The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-21
FAIR BILL is IN.
Recommended Favorably by
Committee on Agriculture.
Makes an Appropriation OF
$4,000 Per Year.
ALSO GUARANTEES FUND
This Would Make the InstItu-
tion Permanent.
Kansas National Guard Bin Is
Introduced.

Acting upon the request of the state
board of agriculture, the house COM
nittee on agriculture this morning in
troduced a bill appropriating $25. 900
q year for the support of a state fair
and creating a $4,000 guarantee fund
for the payment of premiums.
Mr.. Pralle, chairman of the COM
mittee on agriculture. says: 1.-THE bill
was examined by our committee, and
met with unanimous approval We
hope it viii have favorable considera-
ton. suppose that it will be re-
1erred to the committee on ways and
means for further consideration and
report
Under the provisions Of the bill,
the state board of agriculture shall
addition to the president and secre-
Iary, who are authorized to employ an
exposition secretary and to locate,
lease, purchase, or acquire by gift and
properly equip suitable grounds for
state expositiOns- The bill says moth
ing about the location of the state
fair. That is left to the committee
and to the board of agriculture. In
selecting the location. the president of
the State Horticultural society and the
Improved Stock Breeders association
are each given a vote.
Tt is provided that the S25, 600 a year
may be used for the construction of
fair buildings and other necessary ex-
penditures, while the $4,000 reserve
fund IS not to be drawn upon for the
payment of premiums so long as the
income of the fair association is suffi-
Gent to pay these obligations.
There will no doubt be some hot
competition for the location of the
state fair If the bill passes. This COM
petition, however, will be before the
state board of agriculture. and not be-
fore the legislature, unless the bill is
changed from its present form.
Conference Committee Named.
Sneaker aT1r1ofr7f~
ed Beeson, Plumb and White as the
committee of three which will represent
the house on the joint house and sem
ate committee which has for its mis-
sion a conference with a similar COM /
mlttee from the Missouri legislature
about the stockyard situation.
Charles Lander this morning intro |
duced the Kansas National Guard bill, !
which was prepared by the officers OF
the guard at their recent meeting in |
Topeka. 1t is a very lengthy document, |
but the only material changes are in re-
gard to an increase in pay for the en- |
listed men.
Officers and men who are present at
drills, not less than one hour under or
ders, not less than two nor more than I
four drills per month win be paid as
follows:
Privates, musicians. corporals, ser
First sergeants and 8. NJ. sergeants so
1.leutenants ---. ....-.....- $500. 20 /
Captains ---.-.-.---...- $l.UO /
The pay for enlisted men during the
annual state encampments viii be as
follows:
Chief musicians S2.0O
LIST class sergeants. signal corps. 200 /
End class sergeants, signal corps,
principal musicians, regim
and battalion nOncommissioned
officers, hospital stewards, first
sergeants, company quarter
master sergeantS, company
cooks ......... -. -. $50
Sergeants, infantry and artillery. 40
Corporals, signal corps ...... 40
Corporals. musicians, artiZans
furriers, sadlers, blacksmiths.. 40
EL4NALCS 4-UO
After service of one year, all en-
llstad r1aar1 Vii he mid ~, additinr, Of |