The Farm Record from Topeka, Kansas • 7

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H. W. Donnelly, 64 East 131st Street, New York A General Variety, Topeka, Twenty-fourth Day in Session. The house railroad committee, or ten of them, have introduced their omnibus RAILROAD BILL. Seven of the committee make a separate report.

The bill would fix the passenger fare at 2( cents a mile; provides for the election of railroad commissioners by the people, and forbids the issue of free passes. The minority of the committee endorse the two latter measures but oppose the 2 cent a mile rate. The minority argue that the operation of railroads in Kansas is not remunerative, although, as compared with other states, the percentage of business is greater in Kansas than in other states according to population. They find that the railroad mileage of Kansas is greater than in any other state except Illinois; that with its one and a half million people it has more miles of railroad than New York, with a population of six millions, and its vast natural and manufacturing industries develoj'ed and the chief city of the-union for foreign commerce within its borders; and exceeding the mileage of the state of Pennsylvania with over five millions of population and unlimited mines of coal and iron and its extensive manufacturing and agricultural industries; and exceeding that of all the New England states combined, with a population ot over five millions, being the manufacturing center of this country and of the continent. COFFEYV1LLK EXPLOSION.

The house refused to concur in the senate amendments to the investigation resolution relating to the Cofleyville dynamite explosion. THE APRIL COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. The house adopted Senator II. B. Kellys resolution providing for a congress to be held in Kansas City in April, representing the commercial interests of the western states.

Each state is to be represented by a delegation of five representatives and four senators. The house amended it by making the speaker of the house and the president of the senate delegates ex officio. A BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. The ways and means committee of the house have introduced a bill which provides for the creation of a board of public works, which is to have charge of all the public buildings of the state. The bill provides that the board, consisting of three mechanics, shall be nominated by the supreme court, who shall name twplve men to the governor, who shall select three for appointment, to be confirmed by the senate.

WAIVER AND APPRAISEMENT. The house in comrnttiee recommended the passage of Doolittles bill to provide for vacation of sheriffs sales when an adequate price is not obtained, when the contract making the debt contained a waiver of appraisment. Speaker Elder said that no existing contract was affected by the bill; that money loaners need have no fears; no one is going to lose a dollar that he has lovned in this state by reason of any act of this legislature. THE NEW MORTGAGE LAW. The bill presented by the judiciary committee was approved in committee, after being amended.

It authorizes the making of a mortgage containing a power of sale empowering the sheriff to sell the property without the necessity of a lawsuit, and it contains ample provision for the protection of the debtor against a sale wrongfully made. It givos the owner absolute right to redeem the land at any time within two years; and to occupy and use it during that period, besides making ample provision for junior creditors, if there be any. It limits the cost of foreclosures for which the land can be held liable to $10. METROPOLITAN POLICE. The senate defeated the bill to do away with metropolitan police by a vote of yeas 15, nays 28.

mbride confirmed. The senate in executive session confirmed the appointment of VV. H. McBride to bo superintendent of insurance for the term commencing July, 1891. TUB TOPEKA DAM.

The senate in committee approved the bill granting right of way for a raceway through the Topeka asylum grounds. County Seats Kot Itppadlntors, Topeka, Twenty-sixth Day in Session. The legislature does not take kindly to county seat schemes. Tho house judiciary committee presented an unfavorable report on the bill which authorized the county commissioners of Labette county to call an election for the relocation of the county seat upon petition of a majority of the voters. Another bill which was in the interest of the city of Augusta, which hoped to take the county seat of Butler county away from El Dorado, was also unfavorably reported upon.

NO NEW COUNTIES. The bill to make the county of Alliance Gut of portions of Lyon and Wabaunsee counties was unfavorably reported upon by the committee on county seats and county lines. Tho bill to make one county out of the counties of Gray and Garfield, the county to be known as Union county, was Killed. USURY LAWS. Speaker Elders bill amending the usury laws so that in all cases of usury the money loaner forfeits all principal and all interest was approved by the house in committee of the whole.

