The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-25
FIXING UP BILLS.
Conference Committees Are Be-
ing Appointed Daily.
An Agreement Reached on the
Primary Bill.
DISAGREE ONPOLLTAX
Question of Working Assess
ment Out ON Roads.
Weights and Measures Act to
Be Considered Further.

! Practically the entire session late
Wednesday afternoon was devoted by
the senate to the consideration of bills
in committee of the whole with Sena-
tor Brown in the chair. A number of
senators were absent from the floor
in committee rooms and nearly all the
bills We're recommended for passage
subject to amendment and debate.
Just prior to adjournment last even
| ing the senate voted to concur in the
house amendments to H. B., 152, known
as the county depository act. The SEN
ate voted to nonconcur in the house
amendments to S. B. No. 1874, the new
weights and measure act. and on the
motion of Senator Glenn it was voted
to appoint a conference committee on
that bill. The report of the confer
ence committee on the primary election
law was presented to the senate and
adopted and the bill finally passed.
Senators Leidy and Fagerberg were
appointed as the senate conferees on
H. B. No. Isl, known as the county
good roads bill, which was considered
in senate committee of the whole Tues
day. 1t is believed the chief difference
at issue between the house and SEN
ate relative to this bill is with refer
ence to the section permitting a per-
son to work out, instead of pay, his
road tax. 1t is thought probable that
the senate will concede that provision
to the house and that the differences
will be quickly and amicably settled.
The senate adopted Senator's Stew
arts resolution urging congress to
amend the immigration laws by re-
quiring a higher standard of intelli-
gence and morals of those admitted to
this country, and house concurrent res
olution No 81, providing for the ap-
pointment of a Kansas delegate to the
convention on improvement of country
The automobile bill recommended
for passage in the senate committee
of the whole Wednesday repeats sec
ton 81 of the session laws of 1903. In
the very first section of the old law
there appears one of the most curious
and facetiouS provisions that has ever
been found in the statute books of
Kansas. This provision reads as fol-
lows:
Nothing in this act shall be con-
strued as in any way preventing, OBJ
structing. impeding, embarrassing or
in any other manner or form, infring-
ing on the prerogatives of any political
Chauffeur to run an automo bilious band |
wagon at any rate he sees fit, compat-
ible with the safety of the occupants
thereof; provided, however, that not
less than ten nor more than twenty |
ropes, be allowed at all times to trail
behind this vehicle when in motion. in |
order to permit those who have been |
so fortunate as to escape with their |
political lives, an opportunity to be |
dragged to death; and provided furth- |
er that whenever a mangled and |
bleeding corpse implore for mercy the |
driver of the vehicle shall in accord |
ance with the provisions of this bill, |
Throw out the lifeline - |
This part of the old law was called |
to the attention of number of SEN
ators during the non recess by J. A. |
Ramsey. the reading clerk of the SEN |
ate. This provision, it was stated, was |
introduced by former Senator T.. A. |
Noftzger, from Anthony, Harper coun-
ty. who was one of the orators of the !
senate.
Among the bills recommended for
passage subject to amendment and
debate We're the following: /
H. B. No 223 by Shideler; relating to