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first as a concert singer A friend, QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. and what is more important, present appearance indicate that the proprieter will have immediate use for all of it. railroad land fund now on hand and unappropriated, to the permanent school fond of the state, and to vacate the office of the Globe. The account had been doctered up to $418 after it went into the hands ot WrmfMDAT Mossnro, Fesrbart 23, 1876. to anything that did not educate Teachers' educated from the public pap were like mushrooms.

The members from Leayenworth, Lawrence, Riley and Lyon will vote for this appropriation and all other appropriation bills. They were very liberal members, but possibly they may all have axes to grind Mr. Bates said that while appropriations were the order of the day he would like to get a slice for a school they were organizing in Jefferson county. He wanted every county to have equal advantages. If it was right to educate teachers at tbs ex attracted by her- voice, paid? the expenses of her musical education, and it seemed that her career was to be that of a great She appeared on the 8th of April, 1835, in the Marriage of rgaro, which was really her first ap pearance as an actress.

Subsequently she lost her singing voice, and this ended her experience as a vocalist. Her brat great success was achieved in New Orleans in the character of Lady Macbeth. In 1837 she played Romeo, and the same year played Meg Merrilies, a character in which she was absolutely un approachable. As an mstaace of ber. re markable versality it may be said that great as she was in the characters W3 have men tioned, she created a remarkable sensation by her rendition of Nancy in Oliver Twist.

In 1845 she went to London where Mr. Forrest was playing. She appeared at the Princess' Theater for eighty-four nights, and afterwards made a provincial tour. In 1850 she returned to America, and after wards returned to England, and was almost continuously before the public on one side of the ocean or the other till 1861, when she went to Europe, and took up her resi dence in Rome where she resided for ten years. She came home, however, during the war.

went on the stage and earned nearly $10,000 tor the Sanitary Commission. Miss Cushman was first seriously at tacked by the disease which finally caused her death, in 1869, and was thenceforth a constant but unvielding sufferer. Up to within twenty days of her death she kept up hope and confidence. Charlotte Cushman went on the stage without the prestige of a family name great in the annals of the stage, and long before the manufacture of reputations by newspaper notices began. ine was never at any time her triumph was solely that of genius.

FROM FORT SCOTT. Fort Scoit, Feb. 21, 1876. To the Editor of the Commonwealth. I have no reccollection of any very ur gent requests on yonr part to "write me a letter," but with your permission (which I presume is granted, as' at present writing, I hear no.

objections urged), I will devote a little leisure to writing these few lines from Fort Scott, which, according to the latest explorations is supposed to be the hub of the universe, and the "head center' of southern Kansas. Fort Scott is not "what it used to was' what town in Kansas is? Many of the old evidences of daily life, are not present ed "in the cause kow in hearing," and many of the old land marks are obliterated. The incidents of its early settlement, and of the late war the quarter master and commissary departments, the long trains 'going south," the plumed soldiers, the jay hawkers and bushwhackers; the era of government contracts and government wag ons, form no part in the present history of Fort Scott, or Bourbon county. Specula tions in town lots are among the incidents of the past 5 plethoric pocket books show the ravages of consumption chubby faces have become elongated, and the song of "Trust to Luck," has gived place to "Root Hog, or Die." You will call this a dismal picture, and I am afraid some of the citi zens will claim that "your correspondent is doing them injustice, Not a bit of it. A different picture placed along side of correct paintiogs ot its sister cities in the west, if not in the east, would become lone some.

It would suffer from ennui; it would languish and die for want of con genial association. Don misunderstand me. 1 think as much, (I believe more,) of Fort Scott as of any other town in the State, and of Bourbon county as of any other county; but I would be assuming too much to pretend that even through the columns of the Con 1 could reach up, tear away the clouds, and let the sunshine through. "These few remarks" are not intended tocast reflection upon the city and county that bas done so much tor "your correspondent" in the past, and of which I can apply the old song, with a little variation, and say, There is my sister and my brother," There is the home of my mother I cannot contemplate the financial wrecks labeled "old settlers," whose geni al faces were wont to greet me with the smile of hope, and of triumph, as they bat tied for the pride and glory of their new home in the west, without blowing off steam as I "backwater." If old land marks have been obliterated, new ones have taken their places, I think I can say "without fear of successful con tradiction," that no town in the state is do ing a better commercial business than Ft. Scott, according to its population, and no county is prospering to greater extent than The county has some of the best soil, and worst roads of any county in the state.

For the former the Amighty is te be thanked, and for the latter our congrat ulations are exteded to the road overseers. I have had occasion to converse with some of tbe merchants of the city, and it seems to me they sing more cheerml songs than are common with tbe merchants of other citiei. a hey tell me their, business, gener ally, is good. The coal, cement and paint business the mills, foundry and other manufacturing, institutions, all contribute largely towards the material prosperity of the city. The immigration is much larger than I anticipated.

