The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-22
FROM TOPEKA
The Members of the senate and House
Disposed 70 Redeem the Remain
ing Times of the Present SEES
sion OF the Legislature.
A Warm Time Expeofed In the Confer.
ence of the Committees on the
Senate and House Rail-
road Hills
The Dentistry BilI-Concerning the Is.
sue of StOek-The Geological
SuFVey-The Militia
Bill.

Text of the House AID senate AppOrtIon-
ment BiIIs-LittIe Differences
in the Two Measures.
/ Special to TIE EAPORIA DAILY NEWS.
TOPEKA, Feb. 1.-THE time has now
come when the legislature can no long
er permit any foolishness, and therefore
both houses are doing business with CO.
lerity and dispatch. Instead of taking
up time with minor details, as was the
case during the early part of the session,
those things are Jumped, so to speak,
and rushed through without delay. 1t
now looks as though an adjournment
would be secured by the 10th OF March,
at any rate, provided, of course, that an
agreement upon the railroad bill by
| the two houses can. be arrived at by
| the 9th, the time when the fifty DAYS
OF the life of the legislature will expire.
Should no agreement be reached by that
time the Governor may call a special
session in order that the railroad busi.
ness may be disposed of After the 2Stb.
when The pay ceases, the average mtm.
Der OF the legislature will take very lit
tie, if any, interest in his duties and will
go home and let the railroad law take
care of itself. 1t costs something to live
here in Topeka. and when the state
| ceases dealing out to each member S.
per day the interest in the welfare of the
state
GROWS VERY Dull.
and dim in1naA i a.
night sessions and long day sittings
there will be an immense amount of
work TO do when the end of this month
arrives, and if an extra session is not
called and the members refuse 10 stav
there will be hundreds ofbills remaining
unpassed, many of which are of at least
! local Importance and several of general
Importance to the state. There have
been more than seven hundred bills in
troduced during the session so far and
every day new ones are handed in. 1t
| is not probable that one hundred of
them will pass, which is fortunate, as
the statute books now are crowded with
laws that are not inforced. We are
I
| spects than one. There is no doubt
that the matter OF adjournment is wnr.
| rying some of the members a good deal,
as there is no doubt that they are hardly
financially able TO stay here and pay So
per day for board while their business
at home is suffering and they are not
drawing anything here.
/ NOW FOR THE CONFERENCE.
The senate passed the Kelley bill as
it came from the committee of the whole
in such way as to most effectually
squelch the idea that there was any
chance whatever for the consideration
of the house bill or of substituting 1t for
the senate measure. The opponents OF
the Kelley bill made manly fight and
when they were beaten they surrendered
like men, all voting for it on its final
| passage but fling a protest when the
voting was over. The house bill was
considered as engrossed and was ad-
vanced to third reading, when all at
once Senator Kelley moved that all after
| the enacting clause be striker out and
the senate bill inserted. This was car
ried and then the previous question was
moved and carried. The bill WAS then
Marion, voting for it, he being absent
from The room. He came in afterwards,
| however, aud voted in the affirmative.
| A committee of conference is now in Or
der and steps will be taken to have one
at the earliest possible moment. The
committee will have a warm time and it
may be some time before a conclusion
can be arrived at that will be at all sat
isfactory. The only way to do is to wait
and find out, and in the meantime the
will have the duty imposed upon them
of fixing the agreement have the hearty
sympathy of all concerned
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
The Legislature has more fully than
ever become convinced of the fact that
something must be done TO arrange the
business O1 the calendar so that those
! bills which are OF the most importance
can be attended II. A concurrent reso-
luton has been introduced in the senate
that a joint committee be appointed 10
arrange the calendar, but there being a
good many senators absent The resolu
ton was laid over until next Tuesday
There is no possibility whatever that
very many of the bills on The calendars
of the two houses can be disposed of and
the object of fhe conference committee
is that the bills of the most importance
shall be advanced and receive attention
first, the others to take their chances.
this should not be done the measures OF
the calendar will have to take the regu
lar course. while those which are dow
toward the font of the calendar are sadl,
out of luck
THE DENTISTRY nILI..
The bill now before the legislature L
: regulate the practice of dentistry stipu
lates that nobody shall practice who ha
not diploma from some reputable der
tai college, but there is nothing in th
act that shall be construed as prevent
ing physicians and surgeons from ex
tracing teeth. Five practicing der
= fists are TO compose an examining boar
who shall be appointed by the gogel