Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-14
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings OF the Sessions OF
Senate and House from Day to
Day ut Topeka.

1t took cali of the senate on the 4th
to round up the necessary q votes to
pass the Smith bill providing for semi
centennial celebration In Topeka next
year Of the passage Of the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill by congress. The bill to In
crease the salaries OF supreme court
judges was killed by. vote Of q to 6.
Among the bills ordered to engrossment
were: Providing for the determination
Of prairie dogs; to prohibit the operation
of the grain trust In Kansas; to prohibit
the employment of child labor in facto-
ries and mines; giving laborers the right
to place a lien upon buildings and mate
rial for wages due for labor performed.
1.-The house sidetracked the Hale con-
gressional apportionment bill. The
Schmidt bill, to lop IS sections Of land
off Morris county and attach 1t to Geary
county, was passed. Among the bills
recommended for passage were the fol-
lowing: Preventing minors from marry
ing without the consent of their par
ents; placing business colleges under the
supervision Of the state superintendent
Of schools: requiring fences across the
public roads to be torn down In Rawlins.
Jewell, Scott and Phillips counties; lop-
ping Off taxes where farmers build ponds
on their farms; authorizing insurance
bonds.
The senate fought oil the afternoon on
the 9Th on Wulfekuhler's bill to prohibit
the employment of child labor in facto-
ries stores, offices and mines. Several
amendments were offered and all were
voted down. There was n tie each time.
The friends Of the measure finally saw
that they could not muster Il votes to
pass the bill and the motion to postpone
Indefinitely was carried unanimously.
The stock yards bill was passed by q
vote of 81 to 4. A big lot Of bills Of more
or less Importance was passed, among
them one TO make the sunflower the OFF,
cial flower Of Kansas. the house the
bill drawn UP by the legislative tax COM
mission was passed after a hard fought
contest. The house ways and means
committee killed the state fair bill and
the stockmen have given up hopes Of get
ting any legislation along that line at this
session.
The senate on the 9Th passed resolu-
lions providing that sl,5OO silver service
should be purchased for the proposed new
battleship Kansas Waggener's bill
against lynching was engrossed.' The
bill by Jones Of Trego. for the exter-
mination OF prairie dogs was passed.
The Noftzger substitute for Kirkpatrick
bill modifying the present corporation
law was passed. A bill to discourage the
marriage of old soldiers to young girls
was also passed. Senator Aliens parole
bill failed of constitutional majority In
the house. The vote was 50 for and SO
against. Barker served notice that he
would call the bill up again on a motion
to reconsider. The house at night cleared
the calendar OF local bills, leaving only
general bills To be considered.
There was an uproar in the senate on
the 7th when 1t was thought all the sem
ate bills had been killed by the adjourn
ment until the 9th. The house had adopt
ed and sent to the senate a concurrent
resolution that consideration of senate
bills should cease in both the senate and
house at midnight on the eth. The sem
ate did not act upon this resolution, but
members thought they had. after the
adjournment was taken. and they were
afraid they had killed several most i'm
portant bills. The house bill amending
the election law was placed on third
reading. The Pralle bill to better Kansas
roads was passed. The bill to create
commission to examine plumbers in cities
Of over 1000 population; the bill recurring
cities Of the second-class to so arrange
the course of studies In high schools
that graduates may be admitted to the
state university, and the Hayden child
labor bill were passed In the house.
A resolution was introduced into the
senate on the 9th recommending that
when the new battleship Kansas Is
launched the christening shall be made
with water instead Of wine. 1t was
voted down. 10 to Is. Senator Noftzger
got a new congressional apportionment
bill through and checked II up to the
house. Senator Coddlng introduced a bill
for the re-enactment of the nuisance Sec
tions Of the prohibitory law. The house
passed the bill providing that the Kansas
City stock yards rates should be reduced
Is per cent. and that the profit on hay
and grain should not be over 100 per cent.
Cubbison's bill repeating the double la
bllity act was passed.
The senate on the 10th passed the Par
sons asylum bill. 1t carries $270.OO AS
a result of the adoption of the concur
rent resolution shutting off consideration
of bills by the house In which they orig
mated at three o'clock In the afternoon
q number of important measures died on
the calendars of both houses. Both
houses worked on bills which had orig
mated in that end of the capitol until
the time set by the resolution. when ,
they began the consideration OF bills
which had originated In the other end Ell
the building. :. The house passed the bill
TO prohibit the use of slot machines In
Kansas. The revenue bill was passed
for the collection of state taxes amount
ing to $2,5O0,000 in the year ending June
30, 1904, and ssL0OO.OOO in the year ending
June 80, 1906 To raise the $2,50oOO levy
of seven mills will be necessary: to raise
the 100000 a levy OF five mills will be
necessary. A half-mill more will be col
lected in 1904 than in 1906. because 1t 10
necessary to raise something more than
$500, 600, appropriated for the remainder
of the year ending June 30. 1903. The
senate nuisance BILL" an auxiliary
measure to the enforcement OF the pro-
hibitory law. was passed.