membership of which was increased by Senate resolution No. 27: Senators Porter and McMillan.

To be added to the Committee on Banks and Banking. the membership of which was increased by Senate resolution No. 28: Senators Carpenter, Findlay, Pestana, and Wright.

APPOINTMENTS.

I hereby appoint Walter Ward as clerk of my committee.

R. B. WARD, Chairman.

I hereby appoint Mae V. Barrett stenographer of the Committee on Elections. H. L. PESTANA, Chairman.

I hereby appoint H. L. Wood as clerk of the Committee on Roads and Bridges. SAML. STEWART, Chairman.

I hereby appoint J. M. Mickey, clerk of the Committee on Educational Institutions. H. B. MILLER, Chairman.

I hereby appoint Myrtle Leidy as clerk of the Committee on Education. FREMONT LEIDY, Chairman.

I hereby appoint Rose Edington as stenographer of the Committee on Education. FREMONT LEIDY, Chairman.

I hereby appoint E. L. Foulke clerk of the Committee on Labor. JAS. M. TAPP, Chairman.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 105, An act making appropriation for legislative purposes, have compared the engrossed copy with the enrolled bill, and I am directed to report to the Senate that the same is correctly enrolled, that it has been properly signed by the president and secretary of the Senate and the speaker and chief clerk of the House, and has been presented to the governor for his approval, this 22d day of January, 1903. F. W. SPONABLE, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Fees, Salaries and Mileage has had under consideration the mileage of the president and members of the Senate, and instruct me to report to the Senate that the president and members of the Senate are entitled to mileage as below stated, and recommend that the same be allowed:

On motion of Senator White, the report of the com

mittee was adopted.

Senator Morrow called up Senate concurrent resolution No. 4, which was read.

Senator Morrow moved to amend said resolution by changing the time of report from thirty to forty days.

Motion prevailed.

Senator Cubbison moved to further amend the resolution by inserting the words "the miscellaneous appropriation bill, including".

Motion prevailed, and Senate concurrent resolution No. 4 as amended was adopted.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 4, by Senator Morrow: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein, That the miscellaneous appropriation bill, in

cluding all bills claimed against the state, due at the beginning of this session, shall not be considered by the Ways and Means Committee unless presented for consideration before that committee and by them reported to the Senate or House of Representatives within forty days from the first day of the organization of the Legislature. The resolution as amended was adopted.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Senator Tapp: Senate bill No. 142, An act to prevent and punish the desecration of the flag of the United States.

By Senator Vincent: Senate bill No. 143, An act making appropriation for certain improvements and repairs at the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory, at Hutchinson, for the purchase of pasture land and live stock, and for current expenses and salaries of officers and employees for said State Industrial Reformatory for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905.

By Mr. McMillan: Senate bill 144, An act to amend sections 1 and 2 of chapter 286 of the Session Laws of 1901 and to repeal the sections amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 145, An act relating to state printing, providing for the election of a state printer and fixing his salary, and defining the duties of the Executive Council, the secretary of state and the state printer in relation thereto, making an appropriation to carry out the provisions thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Also, Senate bill No. 146, An act to authorize the gov ernor to work the coal-mines of the state and sell coal to the people at cost, and to authorize the condemnation of coal lands.

Also, Senate bill No. 147, An act to prevent the public exhibition of the eating or pretending to eat of snakes and other reptiles.

Also, Senate bill No. 148, An act making it unlawful to trap-shoot any living bird or fowl and providing a penalty for its violation.

By Senator Crum: Senate bill No. 149, An act fixing the fees and salaries of the clerks of the district court in

the counties of Linn, Anderson, and Woodson, in the state of Kansas.

By Senator Peterson: Senate bill No. 150, An act in relation to school-land sales and extensions of maturity of school-land certificates, amending section 239, article 14, chapter 92, of the General Statutes of 1901.

By Senator Smith: Senate bill No. 151, An act amending section 7309 of the General Statutes of 1901, regulating the investment of the permanent school fund, State Agricultural College, State Normal and State University funds.

Also, Senate bill No. 152, An act to vacate all of Sweet's addition and certain lots in Booth's addition to the city of Jetmore, Hodgeman county, Kansas.

Also, Senate bill No. 153, An act to regulate express companies and prohibiting certain contracts.

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

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

Also, Senate bill No. 156, An act providing for a county assessor and deputy assessor in certain counties, prescribing their powers, duties, liabilities, and compensations, 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.

Also, Senate bill No. 157, An act for the Industrial Home for the Blind of Kansas.

Also, 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.

Also, 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.

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

Also, 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.

By Senator Fulton: Senate bill No. 162, An act changing the boundary line between Marshall county and Washington county, Kansas.

By Senator Wright: Senate bill No. 163, An act to amend section 2081, chapter 31, article 3, of the General Statutes of 1901, entitled "An act regulating crimes and punishments."

Also (by request), Senate bill No. 164, An act for the protection of trade-marks.

Also (by request), 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.

⚫ By Senator Wulfekuhler: 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.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

Senate bill No. 106, An act declaring the person therein. named the adopted daughter and heir of A. D. Gilkeson. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 107, An act to empower the mayor and city council of the city of McCune, Crawford county, to transfer three hundred sixteen dollars and fifty cents of the money now in the city treasury belonging to the waterworks fund to the sinking-fund.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.

Senate bill No. 108, An act to amend section 105, article 3, chapter 31, General Statutes of 1868, reprinted as section 2051 of the General Statutes of 1889.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 109, An act to vacate a certain alley in

the city of Le Roy, Coffey county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.