The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-01-30
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

| House and Senate Choose Presiding on
| GERS and Begin the Grind-Prngie
for Speaker.
| Lieut.. Gov. Hanna on the Goth an
| nounced the committees in the senate
Senator Cubbison introduced one very
| brief bill. It read: Sections 80, 80, IS
| and 46. chapter o, of the laws of 1868, are
| hereby repealed" But 1t is more impor-
| tant than 1t looks on its face. 1t is a
bill to wipe out the double liability act.
| Senator Smith. of Edwards. introduced
several bills. One provides for an appro-
| priation OF $4,000 a year for bounty on
sugar beets. Another provides a plan
for people to sue the state. Other bills
of importance introduced were: For
county tax for common schools: a bill
to create a department of applied ZOO
6logy at the agricultural college to exter-
inmate prairie dogs; creating a state fish
hatchery and making the fish warden also
game warden. The first bill of the ses-
sion was passed by the house. 1t was
an act to authorize the state to make
penitentiary contract with Oklahoma A
resolution was adopted asking the fed
eral government to name a battleShip
Kansas. Enright, of Wyandotte, intro
duoed several bills of importan nee to Kan
sas City. Other bills introduced were to
prevent the marriage Of minors without
consent of parents: to establish state
fish hatchery In Pratt county and to ere
ate a board Of examiners to regulate the
business of plumbing. A resolution was
introduced by Waggener asking voters
to call a constitutional convention.
With only two dissenting votes the SEN
ate on the 21st adopted Senator McMil-
lanS resolution to investigate the coal
famine. A bill introduced relating to
quarantine yards will. If passed. force
the Kansas City Stock Yards company
to move its quarantine yards. Other bills
were: To prohibit Sunday theaters: ex-
empting $500 worth Of property of old SOL
diers or their widows from taxation.
Griffin, of Jefferson, introduced bill in
the house providing for the holding of
state fairs under the supervision and con-
troll of the state board OF agriculture.
Other important bills introduced were:
Authorizing private corporations to de-
crease their capital stock; authorizing the
employment Of additional attorneys to as
sist the county attorney in the prosecu-
ton of criminal cases; repeating the law
authorizing cities of the first and second
class to appoint assessors; to prohibit the
killing of quail at any season and also to
prohibit the killing of antelope for a
period Of five years; cutting down the
amount of bonds a municipality may issue
from ten to five per cent. of the assessed
valuation and reducing the levies for
taxes a municipality can make one-half,
with the exception of the levy for inter-
est on bonds; providing for the election
Of railroad commissioners by the people;
requiring express companies in cities of
the first and second-class to extend their
free delivery service to a mile and one
half from the office; requiring railroads
to build a shed over repair tracks at their
division points to protect and shelter
their employees during SHOWS. sleet. rain
and Indictment weather.
1t will take 1900 to pay the postage on
Secretary Coburn's biennial report, just
In a
for that amount was introduced in the
senate on the 22d. Other bills introduced
were: To raise the salary Of the state
superintendent of public instruction from
$1,000 to $500; to punish dissertation of
the flag of the United States, such as
the printing Of advertisements upon it;
to elect railroad commissioners by vote
of the people; to elect the state printer
at general elections: authorizing working
of coal mines by the state under the d.
rection Of the governor; making express
companies liable for full value Of goods
damaged in transit; making 1t crime to
eat snakes. centipedes, tarantulas, etc.
Perkins. of Leavenworth. introduced an
initiative and referendum resolution to
change the state constitution. The first
move in the direction Of good roads legis-
lation was made in the house when
Pralle, of Marshall. introduced bill au-
thorizing the township auditing board of
any township In the state to levy spe-
bills prohibited the selling of patent med
icineS in Kansas without a license from
the board Of health; for the punishment
of men who abandon wife and children;
to prohibit the use Of live birds in trap
shooting.
Senator Tapp introduced a bill in the
senate on the 26th authorizing cities.
townships and counties to erect monu-
ments to soldiers and sailors at public
expense. Senator Miller introduced a bill
providing for township tax to build
roads. Cubbison put in a bill exempting
the Patrons Of Husbandry from the pro-
visions OF the insurance laws. Noftzger
introduced a bill requiring the state to
let its funds out on deposit to the banks
making the highest interest bid. Sena-
tor Leidy introduced a truancy bill. It
creates the position of county truant off, |
Ger. whose duty 1t shall be to see that all
school children in good health attend
school and provides for the punishment |
by fine or Imprisonment, or both. OF par |
ents whose children are not sent to
school. Senator Smiths bill giving |
women the right to vote for presidential |
electors was introduced In the house by |
Leland. of Doniphan- Representative Ma
ton. OF Neosho. introduced q bill max |
ing blackmail a felony. punishable by Q
heavy fine and imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary. A bill by Representative Speer |
requiring railroads to supply cars to ship |
pers promptly. Failure to supply cars |
lays the railroad liable to q forfeit Of s. |
day to the shipper. Many other bills |
were introduced.
Money Was in the Bank. |