The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-05
LEGISLATIVE sIDELIGHTS.

LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS.
Sims bill to prevent the adulteration
of candy has passed the house.
The assistant sergeants-at-arms have
presented Steve Cave with gold watch.
1t is a beauty
A bill giving Topeka power to police
the state house grounds, to keep b1cyc-
lists off the walks, etc, is going through
the legislature.
The state fish hatchery bill has passed
the house. Now there will be a scram-
bic among the towns to make the best
offer for the hatchery.
Hutcheson's bill prohibiting the mar
riage of minors without the consent OF
one of their parents has been recon-
mended for passage in the house
The house committee on state affairs
has reported favorably on Hollenbeck's
bill to prohibit Sunday baseball games
where an admission fee is charged.
Representative starr of Scott county
has been called home by a telegram an
nouncing the death of his father, George
Starr. The deceased was 81 years old.
The Kirkland bin requiring fire escapes
to be put in at every boarding house
and hotel has passed both houses. This
bill was boosted by the travelling men.
Senator Porter's bill prohibiting rail-
roads from employing telegraph opera
tors under p years of age was turned
down in the senate last night. Allen led
in the killing.
The Kansas Mutual bill, whereby poll
cies can be reinsured in another COM
pany by a two-thirds vote Of the stock
holders. has been recommended for
ma hN the hOrGn committee of the
whole.
Just to show how the senate works
when it does work Last night it omni-
bused S. local bills and passed them. 1t
also passed judgment upon 30 bills of Il
general nature in committee of the
whole
Fred Rodgers is the best looking SEN
ate page. He is pushed hard for the
hOnors but he wins. Rodgers is also ac-
cOmmOdating and good natured but
these incidentals don't count because a
senate page is chiefly ornamental any
way.
The house has adopted a resolution
rot to excuse any members hereafter
of members sent word that they are
sick More Will get siek-sick of stay
ing in Topeka now that their pay has
stopped
Fred Robins Will be a rich man some
day. Robins is a page in the senate
drawing 81 per day. He has had spare
time while he has been in Topeka and
has used it earning money other ways.
He sold chewing gum during the indoor
circus last week
jerks bill specifying what days shall
be legal holidays, in order to settle ques-
lions relating to the maturity of notes,
was killed by the house. Some of the
members thought it created a lot of new
holidays Instead it was meant to de-
fine only those which are now observed.
DR.. O'Donnen has stopped a special
bill to make a number of persons into
pharmacists without passing the phar-
macists' examination It was railrOaded
through both house and senate and
O'DOnnel caught it Just before it was
signed by the governor. Then he had
the house recall it from the governor.
The house committee of the whole has
recommended for passage Focke's bill
requiring fences across public roads in
Rawlins county to be torn down. This
is directed at the big Dewey cattle
ranch. Phillips. Jewell and Scott coun-
ties We're included in the bin at the re-
quest of the representatives from those
counties.
The office force of Chief Clerk Mason
has presented him with a fine set of
Haviland china and silver tea set.
To day the newspaper reporters gave
Mr.. Mason a bath robe. John King
made the presentation speech in open
J house on a question of personal privi-
4 lege. The house made Mr. Mason put
the bath robe on to see how it fit.
I Senator Peterson's bill shoves uD the
salaries of state officials and their as
sistants. The schedule contemplated is
] 81, 500 for officials. 1880 for assistants
and $1,000 for chief clerks although this
f is varied from in a few instances. The
lieutenant governor is to get IS per day
during the legislature and 81 goo for his
work on the railroad commission. In
the present instance the lieutenant gov
( ernoT doesn't need the raise but it may
help in the future. All the minority
senators voted against the raise.
During its closing hours the state sen
ate is working fast. No more free for
alls on bills that don't amount to much
When the senators wander off and talk
with some one in the lobby the reading
/ clerk and the ones interested in the bill
go right ahead. Occasionally the presi-
dent pounds with his gavel. but business
doesn't stop. Today IS the busiest day
/ yet because il IS the last day on which
senate bills are to be considered No
more bills are being introduced but
there is a good sized calendar to work
uDOn.
Doctor J. Albert Berry. specially dis
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