The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-25
STOP LONG wINDED sPEECHEs.
House Adopts Five Minute Rules in
Regard to Speeches.

What is hoped to be the last week of
the session was opened up in the house
this morning by action TO save time.
The first act was the moving OF a reso-
luton by Seaton, of Atchison, to limit
speeches in all debates to five minutes.
No member is to be given more than the
one chance unless he be the mover or
author of the bill. when he will have a
/ closing speech. A great deal of hot air
will be avoided by following out this
plan. The resolution prevailed without
opposition
Everything points 10 the beginning
Of the end. The special committee on
revision of the calendar, consisting of
Grosser. chairman; Sarbach Dougherty,
Hefiey and Millar. made its first report
this forenoon The calendar committee
had not intended to submit report be-
fore tomorrow morning, but there were
SO many members jumping up to push
their bills along over the head of every
thing else, that Grosser grabbed his pen
and quickly scratched off & report to
settle the scramble
This report advanced to the head of
the calendar six committee bills. being
senate bill No. $40 and house bills Nos.
663, 769, 594, $50 and 700. Senate bill No.
$40 is the railroad bill, l,which was at once
put upon final reading and roll call.
House bill No. 663 relates to publica-
tiOn of notices of garnishnent. amending
section 35 Of chapter 81 OF the general
House bill No. 769 is amendatory Of
the 1899 private corporations act. Among
other things is the provision that each
corporation which has received authori-
ty from the charter board to organize
shall, before filing it's charter with the
secretary of state, as proylGed by law,
pay to the state treasurer Of Kansas,
for the benefit of the permanent school
fund, a charter fee Of One-tenth of one
per cent of its authorized capital upon
the first one hundred thousand dollars
of its capital stock. and upon the next
four hundred thousand dollars or any
part thereof, Of one-tenth of one per
cent. and for each million or major part
thereof, two hundred dollars
House bill No. 594 relates to compro-
missed taxes and has the state relieve
counties which have to compromise by
bearing share.
House bill No. 699 amends the garnish-
ment act of 1872 and house bill No. zoo
the garnishment act Of 1899
The calendar revision committee is
an all powerful body 1t has complete
programme so far outlined IS the COM
mittee bills followed by few apprOpria-
ton bills that are still to PASS, then the
regular calendar until it shuts down on
house bills altogether and takes up sem
ate bills only for considera ton
Speaker Barker had hardly appointed
the committee until it was pounced upon
by Mrs. Laura Johns, of Salina, and Mrs.
Helen Kinber, of Parsons, who besought
them to send the womans s suffrage bill
to the head of the CALENDAR. The COM
mittee hedged as best it could and then
put up a joke on Sarbach. who was out
at the time When he came back they
told him they were going TO advance
the Woman's suffrage bill Sarbach pro-
tested violently and was going it at a
40 clip when Mrs. Governor Stanley in
terrupted the executive session in one Of
the hotel rooms, looking for Mrs. Richter
It took a long While to convince Sar-
bach that the jokers are all against Wo-
mans suffrage.