Under the law at present, the money loaner forfeits double the amount of usurious interest taken. Elders bill provides for a maximum rate of 10 per which is the law at present. NOT REPUDI ATORS. Cobun, of Pratt, introduced resolutions condemning eastern newspapers for publishing slurs on this legislature, by calling them repudiators, and that in order to disabuse the minds of those who are holding the credits of our people that we are unalterably opposed to any and all legislation that tends to the repudiation of just debts, and that we favor only such legislation as will make it possible for the debtor to meet his liabilities. a stenographer granted.

A resolution was adopted authorizing the committee appointed to investigate charges against the state house commissioners to employ a stenographer. THE MORTGAGE LAW PASSED. The house passed the mortgage bill introduced by the judiciary committee, which entirely revises the mortgage laws, gives two years for redemption of property sold under foreclosure, etc. PRIVATE BANKERS. House bill No.

169, by Brown of Harvey, to prohibit private bankers from doing business in any other than the individual name of the proprietors, and providing a penalty for a violation thereof, was read a third time and passed. FORCED BEAL ESTATE SALES. Doolittles H. B. 69 was passed by the house.

It provides for vacating sales of real state when sold under foreclosure and when an inadequate price is obtained. A jury trial is given by this bill to establish what is a fair price. CHINCH BUGS. The bill to establish a station at the state university for the extermination of chinch bugs was passed by the senate. LAND APPRAISEMENT.

The senate judiciary committee has reported a bill to provide for the appraisement of lands before sale under execution, whether appraisement has been waved by the mortgagor or not. PAY OF MEMBERS. The concurrent resolution passed by the house, which prohibits the payment of members except for such days as the legislature was actually in session was non-concurred in by the senate; 37 to 0. BILLS PASSED. The senate passed seven of the regular appropriation bills.

CONCERT BY THE BLIND. A delegation from the state institution for the education of the blind gave a concert iq the evening before the legislature. GIVING ABSENTEES A CHANCE TO VOTE. The senate elections committee in response to the direction embodied in Senator Moodys resolution have formulated and introduced a bili amending the present elections law by providing for the balloting and recording of the votes of any voter who may be away from his ward or precinct during any county, district or state election, or an election for members of the legislature or congress, or for presidential elector, while a member of the state militia, or volunteer in the United States service, or while an inmate of any state or national asylum for old soldiers. Such ballots shall be recorded in the precinct or ward which the voter calls his home.

AGENTS OF THE LOANER ONLY. The judiciary committee of the house made a favorable report upon house bill No. 622, entitled An act relating to the loaning of money. The bill provides that agents negotiating loans shall be considered and held to bo the agents of tho person or company loaning the money, and not tho agent of the borrower. Xhe Same Law and Regulation Will Got.

rn the New Additions to Oklahoma That Operated With the First Opening to Settlement, to Individual Indians Most be First Madty Then There Are Other Lauds Which Will be Ready to Come In Together. Washington, D. February 11. The boomers who are reported to be invading the Sac and Fox and Iowa reservations might as well save themselves considerable trouble and expense by remaining out until the lands are formally open to settlement. The interior department will apply the same regulations in the case of these lands as it did when Oklahoma was opened.

It will be remembered that prior to the 22d of April, 1889, the date of the opening of Oklahoma, many boomers invaded that territory and they were promptly removed by aid of the troops. A few who evaded discovery have passed into ofiicial history as sooners, and the decisions of the department have been universally against them. The act under which Oklahoma was created and the land opened to settlement prohibited persons who had entered in advance of the prescribed time from acquiring title, and that rule has been strictly adhered to by the department. The same act authorized the purchase and settlement of the Sac and Fox and Iowa lands, and the act which passed February 7 merely ratified the treaty by which they were secured. Prohibition against the sooners applies to the boomers who are now invading these reservations.

