tion and conditional liberation, and repealing all acts and parts of act in conflict with this act.

By Senator Reser: Senate bill No. 137, An act to regulate the price of telegraph messages.

By Senator Braddock: Senate bill No. 138, An act providing that full credit shall be given for the payment of taxes upon mortgaged property in proportion to the ratio the mortgage holds to the assessed valuation of the mortgaged property.

By Senator Zimmer: Senate bill No. 139, An act fixing the compensation of judges and clerks of an election.

Also, Senate bill No. 140, An act relating to elections. and salaries of officers in cities of the first class having a population of 35,000 or over, as shown by the United States census of 1890, repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Also, Senate bill No. 141, An act relating to the meetings of the board of county commissioners in counties having more than 25,000 inhabitants, and also providing for the payment of all claims and accounts against the county, including claims for the salaries of the county officers.

Also, Senate bill No. 142, An act to remove the political disabilities of Simon B. Yeukey.

Also, Senate bill No. 143, An act relating to persons assuming names other than their lawful or real names, and providing a punishment therefor.

By Senator Benson: Senate bill No. 144, An act to change the boundaries of the city of El Dorado, to vacate a part of the town site of El Dorado, Butler county, Kansas. Also, Senate bill No. 145, An act to repeal poll taxes in the cities of this state.

By Senator Forney: Senate bill No. 146, An act to repeal paragraphs 3942, 3943, 3944, 3946, and 3947, being sections 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, of chapter 72, general statutes of 1889.

Also, Senate bill No. 147, An act limiting the power of counties, townships and cities to borrow money or create indebtedness.

Also, Senate bill No. 148, An act relating to sheriffs' and stenographers' fees, and amendatory of section 27 of chap

ter 109 of session laws of 1893, being an act entitled "An act to regulate the sale of real estate under execution, order of sale, or other judicial process, and providing for the redemption of such real estate from sale, and the terms thereof," and repealing said section 27 of said chapter 109.

By Senator Helm (by request of Women's Relief Corps): Senate bill No. 149, An act concerning the soldiers' reunion grounds at Ellsworth, Kas.

By Senator Field: Senate bill No. 150, An act relating to judicial districts, defining the boundary of the twentieth and twenty-fourth judicial districts, for holding the terms of court therein, and abolishing the ninth judicial district, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this

act.

By Senator Johnson: Senate bill No. 151, An act making appropriations for the current expenses for the university of Kansas, and for the erection and equipment of certain buildings for said university.

Also, Senate bill No. 152, An act relating to fire insurance in the state of Kansas.

By Senator Mosher: Senate bill No. 153, An act to establish and permanently locate a state normal school at Concordia, Kas., and making an appropriation therefor.

Also, Senate bill No. 154, An act for the purchase of the site of the ancient Pawnee village in Republic county, Kansas, and for the maintaining of a state park therein.

By Senator Sterne: Senate bill No. 155, An act for the protection of birds, and providing at what seasons game may be shot, to prohibit hunting on certain lands without the consent of owners, to prohibit the sale and shipment of game from the state, and prescribing a punishment for the violations of this act, and to repeal chapter 97 of the laws of 1893.

By Senator Caldwell: Senate bill No. 156, An act prohibiting the blacklisting of employees, and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Also, Senate bill No. 157, An act to prevent the discrimination of corporations and individuals against members of labor organizations, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.

By Senator Cooke: Senate bill No. 158, An act to prohibit and punish the giving, granting, sending, or issuing. or the acceptance and using within the state of Kansas, of any pass, frank, concession, deduction, reduction, accommodation, rebate, facility, or favor, not openly given the general public within the state, by any person, company or corporation engaged in the transportation of passengers, freight, or express matter, or engaged in the sending or delivery of messages by telegraph, telephone, or otherwise, except to officers or employees then upon the business of the employer furnishing the same, and regulating the rate charged for transportation of passengers, it being the object and purpose of this act to promote the enactment of laws just to the entire state, a fair administration of the great concerns of the state, and the protection of all classes and conditions of people and property within the state, and to give the entire public equal opportunities, with favoritism

to none.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

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

Corporations:

Senate bill No. 80, An act concerning the transmission and delivery of telegraphic messages, regulating the charges therefor between points within this state, and prescribing penalties for violating the provisions of this

act.

