The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-08
Kansas Legislature
D0ings of the Men in Topeka
who are Making our Laws



Topeka, kans., Jan. 26. There
Is better prospect for the success
Of the movement for constitution
nj convention than during several
prior sessions of the legislature. The
resolution calling convention is
already pending in the senate and
its friends believe that it stands
good chance of being adopted. 1t
was introduced by Senator Waggen-
err 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 a chance to rid the state of the
prohibitory law, but because he be-
lieves Kansas has outgrown the con-
stitution it has used for forty years.
He has taken a poll and says ma
jority 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
2h per cent to S. rs amended and
recommended for passage the bill
provides that no penalty shall be
applied in the eyent of the failure
of any person to pay taxes promptly
The members of the house believed
that a penalty was in the interests
of tho rich tax payer.
Undertakers will have to change.
the brand of embalming fluid they
now use If 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 its 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 1t stop
ped long enough to add an import
ant amendment. They have discov-
cred that the measure not only kills
league baseball in the state, but that
It 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 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 it on final passage,
Lecause it had ten votes more than
enough to pass before his name was
called and his constituents believe
that he voted for it because he IA
yored II.
Representative Guyer, whose buck
ct shop bill was killed by the house
judiciary committee last week, has
re.introduced it under a 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 10.
, S. H. Brandon (by requesD: Au-
thorizing county attorneys to bring
suit to recover any money or fees
belonging to the county illegally re-
ceived or withheld by county Off
Gals.
S. H. Brandon (by request: Pro-
yiding for the examination by the
county attorney of all claims pre-
scented against counties and for the
recovery of money Illegally paid
Mr.. Lennen: To provide for a
bounty upon coyote and wolf scalps.
) Mr.. Hutchinson. Concerning do
mestic animals and providing for the
punishment of the willful< and ma
licious killing of the same.
Mr.. ingalls, (by request): To
amend chapter .122, article Z, sec.
tons 8 and 10 of laws of 1876.
The house in committee of the
whole recommended for passage the
bc,rd OF. health pure food bill which
has already passed the senate. For
a measure of such importance II
went through the house with little
ceremony There was no opposition
TO It. Tie bill as it was amended in
the senate provides for four food in
spectors at salaries of $500 a year
TIE house reduced these salaries tc
800 a month.
Another bill by the board OF
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