The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-15
Kansas Legislature
DOings of the Men I'm Topeka
VINO are Making Our Laws


them as may be necessary.
In order to avoid the conflict over
the location of state fair, Mr..
Stannard, of Lyon, has introduced a
bill 'appropriating $4,000 for the es-
, tablishment of such fair and leav-
ing the question of the location to
the state board of agriculture. The
board shall have full charge or the
fair and the bill carries an appro-
priation of $4,000 year for the
next two fiscal years to be used IN
making appropriations.
The house elections committee
has decided both of the contests
over seats in that body in favor OF
the Democrats who hold the certl1l-
Gates of election. The cases were
those of e. J. Guilbert of Logan
county against ]. S. Price, the
Democrat who was elected by a
small majority. Guilbert failed to
deposit his bond for $500 to cover
the costs of the contest in accord
ance with the resolution adopted by
the house and the seat went to
| Price by deIaull.
In the case of w. H. Bryant
against Representative j. H. Sherer
of Kiowa county, the committee
heard the contest and held for Sher-
| err
The senate committee on agri'
culture today recommended for pas
sage the bill introduced by Senator
Stewart, which makes an appro'
priation of $4,000 to be expended
by the state agricultural college in
purcasing seed wheat for Kansas
farmers. The fund is to be so man
aged that it will be kept intact, the
farmers paying for such seed wheat
as they need,
The senate passed Senator
Young's bill providing for mill
levy on all property of the state for
school purposes. Before the bill
was passed Senator Getty succeed
ed in having Wyandotte county eX
empted from its provisions. This
was over the protest of Senator
Young. The Getty motion carried
by vote of IL to s.
After several hours of wrangling
during which the bill was many
times amended over the protest OF
its author and his coterie of adher
ents. the Stubs primary election
bill went to tho foot of the calendar
tonight without recommendation by
the committee of the whole. The
bill has been lefore the committee
two afternoons of the week, and un
less the house takes some action to
morrow morning to raise 1t from
the place which it now has, 1t Will
not be again considered for a week
Senator Stillings introduced a bill
prohibiting the formation Of insur
ance pools. His bill is very string
ent and it's enforcement is vested
in the district courts.
The senate today passed tho
Smith antitrust bill.
The anti-pass bill passed TIE
house today with only twenty-ont
votes against it.
Topeka, Kans., Feb. 1.-THE sen
ate today passed the concurrent re
solution introduced by Senator
Smith which provided for a consti
tutional amendment for the taxation
of the incomes of public service cor
porations as follows:
The legislature shall provide TO
the taxation of all property by 1
uniform rule; provided that the leg
islature may, in its discretion, ex
empt certain classes of property
and may assess intangible propert!
in a different manner from real ant
tangible personal property. The leg
islature may provide for the taxa
ton of common carriers, telegraph
and telephone companies, provided
such tax shall not be in addition t.
a tax on their tangible property o
capital stock
This proposition shall be submit
ted to the electors of the state a
the general election of representa-
tives in the year 1908 for their ap
prevail or rejection.
Senator Fred H. Quincy's bill au
thorizing school districts to com
bine for the operation OF graded
schools passed the senate today
The bill provides that whenever tn
inhabitants of two or more schoo
districts wish to unite for the pur
pose of establishing a graded schoo
in which instruction shall be givel
in the highest branches of education
the clerks of the several districts
shall upon a written application o
five voters of the respective dis
tricts, call meeting of the voter
of such districts at some convenien
place by posting up written notices
as provided for calling district meet
ings, and If majority of the vote
cast in each of the two or more dis
tricts shall be to unite for the pun
pose stated, they shall at that meet
ing or at an adjourned meeting cleo
board of directors consisting of
director, a clerk and a treasurer.
The house in committee Of tn
whole this afternoon recommends
for passage the bill by the commit
tee on assessment and taxation pre-