The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-29
DRIFTING AT SEA.
House Has Trouble in Keeping
Bearings.
Bills Killed neutrality-suspicious.
sion and Then Rejuvenated.
ONE COMES TO GRIEF.
Mr.. MiIlgian's Measure to Regu-
late Feeding Hogs.
Pure Food Bill Furnishes In
SEPARATION for Much Talk.
me COMES TO GRIEF.

| The Monday afternoon session OF ths
house, as a committee of the whole, was
| one long tumble of mistakes, talks, mo
| tions and other things out of order, anu
general confusion. Several bills were
recommended for passage, and severdl
more were killed, seemingly unoer
misapprehension and in violation OF the
parliamentary rules, and later reJuVeha-
ted Morgans bill, number ESQ, an aGl
to ratify the official acts and proceeu-
ings in boards of education in cites OF
the second class with over 1u'oVV N
ha bitants, was recommended TOT pass
age. This bill is purely local IN lntent'
and is framed forzthee purpose OF mend
ing bad break maderby the poaro u
education at Hutchinson.
Brierlyss bill, number "a empowering
state and local boards of health TO EN-
quire into and require the removal OF
nuisances, and provide penalties, was
recommended for passage.
Mr.. Milligan's bill, number 1SS, when
was a proposition to tell the hog what
his breakfast, dinner and lunch, shouid
consist OF, was killed dead, and then an at
tempt made to reconsider It. Inc at
tempt failed, and the Kansas hog -
stin entitled to any provender5 in the
way of corpses, human, bovine ana
equine, which he may find shaRdy, re-
gardless of the state of preservation
thereof The house killed this bill with
out debate, and then debated after II.
was too late A motion to reconsider
also lost. This bill was aimed at the
butcher shops, which make a business OF
feeding the offal of slaughtered cattle
to hogs, and then butchering and SELL
ing the hogs without even a change OF
diet.
of the first class to refund their indebt-
edness was recommended for passage.
with few slight amendments submit
ted by the committee on cities OF the
first class.
Leydig's high school tuition bill. num-
Der 1Z5, was recommended. So was sem
ate bill number 20, by Senator thurman
the senate pure food law. This bill re-
ceived considerable attention. 1t was
recommended fer passage, recalled, re-
considered and an amendment In sec
ton IL removed. The original bill called
for a salary of 500 per month 1or tne
chemists of the State Agricultural col
lege and state university who should
conduct the analysis of foods and rnedl-
cines under suspicion. 1t seems that
after the bill was sent to the commit
tee on temperance and public health
of the senate the kind-hearted *com-
mittee tackled on, among other amend
ments, another $50 per, to the salaries
of the chemists. Senator Huffman, the
father of the bill, is chairman of that
committee Thei house recommended 1t
with this amendment, then reconsider
ed trimmed off the extra so, and recon- 1
it again. Therefore the bill has
plenty of recommendations for passage,
but reduction In pay.
While the house was arguing over |
the. extra fifty per month, Tom Nc |
Neal came in and sat at the press
table, What are they talking about ?"
he demanded, A reporter tried TO ex-
plain. ssDo not~these chemists eat and |
drink these samples sent them for in |
spection ?" Probably answered the |
reporter. "Then, instead of paying |
the $3.50, or even $10O per month sal |
ary, the state should charge them 81 |
per week for board" retorted Mr.. NC
Neal and reached for his hat.
Then the house recommended for |
passage the L,eydige bill forathe' pre-
yention of the uses by undertakers, of
fluid containing poison,
which, as Mr.. Leydig explained, was
for the purpose of preventing the con-
,eaInent of murder by poison, when
he investigation was delayed until
after embalming of the victim. The
original bill was for the prevention OF
he use of vegetable or mineral
ooisons" but the vegetable Or was
cut out t'-
Indications are that the bill about
which Osborne county people are
Worrying. and which involves the con-
truc tion of a new court house in that
county will pass the house 1t came
Up in the committee ofSthe whole, and
vas recommended for passage.
The bill is rather unusual in some
and involves a principle
which comes close to being contrary
O the law. Osborne county wants to
,uild a $4,000 court house. 1t has
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