Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-15
NEWS FROM THE LEGISLATURE
WHAT THE LAWMAKERS ARE DO
ING AT TOPEKA.
interesting and important Happen
ings in House and Senate
During Past Week.

During Past Week.
The experiment stations of the Kan
sas Agricultural college have done a
great work in showing Kansas farm
ers the best methods of farming and
the NEST profitable crops. The Kansas
house of representatives proposed to
increase this work by appropriating
$12o,OOO to carry on irrigation expert
ments in Western Kansas for the next
TWO years The house has passed the
Dill introduced by Representative Will
son of Greeley county for the state to
assist in developing irrigation in the
western one-third of Kansas and in
showing to the western Kansas farm
ers the best crops to raise in that sec
ton. The bill provides that each
county that wishes to have an irriga-
ton experiment farm is to give the
state forty acres of land and sink
we'll to the underfiow and put in opera
ton a pump with sufficient power to
handle the water for a 40-acre field.
Then the State Agricultural college is
to take charge of the property, make
experiments for best methods of ir-
rigation by the pumping system and
carry on an exhaustive series of tests
with different farm products under
the various irrigation experiments.
This is intended to determine what
system of irrigation is the best for the
different crops in the different coun-
ties of the state where irrigation is
necessary. The senate has established
two branch experiment stations to
carry on this same sort of work in
Thomas and Kearney counties and
there is now a branch experiment sta
at
den City. If the senate looks with
favor upon the bill, it is proposed that
the house kill the two additional ex-
pertinent stations as the General Irri-
CATION bill provides for stations to
take their place.
The senate has passed the bill to
put into effect the new Webb law, re
Gently enacted by Congress, giving
the states control over liquor ship
ments where there are prohibitory
laws. The Webb bill simply allows
each state to regulate in it's own
way the interstate shipments of liquor.
Heretofore the states have had no
control over liquor shipments from
other states and this has made it pos
sible for the bootIeggers and jointists
to thrive in Kansas and in other pro-
hibition states.
The Kansas Bill requires that every
railroad, express company and other
common carrier file with the county
clerl1Na notice showing each shipment
of liquor received in that county, to
whom it was consigned and who re
ceived n This notice must be filed
within three days after the shipment
is received On delivering a pack
age of liquor to anyone the carrier
mcst also obtain a receipt from the
consignee showing that he received it
and that it was purchased for the per
sonal use of the person to whom it
was delivered. The law prohibits the
shipment of liquor to a minor or the
delivery of a package containing
liquor to a minor. Making a false
statement regarding the liquor ship
ment is punishable by a fine of $500
or a jail sentence of three months
The law applies to shipments within
the state the same as to interstate
shipments
The senate has gone on record that
more than 20 million dollars worth
of mortgages in Kansas which now
escape taxation must be listed or the
holders of the secrrity cannot collect.
The bill was introduced by Senator
Waggener because there are indica-
lions that the present legislature is
not going to enact a mortgage regis
tration fee law. The house and sen
ate are at loggerheads on the bill and
there does not seem to be much of