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in, and prescribing and fixing penalties for the violation of this act.

By Senator Hamilton: Senate bill No. 66, An act relating to the testimony of witnesses.

Also, Senate bill No. 67, An act to amend section 5651 of the General Statutes of Kansas, 1901, relating to witnesses in criminal cases.

Senator Quincy moved that an emergency be declared and the rules suspended, and that Senate bill No. 65 be advanced to second reading, which motion prevailed. The bill was thereupon read the second time.

Senator Avery moved that an emergency be declared and the rules suspended, and that Senate bill No. 51 be advanced to second reading, which motion prevailed. The bill was thereupon read the second time.

The president announced the following standing committees:

AGRICULTURAL.-Senator Smith, chairman; Senators Bender, Fowler, Avery, Murphy, Fagerberg, and Moore.

BANKS AND BANKING.-Senator Cambern, chairman; Senators Chapman, Quincy, Lower, Potter, Price, Brown, Hunter, and Hamilton.

CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS.-Senator Hamilton, chairman; Senators Stewart, Stillings, Porter, Overfield, Bender, Myers, Milton, and Anderson.

CITIES SECOND AND THIRD CLASS.-Senator Quincy, chairman; Senators Brady, Stannard, Ganse, Murphy, Carey, Travis, Avery, and Rob

ertson.

CLAIMS AND ACCOUNTS. Senator Stewart, chairman; Senators Quincy, Stillings, Avery, and Hodges.

CORPORATIONS.-Senator Reed, chairman; Senators Brady, Carey, Murphy, Avery, Stannard, and Cooke.

INSURANCE.-Senator Chapman, chairman; Senators, Leidy, Milligan, Travis, and Overfield.

CONGRESSIONAL AND JUDICIAL APPORTIONMENT.-Senator Myers, chairman; Senators Hostrup, Smith, Avery, Denton, Murphy, Stillings, Brady, and Cooke.

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.-Senator Lower, chairman; Senators Stillings, Bender, Hostrup, Avery, Stannard, and Cooke.

PRINTING. Senator Brady, chairman; Senators Leidy, Stannard, Brown, and Myers.

PENAL INSTITUTIONS.-Senator Ganse, chairman; Senators Stillings, Carey, Milligan, Lower, Murphy, and Anderson.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Senator Stillings, chairman; Senators Stannard, Smith, Hostrup, and Moore.

ROADS AND BRIDGES.—Senator Fagerberg, chairman; Senators Avery, Stannard, Stewart, and Brady.

MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.-Senator Travis, chairman; Senators Stewart, Porter, Overfield, and Hostrup.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS. The following bills and resolutions were read the second time, and referred to committees as indicated.

Judiciary:

Senate bill No. 1, An act providing for the leasing of schoolland.

Senate bill No. 2, An act relating to improvements on schoollands, and providing for the collection of rent for such land.

Senate bill No. 5, An act relating to landlords and tenants, and amending section 27, chapter 55, of the General Statutes of 1868.

Senate bill No. 7, An act amending section 50, chapter 25, of the General Statutes of 1868, relating to the duties of county clerk.

Senate bill No. 8, An act extending the provision of chapter 285 of the Laws of 1907.

Senate bill No. 9, An act amending section 1, chapter 10, of the Laws of 1891, relating to the duties of county treasurer. Senate bill No. 13, An act providing for a juvenile court. Senate bill No. 16, An act relating to the conveyance of real estate.

Senate bill No. 17, An act providing that in all cases in courts of record three-fourths of a jury may render a verdict, and repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

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Senate bill No. 18, An act providing for the consideration, comparatively, of negligence and contributory negligence in damage cases, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Senate bill No. 19, An act providing for the filing in probate court by claimant against estate of security for costs by bond, cash deposit, or in lieu thereof of affidavit, and providing for punishment for making false affidavit.

Senate bill No. 20, An act providing for certain procedure in civil cases, where witness refuses or fails, through fault of adverse party, to give depositions as provided by law.

Senate bill No. 21, An act to provide for evidence of the existence of public highways in counties where the road records have been lost or destroyed.

Senate bill No. 23, An act providing a remedy for holders of tax deeds and their grantees by suit to quiet title, and providing for the recovery of liens against the real estate described in such deeds by the plaintiffs in such actions.

Senate bill No. 24, An act relating to taxation, providing for the compromise and assignment of tax-sale certificates upon lands bid in by any county in this state, for the foreclosure of tax-sale certificates by the holders thereof, and repealing paragraphs 7672 and 7673 of 'the General Statutes of 1901.

Senate bill No. 25, An act relating to school-lands, providing for the issuance of patents therefor, the effect to be given to certificates of purchase thereof, the time within which actions are to be brought by the state to set aside such certificates of purchase and patents, and legalizing certain sales heretofore made of such lands.

Senate bill No. 28, An act allowing school districts to issue bonds to pay outstanding warrants.

Senate bill No. 30, An act providing for a conference of judges.

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Senate bill No. 31, An act for the regulation and control of public utilities.

Senate bill No. 32, An act to establish the public-service commission, and prescribing its powers and duties.

Senate bill No. 36, An act regulating the rate of interest upon money, prohibiting usury, and providing penalties therefor, and repealing sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of chapter 164 of the Session Laws of 1889.

Senate bill No. 41, An act requiring the justices of the supreme court of Kansas to examine the record in causes before them on appeal or error, and prohibiting the justices of the supreme court from requiring an abstract of the record to be furnished, and repealing section 3 of chapter 278 of the Session Laws of Kansas of 1901.

