Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-04-11

clan-that every man has his price.
We found upon our statute books
a large number of laws creating
boards of commissioners, state agents
etc., which seemed to have placed
there for the express purpose Of pro-
viding places for favorites rather
than for any benefit to the state; but
we have found it impossible to re-
peal these laws, with the senate and
executive department making Bit
ter fight against abolishing these
sinecures. An attempt was made
on the part of the house
without any attempt to cripple
any state institution, penal, charita-
BILE or educational, to reduce the ex-
penses to something like the equali-
ty with the earnings Of the average
citizen of Kansas. This attempt
was met with an absolute refusal by
the senate with an absolute refusal
to consider any proposition which
reduced the wages or salaries of the
employees ofstate institutions which
were under republican management.
We present hereafter compare
son OF appropriations made this sea-
son and the appropriations made two
years ago. The senate insisted on
higher appropriations except in the
proposition to appropriate 100000
for the relief Of che people in the
western part of the state, who were
suffering from the severe drouth of
last year, and an appropriation of
$4,000 to provide for the destitute
insane who have been for years past
confined in the county jails of this
state. The peoples party of the
house originated and passed the bill
appropriating 100000 for the relief
Of the western farmers of this state
which was defeated by the senate.
We have not forgotten that in the
drouth of eastern Kansas in 1850
several northern state legislatures
appropriated large sums of money
for the relief of the people, but when
the peoples party passed the bill in
the house for the purpose of
relieving the people Of western Kan
sas from a similar infection the SEN
ate discovered that all such legisla-
ton was unconstitutional. By an
amendment insisted upon by the
senate, the different counties in the
western part of the state were made
responsible for the distribution of
seed grain sent to them and the
price thereof must be returned to
the state treasury, while the recip-
tents in the eastern part of the
state of the bounties extended to
them in 1850 refused. through re-
publican representatives and sena-
tors, to assist one dollar in the relief
of sufferers in western Kansas.
The legislation of this session has
not resulted in what we desired to
accomplish, nor in what the people
would have had the right to expect
from US, had we been in power in all
the branches of the state govern
ment. By and with the aid of the
senate Alb acts were passed and will
become laws upon our statute books
among the most important Of which
is one prohibiting the alien owner
ship of lands in Kansas and provid-
ing for the sale Of all lands owned
by aliens, acquired after the date of
this act, in from. three to six years
time, or upon the death of aliens
holding land previous to the inact-
ment of this law.
The appropriations for the next
two years, while thousands of dol
lars lower than in years past, have
been swelled by necessary investiga-
tons and by the impeachment Of
one Of the district judges of the
state.
The remainder of the address is
devoted to an enumeration Of the
important bills passed by the house
and defeated by the house and de-
feated in the senate. 1t explains
the failure to appropriate for the