The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-17
CUT TOO SHORT.
HOuse Finds That 1t Needs MOre
Employees.
Additional Clerks Are Recon-
memded This Morning.
STUBBS ADDS MORE.
He Names Eight House Com
mittees Today.
Tells Members That There Are
More to Follow.
STUBBS ADDS MORE.

Since the house of representatives
has begun to get down to business 1t
has developed a shortage in employees.
This was to be expected, of course,
and now the bars are being let down
This morning the committee on
rules recommended the following ad-
ditfonal employees. making a total OF
Sc now on the pay roll:
Clerk Of enrolled bills.
Engrossing clerk.
Assistant engrossing clerk.
Document clerk
Doorkeeper, ways and means COM
mittee.
Assistant clerk, ways and means
committee.
The committee on employees also had
a lot of new employees to put on the
pay roll. The report of the employees
committee was adopted in spite of the
effort of Mr- Leland to stop nepotism.
Maud Daum, the telephone girl Sc
1ected by the committee, is a sister
fn-laW of Mr.. Plummer of Jefferson, a
member of the committee. Mr.. Le-
land moved that the name of Miss
Clough of Shawnee be substituted for
Miss Daum.
OF course the boss buster machine
was promptly run over Mr.. Leland.
It is the invariable rule of the house
that whenever Mr.. Leland wants any
thing, he is thereby disbarred from
getting what he wants. The Leland
motion was lost and the report was
adopted.
The following is the list of addi-
Gonal employees selected, together with
the full report Of the committee:
Your committee on house employees
beg. leave to submit the following re-
port;
Printing clerk. L. H. Scott. Fourth
astenographer. Archie Huycke. sixth
district
"copyist. Marion Flannikin. Fifth
district
''Janitress, Mrs. John Smiles, First
district
Telephone girl. Maud Daum. First
district
House stenographer. Janet Gardner.
Assistant enrolling clerk. Clara
Fritz First district.
'Engrossing clerk.
Document clerk.
Speakers stenographer,A A. B. Hazel
tine, First district.
CLERK. ways and means committee,
j. i. Larimer, First district.
"Stenographer, ways and means COM
mittee, NJ H Maier, First district.
Assistant clerk. ways and means
committee. John Francis, Second dis
trict
''Doorkeeper, ways and means COM
mittee, Dan Jones, Fifth district
'Stenographer. judiciary committee,
Chas- A. Brown, Fourth district
.'Stenographer, judiciary local COM
nittee, Edith H LaycOck, Second dis
trict.
Your committee haslabored diHgent-
ly and has been confronted with many
delicate, perplexing and intricate ques-
tions. We have kept in view: first,
efficiency, and second, the economy of
the service. It has been our aim, con-
sistent with the foregoing. to distribute
the positions equally among the several
congressional districts.
80 our committee. in order to insure
the efficiency and economy of the SER
vice. recommends that inefficient SER
vice or neglect of duty will be cOnsid-
cred sufficient cause to report the same
TO this house for dismissal. It is this
committees further statement that
with the exception of five positions yet
vacant. unless necessity require, this
report is final The entire number Of
employees, including the appointments
OF the speaker and of the chairman of
the ways and means committee is 81.
Respectfully submitted,
e F. DAWSON. Chairman.
GEO. W. PLUMMER, Clerk.
&c. N. SCHMIDT.
"P. w. GOEBEL
"A G. MEAD"
J. E. Larimer. clerk of the ways and
means committee, is a Topeka attor-
ney, and has had experience in the DO
Sition to which he has been appointed
His assistant is John Francis one of
the former members of the house, who
is probably one of the best men in the
state on legislative affairs.
More Committees Appointed.
Speaker Stubbs this morning gave out
another long list of committees
II your name is not on any of the
committees so far appointed he said
in making his announcement, don't be
discouraged 1 have about 40 com
Inittees to appoint yet and you will all
have plenty to do before get through. -
The list is as follows:
Judicial Apportionment.-Jo c.
D., Norton; Ohlhausen, F.. Leaven-
worth; Perdue, f. S. Atchison; How
erton. ]. W.. Shawnee; Ransom J.
NJ, Franklin; Plumb, Geo, Lyon:
Montee, ]. w, Crawford; Sticher. J
n, Woodson; Potts. p. J, Morris;
Johnson; Cowen, H. c.. Cherokee:
Policy, NJ c.. Republic; Adair. T E
Shatauqua; Sourbeer, A NJ. Labette;
6ogss, : r, Smith; Adams, J. w,
Steckel, Bert. Balton; Pralle. r. H.
Marshall; Myers, S R., Nemaha: |
Rover, Geo. F.. Cove; Burke. ]. A, |
Harper; Dali, c. D., Wyandotte: |
White. J. T., Ottawa; Welsh, T. l..
Hodgeman; Joserand, - F. CTrav- |
Haskell; Rochester, f. P Scott. !
Brown, B. F., sherman; Eddy, r. L.. !
Potawatomie; Pomeroy, F. C., Jack
SON
Cities of the second class.-Holdren. |
J. w Montgomery; Nelson. c. o.. /
Neosho; Morgan w. Y, Reno; Kirt- |
land, c. B., Saline; Brady. J. l., Doug !
las; Fisher, c. A., Crawford; Plumb. |
State affairs.-sehmidt. G. w.
Geary; Nelson. c. O., Neosho: Crocker'
E G.. Chase: Wycon. w. H Crav- /
ford; Stone. Robt.. Shawnee; Seaver. |
Leavenworth.
Congressional apportionment-A- G
Husey, Sedgwick; S. H. Brandon. But
Lea w. Al. Kinnison. Finneys q. w.