Senate bill No. 639, An act providing the time when policies of insurance shall be in force and effect.

Senate bill No. 641, An act amending section 1 of chapter 275 of the Laws of 1905.

Senate bill No. 643, An act prohibiting the selling of stock and the offering of special inducements in connection with the selling of life insurance policies, and providing penalties therefor.

Senator Brady moved that House bill No. 751, An act relating to roads and highways; creating the office of county engineer of highways and bridges, and amending sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 of chapter 362 of the Session Laws of 1905, entitled "An act relating to public highways," and amending section 2 of chapter 289 of the Session Laws of 1907, being an act to provide for improving the public highways by use of the road drag, and repealing the original sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 of chapter 362 of the Session Laws of 1905, and section 2 of chapter 289 and chapter 292 and chapter 294 of the Session Laws of 1907, and section 6033 of the General Statutes of 1901, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, be referred to the committee of the whole Senate, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 428 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 464 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 515, be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent. Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 520 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 521 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent. Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 535 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 585 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stavely moved that the rules

be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 586 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Leidy moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 98 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Stewart moved that the rules be suspended, and that House bill No. 250 be placed on third reading, subject to amendment and debate, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Brady moved that the rules be suspended, and that House bill No. 751 be made a special order for 10:30 A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Chapman moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate bill No. 538 be made a special order for three P. M., February 20, 1909, which motion prevailed.

Senator Stavely moved that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet at ten A. M., February 18, 1909, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Glenn moved that House concurrent resolution No. 21, Relating to United States pension agencies, be adopted, which motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Glenn moved that Senate concurrent resolution No. 20, Relating to amendment to appropriation bill for agriculture, be adopted, which motion prevailed.

The chair announced the following committee assignments for Senator Caldwell: Ways and Means, Labor, Public Buildings, Engrossed Bills, and Agriculture.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 166, An act in regard to the state public park on the Fort Hays, Kan., reservation, etc., have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed. CHAS. S. HUFFMAN, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bills Nos. 176, 247, 358, 427 and 11, have compared the engrossed copies with the original bills, and instruct me to report the bills back to the Senate correctly engrossed. R. T. FOWLER, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Manufacturing and Industrial Pursuits, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 622, An act for the appointment of a state inspector of salt; deputy inspectors and local inspectors; to provide for the inspection, sale and use of salt and all byproducts of salt used for manufacturing or domestic purposes, and for the collection of fees therefor for the payment of salaries and cash expenses to such officers, and for the deposit of balances of such fees in the state treasury, and for the regulation of receipts and inspection of said salt, and providing penalties for the violation thereof, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. FRANK L. TRAVIS, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Roads and Bridges, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 584, An act providing for the cutting of weeds and for the trimming of hedge fences along and upon public highways, and providing a penalty for the violation of this act, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed.

OSCAR FAGERBERG, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 384, An act relating to farmers' institutes, and repealing chapter 238 of Session Laws of 1903, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. A. F. SMITH, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Printing, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 471, An act authorizing the board of regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College to provide for certain printing and binding, and making appropriation therefor, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. J. L. BRADY, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 502, An act relating to admission to the State Soldiers' Home, and amending section 7017 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1901, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, House bill No. 202, An act providing for the removal and care of the remains of deceased ex-soldiers of the Civil War of 1861-1865, also ex-soldiers of the Spanish-American war, and members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, and recommend that it be passed.

D. M. BENDER, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your special committee on anti-lobby legislation, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 188, An act to define and classify lobbyists and lobbying, to regulate the employment and registration of legislative lobbyists, to provide for the filing by lobbyists of a verified statement of expenses and obligations, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed, the committee having drawn a new bill, Senate bill No. 281, covering the same subject-matter.

Also, House bill No. 246, An act to define and classify lobbyists and lobbying, to regulate the employment and registration of legislative lobbyists, to provide for the filing by lobbyists of a verified statement of expenses and obligations, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and recommend that it be not passed, the committee having drawn a new bill, Senate bill No. 281, covering the same subjectmatter. J. T. REED, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 29, An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act amending section 1 of chapter 132 of the Laws of 1883, providing for the issuance of school-district bonds," approved March 7, 1883, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be amended as follows and passed: In section 1 strike out the word "two" and substitute therefor the word "one." Strike out the words "board of directors" wherever they appear in the bill, and substitute therefor the words "district board.”

Also, Senate bill No. 133, An act to amend and repeal section 84 of chapter 25 of the General Statutes of 1868, being paragraph 1725 of the General Statutes of 1901, and to prescribe certain qualifications of probate judges, and recommend that it be amended by striking out "15,000" and inserting "6000," and passed as amended.

