The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-21
KEEP THEM OUT.
Senator Waggener's Civil Ser
vice Bill Passes Senate.
Would Rescue State institutions
From Politics.
VOTE WAS ONE SIDED.
Twenty-Five for the Measure, 2
Against.
Employees Entitled to a Hear
ing Before Discharged.
VOTE WAS ONE SIDED.

BY what started out to be a close
vote before the senators changed their
votes, Senator Waggener's civil service
bill was passed by the senate Monday
afternoon by a vote of % to 7. The
; bill as passed is:
Section 1. 1t shall be the duty of
the governing board of trustees or di-
rectors Of the institutions hereinafter
named to forthwith formulate rules
and regulations prescribing, so far as
can be done, the qualifications neces-
sary in order to secure employment in
their respective institutions, together
with provision for ascertaining
whether or not applicants for posi-
lions in such institutions are qualified
to fill the same, with further provision
/ for the selection of those most capa bic
among such applicants. After such
rules and regulations have been de-
termined upon, they shall be there
after followed and obeyed by the gov
erning or appointing officers and
boards of each of said institutions.
Said boards of directors or trustees
may change such rules and regulations
/ at any time.
Sec. 2. No person shall be removed
from his or her office, position or en-
ployment in any institution herein
| after named except for cause; the
/ charges with regard thereto to be
made in writing, fled with and heard
by the governing board of such insti-
/ tuition. The person against whom
such charges are made shall be en-
titled to reasonable notice of the time
and place of such hearing and to an
1 opportunity to be heard in his own be-
| half.
Sec. 3. This act shall apply to the
state hospitals for the treatment of the
insane, the state school for feeble
minded youth, the school for the deaf,
the school for the blind, the soldiers
orphans home, the boys industrial
school, the girls industrial school, the
state reformatory, the state peniten-
tiary, and all other charitable and
penal institutions of the state of Kan
Sas.
The vote on the bill was as follows:
Yeas-Benson, Belts Blake, Chapman,
Dolley. Fitzpatrick, Fulton, Gilbert.
Griffin, Haskell. Hayden, Hodges,
Hughes. Lower. Noftzger, Peck, Porter
Edwards Smith of Franklin, Stillings,
Waggener Wilkerson Young.
Nays-Brewer, Carver, Connor Huff
man, Martin of Bourbon, Miller, Tucker.
The senate voted Monday afternoon
to change the name of the Soldiers
Orphans Home at Atchison to the State
Orphanage.
Senator Pecks bill to authorize cities
of the third class to construct sewer
systems was passed
The senate took I'D Representative
every county in the state of Kansas in |
which one or more school districts or
cities of less than 5000 inhabitants
shall have maintained high schools with
courses of instruction admitting those
who complete the same to the freshman
class of the college of liberal arts and
sciences of the University of Kansas, |
the county commissioners shall levy a |
tax each year of not less than one
fourth of a mill nor more than three |
mills on the dollar of the assessed val
uation Of the taxable property within |
such counties for the purpose of Great |
ing a general high school fund" The !
senate amended the bill before passing |
it through the committee of the whole |
The bill as passed by the house provid- |
ed that the provisions of the bill might |
be adopted either by a majority vote of |
the electors of the county or upon a |
petition signed by a majority of the |
electors who voted for the county super !
intendent at the preceding election. The |
senate struck out the referendum by |
petition clause.
The senators seemed to be disappoint- |
ed because ground hog day and st. |
Patrick's day in the morning had not /
been listed in Senator Fulton's legal |
holiday bill The roll was called twice. !
Then the absentees were called and still |
the vote was II for to Is against and it |
was neither passed nor killed. There
was a threat for a call of the senate
and then there was a stampede on the !
their votes to AYE" The senate passed
the bill making New Years, Washing
tons birthday. Decoration day, July 4,
Labor day, Thanksgiving, and Christ
mas holidays
The bill by Senator Noftzger provid-
ing for trial by jury Of inmates of the
State Soldiers Home thought to be in
sane, and providing for their being sent
to insane asylum was passed.
The senate concurred in the amend
ments made by the house to the bill al
lowing the regents of the State uni
versity to hold clinics in places outside
of Lawrence. The house amendment
was without expense to the state.''
The senate passed Senator Brewers
bill to raise the flash test of iIluminat-
ing oil from ITO degrees to 100 degrees.
The senate finished the afternoons
work Monday by passing Senator Wag-
gener's bill authorizing the regents of
the State Agriculture college to expert
ment with crude oil in road making.
AN ISSUE OF BONDS