tion of pocket-gophers in the state of Kansas and fixing a bounty for the same.

Referred to Committee on Agriculture.

House bill No. 371, An act to authorize cities of the second class to provide public parks for the inhabitants thereof.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second Class.

House bill No. 384, An act authorizing the refunding of the legally existing bonded indebtedness of disorganized and merged school districts.

Referred to Committee on Education.

House bill No. 389, An act to provide against public exhibitions of hypnotism, mesmerism, animal magnetism, or so-called physical forces.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

House bill. No. 402, 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.

Referred to Committee on Education.

House bill No. 404, An act requiring county clerks to transmit to the auditor of state reports of school-land leases, the terms thereof, and the amounts of rent paid thereon, fixing the fees of the caunty clerk for services in relation thereto, and providing a penalty for violations of the provisions of this act.

Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries.

House bill No. 437, An act conferring certain powers on the Live-stock Sanitary Commission, providing for the exercise thereof. providing penalties for the violation of this act, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Substitute for House bill No. 484, An act to enlarge the powers of notaries public in certain cities and counties, and to amend chapter 71, General Statutes of 1868.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 487, An act to disorganize school district. No. 124, and attach section 3 to district No. 73, section 10 and the southwest quarter and the southeast quarter and

the northeast quarter of section 9 to school district No. 52, and section 4 and the northwest quarter of section 9 to school district No. 28, all in township 2 south, of range 16, in Phillips county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Education.

House bill No. 512. An act to amend section 415 of the General Statutes of 1901, being section 9 of chapter 47 of the Session Laws of 1897, relating to the management and control of state banks.

Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

House bill No. 517, An act making it unlawful to use or wear the badges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of Pythias, or other secret and fraternal beneficiary societies, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 518, An act to amend section 408 of the General Statutes of 1901, being section 2 of chapter 47 of the Session Laws of 1897, relating to the capitalization of state banks.

Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

House bill No. 524, An act providing for service by publication upon non-residents, persons absent from the state, and for service upon the unknown heirs and devisees of such non-resident or absent defendants, and also for service upon the unknown administrators, executors and trustees of such defendants, where the plaintiff is unable to ascertain whether or no the defendants are dead or alive.

House bill No. 536, An act to enable the guardian of an insane person or habitual drunkard to sell, convey or mortgage real estate of an insane person or habitual drunkard who is a married woman or a married man and who has not the property in her or his own right, and to amend section 1 of chapter 143 of the Laws of 1872.

House bill No. 553, An act authorizing the boards of county commissioners to offer and pay rewards in certain

cases.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 570, An act to provide for compensating school-district officers.

Referred to Committee on Education.

House bill No. 583, An act to amend section 38, article 2, of chapter 25, of the General Statutes of 1901.

House bill No. 590, An act to amend chapter 122 of the Session Laws of 1901, repealing certain sections.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 595, An act relating to the transfer of certain moneys in the state treasury.

Referred to Committee on Banking and Banks.

House bill No. 596, An act repealing chapter 50 of the Session Laws of 1886, entitled "An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Decatur county to build a bridge and levy a tax therefor," approved February 19, 1886.

House bill No. 616, An act to amend chapter 80 of the General Statutes of the state of Kansas, entitled "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," and to repeal section 352 thereof.

House bill No. 617, An act to amend chapter 80 of the General Statutes of the state of Kansas, entitled "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," and to repeal section 548 thereof.

House bill No. 620, An act to amend chapter 80 of the General Statutes of the state of Kansas, entitled "An act establish a code of civil procedure," and to repeal certain sections.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 622, An act to fix the clerk hire in the offices of county clerk and county treasurer in Ford county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries.

House bill No. 630, An act empowering the county commissioners of Wyandotte county, Kansas, to improve and maintain certain public highways in Shawnee township, in said county.

Referred to Committee on Roads and Bridges.

House bill No. 631, An act concerning the improvement, straightening and changing of Wolf river, the prevention

of backwater and overflow thereof, and the drainage of adjacent lands thereto, in Doniphan county, state of Kansas, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 635, An act to amend section 21 of chapter 108 of the Laws of 1874, and to repeal the original section, relating to road-tax levy in Phillips, Norton and Rooks counties.

Referred to Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

House bill No. 636, An act fixing the terms of the district court in Scott county, Kansas.

House bill No. 686, An act changing the name of certain persons herein named.

House bill No. 808, An act to amend section 5725 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to the stay of execution of judgment in criminal cases, and to repeal said section. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 571, An act to define the boundary of the counties of Geary and Morris.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Senator Peterson, chairman of the Committee on Assessment and Taxation, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Assessment and Taxation, to whom was referred House bill No. 739, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Russell county, Kansas, to levy a tax each year of not more than five mills on the dollar of assessed valuation upon all property in said county for the purposes of building and equipping a heating plant for the new court-house of said county, and for erecting a jail and jailer's residence, and for furnishing and lighting the new court-house, 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, House bill No. 347, An act relating to road tax in Atchison county and providing for its disbursement, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed. E. V. PETERSON, Chairman.

Senator Kennedy, chairman of the Committee on Cities of the Second Class, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Cities of the Second Class, to whom was referred House bill No. 371, An act to authorize cities

of the second class to provide public parks for the inhabitants thereof, 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. 467, An act vacating certain portions of Kansas City addition to Horton, Brown county, Kansas, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 468, An act vacating a certain unimproved portion of Kansas City addition to Horton, Brown county, Kansas, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommmendation that it be not passed.

J. A. KENNEDY, Chairman.

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

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Military Affairs and Claims, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 528, An act to amend an act for the relief of destitute soldiers, sailors, and their widows and 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. C. E. BRANINE, Chairman.

Senator Fulton, chairman of the Committee on Banks and Banking, offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Banks and Banking, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 404, entitled "An act relating to the transfer of certain moneys in the state treasury," have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

E. R. FULTON, Chairman.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has non concurred in Senate concurrent resolution No. 10, Relating to the printing of a catalogue for the State Historical Society. The resolution is transmitted herewith..

W. P. MASON, Chief Clerk.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

Senator Porter moved that the Senate go into commitee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the Calendar under the head of "General Orders." A vote being had, the motion prevailed.

The Senate went into committeee of the whole, with Senator Chaney in the chair.