Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-22

The senate by a vote of IS to q
defeated the house bill prescribing
that no woman employed in Kansas
shall work over f1fty-four hours a
| week and not more than ten hours
of any one day. The house passed
! the bill some time ago. The measure
applied to women employees in man
I ufacturing and mercantile establish
ments, packing houses, 1aundries,
I hotels and restaurants, telephone and
I telegraph offices, express and trans
! portation companies. The senate re-
1 fused to pass the minimum wage bill
| for women employees after the house
! had passed it. There will therefore
/ be no legislation enacted at this ses-
sion along the lines of minimum wage
and maximum working hours for
women employees
The senate committee on labor has
| backed up on the Minimum Wage for
| Women bill and made a favorable re-
port to the senate with one amend
ment inserted to pacify the legislators
from the small towns who have been
hearing from home" The bill is the
house measure exactly, except that it
provides that the act shall not apply
to domestics or to hotels or other
establishments employing less than
ten people. The house bill made the
minimum wage of Sc a week apply to
domestics who do not reside in the
home where they work and it also APP
piled to every establishment, regard
less of the number of people en-
ployed.
The income tax amendment is to be
submitted to the people at the next
election. The house adopted the
resolution providing for the income,
franchise and privilege tax and the
classification of property for taxation
just before noon. 1t put an amend
ment into the measure and it was sent
to the senate and had hardly landed
in that body when the house amend
ments were concurred in and the
amendment was ordered submitted to
the people.
The house passed lot of bills on an
omnibus roll call. Among them were:
Allowing voters away from their
homes to register by mail. Authorizing
the use of the mails and telephones
in summoning witnesses and jurors, in
stead of personal service by officers.
that guaranteed to every public utility
10 per cent dividends on the capital
stock before a city could order a re-
duction in rates to the consumers.
The Sixth Congressional district is
to have the new state tuberculosis
sanitarium. The house of representa-
tives passed the bill abOlishing the
sanitarium located at Newton under
the appropriation of the 1911 legisla-
ture and fixing the location in the
Sixth District The bill ~e-enacts the
old low and appropriates s49,5OO for
the purchase of a site and the erection
of the buildings for the new hospital
The location must be determined with
in 80 days.
The Kansas dog came into his own
when the legislature passed the state
Dog Tax Law and made the canine
personal property. The law provides
a tax for every dog of from one to
two dollars year. 1t has been held
in Kansas courts that dog was not
property. In event he is killed dam
ages to the amount of his value listed
with the assessor may be recovered,
the law provides.
The house in committee of the
whole adopted the Scott Bill, requiring
a physicians certificate to be filed
with the probate judge before a mar
riage license can be granted
The senate has killed the Troutman
bill authorizing the removal of the
state university medical school and !
Elinor Taylor Bell Memorial hospital |
from Rosedale to some other city of |
Kansas.
The house has killed the bill TO al |
low the state TO issue life insurance |
policies to residents of the state at |
cost Only % votes could be mustered /
for the bills support
Kansas can work prisoners of the |
state penitentiary on the county roads |
and city streets The senate bill pass
ed some time ago by that body went /
through the house Amendments
made by the lower branch were i'm
mediately concurred in by the senate
and upon the governors signature
the measure will become a law
The senate has killed the Waggener
bill preventing the employment of any
relative of any state official or clerk /
in any other state department or insti-