The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
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Hangs I'm Balance=in Legislature
Today.
DIR. d. n. Shivefey, President of
Western Association, Here.
AN. UPHILL CONTEST.
Rural Districts Can Not Under
stand Situation.
Indications That the Fight Will
BE Very Close.


afternoon. 1t is the first bill on the
list when the house goes into commit
tee of the whole.
There has been a lot of missionary
work going on this morning in behalf
of Sunday baseball. DR.. d. M.
Shiveley, of Kansas City, the coroner
of Wyandotte county and president of
the Western Baseball association, ar
rived in town yesterday, and has been
getting acquainted with some of the
members. He said this morning:
Things look considerably mixed.
We have an uphill fight because it is
really the rural districts against the
larger cities, and the rural districts
can't See the use of Sunday baseball.
1t is the laboring class in the larger
tunity to attend baseball games on
Sunday"
1t is said that as a last resort, the
friends of Sunday baseball may be
willing to accept a bill providing that
there shall be no Sunday baseball, but
excepting cities of the first class from
the provisions of the act.
The sentiment against Sunday thea
ters seems to be stronger than that
against Sunday baseball. Many of the
should be permitted Sunday afternoon
can see no good reason why Sunday
night theaters should operate. The
argument in behalf of Sunday baseball
is that Ia DOrln2 men are Unable 10 at
tend ball games on week days, on ac-
count of their work, but this argu-
ment does not apply in the least to
Sunday theaters.
The original house bill No. %, intro
duced by D. c. Fraser. is as follows:
Every person who shall be con-
victed of horse racing. cock fighting,
playing at cards, exhibiting or giving
any circus or show. vaudeville or
theatrical performance, playing base
ha1 craT of " tends
to disturb the peace and quiet on the
first day of the week., commonly called
Sunday, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and fined not exceeding
$500"
The judiciary committee, after sew
eral attempts, reported a substitute
for the anti-Sunday bill, which was
as follows:
ANY person who shall be convicted
of exhibiting or giving any circus or
sh ow, vaudeville or theatrical per-
Torrance, playing baseball, Which dis
turbs theS public peace and quiet on
the first day of the week. commonly
called Sunday, shaA-be- deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and fined not ex-
ceedfng one f1undred dollars. - -,
The substitute of the committee diff
fered from the original bill chiefly IN
that it cut out the words tends to-
and makes 1T necessary to prove that
the playing of baseball, etc., does dis
turb the E peace, sinstead of that II
tends to- disturb the peace.
The indications are that the, nght
on the. bill in the house Will be very
close 1t is not likely, however, that
the bill absolutely prohibiting SUNDAY
baseball will become law, because II
means the death of professional base
ball in Kansas, and a great majority
of the members of the legislature are
not opposed to the game. e--4e
HeInlicII Wants Uniform Laws.
Parks Helmick, representative from
aad
this morning instructing the governor
to call a conference of delegates from
Colorado Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri,
Illinois. Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma ana
such other states, to be appointed py
the governors of those respective states
for the purpose of discussing ana agree
ing upon uniform state laws to protect
independent OIL similar to the anti
discrimination and maximum freight
rate laws enacted at the last session of
the Kansas legislature.
Grainmcn Want the Law.
The Kansas grain dealers held con-
vention at Wichita not long ago, at
which they adopted resolutions urging
the Kansas legislature to re-enact and
strengthen the present grain inspection
laws of the state. These resolutions
have been sent to all the members of
the house and senate and are as fol-
lows:
'sWhGr6aS.
Kansas City no, has seen fit to send
a delegation to the governor of Kansas
asking him to use his influence to pre-
vent the re-enactment of proper laws
governing the inspection and Weighing
of grain, and
fence that weights and grades have
been better and more generally salts
factory since such a law has been in
operation; therefore be 1t
Resolved That we the grain dealers
of Kansas here assembled in annual
convention do hereby request and petit
ton the governor of the state and each
and every senator and state represen-
tatiye to protect the interests of the
producers and the shippers of Kansas,
not Missouri by the enactment or
rigid inspection and weighing law that
shall be constitutional and capable of
strict enforcement, and that such law
shall contain a clause making it obHga-
tory upon the inspectors and weighers
and their deputies to show upon its
certificate, not only the grade or weight
or the grain inspected or weighed, but
also a complete seal record of the car In
which such grain is contained, so as to
prevent the changing of grain after in
spection has once been made, and aid in
recovering losses and shortages that
occur in transit; and be it further
Resolved, That the secretary of this
association be instructed to send
copy of the resolution to the governor
and to each and every member of the
senate and house of representatives
now assembled. with a personal request
to each for his hearty cooperation in
the enactment of such a law"
Contested Seats Under Discussion.
E. F. Davidson, chairman of the
elections committee, introduced a res
olution this morning providing that
the contestor in the Logan and Kiowa
county legislative contests should be
entitled to no mileage or per diem I'M
less his case is sustained by the house.
w T. Cunningham of Cowley spoke