The hotel accommodations, already beyond the capacity (ordinarily) of cities of the same size, have had to be enlarged. The Gulf House, under the management of Bay lea Robinson, is crowaeu to its inmost capacity wuao me Wilder House, under the management of one of the' former Representatives our old time fnead G. Palmers-has become bo popular that he has found it necessary to enlarge. He showed me the plan for the new arrangement, which attaches a part of the lower and all of the upper portion of what has been known as the McDonald block This secures a hotel capaeity covering more ground than any other hotel in the State, "being 150 feet front by 120 feet deep, it Mr. Elder, chairman of the eommitte on ways means, rose to a question of privilege and stated that the Common wealth had published this morning that the ways and means committee had yester- A uaj xeponea puis lor appropriations for expenses of the coming year.

No such report bad been made, and the figures given in the Commonwealth in its "legislative summary," were erroneous some neing too high and some being too low and did not believe the appropriation would exceed $500,000. ORIGINAL MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. On motion of Mr. Campbell of Doninhan 250 copies of the testimony and report of we eommHiee on state affairs in the case of A. Mo wry, were ordered printed.

INTRODUCTION OP BILLS. H. B.No. 460, by Mr. Stillings: To amend section 101, chapter 31 of the general statutes of 1868.

Mr. Wood moved that H. B. No. 64, to give equal educational advantages in the common schools to all persons of school age and to amend section 19, chapter 92 of the general statutes of 1868 be considered engrossed and placed on third readinar.

Mr. Wood moved that the yeas and nays oe cauea on toe question. Mr. Uook moved that the motion of Mr. Wood be tabled.

The yeas and nays were called on Mr. Look's motion to table with the following result: yeas, 36; nays, 55. Ihe yeas and nays were then called with the following result: yeas, 36; nays, 57. Liost for the want of a two-thirds vote. The following bills were passed on third reaaing: n.

ts. jno. 2iz, an act to vacate and at tach parts of certain streets in Pardee. tkansas. ll.

is. No. 110, an act to amend an act entitled "An act for the protection of stock from disease," approved March 2, 1872, and to repeal section 2 of said act. H. B.

No. 85, an act to cede jurisdiction to the United States over the territory of the ort llays military reservation. bubstitnte for H. is. No.

334, an act to enable Phillips county to issue bonds to fund its scrip and defray current expenses ior tne year i87t. 11. is. No. 58, an act to amend section 54 of chapter 25, general statutes of u.

is. o. 16, an act to amend an act concerning the investment of the state school and university funds, being chapter iyu ot tne laws ot i7z. ll. ll.

No. Ill, an act to amend section HI ot chapter 23 of the general statutes of 1868, in relation to banks and banking ll. ts. no. lib.

to amend section 1 of chap. 35 of the general statutes of 1868, relating to dramshops (prohibiting the sale ot intoxicating liquors in the state,) was next in order. Mr. Dixon of Russell moved that the bill be placed on the calendar under the heading of Bills on third reading subject to amendment and Mr. Hackney moved that the bill be voted upon now.

Mr. Cook moved that the bill be placed at the foot of the division of Bills on third reading subject to amendment and debate." Mr. Benedict moved that its further consideration be indefinitely postponed. The roll was called on the motion of Mr. Benedict, with the following result ayes 24, nays 54.

Mr. Cook's motion was lost. Mr. Hackney's motion prevailed. Mr.

Dixon of Russell rose to a question of fact. He said that an amendment to the original bill had just been read not the orginal bill. His bill simply required cities of the first and second class to be put upon ihe same footing in regard to obtaining licenses for selling intoxicating liquors as the country. He wanted the amendment or substitute to be defeated, for if it became a law it would be inoperative. The roll was called with the following result Yeas Aldrich, Alnold, Baldwin, Bal-laine, Barnes, Biddle, Burdick, Campbell of Marion, Charles, Clark, Cochran, Conrad, Davis of Brown, Dennis, Dixon of Russell, Duncan of Harvey, Dunnuck, Elder, Eskridge, Foster.

Frost, Ferguson, Green, Hackney, Halderman, Hastings, Hoyt, Hubbard. Johnson, Little, Loy, Magill, Morse, Nichols of Miami, Page, Reville, Reynolds, Richardson, Rogers, Root, Snead, Stewart of Bourbon, Stewart of Montgomery, Taylor of Leavenworth, Taylor of Reno, Toothaker. Waters, Webb, West, White, Williams Wilson, Wood, Wright 55. Nays Baer, Bates, Benedict. Benton, Berry, Bissell, Brumbaugh, Campbell of Doniphan.

