in certain cases and providing punishment therefor, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 309, An act to provide for the parole of pris oners, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 332, An act for the relief of Phillip Morse, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 331, An act authorizing counties to purchase real estate sold for taxes in certain counties, and to prevent such counties thereafter to sell and dispose of the real estate so purchased, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

F. DUMONT SMITH, Chairman.

Senator Branine, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs and Claims, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Military Affairs and Claims, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 72, An act amendatory of and supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, government and compensation of the militia of the state of Kansas, to prescribe the duties of certain officers thereof, to provide for the public defense, to create certain penalties, and repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that amended section 25 of section No. 1, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 25. When any regiment, company, battery, band or corps shall be fully organized under the military laws of the state, having not less than the minimum number of uniformed and equipped members, the state shall pay annually, in quarterly payments, for the use of a building or rooms to be occupied as an armory or for the storage of military property, and for postage and incidental expenses of said organizations, and for the headquarters of the brigade, regiments, separate battalions, and pay department, the following sums each, to wit: To each company, battery, and regimental band, three hundred dollars; to each brigade and regimental headquarters, one hundred and fifty dollars; to the pay department, the headquarters of the artillery battalion, the hospital corps, signal corps, and auxiliary artillery squads, each fifty dollars; and to the headquarters of the medical department and of the signal corps, if organized as sepa. rate departments, as herein before provided, each fifty dollars. And that said bill be passed as amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 216, An act providing for the levy and collection of a tax during the years of 1903 and 1904 for the creation of a fund for the erection and maintenance of a monument to the

memory of the patriotism and heroic service of the Kansas soldiers and sailors of 1861 to 1865, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be pasesd.

C. E. BRANINE, Chairman.

Senator Leidy, chairman of the Committee on Education, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Education, to whom was . referred Senate bill No. 289, An act to empower the school-district boards of Graham county, Kansas, to sell their district bonds which may hereafter be issued to Graham county, 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. 283, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 122 of the Laws of 1874, the same being paragraph 5590 of the Compiled Laws of 1889, relating to the appraisement of school property, and repealing the original section, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 273, An act relating to school districts in which the number of children of school age is ten or less, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. FREMONT LEIDY, Chairman.

Senator Wulfekuhler, acting chairman of the Committee on Cities of the First Class offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Cities of the First Class, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 9, An act to provide for raising funds to support and maintain free public libraries in cities of the first and second class, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that the word "first" and the word "and" in the enacting clause be stricken out; also, that the word "first" and the word "and" in the first line of section 1 be stricken out; also, that the words "official state paper," in section 3, be stricken out and the words "statute book" inserted, and that the same be passed as amended. LOUIS H. WULFEKUHLER, Acting Chairman.

Senator Kennedy, chairman of the Committee on Cities of the Second and Third Class, offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Cities of the Second and Third Class, to whom was referred House bill No. 1, An act authorizing the erection, equipment and furnishing of a county building in Neosho county, Kansas; the purchase or condemnation of a site therefor; providing means to pay for the erection, equipment and furnishing of said building, and to pay for said site; and authorizing the sale or leasing of the present county building and court-house of -16 Sen.

said county, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be printed and placed on the Calendar.

J. A. KENNEDY, Chairman.

Senator Chaney, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 316, Making appropriation for the support of the State Normal School, and for certain land, buildings and improvements herein named, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

JOHN T. CHANEY, Chairman. Senator Simons, acting chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 35, An act to amend sections 2 and 24 of chapter 109 of the Session Laws of 1893;

Also, Senate bill No. 41, An act concerning the venue of certain actions, and to amend sections 50 and 55 and 80, Laws of 1868, of "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," approved February 25, 1868, and to repeal section 63 of chapter 23, General Statutes of the state of Kansas, 1868, have compared the engrossed copies with the original bills, and instruct me to report the bills back to the Senate correctly engrossed.

R. T. SIMONS, Acting Chairman.

MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 60, An act to authorize and empower the board of education of the city of Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and the state of Kansas, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of buying site and erecting, furnishing and equipping a high-school building thereon, and to levy and collect taxes for payment thereof and for the support and maintenance of said school.

Also, passed House bill No. 61, An act to provide for keeping certain statistical records by the register of deeds of Rice county, Kansas, and fixing the compensation therefor.

Also, passed House bill No. 76, An act legalizing certain ordinances and contracts and to provide for their enforcement.

