The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
Members of House Fight Drug
Store Bill.
Consider Some of Its Provisions
Too Extreme.
NEW MARRIAGE BILL.
Designed to Prevent Union OF
Whites and Blacks.
Jewett Has Measure to Paw
Wages to COnvicts.

The house upon commencing this
morning proceeded. Immediately at
ter introduction of bills, to again con-
slider Jackson's anti-drug store bill
and quickly disposed of section one.
The wheels of the wagon had been
creased over night and with John
Marshall sitting beside Cunningham
OF Cowley, the latter Individual
pulled harder than ever in the traces
The state board of three persons to
control all druggists permits as pro-
amendment to elect this board by
the people was beaten. Counties will
no longer have any hand in the
shaping of their own affairs as re-
CARDS this matter Of drug stores.
Section two was a hill. however
Brown of kingman. had a picnic
with Cunningham of Cowley when he
said: I'VE have been clean and de-
cent out in Kingman in our obser-
vance of the prohibition law. and now
the gentlemen appear before this
house whose counties have smelled to
high heaven with their drug stores
would reward Kingman by taking our
decent permit drug stores away en-
tireIy."
Allen of wyaudotte. who had sup
ported the bill so far. kicked over the
traces in section two when the dras-
tic points of the law began to rise up
like mountains in the way
The bill is meeting with more
opposition in the majority today than
it did Tuesday.
Many Republican members have
stated in private that they were op-
posed to the bill. but were afraid to
vote their sentiments.
When the house stopped at noon
to send J. L. Bristow TO the United
States senate the committee OF the
whole was still struggling with Sec
tion two of the bill
Lambertson of Brown introduced a
bill today amending the law in reIa-
ton to the intermarrfage of, whites
ana negroes that should become a Law.
1t amends the old law to read as FOL-
lows: All marriages between parents
and children, Including grandparents
and grandci1i kfreff of any degree, be-
tween brothers and sisters of the one
half as well aS the whole blood and
between uncles and nieces. auuts and
nephews, between first cousins and be-
tween persons, one of whom is a
member of the Caucasian or white
race and the other is a member OF
the Ethiopian or black race. or the
Mongolian or yellow race. are declar-
ed to be incestuous and absolutely
void This section shall extend to IL
legitimate as well as legitimate chill
dren and relations.
Allen of wyandotte introduced a
Jill lO0dN WHICH DION1QGS LQAI All Edd
companies and corporations shall. be-
fore laying any gas pipes or mains in
county or city therein first secure
permission to do so from the county
commissioners of said county.
The county commissioners are auth
orized to grant this permission upon
such terms as may be agreed upon in
contract between the gas company
and the county provided that such use
of the public highways shall not en-
danger the highways and make them
unsafe for travel
Jewett of Sedgwick in his bill in
troduced today. makes provision for
paying wages to convicts in the pen
itentiary as follows: The warden Of
the penitentiary shall ascertain the
performing similar work outside the
penitentiary and shall, in assigning
tasks to the convtcts. require them to
an ordinary days work for the state
or contractor with the state for their
labor and after three-fourths of their
pay therefore has been deducted to
the state for payment for convict's ex-
penses, and the other fourth is placed
in a fund set aside for that purpose
From this fund certain money can be
taken and applied to the maintenance
of the convict or those dependent up
on him, if such there be. The sum
of at least $25 shall be kept in this
fund to be paid to the convict upon
his release from prison. 1t there Is
more than that sum to the credit OF
the convict when he is released II
shall be held for him and paid out to
him at certain intervals provided that
all Of this money shall be paid to him
within one year after his release
The bill is carefully drawn and con-
tains wise and practical provisions.
New Bills TN House.
H. b. No. 467 BY FEEDER Of Barton
An act making IL misdemeanor for
any state, county. township or city Of
made of any matter or information
required to be published by such
officer.
III. b. No. 46s. By FEEDER Of Barton
An act providing that all legal pub
lications required by law to be pub
lished a certain number OF weeks shall
be legal publications il the same are
made once a week in a daily newspa-
per which is authorized by law to print
such legal publications and providing
that such weekly publications shall be
made in the edition of such daily paper
printed and published upon Thursday
H B. No. 469. BY FEEDER of Barton
An act authorizing the boards or
county commissioners to designate an
officia1 county paper provided for pub
| lications therein and defining the re-
uufrements of any paper that shall be
designated as an official county paper
H. B. No 470. BY Lambertson-An
act relating to the taxation Of the 1--we
stock, of live stock dealers and hive
stock feeders
H b. No All BY Lambertson-AE
act in relation to railroad companies.
H B. No. 472. BY LambertsOn-An
act in relation to marriage
H B. No. 473. BY mbertson-An
act to provide for Improving the pub