The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22
NO GAME LAW.
House Decides That Old One
Will DO.
Plan to Make 1t More Effective
Is Killed.
HIT HARVESTER TRUST
House Recommends the Ex-
elusive Contracts Hill.
Not an Amendment to Measure
Is Made.
HIT HARVESTER TRUST

| What seemed to be very commenda-
| bic effort to fix up the existing game
| laws, and remedy the weak places in
| the 1905 law, was slaughtered in the
house on Thursday afternoon, when the
enacting clause of the Carver game law
was stricken out in committee of the
whole. The motion to strike out the
enacting clause carried by a vote of
55 to 25.
This action was taken after the house
had spent an hour in chickering's about
just how to fix the law SO that farmers
might be permitted to hunt on their
own farms without hunters license.
There did not seem to be any very
radical difference of opinion as to what
the law should provide, but there was
much wrangling over how it should be
put into the senate bill.
Finally the members of the house
seemed to become disguised with the
whole project, and motion to strike
out the enacting clause was welcomed
with open arms.
The old game law will have to stand
for another two years at least. 1t is
pretty good law, but it might be inn
proved upon especially with reference
to the issuance of licenses.
The exclusive contract bill, which is
aimed at the harvester trust and is in
tended to prevent that trust from re-
quiring retailer to agree to handle no
other than trust goods, was recon-
manded for passage by the house on
Thursday afternoon by a unanimous
vots.
This is the bill which the senate pass
ed before the trust lobbyists came on
the scene. The lobbyists hoped to stop
the bill in the house, but 1t is said that
they got into quarrel among them
selves and there has been no very seri-
GUS effort to defeat the law.
The bill is a copy of the Massachus
etts law which has been tested in the
courts and found constitutional and
good law. The bill provides that a per-
persons doing business in this state
shall not make 1t a condition of the
sale of goods that the purchaser shall
not sell or deal in the goods of any
citation OF persons, but the provisions of
this section shall not prohibit the ap-
pointment of agents or sole agents for
the sale of goods nor the making of
goods, wares or merchandise. Anyone
who, as principal or agent, violates the
provisions of this section shall be pun
ishad for the first offense by q fine of
not less than $50 nor more than 500;
and for each succeeding offense by a
fine of not less than $500 nor more than
s50G, or by imprisonment for not more
than one year, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
The Edwards bill regulating stock
house committee of the whole on
Thursday afternoon, and then, upon
suspension of the rules, was put. on
final passage, and rushed through
without a dissenting vote.
The bill will now be held up in the
senate until the Missouri legislature
carries out its part of the contract,
and enacts the law. Missouri has
been Shown that the Kansas legis-
lature means business, and is ready to
cooperate.
Representative Davidson and Rep
resentative Bergman voted for the bill
with the understanding that the bill
does not become a law if the Missouri
legislature does not pass a similar
bill.
The bill makes the following yard
age charges:
For driving, yarding watering and
Weighing cattle, 25 cents a head; calves,
10 cents head; hogs, 6 cents a head;
sheep, cents a head; provided, that
rot more than $3.50 shall be charged
for any one carload of cattle. calves,
hogs or sheep.
This leaves the charges the same
head as at present. but it makes a
maximum of $3.50 a car. which re-
duces the charges on car of stock
charge at present is SO a car.
The penalties for the violation of
the bill either in yardage or feed
charges is a fine of from $1,000 to
following service section:
at shall be the duty of all public
stock yard operators to provide suff1-
cient weighing facilities so that all live
stock handled may be promptly
weighed; and any person suffering loss
by reason of shrinkage of live stock
occasioned by delay or failure on the
part of any public stock yards oper-
ator to keep scales open and ready to
receive stock at all times for weighing
shall be entitled to recover in an ac-
tion therefor in any court of compe-
tent Jurisdiction the actual damages,
together with a reasonable attorneys
fee
On motion of Pomeroy of Jackson. it