Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-12
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Senate Decides Thatjchfidren should Be
Brought Up to Work
42ND DAY.


42ND DAY.
Senator Stewards bill passed the senate. It
provides that state stitching and binding shall
be let to the lowest bidder instead of being
done by the state printer. The vote was Is to
10. The senate in committee of the whole APP
proved a bill which increases the salaries of 10
state house officials from 500 to 500 each.
enc Dill 90 ef fS a
pie. after amending it SO as not to require that
the minority party shall have one member
The pressure from the people from all over the
state caused another effort to reapportion the
congressional districts.
When the tax commission bill as passed by
the senate, reached the louise it was battered
and torn by amendments, Waggener working
the gatling gun.
4sRD DAY
Among bills passed in the senate are: Max
ing teachers certificates good in adjoining
counties authorizing cities of the three classes
to levy two mill tax for the support of public
libraries. upon vote of the people; to raise
the governors salary to 5000; the state fish
hatchery bill; providing for museum in G. A.
X headquarters in the state house.
The senate killed the bill requiring the state
board of charities to recognize the three
schools of doctors in appointing physicians for
the state institutions.
The bill providing for manual training in the
public schools was passed by the house. 1t
was a senate bill The bill gives $1,000 to en-
courage manual training. The women's clubs
started it. Leland opposed, saying that the
ulSGf1cIS Keep EXPENSES VI tHelr
own schools.
Both houses passed the bill prohibiting the
harvester trust from making exclusive con-
tracts, with the penalty that no such contract
can be sued on in the courts.
The house passed bill to give foreign cor
porations 30 days to bring suit on business
heretofore done in the state, before the act is
effective which provides that foreign corpora
tions which have no Kansas charter can have
standing in the courts.
The deed Of trust bill was killed in the house,
also the bill giving liens on property for labor
performed.
nth DAY.
The senate voted down Speaker Pringle's
resolution adopted by the house, prohibiting
the employment of prison labor in competition
with free labor When the senate reached the
general townsite vacation bill and it was being
read, senators discovered that the bill played
havoc with their own towns and began to
kick Further action was postponed.
The senate passed the grain inspection bill.
1t provides that there shall be grain inspector
in every town where there is public ware
house. The fees and salaries of inspectors are
The bill to create new judicial district of
Allen and Woodson counties has gone to the
governor.
The tax commission bill which has passed
the senate having been butchered by amend
ments in the house, Bailie Waggener has intro
duced new bill. 1t is short and covers the
important points.
The house has killed the bill increasing the
salaries of the district judges in Shawnee, Wy
andotte, Leavenworth, Atchison, Bourbon and
Sedgwick counties from So, 800 to $500 a year.
All the ways and means committee bills on
the calendar are now disposed of by the house.
45THDAY.
The senate tabled the concurrent resolution
instructing the United States senators from
Kansas to use their influence to prevent the
unseating of Reed Smoot, the senator-elect
The senate surrendered to the house and ac-
cepted the ultimatum of the house that but
$3.50 would be allowed for postage on Secre-
tary Columns report. The bill carries APP
preparation of only $500 and provides that
each member of the legislature shall have sixty
books and one for every 100 inhabitants of his
district.
The senate promptly squelched the bill pro-
hibiting railroads from employing telegraph
operators who We're under 20 years old.
The senate passed Il resolution to give Mrs.
Robinson, wife of Charles Robinson. the first
which to secure and place in the rotunda of
the state house bust of Governor Robinson.
Mrs. Robinson would, without doubt, place
such a memorial to her husband but for the
fact that her hush nd's will gives all of his es-
tate, after her death, to Kansas university.
The house at a night session approved these
bills: Preventing minors from marrying
judges are held liable for issuing licenses to
minors. Placing business colleges under the
supervision of the state superintendent of
schools. Looping off taxes where farmers
build ponds on their farms.
46TH DAY.
the employment of children during whole
session and Quit with tie vote. The bill was
then indefinitely postponed. The senate passed
the Caldwell stoclyards bill
When the tax bill had been messaged from
the house the senate promptly demanded a
The senate passed the bill to allow teachers
one days pay for each school month for at
tending county teachers associations Other
bills We're passed among which are: To build
and equip n law building at the state univer
sity; to pay counties for keeping destitute in
far1%
school fund commissioners power to buy bonds
where the indebtedness is over the ten per
trust in Kansas; to prohibit the operation of
slot machines; providing for the election of
township officers biennially; providing for a
2Jcent bounty on gopher scalps.
The house ways and means committee has
killed the state fair bill.
The house finally passed the senate tax bill
by a vote of "a to Al. The house passed the
bill to reimburse counties for caring for insane
persons who were not admitted to the state
asylums. The bill for the determination of
pocket gophers was killed in committee. The
third appropriation bill for legislative purposes
was passed, carrying 90. This brings the
cost of the legislature, up to date, not includ-
ing printing, to $4,000.
LYONS PEOPLE BORE For OLA
large company has been formed at
Lyons to bore for OIL The company
has quite large capital and work will
begin at once on the well with the in
tention of going down 5000 feet. 1t is
claimed that the first flow of gas found
in Kansas was in Lyons in 1887 at a
depth of 1, 200 feet
KANSAS HoNoRED.-Mrs. Stanley,
wife of Ex-Governor Stanley, has been
elected by the National Daughters of
the American Revolution as vice regent
for the society in Kansas.
REQUEST For LIBRARY. P. John
sons will has been filed at Arkansas
City. His fortune is still estimated at
between 500, 900 and 5000, 900. A part
is to be used for a public library for
Arkansas City when his wife dies. Ar
kansas City is already looking around
for site
1T MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Just after
the close of the war Lawrence man
was offered the eighty acres where the
Kansas City union depot now stands
for $500. He passed it up; didn't think
the land was worth the money.
RUNAWAY Snow PLow-A big ro-
tary snow pillow was standing on
switch at Newton and two men were
working on it. The pillow ran away
with them and one of the men jumped.
The other stayed with it and it stopped
when 1t had run about a mile. pas
senger train came along and four cars
were ditched but no one was hurt.
CONTROL SCHooLs.-Hereafter the
boards of { ucation of cities of the first
and second class will be Independent
of the city councils in the financing of
schools.
Sold DISEASED MEAT.-Ben Skaliclky,