SEVENTEENTH DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

SENATE CHAMBER,

Topeka, Kas., February 3, 1897-10 o'clock A. M. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment; the president in the chair.

The roll was called; all the senators present.

Prayer by the chaplain.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

The following bills were introduced, and read the first time:

By Senator Farrelly: Senate bill No. 379, An act to enable incorporated cities to grant franchises for the purpose of supplying such cities and their inhabitants with natural gas, and to prescribe rules and regulations in relation thereto.

By Senator Ryan: Senate bill No. 380, An act to establish and permanently locate a state normal school at the city of Pittsburg, Crawford county, Kansas.

By Senator Fulton: Senate bill No. 381, An act to amend "An act amendatory of and supplemental to chapter 128 of the session laws of 1881, being an act entitled 'An act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes and to regulate the manufacture and sale thereof for such excepted purposes,' and to repeal certain sections of chapter 149 of the session laws of 1893."

By Senator Caldwell: Senate bill No. 382, An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Anderson county to sell and convey certain real estate heretofore purchased by said county from first national bank of Garnett.

By Senator Campbell: Senate bill No. 383, An act to

amend section 4766, of the general statutes of 1839, being in relation to the action of quo warranto.

By Senator Helm: Senate bill No. 384, An act authorizing and empowering the county commissioners of Lincoln county, Kansas, to invest the county railroad sinking funds, or any county sinking funds, in school district, township state or United States bonds, and declaring an emergency

Also, Senate bill No. 385, An act regulating the fees and salaries of the county treasurer, county clerk, register of deeds. sheriff, county attorney and clerk of the district court of Ellsworth county, Kansas.

By Senator Sterne: Senate bill No. 386, An act to amend an act entitled "An act fixing the terms of court in the third judicial district, and authorizing the judge of said district court to appoint a stenographer therein and fixing his compensation," being chapter 111 of the laws of 1885.

By Senator Young: Senate bill No. 387, An act to establish a county high school in Montgomery county, Kansas.

By the Ways and Means Committee: Senate bill No. 388, An act for the appropriation of interest received from the permanent school fund of the Kansas state agricultural college.

Also, Senate bill No. 389, An act to provide for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the state of Kansas held by individuals and corporations, due July 1, 1897, and July 1, 1898.

By Senator Fulton: Senate bill No. 390, An act regulating the inspection and sale of oils for illuminating and heating purposes in the state of Kansas.

By Senator Crossan (by request): Senate bill No. 391, An act to amend section 5 of an act entitled “An act concerning appellate courts, defining their jurisdiction and proceedings therein," which took effect February 27, 1895, and repealing said original section 5.

Also (by request ). Senate bill No. 392. An act to amend original sections 3, 4, 5 and 17 of chapter 96 of the session laws of 1895, of an act entitled "An act concerning appel

late courts, defining their jurisdiction and proceedings therein," and repealing said original sections.

Senator Helm moved an emergency be declared, the rules be suspended, and Senate bill No. 384 be read the second time now and referred to the proper committee.

The motion prevailed, and the bill was read the second time as follows:

By Senator Helm: Senate bill No. 384. An act authorizing and empowering the county commissioners of Lincoln county, Kansas, to invest the county railroad sinking funds or any county sinking funds, in school district, township, state or United States bonds, and declaring an emergency.

The bill was referred to Committee on Municipal Indebtedness.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

The following bills were read the second time, and referred to the proper committees, as indicated:

Fees, Salaries, and Mileage:

Senate bill No. 373, An act fixing the fees and salaries of the county officers of Shawnee county, Kansas, prescribing their duties and providing penalties for the violation hereof.

Judiciary:

Senate bill No. 371, An act to disorganize certain townships in Stevens county, Kansas, and to attach the territory thereof to certain townships herein named in said Stevens county.

Also, Senate bill No. 375, An act authorizing Lennil J. Wilson, a minor, to exercise the rights of majority.

Also, Senate bill No. 378, An act to facilitate the sale of real estate in the state of Kansas by providing for the enforcement of contracts for such sale and the collection of purchase-money.

State Affairs:

Senate bill No. 376, An act to regulate the practice of the barbers' profession and punish violators thereof.

Cities of the Second and Third Class:

Senate bill No. 377, An act to vacate certain lots, blocks, streets, alleys and public grounds in the military addition in the city of Salina, Saline county, Kansas, and to exclude the same from the limits of said city, and to make the same a part of Smoky Hill township in said county and state.

CONSIDERATION OF MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Senator Helm, chairman of the Committee on State Affairs, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on State Affairs, to whom was referred House concurrent resolution No. 9, Relating to the appointment of commissioners of elections, coal-oil inspector, forestry commissioner, etc., have had thes ame under consideration, and instruct me to report the resolution back to the Senate with the recommendation that they do not concur therein.

W. B. HELM, Chairman.

House concurrent resolution No. 9 was then read, and is as follows:

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein, That the governor be requested not to appoint any commissioner of elections, coal-oil inspector, forestry commissioner, silk commissioner and state board of irrigation until this legislature pass upon the abolishing the above offices.

A vote being taken, the resolution was nonconcurred in.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

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

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 98, An act to regulate the live stock commission business at public stock yards in the state of Kansas, and provide penalties for its violation, 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, because the same subject matter is contained in Senate bill No. 91, reported for passage.

Also, Senate bills Nos. 113 and 99, Acts to define and regulate the charges of public stock yards and public stock yards operators, and prescribing penalties for violations thereof, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report back to the Senate the following substitute and recommend that it be passed.

L. P. KING, Chairman.

The sergeant-at-arms announced a message from the House of Representatives, by its chief clerk.

The chief clerk of the House of Representatives submitted a message.

Senator Crossan, Chairman of Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 195, An act regulating the recording of instruments conveying real estate, and amendatory of section 21 of chapter 22 of the general statutes of 1868, printed as paragraph 1130 of the general statutes of 1889, 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;

Also, Senate bill No. 79, An act to empower the city council of the city of Topeka, to transfer the money now in the city treasury, for prospecting for coal to the general revenue fund, 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. 252, An act to amend paragraph 5074 of the general statutes of 1889, and repealing said paragraph, 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. 253, An act to amend paragraph 6078 of the general statutes of 1889, 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. 274, An act to indemnify the state of Kansas from loss by the misdemeanors or prosecution and punishment of children imported into the state by persons or corporations from without the state, and to provide for placing the children in the state institutions into carefully selected family homes, 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.

Also, Senate bill No. 256, An act to prevent abandonment, pauperism, and abuse of children, 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.

Also, Senate bill No. 359, An act to legalize sales and disposition of real property of minors in Ellsworth county, Kansas, 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.

Also, Senate bill No. 214, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Ellsworth county, Kansas, to refund certain taxes, 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. W. B. CROSSAN, Chairman.