The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-05
GIVEN A BOOST.
House Decides to Increase. Gov
ernor's Contingent Fund.
Will Be Ten Instead OF Four
Thousand Dollars.
DAVIS LEADS FIGHT.
KiOwa County Representative
Objected bitterly to Advance.
Bill to Keep noubtful Corpora
tiOns Out Passed.

The house worked last night on the
appropriation bills. and passed the
measure providing for the executive
and judicial departme The appro-
priations in this bill are along about
the same lines as these two years ago
except that the contingent funds of
the governor and attorney general
have been raised from $4,000 to $10,-
900 per year. ------
Davis of Kiowa started a fight on
the size of the contingent fund for
the, governor and moved that it be
cut to $4,000. In the debate that fol-
lowed warm words passed between
Guilbert and Rogers of Sedgwick. The
latter kicked SO hard on this fund for
the governor that Guilbert called him
by stating that the governor had been
elected by the people of this state last
| fail, that he would not run off with
| the money and that the people had
plenty of confidence in the good busi-
| ness Judgment of the man from Law
| renee. Stannard of the ways and
means committee and Cunningham
explained the appropriation, but Davis
| called for a roll call vote on his mo-
| ton. The following members con-
| the end by voting yea on this motion:
I Berke of Jewell, Bonnet Boyd,
Brighton, Crawford, Cron, Davis of
Kiowa. Ely, Fehr. Flanagan. Gray,
Kuoni Malone, Maxwell, Meek, Nor
rison. Morton of Clay, Penweu,
| Phillips, Reeder, Rhodes of Ander-
son. Rogers, Schaumburg. Stout
Failing to get this cut, Rogers
moved that the governors contingent
fund be cut to $1,000 per year but this
motion was beaten on a yea and nay
vote. On the final vote to pass the
| bill, the following members voted no
on the proposition that the contingent
funds of the governor and attorney
general were too large: Boyd. Davis
of Kiowa. Hines, Malone, Maxwell
Penwell. Rogers.
Mitchell of Douglas Thursday after
| noon prepared and introduced in the
house a message of congratulation to
President Taft. 1t was carried by a
rising vote, the Democrats voting too
| in favor of sending word greetings to
the big man with the happy smile who
now presides at the capitol AS Brown
| of Kingman said: HE is as much our
president as yours and we will send
him greetings"
The house ground out about fifteen
bills Thursday, some of them very long
and most of them important, accom-
plishing a lot of work. Among them
the bill by Cunningham amends the
law relating to the granting of charters
to corporations in such faShlOn as 10
give the charter board more latitude
to refuse charters to doubtful corpora
tions and also to force foreign corpora
tions to pay a fee on the full capital
stock of the parent corporation. This
bill provides that charters may be
granted to forty. different kinds Of cor
porationS.
a half dozen railroad bills have been
passed by the house this week. One
passed Thursday evening provides for
the prompt delivery of freight cars
where desired by shippers. Another
requires railroads to provide and main
tain adequate depots and take good
care of their passengers.
The house passed the senate bill
which allows the county commission
ers to build bridges The bill by Han
non providing for the taxing of build
ing and loan associations was passed,
The bill by the judiciary committee
provides in the case of settlement of
estates that when a demand be pre-
sented to the probate court for allow
ance and pay that the estate shall
pay the costs: if not allowed the party
presenting the claizn shall pay the
costs.
The bill by Gray defining peddlers
and recurring them to take out a
license was the cause Of a scrap. Ryan