The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-18


The biannual judicial apportionment
bill arrived this morning and was
promptly offered by Senator Myers
who would stop the pay of ten Kansas
judges and bunch the districts IL
counties where litigation has been light
and the principal work of the men on
the bench has been to draw their sal
aries. Merely the fact that the Jackson
county gentleman has introduced the
measure, does not mean that it will go
through the legislature. There are sew
eral committees to be considered and
so far no information has been received
from any of the ten judges asking that
they be legislated out of office.
One the strong arguments against the
Myers bill is that it kills too many
judges at one time and the measure for
this reason may never be able to secure
enough votes for passage. Each Kan
sas district judge is considered a pow
er in local politics and while many of
the legislators are in favor of a reap
portionment, they do not work to an
tagonize his honor in the home district.
If the Myers bill should be enacted,
selves without a job: ]. o. Rankin.
Tenth John c. Hogin, Twelfth D. a.
Banta, Twentieth w H. Thompson,
rty-fourth; Oscar Rains, Thirty
sixth; Judge Clark. Sixteenth; Judge
Altman, Thirteenth; Judge Nickel,
The proposed change would be eff
fective as follows: Jefferson county
from the present thirty sixth district
to the present second district; john
son, tenth to fourth; Miami, tenth to
sixth; Elk, thirteenth to seventh; Rice,
twentieth to ninth; Labette, sixteenth
to eleventh; Chautauqua, thirteenth to
fourteenth; Phillips. seventeenth to
fifteenth; Rocks, thirty-fourth to fiji
tenth; Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan
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tenth; Butler, thirteenth to nine
tenth; Washington, twelfth to TWEEN
ty-first; Pottawatomie; thirty-fifth to
twenty first; Marshall, twenty first to
twenty-second; Jackson, thirty-sixth
to twenty-second; Lincoln and Ellis
worth, thirteenth to twenty-third;
Kiowa, Comanche and Clark, thirty
first to twenty-fourth; Cloud, twelfth
to thirteenth; Dickinson and Geary
eighth to thirtieth; Wabaunsee, thirty
fifth to thirtieth; Finney, Kearney,
Hamilton, Haskell, Seward, Grant.
Stanton. Morton and Stevens, compos-
ing the present thirty-second district,
added to the thirty-frst; Barton and
Stafford, twentieth to thirty-third;
Morris and Marion, eighth to thirty
fifth, and Lyon, Coffey and Chase,
composing the fifth, added to the thir-
ty-f1fth, and Greenwood, thirteenth to
thirty-seventh.
The committee on state affairs re-
ported favorably the resolution from
minority members calling on the gov
ernor, attorney general and bank COM
missioner and other state officials for
itemized statements of expenditures of
their contingent funds appropriated
by the 1909 legislature.
When the resolution was offered
Monday afternoon, it was only after
a compromise with administration
members, who urged that the resolu-
ton be made in the form of a request
In case the state officials did not
promptly provide the desired informa-
ton, the Democrats made their posi-
ton clear that they would ask for
committee to investigate the expendi-
ture of these funds.
Some twenty Kansas private chari-
ties will suffer this year. if the ways
and means committee succeed in stop
pjps\ aRpropriations to these institu-
Tons. The>fTst intimation of this
tpove Nas-asS De last night when the
enmltteeI heS la somewhat stormy
SESSION -s44d-di PISSED provisions for
tksse cbsrities1TThis morning the
senator's ANDY saems that the state
will be able to save some $1S,60O,
| Which last year went to these private
hospitals. These appropriations have
| Peen in amounts ranging from $500 to
| $500 to each of a 1png list of charities
| which apparently had little claim on
the state for assistance.
Senator Porter, of Crawford county, has
introduced his hobby measure, which,
would compel mine owners and operators
70 install and maintain baths and private
lockers for the benefit and convenience
pf<minens. The Pittsburg senatorNis con
NnIced tliet the KarIsas miners d. not re-
ferces-and- he would provide Ia law\that
makes this attention. to mine employees
compulsory on operators
| Senator Potter has offered a resolution
| calling for the creation of an osteopathic
board in this state. The petition was
signed by more than 100 Kansas osteo-
| paths.
I About rs constituents in Senator Caney's
| district have sent him a petition for the
repeal of the Inheritance tax law. The