The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-02-19
TOPEKA CORRESPONDENCE

SeVeral OF the Important auinihts
tration measures, promised in the
party platform, have been placed
on spscial orders the past week.
This means that the House is tack
ling the more important bills OF the
session. The criticism that the
House was not accomplishing mach
thus far, asnoted in William Allen
Whites letter of last Saturday, ia
somewhat unwarraAted. The com
mittees have been working day and
night on these bills for the past two
or three weeks and have succeeded
in threshing them out and getting
them in shape fer presentation to
the Senate and House.
The good roads bill was taken up
in the House Monday afternoon and
pushed through. Senator Hodges
rock road bill has passed the Senate,
SO that the bills will 20 into con
ference and doubtless satisfactory
good roads bill will be evolved with
in a few days. The Public Utilities
bill, around which much interest
centers, has come to the Senate
with numerous amendments and the
House has been at work on Its bill
this week. The House is also wrest
ling with the bill consolidating the
management. of the penal and
charitable institutions Thus II is
seen that now in the middle OF the
session the Seaate sad House are
a'well along with the big measures
II and the indications are that they
4 will all be crystaliaed into Law at the
expiration of che fifty days session.
/ The bankers of the state were III
vited to a joint meeting of the baditt
ing committees of the House 4 ,Ad
Senate. The conference wasfor Che
purpose of getting the views of the
bankers on the general proposition
of guaranteeing bsak deposits. THE
administration bin, agreed upon by
both com@ittees, was under FIRE aod
while it did not meet with unanimous
approval from the bankers, the gen
sral impression was that it was the
most satisfactory measure yet drawn
and that 1t should be enacted ,iNto
law to redeem the party's pledge or
this subject. The bill will come up
, for consideration within a Jew days
: The stats is about to come into
its own in regard to prohibition
legislation. The Senate has passed
: bill making 1t unlawful to sci
i. liquor in say shape. Even drug
{ stores are Uaable 20 handle it fol
{ medical purposes. The House wil
] accept the bill in lieu of its bill
regulating dcAgglsts' permits. Th;
Ibill will likely become law within
the next week as it goes into effec'
xpon its publication in the official
: state paper. After that drnggist:
are placed on the same plane as
, jointists if they sell liqRor and all Of
| the reputable druggists of the state
will not handle liquor. Some oi
theE will be caught with quite heavy
stocks on hand but they will likely
ship the stuff back to the wholesale
houses. Doctors will have to order
liquor direct from Wholesale houses
for use as medicines.
4 Under the provisions of the bill
travelling men for drug houses will
be subject to fine and imprtson-
ment if they even take an order for
liquor. Most of them are glad to
get rid of that class of trade. They
say tney have always wanted to eon-
fine their sales to legitimate lines
but that competition forced them to
carry a liquor lins for drugstore
Joints. So certain is the law to
pass that hundreds of drug stores
are now on the market. A person
can pick up drug store, such as it
is, for a song just now. The law