Campbell of Johnson, Cook, Davis of Miami, Dickson of Woodson, Duncan of Leavenworth, Farwell, Fenn, Gest, Click, ilaff, Halloweli, Heddens, Howell, Kelley Kirk, Marvin, Melvilb, Nichols of Cloud, Pierce, Rager, Saxon, Silvers, Smith, Stall, Stevens, Stillings, Stone, Tomlinson, Warning, Mr. Speaker 38. Mr. Dixon of Russell in explaining his vote said he should vote "no" because such a sweeping law would be, injoperative. Before the vote was Mr.

Dixon changed his vote to "aye." Mr. Lskndge, in explaining his vote said that he favored the bill because it was gen- 1 -rr eral in its provisions. He "would vote for any motion that would conduce to harmo ny, amity, peace and brotherly love. He wished to be recorded aye: Mr. Halloweli said that in the interest of reform he should 'vote "no.

Mr. Webb said that the amendment had been offered by him In good faith. He was opposed to the liquor traffic and drunkenness. He didn't believe in hypocritical sham and half-way reformers, and was opposed to such shilly shally business as allowing men and women to beg and petition for the privilege cf making drunkards. He voted, 4 aye." Mr.

West, in explaining his vote, said he was aware that the law would be inopera tive in many respects, but on the other hand it might be beneficial. He would put no straw in the way of reform of any kind. He believed that the interest of humanity and Christianity demanded of him to vote Mr. Wood was sorry to see some of the members who voted for the amendment in committee of the whole voting against it now. Some may have thought the amendment was intended for a joke, but so far as he was concerned it was a serious matter.

No prohibitory liquor law could be too sweeping or too stringent for him. He should vote "aye." Mr. White said he was opposed to sumptuary legislation, but nevettbeless, he wanted to be recorded "aye" on this bill. The announcement of the speaker that the bill had passed, was received with loud applause. Adjourned.

AFTERNOON SESSION. House met at two o'clock, Speaker Haskell in the chair. Roll call showed a quorum present, Mr. Reynolds called ap messages from the senate, amendments to H. B.

No. 137, and moved that the house concur ia amendments. Mr. Wood took the floor and argued against the amendment, -Mr. Glick rose to a point of order, and said the gentleman from Chase was mistaken as to the amount paid the Atchison Globe in his statement published this morning's Kansas City Times.

Only about $30 of that money had been paid to the the secretary of state. Mr. Wood said he had nothing to do with the frauds concocted in the office of the secretary of state. He contended that the printing might have been done for less thon $2,000. Mr.

Brumbaugh, moved the previous question. Ine previous question was seconded and the roll was called with the following re sult: ayes, 69; nays 20. The amendment gives the papers of the state for publishing the amendments to the constitution last year $6,285, the amount reported in the original bill. Mr. Glick called up the report of the conference committee on H.

B. No. 52, and moved to concur in the report of the com mittee. The roll was then called on concurring ia senate amendments which resulted: ayes, 87; nays, 4. So, the bird bill became a law.

Mr. Wood moved to go into committee of the whole on H. B. 64 and the appro priation bills, and moved the previous question. Mr.

luder rose to a point of order; that appropriation bills being the special oider for this hour no change in the order could be made. The chair decided the point of ordi-rnot well taken. Mr. Wood demanded ayes and nays, which were ordered with the following re sult: ayes, 42; nays, 44. So the motion was lost.

Mr. Elder then moved that the bouse go into committee of the whole on appropriation bills, which motion prevailed. The house then went into COMMITTEE OF TBE WHOLE, with Mr. Morse in the chair. Mr.

Elder called up II. B. No. 258, mak ing appropriation for the payment of the salary of the judge of the criminal court of Lieavenworth county for the fourth quarter of the year lo7J. lbe bill appropriates $625 to Hon.

Byron Sherry for salary due him. Mr. Webb moved to strike out the enacting clause. Mr. Taylor of Leavenworth hoped the house would not do such a foolish thing.

The money was justly due Mr. Sherry, and he hoped the house would make the appropriation without any cavil. On motion of Mr. Taylor of Leavenworth the bill was reported back as it came from the committee, and passage recommended. H.

B. No. 32 Making appropriation for the state normal school at Concordia. The bill appropriates $7,088.50. Mr.

Wood moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill and argued that the school was organized without the authority of law. He claimed that the commissioners organized the Concordia school without authority. He claimed that the appropriations would ruin the republican party. Mr. Stillings said the legislature was competent to make appropriations for the maintenance of any institution, whether it had been established by law or not.

If the legislature saw fit to make appropriation for a normal school in one section it could with equal propriety vote aid to a normal school in any other section. He did not care whether the Concordia normal school was established by law or not. So long as the legislature took it in charge and grant ed it aid the school was virtually a state in stitution. Mr. Kirk thought that one normal school, one state university and one agricultural college ought to be maintained and were required, but no more.

