The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-17

| the county treasury for the erecuon
of new court house and providing
| how said funds shall be returned into
the county treasury.
NOTES FROM THE LEGISLATURE.
Little or no work was accomplished
at the session of the senate yesterday
afternoon. Most of the time the body
was in order was in the nature of a
recess while the conference committee
of the house and senate was busy fix
ing up the bill appropriating $4,000
for the contingent expenses of the leg
islature. The senate conferees finally
reported that the measure had been
agreed to by leaving in it the appro-
priation of $40 per senator and $40
per representative for postage This
provision was stricken out of the bin
originally by the assembly. The re-
port of the conference committee was
adopted by the senate and the bill was
thereupon passed in it's original form.
After this measure had been disposed
of the senate adjourned.
A meeting of the senate committee
on railroads will be called by its
chairman, Senator Tucker, for some
evening this week when preliminary
steps will be taken for the considera-
ton of the many important bills at.
fecting railroads, which have been in
PRODUCED and referred to the commit
tee. Senator Tucker has an idea that
1t would be good plan for the COM
mittee to hold open sessions on the
floor of the senate chamber at which
arguments and suggestions can be
made by those interested in the merits
of the bills as well as by the repre-
sentatives of the railroads who may be
opposed to them. This is a matter
though, as Senator Tucker points out,
that will have to be decided on by the
committee.
For general activity, Senator Tom
Noftzger, the sage of Anthony, has all
of his colleagues beaten several city
blocks and then some. When he is in.
the chamber, and he is we'll nigh ON
nipreSent, scarcely a motion of any
sort is made or a procedure attempted
that he does not have a suggestion of
some sort as to how it ought to be ac-
complished. He was forced to admit
yesterday for the first time that one of
Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald's
second days efforts as the presiding
officer of the senate were quite as sue
cessful as those of his first day. 1t is
the idea of everyone that he will make
senate. Fitzgerald" said one of his
admirers, has had lot of experience
in driving four and six mule teams,
and when the occasion arises you will
senator's within their traces Mr..
Fitzgerald bids fair to rival his pre-
-decessor Mr.. Hanna. in general popu-
larity and that is height attained by
few men.
The legislative ghost will walk for
the first time tomorrow when the SEN
ators, representatives and employees
will receive their pay for their first ten
days work. Senators and representa-
tives will receive their mileage allow
ances, which in a good many instances
will be more than triple their pay for
the ten days work.
AS far as salaries go the diminutive
pages, good many of whom ought still
to be tied to their mothers apron
strings, will draw about as much
money as the senators and representa-
tives. The pages get 50 a day and the
legislators SO.
You'll get $50 tomorrow and I'll get
$780, said a senator to page this morn
ing. IF you will put this and the rest
of your salary in the bank, by the end
of the session you will have saved con-
siderably more money from your salary
than I will have been able to do"
That's true" said another senator
butting in, but your bank roll
will not be as large as his. my boy
One of the young women employees of |
the senate stenographer Of one of the |
wears a huge nickel chain |
around her waist in sort of girdle |
effect. The chain is apparently strong |
enough to hold yoke of oxen, but it is |
used by the young woman for the rath-
err delicate task Of keeping a small |
bunch of keys attached to her.
Congressman Charles Curtis, who is i
almost a. United States senator, visited |
the house this morning.
John Edwards, of Greenwood. who has
been absent for few days, was back |
at his desk in Representative hall to-
day.
A. E. Helm of Wichita, one of the
attorneys of the state, is
in Topeka comforting with the "peo-
pies lobby
There is a general kick in the house
about the custom which prevails of dis
pensing with the reading of the jour
nal. 1t was a close vote this morning
On the motion to dispense, but it was
dispensed"
The chaplain of the house this morn
ing prayed that the members might re-