The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-26
Raid of County Officers
is Stopped.
Fees and Salaries Bill Killed i'm
the Senate.
GR. WHITES EPITAPH.
Said a Few Sad Words Over the
Measure.
No Tears Were Shed at the
Funeral.

The fees and salaries bin which has
been discussed in the senate several
times and which was made special
order for last night. was killed and 3
substitute by Senator Branine was ac-
cepted- The substitute does not raise
the salaries as was provided in the
original bill. which the county officers
We're 50 anxious to have passed. but it
gives them a little more in some in
stances Several members gave notice
that the bin would give their county
officers no increase. and in some counties
an increase is needed, so they would in
troduce local bills that would help them.
The substitute as accepted and passed
provides that the county commissioners
IN the different counties shall allow and
pay che county treasurer and county
clerk OF their respective counties such
sums as are necessary to pay clerk hire
actually required in the proper per-
formance of their duties, provided the
amount allowed in no case shall exceed
the maximum amount allowed by the
act of 1899 When the total fees received
by the sheriff. clerk of the court, pro-
pate judge. register of deeds or other
orfscer shall amount to less than the sum
up to which any such officer is entitled
to retain all fees Of his Office under the
provisions of the act of 1899 the COM
nissioners shall allow a reasonable COM
pensation, but not to exceed the amount
law of 1892
The probate Judge shall be entitled to
retain all the fees of his office allowed
by the act of 1857 and 1899 in addition
to the salary Of his office.
The sheriff Will get $40 per month to
pay deputy in addition to the fees he
now gets
It took several hours of fighting and
talk for the senate to finally arrive at
the adoption of the substitute for other
substitutes anu the original bill were
discussed at length.
Senator White began the debate on the
bill when the session was called to order
and made a stIOng plea for the bill He
said the committee had spent days on
the bill. and it was as equitable as a fee
and salary bill could be made. He
showed its strong points and tried to
rub the senators the right way who had
opposed the bill when it was up before.
His plea was Of no avail however, and
Senator Smith moved to strike out the
enacting clause. This bill is dead"
said Senator Smith, ''and the senator
knows 1t is dead. All it needs is de-
cent burial anu propose that we bury
1t now know that the senator knows
the bill can never get through this body.
and he is so sure Of it that he has a
substitute he Will offer when he sees the
way the senators will vote tonight
Amendments and substitutes were
then considered, and finally when the
Branine substitute was offered and it
was evident that the senators favored
H. foG4tdtOA Wits EOl liAG 1OCI anu du-
mitted that his bill was dead. Il think
/ should have the honor of writing its
epitaph," he said II will have to say to
the bill, goodbye, Bill, take good care
of yourself" He then quoted from
Shakespeare and Byron. and wound up
his talk with the following epitaph.
''The fees and salary bill is dead
Its transient life is Ger.
1t stalks more with WarlfSe tread
Upon the senate floor.
No more its simple title page
Shall rouse the senate's general rage.
mo words shall keep above its tomb
It's Morrow neer shall dawn.
The night CT dark oblivicus doom
It's curtains close hath drawn:
A Carpenter hath spiked its wheels,
A Miller grinds it fine.
And there he sits that gave it sF1tzs
In each particular line"
When he had finished the senate was
in a roar and senators and people from
the lobby crowded around his desk to
shake his hand. He had made the nit
of the session