The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-03-15


lions were considered and passed by
the house during the day. The bills
had been advanced on the calendar
by the revision committee last night
and were ready for action today.
Nearly all of the bills passed were
senate measures which had bean
slightly changed in the house ways
and means committee.
Only two of the bills met with
any opposition. They were those
making an appropriation for the
maintenance of the state agricul-
tural college and for buildings ct
the state manual training normal
school. The opposition to the aSri-
cultural college bill came from Ryan,
OF Brown and Brown, of Harper.
They wanted the maintenance APP
preparation for the institution re-
duced by about onefourth. They
we're opposed by every man on both
sides of the house who can talk. and
many participated whose oratorical
ability was greatly limited. All OF
the speakers wanted the agricultural
college to have the fund it had
asked and the vote on the amend
ment was unanimous for the ap-
preparation as it had come from
the ways and means committee.
There was no opposition to the
other measures Those considered
and passed on third reading with
the appropriations they carried,
were as follows:
State agricultural college. 1908,
s29G, 500; 1909, $245,O0O; Fort Hays
branch experiment station, 1905,
$4,000 1909, $4,000; Farmers ill.,
stitute, 1907, $1,000; for barn at
Fort Hays experiment station,
$4,000; repairs at the pententiary
Sl,5O0: State Soldiers home and
Mother Bickerdyke home, 1908,
$lO4.1OO 1909, S103,SS00 Kansas
penitentiary, for hard fiber Irvine
plant S7S,5S0; state industrial
school for boys. Topeka, 1908,
S5099O; 1909, $4,000; state normal
at Emporia, S250,000; Western
branch of the state normal. $S1 1855:
auxiliary to Manual Training school,
Pittsburg. 100000; state university
Lawrence. 1908, $3G1414; 1909,
S413,120.
The ways and means committee
of the senate today turned loose the
following bunch of appropriation
bills:
State oil inspection, $4,000;
grain inspection, S96,4O0; game war
den. $500; regents, state univer-
sity. $4,000; regents, state normal,
$4,000; regents, state agricultural,
S3,500; directors penitentiary, S.
400; managers, Soldiers home.
$500; textbook commission, $500;
state board of education, $1,000
The ways and means committee
also presented a bill providing for
horses and carriages to be used by
the governor, and appropriating
$500 for the care and maintenance
of the same Under the bill $4,000
is to be spent for the executive
stables.
The senate passed the Tucker bill
appropriating $4,000 to be placed at
the disposal of the attorney general
to defray the expenses of conduct
ing fight against trusts doing bust
ness within the state.
Topeka, Kans., March 4. What
may be a death blow to anti-pa IS
legislation at the present session of
the legislature was dealt in the
house this afternoon when that body
refused 10 advance the senate anti
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endar where it is now situated
The house passed the Stone bill,
stringent measure, three weeks ago,
but the senate sent back the Getty
bill as substitute. The house has
baked at the substitution and the
Getty measure is now buried by
scores of other bills. Unless it is
advanced there is no chance of the
house reaching ii before adjourn
ment. The leaders of the anti-pass
movement hope to have the meas
ure advanced tomorrow, as many
members were not present when the
vote was taken today.
The senate in committee of the
whole killed Senator Miller's bill
providing for the abolition of the
boards of regents of the various
state educational institutions and APP
pointing in their stead committee
of three men to have full control Of
all Of the institutions. A motion to
strike out the enacting clause car
ried b. a vote of fifteen to sixteen,
several Of the senators not voting.
Senator Carver's bill authorizing
the governor to appoint his execu- |
tive clerk as assistant private secre-
tary at an increased salary of 5000 !
per year and to appoint a confiden.
tal stencgrapher and assistant exc
cutive clerk at salary of 81 800 !
was reported for passage by the |
committee of the whole. The bid |
also carries with II the report to APP !
point a filling and recording clerk !
at a salary of 81 200 per year.
The prospects for an agreement |
on a maximum freight rate measure 4
are considered favorable. The bills, /
there being two. one from the SEN |
when Burton Gets Out. - Former I
Senator Joseph r. Burton. of Kan
sas. will be released March % from |
the Ironton. Mo-. Jail. where he is +