The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-06
STOP WHERE IT is
House Refuses to Further Con-
ference on Utilities Bill.
Will Let Responsibility Rest
With Senate.
NEARING THE CLOSE.
Session Will Probably End on
March 8.
Resolution COndemning Educa-
tiOnaI LOBBYISTS Is Passed.

The question of whether or not a
public utilities bill shall pass this ses-
sion of the legislature was this morn
ing checked squarely up to the senate
by the action of the house in refusing
to accede to another conference. The
house voted down the motion to go to
conference again, SO to "A. About
twenty-five Republicans voted no and
about forty-five of the fifty Democrats.
The senate Saturday morning, after
gaining nearly all its points in confer
ence, voted to nonconcur in the con-
ference report. The house on the same
morning voted to concur. The senate
then appointed another conference
committee. The house decided today
that it had yielded far enough and
proceeded by a decisive vote to reject
the senate offer of another conference.
The senate will have to back up on
its action of Saturday to noncopcur or
there will be no utilities bill passed at
this session. In other words, it is up
to the senate to reconsider and then
accept the conference report. Other
wise, there will be a special session
of the legislature, for Governor Stubbs
this morning emphatically declared
that he would call a special session if
the utilities bill was not passed.
The following is the roll call vote in
other conference:
Yeas-Abrams, Alexander, Barrier,
Block, Brown of Linn. Buckman,
Cones, Davis of Ottawa, Davis of Sedg-
wick, DeCamp, Don Carlos, Ellis, En-
erson, Fair FEEDER, Johnson Keene,
son, Manchester, Matso- McComb,
Meek, Mercer, Miller. Newlin, Noble,
Ostlind, Schaumburg, Shearer, Tyler,
Veatch, Watson, Wayman, Westerman,
low
Wray, Yates. Yoxall. Total. "A.
Nays-Barrett, Beachey Bentley,
Boyd, Brown of Butler Brown of
Kingman, Burke, Bunger, Burtis, Cain,
Carnahan, Carney, Cassin, Case, Cron,
Daley, Davenport, Davis of Bourbon,
Davis of Kiowa, Davis of Gray, Dea-
con, Drew, Elder, Ewing. Field, Frey,
Graham, Gray. Goddard, Haslet, Hines.
Holden, Jackson, Kelley. Keraus, Kyle,
Lawson, Mahurin, Malone, Maloy,
Martin, Mccormick, McDannald, Nc
Gregor, Mcmillan, Moore. Morris, Null
roy. Napier. O'Connor, Olinger, Orr,
Parker, Parrot, RearGon, Reeder,
Schlichter, Shields, Shuey, Stone of
Thompson, Turner, Ward Wartman,
Wilson of Marshall. Wolfert. Wood
berry. Worley. Total, 60
Absent-Allen, Armstrong, Davis of
Edwards, Hyer, Herr, Phillips Scha-
fer, Sharpless, Thorpe, Wettack.
Speaker Buckman, in explaining his
vote in favor of the motion for another
conference on the utilities bill, de-
clared that the bill in its conference
form was unconstitutional for the rea-
son that it provided that two of the
commissioners must come from the
party casting the largest vote at the
last election and one from the party
casting the next largest vote. The
speaker declared that this provision
elI, ,4rks
cialist party casting 10000 votes, the
Independent casting 10000 votes AMI
the Prohibitionist casting 5000 votes
from holding a place on this commits
sion was unconstitutional.
When the ways and means commit
budget provi ling for a claim ad-
juster for the board of control was
read, this new office was stricken from
the budget by motion of Davis of
Kiowa, whose amendment providing
that county attorneys be authorized to
collect and adjust accounts of the state
against the estates of persons kept in
the state hospitals for the insane was
adopted instead. Harry Bowman's pet
measure providing for this claim ad-
was beaten in committee of the whole
last week and then resurrected by the
house.
The house at the opening of the ses-
sion this morning had IT'S bills Of its
own on the calendar on third reading
70 be passed on today, as it must cease
consideration of its own bills tonight
Hill City, located in Graham county.
has Joined Great Bend and Norton in
the fight for the location of the new
state hospital created by the legislature
last week Hill City has been known
chiefly heretofore as the home of that
Scotchman, John Dawson. Now it
proposes to gain recognition on it's own
account.
Davis of Bourbon introduced another
resolution today in which the action of
the heads of departments of institu-
tions in lobbying the legislature for ap-
propriations is rebuked most severely
and the governor urged to cut off their
pay du ing the time they are so en-
gagged.
The resolution, which is as follows,
was passed by the house:
Whereas. his excellency, Governor
Stubbs, has repeatedly proclaimed to
the people of Kansas that he believed
every man employed by the state
should give a dollars worth of work
for a dollars worth of pay" and
Whereas. the State university, State
Normal, Pittsburg Normal Training
school. and the other great educational
institutions belong to all the people of
Kansas. and are source of pride to
every citizen of Kansas; and,
whereas, those employed to man
age and teach in these Institutions are
employees of the state-"hired men,
of the people. and
Whereas, the responsibility for the
proper financial support for all of
these great institutions rests upon the
legislature as the direct representative
agent of the people themselves. whose
property said institutions are, and
Whereas, numerous and divers per-
sons employed at these institutions in