The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
House Adopts Regulations for
Printing Plant.
Provides for a Salary of So, 900
Per Annum.
BOARD is CREATED.
State Printer a Member of the
Body.
viii Decide Upon What Is to Be
Printed.

Printed.
| It was hard work to keep a quoruna
at the Friday evening session Of the
house of representatives. There wero
! several calls of the house during the
evening, and two or three bills were
only saved from defeat by some OF the
members changing their votes from No
to aye.
To regulate and govern the printing
department of the state under the man
agement of State Printer I A. Afcr0eaI
and his successors, the printing COM
mittees of the house and senate have
agreed upon and introduced a bill
which will be considered in the house
as a special order on Monday at 2:3o
p. m.
The bill was introduced in the house
at the Friday night session by w b
Ham Of Rocks, and in the SENATE by
Geo. E. Tucker of Greenwood Friday
A bond of $4,000 will be required of
the state printer, and he win be paid a
salary of $4,000.
The board of printing supervisors is
provided for under the name of the
printing commission. 1t is to consist OF
the secretary of state, attorney general
and state printer. The various state
NIT acquisitions for work, but thu
acquisitions are not binding on the
board. A majority of the commission
shall decide what is to be printed
The state printer must do work
promptly, or be liable to arrest for mis-
| demeanor. and may forfeit his office
The bill carries the following appro-
priation
Salary state printer. s.ooo ss,oec
4.119l ~ PlelI, s~g,0oS ~ 1y'gyS
Printing and binding ma
Publications 1fliea in newspapers. 50 7SSSS S
The bill provides that the state
printer shall buy all material and
supervise the work in the printing
plant
The house has cut out it's work for
several days in advance. The follow
ing are the special orders which ap-
pear on the calendar.
Monday. 10 a. m, Smiths bill pro-
hibiting determinations.
Monday. 2:3O p. m. Relating to the
management of the state printing de-
Tuesday, 10 a. m. Getty's bill re-
lating to stopping trains in Kansas
Tuesday. 2 p. m. Taxation and as
The printing bill Getty's bill and
the taxation bills were fixed as special
order at the Friday evening session.
AIOV. STANLEY q NlSlUOr.
Ex- Governor w E. Stanley visited
the legislature Friday. He occupied
A. B. Jones' seat while in the house
of representatives, next to Cyrus Le-
fand.
Mr.. Stanley said he came to Topeka
on private business, and would return
Friday.
''There was not much interest or ex-
citement about the state refinery bill
down in our country" said Mr.. STAN
ley. "I have not studied the bill much,
but should judge it was very drastic.
Still. it may result in good to the
''The present session seems to be
doing fast work. 1t appears to be
average legislature. It is busy ses-
sion. and Mr.. Stubs seems to be
pushing things"
The bill making pipe lines common
carriers was passed by the house Fri
day afternoon by a vote of 107 to O.
There was no effort to ''sidetrack" the
bill, as it had been hinted there might
The bill was set as a special order for
2 O'Clock, but it was nearly 3 before
the matter was called up. Several 9TH
er matters were crowded in ahead of It.
The good roads bill was passed and ths
Leland anti-jug bill also passed Then
it was discovered that there were no
bill The senate had failed to have
printed. An effort was made to
postpone the bill until the copies were
ready but the house after a little
squabble, voted to go ahead with the
of the bill.
Mr.. Barnes was called to the chair,
and the bill quickly passed through the
committee of the whole. recommended
to the house, and taken up on third
reading for Immediate passage. When
the roll call was about half over, Brown
If Sherman discovered an fnaccuracy
in the list of rates for transportation
provided in the bill. It was merely a
error but the house de-
eided it would be better to back up and
5traighten out the lxink It amended the
-eport of the committee of the whole,
md then passed the bill.
This is the third of the series of anti
bills to pass both houses Of
ion bill is still hung up in the house
# representatives judicial committee
put IS fixed for Monday moring as a
special order of business.
Passed a Lot of Bills.
The house put in a busy day passing
bills The child labor law was passed
~ a vote of 81 to 3, the bill provid-
ng for a state board to inspect bees
passed by a vote of T3 to "A, the Lle-
and anti-jug bill by vote Of "a to g.
A bunch of ways and means COM
nittee appropriation bills were read,
md all passed on one roll call These
,ils carried appropriations for the
tate architect. care of destitute in
ane, mileage of presidential electors,
tate printing deficiency. for tile
ourth decennial census, for convey
ng prisoners to Lansing
At the meeting of the house Friday
light the following were the more
,ortant bills passed:
Limiting the speed og automobiles
o 20 miles an hour.
Prohibiting the fraudulent use OF
miners check numbers.
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