The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-15
First One Takes Place at the
Morning Session.
Democrats Favor Contestants
for Seats Giving Bond.
1T FINALLY PASSES.
But Not Until Republicans Had
Amended 1t.
Rush of New Bills Continues
Unabated.

The rush of bills continue in the house
today and passed well over the century
mark, the last one being numbered III.
The house adjourned at 1880 to 2:3O
this afternoon, the motion to adjourn
to Monday being defeated.
OF great Importance among todav's
bills are: State publication of school
books by Stone of Shawnee and a dupli-
cate of the Stone bill by Penweu of
shawnee. The bill by Stone of Shaw
nee requiring all precincts in the state
10 use voting machines in elections
hereafter. Three guarantee of bank de-
post bills, one each by Krehbiel Buck
man and Morrison. The state forestry
pln Dy morgan of Reno. These bills will
De sure TO excite interesting debate la
ter IN the session which will attract
c4oSe attention generally over the state
"A slgnlncant feature of the Stone bill
on state publication of school books is
the fact that it is an exact duplicate of
the hodges bill in the senate and the
PenWeH bill in the house Hodges and
PenweH are both Democrats, so it would
appear that certain members of both
parties have agreed on the state pub-
hcation plan. The Stone bill introduc-
ca To-Day is changed from the Stone bill
outlined in the State Journal some
weeks ago that had the o. X of State
Printer 7. A. McNeal. 1t may be said
that of the three state school book bills
now before the legislature, the text of
these measures is the same, and two of
Democratic caucus
New Guarantee Bill.
krebiePs bill for guarantee of
pdnk deposits provides for a Bank
ers Guarantee association for cleo
! tIon of officers and meetings at which
each county is entitled to a delegate
The executive committee of the asso-
citation, composed the officers, shall
pass on the appHca Cions of banks for
membership. payment of one
fourth of one per cent is required for
the establishment of a guarantee fund
or two and one-haIf millions The
state treasurer shall have charge of
thfs fund and Is empowered to make
! loans from it to the banks of the state
under the same conditions that gov
ern the loaning of state funds to the
banks of the state. (In other words.
the banks will have the privilege of
/ borrowing their own money!
McNair introduced a re-apportion-
ment of representative districts bill
today which gives representation to
every county in the state, without in
creasing the number of representa-
tives- The smaller counties of JEFF
ferson, Usage, Brown, Franklin, Has
kell and Stanton giving UP one of
their two representatives to ten west
ern counties now having only five rep
resentatives among them In this
bill Leavenworth county is still al
/ lowed three representatives while
Montgomery, much larger county
/ than Leavenworth, is held to two rep
reSentatives.
Two bills for the protection of quail
and other game birds were introduced
today
First Debate of Session
The first debate of the session occur
red this morning over the resolution
| requiring contestants for seats in the
house to file a bond of $500 as evidence
I IfNfr Cot
! the contest. This resolution was finally
! passed. but not until an amendment by
! Stone had been tackled on which forbid
! the forfeiture of the bond where the
evidence for the contest.
Foley of Rice Mitchell of Douglas
and Stone of Shawnee all spoke We
hemently on this resolution Foley,
and Mitchell, Republican. against it,
but it was passed without a party di-
vision on the question.
Raps Morning Paper for Inaccuracy.
Gray of Phillips introduced the fol-
lowing resolution, which would indicate
/ that the members of the house are not
| taking kindly to the plan of racket
/ store prizes in connection with the
purchase and excellence of news
paper:
BE 1t, resolved, by the house of rep
resentatives, whereas, the Topeka Daily
/ Capital, a paper of state wide circula-
its issue of Jan. Is that the house en-
ployrnent committee has added fifteen
more employees than was agreed upon
as the total of employees.
Whereas, the same is misleading, as
the employment committee in the first
report had not reported the full quota
of "A employees and had only in it's re-
port of yesterday reported the remain
ing of the A employees to be hired as
the total number of house employees"
The resolution was read the first time
and adopted.
Speaker Dolley declared that he re-
garded il as a great injustice to the
members of the house, as well as
Misrepresentation of facts.
Additional House Committees
Speaker Do1ley announced the follow
ing committees at this mornings ses-
sion:
COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE.
Haskins of Johnson Newlin of Doug
las. Phillips of Sumner, Krehbiel of
Harvey. Laubach of Usage, Lehman of
Ness, Mcmillan of Mitchell Foley of
Rice Rogers of Sedgwick.
COMMITTEE ON MANUFACTURES.
Mccormack of Crawford, Crumley OF
Thomas, Morton of Osborne, Reeder of
Doniphan Snyder of Leavenworth,
Deacon of Cherokee, Hutchison of
Wyandotte.
JUDICIARY LOCAL.
Cunningham of Cowley. Westcott of
Cherokee, Dryden of Usage. Griffen of
of Franklin Hopkins of Jackson. Lam
drey of wyandotte. Crosby of Chey-
enne.
PENAL INSTITUTES.
Banker of Russell. Clark of Jefferson.
Cranston of Labette, Carter of Wal