attachment of wages, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed;

Also, Senate bill No. 221, An act to wholly exempt from seizure under any process whatever, the wages and pay of any laborer, mechanic, clerk, artisan, resident of the state of Kansas, and who is a married man or the head of a family, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed;

Also, Senate bill No. 267, An act to authorize trial courts to designate credible and learned persons in medicine, chemistry and surgery to make expert examinations on any pertinent subject in controversy, and making their report of such examination proper evidence to be received by the jury or court in civil cases, providing for the attendance of such experts upon criminal trial and allowing expert fees for such services as costs, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed;

Also, Senate bill No, 223, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 77 of the laws of 1891 in relation to civil procedure, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed;

Also, Senate bill No. 238, An act authorizing George Albert Davison, a minor, to exercise the rights of majority, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed. W. B. CROSSAN, Chairman.

Senator Zimmer, Chairman of Committee on Cities of the First Class, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Cities of the First Class, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 258, An act to authorize cities of the first class having a population of forty thousand (40,000) inhabitants and over, to provide and secure for the inhabitants thereof by purchase, gift, appropriation and condemnation, lands and property for public parks, parkways, streets, boulevards, and to possess, manage, improve and control the same, and provide for payment thereof, to enable park commissioners or corporate authorities, in conjunction with the board of county commissioners, to take, regulate, control and improve, public streets and highways, leading to and from public parks, and boulevards, and to pay for the improvement thereof, and providing for the making and collection of special assessments and special taxes on contiguous and abutting property of such highways, streets or boulevards, within or adjacent to the corporate limits of the said city, and authorizing such park commission to receive by gift, devise or conveyance land and property for the purposes declared in 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 referred to the Judiciary Committee;

Also, Senate bill No. 250, An act creating two city courts in Kan

sas City township, Wyandotte county, Kansas, and defining the jurisdiction thereof and the powers and duties of the officers thereof and limiting the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in said township, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed:

Also, Senate bille 251, An act relating to constables in Kansas City township, Wyandotte county, Kansas, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. H. T. ZIMMER, Chairman.

Senator Benson, chairman of Committee on Assessment and Taxation, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Assessment and Taxation, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 271, An act to provide for election of city assessors in cities of the first and second class, 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, Senate bill No. 111, An act providing for the levying of a county tax for the support of the common schools of the counties, and providing for the distribution of the money raised by said county tax, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. W. T. BENSON, Chairman.

Senator Lewelling, chairman of Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred Petition No. 4, Relating to election of city officers for city of Parsons, Kas., have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the petition back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be referred to Committee on Cities of Second Class. L. D. LEWELLING, Chairman.

Senator King, chairman of Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT Your Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 261, An act providing for the drainage of swamps and bottom or other low lands in Douglas county, 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, Senate bill No. 279, An act to provide for the control and maintenance of farmers' institutes, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, as it carries with it an appropriation. L. P. KING, Chairman.

Senator Lupfer, chairman of Committee on District Apportionment, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on District Apportionment, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 90, An act relating to judicial districts, defining the boundaries of the first and second judicial districts of the state of Kansas for holding terms of court therein, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with 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.

A. H. LUPFER, Chairman.

Senator Titus, chairman of Committee on Education and Educational Institutions, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Education and Educational Institutions, to whom was referred Senate resolution No. 11, relating to an appropriation to establish one or more state normal schools, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be made a special order for 3 o'clock P. M., Friday January 29;

Also, Senate bill No. 299, being entitled An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools, being chapter 92 of the general statutes of 1889," and repealing section 23 of said act, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed:

Also, Senate bill No. 257, being entitled An act to establish and permanently locate a state normal school at Norton, Kas., and making an appropriation therefor, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be referred to committee of the whole;

Also, Senate bill No. 207, An act to establish a high school in Mitchell county, Kansas, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed:

Also, Senate bill No. 237, An act relating to diplomas granted by the state normal school and by certain colleges and universities, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed;

Also, Senate bill No. 281, An act to locate, establish and maintain a state normal school at Stockton, Rooks county, and making an appropriation therefor, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be referred to committee of the whole. A. J. TITUS, Chairman.

