The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
SCHOOL OF MINES.
The Legislature Lis Asked 10
Establish One.
Would Be Located at GaIena,
Cherokee County.
AN ADJUNCT OF K. U.
Under Control Of the Board of
Regents.
A Radical City Charter Act Is
Proposed.
AN ADJUNCT OF K. U.

1.-THE Kansas State School of Mines
may be the name of a new state insti-
tuition, provided a bill introduced this
afternoon by z. B. SchermerhOrn OF
Cherokee county becomes a law
The bill provides that the school
shall be located at Gaiena. and that it
shall be auxiliary to the state univer-
sfty, controlled by a board of three
regents who shall receive the same
pay as is received by regents of the
university. The bill carries an appro-
priation of $4,000 with which to sup
port the school during the next two
years. The following are the inn
portant provisions of the bill:
''The leading objects of said school
shall be TO teach such branches as are
related to the mechanical arts and
mining. without excluding other scien-
tific and classical studies. and to pre-
scribe and adopt a liberal academic
course of study in order to promote
the liberal and practical education OF
the Industrial classes in the several
pursuits and vOcauons of life.
1.-The said school of mines and
metalurgy shall be under the control
and direction of a board of three re-
gents of which the professor of the
chair of physical geology. mineralogy
and mining of the state university
president of said board of regents and
the remaining two shall be appointed
by the governor for a term of two
years. The compensation of each re-
gent to be the same as that received
by a regent OF the state university.
THE board of regents of said school
shall make all necessary provisions for
holding. conducting and maintaining
the school hereby established in the
city of Galena and state of Kansas,
and shall open and begin the same not
later than September. 1905; provided,
that the board of education of the city
of Galena of the state Of Kansas. shall
place at the disposal of the board of
regents for a. term of ten years rooms
in which to hold and conduct said
school
Sensible Election Bill.
Frank Pomeroy of Jackson county
introduced a bill for a change in the
election law which will appeal to all
fair minded people as the right kind of
a law to put on the books. The bill
should the voter in addition to
marking within the circle make a, cross
mark in the square at the right of the
name or names Of a candidate or can
dfdates on any other ticket on said bal
lot such marking in the square or
squares shall control the counting as to
the candidate or candidates thus mark
ed and the marking in the circle as to
all other candidates on the ticket under
such circle.
mo ballot shall be rejected if it can
be determined from the face of the bal
lot for whom the voter intended to vote
for any office or offices, whether there
is a cross Cs<) mark in the circle or not,
in order that the real will of the voter
shall govern the count
These are the only changes from the
present law made in this bill
New Franchise Act.
Frank Ohlhausen. representative
from LeavenwOrth, introduced a bill
to amend the public utilities section
Of the present city charter act, and it
certainly does q. good job. There is
not enough left of the old sections of
the law to use for seed. The proposed
law was drafted by City Attorney
Frank Fitzwilliams of LeavenwOrth.
Mr.. Ohlhausen says: q know this
1cal, but we need something of the
sort. The present law is Infamous.
This bill viii go into the committee
on cities of the first class, and will
there be amended to the satisfa ction
of the committee. I believe we can
law for cities of the first and second
class
The bill provides the following
changes in the present city charter
act:
No franchise for electric light, heat,
power, natural or artificial gas or
street railways to be granted for a
longer period than 20 years. Fran
chises may be terminated at the Op-
ton of the city after 10 years
Companies must pay to the city
per cent on the gross earnings for
first five years, and 6 per cent after
the first five years.
Any time that per cent of the
people of a city petition for it. an
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