The secretary of the intorior held that un til the lands have been formally opened by proclamation no settlements even by squatter sovereignty can be effected, those persons who enter upon the lands prior to the date fixed (lie proclamation which may be issued will toifeit their rights as entry-men; meanwhile they will not be permitted to remain on the land. Reports from Guthrie indicate that the boomers, or sooners, as they might be more properly termed, are invading the two reservations in anticipation of early opening to settlement. Unless they remove themselves, howover, the aid of the military will be invoked and all intruders will be ejected. It might inteiest the persona to know that the allotments to the Indians must be made before the lauds can be opened. This will tako some time, the limit hxed by the treaty being four mouths.

This would place the date of opening as far away as the 10th or 15th of June, and it is not impropable that the land may not be thrown open to settle- ment until early autumn. It is expected that the Pottawatomie and Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations will also be in readiness to be thrown open to settlement by that time. The bills to ratify those two treaties have beon consolidated and are embodied in an omnibus measure which includes the treaties with the Sisscton and VVahpeton Indians, of North Dakota, and the Oouer de Alene Indians, of Oregon, as well. The indications are that this omnibus bill will be passed towards the close of the present session, in which event the area of land to be thrown pen to settlement in Oklahoma territory will bo greatly increased, including, as it would, all of the reservations east of Oklahoma proper except the Kickapoo land and nearly all of the land west of Oklahoma as ow constituted. Tlie Lpgihliiture, i'opeka, Twenty-third Day in Session.

house has commenced work on the AUSTRALIAN system of voting and ground through several sections of the bill in committee of the whole. elders stamp act. The house passed Speaker Elders bill which requires evory bond, mortgage and note held in the state to be taxed. The bill says that every such bond, mortgage or note or other evidence of indebtedness, must bear the stamp of the assessor or it cannot be collected. state pension agent.

Mr. Brown, of Harvey, introduced a bill for the appointment of a state pension agent to go to Washington and look after the claims of Kansas soldiers. getting anxious. A resolution was adopted directing the state printer to give the preference to mortgage, mterest and railroad bills in printing the various bills which are sent to him by the house. FRAUDULENT SCHOOL BONDS.

A resolution was adopted directing the attorney general and the state school superintendent to report to the house the facts in connection with certain bonds held by the state school fund vtliich are said to be fraudulent in character. The bonds were issued by school districts in Rice, Norton, Comanche and Howard counties. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY BONDS. Resolutions were adopted directing the attorney general to give to the house his written opinion concerning the present liability of the city of Lawrence and of the state university to the state rchool fund, for interest long past due, and for principal past due, of certain bonds of that city held by the school fund. BOOM ADDITIONS.

A number of local bills have been introduced to allow certain cities to decrease their corporate limits. Senator Gillette, chairman of the judiciary coinmitteo, introduced a bill of general scope that will cover the local bills. SUFFBAGE FOB VETERANS. Senator Moody introduced a resolution to Authorize the committee on elections to draft a bill to give the old soldiers at the home in Leavenworth the right of franohiBe. THE STATE HOUSE.

Senator Forney introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee on state affairs be instructed to furnish ar. opinion to the senate at the earliest practicable moment as touching the following points: First Can the state house be left in its present uncompleted condition for two years without material injury to the same and the interests of the state? Second If the same cannot be done, can ihe necessary sum for the completion of the eame be raised by issuance of bonds bearing low rate of interest? Carried over. DYNAMITE. 1 The senate amended the house resolution for Investigation of the Coifeyville dynamite affair, by giving the committeo a stenographer and greater power in calling witnesses, and Adopted it. SALARIES or COUNTY OFFICERS.

The senate considered S. B. 20, relating to salaries of county officers. There was trouble over the section about district clerks. Senators declared that this section, if an-acted, would close (lie courts in the large counties, as no one could afford to act ar clerk.

The matter was not settlod. i APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE CHARITIES. The senate went through and approved bills for more buildings hnd other improve dents at several of the state institutions. LOCAL BILLS. The senate approved in committee, and re commended the passage of thirteen local bin.