If one normal school should be properly supported and kept down to its legitimate business it would be enough for the educational wants of the state. Mr. Biddle thought there OHght to be an end to this rapid increase of educational institutions at the expense of the state. He agreed with Mr. Stillings that if the legislature failed to make an appropriation for the Concordia school it would die.

He thought the appropriation should not be made. Mr. Elder said that no children under the age of fifteen were allowed to attend the Concordia school. The people of Concordia have furnished the building at their own expense and only asked of the state means to maintain the school. Concordia was an isolated place, distant from railroads and the other normal schools were not accessible.

Mr. Nichols of Cloud gave a history of the organization of the Concordia normal school and showed that it was a normal school in fact and that it was an object of pride and material benefit to people in his isolated section. The school had been in operation but a little over a year and yet there were 203 pupils enrolled in that school. Should this institution be blotted ont it would cause sorrow among his people. Mr.

Hackney said that the Concordia normal school was purely a local institution, and that the state derived no benefit from it. If the state must maintain local schools, then why not aid schools at Wich ita, Fort Scott, WinSeld, Hutchinson and a hundred other places in the state It is these little steals that are disgusting the people I Mr. Ballaine said that one normal school was not sufficient for the wants of the state The normal schools were tbe most nseful institutions we have. They make sclen tific and practical educators, and you can not make a good educator in one section of the state without benefitting the whole state, Mr. Snead hoped the motion of Mr.

Wood would prevail. He did net want to make a particular fight on the Concordia school, but he was opposed to all the high- toned educational institutions, Leavenworth and Lawrence would next appear in a grab from the treasury. He thought the state could do well enough for a year withoat any high schools. Mr. Randall said that fourteen counties were interested in the Concordia school.

When the people of his sec lon first settled there, they were without educational facilities and suitable teachers. The Concordia school was meeting a want deeply felt in his sectijn and doing a great deal of good. He thought it would be a shame for the legislature to refuse appropriate the little sum asked to maintain that institution. Mr. Pierce said that the members who were opposing this institution did not kuow what they were talking about.

The school was doing a glorious work for the northwest. We might, with as much propriety, Bay that one legis'ature could do the work for the whole United States as to maintain that one normal school could meet the wants of tbe state. It has been charged that the Concordia school was a local To some exteat that was true, but is not the same applicable to every other educational institution in the state There was not one student at that school that could afford to attend a school at To-peka. The proposition to kill this school was an insult to the people of the northwest. Mr.

Campbell of Johnson said that as the business had commenced of portioning ont the treasury we had better be careful bow we commeaced. Gentlemen say that these institutions are not local, but it was remarkable that the members in the neighborhood of any institution asking appropriations always stick together. He believed that charity should commence at home. He never knew a teacher to amount agent tor the sale of said lands. is.

No. 342, an act making an aonro- pnation for the expenses incurred by the commissioners of the public, school fund in the investigation and prosecution of the parties concerned in the perpetration and sale of certain forged school district bonds. Senate adjourned until 2 o'clock this af ternoon. APTERNOON SESSION. Senate called to order at 2 n.

m. tS president. Roll called and quorum present. The third reading of bills was rpsnmert and the following bills were read a third time and passed 6. is.

No. 94, an act to amend section 18 of chapter 14 of the general statutes. This is the notorial protest bill already published. Substitute for S. B.

No. 102, an act supplemental to an act entitled "An act to amend section 1 of chapter 98 of the laws of 1875," being an act entitled An act to amend section 139 of article 10 of chapter 25 of the general statutes of 1868," approved March 5, 1875. This is the bill increasing the salaries of county attor neys. o. is.

o. 197, an act to authorize the counties of Chautauqua and Elk to issue the bopds of said counties, to provide for the appointment of a commissioner to ne gotiate such bonds for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of. and to settle claims against Howard county. The provisions of this bill are explained in its title. S.

B. No. 107, an act to amend- sections 12 and 38 of chapter 24 of the general statutes. This bill changes the county lines of Cherokee and Labette counties. By consent Senator Parkinson introduc ed S.

B. No. 200 Directing tke treasurer and auditor of state to give the county of Cherokee credit for certain state taxes paid and not heretofore duly credited to said Cherokee county, which under a suspension of the rates, was read twice, ordered to be printed and referred To the committee of the whole. The third reading of bills was resumed. H.

B. No. 296, an act to enable counties. townships and cities to aid in the cotstruc- tion of railroads, and to repealsection 8 of chapter 39 of the laws of 1874, was read a third time and after being amended ia two or three particulars the bill passed by the iouowing voie i eas Bauserman, Cooper, Crichton. Dow, Finney, Halderman, Hopkins, Johnson, Judd, Martin, Miller, Peffer, Sims, St.

