The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
STAND BY HIM.
Mr.. Edwards Given a Vote of
Confidence.
Kansas House of Representa-
tives Speaks Up.
GOES STEP FARTHER.
Resolution Asking Missouri's
Cooperation Adopted.
Anti-Cigarette Bill Is Passed
In the House.

| VIII H. Reeme, the eX-StOck yarQ
man who attacked Representative
John Edwards with a personal letter
to each member of the legislature, wa:
squashed' this morning by the house
The members adopted the following
resolution of confidence in Mr.. Ed
wards. and followed it up by ordering
500 copies printed for distribution:
Whereas, One Will K. Reeme. a
man with grievance. without cause
| and without any regard for the truth
| and with a malevolent and malicious
! desire to wantonly injure and blacken
| the good name and reputation of our
fellow member, John A. Edwards, and
| to destroy his influence for good as a
member of this house, and for no hon
orable purpose whatever, has falsely
| and publicly charged the said John A.
Edwards with being publicly drunk
| while acting in the capacity of mem
| Der of an investigating committee
| from this house, and
Whereas, Said charge is wholly
false and untrue and was known to be
false and untrue by the said Will K.
Reeme at the time he made said
charge and was made for the purpose
of injuring the said John A. Edwards
and not for any honorable and upright
purpose whatever, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That this house hereby
expresses its confidence in the integ-
rity and sobriety of the said John A
Edwards and hereby condemns the
wanton, malicious and cowardly at
tack of the said Will K. Reeme and
hereby expresses it's disapproval and
disapprobation of said attack.
Stock Yards Resolution Adopted.
The house then went ahead and
adopted senate resolution NO: ~
and requests the Missouri legislature
to unite with the Kansas legislature
in the enactment of law to regulate
and control the stock yards at Kansas,
City.
1t was to secure such legislation
that the recent investigation of the
Kansas City stock yards was made
Anticigarette Bill Goes Through.
The house put in nearly the whole
morning in committee of the whole
with F. c. Pomeroy of Jackson in the
chair.
One of the most important bills rec
commended for passage is the bill pro-
hibiting cigarettes. The bill was recon-
mended without discussion or DIVISION
and is as follows:
1T shall be unlawful for any person.
eonpany-eF corporation ito sell or give
away any cigarettes or cigarette pa
pers, or to have any cigarettes or
cigarette papers in or about any store
or other place for free distribution.
Every person, company or corpora
ton violating any of the provisions OF
this act shall be deemed guilty of a
be fined not less than $25 or more than
$780,"
This bill was presented to the legis-
lature by Representative John Ed
wards of Greenwood county.
Must Bulletin Trains.
Another important bill favorably re-
ported is the Stone bill requiring every
railroad company to bulletin at all
depots, at least so minutes before train
time, the fact to whether such train
is late or not, and if late, how much
The company not only must give the
public this information, but must tell
the truth about the amount the train
is late.
This bill is advocated especially by
the commercial travellers, but 1T is raw
ored by the general travelling pubic.
stops Club Rooms.
The house also acted favorably upon
the Davis anti-club room bill, which II
enacted will make a lot OF trouble Tor
the drinking clubs and places wnere
intoxicating liquor is kept for use, glIt'
barter, or for distribution or division
among members. The law is the same
as the present law, except that the pen
atty is changed. Heretofore the pen
atty for running club room mas peen
a fine or imprisonment; the DAVID PHI
makes it flne and imprisonment This
makes the club room law correspond
with other prohibition laws, and shuts
IN the loophole by which fines and
licenses are assessed against joints in
some towns.
More paw for Truancy Officers.
There was quite a fight over the bill
increasing the pay of truancy otf1cers |
The bill was introduced by ID. Z;
Fraser Of Clay county. 1t provldeo
that the truancy officer should receive |
$3.50 per day, instead of 81, and mile |
age at the rate of cents a mile The
house committee of the whole changed
the rate to 25 cents an hour for time |
LOFT hn O.
age. In that shape the bill was favor
ably reported.
No More Trot Lines. >
The Reynard bill prohibiting the |
use of trot lines and set lines in fish |
ing in any stream in the state was
fayorably reported to the house this
forenoon The bill is a very short |
one and simply makes it unlawful to
take any fish except by line and fish |
hook on rod.
state game warden, and will meet the |
general approval of fishermen who |
know that the trot line is the real
killer of fish, next to the seine
No Claims and Accounts Committee.
The senate bill providing for a joint
on claims and accounts,
which the house killed once before,
because it created a bunch of new
from the senate with the Objectionable
Jobs cut out. But meantime the
house has instructed its ways and
means committee to do the work pro-
yided for, and 1t killed the second sem
ate bill, though the bill is really
very good one.
az think it is cheeky to present this
bill to us again" said Cyrus Leland.
acting chairman of the ways and
means committee. And the house
voted to report the bill adversely.
Recommended Bills in Bunch.
All the local bills favorably reported
by the committees which stood on
general order, were reported for pas
sage this morning by the house in