MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.

The following message was read and received:

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 746, An act relating to automobiles, providing for registration thereof and the disposition of the fund so created.

Also, has granted the request of the Senate for a conference committee on Senate bill No. 118, and the speaker has appointed as conferees on part of the House Messrs. Amrine, Shideler, and Grabbe.

Also, has passed substitute for Senate bill No. 281, An act to define legislative counsel and agents; to regulate the employment and registration of legislative counsel and agents, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

The above bills are herewith transmitted.

C. H. BRILHART, Assistant Chief Clerk.

House bill No. 746 was read the first time.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS. The following bills were read the second time, and referred as follows:

Whole Senate:

Senate bill No. 585, An act concerning assessment and taxation, to confer on the trustee, clerk and treasurer of each township as a township board the power to levy taxes for township purposes and for road purposes, and to limit such power.

Senate bill No. 586, An act limiting the creation of indebtedness in counties, cities, school districts, by boards of education, and repealing section 1, chapter 39, Laws of 1874, chapter 113, Laws of 1893, section 4, chapter 196, Laws of 1891, chapter 132, Laws of 1883, chapter 42, Laws of 1903, special session, chapter 126, Laws of 1903, chapter 398, Laws of 1905, and chapter 128, Laws of 1907, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Senate bill No. 627, An act amending section 6458 of the General Statutes of 1901, and changing the time when the School Text-book Commission shall make contracts.

Substitute for Senate bill No. 356, An act relating to the issuance and countersigning of insurance policies and surety bonds.

Elections:

Senate bill No. 587, An act to authorize the creation of a tame-grass fund in townships, and prescribing the procedure. Judicial Apportionment:

Senate bill No. 588, An act relating to judicial districts, defining the boundaries of the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirtysixth judicial districts, and fixing the time for holding regular terms of the district court therein, and abolishing the tenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-s ́cɔnd,

twenty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-eighth judicial districts, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.

Education:

Senate bill No. 589, An act authorizing common school examinations, and providing for the issuing of common school diplomas of graduation, and defining the manner in which such diplomas shall be issued.

Senate bill No. 590, An act to amend chapter 341, section 1 and section 2, of the Session Laws of 1907, and chapter 424, section 5 and section 6, of the Session Laws of 1903.

Senate bill No. 634, An act providing for the maintenance of high schools, and amending section 1 of chapter 397 of the Session Laws of 1905, and repealing said section 1 and section 9 of said chapter.

Senate bill No. 591, An act to prohibit the dealing in futures in grain, stocks, bonds, securities, provisions and other commodities where actual sale and delivery thereof is not made and where such deals or trades are based upon a margin deposited with the condition expressed or understood that such deal or trade shall terminate when the margin so deposited shall become exhausted, without regard to the time the contract is to run, and to prohibit the buying or selling of privileges, commonly known as "puts" and "calls," and prohibit the keeping and maintaining of places for the purpose of transacting such business, and fixing penalties for violations of the provisions hereof.

Senate bill No. 593, An act authorizing newspapers located in cities situated in two or more counties in this state and having a general circulation in said counties to publish all notices required published by law, the same as if said newspaper was located in such county.

Senate bill No. 595, An act empowering subordinate lodges or organizations of any established fraternal, benevolent or beneficiary order or association to purchase, own and control real estate and stock in a corporation for the purposes herein provided, and to amend section 1 of chapter 164 of the Session Laws of 1899, being "An act empowering subordinate lodges or organizations of any established fraternal, benevolent or beneficiary order or association to purchase, own and control real estate for purposes and in the manner herein provided.

Senate bill No. 602, An act relating to certain mortgages, releases and assignments, and providing that suits to cancel the same shall be begun in six months from the taking effect of this act.

Senate bill No. 603, An act concerning the adoption of orphan, delinquent and dependent children.

Senate bill No. 604, An act relating to the organization of

corporations for the purpose of the protection, care and control of orphan, dependent and delinquent children.

Senate bill No. 610, An act validating the costs of food in the circuit court of Wyandotte county, Kansas, and providing for the collection and payment of the same.

Senate bill No. 611, An act relating to and providing for the lighting of public highways in counties exceeding 100,000 population.

Senate bill No. 612, An act amending section 28 of chapter 79, Session Laws of 1905, entitled "An act for the relief of the poor.'

Senate bill No. 613, An act relating to and providing for the improvement of certain highways connecting county roads with city streets in certain places, in counties exceeding 100,000 population.

Senate bill No. 614, An act pertaining to joinder of parties in cases brought to recover damages for death of person injured.

Senate bill No. 615, An act pertaining to joinder of parties in cases brought to recover damages for death or personal injuries.

Senate bill No. 616, An act to prevent discrimination in public utilities service.

