The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-18

pense be paid by the township in which
the road is located.
Senator Porter stated that in Craw
ford county such roads are built along
the lines of his amendment. Senators
Hodges and Ganse did not approve o.
the amendment. believing owners o
land benefited should bear the larger
share of the expense.
! Senator Porter withdrew his amend
ment upon the statement of Senator
! Hodges that the bill will be amended
so as not to repeal any special road
building laws now in force. This
amendment to this effect was adopted
as a part of section 10.
| When the bill was subject to amend
ments generally Senator Potter sough'
to apportion the cost of the improve
ment equally between the land owners
along the road and the township This
proposition, however, was overwhelm-
ingly rejected.
| Senator Price moved the previous
question and his motion was adopted.
/ The roll was then called and the
"rock roads bill was passed by 26
to 10.
The senators voting against the bill
were Brewster. Cooke, Huffman, Leidy,
Murphy. Overfeld. Potter, Reed,
Smith and Fowler. Senators Eager
| berg and Milton did not vote.
Senator Avery's bill, providing a
| registration fee on real estate mort
cages and the exemption from taxa
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| paid, was passed by a vote of 25 to s,
| after brief discussion.
An amendment offered by Senator
! Stewart was adopted. limiting the reg
/ istration fee to $1,000 on mortgages
given to secure the first issue of bonds
! for the construction of new line OF
steam and interurban railways.
Senator Quincy's amendment was
also adopted providing that the fees
obtained by registering mortgages be
apportioned the same as other taxes,
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to the general revenue fund of the
county.
other bills passed by the senate were
S. B. No $50. BY Committee on As
sessment and Taxation-Amending the
present laws concerning the listing of
property for taxation.
H. B. No. $50. BY Dolley-Realtin
to legislative committees on claims
and accounts, and prescribing powers
and duties of the committee.
S. b. No. 3S3. BY Committee on AS
sessment and Misunderstanding for
taxation of property of car companies
other than railroads..
S. B. No. 1872. BY Fogerberg-R
lating TO control of waterworks, fuel,
power and lighting plants in third
S. B. No. As. BY StaveIy-Author-
bonds to fund their existing floating
indebtedness.
S. B. No. 2S4. BY Glenn-Author-
izing the county treasurer of Stevens
other evidences of municipal indebt-
edness in payment of taxes.
S. b. No. 35. BY Chapman-Fixing
time of annual school meetings.
s. r. No. ia, by Lower; relating to
disseminating schools.
9. B.. No. 123. by Lower; relating
to school district boundaries.
s. B. No. 125. by Lower: prohibiting
hiring of relatives as teachers by |
school boards.
s. B. No. 371, by Chapman: regulat-
ing joint stock life insurance COM |
panies. |
relating to public bridges.
s. B. No. 366, by Com. on Temper |
ance and Hygiene; providing perman-
ent quarters for state board of medi- |
cal registration.
H. B. No. As, by Morton; concern |
H. B. No. 40. by Matson; making
appropriation for discriminating the |
San Jose scale.
s. B. No. 176, by Chapman. pre-
scribing powers of qualified voters at /
school meetings.
s. B. No. 35S, by Hunter. relating to |
carriers.
H. B. No. 313. by Mitchell; con-
corning high schools.
H. B. No. 476. by Rhodes of Mar
shall, providing for payment and dis
tribution of taxes
On motion of Senator Hamilton S.
B. No. 472.- validating electric light |
bonds issued by the city of Topeka
about year ago, was taken from
the table and passed This bill was
voted on last Thursday, but there was
not a quorum present.
In order to Josh Senator Hamil-
ton a number of senators voted against !
the bill. but before the result was an
nounced they changed their votes
from mo to "aye."
President Fitzgerald announced
Senator Caldwell's committee assign
ments as follows: Ways and means,
and agriculture.
On motion of Senator Chapman S.
B. No. 53S. relating to fire insurance
was made a special order for p. m.
Friday
After passing all the bills on third
reading the senate adjourned at $50
p. m. until 10 O'Clock Thursday morn
Ing
During a hearing Wednesday after
noon before the judiciary committee
Of the senate relative to the bill
amending the present laws concerning
building of bridges, representative
Of local construction company told
the committee that out of 8 contracts
for building bridges. let in the various
of the state the past year, 81
Of the contracts were illegal. He stat
ed that his firm took contracts for
building bridges Notwithstanding they
knew they were illegal. because other
contractors would take them if his
firm refused. In the opinion of the
conditions are such as to
warrant action giving county commits
sioners proper authority to make legal
contracts for construction of bridges.
Senator Stillings introduced a bill
making appropriation for the Kansas
state Denitentiarv for 1910 and 1911