The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-26
IT WILL COME.
Anti Pass Bill Has Not Yet Been
Introduced.
One of the Measures That Is Only
Bluff.
DOCTORS ARE READY.
Will Make Their Usual Assault
on Proprietary Medicines.
Would Prevent Them from Be-
DOCTORS ARE READY.
Would Prevent Them from Be-
ing Advertised.

The arti-pass bin has not yet made
its appearance in the legislature, but it
is about due. A legislature without an
anti-pass bill would be a great novelty.
No one ever expects an anti-pass bill
to become a law. but they are intro
duced with great regularity. Sometimes
they are framed in absolute good faith.
The authors think there ought to be
such law and they introduce such
measures to show what they think Of
them. But this is not always the case.
They are often nothing but pure bun
combe. The man who introduces them
frequently has all the railroad passes
he can get his hands on and is asking
for more at the very time he introduces
the bill. He does it to convince his con-
stituents that he is against the pass
evil.
The railroads would doubtless like to
I see a bill passed prohibiting the issuance
of free passes. Just at this time Of
year, especially the railroad attorneys
are flooded with applications for passes.
! Some members of the legislature come
! to Topeka with the idea that they can
/ get all the passes they want for the
/ asking. They give their constituents the
same idea and their constituents insist
/ on their securing passes for them in re-
turn for political services performed.
More than one member has already ask
+ ed for a trip pass from some Kansas
town 10 New York or Pennsylvania, or
some other eastern state, for some con-
stituent. 1t is needless to say that all
such requests are promptly turned
down.
The pay of members of the legislature
I is so small that the majority look upon
the matter OF passes as sort of divine
( right For this reason no anti-pass bill
viii get through the legislature.
It is said that patent medicine bill
is soon to be introduced into boil
houses-that is, d bill to discourage the
sale and use of patent medicines. As
a rule patent medicine bills are hold
up propositions A circular has al
ready been prepared to help along It's
passage.
The proposed bill requires that the
formula for all proprietary medicines
be filed with the secretary of the state
board of health. and provides for tai
on them, and also prohibits the circula
ton of printed matter and advertise
ments Of them. The doctors seldom
advertise and they would like to pre-
vent others from doing so especially
: when it interferes with their business
) OF course the medicine people ar
fighting back They say that the doc
tors are trying to form a close monop
? oily; that they want to get things int
} shape so that they can charge two dol
lars for every simple little prescription
. They suggest that physicians ought t
be compelled to write all their prescrip
tiOns in English, and ought not to b.
allowed to collect fees except Wher
they give some benefit.
Now that the senatorial fight is owe
3 the "caucuse6'' around tables, viii
stacks of red, and whites and blues il
front of each member. have begun. I
: is said that one member who expected
to leave for home on a late train Sat
: urday night got into a caucus of thi
kind while waiting for his train, an
in a short time the other members o
the caucus had all of his cash. The
: he deposited the warrant for his frs
I ten days as a member of the legislator
! and that was soon gone. Next he pu
I up a railroad pass for $25 and that fol
i lowed. And finally he deposited hi
, / own annual in lieu of ready money
and that went in like manner. The
without money or passes, he borrOwe
a quarter and sent this telegram home
Cannot come tonight Detained b
important business
The first battle of the conflict whic
resulted in the great victory for Cheste
: 7. Long last week was fought back i
:. 1901. It was started by r. NJ. Chilcot
j. editor of the WamegO Times, when Sen
atOr Burton attempted to appoint 3. F
o Tracy as United States district attol
7 ney. ChilcOtt objected to Tracy becaus
4 of his record and filed charges agains
him in Washington which resulted j
=. the appointment being help UP. Ever
. member of the Kansas congressions
: delegation except Congressman Lon
Is Joined with Burton in endorsing Trac.
~ but Long refused to do so. An invest
lie cation followed and President Rooseve
l. turned Tracy down. Two years ago Pc
is tawatomie county gave Burton tw
Is votes for senator. but Tracy's defes
- knocked him out, and although he trie
"a to carry the county against Bailey la
a spring, a Bailey delegation was electe
Z to the Wichita convention. Then thei
81 was a fight between the Burton ar
p anti-Burton elements over the nomins
~ ton of a legislative candidate The Blu
-e ton candidate was for Curtis for SEM
v tor. the anti-Burton was supposedly fl
l. Long. The Long man won. and SENATE
r Codding went with the anti-Burton 81
/ ment II Tracy had been appointed
y 1901 the result would have been diffe
t. HE