The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
FINALLY AGREED
House Passed the Senate ApprO-
priation Bill.
Conference Committees Report
Inability to Agree.
NO WEAKNESS SHOWN.
So the House Action at Moor
Came as a Surprise.
Bankers Meet to Talk Over
Guaranty Law.

The fight between the house and
senate over the manner in which
| appropriation shall be made for
| salaries and legislative expenses, has
finally been settled. The house yielded
| at noon, as predicted Monday in the
| State Journal.
mittee appointed to agree on bill
| reported a disagreement, SO the house
| bill as amended by the senate has
| been thrown out and the senate
| passed a new bill making a blanket
appropriation of $4,000 for legislative
| expenses for the rest of the session
The house, after saying it wouldn't
passed the senate bill at noon today.
This fight between the two
| branches OF the legislature was pretty
| tempest in a teapot. 1t was a ping
pong affair and not football at all.
Stannard of Franklin, chairman of
| the house ways and means commit
| tee, muddied the water today when he
| introduced bill requiring that all APP
preparations be itemized hereafter.
| The bankers and heads of trust COM
panies of the state assembled in Cover
nor Stubs Office today with the house
and senate committees on banks and
| banking for final consideration of the
! guarantee deposit bill which will be
/ introduced in the house tomorrow.
The house went into committee of
the whole again this morning to con-
I
| ence library bill by Dolley, most i'm
portant bill and one sure to be hotly
/ contested, was on the programme for
| debate Tuesday but was passed by. 1t
| was passed over again today. Is there
| an effort being made to fix up TINS
measure before it is launched in the
| committee of the whole for the second
time? Cunningham of Cowley fought
| the bill last Friday when it made its
| first appearance in committee OF the
whole. There is a fat job of librarian
provided in this bill. The fight is on
| this provision, Cunningham wanting
the state university to care for the
/ library without cost to the state. The
| bill has been sidetracked now for i've
days and there is considerable specu,
| lation as to the manner in which 1t Will
| be received by the house when IL ap-
pears again before that body. VIII the
! opposition subside will it be the
| stronger for this delay? wherefore?
| The house recommended the passage
of the Louderback bill, requiring ral!-
roads to equip their locomotives with
electric headlights of not less than l.
/ 500 candle power
! Several members of the house have
received numerous letters from their
constituents urging the house to stand
pat on its position to itemize the leg
| islative expense bin. The senate is
handled rather rough for it's refusal TO
do this in some of the letters. w. L.
LEY county, has a letter in which the
senators are referred to as brigands-
The letter concludes as follows;
eff the per diem question bothers you
| let us know and We viii pass the hat
around for the substantial substance
that you may swap for crackers and
cheese"
/ AS far as any letters are concerned
the stand of the house seems to be
supported throughout the state while
the senate is coming in for some con-
defamation
| Bills in the House.
| The following bills were introduced in
| n. b No. Isl. By Committee on Roads
and Highways-An act relating to roads
and highways; creating the office of coun-
| tv engineer of highways and bridges
| H B. No. 49, BY White-An act vacat-
| ing certain portions of the city of Mime
| Fl. B. No. 753 By white-An act vacat-
ing certain portions of the town of Wells.
| n B. No. 754. BY White-An act vacat-
| ing certain portions of the city of Mime
II. B. No. 755. BY Phi1lips-An act re-
| lating to the protection of fish and game.
| H B. No. 756. BY Allen-An act relat-
| ing to fire Insurance.
| H B. No. 757. By Stone of Shawnee-An
act authorizing and legalizing the issuance
H D B. No. 75s. BY stone of Shawnee