The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-10
HOUSE QUITS WORK.
AGjourns Because There Was Nothing
More to Do Today.

At 2:15 this afternoon the house ad-
journed until Friday morning at 10
o'clock. There was no business which
could come before the house until the
speaker appoints his committees y ''-l-
Robert Stone, of Shawnee county, in
troduced a bill which will make the
creamery people of the state sit up and
take notice.
The bill is for the regulation of dair-
les, cheese factories and creameries, and
the section which will make the cream
cry people anxious is this one:
mo person or corporation shall sell
or offer for sale any sort of butter or
butter substitute containing 16 per cent or
more of water or less than S219 per
cent of fat unless each and every car
ton case, tub or other package of such
butter or butter substitutes be labelled
'adulterated' in black, bold face Gothic
letter not less than " inch square. Each
and every carton, case, tub or other
package of every sort of butter or but
ter substitute shall on its principals la
BILE state the true net weight of the
contents"
The bill also prohibits coloring or sell
ing of imitation butter colored to rep
resent yellow butter.
The following bills were introduced
this afternoon.
No As. By Notwithstanding the
state truancy law.
No. 46. BY Davidson-To prohibit
bulk sales of merchandise.
No. Al. By Wheeler-To amend law
first class, allowing a 20 mill levy.
No. 4S. By Leland-To raise salaries
of State Historical society employees.
No. 40. BY Ham-To allow actions to
be brought against railroad companies
in any county.
No. So BY Rhodes-ReIating to real
estate sales.
No 81. By Husey-Authorizing Wich-
ita board of education to sell high
school bonds.
List of House Bills.
The following is the list of bills in
troduced in the house this morning:
No. 2S. BY Kiff-An act in relation to
escape shafts in coal mines, and ex-
tending time in which the same may be
completed.
No. 20. By Bird-An act to authorize
the judge of the district court in coun-
ties having q population of more than
As, 600 to designate an official paper and
to authorize the publication of legal no.
tees advertisements and publica lions
therein.
No. 80. BY Bird-An act to prevent
the manufacture, sale or transporta-
ton of adulterated or misbranded or
poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs,
medicines, and liquors, and to regulate
traffic therein, and providing for the
Of inspectors for carrying
out it's provisions, and to provide penal
ties for violation thereof, and to repeal
all acts or parts of acts in conflict
herewith.
to bucket shops, brokerage offices and
other places, transacting the business of
buying, selling and dealing in grain,
stocks, bonds, securities, provisions and
other commodities for future delivery,
the opening, carrying on and
the same, prohibiting the
use of telephone, telegraph, or newspa-
per quotations of the market price in
Herewith, the use of black
boards in connection herewith prohib-
iting any telegraph or telephone opera
tor from receiving market quotations
for such place or in such place, prohib- |
Ting any advertisement, sign or device |
to be made public of such place, fixing
the penalty for the violation of any of
the provisions of this act and repeating
al laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this act.
No. 80. BY Reynard-An act to amend
section 1, chapter 49,. laws of 1895, and
being section 2506, complies laws of 1901. |
No. 49, BY Potts-An act relating 10
and employment of per
sons who served and have been honor
ably discharged from the army and |
navy of the United States and amenda-
tory of section $500 general statutes 1901 |
and repeating said section 500.
No. g. By Thompson-An act relat- |
ing, to the preservation of cornerstones.
and landmarks.
No. IS. By Hem-An act to amend |
section $3.50 Of the general statutes of