The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-03-17
BILLS PASSED; BILLS KILLED
sOEE OF THE THINGS DONE AND sOEK
LEFT UEDoHE By LEGIsLATURE.
Many Enaetments OF a General Nature
Touching Railroads, Oil, Labor, and
State InstitufiOns-LOeaI Laws
for Sherman County.

State Institutions-LOeaI LAWS
for Sherman County.
The adjournment Of the 1905 Kansas
/ legislature calls attention to what It ac-
comPlished at lawmaking, and where It
failed on some measures considered i'm
/ Portant- Among these bills killed are
the following:
To prohibit telephone and telegraph
companies from placing their poles along
any street OF highway without the con-
sent Of the owner Of the abutting prop
erty.
To allow women to vote at Presiden-
tial elections.
To provide for the fumigation of sleep
ing cars
To consolidate the board of education
and the state text book commission.
To prohibit the sale Of cigarettes and
tobacco TO persons under2I years Of age.
To provide for the publication of
school books by the state printer.
To repeal the mortgage redemption
act.
To make an appropriation for the
GOss collection.
To reduce railroad fares to two cents
a mile and prohibit the use Of free trans
pOTtatiOn.
To consolidate the board of health
and the board of medical examiners.
Among the important measures passed
are the following:
To establish a state oil refinery.
To establish maximum rates on oil.
To make pipelines common carriers.
To prohibit the reduction of the price
of any commodity to destroy competition.
To place pipelines under the control
of the board of railway commissioners.
To prohibit the use Of suction pumps
on gas wells
To authorize the board of railway
commissioners TO establish freight and
passenger rates.
To establish a system of good roads.
To provide for uniform negotiable in
struments.
To provide for the protection of work
men in coal mines.
To abolish the state barber board.
To establish a state printing plant
To prohibit the employment OF chill
dren' under the age of Il years in mines
and factories
To establish a board of control for the
state Institutions.
To protect game and fish and to ere
To require railroad companies to pay
a fine of one dollar a day for the time
they keep patrons waiting for freight
cars.
To provide for the taxation of private
cars.
To provide for registration of teachers
certificates with county superintendent.
To prohibit persons from engaging in
underground" insurance business.
To enable gamblers to testify in gam
bling cases without discriminating them
selves.
To provide for the distribution of the
funds IN the state treasury among banks
TO be known as state repositories.
To provide for the investment and
protection of the state school fund.
To provide for an investigation of the
state officers.
To require railroad companies to pro-
vide switching facilities for mills and
elevators.
To mark the Santa Fe trail.
To prohibit railroad companies from
working trainmen and telegraph opera
tors more than sixteen hours in one day.
To enable cities TO control waterworks
and other public utilities.
To exterminate gOphers.
To fix charges for public stock yards.
To abolish the live stock sanitary
commission OF three members and ere
ate the Office Of live stock commissioner.
To make breaking into railroad cars
burglary.
To require railroad companies to give
return transportation 10 stock shippers.
To provide for the registration of
warehouse certificates
To prohibit the destruction Of the
American flag.
To enable fraternal insurance societies
to create a reserve fund.
To give interurban railway companies
the right of eminent domain.
To erect a monument to the memory
of the scouts who fell at the Arickaree
fight.