White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-12-21
Worlk Tor the LegfsIafure.

T.fioas rarties-i in the State are engaged in lay
ing st work for the Legislature. While there ID
seze work that ought to lie done, there is good
deal more that sonebaly will want done, and
which will occupy considerable portion Of the
time.
The State University will want at least 1900
to pay for completing new buildings.
The State Normal School will want $4,000 for
additional buildings.
s The Leavenworth Normal School will want
$5,Ooe, for additional accommodations.
Ia Blind Asylum, at Wyandotte, having prob
ably had one or two additions to the number Of
it's inmates, cannot get along with less than sl5,-
OO0fer improvements.
The Insane Asylum, at 0sawatomie, although
an addition has just been erected, will wsnt more
room-say $4,000 or 50.
The Penitentiary will want at least S1O,OOO more
than last year, to put it upon paying foof'ng.
The State Agricultural College will want $780,
900, at least to erect new and graiicr buildings;
and $4,000 to experiment with trees, seeds, an,
eggs
Topeka will demand about So, 900, to construct
another ciDder walk in the Capitol grounds, and
plant few cottonwood trees around the borders;
and $4,000 to erect the east portico.
The Western Counties, having escaped Indians
and drouth, have been visited by prairie fires and
will want $4,000 worth of seed wheat and corn,
to keep the settlers from starving ont.
Leagues and clans of men, who have spent the
Summer in contention and litigation, instead of
working their farms, will want some thousands of
dollars to pay the expenses of their lawsuits.
Somebody will want a commission to audit
claims for losses to citizens for the depredations
of wolves, hawks, and skunks; and $4,000 will
be wanted to pay the expenses of this commission
in looking mp an indebtedness of 100000 or such
matter for the State to assume.
At least 100000 will be wanted to settle unli-
quidated balances for various jobs for which the
contractors have already received three prices.
Somebody will have an unsaleable book or pat
ent thumb paper, and will want a law authorizing
some officer to buy about $4,000 worth for the
use of the schools, and retain the amount from the
funds of the school distrcts-allowing, of course,
some officer handsome per centage on sales.
Somebody will be proffering a catch-penny book,
containing matter that has been stale for the last
dozen years, and will want s. 600 to enable him
to publish it, in consideration of the benefit it will
be to the State.
$4,000 or more will be wanted to enable a few
men to travel and enjoy themselves i'm the Eastern
States and in Europe, under the disguise of I'M
migration Agents.
Laws will be wanted to curtail work for which
Iaboring men, especially printers receive pay, M
to concentrate the work in q new Office to be ere
ated to which some favorite will he appointed,
and loll at his ease fat salary made mp of the
wages formerly paid to working men.
Highly important measures will be necessary to
make capital for the numerous aspirants for Cub
ernatorial and Congressional honors, who will oc-
cupy seats in the Legislature.
The different State officers will each want
thousand or two added to his allowance for clerk
hire.
And finally, the tax-burdened and groaning peo-
pie will ask for law postponing tax-paying or
the penalty on unpaid taxes This law, Of course,
will be defeated. All the others mentioned, being
meritorious will stand a fair chance to pass.