The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

maintenance and repairs to the build
! lngs and grounds and $4,000 from the
| normal school budget for the same pur-
pose. The legislature appropriated $780,
600 for repairs and maintenance for the
university and $4,000 for the normal
school. The governor decided that
half this amount was all that was nee
essary for the two years. In his veto
message the Governor said:
my reason for striking out the
above item is based on the extraor-
binary amount of the total appropri-
atoms that have been made at this
session of the legislature: 1 have no
doubt that all the money appropriated
by the legislature for repairs and i'm
provements and upkeep of the build
ings and grounds could be used to
good advantage, and perhaps even a
larger amount could be used without
any extravaganza. but I am also con-
WINGED that by careful, economical use
of $4,000 appropriation, which re-
mains available for use of the state
normal at Emporia during 1912 and
1913 will be sufficient to preserve the
property and take care of those things
that are absolutely necessary"
James NJ. Nation. former state au-
dttor, will not receive the fees appro-
priated to him by the legislature. The
governor vetoed the item in the mis-
cellaneous appropriation bill. When
Nation went out Of Office he found that
$2.S43.50 in fees which he was en-
titled to keep for himself. He did not
know that the law permitted him to
keep this money until a month or so
before his term of office expired, when
the attorney general so decided. He
asked the legislature to return these
fees and the amount was appropri-
ated. 1t could only be drawn after
Nation had instituted suit and the
supreme court had decided that he
H. - h Zoos he
governor in vetoing the item in the
bill said that he thought it was time
enough to make the appropriation
after the court had decided whether
or not Nation was entitled to the fees.
The appropriation was conditional
preme court.
There is going to be great wailing
and gnashing of teeth by some mem
bers of the house of representatives
in a day or two. 1t has just been dis
covered that bill which some house
members fought long and earnestly
and finally defeated had been slipped
into another bill and passed and that
the men who had fought the bill had
actually voted for it. Early in the
session Senator Quincy introduced a
bill giving the bank commissioner and
the state charter board authority to
determine whether or not bank was
needed in any locality and investigate
the standing of the promoters of the
new bank. If the board found that
there were enough banks in any city
to handle the business and be profit
able, the board could refuse to grant
a charter to a new bank. Davis of
kiowa and Field of Reno fought the
bill when it got into the house and
they finally killed it.
But there was a house bill relating
to the purposes for which private cor
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passed the house and was over in the
senate. After the senate bill was kill
ed Quincy took his poor dead measure
and inserted it bodily into the house
bill as an amendment. The senate
passed the bill as amended and it went
back to the house. A conference COM
mittee was named and it changed the
bill some but the bank provision was
left in. The conference committee
report was adopted almost unanimous
the house knew that the bill. once
dead. had been resurrected and was
alive again under different name.
The governor vetoed the appropria-
ton to change the heating apparatus
in the state house The legislature
gave the executive council five thous-
and dollars to do this work. 1t was
thought that this amount was needed
to put the heating apparatus into first
would be heated properly. The gov
ernor held that the ten thousand dol
lars contingent fund given the execu-
tive council was sufficient to pay this
expense.
The last message sent to the legis-
lature by the governor was compli-
mentary one. After all the messages
relating to the disposition of bills had
been sent to both branches and read
and just before the gavel fell the gov
ernor sent this message:
Gentlemen: Having no further
communications to make to your hon
orable bodies, and as the hour for fin
al adjournment is near at hand, per-
NIT me to sincerely thank you for
the patience and earnestness with
which you have discharged your duty
as legislators.
when you met here in January
you were confronted by many intri-
cate problems in state policy You
have met them with your best Judg-
ment and fairness and am quite con-
fdent that you have done things of
lasting benefit to the people of Kan
sas.
81 have heard it said that you put
more industry into the work before
you than most of the legislatures In
Kansas history, and I know that be-
cause of that, those of you who wish
| to give further service to the state
will return better equipped for the
work than ever before.
I'm bidding you goodbye I hope and
trust that you will return to your
homes to find your families in the en-
! ioyment of health and prosperity, and
| that prosperity will attend you in
the avocations of your private life
AUA RMAIR VAA1RR AGAVAE