The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-08
Western Representatives viii
Hold Meeting.
Purpose to Agree on Needed Leg
islatiOn for That Section.
SPEAKER QUESTION
Nav Have an Important Bearing
on This Controversy.
EX-COngressman Case Frederick
on Needed Legislation.

James c. Taylor, representative-elect
from Finney county, has called a confer
ence of members of the legislature from
all the southwest part of the state to
meet at Garden City next Wednesday,
December A. The object of this meet
ing is to agree on men and measures
in the interest of that section of the
state. In his call sent out for the
meeting Mr.. Tyler sets forth that there
was wisdom and profit in the confer
ence of similar kind held in Garden
City two years ago, and that acquaint-
ance and a working knowledge of what
southwest Kansas is to do in the leg
islature make such q meeting advisable
The Garden City Commercial club will
help Mr.. Tyler entertain his legislative
guests and they will be given al dinner
at night.
over a score of representatives and
two senators, Glenn and Price, will
likely attend this conference, and any
agreement they make as regards meas
ures or candidate for speaker will be
of weight and Importance. The express
sions made at this meeting will be
the first direct line on the attitude OF
the next legislature as regards several
measures, about which there is now
much speculation. Are the western
members in favor of Governor Stubs
utilities bill? that is the question.
A western Kansas paper intimates
that Senator Charles Curtis has bought
the Garden City Telegram or a con-
trolling interest in that paper, in order
that he may have representation in the
public prints in the western part of
the state during the next senatorial
campaign. Has the fate of Senator
Chester l. Long, who also in his time,
1t is claimed, owned the Telegram, been
so soon forgotten?
While in the city Wednesday on bust
ness for. the state university. Prof. w.
H. Carruth took occasion to inquire into
the right of State Auditor Nation to
trim the university appropriation esti-
mates before they reached the legiSla-
ture. The professor appeared to ques-
ton the authority of the auditor tc
monkey" with these sacred schedules
1t is said that he even went so far as
to consult the attorney generals Office
with a view to 'squashing'' the pre-
sumptuous auditor if possible.
Mr.. Nation was asked about the mat
ter, but said that he knew nothing
about it, and that the professor had
not come to him with any complaint
Mr.. Nation went on to say further thai
he was prepared to meet the university
officials half way in any controversy Of
this kind. Mr.. Nation claims that the
university spends too much money
anyway, even inside his estimates fol
ton to the fact that the university of
ficials in estimating the per capita cos
per student use the total enrolment
at the school and call it 1900 when il
fact there are only about 1,500 students
there through the regular term. HI
cites the fact that years ago when tn,
school had one-third it's present enroll
ment, its expense to the state was abou
$4,000 per year; that now, having in
creased its enrolment three times, i
has increased its expenditures ten times
which is to say to 100000 He esti
mates that, giving the school its tota
enrolment claimed of 1900, only 220
out of 250000 families in the state de
rive any particular advantage from it
classic shades and halls, yet it's de
mands and complaints are as loud an
insistent as though a large majorit,
of the families Of the state patronize
that institution
II war breaks out between the audito
and the university, it promises to be
lively scrap right from the beginning
for the auditor shows no disposition t
back water.
Ex-Congressman Case Broderick o
Hoiton, has written the following 70
the State Journal on Some Needle
Legislation"
In these times when every citizen
expected to take an interest in govern
ment, and as the legislature will 500
meet for the making and revision o