Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-01-19
rHEY ARE AFTER Mr.. CLARK.
Kanaas senate and House wan Vote
to Elect . state PFInter-Fcr
state OIL Refinery.

ton and within two hours after It's
introduction passed q bill providing
for the election of a state printer next
Tuesday. The house followed and the
bill Is now ready for Gov. Hoch's sig
nature.
Senator Waggener, of Atchlson, sup
ported by Getty, Of Wyandottej MOTIF
ger, of Harper, and Smith, Of Edwards.
by dilatory motion of amendment and
reference sought to delay action, but
the will Of the senate majority was set,
and after a consideration Of an hour
and half, the bill was passed. Only
four votes were cast In the negative
Getty, of Wyandotte; Noftzger, Of Har-
per; Quincy, of Saline, and Waggener,
OF Atchison. When the bill reached the
house It Immediately was referred to
the committee Of the whole. The COM
mittee Of the whole, without waste OF
time, recommended its passage and
afterward the house passed 1t, yeas
104, nays 2. The nay votes were BY
Lupfer and Turner, democrats.
Senator waggener, Of Atchison. is
preparing a bill declaring gas and oil
pipe lines to be common carriers and
making them subject to the duties and
obligations Of a common carrier
Representative Holdren introduced
a bill in the house which provides for
the regulation of gas companies trans
porting gas In mains. It provides that
no pumps or other artificial means
shall be used to force the gas through
the mains. This 10, one Of the bills
which the Gas Protective association
has had prepared.
Senator Noftzger introduced in the
senate the first primary election bill
which Is in complete harmony with
Gov. Hoch's message. One Of the fea-
lures Of the bill is the provision where
by It is left optional with the party
central committee wether to hold a
primary election or delegate conyen-
ton, but every party which, at the
preceding general election, cast ten
per cent. of the total vote In the state
for governor shall elect and organize
Its committees in accordance with the
provisions Of the act.
The house probably will send a COM
mittee to the oil fields to investigate
and report on the advisability OF estab-
fishing a state oil refinery. The reso-
luton providing for the appointment
Of the committee was introduced by
Mr.. Ham. The movement Is In line
with Gov Hoch's message.
Speaker Stubs has set q new pace
In the business of making laws by put
ting others than lawyers on the judi
ciary committee. The speaker an
nounced the appointment of the fol-
lowing committees: Assessment and
taxation, A. @. Mead. chairman; ways
and means, Creech, chairman; judi
cIary, ex-Judge A. W. Benson, chair
man; live stock. Beeson, chairman;
insurance, Hussey, chairman.
j. T. Pringle, Of Usage, who was
speaker Of the house of 1908, rose to
question of personal privilege in the
house and returned the "cot" which
figured 90 prominently in the tight be-
tween machine" and "anti-machine"
prior to the Wichita convention.
The house adopted a resolution In
structing the Kansas members OF con-
gress to support such measures as
shall come before congress to give ad-
ditional powers to interstate commerce
commission and to enact into law said
Of President Roose-
velt."
There will be no intermarriage be-
tween negroes and white persons In
this state II the bill introduced by Mr..
Brown, Of Sherman, becomes q law.
The bill provides that such marriages
shall be unlawful and that they shall
be declared void. 1t prohibits all ON
cials and clergymen In the state to
perform the ceremony for the marriage
Of negroes or mulattos to white per-
sons. Violation Of this provision is
by q penltentiary sentence
Of not less than two years.
Mr.. Hackney introduced q bill pro-
viding for the appointment Of an ac-
BY the governor to invest-
gate the management Of the school
iund and all other public affairs which
the governor believes need Investigate
Ing. The bill has q preamble which
declares that 1t has been alleged that
the state school fund has been sys-
looted and depleted BY pee
ulation.
Senator Young, Of Mitchell, offered .
resolution in the senate lnstructing the
Kansas senators and requiring the
Kansas Representatives in congress to
cooper's interstate commerce
bill.
A bill was introduced making It un-
lawful for railroad companies to
change classiicatlons Of freights or
increase freight rates without consent
from the board Of railroad commits
sIoners. The ofiicer or employe of q
railroad who is party to the act is
iinhia IN iupriaoninent of from one to