called from the Committee on Corporations and be referred to Committee on Judiciary.

The motion prevailed.

Senator Porter moved that Senate bill No. 7, An act making the secretary of mine industries inspector of weights, measures and scales at coal-mines, and defining his powers and duties, be advanced to the head of the calendar.

The motion prevailed, and it was so ordered.

On motion of Senator Porter, the Senate adjourned until two P. M.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

SENATE CHAMBER, TOPEKA, KAN.,
February 10, 1903-2 o'clock P. M.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment; Lieut.-gov. D. J. Hanna in the chair.

The roll was called.

Present: Senators Allen, Branine, Buschow, Caldwell, Carpenter, Chaney, Codding, Conrad, Crum, Findlay, Fitzpatrick, Fulton, Gabriel, Henley, Householder, Hurrel, Kennedy, King, Leidy, McKnight, McMillan, Miller, Morehouse, Morrow, Noftzger, Pestana, Peterson, Porter, Simons, Smith, Sponable, Stewart, Tapp, Vincent, Ward, White, Wright, and Wulfekuhler.

Absent: Senators Cubbison and Fullington.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Ways and Means Committee: Senate bill No. 441, An act making appropriation for the current expenses of the Topeka Insane Asylum for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905, for laundry building and equipment, extending water service, building and equipping toilet-rooms and corridor, and for the purchase of additional ground.

On motion of Senator Chaney, emergency was declared, the rules suspended, and Senate bill No. 441 was placed on second reading.

Senate bill No. 441 was read and referred to the committee of the whole.

By Senator Morehouse: Senate bill No. 442, An act authorizing the county commissioners of Chase county to establish and maintain a county high school in the city of Cottonwood Falls, Kan., and to enable school district No. 6 of Chase county to convey its property to Chase county for high-school purposes.

Also, Senate bill No. 443, An act to enable Elm Creek township, in Morris county, Kansas, to erect a township hall and building, locating and furnishing the same, and conferring power on the township board of said township to issue bonds to pay for the same, and to provide for an election upon petition to vote upon said proposition.

Also, Senate bill No. 444, An act designating and declaring the helianthus, or sunflower, to be the state flower and floral emblem of the state of Kansas.

By Senator Carpenter: Senate bill No. 445, An act authorizing the Thayer Cemetery Association to convey its property to the city of Thayer, and authorizing the said city to accept the said conveyance and to pass ordinances for the regulation, control and extension of the same for cemetery purposes.

On motion of Senator Carpenter, the rules were suspended, an emergency declared, and Senate bill No. 445 was placed on second reading.

Senate bill No. 445 was read and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

By Ways and Means Committee: Senate bill No. 446, An act making appropriations for current expenses for the Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, at Winfield, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905, and for the construction of a new kitchen, bakery, employees' quarters, stand-pipe, and equipment, for the years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904.

On motion of Senator Chaney, emergency was declared, the rules suspended, and Senate bill No. 446 was placed on second reading.

Senate bill No. 446 was read and referred to the committee of the whole.

By Senator Caldwell: Senate bill No. 447, An act to require owners and operators of railroads to pay their

employees once in every fifteen days in lawful money of the United States, and providing a penalty for violation thereof.

By Senator Findlay: Senate bill No. 448, An act in relation to insurance providing for the listing and valuation of building, fixtures and personal property for the purpose of insurance against loss by fires, lightning, and cyclones, and the levy of an insurance tax and for the collection of such tax, and the payment of all such losses and the insurance of all such property, and the manner of proving losses and payment thereof, and regulating such insurance in the state of Kansas.

By Senator Caldwell: Senate bill No. 449, An act relating to waiver of exemption from garnishment process.

MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 592, An act relating to burial insurance.

Also, passed House bill No. 21, An act to amend section 6588 of the General Statutes of 1901.

Also, passed House bill No. 4, An act in relation to school-land sales and extension of maturity of school-land certificates, amending section 239, article 14, chapter 92, of the General Statutes of 1901.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 94, An act to legalize certain acts and votes.

The bills are transmitted herewith.

W. P. MASON, City Clerk.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Senator Chaney, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 180, An act for the appropriation of certain money to the University of Kansas, for its support and for the following purposes: For a sewer system, for furnishing its new medical laboratory, for completing tunnel, for library improvement, for enlarging and equipping pharmacy laboratory, for repairing and extending its light, heat and power plant, for claim of the city of Lawrence for sewer and paving tax, for making cases for museum collections, for moving museum collections from Snow hall to the natural history building, for rearranging Snow hall, for completing the chemistry building, and for the erection and equipment of a law building, 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, for the reason that a similar measure has been introduced by the Ways and Means Committee.

Also, Senate bill No. 143, An act making an 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, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be not passed, for the reason that a similar measure, by the Ways and Means Committee, has been introduced as a substitute.

JNO. T. CHANEY, Chairman.

Senator Miller, of the committee on conference on Senate bill No. 127, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on conference, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 127, have had the same under consideration, and instruct us to report that we cannot agree.

H. B. MILLER,

L. R. WRIGHT,

On the part of the Senate.

J. B. TAYLOR,

L. M. LINTON,

P. T. LAUGHLIN,

On the part of the House.

Senator Porter, chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, offered the following report.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Mines and Mining, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 399, An act to define the term "mining," and to further provide for the formation of mining companies, 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. F. PORTER, Chairman.

Senator Tapp, chairman of the Committee on Labor, offered the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Labor, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 97, An act concerning child labor, prohibiting the employment in factories, workshops and mines of persons under fourteen years of age, and regulating the employment in other occupations or places of persons under sixteen years of age, 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. 199, An act to provide a penalty for coercing or influencing or making demands upon or requirements of employees, servants, laborers and persons seeking employment, and instruct me

to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that section 3 be amended to read: "This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book," and that it be passed as amended. JAS. W. TAPP, Chairman.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

Senator Allen moved that the Senate go into committee 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 committee of the whole, with Senator Householder in the chair.

After some time spent therein the committee rose, and through the chairman submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: The committee of the whole Senate has had under consideration bills on the Calendar under the head of "General Orders," and I am directed to report as follows:

Recommend that Senate bill No. 50, An act to regulate the practice of dentistry, prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing chapter 123 of the Session Laws of 1885, chapter 152 of the Session Laws of 1887, and chapter 110 of the Session Laws of 1891, be passed as amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 195, An act authorizing the levy of road tax, providing for the appointment of township road overseers and prescribing their duties, and providing for the removal of the same for cause, authorizing the collection of certain road tax by suit, and repealing sections 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 of chapter 154 of the General Statutes of 1897, be passed as amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 234, An act to establish at Pittsburg, Kan., an auxiliary manual-training school and making an appropriation therefor, be passed as amended.

Also, 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, be passed as amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 69, An act relating to the bonds of certain county officers, and amending sections 1656, 1678, 1740 and 1791 of the General Statutes of 1901, be passed, subject to amendment and debate.

Also, Senate bill No. 46, An act for the protection of trade marks, be passed as amended.

Also, Senate bill No. 164, An act for the protection of trade marks, be stricken from the Calendar.

Also, Senate bill No. 192, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 180 of the Session Laws of 1897, entitled "An act relating to the establishment of county high schools in counties having a population of less than 2500," be passed as amended.

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