Senate bill No. 237, An act authorizing the State Schoolfund Commissioners to purchase refunding bonds to be issued by the city of Le Roy, Coffey county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 238, An act providing for the drainage of swamps, bottom or other low lands in Coffey county. Referred to Committee on Roads and Bridges.

Senate bill No. 239, An act to erect and maintain certain dams across the Kansas river and the right of way over a certain strip of land over and across the Insane Asylum grounds in Shawnee county.

Senate bill No. 240, An act providing for the payment of certain union military scrip held by F. O. Black.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 241, An act to amend sections 2 and 3 of chapter 11 of the General Statutes of Kansas, 1868, the same being an act relating to attorneys at law, and to repeal original sections 2 and 3 of said act.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 242, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 147 of the Session Laws of 1886, entitled "An act to authorize the establishment and maintenance of county high schools," and repealing section 2 of the Session Laws of 1886.

Referred to Committee on Educational Institutions.

Senate bill No. 243, An act to amend section 15, chapter 31, General Statutes of 1868, being paragraph 2000, General Statutes of 1901, relating to the crime of manslaughter. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 244, An act in relation to the giving of bonds by public officers.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 245, An act to vacate certain streets and alleys in Gem addition and Hutchison addition to the city of Lyons, Rice county, Kansas, and to exclude the land bounded by said vacated streets from the limit of said city.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second Class. Senate bill No. 246, An act permitting J. H. Constable, of Ludell, Rawlins county, Kansas, to avail himself of the

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provisions of section 2, chapter 174, of the Laws of 1887, being section 6681 of the General Statutes of 1901.

Senate bill No. 247, An act to enable Hodgeman county to drill wells for gas, coal, and oil, and to provide for the control and disposition of the same and to issue bonds therefor.

Senate bill No 248, An act providing for the payment of the expenses of the per diem of non-resident witnesses who shall attend on behalf of plaintiff in the trial of criminal action.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 249, An act providing for the appointment of an attorney or attorneys by courts or judges thereof or examining magistrates to assist county attorneys in the prosecution of certain actions wherein the state of Kansas is a party, and to regulate and fix the pay for such attorney or attorneys by the county interested in the prosecution.

Senate bill No. 250, An act to amend section 50 of an act entitled "An act to incorporate cities of the second class and to repeal former acts."

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second Class.

Senate bill No. 251, An act making an appropriation for the Industrial School and Hygienic Home for Friendless Persons, of Hillsboro, Marion county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 252, An act to repeal section 7 of chapter 77 of the Session Laws of 1893, being section 2734 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to filing of statements of expense by candidates for public offices.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 253, An act creating a State Fair Association and providing for its location, establishment, and operation, and appropriating funds for its maintenance. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Fees, Salaries, and Mileage, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 189, An act relating to fees and salaries of clerk of the district court, sheriff and probate judge of Kiowa 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 passed. HAYS B. WHITE, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Fees, Salaries, and Mileage, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 104, An act relating to the fees of county attorneys in suits brought upon forfeited recognizances, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it passed. HAYS B. WHITE, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Fees, Salaries, and Mileage, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 175, An act regulating the salary of the coroner of Sedgwick county, Kansas, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that section 2 be amended to read as follows: "This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book." And passed as amended. HAYS B. WHITE, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Insurance, to whom was referred Senate concurrent resolution No. 14, beg leave to submit the following report: Mr. Galen Nichols, county attorney of Shawnee county, Kansas, appeared before the committee and showed that the suit in question was continued upon the suggestion of the trial court, for the reason that a suit was then pending in the supreme court of Kansas involving the validity of the law under which such suit was brought, and it was deemed advisable that the suit in question should be continued until after a determination of said case in said supreme court; that said supreme court case was determined some six months ago, and the validity of the law was sustained: that continuance of said action since the decision of said cause in the supreme court was granted in the usual course of practice of the trial court on account of the absence from the state of the attorney for the defendants; that it is expected and intended that said action shall now be prosecuted and tried at the early convenience of the trial court and the parties, in the usual course of the work of such trial court.

Your committee further find and report that no cause or reason has been made to appear to them for criticism or blame of the said Galen Nichols on account of the manner in which he has conducted the prosecution of the case in question nor any reason for any interference or action of the Senate in connection with the same.

G. W. MCKNIGHT, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Labor, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 100, An act to create a board of examiners and regulate the business of plumbing, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that section 9 be amended to read: "This act shall take effect upon its publication in the statute book," and that it be passed as amended. JAS. M. TAPP, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Railroads, to whom was re

ferred Senate bill No. 37, 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.

JNO. C. CARPENTER, Chairman.

Senator Allen introduced Senate resolution No. 41, as follows:

It appearing that parties outside of the Senate, desiring to get copies of bills introduced in the Senate, and that Senate stenographers have more than they can do: therefore, be it

Resolved, That all stenographers of the Senate are hereby instructed not to make a copy of any bill which has been introduced into the Senate without an order from some senator.

The resolution was adopted.

Senator Householder introduced Senate resolution No. 42, as follows:

Resolved, That the secretary of the Senate is hereby ordered to have 200 copies of each day's Journal printed, one copy of which shall be placed on each senator's desk every morning and that a copy of which, after correction by the Senate, shall be preserved, and shall be the official Journal of the Senate.

The resolution was adopted.

Senator White introduced Senate concurrent resolution No. 18, as follows:

For the submission of a proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas.

Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, twothirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein:

SECTION 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection: That section 1 of article 5 of the constitution be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every white male person of twenty-one years of age and upwards who shall have resided in Kansas for six months next preceding any election, and in the township or ward in which he offers to vote at least thirty days next preceding such election, and belonging to either of the following classes, shall be deemed a qualified elector: First, natural-born citizens of the United States. Second, persons of foreign birth who shall have become citizens of the United States conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.

SEC. 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors of this state at the general election of representatives to the legislature

in the year A. D. 1904, for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title: "An amendment to the constitution relating to the qualifications of electors," and shall be voted for or against, as provided by law, under such title.

SEC. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book.

The resolution was laid over, under the rules.

Senator Allen moved that the Senate go into committee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the Calendar under the head of "General Orders."

The motion prevailed.

The Senate went into a committee of the whole, with Senator Noftzger in the chair.

After some time spent therein the committee rose, and through the chairman submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: The committee of the whole Senate has had under consideration bills on the Calendar under the head of "General Orders," and I am directed to report progress and ask leave to sit again. T. A. NOFTZGER, Chairman.

The report of the committee was adopted.

APPOINTMENTS.

I hereby appoint John Wray clerk of the Committee on Assessment and Taxation. E. V. PETERSON, Chairman.

On consent, Senator Simons introduced Senate resolution No. 43, as follows:

Resolved, That the secretary of the Senate be instructed to have printed and placed on the desk of each member, at least one day previous to consideration, all bills under "General Orders."

The resolution was adopted.

Unanimous consent was granted, and Senator Porter withdrew Senate bill No. 12 from the Calendar.

On consent, Senator Carpenter introduced Senate resolution No. 44, as follows:

Resolved, That the Committee on Employees of the Senate be directed, in conjunction with the secretary of the Senate, to make out a full and complete list of all persons that are under employment and on the pay-roll of the Senate, giving the name, what position of employment, from what time employed, and to whom accredited.