Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-20
imprisonment in the county

Another measure or more than or
binary interest which was recon-
mended for passage was the anti
cigarette bill, introduced by John
A. Edwards, of Greenwood. This
was recommended by an almost
unanimous vote. Its provisions fol-
low:
1T shall be unlawful for any per
son, company or corporation, to sell
or give away any cigarettes or CT
gazette papers, or to have any cigar
cites or cigarette papers in or about
any store or other place for free dis
tribution.
Every person, company or corpo-
ration violating any of the pro-
visions of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and on con-
viction shall be fined not less than
$25 nor more than 800.
Reynards bill prohibiting the
catching of fish from any water in
the state by other means than
hook and line was recommended
for passage.
The house also recommended IA
voratly Stones bill requiring rail-
road companies to tell the truth
about the time of arrival and de-
parture of passenger trains. This
bill makes it a misdemeanor for the
agent or employee of a railroad to
give misinformation about the time
of trains and provides that the ar
irving and departing time of late
trains must he bulletined for the
benefit of the travelling public thir-
ty MINUTES before the schedule time
of such trains.
The Fraser truancy bill was
recommended for passage, so
amended that truancy officers shall
receive 25 cents an hour instead of
$3.50 a day. The bill provides for
the appointment of truancy officers
by county commissioners and by
boards of education in cities of the
first and second class.
Topeka, kans., Feb. II. = In the
senate today the railroad committee
made a report recommending for
passage the Bird bill reducing the
fare on sleeping cars. The bill was
recommended so that the Pullman
company can not under any circum-
stances charge more than 90 per
cent of the present rate. AS the bill
was introduced it made a number
of maximum rates. The Judiciary
committee reported unfavorably on
the bill permitting religious socie
ties to elect their directors accord
ing to their own form.
The resolution introduced by Kirt-
land asking congress to pass the La
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labor of all railway employees, was
adopted with only about five mem
bers paying any attention. The
speaker did not call for the nay
votes and only four or five MEM
bers voted for the resolution. The
house also adopted the resolution
introduced by Morgan, of Hodge
man, for the determination by the
state agriculture Of the species of
ants known as the mound build
ers''
Senator Gilbert's concurrent reso-
luton asking congress to make ap-
preparations to improve the naviga-
ton facilities of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Mississippi rivers was adopt
ed by a majority of one vote. The
speaker called for the vote on the
adoption of the resolution, and
Archer, of Brown, who had moved
that it be adopted, was the only
no votes against it.. Senator Smiths
! resolution to tax the incomes of
corporations was referred to the
judiciary committee.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Davidson,
of Sedgwick, carries an appropria-
ton of $53757 to reimburse Carr w.
Taylor for the money he has expend-
ed for stenographer hire since he
has been attorney for the board of
railroad commissioners. A bill by
Mr.. Mitchell amends the law per-
hitting railroad employees to vote
away from home so that it will in
clude students of educational insti-
tutions and commercial travellers,
Mr. Davis, of Bourbon, introduced a
2-cent railroad fare bill.
After the preliminary work of the
house had been completed the third
reading and passage of appropria-
ton bills was taken up. Eight ap-
preparation bills We're read the third
time and passed. These all made
provision for the maintenance of
state institutions for the next two
| fiscal years. The institutions pro-
vided for by the bills passed are the
Topeka state hospital for insane, the
Parsons state hospital for epileptics,
the Osawatomie state hospital, the
Kansas school for feeble minded,
the state Industrial school for girls
| at Beloit, the KaEsas school for the
blind, the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Atchison, and an appropriation
for the erection of cottages for the
crippled inmates of the latter ,insti-
| tuition.
The first resolution looking to an
agreement between the two houses
upon the time of final adjournment
was introduced in the house today
by Holdren, of Montgomery. 1t pro-
vides that no bills except those
carrying appropriations shall be in
1 troduced in the house or senate at