The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-12
The Members of Legislature Are
Tossing in Their Bills.
Twenty-Eight Are introduced
in the House.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Are Given 40 Per Cent of Com
mittee Assignments.
Stone Gets Honor of Introducing
I'll. b. No. L.

The house held it's first business ses-
sion wednesday afternoon at which
| members. Two committees, that on
rules, and the committee on employees
were appointed by the speaker as fol-
| lows:
| RuIes-Fair of Rice county Davis of
Bourbon. Mercer of Chase, Beachey OF
Sedgwick. Reeder of Doniphan, Cron OF
Butler, Graham of Jackson
Employees-Case of Dickinson Elmer
son of Wyandotte. FEEDER of Barton.
| Veatch of Washington, Carnahan of
| Clay, Yoxall of Rocks. Thompson OF
Reno.
| The speaker will give the minority
members about 40 per cent of the COM
| mittee appointments. which he consid-
ers the fair proportion of their repre-
! sentation in the house. They have 53
members out of 125.
Among the bills introduced Monday
evening were three, all by Democrats.
to repeal the inheritance tax. 1t is be-
lieved that the law will be amended,
but it will not be repealed.
Stone of Shawnee introduced bill No.
l in the house, an act to provide for
the deficiency in the state printing
plant
Block, of Hamilton. a Democrat, in
| troduced a bill to censor the moving
bill ready in which he will have the
district judges set the time for holding
court.
Orr of Atchison introduced seven bills
the first rattle out of the box.
The following is the list of bills in
troduced Monday evening in the house:
H. B. No. by Stone of Shawnee:
An act making an appropriation for de-
hciency in state printing.
H. B. No. BY Matson of Sedgwick:
An act to provide for the regulation
and supervision of investment COM
panies and providing penalties for the
violation thereof.
H. B. No. BY FEEDER of Barton:
An act concerning state publications.
H. B. No. by Cron of Butler: An
act repeating chapter 24S of the ses-
sion laws of Kansas of 1903.
H. B. No. 5-By Morris of Potta-
watomie: An act in relation to col
lecting registration fees on mortgages
on real and personal property.
H. B. No. 6-By Gray of Phillips:
An act defining peddler and licensing
same.
H B. No. by Carney of Mitchell:
An act relating to repeal of chapter
24S, session laws of 1909
H B. No. S-By Williams of Logan:
An act to regulate the liability of the
telegraph companies regarding trans
mission and delivery of messages.
H. B. No. BY Maloy of Morris:
An act comforting civil rights and
criminal jurisdiction on the probate
courts.
An act for the relief of the poor.
H. B. No. 11-By Westerman of
Ellsworth: An act relating to the
amendment of chapter 24S. session
laws of 1909.
III. B. No 12-By Emerson of Wyan-
dotte: An act to attach territory for
school purposes to cities of the first
class.
H B. No. 1s-By Shuey of Decatur:
An act relating to the storage and to
the preservation of surface water.
H. B. No. 14-By Black of Hamil-
ton: An act to amend section 572,
chapter 1872, of the laws of 1909, con-
corning the code of civil procedure.
H B. No. 15-By Black of Hamil-
ton: An act abolishing the terms of
the district courts and prescribing for
the holding of sessions by order of the
judges, and for the holding of court at
any time except on noniudicial days.
H. B. No. 16--By Black of Hamil-
ton: An act to prohibit exhibition of
any criminal or indecent pictures. and
prescribing the punishment therefor.
Grant: An act to amend section 572,
chapter 1872, of the laws of 1903, con-
corning the code of civil procedure.
H. B. No. 1S-By Laing of Russell:
An act to amend en- Ksrss Of f1 1919 OF gen
H. B. No. 19-By MacGregor of
Sumner: An act in relation to the
| duties of county clerks and county as
| SCISSORS and abolishing the Office of
county assessor.
| II. B. No. 20-By MacGregor of
! Sumner: An act in relation to the
| conduct of elections.
H B. No. 21-By Orr of Atchison:
An act repeating chapter 248 of the
session laws of 1908. entitled IAN act
relating to assessment and taxation of
legacies and SUGGESTIONS
H. B. No. 22-By Orr of Atchison:
! An act to amend section us Of chap
| ter 1872 of the session laws of 1909,
| being an act entitled, can act con-
corning the code of civil procedure
and repeating section lis.
! H. B. No. 23-By Orr of Atchison:
An act to abolish the office of county
assessor and providing for the per-
Torrance of the duties of such office
| by the county clerks.
H. B. No. 24-By Orr of Atchison
of the city court of Atchison and pro-
viding for the discharge of his duties
| by a deputy sheriff.
| H. B. No. 25-By Orr of Atchison:
An act relating to cities of the first
class, and providing for the construc-
| ton of culverts and bridges therein.
! H. B. No. 26-By Orr of Atchison:
An act relating to cities of the first
| class.
| H. B. No. 27-By Orr of Atchison:
| An act providing for registration fees
| on mortgages of real property and
| their exemption from taxation there
| after; regulating the effect of non
| payment of registration and renewal
| fees and prohibiting the enforcement
| of mortgages upon which such fees
have not been paid as herein provided.
and repeating all acts and parts of
| acts in conflict herwith
| H. B. No. 2S-By Beachey of Sedg-
! wick: An act providing for the ex-
ecution of assignments and releases or
mortgages by corporations.
Most of the patriots of the state
would rather be doorkeepers in the
house of the representatives than to
| dwell in the tents of the wicked or
any other tents. 1t is strange, the fas-
cination of a So a day job for less than
| two months. With two hundred places
| to NIL, there are four hundred appIi-
| cants. In Missouri the legislative en-