The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23

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prepare bill providing salaries for all
necessary state offices and employees
not included in the appropriation bill
No. 642."
The committee on fees and salaries is
composed OF the following members of
the house: w. p. Hackney. chairman;
A w Benson, J. W. Bergman, w. A.
| Clark, T P. Murphy, D. G. Fraser, Theo
Pcwling.
BY vote of 50 to 10. the house passed
the new appropriation bill introduced
! IN conformity with the decision of the
mouse to allow no salaries except where
the statute provides for the specific
| amount to be paid. The new apprOprfa-
ton Dill leaves out about three-fourthS
/ OF the present force Of state house en-
ployes. and abolishes five departments
entirely. 1t is not at all probable that
I the senate will allow this bill to go
/ through The senate will wait until the
/ house gets things Strengthened out to
its satisfaction and is ready to report
complete bill
/ It was W. P. Hackney who started all
the fight on the original appropriation
+ bill, so it is poetic justice that he should
4 be the chairman of the committee upon
which is imposed the duty fixing the
/ thing up. Hackney did not want this
/ job, but the house drafted him in spite
Of his screams.
/ There is a good chance for a big fight
I between the senate and house if the
house fees and salaries committee cuts
1 too deep with its pruning knife. The
senate is inclined to give the present
state employees. about what they have
received in the past, and it will tie
| things up in a hard knot if the house
tries to force a drastic bill over its head.
The house adopted another Pringle
resolution Of revolutionary character
{ W edneSday afternoon It provides that
all private charitable institutions which
are allowed money shall be required to
get their money only upon vouchers
audited and approved by the state board
of charities. This is the resolution:
Whereas, It has been the custom for
many years in this state for the legis-
lature to give~indiscriminate to pri-
vate charita Bile institutions; and
Whereas. Demands of this character
are constantly increasing; therefore be
it
resolved. That all money appropri-
ated hereafter to every institution of
every kind, not included among the
state institutions, shall be expended
only upon vouchers audited and ap-
proved by the state board of chart
ties"
Hoch Signs the Bill.
Gov. E w. Hoch yesterday sent mes
sage to the house notifying that body that
he had signed the bill for separate high
schools for white and colored pupils at
Kansas City, Kan. The message was as
70 the Senate and House of Representa-
No question that has yet come to me in
my Official capacity has given me SO
much concern as House Bill No. 800 pro-
viding for the separation of the whites
and blacks in the high school of Kansas
City, Kansas, and no problem has been
torily to myself than this one. It has
seemed to me to be q question vastly
more than local and to involve great
moral, educational ana racial principles.
and incidentally some legal ana financial
G9nsderati9ns also NY father the tn9ug af
the rebellion, was an original and IN
tense abolihonist and 1 have believed
should have all the rights and privileges
under the law enjoyed by the whites, 1
have watched with increasing admiration
and pride the wonderful progress made by
this people since the immortal Lincoln
patty with them in their great Struggle
feet accord with the Roosevelt idea that
regardless of race or color.
This Kansas City proposition has
seemed to me in its general aspects to be
a step backward, a concession to the
southern idea in such matters with
but, the local conditions are peculiar and
1 have all along believed that it were
Kansas, that the separation proposed in
this bill should be made. Under the
Such separation IS optional with the
boards of education in all the grades up
to the high school, and the whites and
blacks nave been separated in all the
lower grade in Kansas City, Kansas,
for years Without yielding an iota of
my conviction in reference to the race
problem. with all my sympathies going
out toward these struggling people and
with no sympathy or patience with those
who would put straw in the way of
their progress. I have simply come to the
conclusion that under present Infortunate
local conditions the permanent and best
interests OF whites and blacks alike in
Kansas City, Kansas, will be best sub
a law, and in this opinion 1 seem to be
sustained by an overwhelming majority
of the people on the ground as well as by
very large majority of the many able
and conservative men with whom I have
counseled from other parts of the state.
nave taken this action further upon
the positive assurance upon the part of
the white people Of Kansas City, Kansas, !
that nigh school building costing not
less than forty thousand dollars, and !
equally as well equipped as the present
for the coIored high school students of
the city. Z. W. HOCH,
Governor.
Night Session a FizzIe.
Owing to the fact that the Democratic |
members Of the house were aggrieved be-
cause the house did not adjourn Wednes- |
day afternoon out of courtesy to w. J. /
Bryan, the night session did not amount |
70 much # was decided to quit at eight !
Democratic leader was due to arrive in /
town.
There was only one bill passed. The /
Clark bin, relating to the summoning of \
jurors was laid over for future considera-
ton, owing to the slim attendance of the 1
G. B. Kirtland's bill providing for civil \
service in state Institutions was recon- /
mended for passage. This is the same bill |
which was introduced in the senate by /
Bale Waggener and passed by this body. /
L ne bill was amended by giving the chief |
executive oIucer OF the right to appoint /
and remove all his subordinates for cause
The superintendent of the institution must
ME with the board of managers written
report of his action. The amendment pro-
Nldes that no political actions or afTilia-
lions shall be sufficient cause for removal.
IN case superintendent removes any en-
pl9ye for political reasons he forfeits his
Woman Burned to Death.
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