The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

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| long enough to attend the funeral.
There was a hush, and more than one
member left ashamed of himself for his
boisterous ridicuIe of the representative
from Greenwood.
Edwards amendment fixing the time
for the next session at 1880 Saturday
morning prevailed
Sharp Debate ON Mortgage Law
The house had one of the hercest de-
bates of the session Friday afternoon
over the proposed law reducing the time
for redemption of mortgages from IL to
IL months. The bill as originally pre-
scented reduced the redemption time
from Is to months. The committee
recommended that the time be made Il
months.
E. A. Enright, representative from
Wyandotte, made a long and able
speech in defense of the bill, and his
position was combatted by W. L. Cum
bingham. These two speakers are
about the best of the present session,
and they had good fight. Cunningham
moved thar the enacting clause be
stricken out, and this motion finally
prevailed by a vote of "a to 46.
The debate occurred in committee OF
the whole, and when the committee re-
right tried to save the bill by moving
that the report state that the mortgage
Dill should be recommitted to the 1u-
dietary committee. Speaker Simmons
house then accepted the committee re-
port. and then Enright tried to move
that the bill be recommended, and was
again ruled out of order.
The bill providing for the protection
OF Hungarian partridges, English, Mon
goI1an or Chinese pheasants was adopt
ed by the house committee yesterday az
ternoon. The bill provides that these
birds not be killed or trapped for six
years.
$4,000 for Orphans Home.
w. A. S. Bird of Shawnee county
introduced in the house this morning
a bill appropriating $4,000 for the To-
peka Orphans home The money is
to be paid to the home at the begin
ming of each quarter for the next two
years. The appropriation two years
ago was $1,000.
Change Juvenile Court Law.
A few minor changes are made in
the juvenile court law by the bill in
troduced by Robert Stone of Shawnee
county this morning The bill raises
the salaries of probation officers from
one thousand to twelve hundred dol
lars a year. No changes are made in
the general procedure for handling
Juvenile offenders but the probation
officers are to be required to make
annual report sto the state board of
control. --s-@ 1-f
Help Claimants Against Railroads.
The bill introduced by J. c. Hart of
Kearney county this morning pro
vides that all railroad and transporter
ton companies and the agents of
for all carload shipments the date
and hour when the shipment was re-
ceived at the depot of the company for
The failure to stamp the
time on waybills and on freight bills
by conductors and agents is punish
able by a fine of one hundred dollars.
When shipments originate outside the
state the conductor is required to
which the shipment arrives within
Kansas.
Anticigarette Bill Is In.
A new anticigarette bill was intro |
duced in the house this morning by
]. A. Edwards of Greenwood county. |
or free distribution of cigarettes and
cigarette papers in Kansas. The bill
provides. ct shall be unlawful for any |
person, company or corporation to sell |
or give away any cigarettes or cigar
cite papers, or to have any cigarettes !
or cigarette papers in or about any |
store or other place for free distribu-
ton" 1
fifty nor more than one hundred dol
New Way to Draw 5uries. 5 I
A new system for drawing juries in |
Kansas is provided for in the bill in
troduced by w. w. Padgett of Bour-
that each of a district court
at the beginning of the January term
Of the court after 1908 shall appoint
three men, qualified as jurors and
who have no cases before the court, |
who will act. as jury commissioners
and these men are to select the jurors
rom the assessment rolls of the coun-
" and district. These names are to !,
De put into the jury box and drawn
Is under the present system The bill
changes the manner of securing the
names from the box. At present the
township trustees and the mayors OF
4l,n 40 = +
If possible jurors and file them with
he county clerks.
Court Paper Bill Up.
The judiciary committee of the. house
his morning reported adversely the
Bird bill providing for an official court
Intended to permit the publication of
egal notices in the Daily Legal News.
Ir. Bird made fight for his bill and
rot it sent back to the Judiciary com
committee was opposed to
urther consideration of the bill, but
he house voted 81 to IA in favor of re-
The members of the Shaw
,asSage of the bill. The objection toll
he bill is that legal notices. being in
ended for the benefit of the public
hould be printed in a paper of general
and not in a paper read ex-
lusively by lawyers and a few others.
Stock Yards Committee Named.
The house this morning passed the
enate resolution providing for COM
nittee to confer with a similar commit
ee from the Missouri legislature about
took yard regulation. The speaker
ppointed John Edwards George
'lumb and J. T. White as conferees on
he part of the Kansas house.
House Quits Till Monday.
At 11:30 this morning the house ad-
burned until Monday afternoon. There
we're no printed bills ready from the
a f. rri M fOr- 6a |
1ittee of the whole to DO. Some of
he members wanted to hold another
ession this afternoon, but the motion
D adjourn till Monday carried by a