The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1909-02-18

Senator Millions bill prohibiting the
hiring of vehicles to haul voters to
the polls was killed by the senate ju-
dietary committee.
The senate passed the Quincy bill
amending the tax law. The contest
came on the proposition to abolish
county assessors. BY vote Of 20 to
Is they were retained.
The bill of Senator Potter of Marion
creating the office of state veterin-
arisn has passed the senate commit
tee of the whole. The head office Is
to be located in the State Agricul-
tural college.
The students Of the agricultural col
lege do not want any token from the
legislature in payment for the outing
they gave the members to Manhattan
the other day. They sent communi-
cation to the senate asking 1t to with
draw its plan to raise a fund for a
token of some kind. The request was
granted.
For the purpose of making 1t pos
sible to secure evidence against buck.
ct shop operators, Cunningham intro
duced bill changing the bucket shop
law. His amendment requires patrons
of such shops to testify and exempts
them from prosecution. Under the
present law the patrons, as we'll as
the bucket shop operators, are liable
TO prosecution.
The Cranston bill to make 1t more
hazardous to run punishment pro-
ceedings against laborer was defeat,
ed in the house on final roll call. The
bill provided that where Kansas
merchant sent bill, which he
couldn't collect from Kansas laborer
under the resident punishment law,
to a snitch in an adjoining state for
collection, that the merchant should
be liable to the laborer for three times
the amount of the bill
The legislative committee Of the
Kansas Gas, Water Electric Light
and Street Railway association has is
sued call to arms of all the owners
of the public utilities in the state' 1t
wants them to lombard their men,
bers of the legislature Immediately
with protests against the passage of
the bill. The letter urging them to
get busy is signed by ]. T. Hunting,
ton, chairman of the legislative COM
mittee.
Speaker Dolley's bill creating a
court of claims out of the house and
senate communities on claims, has
passed the house. In the past the
holder of a claim against the state
has never been required to swear to
the correctness of his claim nor to pro-
duct sworn testimony in regard to
1t.
The bill of the committee on assess
ment and taxation to compel rail-
road once each year to give an item
lied statement to the tax commission
OF the value of stocks, securities
properties and all other things OF
value to the company was recon-
mended for passage.
The bill of the committee on banks
and banking to forbid stakeholder
of the bank to manipulate the reserve
fund and shift the money from one
bank to a newly organized one, was
passed by the committee of the
whole. This bill is intended to abol-
ish the system now being followed by
bankers to take the stock of one bank
and organize another, and by this
means establish an unlimited chain of
banks with only the, original amount
of capital to start.
The he SO has recommended for
massage the senate bill providing for
the prevention and eradication from
the state the diseases among cattle
known as tuberculosis. 1t is held by
many that tuberculosis may be trans
ferred from cattle to human beings,
In fact It was stated on the floor of
the house that tuberculosis was first
transmitted to the human family in
this way. Many amendments were
offered to this measure in the house,
but none of. any Importance were
adopted and the bill stands practical
ly as It came from the senate.