Free press., 1907-01-26
Kansas Legislature
DOEngs OF the AEen in Topeka
Who are H7akLng Our Laws


By O'Shant- Thirty thousand dol
lars for each of the next fiscal years
and an emergency appropriation OF
$4,000 for a barn to be erected i'm
mediately for the Hays City experi
mental station
! Hutcheson = Making an appropria.
tion of $4,000 for the Improvement
of Soldier creek through the grounds
OF the Boys Industrial home at To-
peka.
By Potts-To lower the legal rate
OF interest from 10 to 8 per cent.
/ Topeka, kans., Jan. 16. - In the
house today Representative Creech
introduced a bill exempting mort
cages from taxation, but providing a
registration fee of so cents for each
500 of the mortgage.
Other bills introduced in the
house were:
By Montee Making township
trustees pubic road commissioners
and providing that road oyerseers
shall be paid in cash for labor per-
formed
Leydig = Prohibiting undertakers
and embalmers from using any en-
balming fluid which contains any
vegetable or mineral poison. Viola
tion of the provisions of the meas
ure will be punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment
Mitchell - Providing for a tax on
inheritances of property passing by
the interstate laws from any person
dying possessed of the property
while resident of the state. The
provisions of the measure are to ap-
ply where the property passes to
husband, wife. lineal issue or lineal
ancestor of decedent or to a corpo-
ration organized solely for religious,
charitable or educational purposes.
The rates of the tax are classified
progressively according to the size
of the inheritance. On inheritances
under $4,000 the tax varies from 3
to per cent on the clear value of
the property. On those in excess
of $4,000 and under $4,000 varies
from IL to 9 Per cent. The tax is
made progressive on inheritances
up to the amount of 5000, 900, where
it varies from 8 to 1S per cent.
The appropriation bill for the sal
aries and mileage Of the members
was passed this tfternoon after it
had been before a conference. COM
mittee. AS passed by the senate.
it provided for $40 postage for each
senator and $40 for each represen.
tative. The house amended by elm
ating from the bill all appropria-
ions for postage. The senate held
its first executive session this after
noon for the purpose of considering
appointments by the governor. The
names were referred to the senate
committees for action and it will
probably report and recommend
that all of the appointees be con-
frmed
The appointees were:
John w. Radford, to be state
grain inspector to the committee of
agriculture; w. H. Haskell, to be
warden OF the penitentiary, to the
committee on penal institutions;
Thomas Ballinger of Coffey, John
Seaton of Atchison and w. 1. Biddle
OF LeaveDworth. to be directors of
the penitentiary, to the committee
of penal institutions, and John O.
Royce, to be bank commissioner. re-
ferred to the committee on banks
and banking.
The house judiciary committee re-
ported for passage the bill prohibit
Ing such amusements on the Sab
bath day. The bill was introduced
in the house by Representative
Fraser of Clay.
Topeka, kans., Jan. II. An i'm
portant measure introduced in the
house today by Stannard of Lyon
creates the Office of dairy commits
sioner. prescribing rules and meth
DDS for the education of Kansas
dairymen and producers of dairy
products. regulating the production,
sale and shipment of milk, cream,
butter and cheese and providing for
the inspection of creameries. cheese
factories, dairy barns and utensils.
Representative Bird introduced a
bill fixing maximum rates for Pull
man car berths at IS cents for a
lower and SO cents for an upper
berth for $50 miles or less, and not
more than S1.25 for lower and two
thirds of the amount for an upper
berth for distances ranging between
$50 and 800 miles. The fares for
day seats in the Pullman cars are
reduced so per cent.
Other bills introduced in the
house were:
By White = Providing terms and
conditions on which railroads may
increase capital STOCK.
Leland = Relating to changes in
the methods of adopting school
books for use in the common
schools.
Policy = Prohibiting incompetent
persons from engaging in the occu-
patton Of telegrapher and creating
a board of examiners for telegraph
ers.
Stone-Requiring ra;lroads to cor
rectly bulletin the time of arrival
and. departure of passenger trains.
Davis = Requiring railroad COM
panies to keep telephones in their
depots.
The house in committee of the
Sheep Raising in Kansas Pays. =
j. C. Taylor of Douglas, who mar
keted a carload of ewes, the culls
from 2.200. in Kansas City, at $50,
thinks sheep raising in Kansas is a
paying industry. Il have handled