites constitutional amendment
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
perintendents the right to pass upon the
applications of teachers. Lows bill, pro-
viding that sheriff who allows a lynch
ing to take place In his county shall for
fQff hiS ole lnfa AAI
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 tho
governor to veto separate items In APP
preparation bills; to give the state the
right to take change of venue in Grim.
inal cases.
Senator Mcknight introduced in the sem
ate on the Goth the bill to lop so sections
of land off the northern part of Morris
county and add 1t OF Geary. The people
on the so sections nearly all favor the
change Senator Leidy introduced a reso-
luton providing for a senate COMMITTEES
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 I'm 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-made
goods be branded. was defeated by the
house in committee of the whole by q
vote of 40 to "a.
The legislature tried the experiment Of
meeting at nine o'clock on the morning OF
the 21st. 1t was n failure, as there was
not quorum in either hall at the time
fixed for meeting. 1t was nearly ten
n
6S 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 q 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 it's APP
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 .23d these bills,
among others. were introduced: Requir-
ing seed houses to put a label on all sacks
or packages OF seed showing the age Of
the seed; giL ng 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, prOV1ulnS tnat any cay on winch
state, county or city election is held
shall he declared a legal holiday:...A
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 senator's by
direct vote Of the people. All bills va
eating townsites, additions, streets, ave-
nues and alleys have been incorporated
into eAe general vacation bill and the
measure passed. O'Donnelrs bill regu-
lating marriage, Francis bill to cut down
the expense of state printing and Hutch
eson's anti-spitting bill were also passed.