The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-25
KILLED Them ALL.
Flood Relief Bills Meet an
Early Death.
House Ways and Means Com
mittee Is ExecutiOner.
THREE INTRODUCED.
Amounts Varied from S25O,OOO
to 81, 100000.
Nearly All Approved Measures
Refer to Bridges.

The ways and means committee of
The house killed the three bills intro
duced providing for the appropriation of
money for the relief of flood sufferers.
Excepting that the bills were introduced
and referred to the committee and kill
cd by Chairman Francis and his men
nothing was heard Of that class of leg
l-intion
The bill of Representative Belts. of
Shawnee. To- appropriate $1,000 600 for
the relief of Kansas food sufferers and
providing for its disbursement was sum-
marily killed Representative Harris
hiil IT a similar nature. carrying an
appropriation of S250,000 and Represen-
tative Hales bin To appropriate S750,000
both met the same fate as the bill in
troduced hy the gentleman from Shaw
nee. One other bill, introduced py
Cyrus Leland jr., to authorize the
abatement of taxes. stopped in the COM
mittee ROOM Representative Broadbent
had introduced bill covering the same
points and the committee took IT IN
preference to the bill by the gentleman
from Douiphan.
The judiciary committee reported
faVorably on IA bills and adversely on
one The judiciary local committee re-
ported favorably on 10 bills and I'M
faVorahly ON one. The ways and means
committee as usual, used the axe on
the most bills and reported unfavor-
ably on four and favorably on the same
number
The house began the work of omni-
busting through the bills by patches.
The reading clerks began soon after 8
o'clock at the night session and droned
through the bills. one after the other,
until after II o'clock me ursl batcn
fo Doe passed consisted of eight bills of
local nature reported ably. They
were sent over to the senate to give the
senator's some material To thresh over
AS soon as that had been done the
rniN-up began The house members han
passed bills exactly the same as those
passed 10y the senate and vice versa
Some were stopped and some were not.
About 10 o'clock the droning OF the
reading clerks became tiresome to Rep
rasentafiVe Meade He was frightened
hv the lightning and the flood talk. He
suggested am adjournment as it was
about To rain and the members were
without umbrellas Meade lost his
cause but he had the satisfaction of
saying I told you So "a little after ~
o'clock when the house did adjourn irs
The midst of the rain and the members
made a run for shelter.
Representative Sims. Of Shawnee in
troduced bin TO pay Eric Nystrom
gardener of the state house grounds. for
overtime. Representative Kirkpatrick
and Representative Campbell intro
duced bills to change the time of the
meeting of the district courts IN their
little durr2
Representative Hale wanted to know
IF This was not "a departure from the
order of business. Kirkpatrick ana
Campbell easily explained their bills BY
saying that through an error ON the
part Of the legislature at the last reg
ullr session the terms of court in two
districts were made TOO close together
They were passed. but Sims saw
trouble ahead and announced that he
WAS willing for his bill to go to the
ways and means committee, where Mr.
N-sfrom could explain to the commit
tee how the flood caused him to work
over time. The bill was on second read
ms and could not be referred and was
FINALLY excepted from the list omn!-
Hu=eu through.
The following are the bills introduced
i'm the house Wednesday,
No l. by Leland. relative to state tax
e. in certain counties: its purpose being
TO relieve taxpayers who lost property
by The flood of the burden
NO 2 Dy Leland. to reduce the inter-
est on unpaid state warrants from to
ner cent.
No 3. by Brown of Lahette. to repair
bridges in his county.
No A. by Meade. relative to building
bridges in Mitchell county
NO s. by Eetts. appropriatiug i mil
Hon dollars for The flood sufferers. Cost
in committee)
Nos 6. and 8. by Mckee of Mar
shall TO repair damages in that county.
NO. 9. by Perkins of WyandOtte. 10
provide FOR the erection of bridges across
the Kaw river in that county.
No 10. by Belts to repair bridges in
Shawnee county.
No. TO- by Peck to build joint high
way and railroad bridge across the Re
publican river at Concordia, the Ne
hraska, Kansas & Gulf railroad to share
She cost