The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-08
House Members Ordered a Stop
to Catch Breath.
SEVERAL BILLS PASS.
The Administration Measures
Are Rushed Through.
Board of Charities Bill the Stick
ing Point.

q AlGe LOO IasI Tor the house members
Tuesday afternoon and the housa
members were obliged to take a fall
out of the industrious chieftain.
Mr.. Stubbs' plan was to hurry all
the administration measures through
the house as quickly as possible. and
check them up to the senate. He
succeeded Tuesday in passing the
state depository bill by a vote Of 1OS
to o. and the school fund bill by a
vote of SO to 0. Then he called up
the board of control bill, and that was
where the house baked. They thought
Stubbs was trying to cram too much
down their throats at one time.
1t was only last Saturday that Mr.
Stubbs introduced his board of control
bill, which provides for a complete re-
organization of the state board Of
charities. He had the title read e
second time under suspension of the
rules, and the bill referred to the ways
and means committee. Monday the
ways and means committee reported
back with the recommendation that
the bill be referred to the committee
charitable institutions. This was
done, and yesterday the committee on
charitable institutions gave the bill a
favorable report. Mr.. Stubs was all
ready to move an emergency and rush
the bill through the committee Of the
whole at the Tuesday afternoon ses-
sion, but the house would not stand
for it, and several Of the members in
timated pretty strongly, in discussing
the motion, that the bandWagon was
moving too fast for them. Stubbs'
motion to put the bill through the
committee of the whole under sl1span-
sion of rules was defeated, and so
II. Stubbs had to be content with
making the bill a special order for 10
o'clock this morning. At 10 o'clock.
the house went into committee of the
whole and thrashed over the bill.
Nevertheless, it must be admitted
that Speaker Stubbs is getting his ad-
ministration bills through in pretty
good shape. The following is a list of
the administration bills, and their his
tory up to date:
State printer bill, passed by senate.
and substituted for house bill in COM
mittee of the whole.
Congressional apportfonment bill.
passed by the house, now in the COM
mittee of the senate.
State depository bill, passed by the
house, messaged to the senate.
State school fund bill, passed by the
house, messaged to the senate.
Board Of control bill, on third read
Assessment and taxation bill, in
preparation by house committee on as
sessment and taxation.
Railroad bill in preparation by
house committee on railroads.
Can Take a Rest Now.
The mill which has been grinding out
administration bills" can now take
vacation. 1t was announced today by
one of the close friends Of Speaker
StubbS that the administration bills are
all in. The board of control bill which
was introduced last Saturday, was the
last of the list. and that all efforts VIII
now be directed to engineering the bills
through the legislature.
It is probably not known to the gem
eral public the way in which the adj
ministratiOn bills have been prepared.
The work has been done in a thorough
ly systematic and business-like man
ner. First the general outline of what
was wanted was drawn up by Speaker
Stubbs and Governor Hoch. This out
line was turned over to ex-SpeakeF
George Barker of Lawrence, who has
been holding down the job of coniden-
tiaI advisor to Speaker Stubbs. John
Francis, formerly a leader in the house.
was given a place as assistant secretary
his chief business. it is said, has been
to work with Barker in getting up the
administration bills.
The workshop of the administration
forces has been a small room adjoining
the ways and means committee room
in the basement of the state house, and
here the stenographer of the ways and
means committee has Iabored indus
typewriter.
After Barker and Francis had ham
phrases, and had worked out the tech
nicaI details of the documents, the
draft was then submitted to Stubbs,
Hoch and such others as they saw At
to bring into consultation. There the
bill was given another dressing down,
and was finally ready for its final draft
into a bill ready for presentation to the
house.
It win thus be seen that the machine
which has been getting the administra-
ton bills into condition for presenta-
ton has been well oiled, at the expense
of the state.
Brandon Becomes Humorous.
S. q. Brandon of Butler, who is one
of Speaker Stubbs' chief heutenants in
the fight on the state oil refinery, start
ed a back fire. in the house Tuesday
afternoon for the purpose of making
the state oil refinery bill look ridicu-
Ious He introduced a, bill drafted on
plan similar to that of the state oil
fnerv bill providing for an appropria-
ton of $4O0, 900 to build a state packing
plant Brandon has insisted all the time
that there is more need for a state
packing plant than for a state oil re-
hnery.
1t is said that Brandon will follow
this up with the introduction of similar
bills for the establishment of state fou1
mills. state match factories, state
crea ueries. Mr.. Brandon may find
that the people who are fighting ths
STANDARD Oil are in no mood to be
trihed with.
Amended to Death.
Robert Stones bill extending the
authority of the state barber board tc
ali cities of the state was recommended
for passage by the house Tuesday az,
ternoon, but not until w. P. Hackney
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