Senate bill No. 153, An act to regulate express compa

nies and prohibiting certain contracts.

Referred to Committee on Railroads.

Senate bill No. 154, An act to amend section 3087 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to partition fences. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 155, An act relating to the building and furnishing of a court-house at Kansas City.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class.

Senate bill No. 156, An act providing for a county assessor and deputy assessors in certain counties; prescribing their powers, duties, liabilities, and compensation; prohibiting the appointment of city assessors in such counties. and the assessment of property by them, and limiting the powers of township trustees and county clerks therein. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 157, Bill for the Industrial Home for the Blind of Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Penal Institutions.

Senate bill No. 158, An act relating to public parks, parkways and boulevards for cities of the first class having a population of 50,000 or more.

Senate bill No. 159, An act relating to and providing for the making of special improvements in cities of the first class having a population of over 50,000, and providing for the payment therefor and the procedure relating thereto.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class.

Senate bill No. 160, An act relating to the salary of the state superintendent of public instructions.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 161, An act to limit the amount of bonded indebtedness of cities of the first class having a population of 50,000 or more.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class.

Senate bill No. 162, An act changing the boundary line. between Marshall county and Washington county, Kansas. Senate bill No. 163, An act to amend section 2081, chap

ter 31, article 3, of the General Statutes of 1901, entitled "An act regulating crimes and punishments."

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 164, An act for the protection of trademarks.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 165, An act relating to the support of schools in cities of the second class, and to amend section 1 of chapter 149 of the Session Laws of 1886 and to repeal said section.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second and Third Class.

Senate bill No. 166, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 152 of the Session Laws of 1901, relating to the terms of court in the first judicial district of the state of Kansas. Referred to Committee on Judicial Apportionment.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEES.

The chair desires to announce at this time the following standing committees:

CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT: Senators Morehouse, Fullington, Crum, Branine, Peterson, Chaney, Carpenter, Findlay, Wright.

JUDICIAL APPORTIONMENT: Senators Allen, White, Smith, Pestana, Conrad, Hurrel, Sponable, Leidy, Caldwell.

APPOINTMENTS.

I hereby appoint Maxey Morehouse as clerk of Committee on Congressional Apportionment. GEO. P. MOREHOUSE, Chairman.

PRESENTATION OF PETITION.

Senator Porter introduced Senate petition No. 5, as folfols:

To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Kansas:

We respectfully ask the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Kansas that section 2069 of the Revised Statutes of 1901, providing what shall constitute grand larceny, should be amended so as to include all domestic fowls, wheat, oats, potatoes, cured, fresh or salt meats, or can goods of any description, lard or butter, and harness or saddles, without regard to the value thereof.

It has become the practice of what is known as "petty thieves" to steal just enough of the domestic fowls to be below the twenty

dollar mark, leaving it petty larceny instead of grand larceny, making their trips frequent, so that a law of this kind becomes a necessity. Signed by W. T. Hite and twenty-six others.

The petition was referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senator Buschow introduced Senate petition No. 6, as follows:

To the Senate of the Kansas State Legislature:

DEAR SIRS: In behalf of our Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the citizens of our town and county, I beg that you will not yield to the demand for resubmission of the prohibitory law of our beloved state. Our temperance union is probably the only one of the state that favored the election of the republican ticket, and that through my influence I urged that the republican party first gave Kansas her temperance law, that her officers are the ones who have enforced that law, and now that the republican party rules in Kansas it can forever settle this question.

I pray God that my confidence in you may not be misplaced. You dare not yield to the enemy, as you value the happiness of your children for generations yet unborn.

Sincerely yours, for God and home and every land,

MRS. EMMA NASON,

President W. C. T. U., Stockton, Kan.

The petition was referred to the Committee on Temperance.

Senator Porter introduced Senate petition No. 7, as fol

lows:

To the honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the state of Kansas, in Legislature assembled:

We, the undersigned, residents of Crawford county, Kansas, respectfully ask that section 2069 of Revised Statutes of 1901, providing what shall constitute grand larceny, should be amended so as to include all domestic fowls, wheat, oats, potatoes, cured, fresh or salt meat, or canned goods of any description, lard or butter, and harness or saddles, without regard to the value thereof. It has become the practice of what is known as petty thieves to steal just enough of the domestic fowls to be below the twenty-dollar mark, leaving it petty larceny instead of grand larceny, making their trips frequent, so that a law of this kind becomes a necessity; therefore, please urge the passage of this act.

Respectfully submitted by S. T. Bain and forty-five others.

The petition was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senator Wright introduced Senate concurrent resolution No. 17, as follows:

Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, the House concurring therein, That the secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the librarian of the State University, the State Agricultural College and the State Normal School one set each of the published volumes of the Kansas State Supreme Court Reports, and also to deliver all future volumes of said reports to the said institutions, from time to time, as they are published.

The resolution was laid over, under the rules.

On motion of Senator Sponable, the Senate adjourned until ten o'clock A. M. to-morrow morning.

NINTH DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

SENATE CHAMBER, TOPEKA, Kan.

January 27, 1903-10 o'clock A. M. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment; Lieut.-gov. D. J. Hanna in the chair.

The roll was called.

Present: Senators Allen, Branine, Buschow, Caldwell, Carpenter, Chaney, Codding, Conrad, Crum, Findlay, Fitzpatrick, Fulton, Gabriel, Henley, Householder, Hurrel, Kennedy, King, Leidy, McKnight, McMillan, Miller, Morehouse, Morrow, Noftzger, Pestana, Peterson, Porter, Simons, Smith, Sponable, Stewart, Tapp, Vincent, Ward, White, Wright, and Wulfekuhler.

Absent: Senators Cubbison and Fullington.

The invocation was offered by the chaplain.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Senator Allen: Senate bill No. 204, A bill to cover parole of convicted persons.

Also, Senate bill No. 205, An act repealing certain acts and parts of acts of the General Laws of Kansas for 1901. Also, Senate bill No. 206, An act creating a negotiableinstrument law.

Also, Senate bill No. 207, An act regulating the redemption of real estate sold under special execution or order of sale.

By Senator Carpenter: Senate bill No. 208, An act providing for annual reports of the superintendent of insurance, and repealing so much of chapter 293 of the Session Laws of 1901 as relates thereto.

By Senator Sponable: Senate bill No. 209, An act providing for the application of excess fees and deputy clerk. hire of certain officers of Johnson county, Kansas.