Those portions relating to an additional asylum for the insane, Hutchinson reformatory, soldiers' home, and soldiers' orphans' home, to the Committee on Penal and Charitable Institutions.

Those portions relating to the state board of agriculture, fish culture, and irrigation, to the Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation.

That portion relating to the state board of health, to the Committee on Public Health and Immigration.

That portion relating to public highways, to the Committee on Roads and Bridges.

Those portions relating to lotteries and gambling, and to commissioner of elections, to the Committee on Cities of the First Class.

That portion relating to election laws, to the Committee on Elections.

By unanimous consent, Senator Rogers introduced Senate resolution No. 38, and moved its adoption. The resolution was read, and is as follows:

Resolved, That that part of rule 21 relating to standing committees which fixes the number of the Ways and Means Committee at seven is hereby suspended, and said committee shall consist of nine members, and the two members necessary to complete said committee shall be appointed by the president of the Senate and the chairman of said committee, jointly.

The resolution was adopted.

The president appointed Senators Scott and Baldwin in compliance with Senate resolution No. 38.

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS.

By Senator McTaggart: Senate petition No. 5, Relating to the election of Hon. J. J. Ingalls as United States senator.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

The following bills were introduced, and read the first time: By Senator Dennison: Senate bill No. 189, An act to amend sections 3498, 3499 and 3501 of the general statutes of 1889, being an act regulating the rate of interest upon money, probibiting usury, and providing penalties therefor, and repealing said sections 3498, 3499 and 3501 thereof.

By Senator Leeds: Senate bill No. 190, An act making an ap

propriation for the continuency and forwarding the construction of the industrial reformatory, at Hutchinson.

By Senator Danner: Senate bill No. 191, An act providing for a county superintendent of public instruction and fixing the time when his term of office shall begin, and amending section 5564 of the general statutes of 1889, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

By Senator Senn: Senate bill No. 192, An act to regulate the fees and salaries of the county treasurer, county clerk, county attorney, probate judge, register of deeds, clerk of the district court, surveyor, superintendent of public instruction,. coroner and sheriff' of Dickinson county, Kansas, and defining their duties, and providing penalties for violation thereof.

By Senator Shearer: Senate bill No. 193, An act empowering district courts to vacate sales of real estate for inadequacy of price.

Also, Senate bill No. 194, An act relating to the excluding of territory from the limits of cities of the third class, and modifying and reducing the corporate limits of the city in accordance therewith, and vacating the detached territory.

Also, Senate bill No. 195, An act regulating the fees and salaries and prescribing certain duties of the county officers of Marshall county, Kansas.

By Senator Brown: Senate bill No. 196, An act to protect the grazing lands of Kansas from the stock of nonresidents.

Also, Senate bill No. 197, An act to amend section 32 of chapter 78 of the laws of Kansas, 1893, and repealing said original section 32.

By Senator Thacher: Senate bill No. 198, An act amending sections 7 and 8 of article 6, chapter 122, laws of 1876, entitled "An act for the support and regulation of common schools," and providing for the acceptance of certain grades from certain institutions of learning by the state board of education, approved March 11, 1893.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

The following bills were read the second time, and referred to committees indicated:

Cities of the First Class:

Senate bill No. 161, An act to compel the railroad assessors and all other assessors to assess railroad property and all other

property at its true value in money, and providing for penalties thereof.

Senate bill No. 162, An act to abolish the office of commissioner of elections in all cities and to impose the duties of said officers upon city clerk.

Senate bill No. 163, An act to amend section 18 of chapter 80 of general statutes of 1889, being section 4095 of said statutes, and to repeal said original sections.

Senate bill No. 164, An act to amend paragraph 570 of the general statutes of 1889, and to repeal said original paragraph 570.

Senate bill No. 165, An act to amend section 73 of article 5 of chapter 37 of general statutes of Kansas, 1889.

Senate bill No. 179, An act in relation to the collection of delinquent taxes and special assessments on real estate bid off by the counties and cities at tax sales, and providing for the sale of such real estate.

Municipal Indebtedness:

Senate bill No. 167, An act limiting the power of counties, townships and cities to borrow money to create indebtedness.