Senate bill No. 84, An act concerning private corporations.

Fees, Salaries, and Mileage:

Senate bill No. 73, An act regulating certain fees and compensation of county surveyors, and repealing section 11, chapter 89, of the laws of 1891, and amending the

same.

Senate bill No. 102, An act to amend section 5546 of the general statutes of 1889, and repealing said original section.

Senate bill No. 104, An act to amend paragraph 3442 of the general statutes of 1889, relating to mutual insurance companies, and repealing said paragraph.

Senate bill No. 107, An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act to establish the salaries of state officers and judges and officers of the legislature," being chapter 91. paragraphs 5535, 5536, 5537, 5538, 5539, 5540, 5541, 5542, 5543, 5544, 5545, 5546, 5547, 5548, 5549, 5550, and 5551, general statutes of 1889, and repealing the same. Judiciary:

Senate bill No. 66, An act empowering the county commissioners to lease any lands that may come into the possession of the county through delinquent tax sales.

Senate bill No. 67, An act to repeal article 14, chapter 99, general statutes of 1889, being paragraphs 6097, 6098, 6099, 6100, and 6101.

Senate bill No. 70, An act amending paragraph 2977, general statutes of 1889, respecting executors and administrators and the settlement of estate of deceased persons, and repealing said paragraph.

Senate bill No. 74, An act to amend chapter 31, article 9, paragraph 2453, section 313, general statutes of 1889, and to repeal said paragraph 2453.

Senate bill No. 75, An act to amend and repeal paragraph 7085, being section 23, general statutes of 1889.

Senate bill No. 82, An act amendatory to paragraph 4749 of the general statutes of 1889, the same being 639 of the code of civil procedure, and relating to procedure and evidence in divorce cases.

Senate bill No. 85, An act relating to deeds of trust and providing for sales and conveyance thereunder by the trustee without foreclosure by judicial proceedings, the release of the deed of trust of record, fixing fees, the redemption of the property sold, and making the deed of the trustee prima facie evidence.

Senate bill No. 87, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 120 of the laws of 1879, entitled "An act relating to taxation in Leavenworth county."

Senate bill No. 89, An act concerning contingent estates and estates in remainder.

Senate bill No. 93, An act amendatory to section 4589

of the general statutes of 1889, and to repeal said original section.

Senate bill No. 94, An act to establish the measure of damages for the value of timber, orchards, fences or buildings or other structures destroyed or injured.

Senate bill No. 95, An act changing the name of Seth Howard Carson to Seth Howard Nation.

Senate bill No. 108, An act regulating certain promissory notes, regarding the statement to be made upon the face of said notes, showing for what article or articles, services, or values, said notes were given, and making the notes payable in the county in which the maker thereof resides, and prescribing certain penalties

Senate bill No. 109, An act to amend section 55 of an act entitled "An act to establish a code of civil procedure." paragraph 4134 of the general statues of 1889, and repealing said paragraph 4134.

Senate bill No. 112, An act to protect employees and laborers in their claims for wages.

Municipal Indebtedness:

Senate bill No. 65, An act limiting the powers of counties, townships and cities to borrow money to create indebtedness.

Cities of the First and Second Class:

Senate bill No. 96, An act vacating parts of Hill's addition to the city of McPherson, McPherson county, Kansas.

Public Buildings:

Senate bill No. 114, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Miami county, Kansas, to erect a county building for a court-house and county office building at Paola, Kas., and to equip and furnish said building, and to levy taxes to pay the expenses of erecting, equipping and furnishing said building.

Assessment and Taxation:

Senate bill No. 83, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Franklin county, Kansas, to ap propriate money to build a certain bridge in said county.