The House of Representatives Appoints a Committee to Investigate Alleged Cor-lnpt Practices of State House Commissioners, and Olliers. The House Also Wants to Know How the Law Relative to Old Soldiers in Appointive Offices Has Been Obeyed, or Disobeyed Topeka, Twenty-fifth Day in Session. The house has by resolution determined to investigate the state house. This action is taken independent of the senate. The committee appointed to do the work -is: Dumbauld, Neeley, Douglass, Kenton and Fortney.

The resolutions, introduced by Dumbauld of Lyon, and adopted, state that there are grave rumors afloat as to the manner in which funds have been expended; with negligence in letting contracts and in making allowance for extra work and material used; with other corrupt practices of the board of state house commissioners, contractors and employes, and misappropriation of funds. OLD SOLDIERS. Andrews, of Cowley, offered a resolution asking the committee on state affairs to find out specifically how the law requiring ap- Eomtive places to be filled by old soldiers as been obeyed. c. a.

henrie. Mr. Andrews also introduced a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the committee on state affairs to investigate the circumstances connected with the appointment of C. A. Henrie to a position in the labor bureau.

COUNTY PRINTER. A bill has been introduced in the house to create the elective offico of county printer. OSAWATOMIE ASYLUM. The committee on charitable institutions having visited this institution reported as being satisfied with management, and recommend the building of three new cottages at once. I OLATHE SCHOOL.

The same committee reported the result of their visit to the Olathe deaf and dumb school. They found excellent management. They found a carpenter shop needed there. They recommend that hereafter the Olathe deaf and dumb school be included among the educational institutions, and say that it will soon be self-supporting. NEW SYSTEM OF VOTING.

The house spont an afternoon considering the Australian ballot system, but did not finish it. SEED GRAIN FOR THE WEST. The house discussed at length a bill to appropriate $150,000 to supply western farmers with seed grain. The indications are that it will pass. senator richters alien land bill was discussed in the house.

Opposition was developed. It was laid over. j. concurred in. The senate concurred in the house amendments to the dynamite resolutions; and Senators Kimball, Mohler and Ed Carroll were appointed as committee on the part of the senate under the resolutions.

BILLS PASSED THE SENATE. The senate passed a number of local senate bills. Also bills introduced by the ways and means committee, providing for new buildings, at the blind asylum, the industrial school for girls, the reform school, the idiot asylum and the Osawatomie insane asylum. The bill was also passed which gives the right of way for raceways across the grounds af the Topeka insane asylum and the reform school COUNTY SALARIES. An effort was made to refer the bill (S.

B. 20), which had already taken two days time in senate, to a special committee; but this was lost; 21 to 16. IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. The senate approved several of the regular appropriation bills; including that for continuing the construction of the state house. Senator Howards bill for establishing a chinch bug extermination station at the state was among bills favorably acted upon.

Reciprocity Marching On. Washington, D. February 13. It is understood that the president has all ready for announcement a proclamation of reciprocity with Venezuela similar in terms to the agreement just reached by the exercise of powers conferred by the legislation in the last session of congress, and will take effect, according to report, about the same time as the agreement with Brazil. While the commerce of Venezuela is not as large as that of Brazil, the United States has for several years enjoyed a much larger proportion of the importing business than any other nation dealing with the Venezuelans.

The total exports of Venezuela in 1886 were a little more than $11,000,000, and their imports were about $9,000,000. Of this amount the Venezuelans took from us more than $2,000,000 in 1886, and in 1888 that country took from the United States products to the amount of $3,000,000. This included about $600,000 worth of principally wheat flour, about $500,000 worth of clothes, $400,000 worth of manufactures of iron and steel, and more than $600,000 worth of provisions and dairy products. The latest figures procurable of our imports from Venezuela ate those of 1888, In that year we imported a littlo more than $10,000,000 altogether, made ud of about $280,000 worth of chemical and dye woods, drugs and medicines; $8,000,000 worth of worth of other articles. The imports had increased from about $2,000,000 in 1870 to more than $6,000,000 in 1880, and the increase from 1880 to 1888 was about $4,000,000.

