Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Senate Would Not Stand For House ResO-
luton Aimed at Claims.
3!sT DAY

tax law. increasing the gross exemption from
500 to $500. There was mnch contention over
this point and its adoption by the joint COM
mittee created much surprise.
Eleven resolutions to amend the constitution
are before the legislature: eight came from the
house and three from the senate. As but
three can be submitted to the people by the
same legislature, competition for position may
defeat them all.
There are several congrs ssional reapportlon-
ment schemes, all of which have basic theory
that no member must be cut off from his pres
ent district
Mr.. Kirkland of Saline, is ready with another
has introduced a bill making an assessor liable
to imprisonment for failure to assess all prop
erty, both real and personal, at its full value,
Mr.. Williams. of Topeka, introduced a bill
making the willful and malicious destruction
of the property of another to the value of $50
or under misdemeanor to be punished with
a fine not to exceed $500, or six months in jail
or both Where the property so destroyed is
over the value of $50 such work is made a
felony to be punished by imprisonment not to
exceed nVe years.
BIND DAY.
Senator Tapps bill secured the approval of
the senate. 1t empowers cities to appropriate
money for a monument to the memory of old
soldiers.
There is a strong delegation in Topeka from
Winfield and Arkansas to watch the bill which
would divide the district court of Cowley coun-
The senate passed Aliens parole bill, which
gives gives trial judges the authority to parole
young men and boys convicted of any crime
except treason, arson, robbery, murder and
forcible rape.
trust in Kansas has been reported favorably in
the senate
The bill prohibiting lawyers from employing
solicitors to bring them business has been re-
ported adversely by the senate judiciary com
mittee
The senate has killed the bill to compel the
governor to sign death warrants in cases of
condemned murdererS.
There is bill in the senate for state geolo-
gist at 81, 900 with $500 for extras.
The judiciary committee of the house has ia
vorably reported the bill providing for deed
of trust law in this state. The bill is a copy Of
The bill to require all prison-made goods to
be branded has been reported favorably.
The house passed the bill to extend the time
Of maturity of school land certificates twenty
years and reducing the interest from six to
The house adopted resolution instrncting
the insurance committee to investigate the
reason for the advance of fire insurance rates.
33RD DAY.
The senate is the first to pass congressional
reapportionment bill. There is little prospect
of its being passed by the house.
The senate has passed the fish warden bill
for stocking it. The warden is to receive $500
year salary.
The house has passed the measure changing
the system of handling state taxes. The bill
main in the county treasures to be drawn out
in monthly instal1mentS in amounts estimated
by the state treasurer sufnclent to meet the
month. 1t is expected that the senate will en-
dOrS0 this bill
Bath DAY.
Three Of the eleven resolutions for submit
ting amendments to the constitution have
been adopted by the legislature and will go
before the people. They are: To provide for
the election of state printer by the people; To
appropriation bills To give the state the right
OF change of venue in criminal cases.
In the senate the Parsons asylum appropriR-
ton for buildings Is considered much greater
than present circumstances demand, and the
amount named in the bill passed by the house.
Mr.. Waggener's lynching bill is now law.
1t would punish any person who takes part in
or aids or abets a lYnching which results in
death. The penalties range from g years to
life Imprisonment or death.
The house by a vote in committee Of the
whole of 50 to 80 approved the bill giving Ar
kansas City alternate terms of the Cowley
The fees and salaries committee of the house
has killed jerks bill increasing the salaries of
the stenographers of the various district courts
in the state and making the minimum salary
81 200 year and the maximum $1,000.
me s 9Ppa PIE. oil creating state hsG f
st nate has been reported for passage in the
house.
8 tn DAY.
The appropriation bills are being finished in
committees and reported in each house. There
is a rush on for completing and passing them.
The senate has passed and the house has APP
proved the bill for a state manual training
school at Pittsburg.
The senate killed the house resolution to bar
all claims against the state from q miscellane-
GUS appropriation bill.
The house passed'over so bills on one roll call.
They were both local and general bills. They
include: Acts relating to county high school
certificates; raising the minimum capital of
state banks from 5000 to $1,000; allowing
school district officers 50 for each annual re-
port sent in; for a bounty OF 20 cents on gopher
scalps for the P1ttsburg auxiliary to the state
Rrsn grades sd class t etes from
road tax levy by counties; authorizing 2nd
class cues 90 RSrehase p%piiio PARIS; making
| ties fixing the pay for printing ballots at $40
per thousand; arranging the election of county
election law increasing the salary of the state
superintendent so as to be the same as other
The house smothered the concurrent resolu-
ton indorsing Senator Harris for membership
OF the canal commission.
MORE PAY AND OYSTERS. con-
ductors and motormen of the Topeka
city railway were asked to report at
the car barn after work at midnight,
where they were informed that their
wages would be raised from ST. so to
| So day. The men were surprised and
then surprised again by being invited
to all go to a restaurant and partal1e
of an oyster supper.
| L. M. AT SOLDIERS HOME. -COngreSS-
man Curtis has secured the appoint
ment of David Keller to be postmaster
at the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.
SAMPLE OF LossEs.-A Council Grove
paper says that the turf investment
concerns" caught residents of that
place for somewhere between S12, 900
and SIG, 900, divided among about 100
victims, quite percentage of them be-
ing women. One man is known to
have put in 81, 600.
GRowTH OF GAS CIrY.-The Beggar
Prince Opera company played to big
audience in the Gas City opera house,
near lola. Three years ago the site of
the building was in waving field of
| corn.
New COMPANY For CASA company
of capitalists from Neodesha, Chanute
and Independence has secured leases
on 10, 900 acres of land near Mulvane
and has shipped two complete drilling
outfits from Chanute to Mulvane, and
| the work of placing them and BEGIN