Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

OF the movement Tor constitutions
al convention than during several
prior sessions of the legislature. The
resolution calling a convention is
already pending In the senate and
It's friends believe that it stands
good chance of being adopted. 1t
was introduced by Senator Waggen-
er and he has turned it over to its
friends on the Republican side.
w. s. Fitzpatrick, president pro
tenn of the senate, probably it's most
active supporter. says he is not
working for it because he believes it
Is chance to rid the state of the
prohibitory law, but because he be-
lieves Kansas has outgrown the con-
stitution 1t has used for forty years
He has taken a poll and says a ma
5ority Of the senators are. in favor of
the resolution. He expects it to be
adopted after 1t comes from the
judiciary committee.
The house spent the day in COM
mittee Of the whole. A bill recon-
mended for passage was the meas
ure introduced by Banks of Mont
gomery increasing the penalty for
failure to pay taxes promptly from
2k per cent to 5. rs amended and
recommended for passage the bill
provides that no penalty shall be
applied in the event of the failure
Of any person to paw taxes promptly
The members Of the house believed
that penalty was in the interests
Of the rich tax payer
Undertakes will have to change
the brand of embalming fluid they
now use II the bill recommended ia
vorably by the house committee of
hygiene and public health becomes a
law The bill prohibits the use of
embalming fluid containing mineral
or vegetable poison. All embalming
fluid now used necessarily contains
some poison Of this character. The
state association of undertakers will
ask that it's provisions be made less
stringent
The bill was introduced in the
house by Bruce Leydig. member
from a Butler county district.
Topeka, kans., Jan. 28.-There is
a disposition on the part of the min
| listers who have been behind the
anti-Sunday baseball bill to get in
| front of the measure and get it stop
ant amendment They have discov-
cred that the measure not only kills
| league baseball in the state. but that
| 1t also kills the Kansas chautauqua
circuit 1t provides that no Sunday
| entertainments to which admission s
| charged or collected shall be held
and that persons participating in
| such gatherings are liable to arrest
and a fine. The cautauqua depend
as much for receipts on the big
business done Sunday as the base
| ball league and so it is now neces
sary for the ministers and sports to
| Join hands and kill the bill in the
| senate.
Senator Chapman has received a
number of kilograms from his con
stituents asking him to oppose the
measure and other senators are re
| ceiving letters from ball players and
ministers opposing the bill. Repre-
sentative Sourbeer, of Parsons, one
| Of the staunchest opponents of the
bill, is In trouble with his constitu
ents. They believe he favored the
bill and are writing him. 1t is said
he voted for 1t on final passage
because it had ten votes more thar
enough to pass before his name was
called and his constituents believe
that he voted for it because he ia
vored it.
Representative Guyer, whose buck
ct shop bill was killed by the house
judiciary committee last week, has
re-introduced it under different
title. He says the judiciary com
| mittee did not understand the meas
ure
Other bills introduced were:
William Gesner: Authorizing the
county superintendent of Barber
county to change the boundaries Of
school districts Nos. /, and TO-
S. H. Brandon (by request: Au
thorizing county attorneys to brins
suit to recover any money or fee.
belonging to the county illegally re
ceived or withheld by county off
Gals.
S. H. Brandon (by request): Pro
viding for the examination by the
county attorney of all claims pre-
sented against counties and for the
recovery of money Illegally paid
Mr.. Lennen: To provide for {
bounty upon coyote and wolf scalps
Mr.. Hutchinson. Concerning do
nestle animals and providing for the
punishment Of the willful and ma
licious killing of the same.
Mr.. ingalls, (by request): Tx
amend chapter 122, article Z, sec
tions 9 and 10 of laws of 1876.
The house in committee Of tn,
whole recommended for passage tn,
board Of health pure food bill which
has already passed the senate. Fo
measure OF such Importance /
went through the house with littl,
ceremony. There was no opposition
to 1t. The bill as it was amended il
the senate provides for four food in
spectors at salaries of $500 a year
The house reduced these salaries Il
500 a month.
Another bill by the board o
health prohibiting the feeding o
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Into New Court House. - Imme
diately following the completion o
the new county court house at Man