Senator Cooke, Chairman of the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Printing, to whom was referred Senate resolution No. 51, directing that 500 copies of Senate

joint resolution No. 51 be printed, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the resolution back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

ANSON S. COOKE, Chairman.

Senator Young moved that the report of the committee. be adopted.

The motion prevailed.

CONSIDERATION OF MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 7 was then read, and is as follows:

WHEREAS, In the national campaign just closed the republicans from press and platform, declared the tariff laws of the United States alone responsible for the depressed condition of the business of the country and that a suitable tariff measure would immediately set in motion all the wheels in our idle factories, thus furnishing employment to our millions of laborers who want an opportunity to earn bread for themselves and families; and,

WHEREAS, The people of the United States, relying upon and believing these false statements, have elected William McKinley president of this great republic, fully expecting relief to come to the people through tariff legislation: and,

WHEREAS, The leaders of both gold-standard parties are now endeavoring, through so-called commercial and business men's clubs, to further contract the currency of the country by forcing the retiring of the United States legal-tender treasury notes and silver certificates and funding them into long-time interest-bearing bonds as a perpetual burden upon the industries of the people; and,

WHEREAS, The United States legal-tender notes are the safest and best currency that the people of the United States ever possessed, and are the best adapted to trade and commerce of any of the various forms of paper money: now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, the House concurring therein, That we hereby instruct our senators and representatives in the Congress of the United States to offer no factious opposition to any tariff measures proposed by republicans for the relief of the business distress of the people; but to oppose with manly firmness any and all efforts to contract the money volume of the country by retiring the United States treasury notes, or silver certificates, and oppose all measures of whatever form to increase the interest-bearing bonded debt of the United States in time of peace; and to use all honorable means to suppress all bank issues of currency, and substitute therefor full legal-tender treasury notes in sufficient amounts to meet the business wants of the people, and labor unceasingly for the opening of our mints to the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.

Senator Lamb offered, as a substitute for Senate concurrent resolution No. 7, the following:

WHEREAS, The question of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 was submitted to the American people for their decision at the ballot-box on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1896; and

WHEREAS, Said question was thoroughly and exhaustively discussed in every section of our country; and

WHEREAS, The verdict of the voters of this country have condemned said doctrines of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the most decisive majority that has been given against any measure since 1872: therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, the House concurring therein, That we bow to the will of the majority as expressed by the ballot and declare that, until an international agreement on this question can be secured, the present gold standard must be maintained.

The question being, Shall the substitute for Senate concurrent resolution No. 7 be adopted? the roll was called, with the following result: Yeas 9, nays 25; absent or not voting, 6.

Senators voting in favor of the substitute were: Messrs. Coleman, Fulton, Hessin, Lamb, Matthews, Morrow, Sterne, Stocks, Wallack.

Senators voting in the negative were: Messrs. Armstrong, Benson, Braddock, Caldwell, Campbell, Cooke, Crossan, Farrelly, Forney, Harris, Hart, Helm, Helmick, Householder, Jumper, King, Lewelling, Lupfer, Mosher, Pritchard, Reser, Ryan, Titus, Young, Zimmer.

Senators absent or not voting were: Messrs. Battey, Field, Hanna, Johnson, Shaffer, Sheldon.

The substitute was not adopted.

Senator Lamb offered the following amendment: Insert after the word "senators" the words, "and request our."

The yeas and nays were demanded on the amendment. The roll was called with the following result: Yeas 10, nays 24; absent or not voting, 6.

Senators voting in favor of the amendment were: Messrs. Battey, Braddock, Coleman, Fulton, Hessin, Lamb, Matthews, Morrow, Sterne, Wallack.