While the United States sends more prodnets to Venezuela than any other foreign nation the imports of the United Kingdom, France and Germany together, are larger than of the United States, and the imports are in extent in the order, respectively, of the nations mentioned. Prevision for tlie Worlds Fair, Sacramento, February 13. The house has passed a bill appropriating for Californias exhibit at the Worldi fair. Oregon Goes $50,000. Salem, February 13.

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Blaine has, at the direction of the president, submitted to the latter a statement of facts bearing upon the commercial arrangement just made with Brazil. Of the articles which will enter Brazil from this country free of duty, after April next. Brazil has been importing to the annual value of over of which has gone from this country and from all other countries. Of the articles on which, under the treaty, the duties will be reduced 25 per cent, when exported from the United States, Brazil imports annually of which $2,035,899 goes from this country and from all other countries. In return for these concessions the United States admits into its markets free of duty the sugar, molasses, coffee and hides, the growth and product ot Brazil.

It should be remembered that the duties on Brazilian imports from other countries, other than the United States, remain the same; thus giving great encouragement of and protection for a large increase in the amount of trade between the two countries. Georgias Governor Snubs Gould. Atlanta, February 12. There is a sensation here because Governor Northen refused to be present at a reception given Jay Gould here. On being asked why he refused, Governor Northen said: I do not want to meet Mr.

Gould. His visit here has no official character. While I would like to meet the other gentlemen of the party. I cannot do so because of the presence of Mr. Gould.

I objeot to him personally, because I disapprove of his policy of monopoly and his business methods. I regret to be forced to this conclusion. The common people owe Mr. Gould nothing, and as chief executive of Georgia I cannot ao him reverence. Governor Northen was elected by alliance votee.

A New Order Founded. Pittsburg, February 12. Mias Kate Drexel takes the final step to-day and becomes a nun. Her fortune of over $7,000,000 she devotee to work for the negroes and Indians. She has the approval of the pope, and has arranged to found a new order, The Slaters of the Bleesed Sacrament, of wbloh he ie to be the head.

Plans for buildings are made and ground purchased near Philadelphia. The sisterhood so founded is to be trained for the work of teaching and administering to the negroes and Indians. 1 The Two Shermans. Washington, D. 0., February 12.

Senator John Serman has gone to New York, upon receiving advice that hia brother, the general, was ill in New York. The Springfield Deadlock. Springfield, February 14. It is a matter of public knowledge that unless the republicans decide to accept an F. M.

B. A. candidate Messrs. Moore and Cockrell will withdraw from the joint assembly and leave the old parties to settle the contest for them, selves. In case the republicans after the departure of the F.

M. B. A. men should resort to breaking a quorum in order to prevent the election of a United States senator, Moore and Cockrell will then return to the joint assembly and announcing that they feel it incumbent upon themselves to spare the state the expense of a more prolonged contest, will vote for John M. Palmer for United States senator.

The joint assembly met at noon and cast five ballots, making tlie total 84, each resulting, Palmer 101, Lindley 100, Stello 3. C. J. Lindley was taken up by the republicans in caucus, it being thought advisable to withdraw Oglesby. Some Hop Entertained.

Naw York, General Sherman, now the focus of the attention of the whole world, is still alive. At 9:30 p. in. this bulletin was issued: The physicians in consulation say there is no decided change. If Goneral Sherman maintains his present status for 24 hours his situation will be hopeful.

John Shbbhan. The general's private secretary said soon after the above bulletin was issued that the doctors expressed themsolvos as confident that if thoy could keep the general alive for the next 24 hours, they could save his life. At 11:46 p. m. Lieutenant Fitch has just left General Shermans residence to spend the night at Dr.

i Greens house. Ho said that at 11 oclock General Bhorman got out of bed and walked across the room without assistance. He could not speak but appeared to recognize those in tho room. Tho general had to be helped back to the bod. He was very much exhausted.

Grasshopper and Drouth. London, February 14. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that information received from Rio De La Plata districts show that locusts and drouth have reduced the maize crops to a quarter of what the crop was ii.