The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-05
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Senate Now Uses Prod on the
House.
Pushes Along the New Antipass
Bill.
PASS GETTY MEASURE.
Substituted for the Stone House
Bill.
No Amendments or Changes
Are Made.
Ass GETTY MEASURE.

Who would have expected, week
ago, to see the railroad ridden" KAN
sas senate using a club on the highly
virtuous house of representatives to
force it to pass the antipass law?
That is exactly what happened this
morning. The senate took up the Stone
antipass bill, struck out all after the
enacting clause, substituted the Getty
bill by vote of 35 to 0, and sent the
bill back to the house.
This puts the bill past all interfer-
ence by the oppressive antipass minor
ity which has buried the Getty bill In
the house. The bill sent to the house
this morning is the Stone bill amehd-
ed" The only thing for the house T.
do is to accept or reject the Getty
bill by a majority vote. II 1t IS re-
jected, conference committee VIII De
appointed, and the points Of difference
settled.
When the Getty bill went to the
house in it's original form, it was the
senate bill, and mad to take the regular
course of a senate bill To advance
it to speedy bearing necessitated sus :
pension of rules and the tWo-tnlrus
vote to secure the suspension coulo net
be gathered together in the house me
bill was in danger of dying at the foot
of the calendar.
In this dilemma, Senator Getty. SEN
ator Dolley and a few others hXed up
the move which was made To-Day. By
substituting the Getty bill for the
stone bill, the efforts to stif1e the
Getty bill in the house would be
baff1ed
The plan was proposed to senator
Fitzpatrick, leader of the tight IN the
senate on the antipass law. He
agreed to make no fight on the change,
provided that the bill should be
amended to take effect on Jan. l, 1908,
instead of on publication in the statute
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condition that the further change
should be made limiting the railroads
to one attorney and one local doctor
in each county through which the
road runs. In the original Getty DILL
the railroads We're not limited to the
counties through which they operated
When these concessions agreed upoE'
the matter was sprung this morning
as surprise on a majority OF the
members of the senate.
81 wish to move said Senator Getty
in presenting the subject, that the
rules be suspended and house bill Al
(the Stone bilO be put on third read
ing wish to state that the house
has sidetracked the antipass bill which
we enacted few days ago. and is ap-
parently planning to allow the bill to
die on the calendar. The senate owes
it to itself to check this matter UP to
the house in such a way they cannot
dodge. BY amending the Stone bill to
correspond with the bill we passed we
can place the responsibility for killing
this bill, if it is killed, squarely on the
house,
The motion OF Senator Getty carried
by an almost unanimous vote.
Several senator's wanted to amend
the bill while they had chance. but
these efforts were shut off. except as to
the two amendments agreed upon be-
forehand. Then the roll was called on
the final passage of the Stone bill. as
amended. and the bill was passed by
vote of 35 to 0. Even Senator Bett,
voted for the bill.
Cities May Refund Their Debts.
If there are any cities of the first
a floating debt of orders, warrants
script, or judgments, they will be al
lowed to wipe their slate clean and IS
sue ciyt bonds to cover the whole IL
bill passed this morning by the Kan
sas senate. The bill has already been
passed by the house, and will soon be-
come a law.
bonded debt to be thus created is $780,
900 in cities of the first class. and $50,
600 in cities of the second class.
This law seems to be of especial in
terest to Kansas City, Kan, and Atch
ison The senators from these cities
were especially active in it's support
Topeka does not need the law 1t has
kept within it's expenditures recently,
and the banks are not carrying 1T to
any great extent. Neither has the city
been so unlucky to have any big
judgments registered against it.
The bonds to refund the floating debt
may be issued to run up to 25 years.
The mayor and council must levy
enough tax TO pay the interest, and five
years after they are issued, must levy
such additional tax as will create d
fund to pay the bonds at their ma
turity.