Clair, Stephens and Williams. 18. Bainum, Bartlett, Bridges. Davis. Horton, Jones, Maltby, Martindale, McMil- lian, rarkinson, Robinson, Schaeffer, dimons, tvelis and wood.

Id. S. 11. Is 156, an act to enable counties townships and cities to extend aid in the construction of railroads, was read a third time. The roll being called the bill passed by the following vote xeas liauserman, Cooper, Crichton, Dow, Finney, Griffin, Gillespie, Halderman, Hopkins.

Johnson, Parkinson, Jrener, ocbaner, fet. (JIair, Stephens, wniiams iy. Nays Bainum, Bartlett, Bridges, Davis. Morton, Jones, Martindale, McMillan, Rob inson, JMmons.welJs 11. This is the bill known as Judge Stilling's passed, and some people are happy.

UUilUTI tUlllUQU fcl.l. UVIIU Ilia ine committee on railroads reported back H. B. No. 174, known as Mr.

Cook's "dead line" bill, recommending that it be printed, and referred to the committee of the whole. The senate then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of S. Nos. 193, 131, 47 and 189. Senator Wil liams in the chair.

S. B. No. 193, an act to enable the coun ties of Douglas and Franklin to take up and cancel certain outstanding bonds and coupons purporting to be bonds and cou pons of said counties issued to railroad com panies, and all judgments recorded thereon, and to issue funding bonds for that pur pose, and to provide for the payment of the same, was taken up and read. Senator Bartlett moved to amend by in eluding Anderson county, which motion prevailed.

The passage" of the bill was recommended. substitute tor b. is. No. 1J1, an- act to authorize the school board of Chetopa, Labette county, Kansas, to issue bonds, was taken up.

Senator Crichton moved that the bill be passed over and be placed at the heador the calendar, which motion prevailed. S. B. No. 47, an act in relation to listing mortgages for assessment, was taken up and read.

The object of this bill is to re quire registers of deeds to furnish each township trustee with a list of all mort gages on file or on record in his office on the first day of March in order that they may be assessed. 1 he passage of the bill was recommended. S. B. No.

189, an acro suppress the swindle known as three-card monte, and 1 me saie oi prize packages, was taKen up ana reaa. rrt i -i a iie uiu proviues inai wnoever snail, in this state, deal, play or practice, or be in any manner accessory to the dealing, play .1. r- i ing or practicing oi me connaence game or swinaie Known as mree-cara. monte. or of any such game, play or practice, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon con viction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars, and by confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five, "years." Whoever shall, in this state, on any railroad car, coach or tram, practice any confidence game not mentioned in the preceding sec tion, or shall sell any prize packages, or other prize, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

It is hereby made the duty ot railroad conductors, brakesmen on rail roaa trains, to immeaiaieiv arrest the per son so offending, without warrant or other process, and to call upon all bystanders or others for assistance, where the same may be necessary to enable them to make such arrests, aud when such offense is commit ted on any railroad car, coach or train, the venue shall lie, and the person be tried in any county through which such railroad may run, any law to the contrary notwith standing. Ihe onl was recommended lor passage, Senate adjourned morrow morning. nntil 9 o'cloek to HOUSE. MORNING SESSION. House called to order at 9 a.

m. by the speaker. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Orwig.

About twenty bills were considered grossed and placed on third reading. i PRESENTATION OP PETITIONS. en By Mr. Baldwin Remonstrance of A. Bras he and 57 others of, Wabaunsee coun ty against any change of county lines.

REPORTS OP STANDING COMMITTEES. were then read. The committee on retrenchment and reform reported that under the law of 1870j for the organization of the Leavenworth normal school, the schools had been organized contrary to law ia their opinion, and that if so one hundred could be organised under the law. On motion of Mr. Diekson of Woodson, H.

B. No. 70, was placed on third read- subject to amendment and debate. The Opera House is another feature of interest, which is at least fully up to the times. Mr.

Davidson made too big a thing of it, for his own interest, and swamped himself. The citizens appreciating his en terprise, which produced the finest Opera House in the State, have united in a gift scheme (some folks are wild enough to call a lottery), with a view to relieve him of his embarrassment. If the order for tick ets received the past week is any guarantee, there can be no question of a drawing at the- time advertised; for the orders, during the time I have mentioned, have been far between five and ten thousand tickets. In the war of papers, the Monitor is, of course, the ''leading paper." The Pioneer is, I understand, doing a good business, and Barter, who has been running a jcb office, is about to start a newsy little sheet entitled, "The Little Footprint." It was my purpose when I began this letter, to write something about the coun try, and of the national cemetery here, about which, through the kindness of Cap tain Hyde, the superintendent, I have been enabled to make some notes, but I find that space, as well as time, is the "essence of this contract," and I must, therefore, defer it for some future occasion. In the meantime, appreciating the fact that I am, at present, and wish to be regarded by your readers as nobody, I respectfully sub scribe myself, Yours lruly, jneko.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE. Sixteenth Annual Session. Reported Expressly for the Daily Commonwealth. SENATE. Topeza, February 22, 1876.

