The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-27
They GIvE.n UP.
No Effort VIII Be Made to Console
date Boards.

Plans for the consolidation of all the
state penal n charitable Institution
boards into one board have been aban-
doned by the administration" and a
bill is now being prepared and will be
introduced Monday which merely re-
duces the number of the present board
of charities from 5 to 3 members, and
puts these members on a salary of ST.
500 q year for a term of six years. This
will be the longest term of any state
officer.
The bill will require the state board
of charity to maintain an office and
regular system of books in Topeka at
the state house, which can be consult
ed by the public at n time. There
will also be a change made in the old
methods of t-ransacting business. the
object being to get the boards work
systematized and put on a more thor
oughly business basis.
The proposed new board of three
members will have Jurisdiction over the
same nine charitable Institutions which
are controlled by the present board. The
penitentiary and the soldiers institu-
tions will be managed practically as
they are at the present time. The SOL
diers made a big kick on having that
institution taken out from under their
control, and it would have made a lot
of hard feeling for the present admin
~istration to nav attempted it. The
-GE ~ put LA40CA
the penitentiary board.
1t is expected that the new bill will
be introduced in the house and senate
within a short time, as the preparation
of the bill is now completed, and it is
merely being revised and brushed up
by the governor and some of his close
advisors. This is the way all of the
administration bills are, prepared for
introduction
Some of the club women of the state
are taking an interest in a bill calcu-
lated to eliminate politics from state
institutions by making the head of the
Institution hold office as long as no
charges are proven against him. In
other words, il is extending the idea of
Representative Kirtland's bill, to in
clude the head officers of the institu-
lions as well as the employees Mr.. Kirt-
lands idea is to put the employees on a
civil service basis, but the club women
would go further.
1t the recent meetings of the club
women in Topeka this matter has been
discussed and committees will probably
be appointed to present the matter to
the legislature in the proper manner.
Mr.. Pringle introduced a bill proVid-
ing for a county tax of 80 cents on eV-
cry male dog and 81 on every female
dog. 1t also authorizes the killing of
vicious dogs.
Nv. P. Hackney introduced one of
his wild bills this morning 1t pro-
hibits woman's suffrage In city cleo
lions. The reading clerk nearly dis
located his vocal organs in an effort
to pronounce the names in Mr. Hack
ney's preamble. The bill is as fol-
lows:
good name and fair fame of our citi-
zenship has suffered in the estimation
Of eopIe of older communities by
reason of our polyglot populistic
idiosyncrasies, socialistic vagaries, and.
--1=+foo1 90 naf-+anCi aufdanRad hV
the advocacy of tsub-treasury, refer
u limited marriages no dI-I
vorces,' woman suffrage, prohibition,
the father Of lies and mother of per-
jury, and the breeder o~fsbribery ,.mu-i
nicipal and tate the e~KarainaI OF
inhabitants for legal eohabitation,'
and h whole breed of like hurly-
burly, crazy-quilt patchwork, legisla-
tive monstrosities and political men
dacities, each and all a menace to
purity in public life and to the peace
and good order of society; and,
Whereas, The legislature of the
state of Kansas in 1887, while laboring
under one of its O~ft-reDeated mentaI
and moral Authorizations, superin-
duced by a too vivid imagination
about things unseen but hoped for,
politics, and while under the strain of
such mental strabismus. enacted a law
comforting upon ONE h right to
vote in municipalities; and,
Whereas, Experience under that
law has demonstrated that a majority
of such do not want and will not avail
themselves of the privilege thus con-
ferred, and outside of a few only, they
absent themselves from the polls al
ways, except when impelled thereto by
the mouthy vaporings of perapetectic
sky-pilOt gospel m~endicants, who
have NOR. interest in their own graft
thereby worked by them, than in
those they thus beguile;
Whereas, Such legislation is calcu-
lated, and tends to magnify the lesser
evils of life's experiences, and to mini
mize the greater, and all ~violative OF
the time honored maxim. that it IS
far better to suffer the ills we have,
to rush into those we Wot not
Of, all calculated to endanger social
order, disturb domestic harmony, and
destroy that reverence for the accu-l
ought to be the guide for intelligent
craftsmanship in this the early dawn
of the twentieth century
"And as evidence of the determine
ton of the people of Kansas to return
to normal mental health and sane conf
ditions, and to wipe from the statute
books as fast as may be these innova-
tons and unsatisfactory experiences
such attempts at Legislative Jug
glings,' now. therefore, i
3 it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Kansas.
"Section /. That section 642 of the
general statutes of kansas of 1901, en-
titled. An act comforting upon women
the right to vote at city elections and
to hold certain Offices be. and the
is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
publication in the official state paper"
Change Jury Laws.
Judge A. r. Clark introduced a bill
making an important change in the
jury laws. The new bill is as follows:
''Whe there shall not be jurors
present to form a panel in any
for trial in the district court, the