Senate bill No. 110, An act to revive the certificate of pharmacy of J. M. Allison.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

Senate bill No. 111, An act to exempt from taxation the homestead of Union soldiers and sailors and the widows of Union soldiers and sailors.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 112, An act providing protection to mechanics, laborers and other persons in the construction and repair of railway equipment and providing punishment for violation thereof.

Referred to Committee on Labor.

Senate bill No. 113, An act to prohibit the desecration of the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 114, An act to provide for the assessment, levy and collection of taxes.

Referred to committee of the whole.

Senate bill No. 115, An act relating to county boards of examiners and to provide for professional certificates to be issued by county boards of examiners, and repealing chapter 175, Laws of 1885.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 116, An act to provide for fire-escapes, fire protection, and for the regulation of the sanitary conditions of hotels, restaurants, and boarding-houses, and for punishment of the violation of the provisions of this act.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 117, An act to regulate and define the practice of optometry, to punish the violators thereof, to create a board of examiners, provide for their appointment, compensation, and for examination of others, and prevent incompetent or unauthorized persons from engaging in the practice thereof.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

Senate bill No. 118, An act to provide for the safety of coal-miners and other persons engaged in mining coal in the state of Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Mines and Mining.

Senate bill No. 119, An act amendatory of section 13, chapter 159, of the Laws of 1897.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 120, An act amendatory of section 12, chapter 159, of the Session Laws of 1897.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 121, An act providing for the licensing of practicing auctioneers, creating a board of examiners, defining its powers and duties, and providing compensation for the members thereof.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 122, 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 appeal original section 12, article 3, of chapter 122, of the Session Laws of 1876.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 123, An act to amend section 1, chapter 134, Session Laws 1901, providing for the appointment of stenographers by county attorneys, fixing the salary and providing for the payment thereof, and prescribing their duties.

Referred to Ways and Means Committee.

Senate bill No. 127, An act making an appropriation for postage, express and freight for the Thirteenth Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture.

On motion of Senator Chaney, the rules were suspended, an emergency declared, and Senate bill No. 127 was placed on third reading.

Senate bill No. 127, An act making an appropriation for postage, express and freight for the Thirteenth Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture, was read the third time.

The question being, Shall the bill pass? the roll was called, with the following result: Yeas 33, nays 6.

Senators voting in favor of the passage of the bill were: Senators Branine, Buschow, Caldwell, Carpenter, Chaney, Codding, Conrad, Crum, Cubbison, Findlay, Fitzpatrick, Fulton, Gabriel, Henley, Householder, Hurrel, Kennedy,

King, McKnight, McMillan, Miller, Morehouse, Morrow, Noftzger, Simons, Sponable, Stewart, Tapp, Vincent, Ward, White, Wright, and Wulfekuhler.

Senators absent or not voting were: Senators Fullington, Leidy, Pestana, Peterson, Porter, Smith.

A constitutional majority having voted in favor of the passage of the bill, the bill was passed and the title agreed to.

Senate bill No. 124, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Sedgwick county, Kansas, to make an appropriation for additional clerk hire in the county clerk's office from June 1 to December 31, 1902.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class. Senate bill No. 125, An act relating to the salary of the county clerk of Sedgwick county, and providing for clerk hire in the offices of the county clerk and county treasurer in said county, and to repeal sections 2 and 4, chapter 4, Laws of 1899, in so far only as is necessary in order to give effect to this act.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class.

Senate bill No. 126, An act to amend section 1821 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to appeal made from surveys made by the county surveyors.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 128, An act to regulate the advertising and sale of proprietary or patent medicines and nostrums within the state of Kansas and to provide a revenue to the state for the sale of such articles.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

Senate bill No. 129, An act making appropriation to aid in the support and maintenance of school district No. 75, located at Lansing, Kan., for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 130, An act authorizing private corporations to acquire, hold, improve, lease, rent, sell or exchange real estate in cities of the first class, and to act as agents for the purchase, lease, rent, sale or exchange of the properties of other corporations and individuals.

Referred to Committee on Corporations.

Senate bill No. 131, An act to require a brand upon all goods, wares, merchandise or other articles or things made for sale by convict labor, in any penitentiary, industrial reformatory, school or other establishment in which convict labor is employed.

Referred to Committee on Labor.

Senate bill No. 132, An act regulating the appointment of an attorney in divorce cases.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 133, An act in relation to quarantine yards and defining the word “quarantine."

Referred to Committee on Agriculture.

Senate bill No. 134, An act to amend section 11 of an act entitled "An act providing for the health and safety of persons employed in coal-mines," approved May 28, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as amended by an act approved June 18, 1883, and an act approved June 30, 1885, and to repeal section 2 of an act entitled "An act to require inspectors of mines to furnish information to the state geologist and to provide for paying the expense of the same," approved June 18, 1891.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 135, An act amending section 41, article 1, chapter 50, of the Laws of 1891, as amended by the Laws of 1875, chapter 112, section 4, and repealing said section 41 of article 1, chapter 50, of the Laws of 1901. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 136, An act providing for the punishment for abandonment of wife and children.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 137, An act providing for the time of commencement of civil actions.

Referred to Committee on Judicary.

Senate bill No. 138, An act providing for holding terms of the district court at the cities of Winfield and Arkansas City, in Cowley county, Kansas, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 139, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 307 of the Session Laws of 1901.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 140, An act in relation to express companies, requiring free delivery of parcels and packages where free delivery is now made within certain limits in cities of the first and second class, and providing a penalty for violation of section 1 hereof.

Referred to Committee on Railroads.

Senate bill No. 141, An act to amend section 1 of the Laws of 1877, amending an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools."

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senator Noftzger introduced Senate concurrent resolulution No. 11, as follows:

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein, That when the Senate and House of Representatives adjourn to-day, it be to meet again on Monday, January 26, at four o'clock P. M.

Senator McMillan introduced Senate joint resolution No. 12, Making application to Congress for the calling of a convention to propose an amendment to the constitution of the United States, providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people :

Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That application is hereby made to the Congress of the United States praying that said Congress shall call a convention for the proposing of amendments to the constitution of the United States.

SEC. 2. That the following amendment to the constitution of the United States is hereby suggested, and Congress is requested to transmit it to any constitutional convention that may be called for its consideration: The constitution of the United States shall be amended by striking out all of section 3 of article 1 of the constitution, and substituting in lieu thereof the following, which shall constitute section 3 of article 1 of the constitution: Section 3. The senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the qualified voters thereof for six years, and each senator shall have one vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated