The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-12

tionment bill proposed to create a
new eighth district out of the follow
Sedgwiclx, Sumner. Cowley and But
Ter.
Representative Bird of Shawnee in
troduced bill for the appropriation
Of money to pay the expense of paw
ing the remaining unpaved approaches
and walks around the state house
grounds.
The report of the committee on
rules Of the house was received this
morning. and read in full. The rules
are the same as the rules of the last
house, except the list of employees and
few minor changes. When the
speaker completes the appointment of
committees they will be put into the
book Of rules and 400 copies will be
printed.
Hot Shot for Railroads.
Representative W. P. Hackney of
unlawful for railroad companies to
change classifications of freights or
increase freight rates without consent
from the board of railroad commits
Sioners. The officer or employe of a
railroad who is a party to the act is
liable to imprisonment of from one
to ten years in the penitentiary, and
the corporation is subjected to a fine
of $500 for each offense.
The preamble to the bill is where
Mr.. Hackney throws the cannon balls
into the railroads. He says:
Whereas, the railway corporations
operating railroads in Kansas in 1908
combined to and with each other to
and did raise their freight rates on
wheat, corn and cattle, and this at a
time when every engine and car
owned by them or that they could beg
or grab was in use by them in the
transportation of such to market,
while millions of bushels of wheat
was being damaged or rotting at or
near their lines of railroad.
atWnerRaS there is rn mower IOdood
by law in any of the departments of
the government of Kansas to stay such
abnormal and rapaciouS greed, and
hostile encrOachmentS upon the rights
long alraedy from such predatory ex-
actions, and unjust discrimina tions
and the time has come when the
clamor of this people for redress can
no longer be silenced by a sneer,
therefore be it enacted
Then follows the bill.
Representative Brown of Sherman, in
troduced a bill making it a penitentiary
offense for whites and blacks to marry
There is penalty of a fine of $500 to
$1,000, or imprisonment in the peniten-
ttary for not less than two or more than
hVe years, or both, and this NAV be in
r1age license or performs a wedding
ceremony in which the black and white
races are united The bill says:
Hereafter no negro or mulatto of
either sex and white person shall mar
~ within this state and it is hereby
made unlawful for any such person so
to do.
Hereafter all marriages between ne
groes or muiattoeS of either sex with
white persons within this state are
hereby declared to be absolutely void.
No officer authorized by law to is
sue marriage licenses in this state shall
hereafter issue such license to any per-
sons prohibited from marrying by this
act;
by law to solemnize marriages within
this state shall hereafter perform any
marriage ceremony uniting persons in
matrimony made by this act unlaw-
full"
List OF House Bills.
The following is the list of house
bills SO far introduced, beginning with
20. Robinett. To authorize coun-
ties to prospect for gas and oil.
Ethel ~ 4aretn a If bs}ona 10 declaIe are e6ogfad GeoPgd
daughter of Isaac and Nancy Anderson.
p AIaman. To prohibit fire insur-
ance companies from combining to
will introduce the bill in the senate.
%. Adams. To provide for the grow
ing of trees in the parkings Of cities
"a. Husey. To enable Sedgwick couu-
ty to improve Highland cemetery.
25. Brown. To require the district
judge to send a history of the case of
every person sentenced to the peniten-
tiary.
26. Brown. To reapportion the state
into eight congressional districts, max
ing the Eighth of Doniphan, Atchison,
Leavenworth, Wyandotte and Johnson
counties.
q. Brown. To require county clerks
to furnish detailed description of real
property to township and city assessors.
2S Brown To fix fine of $10O TO
persons who point guns at people in
2s Brown. To fix the price of pub
lie printing in Brown county.
80. Brown. To fix salaries Of Brown
county officials.
81. Mead. To have the state print
ing done by contract, under the direc-.
ton of a board, comprising the COVER
nor, secretary of state and state print
er.. The state printers salary is fixed
at $1,000.
80. Brown. To provide for the sale
Of school land upon the petition Of 20
householders.
SO. Nelson. To provide for recording
81. Dawson. To provide for tax
levy in school district 81. Marion coun-
ty-
IS. Dawson. To appropriate $4,000
for a state printing plant to be con-
structed under the direction of the ex-
ecutive council. The state printer shall
receive a salary of $500 after June 80,
1905. The pay of the foreman is nxed
at $1,000.
36 Benson. To knock out the law ex--
amining board Any person who has read
law three years in an offics, or peen
graduated from a law school, shall be
admitted when the supreme court is salts
fed that he knows enough The manner
Of examining is left to the court
81 Benson. To divide second class
cities of 800 inhabitants into election pre-
cincts.
5S Benson. To provide for appoint
ment of guardians not able to attend to
their business
Of town sites.
20. sIober. To establish a high school
in Graham county.
A. Leland. To appropriate $4,000 for
a state salt plant at Hutchinson.
a2. Leland. To reduce the state board