The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-17
CUT OUT POLITICS
Bill for NOnpartisan Manage
ment Of State Institutions.
Passes the Senate in Committee
of Whole.
HITS STANDARD OIL.
Brewers Bill to Raise the Test
is Adopted.
Would Give People Chance at
United States Senators.
HITS STANDARD OIL.

ments on two bills before the senate
committee of the whole Thursday after
noon. Both bills were amended as he
suggested and if they become laws they
win I'LL long felt want"
The first bill to be amended by the
senator from Atchison was Senator
Brewers bill relating to insurance com
panies. The state department of insur-
ance has had several bills before the
senate and the senators proceededto kill
them all and this bill introduced by Sen
ator Brewer is the first to get past the
senate.
The bill provided that: 1T shall be
unlawful for any person, company or
corporation to transact the business of
insurance or guaranty, or do any act
toward transacting such business, IN
less the said person, company or cor
poration shall have been duly authoriz-
ed under the laws of this state to trans
act such business, and shall have re-
ceived proper written authority from
the superintendent of insurance"
Senator Waggener offered the amend
ment, which will bring the insurance
lobbyists from out of the brush and
set them to work before the bill pro-
ceeds much further. The amendment
provided that the superintendent of in
surance shall not issue any permits or
licenses to any insurance companies to
do business in the state until he has
found that the company does not be-
long to any insurance pool or trust and
that the superintendent shall have the
right to revoke the license or permit
OF any company in a pool or trust or
using any rate book and that when
license is revoked that it shall not be
Teissued for at least a year.
Now as practically every Insurance
company and every agent in the state
uses 3 ratebOok there will be a howl
go up from all insurance agents. The
- - k-sH1
was recommended by the senate COM
1nittee of the whole for passage.
Three weeks ago Senator Simons, at
the request of the state department of
insurance, introduced a bill appropriate
ing $500 annually to be used in pub
fishing in one newspaper in each con-
gressiOnal district in the state a list of
the insurance companies authorized to
do business In the state. The senate
committee recommended that the APP
then when Senator Getty said the bill
was a scheme to advertise the insur-
anee companies the senate killed the
bin.
Thursday a new bill hohbed-up. pro-
yiding THAT the superintendent of
insurance SHALL quarterly, cause to
be published, in four newspapers in
each congressional district of this state, |
d full and complete list of all insur-
ance companies authorized to do bust /
ness in this state by the said super !
intendent of insurance, and at the
same time and in the same paper shall I
cause to be published a list of all /
insurance companies doing business or |
attempting to do business or soliciting
business in this state without being 1
first authorized by the superintendent 7
of insurance to do business herein"
Senator Benedict thought that the i
senate should be consistent and the /
senate followed his advice and killed +
the bill
Senator Waggener's bill providing
for civil service at the state institu- /
fions was recommended for passage /
after the senator had added an /
amendment which provided that the |
superintendents of all state institu-
tons shall hire the employees of the |
institutions and shall discharge them /
when necessary and providing that /
political beliefs or Affiliations shall not /
We cause for employing. or removing /
employees The amendment was
adopted. If this bill becomes a law.
and is enforced. then the state insti-
tutions will longer be storehouses
for political rewards.
The senate took another whack at
the Standard Oil Thursday in the /
committee Of the whole by recon-
mending for passage Senator Brewers
bill to raise the flash test of coal oil /
from 10 to $50. The bill provides
that:
in the testing by said inspector or
his deputies of all kerosene oils for
illuminating purposes, they shall re-
5ect all such oils as will emit COM
bustive vapor at the temperature of /
$50 degrees Fahrenheit. The oil 1
tester known as the Foster appar-
atus, or some other instrument or
means equally accurate, shall or may
be used in making said tests, and the
oil shall not be heated faster than
two degrees per minute. In the test
ing of all gasoline oils for illuminate
ing, heating, burning or power pur-
poses, the following test, made in the
following manner; Cd BY burning in
porcelain dish to test for tar or other
foreign matter in solution. CD Byl
hydrOmeter for specific gravity (tern-
perature at line of test, fifteen de-
grees to eighteen degrees Centigrade
or sixty degrees F'ahrenheit). the /
specific gravity to be marked on the !
tank. barrel, cask, or package
The senate committee of the whole
Thursday afternoon recommended for i
passage Senator Waggener's bill which
viii give the people a chance to ex-
press their choice for United States
senators. The bill provides:
Section i. That hereafter. at each /
general election next preceding the I
date fixed by the constitution for the |
election of a United States senator, it
shall be the duty of each political par
fy to vote for one candidate for United /
States senator, who shall be nominated
by the conventions which shall nomi-f
nate candidates for state officers, and (
the name of the nominee of each con- /
vention shall be placed on the official T,
ballot to be used at the next ensuing
election.
s'Sec. 2. The. candidate named for
United States senator. nominated as
aforesaid who shall receive the largest
number of votes at the next ensuing
election shall be considered the choice I
of the people of the state of Kansas
for United States senator to be elected
az the next session of the legislature
following such general election