Senate Bill No. 102, An act to amend chapter 194 of the laws of 1872, regulating the running at large of stock. Read first time. House Bill No. 167, An act to authorize and empower cities of the first class to purchase and acquire real estate. Read first time. Mr. Winter moved that the rules be suspended and that Mr. Ely moved to amend by including all bills read the first time to-day. Which amendment was adopted, and The motion as amended prevailed. BILLS ON SECOND READING. Senate Bill No. 90, An act to change the terms of courts in the fourteenth judicial district, and establishing courts in certain counties therein named. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 91, An act authorizing the appointment. of a stenographer for the several district courts of the State of Kansas. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 92, An act to legalize the conveyances of real estate heretofore made in the city of Neodesha, Wilson county, Kansas. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 93, An act to legalize the acts of A. A. Higginbotham as notary public. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 94, An act to amend sections 704, 705 and 707 of an act to establish a code of civil procedure, chapter 80 of the General Statutes of 1868. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 95, An act making appropriations to the State Horticultural Society of Kansas. Read the second time, and Referred to the Committee on Horticulture. Senate Bill No. 96, An act relating to exemptions, and amendatory of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes, approved February 28, 1868. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Education. Senate Bill No. 97, An act to amend section 13, chapter 87, laws of 1870. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 98, An act to fix the salaries of certain county officers in counties having over 10,000 and under 30,000 inhabitants. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries. Senate Bill No. 99, An act to amend section 58, chapter 80, of the General Statutes of 1868. Read second time, and Referred to the Committee on Fees,and Salaries. Senate Bill No. 100, An act to amend section 81, chapter 25, of the General Statutes of Kansas. Read second time, and Referred to the Committee on Fees and Salaries. Senate Bill No. 101, An act to amend an act entitled an act relating to counties and county officers. Read second time, and Referred to the Committee on Counties and County Lines. Senate Bill No. 102, An act to amend chapter 194 of the laws of 1872, regulating the running at large of stock. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Manufactures. House Bill No. 167, An act to authorize and empower cities of the first class to purchase real estate. Read second time, and Referred to the Leavenworth Delegation, as a Special Committee. BILLS ON THIRD READING. Senate Bill No. 20, An act relating to sale of school lands, Was read the third time. And the question being: Shall the bill pass? The roll was called with the following result: Yeas, 25; nays, 0. Gentlemen voting in the affirmative were: Messrs. Blair, Butler, Barker, Crichton, Edwards, Ely, Grimes, Johnson, Judd, McFarland, Moonlight, Murdock, O'Neil, Palmer, Price, Rogers, Schmidt, Simons, Simpson, St. John, Topping, Walker, V. P. Wilson, Winter and York. Gentlemen absent or not voting were: Messrs. Brandley, Guerin, Martin, Martindale, Matheny, MoWirt, Morrill and J. C. Wilson. And so a constitutional majority having voted in favor of the passage of the bill, The bill passed, and The title was agreed to. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof. Senate Bill No. 5, An act to amend an act entiled an act concerning private corporations, Was read the third time. Mr. Price moved that the bill be referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Johnson moved as an amendment that the bill be recommitted to the Committee on Corporations. Which amendment was adopted, and The original motion as amended prevailed. Senate Bill No. 31, An act to vacate town sites and additions thereto, Was read third time. And the question being: Shall the bill pass? The roll was called with the following result: Yeas, 24; nays, 0. Gentlemen voting in the affirmative were: Messrs. Blair, Butler, Barker, Edwards, Ely, Grimes, Johnson, Judd, McFarland, Moonlight, Murdock, O'Neil, Palmer, Price, Rogers, Schmidt, Simons, Simpson, St. John, Topping, Walker, V. P. Wilson, Winter and York. Gentlemen absent or not voting were: Messrs. Brandley, Crichton, Guerin, Martin, Martindale, Matheny, McWirt, Morrill and J. C. Wilson. And so a constitutional majority having voted in favor of the passage of the bill, The bill pssed, and The title was agreed to. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof. Mr. McFarland, Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, made the following report: Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 70, An act to promote immigration to the State of Kansas, Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be referred to the Committee on Immigration. N. C. MCFARLAND, Chairman. On motion, The Senate adjourned. GEO. C. CROWTHER, Secretary. |