MORN II SESSION. Senate called to order at 9 a. m. by the president. Roll called and quorum present.

Journal of yesterday read and approved. Senator (Jnchton, chairman of the con ference committee on H. B. No. 52, rela tive to birds, made a report, which was read and concurred in.

It prevents the shooting of prairie chickens from to Jan. 1, and quails during November and Decem ber. Senator Bauserman tendered his resig nation as chairman of the committee on enrolled bills, which the senate refused to accept. H. B.

No. 400, allowing the county com missioners of Jewell county to fund their indebtedness, was read a first time. Also several other bills of different characters. H. C.

R. No. 45, asking congress to cede and donate tbe Fort Harker military reser vation to the state of Kansas, to be used read and concurred in. H. C.

R. No. 51, memorialising congress to make no reduction of the regular army, a nd urging that troops be stationed on the frontier to protect the settlers from depre bv the Sioux. Chevennes and Ar apahoes, was taken up, read and concurred in. The senate then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the calendar.

Senator Sims in the chair. SPECIAL ORDER FOR 9 O'CLOCK A. M. S. B.

No. 157, an act to amend section 4, chapter 86, laws of 1869, was taken up and read. This bill raises the grade of the board of examiners for the examination of teach ers of public schools. Teachers receiving a first class certificate shall thoroughly un derstand Entomology, Botany and Indus' trial Drawing in addition to what has here tofore been required. It also allows first class certificates to run for two years, in stead of one as at present.

No certificate shall be of force except in the county where issued, and the certificate so issued may be levoked by the board at any time on tbe ground of immorality, or for any cause which would nave justified the withholding of the same at tbe time granted. Under this act second class certificates shall run for one year and third rates for six mocths. An effort was made to amend the bill by making all certificates good for one year, which did not prevail. Another attempt was made to make first class certificates good for one year and second grades good tor only nine months, which was also lost Senator Bainum then offered an amendment that all examinations be in public, and that they be conducted orally. The debate took a wide range in which nearly- all the senators took part.

The whole educational interests of the state were gone into, the members generally giving their views as to how the "young idea should be taught to shoot. Senator Bainum's amendment was also lost. The bill was finally recommended for passage, and the committee rose and its report was agreed to. Senator Peffer moved that the rules be suspended, and that S. B.

No. 196 be considered engrossed and placed on its third reading. This bill is to enable the county of Montgomery to take up and cancel the bonds of said county, heretofore issued to the Leavenworth. Lawrence Galveston Railway Company. Senator Horton moved to amend that the senate now go into committee of the whole for the purpose of considering S.

B. No. 196, which motion prevailed. Sena tor Wood in the chair. The passage of the bill was recommend ed, and the eommitte rose and its report was agreed to.

THIRD READING OP BILLS. The following bills were read a third time and passed: S. B. 83, an act to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act to establish the salaries- state officers, judges and officers of tbe S. B.

No. 79, an act to amend section 5 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the removal of public officers who are guilty of being intoxicated, or for gambling." Si B. No. 100 an act to vacate certain alleys in the cities of Coffeyville and OswegO. S.

B. No. 114, an act to regulate weights and measures, and to repeal an act regulating weights and measures, approved March 2, 1868. S. B.

No. .109, an act amending chapter 105 of the general statutes of 1868, and chapter 114 of the session laws of 1870, being an act in relation to stock. S. B. No.

110, an act requiring railroad companies to fence their roads. S. B. No. 116, an act to provide the maintenance of insane persons who have been refused admission to the state insane asylum.

Substitute for S. B. No. 169, an act for the relief of X. K.Stout,of Doniphan county, Kansas.

Substitute for S. B. No. 194. an act authorizing the transfer of the balance of the REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

A delegate conTention of the republican of tbe itate willt bold fa repreaeotatlTe hall, lathe city of Topeka, on Wednedy the 24th day of May, A. D. 1876, at the hour of two o'clock T. for the purpose of chooring ten de'egatee and tea alternates to represent tbs republican party of Kansas in the Union Republican Kattona! ConTention to he held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 14th day of June, pro for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and rice president of the United States. Inch lepresentatiTe district entitled to representation in the legislature of 1877 shall be entitled to two delegates.

