The Goodland republic., 1907-03-15

m going 70 introduce a reSolu-
ton for a constitutional amendment
providing that the legislature shall
meet every year for the exclusive pur-
pose Of repeating laws and only once
in ten years Tor the purpose OF pass
ing laws
New Laws Enacted.
The session Of 1907 has done very
little In the way OF passing new laws
Of general and lasting importance. a
number OF laws have been passed for
the purpose Of repairing or strength
ening existing statutes, such as the
grain inspection law and the railroad
commissioners law But out OF the
1900 bills introduced in both branches
only about twenty-five were passed
which merit any general attention
Among these might be mentioned the
following:
Anti-pass law.
Assessment and taxation law
Horizontal reduction Of Is per cent
in grain and grain products freight
rates
Commission system OF government
for cities OF first and second classes.
Amendments to railroad commis-
siOners' law
Amendments to grain inspection
law
Requiring railroads to make kan
sas City, Kan, a freight terminal
point
Law prohibiting the making Of ez-
elusive contracts, aimed at harvester
trust
OF western Kansas school land hold
ers-
Increase Of pay for supreme court
and district judges.
Revision Of present laws relating to
the formation OF corporations and Sc
curing OF charters.
Laws for the inspection OF stock
foods and fertilizers.
State board Of veterinary examina-
ton established.
Providing for the appointment OF
probate judge pro tenn
State pure food law, similar to the
national law
Prohibiting the sale Of undrawn
poultry.
Examination Of the sanitary condi-
ton Of Kansas streams.
License tax on patent medicine ven
dOrs.
Proposition for constitutional
amendment providing for increase IN
pay for legislators.
Requiring the Associated Press to
furnish news reports to any and all
applicants (prObably unconsttutiOn-
all
Prohibiting organization OF frater-
mites in high schools (may be uncOn-
stitutiOnal.)
Authorizing county commissioners
to submit courthouse building fund
proposition to electors.
OF course there were dozens Of
other general laws passed-laws that
viii be buried in the statute books
and forgotten; laws changing the code
Of civil procedure, usually intended
to help some lawer out Of a legal
tangle; laws Of such a mild and inof-
fensive character that they slipped
through because no one considered it
worth while to fight them
Senate Killed Many Bills
OF course the vast majority OF the
bills introduced never became laws.
Some good bills were killed; other
good bills were so mutilated that they
are OF no value For example, the
senate passed the so-called ''Trickett
anti-gambling law" but passed 1t in
such a mutiIated and distorted form
that Il is as good as killed. The sim
lar bill relating to intoxicating IL
quors was also killed in the senate.
The following is a list Of some OF the
leading fatalities, and the place n
which the death occurred:
Anti-Sunday base ball-senate-
'Mulct tax" a local option scheme
house and senate.
Woman's suffrage amendment
house.
Antf-cigarette biII-senate.
Reduction in sleeping car rates
senate
Requiring railroads to bulletin
truthfuIly at depOts time OF arrival
OF trains-senate.
Requiring railroads to build hog
fences on right Of way at hog pas
tures-senate.
Providing honest system Of state sc
cOunting-senate-
Trickett liquor and gambling laws
senate.
pure paint bfI-house and senate.
Changing maximum rates on crude
oil-house.
Horizontal cut Of Is per cent in coal
state publication Of text books
house.
Legislative reappOrtiOnment-sen-
Revision Of civil cOde-hOuse and
senate.
Tubercular sanitarium for state
house ana senate
state salt plant-house.
The senate also killed the stock
Yards legislation, but this was because
the Missouri legislature had failed TO
act. The coal rate bill died on the
house calendar when the house be
came involved in its struggle about
the primary election and dropped
everything else. 1t viii be seen that
the senate did some very artistic
work in killing bills aimed at the rail-
road companies
House Had No Leader
Who is the leader OF the hOuse2
The railroad crowd asserts with
great JUNCTION and sorrow that the
house had no leader, and this is true
OF the friends Of the railroads in
that body. No one has shown any
great ambition to be recognized as the
leader OF the railroad crowd The job
has been offered to W "A Cunningham
OF Cowley, to z. A Enright OF Wy
sndotte. to J W. HOldren OF Mont
zomerv. to Shemeld ingalls, OF Atchi-
son. bat none Of them cared to assume
the title. Enright has been closer TO
the lob than anybody else probably
CunniEham. Holdren and ingalls, are
young men, and they realize that they
HOEFis T1is2
We cffer One Hundred Dollars Re
vrar5 Tor any case Of Catarrh that