KANSAS. 



513 



Permitting the Board of County Commissioners of 

 Barton County to fund its indebtedness. 



Relating to cities of the first class, and amendatory 

 and supplemental to an act entitled " An act to incor- 

 porate and regulate cities of the first class and repeal 

 all prior acts relating thereto," being chapter 37 ot 

 the session laws of 1881. 



Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Agricult- 

 ural College to purchase additional land for experi- 

 mental farming. 



To authorize school districts and Boards of Educa- 

 tion to adopt a uniform system of text- books, and to 

 repeal section 1, chapter 157, laws of 1870. 



To prevent incompetent or unauthorized persons 

 from engaging in the practice of pharmacy ; also, to 

 regulate the sale of poisons and proprietary medi- 

 cines, to prevent and punish the adulteration of drugs 

 and medicines, medical preparations and chemicals, 

 and to create a Board of Pharmacy. 



To provide for a uniform system of examination ot 

 school-teachers. 



To compel railroad companies to fence their roads. 



To authorize mutual fire-insurance companies to 

 provide for a guarantee fund. 



To provide for the burial of honorably discharged 

 ex-Union soldiers, sailors, or marines, who may here- 

 after die without leaving means sufficient to defray 

 funeral expenses, and to provide head-stones to mark 

 their graves. 



To provide additional facilities for the Department 

 of Natural History in the State University. 



Providing for the formation of telephone companies. 



To provide additional buildings at the Reform 

 School. 



To regulate the sale and to fix the weights and 

 measures of certain oils. 



To amend an act entitled " An act for the regulation 

 and support of common schools," being chapter 122, 

 session laws of 1876. 



Relating to the liability of railroads for damages by 

 fire. 



For the submission of a proposition to amend the 

 Constitution of the State. 



Relating to injunctions and amendatory of section 

 253, of Article XII, of chapter 80, of the General 

 Statutes of 1868. 



Relating to public schools in cities of the first class, 

 and amendatory of section 2, of Article X, chapter 

 122 of the laws of 1876. 



To create a Board of Commissioners of Highways. 



To provide for the erection of additional buildings 

 at Olathe, for the Institution for the Deaf and 

 Dumb. 



Providing for the remodeling and repairing of the 

 east wing of the State-House, and the erection of the 

 central building thereof. 



Amendatory of and supplemental to chapter 128 of 

 the session laws of 1881, being an act entitled " An 

 act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors, except for medical, scientific, and mechan- 

 ical purposes, and to regulate the manufacture and 

 sale thereof for such excepted purposes." 



The Governor, in approving the last-named 

 act, said : 



But in so doing I desire to state that I believe sec- 

 tion 8 of this act confers upon a county officer very 

 dangerous authority and power, which should not be 

 ! vested in any officer, and which, in the hands of an 

 unscrupulous man, may be grossly abused, without 

 fear or possibility of his punishment. . . . Before ap- 

 >> proving the bill, however, I asked the opinion of the 

 I Attorney-General, and of the two eminent attorneys 

 j who are chairmen respectively of the Senate and 

 House committees reporting this bill, as to whether this 

 : act would prohibit sales by^ wholesale druggists to le- 

 , gaily qualified retail druggists, of liquors in quantities 

 exceeding one gallon, and whether the provisions of 

 i, section 3 could be construed as imposing the restraints 

 i and limitations therein set forth on sales by whole- 

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sale druggists in larger quantities to retail druggist* 

 legally qualified. 



They replied in the negative. 



John J. Ingalls, Republican, was re-elected 

 United States Senator. 



Prohibition. On Oct. 6 the Governor ad- 

 dressed a communication to the Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, suggesting that, in view of the many 

 conflicting statements concerning the opera- 

 tion of the prohibitory law, it would be well 

 for him to ascertain by inquiry through official 

 channels what were the facts. To this the 

 Attorney-General replied as follows : 



From all the information I have been able to ob- 

 tain, it appears to me that the prohibitory law is no 

 longer an experiment, but, on the contrary, is being 

 enforced as successfully as the laws against horse- 

 stealing, murder, arson, or other crimes known to our 

 statute. The communications seem to indicate that a 

 greater per cent, of persons are convicted for violating 

 the prohibitory law than for the violation of any other 

 law. It appears that 79 per cent, of the trials have 

 resulted in convictions. If we add to this the in- 

 junctions that have been granted, which are equiva- 

 lent to conviction, the percentage is even greater. In 

 conclusion allow me to say that Kansas has a popula- 

 tion of about 1,250,000 people. It has eighty-five or- 

 ganized counties. In sixty-two of these counties only 

 525 convictions have been had for the violation of the 

 various criminal laws of the State since Jan. 1, 1885 ; 

 and 235 of that number are convictions for the viola- 

 tion of the prohibitory law. Fifty-two of the eighty- 

 five counties m the State report that they have no 

 saloons. Eight of the other counties report that the 

 law is only partially enforced. Two counties say the 

 law is not enforced, and we may infer very little has 

 been done to enforce it. To the last two counties I 

 will add the counties of Atchison, Ford, and Leaven- 

 worth, where the law is openl.y and notoriously vio- 

 lated, making a report from sixty-three counties in 

 the State. The open saloon in Kansas, at the present 

 rate of progress, will soon be a thing of the past. 



Population. The State census taken this year 

 shows the rapid growth of the State. The fol- 

 lowing table gives the population by counties 

 in 1885 : 



COUNTIES. Population. 



Greenwood 15,423 



Hamilton COO 



Harper 14,921 



Harvey 16,787 



Hodgeman 1.7S9 



Jackson 13,218 



Jefferson 17,568 



Jewell m998 



Johnson 15,604 



Kingman 10,088 



Labette 29,144 



Lane 2T8 



Leavenworth 42,799 



Lincoln 8,269 



Linn 17.157 



Lyon 22,922 



Marion 17,896 



Marshall 21,582 



McPherson 20.24S 



Miami 17.KH7 



Mitchell 14.856 



Montgomery 25,865 



Morris 10.918 



Nemaha 18,047 



Neosho 18,986 



Ness 8.096 



Norton 6,508 



Osage 26,188 



Osborne 12.728 



Ottawa 12,740 



Pawnee 5,416 



Phillips 10.888 



Pottawatomie 18,189 



COUNTIES. Population. 



Allen 14.738 



Anderson 13,192 



Atchison 27,686 



Barber 7,868 



Barton 10,136 



Bourbon 24,168 



Brown 15.954 



Butler.... 27,018 



Chase 7,347 



Chautauqua 15,021 



Cherokee 25,008 



Cheyenne 204 



Clay 16,956 



Cloud 20,174 



Coffay 16.005 



Comanche 2.579 



Cowley 29,555 



Crawford 25.878 



Davis 8,672 



Decatur 4,067 



Dickinson 20.866 



Doniphan 18,040 



Doufflas 25,092 



Edwards 8,519 



Elk 14,248 



Ellis 5,046 



Ellsworth 10,009 



Finney 1.4ST 



Ford 7.778 



Franklin 22,184 



Gove 595 



Graham 2,889 



Greeley 50 