It is feconmended that the district conTention for the purpose of electing delegates to the state conTention herein called be held oa Saturday, the 13th day of May, such hour as may be designated by the central committee of each representatiTe district, or in the eTent that there be no such committee, by the. cen-t ral commute of the county. It is also recommended that in addition to fa delegates- herein proTided for, one alternate be elected fot each delegate. No person will be entitled to a seat or Tote in the conTention by Tirtue of holding the proxy of any of tha delegates. By order of the committee.

Joh9 GcTHaiS, Chairman. J. Jat Bcce Secretary. Governor Ccset is shipping hooppeles to the Kansas-City market. Colored people from lennessee are still migrating to the Neutral Land country.

Speaker Kerr's malady is said to some thing resemble Bright's disease of the a kidneys. Within the last two weeks there hare been twenty boot and shoe drummers Independence. in There ia a bright and shining idiot in the California Senate named Laine, who wants a law passed to compel the publisher of every paper in California to affix to every article the name of the real author. The St, Louis correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing about the Babcock case says, "Both sides heartily congratu late themselves on the happy chance that brought the case to trial before udge Dil Ion. Treasurer New is not likely to get any richer than General Spinner did.

He says that since he has been in office he has drawn $3,800 of his salary and has paid back-into the Treasury $3,000 to make good various sums of money which mys teriously disappeared. Judge Parker, of the United States District Court for the western district of Arkansas, on the 8th passed sentence of death upon Aaron Wilson, a negro, for the murder of an old man named Harris and his sod Frank, of Beattie, Marshall county, Kansas, while traveling through the Indian Territory, on their way to Texas. The crime was committed for the sake of I robbery. A new device in railway financier ing appears in Illinois, which is fondly expected "to solve the question of cheap transportation." The charter of a new organization, the Keokuk, Salisbury Chicago company, provides for a narrow- guage road to be built mainly by local subscriptious from farmers, manufacturers and business men along the line, who re- ceiye in return certificates negotiable at pleasure, receivable by the company in payment for fifty per cent, of freight or possenger charges after the road is in op eratisn, and secured by a brat lien upon the road which cannot be invalidated by legal proceedings under any subsequent lien. The corporators are said to be wealthy men.

who are abundantly able to test the scheme. The case of the Republican River Bridge Company vs. the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, which was tried in Jodsce Mor ton's court here, and afterwards in the Su preme Court, has reached a hearing in the Supreme Court of the United States. The New York Herald makes the following no tice of it: No. 154.

Republican Rirer Bridge Compa ny vs. Kansas Pacific Railroad Company. Er ror to the Supreme Court of Kansas. This is a contest concerning the right of way of the railroad through the Fort Riley reservation. Tha court below ruled that the joint resolution of 1867 conveyed to the bridge company, by virtue of the patent issued in pursuance of it, all the land mentioned therein except the land conveyed to the railroad company ror a right of way by the joint resolution of 1866, but that the joint resolution of tha prior year vested in the Union Facific railroad company and its branches twen ty acres of the reservation opposite Riley City for a depot and other purposes and the right ot way claimed.

It is here contended that the grant to the State of Kansas for bridge pur poses, its acceptance and the construction of the bridge, and the full performance of all the con ditions prescribed by Congress, and the final patent to the bridge company, under the grant to the Mate, vest in the company exclusive title, notwithstanding the claim of the railroad under the joint resolution of 1866. That resolution, it is oontended, did not amount to a grant, and has never been followed by a patent. B. F. String-fellow for plaintiff in error: W.

TV Otto for de fendant. The New York Tribune says that the concluding argument was made by R. Mc- Bratney, of counsel for plaintiff in error. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN. The advocates of equal rights in every thing for women, based, on the ground of female capacity for any station where men tal or physical vigor is required, will find henceforward a shining illustration in the career of Charlotte Cushman.

While the closing years of the men who have reigned the kings of the staffe has so often been marked by physical decay and mental darkness, this woman endured the tremend ous strain of the most exacting of profes sions for nearly forty years and never fal tered even to the close. The qualities which make the great ac tor are frequently hereditary, these quail ties run in families, as in the case of the famous Kembles, but Charlotte Cushman came of Puritan steck, in a time not far distant the iron enemies of the stage. Her first ancestor Robert Cushman, was a minister, and came with the Pilgrims to New England. By an odd circumstance, however, the playfellow of Charlotte Cushman's childhood was John Gilbert, the famous comedian. Perhaps this circumstance had its weight, but, at any rate, when her family became impoverished, and she had her bread to win, she appeared on the stage in pense of the state, why not likewise educate lawyers and doctors with the tataa public's money He had no objection to paying taxes to educate children in hia own district, but he did object to paying bi prices for professors, in oar hi a schools.

