The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-18
BILLS RECOMMENDED.
FavOrably Reported Back by tho Senate
Committee

FavOrably Reported Back by tho Senate
Committees.
The senate committees have reported
favorably on a large numb Der of bills. The
more important ones are:
Ways and means cOmmittee-A bill
making appropriation for the deficiency
of the girls reformatory at Beloit, favor
ably recommended
Committee on enrolled bills-Senator
Cookies bill to have bills enrolled by
means of printing instead of hand writ
ing, reported favorably.
Committee on fees aud saIaries-A bill
appropriating money to pay senators for
mileage to and from Topeka, favorably
recommended. All the senators get mile
age but MIR. Sterne and AIr. Troutman, of
Shawnee Senator Brown, of Garden
City. got the greatest mileage, $1O560;
Senator WilcoXson came next. with SOB
Lieutenat Governor Daniels was allowed
$57 60.
The committee on elections. by Chair
man Leedy, reported favorably bill for
the prevention of bribery.
The committee on state affairs reported
favorably Senator Sterne's bill to exempt
the wages of heads of families from gar
nishment
The committee on public health recon-
mended that the bill converting the
$4,000 in the cholera fund back into the
state treasury, should be passed
The committee on state affairs recon-
mended favorably the bill protecting the
fish in Kansas waters.
The ways and means committee by
Chairman Dennison, reported favorably
two bills, making appropriation for the
state normal college at Emporia and the
state agricultural college at Manhattan.
The committee on railroads by Chair
man Householder, recommended the bill
by Senator Sterne TO prevent the en-
ployment of inexperienced engineers,
conductors and other trainmen. The
same committee reported adversely bill
calculated to fix and regulate the freight
and passenger rates and charges in Kan
las.
Chief Clerk Brown of the house re-
ported to the senate the passage of house
bill No. 3, an act for the suppression of
gambling.
OPPOSED TO UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS.
r. B. WEIGH of the School Board Working
Against the Bill.
R. B. Welch, president of the Topeka
board of education is lobbying against
the several estate uniformity of text
book" bills which have already been in
troduced in the senate. MI WEIGH looks
upon the bills as dangerous and he views
with alarm their popularity,
"The principal plea Mr.. WeIch saws.
sin favor of these bills is the expense in
cident to moving from one county in
Kansas to another, by purchasing of
new and different text books.
The fact is the people who are
constantly moving from one county to
another are a sort of rowing class who
pay no taxes, and the only expense they
have in educating their children is in the
matter of school books. They shouldn't
kick on little item like this. School
books appropriate in Shawnee county
would probably not answer for Stevens
county, and vice versa, but it is unjust to
saddle such bill, providing for inferior
text books. onto the people who paw for
the public schools in taxes. And that's
what the bill would do"
FLAGS WON'T FLOAT THE sAMEwAv
Even the Breeze is Different Over Po,,,1;4
and Republican Legislative Bodies
remarkable phenomenon occnr-ad
on top of the state house this mornin1
which probably demonstrates that the
political feeling between the +1,o