The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-06
MISSOURI BALKS.
Stock Yards Bill i'm That State
Is Killed.
Was Counterpart of the Edwards
Bill in Kansas.
MEANS NOLEGISLATION
Senate Strikes Out the Enacting
Clause.
Will Not Act Without Corpora
tiOn of Missouri.
MEANS NOLEGISLATION

| gIOn VA
There will be no stock yards legisla-
| ton at the present session of the Kan
sas legislature. The fault. however, is
mot with Kansas. Old Missouri, as
usual, is to blame.
By an almost unanimous vote the
senate in committee of the whole last
night, on motion of Senator H. B.
| Miller of Usage county, struck out the
enacting clause of the Edwards stock
yards bill.
Il have been reliably informed -
| said Senator Miller, "that the Missouri
mouse of representatives has killed the
bill similar to the Edwards bill, which
was intended to compel the stock
yards company to make reasona Bile
charges for yardage and feed. 1 be-
l1eve that there is not the slightest
chance for the passage of that bill by
the Missouri legislature Therefore l
am in favor of killing this bill right
now. We don't want to get tied up as
we were two years ago.
Senator Getty of Wyandotte county
also spoke against the bill. I'VE GER
tainly should not pass this BILL he
said, unless the Missouri legislature
first passes the same bill. If we act
favorably, and Missouri does not, it
simply means that evil drive the
stock yards across the state line, and
Missouri will profit by it. We will
also injure the stock yards companies
at Wichita and other points, which
would be affected by our bill"
On the motion to strike out the en-
acting clause, nearly everybody voted
aye except Senator Tucker, who
thought that it might be well to let
the bill sleep on the calendar a while
longer, before apitating it.
The Edwards bill was drawn after a
Missouri legislatures had made an in
Vestigation of the situation at the
Kansas City stock yards and had as
certained exactly the amount of the
overcharges, and the prevalence of the
short weight" habit. The bill cor
rected these injustices.
similar bill was before the Kansas
and Missouri legislatures at the 1905
session, and was passed by the Kansas
legislature. The Missouri senate killed
that the stock yards people used a
large sum of money in securing the
defeat of he bill.
1t will be up to the house to decide
whether the state shall continue the
old system of distributing special gifts
to the private charitable Institutions of
the state The senate on Tuesday
afternoon refused to accept the plan
proposed by the ways and means com
mittee, which provided that "a lump
sum Of $4,000 should belplaced in the
hands of the state board of control, to
be distributed to such private charit-
able institutions as are found to be de-
serving.
The senators did not like the pro-
vision because it shut off an old and
long established system of doing
something for the senatorial consti-
tuents. Senator Stewart of Sedgwick
presented a long amendment to the
bill prepared by the ways and means
committee, setting forth in detail just
which institutions should be favored,
and how much each would get. In adj
dition to renewing all the appropria-
lions made at the last session, a num-
Der of new charitable institutions are
placed on the receiving list.
Senator Waggener amended the bill
by inserting the following proviso:
Provided. that no institution which
during the year last preceding refused
to accept or care for INDECENT or des-
titute patients shall receive the appro-
priation above provided"
The following institutions are pro-
v1ded for in tie bill:
One thousand dollars each-Parsons
Home for Friendless; Fort Scott Mer-
cy hospital; Kansas State Protective
home, Leavenworth; Wichita hospital;
Topeka Orphans home; st. Margar-
cts hospital, Kansas City, West Side;
Children's home, Kansas City, West
Leavenworth; Pittsburg hospital; Beth
any hospital Kansas City West Side;
Wichita Children's home; Pottawat-
omie County Orphans home; Critten-
ton home, Topeka; ST Joseph hospi-
tai. Concordia; ST Francis hospital
Leavenworth Home for Aged
Women; Clay Center hospital; ST.
Mary's hospital, Winfield; Arkansas
City hospital; Arkansas City assocfa-
ton; Parkview hospital. Manhattan;
Mt. Carmel hospital, Pittsburg; St.
Rose hospital, Great Bend; Wells asy-
lum. Atchison; lola Orphans. home
Salina hospital.
Seven hundred dollars each-Tope-
ka rescue home; Industrial home,
Hillsboro.
Six hundred dollars each-Wichita
rescue home; Home for Women Leav-
Douglas hospital. Kansas
City, West side; st. Joseph Orphan as
YUM. Wichita.
Four hundred dollars each-Guar-
dian Angel home. Leavenworth; Good
lander home, Fort Scott.
With only three votes against the
project, the senate on Tuesday after
noon voted tc pay tc Fred Dumont
Smith, n. H. Loomis and S S. Ash
baueh $4,000 each as additional attor-
ney's fees in the Arkansas river law
SUIT The ones voting against the bill
were Caldwell, Carver and Stannard.
Stannard was the only man in the SEN
ate to make any protest. He said that
he considered the bill excessive in
view of the large sums which had been
expended on the suit in years past
Senator Waggener said that he be-
lieved he was a pretty fair judge of
what legal services ought to be worth,
and he thought that the claim for So
eco each was very modest.
w. A. S. Birds red can bill will, ac-
cordtng to present indications, become
a law at the present session. The SEN
ate in committee Of the whole Tuesday
night, recommended it for passage. This
bill provides that all caCs in which
gasoline is sold must be painted red
and labelled rrsOliue