The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12
ENJOYS A HOLIDAY
Legislature Forgets Work and
Goes on a Visit.
House LabOred Until a Late
Hour Last Evening.
PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
Regulations for Cases of Tuber-
culOsis Are Adopted.
QuindarO Students Treat Mem
berS of House to a Concert.

Iouay legal holiday IN Kansas,
and made such by a Kansas legisla-
ture, as the anniversary of Lincolns
birth, it would hardly appear proper
for legislature of this state to work
on that day, no matter how much it
had to do, so the law makers have
gone to Lawrence to be the guests for
the day of the state university.
The house worked until o'clock
Thursday evening on bills in the COM
mittee of the whole. The most i'm
portant act considered during the day
was the bill defining the powers and
duties of local health officers and
boards of health in the matter of the
protection of the people of the state
from the disease known as tuberculo-
sis. By this act tuberculosis is declar-
ed to be an infectious and commune
cable disease, dangerous to the public
health. Physicians must report in
writing every case of this disease they
attend to the board of health and all
precautions taken as in the case of
scarlet fever or any other infectious
disease. Any person afflicted with tu-
berculoSiS who shall be careless to
such degree as to expose other per-
sons to danger of infection shall upon
conviction be subject to fine. The
bill Is a long one and while it has
many restrictions it works no hardship
upon consumptives-they are required
to be careful and to follow certain
rules dictated by common sense and
medical science, that is ALL The bill
was recommended for passage.
The bill by Brown of Kingman en-
abling school districts to issue bonds
to pay outstanding Indebtedness was
also recommended for passage and
Landrey's bill authorizing cities of the
second class to issue bonds to fund
their floating Indebtedness.
The house was working on the
weights and measures bill when
o'clock came and it adjourned to hear
the concert by the pupils of the Quin-
dare Colored college. w. 7. Vernon,
president of the college, and the mem
Speaker Dolley and given a place on
the platform in front of the speakers |
desk. The choral society of the col
Iege, composed of dozen mixed |
of the speakers desk and sang for the |
delighted members and an audience of |
visitors that thronged representative /
hall. Most negroes have fine voices, |
but these were of the best and they |
had been trained with care and judg-
ment. They sang selections from
opera, camp meeting songs and cou-
pie of stephen c. Fosters matchless
melodies of the old days of the south
1t was a great treat. The band came
next and this organization showed the
result of training by a talented must
clan. This band of negro boys did not
merely play pieces, it was a concert
that it gave for the members of the
house yesterday. At the close of the
program there were calls for Vernon
and the talented president of Quin-
daro responded with short address.
There are few better public speakers
in the west than this coal black negro
and his common sense and good judg-
ment have done wonders for his race
in this state. At the close of his speech
yesterday he present to Speaker Dolley
a handsome gavel which he declared
had been tusned by the students of
Quindaro in their carpenter shop for
the speaker. Mr. Dolley responded by |
a short talk in which he paid tribute
to the work done at Quindaro and
promised his support and influence for
as large an appropriation for that in
stitution this year as the state could
afford to give. The .Quindaro people
and students made hit with the
house. Before coming up to the house
hey gave a concert in the governors
office for the benefit of the man from
Lawrence.
Bills in the House.