The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-07
IN The SENATE.
Increase in Pay Resolution Is
Adopted.
Would Make Salary $500 With
No Time Limit on Session.
UP TO THE PEOPLE.
Will BE Submitted as Con-
stitutiOnal Amendment.
Senate ReverseS Itself on the
Yukon Exposition.
UP TO THE PEOPLE.

The senate has gone on record
again. This time It has declared un-
equivocally that it is in favor Of g
raise in pay. 1t passed by a vote of 81
to the Pomeroy concurrent resolution
providing for an amendment to the con-
stitution, fixing the pay of members OF
the legislature at $500 for a regular ses-
sion and 500 for a special session, with
no limit on the length of the session.
The bill reduces the mileage from Ii
cents to 8 cents. The present pay OF
members is IS per day with a 50-day
limit
Beat the Bergman Resolution.
The Bergman resolution for a con-
stitutional amendment was defeated.
This amendment provided that half of
the senate should be elected every two
years instead of all every four years
The senators in the of years. were
opposed to the bill, because they like to
ride in on the presidential wave. At
first the vote was q to for the reSolu-
ton. with only four votes needed for
passage Later the senators changed
from aye to no until the vote was IS to
IS. and then the friends of the PROPOSE
ton gave it up.
Money for Seattle Exposition.
Although the senate on Wednesday
night killed the appropriation of $4,000
was given a reconsideration this morn
ing and by a vote of % to Is was
passed.
The roll call was as follows: For the
bill: Benson, Belts, Caldwell, Conner,
Dolley, Fitzpatrick, Fulton. Getty.
Hamme. Harrison. Haskell Huffman,
Martin of Bourbon, Noftzger, Porter of
Montgomery. Simons, Smith, Stewart,
Stillings. Tucker, Waggener, WiIkerson
p
Carver. Chapman, Gilbert, Griffin. Hay
den, Hughes, Lower, Porter Of Craw-
ford, Quincy, Robertson, Stannard,
Young, Brewer-15.
The bill is in part as follows:
THAT for the purpose of exhibiting the
resources. products. and the industrial.
commercial and social progress and the
sas at the Alaska Yuxon-Pacifc exposition
a commission is hereby constituted to be
designated The Alaska YukOn-Pacific ex-
position commission of Kansas" which
shall consist of three suitable persons. to
be selected entirely with regard to their
familiarity with the resources. arts and
products of the state. business experience
and executive skill. and all Of whom shall
be residents of the state
$Fhs- members of-saAd communication s1szslfj
month of September, 1907. and shall
meet at such time and place as the COVER
nor may designate
-Said commission is authorized and di-
Tected to assume and exercise all such eX-
ecuuVe powers as may be necessary to
secure a complete and creditable display
of the resources and interests of the state
at the Alaska YukOn-Pacific exposition. to
be held in Seattle in 1909. and they shall
have entire charge of the solicitation, col
lection. TRANSPORTATION ARRANGEMENT and
exhibition of the objects sent under the
authority of the state to said exposition
and of such objects sent by Individual
citizens of the state as may be by them
placed in their charge; and said commits
sion shall have charge of the interests of
the state and its citizens. and the exhibit
artificial products of the state, to
represent. far possible and to the
best advantage. the natural and artificial
resources Of the state, its rocks. mines
and quarrieS its prairies. hills and for
ests. It's fields. garden and orchard, its
grain. grasses. fruit and Vegeta bleS, its
trees. shrub and flowers. its soils, its pro-
duction. quality and capacity. and each
cured and preserved and exhibited. to the
end that a complete. thorough ard fair eX-
hibition may be had of the actual and
possible productions of the state and of
and its educational, religious and charit-
a BILE institutions.
The said commission is hereby author |
lied to exchange with other states and
plicate specimens when practicable. and
add such articles as may be thus received
in exchange to the original ones from this |
state all of which specimens and objects |
able except as herein otherwise provided. |
shall at the close of the exposition be re-
turned by said commission to the agri- |
cultural rooms in the state house. at To- |
peka. to be added to the collection therein |
and. so far as practicable. preserved as a |
part of the property of the state
The pay of the three members Of the !
commission is fixed at 50 per day and ex-