The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
HAD A CLOSE CALL
Only Four More Than Quorum
i'm the House.
Speaker Stubs Plan for Work
Is Followed.
BASEBALL HEARING.
One VIII BE Held ON Monday
Evening.
Fewer Bills Than Usual Are
introduced.
BASEBALL HEARING

Monday evening there is to be a hear
ing of the Sunday baseball question
before the judiciary committee in room
S of the fourth floor of the state house.
It is expected that Charles NJ. Sheldon
will speak in defense of the Stone
anti baseball bill and ]. Frank FARRELL
against the bill. The committee has de-
cided to hear one speaker on each side.
but win give that speaker all the time
| ne wants.
The Stone anti-Sunday ball bill not
only prohibits Sunday baseball. but also
prohibits Sunday theaters.
The sentiment of the house on the
much divided. There are a lot of the
former members who oppose the BILL
! because Sunday is about the only day
the farmer boys have time to play ball
| during the summer time.
/ 1t is likely that the judiciary COM
mittee will report favorably on the
anti baseball bill, as the chairman Of
the committee is said to be strongly in
favor of such a law.
Many Vacant Seats.
When the roll was called this morning
there were only four more members
than quorum present. It was a close
| call, but sufficient to sustain Speaker
Stubs idea, that the members would
stand by him on a Saturday session,
beginning at o'clock, an hour earlier
than usual.
was 81 out of a total membership of 125.
A good many of the absentees had been
! excused by the house.
John Howerton. one of the Shawnee
county members, telephoned in from
his home at Rossville this morning that
he couldn't come in because his wind
mill is frozen up and his stock can't
be watered till it is thawed out He
was excused.
Dan Anthony's Bill.
Dan ANTHONY is going to have things
fixed so that if he ever wants to make
another contest for a Republican NOM
ination he can have somebody to
whom to appeal his case. Representa-
tive Phenicie of Leavenworth today
introduced a bill amending the election
law SO far as the state and congress
siOna1 nominees are concerned. The
amendment which Mr.. Anthony wants
is to be injected into section 10 of
chapter 129 of the session laws of
1897, after that part of the law which
specifies that the secretary of state.
auditor of state and attorney general
shall constitute a state board to de-
termine which names shall be placed
on the state ticket At present the
shall be final. The Anthony amend
ment strikes out this provision and in
serts the following:
''And from any decision rendered by
these officers or a majority of them
any person interested feeling himself
aggrieVed by any sucn decision may
appeal direct from any such decision
so made to the supreme court of the
state of Kansas for a rehearing, vaca-
ton and reversal of any such decision.
Had this been the law Mr.. Anthony
could have appealed from the decision
of the board in his contest for the Re
publican nomination, and had re-
hearing in the supreme court
Few Bills Today.
The following new bills were introL
duced this morning:
Davis to practice medicine in Kansas.
6s7, Misunderstanding to elections.
SIS, Consolidating to local school
district.
$50, Establishing school
district boundaries.
$40. Dail-Relating to improvement
of Wyandotte county highways.
691, Dail-Relating to public high
ways.
Miscellaneous Business.
Governor Hoch this morning sent a
message to the house stating that he
had signed house bill No. "a which
authorizes the county commissioners
of Sedgwick county to pay $500 to the
Highland Cemetery improvements COM
pany.
The ways and means committee this
morning reported adversely on the bill
to extend the duties of the state
bacteriologist and placing his services
at the disposal of the doctors of the
state for the purpose of diagnosing
cases of diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc.
The bill proposed to give the bacter
iologfst fat salary, and this was the
feature which the ways and means
committee did not like.
The proposed garnishment bill
which has had the endorsement of the
retail merchants of the state, was adj
versely reported this morning by the
judiciary committee This is the sec
ond garnishment bill killed by the
judiciary committee.
Montee's bill prohibiting advertising
in street cars has been killed by the
judiciary committee. This was what
everybody expected would happen.
The house put in most of its time
this morning passing local bills on
third reading There was no "omni-
bus"
Kirtlands bill providing for a civil
service system in the state institutions
has been favora bly, reported by the
committee on charitable institutions.
T F. Davis. the Marion doctor who |
wants the legislature to authorize him /
to practice in this state. has been prac- |
Using medicine SO years. He saws he |
did not know it was necessary for him (
to get license to practice until after /
the limit had expired for him to get /
in without an examination And he
seems to have an aversion to examina- I
ton.
Henry c. Sticher, a newspaper man /
from Yates Center, is visiting the leg |
islature. He is the son of Representa-
tiveSticher of Woodson county.
Col. VIM. Sapp of Galena. chairman |
of the Democratic state central COM /
mittee, has been in Topeka for several /
banquet to be held here February p.
Representatives of the Topeka Rail- |
way company are keeping a close tab /