The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-08

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introduced by Mr. Ham.
Mr. Rockefeller has introduced
bill requiring railroad companies to
install facilities for watering and
weighing stock in any stock yards
where the shipment of live stock
averages fifty carloads a year.
DR.. NJ. l.. Stockton has introduced
bill prohibiting the embalming OF
bodies of persons supposed to have
died by unlawful means, without the
written permission of the county
coroner.
The house bill prohibiting Sunday
baseball and theaters died in the
senate judiciary committee today
and the action of the committee to-
Gay in killing the measure was sus-
tanned by the senate.
The bill cannot be revived as the
motion to place it again on the cal
endar has been defeated and the
only measure of this character
which can again come to the senate
will be a new bill from the house.
1t is improbable that another at
tempt will be made during the pres
ent session to prohibit Sunday
amusements.
Senator Griffin has introduced
bill providing for the payment of
wages to the convicts employed i'll
the state penitentiary
A bill introduced in the senate by
Getty makes the collection of usur-
ious interest a felony. The amount
of interest which pawn brokers and
others may collect Is limited by this
measure to per cent month.
Senator Smith today introduced a
bill to reimburse Frank Grimes, ex-
state treasurer for the sum Of
S9.3S1.25, which he recently paid in
to the treasury to cover shortages
found in the accounts during his
term of Office. The amount paid by
Grimes was compromise agreed
upon between him and the attorney
general 1t has not been generally
believed that Mr. Grimes was per-
sonally responsible for the errors
which caused the shortages and he
does not want to pay the money out
of his own pocket.
The senate committee of cities OF
the first class has favorably report.
ed Senator Stewards bill providing
for separate schools for negro and
white pupils in the city of Wichita.
The bill is similar to the law enact
ed for Kansas City, Kan, two years
! ago.
Topeka, Kans., Feb. I. - In the
senate the committee bill prohibit
ing the issuance or acceptance OF
passes, which is practically the
Stone bill of the house, was recon-
mended for passage.
The senate railroad committee to-
day reported unfavorably the Wag-
gener anti-pass bill, which provided
that passes shall be issued to all
state officers and employees, district
Judges, justices of the supreme
court and members of the legisla-
ture on the request of the secre-
tary of state and that they should
be counter-signed by the latter Off
cial.
The committee reported favorably
the bill by Senator Brewer, reduc-
ing railroad fares from , to 2 cents
a mile.
The judiciary committee recon-
mended for passage the Waggener
bill exempting notes and mortgages
from taxation.
The Stewart bill providing for the
creation of state tax commission
to succeed the state board of rail
way assessors and the state board
of equalizers of taxation was
recommended to the committee OF
the whole senate
The Smith bill providing for puri'
fication of the water used by water
works companies in cities and pro-
hibiting the sale of undrawn poul-
try were recommended for passage
by the senate committee of hygiene
and public health.
Senator Baker introduced reso-
luton in the senate today asking
the members of congress to support
the bill to add the members of the
Kansas militia who served in the
war of the rebellion to the pension
roll. The 10000 of these militiamen
had been called into the service by
Governor Carney to repel invasionS
of Missourans under Price and 9th
err Confederate generals and that
they had received no extra reward
for their services.
The senate is opposed to the pro-
vision in the new fish and game bill
prohibiting the killing of rabbits.
The bill came up for consideration
today and was passed after the
word rabbits" was stricken from
the list of protected game. An
amendment adopted, however, pro
vides that rabbits may only be kill.
ed by firearms and cannot be caught
in traps.
/ The senate passed the bill pro-
hibiting the dissertation of Me
mortal day THE bill prohibits
baseball games, circuses and other
forms of amusement of that char
acter on the day. The bill was pre-
pared by Senator Noftzger and was
adversely reported to the senate by
the judiciary committee.
The senate committee on rail
roads has reported favorably the
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