Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-02-13
Senate

With sixteen working days of the
session having elapsed, the Kansas
legislature has this record of accom-
plishment: Bills passed by both
houses, "a; bills signed by the COVER
nor, s; bills introduced in both houses,
SSS; bills recommended for passage
by both houses, rs; bills introduced in
the senate, 400; bills passed in the
senate, 30; bills recommended for pas.
sage in the senate, %; bills yet to be
introduced in the senate, about 800;
| bills introduced in the house, 4SS;
bills passed in the house, "a; bills
recommended for passage, so; bills
yet to be introduced, about GOO.
Senator Bale Waggener's cherished
measure to call constitutional con-
vention to draft now constitution for
Kansas went down to defeat in the
senate. The veteran senator from At
Gibson made mastery and eloquent
plea for a constitutional convention,
declaring that the present one is out
of date in spots and that a constitu-
tional convention affords the only
means, since the defeat of the |. and
r., of giving the people the initiative
and referendum.
A bill to permit boards of education
in cities of the first and second class
to elect one of their own members il
they choose, as clerk, if the board so
desires, was recommended for passage
in the senate. The bill is by Sena-
tor ]. w. Howe of Dickinson county.
At present the law requires that the
clerk OF a board of education must not
be member of the board in cities of
the first and second class.
The intermarriage bill, to prevent
the marriage of whites and blacks,
was finally killed by the senate
judiciary committee, after it had pass
ed the house by one-sided vote.
That hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of Kansas mortgages are
concealed from taxation every year is
a notorious fact. but the senate took
steps to effectively break up this
style of tax lodging The senate
recommended for passage Senator
Gray's bill to require the register of
deeds of every county to certify to
the state tax commission on the first
of each month a record of all mort
cages recorded i'll his office during
the preceding month. The record shall
include the names and addresses of
the parties to the mortgage, and IL it
is assigned, the present owners.
weed cutting bill, to require rail
roads to cut and burn all cockleburrs,
thistles, jimson weeds and burdock
weeds, was recommended for passage
by the senate. Senator w. p. Lam
bertson, Of Brown, Is the author of the
measure, which permits the>owner OF
land adjoining a railroad or interurban
right ri way, to serve notice on such
railroad company to compel the cut
ting OF the noxious weeds before they
mature their seed crops.
Railroads are required to operate at
least one passenger train and at least
one freight train each way every day
over every line of track they own or
operate in Kansas by a bill introduced
by Senator J. NJ. Davis Of Bourbon.
In case a railroad company can con.
vince the state utilities commission
that such separate passenger service
is not profitable, or can not be main.
tanned without loss, the commission
may permit the road to abolish the
separate passenger service, in which
case combination trains must be oper.
ated each way at least once daily.