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Show WORK OF VARIOUS STATE LEGISLATURES UEN'VKK. Jan. 27 Senator Carrlnger. for the Colorado School of Mines, and Senator Cassady. for the I'niverslty of ' Colorado, today introduced In tho senate resolutions approving tho plan whereby professors In these institutions reaching tho nge of 60 years may receive pensions i from the Carnegie foundation fund of 55,000,000. CARSON CITY, Nov., Jan. 27. Senator Francis O. Newlands was elected to sue- i cecd himself by joint ballot of the N'c- j vada legislature today. The vote was unanimous, and there was passed with- ; out a dissenting vole a resolution pre- , aentlng Senator Newlands's nam for con- ' sldcration as tho next Democratic candl- . date for the presidency. i TOP12ICA. Kan.. Jan. 27. The election j of Joseph L. Brlstow of Sallnu as United States senator, succeeding Chester I. Long for the six.-ycar term, beginning ! March I next, was ratified by the house and senate In joint session hero today, j The vote: Brlstow, 115: Hugh P. Far-rellv. Far-rellv. Democrat, of C'hnnute. 16. Sena- tor" Brlstow addressed the joint session j following the ratification. MADISON". Wis.. Jan. 27. Senator , Isaac Stephenson lacked but one vote of i being re-elected to the United States ' senate for a full term on tho first ballot in joint assembly today. There being Iwo senators absent, tho total vote was Ml. i thus requiring G6 votes for a choice. Senator Sena-tor Stephenson received 65. Several members mem-bers who voted for him yesterday deserted de-serted him today, as the charge of primary pri-mary corruption has been made against him. HELISNA. Mont., Jan. 27. The stato land Investigation took up a large part of the tlmo In tho house of representatives representa-tives today. Tho first question which arose was the Increasing of the committee commit-tee by tho addition of two lawyers from the house, and the motion also provided for the appointment of an attorney at a salary In case the attorneys from tho house wero busy. In the afternoon it was taken up and a resolution was passed requesting the senate to appoint a committee com-mittee to act In conjunction with the house committee. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 27. There Is In preparation prep-aration a bill to re-enact by tho legislature legisla-ture those chapters of the general laws of the stato which placo a tax on tho gross earnings of corporations. Theso chapters were adopted by tho people under un-der the initiative and referendum, and as one of the chief public service corporations corpora-tions of the Pacific coast Is attacking tho constitutionality of the law as adopted under the Initiative, this new bill Is designed de-signed to cover tho taxation subject, even should the supremo court of the United States declare Oregon's Initiative and referendum unconstitutional. |