Senate bill No. 47, An act to change the names of Carrie Eleanor Smead and Paul Leicester Smead.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 2, Relating to the submission of a proposition to amend section 5 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas, relating to trial by jury.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 3, Relating to the submission of a proposition to amend section 8 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas, relating to finance and taxation.

House concurrent resolution No. 5, Relating to recommendations of governor's message.

Elections:

Senate bill No. 4, An act amending chapter 54, relating to primary elections.

Senate bill No. 6, An act relating to the printing and distribution of primary and general election ballots, and amending chapter 229 of the Laws of 1903.

Fees, Salaries and Mileage:

Senate bill No. 10, An act to repeal chapter 270 of the Session Laws of 1903, entitled "An act creating and fixing the salaries of the under-sheriffs of Jefferson and Jackson counties, in the state of Kansas."

Senate bill No. 37, An act providing for a chief clerk to the State Board of Health, and fixing the salary therefor.

Roads and Bridges:

Senate bill No. 11, An act providing for the improvement of country roads in the state of Kansas.

Senate bill No. 46, An act relating to roads and highways, and repealing chapter 289 of the Session Laws of Kansas, 1907.

Insurance:

Senate bill No. 12, An act relating to fire insurance companies, prohibiting agreements and combinations to establish uniformity of rates, and providing penalties for violation thereof.

Railroads:

Senate bill No. 14, An act concerning railroads, amending and repealing certain sections.

Senate bill No. 33, An act requiring all railway corporations or receivers or lessees operating a line of railway in the state of Kansas to equip its locomotive engines with electric or other headlights of not less than 1500 candle-power, measured without the aid of a reflector, and providing a penalty for the violation of this act.

Senate bill No. 45, An act to amend paragraph 1317, General Statutes 1889, entitled "An act to compel railroad companies to fence their road by and through the land enclosed with a lawful fence, and repealing chapter 168, Laws of 1897, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Cities of Second and Third Class:

Senate bill No. 15, An act providing for depositories in cities of the second class.

Temperance and Hygiene:

Senate bill No. 26, An act to regulate and define the practice of optometry.

Education:

Senate bill No. 27, An act creating a board of examiners, and regulating teaching in business colleges, and providing for a penalty for same.

Senate bill No. 35, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 380 of the Session Laws of 1905, entitled "An act relating to annual school meetings."

Banks and Banking:

Senate bill No. 34, An act relating to banks and banking.

Ways and Means:

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Senate bill No. 38, An act making appropriations to the State Agricultural College to restore endowment and interest lost in compromising Anthony, Harper county, railroad bonds. Senate bill No. 39, An act making appropriations to the Kansas State Agricultural College for the erection and equipment of certain buildings, equipment for certain purposes, purchase of land and athletic field, construction of cement walks, experiment station, farmers' and state institutes, and current expenses, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, and June 30, 1911.

Senate bill No. 40, An act making appropriations for the Fort Hays Branch Experiment Station of the Kansas State Agricultural College, on the Fort Hays military reservation.

State Affairs:

Senate bill No. 42, An act to amend section 3 of chapter 471 of the Session Laws of 1905.

Senate bill No. 43, An act authorizing secretary of Historical Society to compile and publish governors' messages and state papers, and providing for the distribution and sale of same.

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Live Stock:

Senate bill No. 44, An act to provide for a tax upon dogs, and to create a fund for the payment of certain damages for sheep killed or wounded by them, in certain cases.

INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTIONS.

Seantor Stewart introduced Senate resolution No. 14, which follows:

Resolved, That the sergeant-at-arms is hereby authorized to have printed for daily use of the Senate and House 300 copies of the Senate Calendar and 300 copies of each bill ordered to be printed, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.

The resolution was thereupon read, and referred by the chair to the Committee on Printing.

Senate resolution No. 15, which follows, was introduced by Senator Glenn:

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, That the Committee on elections be and is hereby authorized and empowered to hear and report upon all election contests now pending or that may be brought hefore the Senate, to call witnesses to appear before it, and to procure such evidence as may be needed or called for. The chairman of the committee is authorized to issue and sign subpoenas for witnesses and to swear witnesses who may testify on any such hearing.

Said committee is authorized to appoint. a sergeant-at-arms, when the services of such officer are required, and such clerks and stenographers as may be necessary in the proper conduct of the hearing of any contest. Such sergeant-at-arms shall qualify by taking the oath of the office, and shall thereafter be vested with the powers of the sergeant-atarms of this Senate.

After the hearing of any election contest, said committee shall report its finding of facts and conclusions of law thereon to the Senate.

Senator Brewster moved to amend the resolution by inserting, after the words "the hearing of any contest," this sentence: "such sergeant-at-arms, clerks and stenographers to be selected from the regular list of Senate employees," which amendment was adopted. The resolution was then adopted as amended.

Senate resolution No. 16, which follows, was introduced by Senator Avery:

Resolved, That the secretary be instructed to procure a complete roster and city addresses, with telephone numbers, of all the members of this body, and have at least 500 copies of the same printed and ready for distribution for Monday's session.

The resolution was read and referred to the Committee on Printing.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 4, Relating to a proposition to submit to a vote of the people the question of amending the constitution of the state to provide for equal suffrage, was introduced by Senator Anderson, by request, and was thereupon read the first time.

Senator Chapman, on the part of the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report and moved its adoption:

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