Also, passed House bill No. 122, An act to authorize the board of education of the city of Osawatomie, of the state of Kansas, to levy a tax in addition to that now provided by law for school purposes.

Also, passed House bill No. 138, An act to authorize school district No. 5 of Harper county to make an additional levy for school

purposes.

Also, passed House bill No. 140, An act to authorize the establishment and maintenance of a high school in Stohrville township, in Harper county, Kansas, and to authorize the issuance of bonds for the erection or purchase of a school building, and to authorize the levy of taxes for the support and maintenance of said school.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 51, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Barton county, Kansas, to build and construct a county jail and sheriff's residence at the city of Great Bend, in said county, and to provide for the payment of the cost thereof. The bills are transmitted herewith. W. P. MASON,

Chief Clerk.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 63, An act concerning life insurance and relating to proceedings to recover on policies issued by life-insurance companies.

Also, passed House bill No. 65, An act to amend section 1, chapter 135, Laws of 1897, entitled "An act for the protection of birds, providing at what seasons birds may be shot, to prohibit the sale and shipment of birds, prescribing a punishment for the violation of this act, and to repeal chapter 167 of the Laws of 1872, chapter 45 of the General Statutes of 1889, and chapter 97 of the Laws of 1893, and all acts in conflict herewith," as amended by chapter 223 of the Laws of 1901, and to repeal section 1 of such chapter 223.

Also, passed House bill No. 72, An act in relation to the carrying of concealed weapons.

Also, passed House bill No. 114, An act fixing the liabilities of insurance companies in certain cases and repealing all laws in conflict herewith.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 41, An act concerning the venue of certain actions, and to amend sections 50 and 55 of chapter 80, Laws of 1868, of "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," approved February 25, 1868, and to repeal section 63 of chapter 23, General Statutes of the State of Kansas, 1868.

Also, passed House bill No. 311, An act to amend section 9 of chapter 11, General Statutes of 1868, entitled "An act relating to attorneys at law."

The bills are transmitted herewith.

W. P. MASON, Chief Clerk.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 128, An act to amend section 3193 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1899 (Dassler's compilation), in relation to the removal of property belonging to wards residing in other states and territories, and to enable nonresident guardians to obtain the property of their wards, and to repeal said section 3193.

Also, passed House bill No. 185, An act to amend section 12, article 3, of chapter 122, of the Session Laws of 1876, entitled "An

act for the regulation and support of common schools," and to repeal original section 12, article 3, of chapter 122, of the Session Laws of 1876.

Also, passed as a substitute for House bill No. 196, An act providing for clerk hire in the offices of the county clerk and county treasurer of Sedgwick county, and to repeal sections 2 and 4 of chapter 4 of the Session Laws of 1899, in so far only as is necessary in order to give effect to this act.

The bills are transmitted herewith.

W. P. MASON, Chief Clerk.

On motion of Senator McMillan, Senate bill No. 144 was ordered printed and placed upon the Calendar.

Senator Smith moved that when the reports on the following House bills be read (House bills Nos. 149, 57, 184, 83, 176, 195, 29, 182, 12, 273, and 23), the bills be placed under the head of "Third Reading" on the Calendar.

The motion prevailed.

Upon request of Senator Wulfekuhler, Senate concurrent. resolution No. 2 was passed over until to-morrow week.

Senator Chaney moved that the rules be suspended, an emergency declared, and Senate bill No. 386 placed on second reading at this time.

The motion prevailed.

Senate bill No. 386, An act relating to and fixing the fees and salary of the sheriff of Shawnee county, Kansas, and to repeal section 9, chapter 141, of the Session Laws of 1899, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. Referred to the Committee on Fees, Salaries, and Mile

age.

Senator Sponable introduced Senate petition No. 19, as follows:

Senator Chas. Branine, Topeka, Kan.:

We, the undersigned, citizens of Harvey county, Kansas, respectfully protest against the enactment of the bill calling for a constitutional convention that has been favorably reported in the House.

We are opposed to any movement having such purpose in view, because of the great expense thereby caused the state, the new and experimental legislation that must result from the adoption of a new constitution, and the bitter and protracted contests that would become unavoidable. We urge you as our chosen representative to exert your influence to the utmost to defeat this movement.

Signed by J. A. Welch and sixteen others.

The petition was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.