The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29


Republicans surprised the opponents
of the bill by agreeing to the amend
ment and it passed without opposition.
But a glance at the statutes proved
that this amendment was not a death
blow to the clubs as it did not change
the present law relating to clubs at
ALL
An Exciting Movement.
Griffen of Barber talked long and
often for his amendment to destroy
the provision that no person who has
engaged in the sale of liquor as a bev-
erage for a term of five years back
can secure a permit. In the middle
of one of his speeches Cranston of La
bette made the vehement assertion
that such a class of druggists ought
not to have a permit. Griffen re-
sponded with heat and only a couple
of desks separated the angry men as
they stood with clenched hands ex-
tended toward each other. Foley of
Rice, chairman of the committee of
the whole, raped nightly for order
and threatened the gentleman from
Labette with expulsion by the ser
geant-at-arms If another such inter-
ruption occurred.
Griffen came within five votes of get
ting his amendment through, the near
est to a successful attempt to material
ly change the intention of the bill.
After night had fallen and the tired
and hungry legislators were nearing the
end of their labors Krehbiel moved that
the superintendent of public instruc-
tion compose the third member of the
state liquor permit board in place of
the president Of the state board of phar-
amendment and it lost. Then Davis
of Bourbon suggested the secretary of
state as a substitute but this motion
lost. Finally Stone of Shawnee a. Re
publican, moved that the state auditor
be the man for the place and the mo-
ton carried. The other two members
are the secretary of the state board of
health and the dean of pharmacy at
the state university.
1t is likely that the senate will amend
the bill. before it reaches the governor,
back to it's original form which pro-
Vides for an appointee of the governor
as the third member of the board. The
state auditor has enough to do without
going into the business of issuing Ii
quor permits.
Jewett of Sedgwick. has introduced
a bill in the house which provides that
the number of house employees shall be
restricted hereafter to 43.
The state fair bills introduced in the
house will remain in their pigeon holes
until the ways and means committee
gets a line on appropriations for the
term and finds out just how much it
can allow for the fair. 1t is not likely
that any state fair matter will be con-
SlOereQ Tor ten Gays or more.
The ways and means committees of
both branches of the legislature went
to Lawrence today to visit the univer-
sity and inspect that institution with
view to familiarizing themselves with
its needs. The university has asked
this legislature for over a million. so
the matter is worth looking into. The
strangest part of the trip is, that these
committeeman are paying their own
expenses on the trip. The memory Of
man runneth not back to the time
when committee of the Kansas legis-
lature made a. junket and paid it's own
expenses and many such junkets have
been made in times past. This is real
reform and the first of the brand that
has been in evidence since Governor
Robinson took the oath of office.
Statesmen by the million will preach
freight but so far the members of this
preached reform and paved the bill out
per day.
In a letter to the presiding officers of
both branches of the legislature State
Auditor James NJ. Nation Thursday
gave warning of a bankrupt state
treasury, and urged the strictest econ
omy in appropriations this session
In his letter. Mr.. Nation calls atten-
ton to the fact that the legislature two
years ago failed to provide sufficient
funds. The result is. he says, that the
state treasurer will be stamping war;
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