Mr. Reynolds said that the question of killing or maintaining the state edacatiwa-al institutions might as well be fought now as at any other time. The idea had tcca advanced that the normal school and state university were in conflict with the common school. Nothing was more erroneous. The normal school was promotiva of tbe common school and the state umvertuty was the complement of both.

If mem bers wanted an educational status no better than that of Pike county, Missouri, aud Posey county, let them kill an educational institutions. Mr. Cook thought that the people of tha northwest should have a normal school acl made an earnest appeal in favor of the appropriation. Mr. Halloweli was opposed to making appropriations to any institution that was illegally organized.

Mr. Taylor of Leavenworth said it had been charged that the delegation from Leavenworth wduld favor this appropriation, and so far as a portion of the delegation was concerned the charge true. He believed that the northwest sho, have this normal school and that it was contemptible to oppose it. He did not believe that all the people of the state were as much opposed to education as the members on this floor who were opposing this normal school and who were in need of more education. ilr.

West said that the Concordia school was the pride of the northwest. He did not believe that the legislature could sibly refuse to grant the people there the little boon they were askiug. The motion of Mr. Wood to recommend the striking out of the enacting clause prevailed by a vote of 43 to 42. H.

B. No. 259, making an appropriation of $2,651.40 for state printing, paper and' binding material furnished, and for freight and express charges paid on material for state printing, binding, was next considered, and passage recommended: H. B. No.

438, to enlarge and farther define the duties of the state board of can-tennial managers and to provide for defraying the expenses of a Kansas exposition at Philadelphia, A. D. 1876, being supplementary to chapter 44 of the laws of 1874 I and chapter 68 of the laws of 1875, was next considered. The first section provides for adding four managers to tbe five provided by the previous law. Mr.

Webb moved that six be added instead of four. Mr. Halloweli said that three of tha members of the old board had resigned, leaving only two remaining. He hoped that tbe board would not be made too large. Mr.

Webb thought his amendment, if prevailed, would give every section of the state a representative. Mr. Johnson moved that seven be subati-tuted for four, which prevailed. Mr. Dickson of Woodson moved that the seven additional shall be engaged either in agriculture or horticulture.

Mr. Stevens moved as an amendment that no member of the legislature of the state of Kansas shall be appointed a member of said board. Mr. West said he was opposdd to both amendments. He didn't believe in hampering the governor when making the appointments.

Mr. Snead said that Mr. West was an interested party and had been circulating petitions for himself for an appointment. Mr. Halloweli said that Mr.

West could resign if he wanted to be appointed on the board, 1 Mr. Wood said that the bill would undoubtedly pass, as it had got into the normal school ring. For the benefit of those members who were going to change positions on this question he wanted these amendments to pass, particularly the one of Mr. Stevens, to relieve those members from tbe sispicion of interested motives. Mr.

Kellogg was in favor of the amendments, providing those advocating theia meant business. Mr. Stevens said there was no foolishness in his proposition. Mr. Webb opposed the amendments.

The amendments were adopted. Section 1, as amended, was then adopted. The second section provides for the erect ing of a building in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, for the exposition ef Kansas productions. Mr. Hackney moved as an amendment to the section, that the state board of managers take charge of the products now collected for tbe Philadelphia exposition, and transmit them thither.

Mr. Webb moved as an amendment the cost of the building should not exceed $10,000. Mr. Wood said that the state organ, which would not lie, had stated that Colorado would pay one-fourth the expense of erecting the building, He moved tLea tL4t $7,500 be substituted. y- Mr.

Halloweli said it was not a settled matter that Colorado' would unite with Kansas. Mr. Wood said that if Mr. Halloweli and the legislature would assert that the Com-monwealtq would lie he would witbJraw bis motion. Mr.

Halloweli replied that the had said so many truthful thicks about the gentleman from Chase could not say that the Commonwealth would lie. Laughter. Mr. Tomlinaon moved that the amouut be limited to $8,000. Both the amendments of Messrs.

Ton-linson aud Wood were lost. The motion of Mr. Webb prevailed. The second section, after some immaterial amendments, was adopted. The third section provide for the sale cf the exposition building after having served its purpose, the money received froni tie sale to be placed in the Kansas treasury.

It was adopted. bections 4, 5, 6 and 7 were adopted. Section 8 provides the amount. In the bill it was left blank. Mr.

Halloweli moved that $25,000 be in serted in the blank. Mr. Webb moved that $50,000 be i serted. Mr. Tomlinson moved that $15,003 be inserted.

The motion of Mr. Webb was lost, Mr. Wood said he would favor an srpro- priation of $15,000, for the sake of tamo, ny, which was $5,000 higher than h'm'p ment approved. The Atchison, Topes i Santa Fe railroad company were collection of products which would the world, much better than had been ccl-lected by the centennial board. tz I other ran roaa companies naa is.i a.