The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22

utes to put the harpoon into vital part
| OF the bin which proposed that the state
Off penitentfarv brick for road roller
! and for cement and groutng to be used
/ In building brick pavement for three
miles between Leavenworth and the pen
! 1t is claimed that this road would have
Senator VInt Stillings of Leavenworth. and
that Stillings was backing the bill for
| in the house by Representative OConnor
| of keavenworth.
The house committee of the whole voted
| to strike out the enacting clause OF the
O'Connor BILL
No Bills to BE Passed.
Because this is a legal holiday the house
undertake to pass any bills The day will
be put in working in committee OF the
The important bills on third reading.
which might have been passed TO-DAY. were
the Schmidt grain inspection bill and the
Smith bill prohibiting the making OF spe-
cial contracts
DR.. Thomas A. Maghew. of Sumner
county was called to the chair and is pre-
siding over the session of the committee
of the whole.
Mr.. Sticher Excused
Owing to continued i'll health, Represen-
tative ]. H. Sticher of WoodSon county
asRed t9 % y ana vas f g6anseq naanons
on further meetings of the house during
the present session.
request said Mr.. Sticher, but while
fee! that I have a duty as representative.
and they insist that return home 1 am
in such physical condition that 1 am in
Mr.. Sticher was taken sick about
month ago with grip, due to a cold con.
the house. He returned to the house on
Tuesday, but has not gained in strength
Recommends $4,000 Cottage.
The ways and means committee this
morning reported favorably on the bill
FL tn ia1 FOR
girls, at Beloit a new SIS, 900 cottage.
The same committee also recon-
mended an increase in the appropr1a-
ton for equipment at the state print
ing plant The bill was introduced to
cover the cost of linotypes and other
machinery. The committee, in addi-
ton to reporting favorably on all the
items included in the original bill, rec
ommends that the appropriation for
bindery equipment be increased from
$4,000 to $4,000, and that the state
purchase two new presses instead OF
one.
The senate bill making an appro-
priation for the purpose of conducting
Investigations with view TO extermtn-
ating San Jose scale, and suppressing
all injurious insect pests and plant dis
eases, and creating state entomology
cal commission, which was reported
favorably by the committee on ways
and means was, on the request of
Chairman Leland of the ways and
means committee, withdrawn from the
calendar of the house, and returned to
the committee on ways and means for
further consideration.
Hughes May Get More Pay.
The senate bill providing for an in
crease in the salaries of some of the Of
ficials in the adjutant generals depart
ment was favorably acted upon this
morning in the house committee of the
whole This bill increases the salary of
the adjutant general from $1,000 to ST.
500.
1t abolishes the office of quartermas-
ter general at 81 200 a year, and creates
the office of assistant adjutant general
al s., 400 year. 1t raises the pay of the
storekeeper of the state arsenal from
$500 to 12O0, and abolishes the office of
ordnance sergeant, which carried an
appropriation of $500 year. The net
increase in the salaries of the depart
ment is only 500 per year. and the house
recommended the bill for passage.
other Bills Reported.
The house, while working in commit
tee of the whole this morning, reported
favorably upon the following bills:
act relating to the issue of bonds to
erect. furnish and equip county high
school buildings by counties that have
established county high schools under
the provisions of chapter $50. of the. ses-
sion laws of 1897 as amended by chap
ter 433, session laws of 1905.
L.
act limiting the bonded Indebtedness of
cities of the second class. amending par
agraph 981, general statutes 1901, and
repeating former acts.
Senate bill No. 254. By Martin of
Bourbon-An act to amend sections 8,
s. %, 81 and 81 of chapter 303. laws of
1905, relating to the organized militia
Of the state of Kansas.
Substitute for house bill No. 203. BY
committee on judiciary-An act
amending sections 3795. 1896, 1916,
1882 general statutes of Kansas, 1901,
relating to the selecting and summon
ing of grand and petit jurors.
House bill No. 500. By committee
on live stock-An act to amend sec
ton % of chapter 495 of the session
laws of 1905. entitled IAN act for the
protection of domestic animals, and
repeating sections 7421 and 1923 and
article 10 of chapter los of the COM
piled laws of 1901, and all acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith, and
providing penalties for the violation
thereof" and repeating said original
section.
The bill of Representative Gordon.
providing for the plating of lands for
assessment purposes, met with a
stormy reception, and finally suffered |
decapitation.
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