Also, 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, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 175, An act relative to and providing for the disposition of lands wrongfully reclaimed from the channels of navigable streams, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 245, An act to prevent drinking of intoxicating liquors on passenger-trains in this state, to authorize conductors to make arrests therefor, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 450, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 141 of the Session Laws of 1907, concerning the erection of county buildings, and recommend that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 101, An act concerning the organization, powers and jurisdiction of a county court in each county, and limiting the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in all county-seats and in all townships in which county-seats are located, and recommend that the following bill be substituted and passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 465, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of counties having a population of not less than 12,000 nor more than 14,500 inhabitants to pay for the services of any member of the board of county commissioners for labor performed in superintending the building of court-houses, and recommend that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 397, An act exempting from taxation certain property belonging to Union soldiers, sailors and marines, and the widows of such soldiers, sailors and marines, and recommend that it be not passed. Also, House bill No. 326, An act to deter certain suits in courts outside of Kansas against residents of Kansas in certain cases, and providing for the recovery of damages, and recommend that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 461, An act to amend paragraph 2603 of the General Statutes for 1901, and recommend that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 336, An act creating county courts in certain counties, defining the jurisdiction thereof, and providing for the procedure therein and the officers thereof, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 479, An act regulating the assignment or transfer of wages to be earned in the future, and recommend that it be passed. Also, Senate bill No. 138, An act prohibiting the use of automatic tools in certain cases, and providing penalties for the violation thereof, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, House bill No. 84, An act to prevent the drinking of intoxicating liquors on passenger-trains in this state, to authorize conductors to make arrests therefor, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and recommend that it be amended by inserting the word "publicly" after "to," in the first line of section 1, and passed.

Also, House bill No. 314, An act relative to and providing for the disposition of lands wrongfully reclaimed from the channels of navigable streams, and recommend that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 202, An act providing for land registration, and recommend that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 238, An act amending section 4009 of the General Statutes of 1901, and repealing said original section, and recommend that it be passed. FRANCIS C. PRICE, Chairman.

Substitute for Senate bill No. 101 was read the first time.

THIRD READING OF BILLS.

Senate bill No. 421, An act amending section 11, chapter 488, of Session Laws of Kansas of 1905, and repealing said original section, was read the third time.

Senator Price moved that the bill be amended by striking out all after the words "section 11," in line 3, section 1, down to and including the word "dollars," in lines 9 and 10 of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "That the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars; provided, that when any secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall have continuously held such office for a period of fourteen or more years, he shall thereupon receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars," which motion prevailed.

Senator Hodges moved that the bill be amended by striking out the words "sixteen hundred," in line 11, section 1, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "two thousand," which motion prevailed.

The question being, Shall the bill pass as amended? the roll was called, with the following result: Yeas 29, nays 7; absent or not voting, 4.

Senators voting in favor of the passage of the bill were: Avery, Bender, Brady, Brown, Cambern, Carey, Chapman, Cooke, Fagerberg, Fowler, Ganse, Glenn, Hamilton, Hostrup, Huffman, Hunter, Leidy, Lower, Milligan, Overfield, Porter, Potter, Price, Quincy, Reed, Smith, Stannard, Stewart, and Travis.

Senators voting in the negative were: Brewster, Denton, Hodges, Murphy, Myers, Robertson, and Stavely.

Senators absent or not voting were: Anderson, Caldwell, Milton, and Stillings.

A constitutional majority having voted in favor of the passage of the bill, the bill passed as amended, and the title was agreed to.

Senate bill No. 382, An act concerning assessment and taxation, and amending sections 9, 29, 30, 31, 77, 80, 87, of chapter 34, Laws of 1876, and amending section 1, chapter 40, Laws of 1877, and amending also sections 34, 37 and 38 of chapter 408, Laws of 1907, and repealing original sections 9, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 77, 80 and 87 of chapter 34, Laws of 1876, and repealing original section 1, chapter 40, Laws of 1877, and repealing also sections 34, 37 and 38 of chapter 408, Laws of 1907, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this chapter, was read the third time, and the question being, Shall the bill pass? the roll was called, with the following result: Yeas 35, nays 0; absent or not voting, 5.

Senators voting in favor of the passage of the bill were: Avery, Bender, Brady, Brewster, Brown, Caldwell, Cambern, Carey, Chapman, Cooke, Denton, Fagerberg, Fowler, Ganse, Glenn, Hamilton, Hodges, Hostrup, Hunter, Leidy, Milligan,

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