The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-08
CAN NOT AGREE.
House Has Exciting Time Over
COburn's Salary.
Finally ecide to Let Him Have
$500.
DOESN'T AGREE
Conference Committee Will Con-
slider the Question.
Proposition to Increase Railroad
Board Is Up.
SENATEDOESN'T AGREE


in consideration of the bill to raise
Secretary F. D. Coburn's salary from
$2,5OO to $4,000. There was an
amendment tackled on to the bill rails
ing the salaries of a few assistants in
state offices a few hundred dollars a
year. Sixty members went on record
as being "agin'' the raise to $4,000,
but on a reconsideration of the vote
the bill was further amended, making
the raise $500, and on this basis it
carried the house by a vote of "a to
3S as follows:
Yeas-Allen, Amrine, Banker, Beck
EFT, Berke of Jewell. Brighton. Brown,
Dryden, Case, Clark, Clay, Cline,
Bourbon. Davis of Kiowa, Eadie, Ely,
Grabbe. Gray, Griffin, Guilbert, Han
non, Harrison, Haskin, Hopkins of
E1nney, Howard, Jackson. Jewett of
Sedgwick, Johnson, Kyle. Lambertson.
Laubach, Lehman. Mccormick, Nc
Nair. Mercer, Merrill, Miller, Mitchell,
Morgan of Hodgeman, Morgan of
Reno. Morrison, Morton of Osborne,
Newlin. Parker, Penwell, Reeder,
Rhodes of Anderson, Rich, Schaum-
burg. Schlichting. Snyder. Stannard,
stockton, Stone of Shawnee, Watson,
Westcott, White. Wood, Yoxall, Mr..
Speaker-Total 64
Burke of Saline, Cole, Crawford. Cron.
Crumley, Cunningham, Edwards.
Fisher. Flanagan. Harbaugh, Hines,
Imei, Jewett of Lane, Kelly, Keraus,
lone. Mcmillan, Meek, Moore, Morris,
Morton of Clay, Phillips, Rogers,
Ryan, Sekavec. Shoemaker. Stone of
Sherman, Sherman stout Veatch' Walker
These members voting no on this
bill may be set down, most of them,
as opposed to Coburn and his work
for Kansas, as opposed to any progress
any raise i'll any salary. They appear
to want the state Kansas to stand
still.
Provisions of the Bill.
The debate on this bill was interest
ing. The following is the text of the
bill as it passed the house:
That the secretary of the state
board of agriculture shall receive an
annual salary of two thousand five
hundred dollars; provided, that when
any secretary of the state board of
agriculture shall have continuously
teen or more years, he shall there
upon receive an annual salary of
$500. The salary of the assistant
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture shall be two thousand dollars
per annum; the salary of the assistant
secretary of state shall be one thous-
and eight hundred dollars per annum;
the salary of the assistant state
auditor shall be one thousand eight
hundred dollars per annum; the salary
of the special assistant in the Office of
the state treasury shall be one thous-
and eight hundred dollars per annum;
the salary of the assistant state super
intendent of public instruction shall
be one thousand eight hundred dol
lars per annum; the salary of the as
sistant attorney general shall be two
thousand four hundred dollars per
annum; the salary of the special as
sistant in the Office of the attorney
general shall be two thousand four
hundred dollars per annum; the sal
ary of the assistant superintendent of
insurance shall be one thousand eight
hundred dollars per annum.
1t will be seen that the raise in 9TH
er salaries amounts to a mere bag
atelle and was only in keeping with
the additional labor the states
yet many members lodged behind
this small excuse in order to deny Co
burn the raise he SO richly merits.
Veatch and Labach came out
in the open and declared
they We're opposed to any raise for CO.
burn Ryan objected to the bill on
general principles, he objects to near
" everything. 1t was a strange thing
to the newspaper men who know and
appreciate Coburns great work in
nous and able statesmen of the house
as they argued against the bill and
against anything that was calculated
TO place their state in the front rank
Of progress. Had this bill been de-
feated the rest of the country at large
would have roasted Kansas to a rich
brown along the lines of whats the
matter with Kansas? p" Are the grass
hopper plague and hot winds again
devastating her lands and cities?
Among those progressive and broad
minded men who worked for the bill
all the time were: Davis of kiowa,
Stannard, Brown, Jackson, Lehman,
Hopkins of Finney, Mitchell. Merrill,
Miller, Snyder, Kyle, Stone of Shaw
nee, and others.
Davis of Kiowa, spoke greatly when
ne said: ''When I was in New York
here talk about Kansas a great deal.
They speak of John Brown. ingalls,
md Coburn in the same breath as the
great triumvirate.
Brown of Kingman also struck ef-
,ective blows for the bill.
The senate voted to nonconcur in
he house amendments and the bill
vas sent to a conference committee of
both houses.
Railroad Board Increase.
There is a fine chance for a big fight
n the house this afternoon when the
yays and means committee bill pro-
riding for an increase in the state
BOARD of railroad commissioners from
hree to five, an appropriation of $5,-
90 in salaries and an appropriation of
25, 900 for contingent expenses for the
lew board. This bill was drawn on rec
,mmendation by the governor in his
Message to the legislature Saturday.
rhe many members of the house who
oppose all new boards. appropriations
in vii h