Senate bill No. 617, An act amending section 11 of chapter 247 of the Laws of 1907.

Senate bill No. 618, An act to amend sections 3813 and 3815 of the General Statutes of 1901, and to provide for drawing additional jurors for court.

Senate bill No. 623, An act describing the crime of abortion, and prescribing punishment therefor, and repealing section 2029 of the General Statutes of 1901.

Senate bill No. 626, An act to amend section 3031 of the General Statutes of 1901, providing for fixing and regulating charges and fee of sheriffs.

Senate bill No. 629, An act giving to owners of stallions and jacks a lien on the mare and offspring for the value of the service, and providing for the filing and foreclosure of the lien.

Senate bill No. 630, An act to amend section 2188 of chapter 31, article 4, of the General Statutes of 1905, relating to removing, defacing or altering landmarks, and repealing original section 2188.

Senate bill No. 632, An act to amend chapter 215 of the Session Laws of 1905, concerning organization of drainage districts.

Senate bill No. 633, An act authorizing the Board of Control to assist in the formation of a drainage district, and making an appropriation therefor.

Senate bill No. 637, An act providing for the monthly payment of wages by railroad corporations, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Senate bill No. 638, An act concerning estates and proceedings in the probate court.

Senate bill No. 640, An act providing for the liability of insurance companies for fraud perpetrated by their agents.

Senate bill No. 642, An act prohibiting the selling of insurance premium notes prior to the delivery of the policy, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

State Affairs:

Senate bill No. 592, An act making an appropriation to aid in the erection and maintenance of a wireless telegraphy signal station for the use of the signal corps of the Kansas National Guard at Wellington, Kan.

Senate bill No. 601, An act to protect the American eagle, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof.

Senate bill No. 621, An act to fix the number of employees in the Kansas state Senate.

Ways and Means:

Senate bill No. 594, An act making an appropriation for the expenses of keeping up and maintaining the historic spot of Pawnee Rock.

Senate bill No. 600, An act relating to the hard-fiber twine plant of the Kansas State Penitentiary, at Lansing, and making an appropriation for the operation thereof.

Temperance and Hygiene:

Senate bill No. 596, An act relating to the public health, authorizing and empowering the State Board of Health to make and publish sanitary rules and regulations, and providing penalties for their violation.

Claims and Accounts:

Senate bill No. 597, An act making appropriation for the relief of John W. Ruark.

Railroads:

Senate bill No. 598, An act to prevent delays in transporting live stock by common carriers, and repealing all acts in conflict herewith.

Senate bill No. 624, An act requiring all railroad corporations, or receivers or lessees operating a line of railroad in the state of Kansas, in cities or towns having a population of 2000 or more, to keep a night telegraph operator in railroad depots in such cities or towns during the night-time, and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Cities of the Second Class:

Senate bill No. 599, An act providing for a deputy city clerk in cities of the second class, amending section 3 of chapter 99 of the Laws of Kansas for 1885, being paragraph 949 of the General Statutes of Kansas for 1901, and repealing said original

section 3.

Fees and Salaries:

Senate bill No. 605, An act fixing the salaries of the superintendents of the state hospitals for the isnane.

Senate bill No. 606, An act to amend section 21 of chapter 488 of the Session Laws of 1905, and repealing said original section.

Senate bill No. 607, An act to amend section 3028 of the General Statutes of 1901, pertaining to the salary of county superintendents.

Senate bill No. 609, An act repealing chapter 217 of the Session Laws of 1901, and chapter 214 of the Session Laws of 1901, so far as said chapter 214 applies to Wyandotte county, Kansas.

Cities of the First Class:

Senate bill No. 608, An act regulating the control and the management of fire departments in cities of the first class, providing for system therein, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.

Senate bill No. 631, An act relating to protection against fire in cities of the first class, authorizing the mayors and councils. or boards of commissioners of such cities to build, construct and maintain a high-pressure system of pumps, mains and pipes to supply water for that purpose, to create benefit districts therefor, and to provide for the payment of the cost and expense thereof.

Telegraphs and Telephones:

Senate bill No. 619, An act regulating the construction of electrical lines, electrical apparatus, and for the protection of life and safety, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

Senate bill No. 635, An act concerning the reception, transmission, transfer and delivery of telephone messages, regulating the charges therefor within this state, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.

Banks and Banking:

Senate bill No. 625, An act relating to state banks, and authorizing an extension of the charters thereof, and legalizing certain acts of said banks.

Oil and Gas:

Senate bill No. 628, An act regulating the consumption of natural gas, fixing the compensation to be paid therefor, and prescribing penalties for violations of the provisions hereof.

Insurance:

Senate bill No. 636, An act prohibiting the misrepresentation of the conditions and settlements contained in fire, life, casualty or other insurance contracts, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.