Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-02-23
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.



look as IL the state would be power
less 10 stop the land grabbing in west
ern Kansas for another two years.
The Pringle bill providing for state
school land commissioner to take
charge OF all school land came up
for consideration In the house Satur-
day. II brought forth a furious fire
from the western Kansas members.
They declared II was tramping upon
their rights and that II would retard
the development of western Kansas.
The bill provides for taking all school
land of the market. Pringle amended
II so as 10 permit the sale Of land at
minimum price of 81 an ncre. Still
this was not satisfactory TO the west
erners. and they carried motion to
refer The bill to the committee on
state affairs. That committee may
report an amended bill. but II has no
show of passage unless the very evils
that the Pringle bill seek to remedy
are left unmolested.
The senate passed the natural gas
bill and II II be passed by the house In
the same form and be signed by the
governor. natural gas Will flow withou.
statutory hindrance. subject to this
bill. all over the state wherever the
people may want to bny It, even be.
yond the confines of the state. The
amendment permitting the use of the
public highways. offered bv Senator
Martin. of Bourbon, was cut OUT.
The railroad bill known as the Carver
bill, and fashioned after the Iowa law.
passed the house unanimously Tuesday,
l12 votes for and none against. The
woman suffrage bill. which previously
passed the house. was killed in the SEN
ate, 6 ayes to 90 nays. the senators sup
porting the measure being Benson,
Baker, Gilbert. Porter Of Montgomery,
Simmons and Smith of Edwards.
BY vote of 81 to 30 the house
passed the bill providing for state
oil refinery and appropriating $4,000
therefor, including the erection of a
branch penitentiary. d. State School
Superint endent Dayhoff sent a COM
munication to the house asking for an
investigation of charges growing out
Of the fight on the textbook commits
sion bill. .. The house passed Brady's
Juvenile court bill.
The senate. by suspension Of the
rules. passed Senator Waggepers bill
making 1t easy to convict violators of
the gambling law. The house. by a
vote of Is to 80, passed the bill to per-
NIT the piping of gas in and cut of
Kansas. but eliminated the senate
amendment providing Cor the use of
'orce pumps.
The house on the 11tl passed bill
TO give the whites and blacks in Kan
sas City separate high schools. Gov.
Hoch signed the bill passed by both
houses for state oil re finery at Peru
and appropriating $4,000 therefore.
.Fulton'o bill making January /.
February ~, February %. May 30,
July 4, the first Monday In September.
Thanksgiving day and December %
legal holidays, was passed in the SEN
ate committee Of the whole. The bill
contains a paragraph making holidays
Of days following holidays which fall
on Sunday. The White bill. requir-
Ing railroads to give cattleshippers re-
turn passes. went through the house
in committee of the whole. BY
unanimous vote the house in commit
Tee of the whole recommended for pas
sage the uniform stock yards bill pre-
pared by the Joint committee Of the
Kansas and Missouri legislatures.
The senate passed resolution PR
testing against the extension by the
government of the Foster STANDARD
OLD leases in Indian territory and the
resolution was wired to President
Roosevelt. The house passed the
uniform stock yards bill. +. The house
passed the bill providing for state
printing plant and putting the state
printer on a salary. Gov. Hoch ap-
pointed a committee to investigate the
cause of coal mine explosions in this
state.