The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-22
/. STATE FAIR BILL
JeWett of Sedgwick Introduces
Compromise Measure.
Leaves Location to Be Settled
at Later Date.
SELECT BY BALLOT.
Would Be Agreed Upon in a
Joint Session.
SELECT BY BALLOT
Commission Headed by Cover
nor as Managers.

BY agreement between Wichita and
Topeka representatives, Jewett of
Sedg lick today presented in the house
of representatives. the state fair bill
printed below. The bill was drawn
by the state fair commission of this
city and is an admirable document.
The demand over the state is for a
state fair, one to be established and
built up to the same class as that of all
the other western states. This bill pro-
vides for such fair and the selection
of the place of holding the same is
to be decided upon in joint session OF
the house and senate five days after
this bill has been passed. Wichita
and Topeka will favor this plan, while
Hutchinson wants whole hog or moth
ing, which is to say a state fair at
Hutchinson or no state fair at ALL,
The following comprise the import
ant points of the Topeka state fair bill
introduced today:
That for the purpose of exhibiting
the agricultural, stock breeding. hor-
ticultural, dairy, mining, mechanical,
industrial and other products and re-
sources of the state including proper
exhibits of the arts and sciences, a
state fair to be known as 1.-THE Kansas
State Fair" shall be held in the state
Of Kansas during the year 1909 and
annually thereafter.
That the Kansas State Fair shall be
able place within one mile OF the cor
porate limits of some county seat in
the state of Kansas, by the 1909 leg
iSlature of the state of Kansas in the
following manner: Both bodies thereof
shall meet in joint session within five
days after the passage and approval
of this act, in representative hall and
shall proceed to select a site for the
location of said State Fair. If the
said joint meeting shall be I'M
oh efk
holding of said state fair upon the
first day, it shall adjourn from day to-
day until the selection OF the site for
holding the Kansas State Fair has
been. determined.
That the Kansas state fair shall be
managed by commission to be styled
1.-THE Kansas State Fair commission"
of which the governor of the state, the
secretary of the state board of agricuI-
ture and the president of the State
Agricultural college shall be members
ex-officio. Said commission shall be
composed of nine other members to be
fore the first day of April, 1903, of
which commission three members shall
hold their offices for a term of one
year., three for term of two years,
and three for a term of three years.
The members of the commission for
attending the meetings of the commits
sion and for actual work pertaining to
the holding of the state fair. shall be
I
five cents per mile in going to and re-
turning from the place where the bust
ness is transacted, the claims for which
shall in all cases be verified and paid
as provided for the payment of other
bills.
Said commission shall purchase the
tract of land selected by the legislature
for the location of the state fair, and
shall not pay therefor a sum to exceed
one dollar SD. The title to said land
shall be approved by the attorney gen
eral of the state of Kansas, before the
same shall be accepted by the legisla-
ture.
That there is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated. for the
erection and construction of buildings
upon said fair grounds, and for the
equipment thereof, and for the improve
thereon, the sum of one hundred and
forty thousand dollars ($140, 00O); for in
surance on the buildings on the grounds
the sum of $1,000; and for the payment
of any deficit which may occur, if any
in the fund of the commission for ex-
penses and premiums for the year 1909
the sum of nine thousand dollars 49,
OOO), or so much of said sums as shall
be necessary; and the auditor of the
state shall draw a warrant thereof upon
the order of the commission, signed by
the president and secretary thereof; it
being provided, however, that no part
of the sum of So, 900 appropriated herein
to cover deficits shall be drawn by the
commission unless the same is actually
needed to cover deficit which has act
ually accrued on account of the ex-
penses incurred by the commission in
holding said state fair.