The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-17

law; bonds, notes and bills; bonds
and warrants; commissioners to take
dispositions; contracts and promises;
conveyances; corporations; county
boundaries; counties and county Of
ficers; county seats; supreme district
ishmentS; damages against cities;
decents and distributions; elections;
executors and administrators; ex-
emptions: fees and salaries: fences;
tives from Justice; guardians and
wards; illegitimate children; impeach-
ment; jails and Jurors; landlords and
tenants: laws and legislative journals;
lunatics and drunkards; married
women and their rights; minors;
mortgages; notaries public; oaths;
pardons; partnerships; plats Of cities
and towns; procedure in mis-
demeanors before justices; statutory
construction; stock; town sites; town
ships and township officers; trespass-
ers; wills"
Had Hard Time to Pay Board Bills.
That legislature must have been a
remarkable body. The state was poor
then, the treasury empty and the mem
bers themselves very hard up. Preston
Plumb was chairman of the judiciary
committee of that body. But in spite
of all their hard work the members
found time for little fun. Just to
the legislators, the following resolution
offered by Horace Tucker of Douglas
is case in point:
whereas, The treasury of the state
of Kansas is like the Widow McWhiz-
zIe's tub when the bottom fell out
there is nothing in it; and
Whereas, The landlord and proprie-
tors of the boarding houses persistent
| ly refused to accommodate the members
of this honorable legislature without
,l.oa a 1d
| Whereas, At the session last winter
! board was furnished free at the hotels
| by the candidates for the United States
senator, with many pressing invitations
| to partake thereof: and
Whereas, A member could get cred
lit at the saloons for refreshments as
! long as his thousand dollars lasted
therefore. be it
Z, Resolved, That senatorial elections
are a good thing.
| Resolved, That if they are a good
thing, Kansas needs as much of then
as any state we know of.
Resolved, That for the relief of the
landlord and landladies of Topeka, ant
III order that the charitable enterprises
may prosper it is necessary that we
should have a senatorial election every
session.
| Resolved, That the shepherd of the
little flock be called upon publicly tt
state, whether when said. little flock
comes into possession of the kingdom
they will have senatorial elections ev-
cry session or not
| Texas Cattle in Payment of Salaries
In explanation of the term ''littl:
| flock" used in the above resolution il
might be we'll to say that the state al
/ that time had acquired a considerable
number of Texas cattle, evidently
strays, and the disposition of thest
cattle had been referred to a specia
| committee, which reported as follows:
| Your special committee to whom
| was referred the resolution to appoint
a subcommittee to dispose of thu
| states interest in Texas cattle have
| mad the matter under consideration and
would respectfully recommend that al
| large majority of the members o.
| this house are farmers, that they be re-
quested to take. these Texas cattle az
| legal tender for all claims that theJ
| may have against the state for PEI
diem and mileage. AS regards the 9th
er members-lawyers, doctors, etc.
your committee can see no legal claims