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. м., 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.

Senators voting in the negative were: Messrs. Armstrong, Benson, 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. Field, Hanna, Johnson, Shaffer, Sheldon, Stocks.

The amendment was not adopted.

A vote being taken on Senate concurrent resolution No. 7, the yeas and nays were demanded.

The question being, Shall the resolution be adopted? the roll was called with the following result: Yeas 26, nays 9; absent or not voting, 5.

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

Senators voting in the negative were: Messrs. Battey, Coleman, Fulton, Hessin, Lamb, Matthews, Morrow, Sterne, Wallack.

Senators absent or not voting were: Messrs. Fulton, Hanna, Johnson, Shaffer, Sheldon, Stocks.

A majority having voted in favor of the resolution, the resolution was adopted.

Senate resolution No. 47 was then read, and is as follows:

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, That the Senate, in the contest of Samuel A. Riggs, contestor, against Charles A. Smart, contestee, relating to the office of judge in the fourth judicial district, will, on the 25th day of February, 1897, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, meet in its chamber, and will then commence the hearing of such contest, and will continue the hearing thereafter from day to day, at the convenience of the Senate, until the hearing shall be completed; and be it further

Resolved, That certified copies of the notice filed by the contestor shall be served on Charles A. Smart, contestee, in person, if the same can be done, and if not, then by leaving a copy at his usual place of residence, and that the clerk of the Senate is hereby further directed to notify Charles A. Smart, contestee, that he is, on the 5th day of

February, 1897, required to attend in the Senate chamber to answer said contest; and be it further

Resolved, That Solon Gray, sergeant-at-arms, is hereby appointed the person to make such notice; and it is further

Resolved, That, for the purpose of expediting a hearing, a special contest committee is hereby appointed, consisting of three members to be designated by the president, whose duty it shall be, as an aid to the Senate, to canvass the ballots of such precincts in the fourth judicial district as may be suggested by either contestor or contestee, which are within the notice and answer, and shall report on the day named, with the ballots, their tallies or count of the vote of such precincts, of all clear votes about which there is no dispute, and shall also present all disputed ballots for the action of the Senate.

A majority having voted in favor of the resolution, the resolution was adopted.

Senator Cooke asked leave of absence until 4 o'clock P. M., Monday. Leave of absence was granted.

Senate resolution No. 49 was read and referred to the Committee on Employees.

Senate resolution No. 50 was then read, and laid over. By unanimous consent, Senator Helm offered a substitute for Senate resolution No. 37.

Senate resolution No. 37 was then read.

Substitute proposed for Senate resolution No. 37 was then read.

Senator Farrelly moved that Senate resolution No. 37 and the substitute therefor be laid over and printed. The motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent, Senator Jumper, chairman of the Committee on Correction and Approval of the Journal and the Committee on Fees, Salaries and Mileage, submitted the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Correction of the Journal, to whom was referred the Journal of January 27, 1897, recommend that on page 5, second line, the words, "of Representatives" be added after the word "House." On page 6, under the head of “Education and Educational Institutions,” fourth line, the word "therefor be inserted in place of "thereof." On page 16, fourth line, the word "motion" be inserted in place of "resolution."

H. G. JUMPER, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Fees and Salaries, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 292, An act regulating the fees and sal