The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-28
PARK BILL is KILLED.
Enacting Clause Stricken Out
Without a Division.
Mr.. Bird Makes a Feeble Effort
to Save Tt.


In appointing the committee, Speak
er Stubs said: 1T is my personal
wish that the members should stay
here and take care of all this work
possible
The committee on revision of the
calendar will not begin its work until
tomorrow. 1t will then set about re-
adjusting the calendar SO that the i'm
portant bills will come to the sur
face.
In committee of the whole on Mon
day evening the house killed Birds
bill which was intended to give to
Shawnee and other counties the right
to levy a tax for the irnproVenaent of
country parks and the construction
of country boulevards. -ME@Bird said
he wanted the bill considered strictly
on its merits, and that if the house
did not like it he would not be Offend
ed if the members should vote against
it.
ct accept the gentleman's invita-
tion," said Hackney of Cowley, land
move that the enacting clause be
stricken out"
Hackney's motion prevailed. The
bill was strongly favored by a good
many Topeka people and by A.
Reinisch, the superintendent of parks
for the city of Topeka The bill was
as follows;
1.-The board of county commission
ers of the several counties are hereby
authorized to levy and collect not to
exceed mills on the dollar for any
1 one year on all of the properly of said
county liable to taxation for tire ptlr-s
/ pose of raising a fund to acquire by
purchase, condemnation, or otherwise,
| lands for parks and boulevards.
1.-The taxes SO assessed and collected
shall be used and expended by said
board of county commissioners
through and by the road overseers in
various townships in said county, in
proportion to the amount of said tax
collected in each township, or said
| board of county commissioners may
use and expend said money in. CO
| operation and in conjunction with
any city or town located in said
county.
said board of commissioners are
hereby authorized to expend and use.
or permit the expending and use, of
any money raised by said tax for the
purpose of improving the highways M
their respective counties by. planting
trees and Shrubbery along said high
WAYS for shade and ornamental pur-a
poses'
Protectors for Gas Wells.
Under the terms of bill favorably
reported by the house committee of
the whole, the township trustees of the
state are entrusted with the duty of
protecting the gas wells from indiscrim-
| mate waste. The trustees must see to
| it that abandoned wells are properly
] capped, ana Indl gas Is not allowed TO
flow out of a we'll and go to waste. A
severe penalty is provided for any trus-
tee who fails to enforce the laws pro-
hibiting waste.
This bill was introduced by c. O..
Nelson, of Neosho, and it is a law
which Mr.. Nelson says is badly needed
| by the gas country.
One of the hardest fights of the day
was in the committee of the Whole over
the bill allowing the state board of
pharmacy to register without exanina-
ton, any graduate OF a recognized
school of pharmacy, or any physician
who is a graduate of a recognized school
of medicine, or is now practicing ply
stefan registered in the state of Kan
sas, upon payment by such applicant of
registration fee of five dollars.
This bill was strenuousIy opposed by
some of the members of the house on
the ground that it would allow lot
of quacks to open up drug stores. and
dispense medicines which are not put
up by a pharmacist who is able to pass
the required examination.
The bill exempts from examination
doctors who own their own drug stores,
and who compound their own prescrtp-
tions Some of these doctors are on the
retired list. and simply use their knowl-
edge of medicine as an aid in the man
agement of their stores.
CIarl<'s bill allowing a district judge
to summon such jurors as he sees fit
when there shall not be enough jurors
present to form a panel, was passed by
the house. This bill applies only to
counties having less than $4,000 popula-
ton. and hence Shawnee is not included
The vote on the passage of the bill was
50 to II.
The committee of the whole favorably
reported SINNERS bill appropriating
81. 500 for the purpose of building a mon
ument in Colorado to a band of Kansas
scouts who had a big Indian fight at
Beecher Island. The Colorado legis-
lature will appropriate a similar
At the Monday evening session. after
working through the largest portion of
the general bills on the calendar. there
was an omnibus of local bills drawn up.
and all the local bills on third reading
were passed in a lump.
Permits Gas Pumps.
Senator Pcrter's gas piping bill was
passed by the house by a vote of II to
s. The bill prohibits the use of pumps
to increase the natural flow of the wells,
but permits pumps which do not in
crease the flow. The bill says: That
any person or persons, firm, company
or corporation engaged in drilling for
piping, transporting, using or selling
natural gas may transport or conduct
the same through sound wrought or
castiron casing and pipes tested to at
least 400 pounds pressure to the square
inch. It is declared to be unla wfuI for
any person or persons, firm, company
or corporation to use any device for
pumping, or any other artificial pro-
cess or appliance for the purpose or
that shall have the effect of increasing
the natural flow of natural gas from
any well, or of increasing or maintain
ing the flow of natural gas through the
pipes used for conveying and transport
ing the same"
Morgan Disagrees.
The majority of the conference com
mittee on the state printing bill made
a report Monday striking out w. Y
Morgan's civil service amendment
The majority report was adopted. Mr..