Judiciary:

Senate bill No. 166, An act to amend section 3966 of general statutes of 1889, relating to pardon.

Senate bill No. 172, An act defining "lottery," and prohibiting the advertising of lotteries and the sale of lottery tickets, and prescribing penalty for violation thereof.

Senate bill No. 173, An act to repeal section 8, chapter 37, of the laws of 1872, which is also paragraph 6256 of the general statutes of 1889.

Senate bill No. 174, An act to amend paragraphs 1974 and 1975 of article 2, chapter 28, of the general statutes of 1889, and for the repeal of said paragraphs.

Senate bill No. 175, An act to amend sections 78 and 79 of article 7 of chapter 81, general statutes 1889, relating to civil procedure before justices of the peace.

Senate bill No. 178, An act amendatory of and supplemental to paragraph 666 of the general statutes of Kansas, 1889, repealing said paragraph 666, and providing penalties for violations of the provisions thereof.

Senate bill No. 183, An act relating to grand juries and the dissolution thereof by the district judge.

Ways and Means:

Senate bill No. 168, An act making appropriation to the state normal school for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1895, June 30, 1896, June 30, 1897.

Senate bill, No. 169, An act making appropriation for certain money for the support of the state normal school.

Senate bill No. 184, An act to enable any and all persons to make proof of losses sustained in the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865 by bands of guerrillas and marauders.

Senate bill No. 185, An act modifying "An act to provide for the government and maintenance of the university of Kansas," which took effect February 27, 1889.

Senate bill No. 186, An act making an appropriation for the erection and equipment of a chemistry building, a museum building and engineering shops for the state university, at Lawrence, Kas.

Senate bill No. 187, An act for the appropriation of certain money for the support of the university of Kansas.

Senate bill No. 188, An act making appropriation for maintaining the experimental station at the university of Kansas, at Lawrence, established to promote and conduct experiments for the destruction of chinch bugs by contagion or infection.

Cities of the Second and Third Class:

Senate bill No. 170, An act to vacate Moore's addition to Dunavant, Jefferson county, Kansas.

Senate bill No. 176, An act providing for the funding of certain outstanding indebtedness, and regulating expenditures of schools in cities of the second class.

Senate bill No. 177, An act vacating certain additions to cities in Chase county, Kansas, and restoring the land to its original condition before the same was platted.

Military Affairs and Claims:

Senate bill No. 171, An act fixing the charges to be paid to the railroads for transporting Kansas national guard or the Kansas reserve militia, and stores, horses, ammunition, and equipment, and baggage of the same, the terms of transporting

the same, and prescribing a punishment for the violation of said

act.

Penal and Charitable Institutions:

Senate bill No. 180, An act to provide for the location, erection and management of a state reformatory for women over 16 years of age.

Education:

Senate bill No. 181, An act providing for the levying of a county tax for the support of the common schools of the counties, and providing for the distribution of the money raised by said county tax.

Senate bill No. 182, An act providing for the levying of a state tax for the support of the common schools of the state, and providing for the distribution of the money raised by said state tax.

Senator O'Bryan, chairman of the committee on employés, submitted the following report, and moved its adoption:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed pursuant to Senate resolution No. 35, to whom was referred said resolution, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to make the following report:

First, That we find the present force of employés already appointed by this Senate efficient and competent, and for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the service we recommend that the Senate make the following additions thereto:

That Walter Hubbard be added as second assistant docket clerk; that John Anderson be added as assistant janitor; that Jacob Schraeder be added as janitor to Stormont building; that Eddy Brennan be added as page, to be used at the Stormont building, and under control of the sergeant-at-arms; that the secretary of the Senate be empowered to employ for the use of the senators and the secretary a competent stenographer and typewriter, who shall occupy a desk in the office of the secretary of the Senate at all times during the session.

Your committee respectfully recommend that the secretary of the Senate, the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the chief enrolling clerk of the Senate be hereby authorized, by and with the consent of a committee on Senate employés consisting of five senators, to be appointed by the president of the Senate, to dismiss from the force of employés of the Senate in their respective departments any person or persons for neglect of duty or unbecoming conduct or other sufficient reasons. ED. O'BRYAN, Chairman.