The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-16
The WORK IS DONE
Representative Hall Decorations
Are All Completed.
Only Thing That Is Needed Now
Is a Carpet.
FOR MURAL PAINTINGS
That Is Next Thing Planned by
the Artistic.
Governor Elect Stubs Outlines
His Policy.
FOR MURAL PAINTINGS


of the walls of representative hall has
been completed by Albert T. Reid.
When the new legislature convenes, it
| will find quite different looking room
ready for it's reception than the one
| which housed the members at the spe-
| cial session last year.
! Not only are the walls decorated, but
a complete new system for heating and
ventilating the big room has been in
stalled. Heretofore the hall of the
| house of representatives has been a
| death-trap for unwary members. The
| ventilation has been wretched, and
| every session harvested it's crop of
| pneumonia cases.
The only thing that remains to be
| done to the room is, to put in a new
carpet, new desks and new chairs. None
| of these have yet been authorized by
| the legislature. The new carpet is
necessity, and a Topeka firm has Of
fered to lay one ION suspicion" and
wait for the legislature to make an ap-
preparation to pay for it. 1t may be
that the offer wifi be accepted, though
some of the executive council think it
would be better to put back the old car
pet and let the members of the legis-
lature see how bad it looks.
The replacing of the chairs is a mat
ter which will have to be attended to
before the hall looks We'll. There are
about ten or fifteen different kinds of
chairs provided for the members, some
with tall backs, some with low backs,
some with arms and some without,
and all more or less crippled. A uni
form design for the chairs will make
great improvement in the looks of
the room. The present desks used by
the members are also of rather a cheap
and tacky design, but they are heap
better than the chairs and carpet. Some
of the state house people think that in
order to give the house of representa-
tiVeS the same dignified and attractive
appearance of the senate chamber, the
house members should be given the
same kind of desks which the senators
have. The desks provided for the sen
atorS are of a very substantial ma
hogany construction.
The decorations of the walls of the
house of representatives are worked out
in old rose and old ivory, with a few
panels of old blue. In the large CEN
female figures representing Education,
Law, Agriculture and Justice. The
figures wereD designed and painted by
Albert T. Reid. TX
If the legislature feels in an artistic
frame of mind, = it will appropriate
funds to pay for having some mural
decorations made for the room. BY
mural decorations is meant paintings
of historic Kansas scenes, to be made
on canvas and then fastened to the
walls at appropriate places. Such
paintings are provided in most of the
big state capitols of the country. They
will probably cost upwards of $1,000
apiece.
Another candidate for secretary of
state senate is out. 1t is u. E. Wyant
of Waverly, who was docket clerk at
the last session. This makes four can
didates who are in the field. They are
Dan Dyer of Smith Center. q. G. Hop
kins of wellington VIM. KretSinger OF
Emporia and u. E. Wyant. Wyant is
the only one in the lost who has been
The others have all been classed with
the machine crowd of the Republican
party. Kretsinger fought the nominal
ton of VIM. H. Taft, and opposed the
passage of the resolutions endorsing
Taft at the state committee meeting.
This puts him in bad with the party.
T. E. Wyant has been in the newspa-
per business for number OF years;
Last fall he became superintendent OF
city schools at Waverly. If elected to
the position of secretary of the senate
he would provide substitute for his
Waverly position during the session of
the legislature.
The Kansas City Star, in a Law
renee dispatch, sets forth the admin
istrative platform of Governor7elect w.
r. Stubs as follows
To give the state of Kansas good
roads.
To establish more liberal policy for
it's educational institutions
To lay the foundation for compre-
hensive scheme for the development OF
a statewide forestry policy.
To raise the standard of the rural
school system.
To perfect the railroad laws already
on the statute books and to secure
needed amendments TO the primary anu
tax laws.
To amend, also. the enabling act
authorizing commission government in
cities of the first and second class ana |
llpon a thorough business basis.
Mr.. Stubbs doesn't say anything
about the guaranty deposit law, which
is rather significant.
E. B. Jewell, of Wichita, is also in
favor of the plan to change the time
for holding the state primary election
He says:
so that the primary election will fall
somewhere between March 10, ana
March Z5 That will accommodate the |
farmers better than an August primary. |
# has been suggested here that the pri |
mary law be. amended, so that the local
candidates select the ward and town |
shin committeeman and have the mem |
Der of the state committee and party
Council nominated at the primary cleo |
ton This plan would give a more |
practical and better working local com |
mittee, less liable TO De IactlondI imam i
the present plan, and give to the party
independent of the candidates repre- |
sentation on the state committee and
in the narty council Factionalism gen. |
orally manipulated by a few active poll
ticians would perhaps have more diff |
Guilty in securing representation on the
state committee and in the party coun- |
iii Than Under the present law. This |
committeeman selected by the paris
should be ex-officio chairman of the
local committee