The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27

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be charged to Cunningham of Cowley
who is sure that the reporters receiv
plenty for their services and is Il
doubt but what they receive more thai
they really earn.
A call of the house was necessar.
for the passage of the Wheeler kin
dergarten bill which provides that
| school board may establish and main
tain free kindergartens for the in
| struction of children between the age
| Of three and six years.
Bills on Third Reading.
The entire afternoon was taken VI
| in the house by the passage of bills or
| third reading and seven bills which
| had been reported favorably by the
ways and means committee were pass
ed on one roll call. The following are
\ the titles of the bills passed:
BY Johnson-An act to estab lish and
create board known as the state
| board of embalming of the state OF
Kansas
By Westcott-An act in relation to
| changes of venue in misdemeanor
cases before justices of the peace.
Ey Ways and Means Committee
An act making appropriation for the
official state paper and for publishing
proposed amendments to the state
constitution.
An act making appropriations for
the current expenses of the Kansas
school for the deaf at Olathe for the
fiscal years ending June 80, 1908 and
June 80. 1909, and for special i'm
provements for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1908, and amending section
696S of the general statutes of 1901,
and fixing the salary of the superin-
tendent thereof.
An act making an appropriation to
pay the several counties of the state
the expenses incurred in the mainten-
ance of destitute insane persons who
have been refused admission to the
state hospitals for want of room.
An acct making an appropriation to
pay the several persons, firms and
corporations herein named, for goods.
wares and merchandise furnished to
the several state charita BILE institutions
during the year 1905, under the auth
GRITTY and direction of the state board
of charities, and which claims were
not presented until after the close of
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1905.
An act making an appropriation for
the purchase of the east q 2-3 feet of
lot number 81 on Tenth avenue east,
of the city of Topeka, Shawnee county,
Kansas, for the use and benefit of the
state printing plant.
An act reappropriating any unex-
5000 for the erection of a greenhouse
at Osawatomie state hospital under
section 2. chapter 81 of the session laws
of 1905, for the fiscal year ending June
so, 1907.
BY Stewart-Senate bill-An act to
amend section "a, chapter ass, of the
session laws of 1905, entitled, AN act
to provide for the appointment of as
sistants, clerks and employees in the
executive and judicial departments of
the state government, and fixing their
salaries and the salaries of certain Of
ficers therein named, and repeating
sections 463, 1905. 60S1. 60S3, 6OS4 and
$500 of the general statutes of Kan
sas.
BY Martin-Senate bill-An act pro-
viding for the organization and control
Of mutual life insurance companies of
this state.
Reduce Sleeping Car Rates.
At the night session of the house of
representatives the bill aimed at the
sleeping car companies was passed and
that with but little opposition though
it was expected that the bill would meet
with. much opposition from the repre-
sentatives of the railroads as it is really
the roads who will be affected by the
law as they pay mileage for the cars.
The bill as amended and recommended
for passage is as follows and makes
reductions of about 20 per cent accord
ing to it's author. Bird, of Shawnee.
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for
any sleeping car company. or conductor
Or agent thereof, in the state of Kansas, |
to charge or collect from any person de-
string to travel in such sleeping car, |
for the use of a seat or sleeping berth
in any first class or standard sleeping |
EAR, any fee, fare or rate in excess of
the following:
For a seat in the daytime, not to ex-
,eed the following rates:
For a trip not exceeding 100 miles, |
twenty-five cents.
For trip of more than 100 miles and |
lot exceeding 200 miles, fifty cents.
For a trip more than 200 miles and |
lot exceeding 400 miles, seventy-five
tents.
For sleeping berth at night. not to
the following rates.
For a lower berth, for trip not ex-
feeding $50 miles, one dollar.
For lower berth. for trip of more
han $50 miles and not exceeding 800 |
niles, one dollar and twenty-five cents.
For a lower berth, for a trip of
more than 500 miles and not exceed
ng 400 miles, one dollar and fifty
,ents.
And for an upper sleeper berth, a
ate not to exceed two-thirds of the
tbove rate for a lower berth.
The above rates shall apply whether
perth is occupied by one or two per-
sons.
Section ?. 1t shall be unlawful to
charge or collect for the use of a seat
Or sleeping berth in any tourist sleeper
my fee, fare or rate in excess of fifty
Der cent of the fee, fare or rate
charged or collected for such seat or
ng car.
Sec. 8. A sleeping car company
;hall not be required under this act
o furnish service to any person in a
tate of intoxication or who is in such
diseased or filthy condition as to en-
LANCER the safety or comfort of other
Aftc- SEN jose Scale.
The San Jose scale which has had an
asy time of it since it adopted Kan
as as it's home and has been thriv-
ng on the orchards of the state much
o their detriment, is liable to find
in cfo in he |