The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-17


Katy to Parsons and over the Missouri
Pacific to Wichita and back to Topeka
over the Texas line Of the Rock Island
will complete the trip
Earl Akers. chief clerk OF the house
of Representatives, returned to his
home at STAFFORD today. When he
left Topeka he turned over to the
journal for 1911. This is probably the
earliest that the state printer has re-
ceived the copy of this book since
Kansas has been a state. No one
time when the printer got the copy
less than a month after the adjourn
| ment and many times it has been
i from two to six months. Akers turn
ed over to the printer the complete
copy within three days after the final
| adjournment.
| When he became chief clerk Akefs
| adopted a system of keeping the jour
nal. He made the journal revision
/ committee work each day and within
day or two after the days work was
completed the journal for. that day
was corrected and really ready for the
1 printer. After the session closed
/ about all AkerS had to do was to ar
As the work in the house progressed
Akers made up the tabulated history
of the bills and resolutions and this
|
the index. As soon as the type is set
for the journal and the page forms
made up Akers can go to work insert
ling the page numbers in the index and
in the history of the bills and resolu-
the printer gets the work set into
type.
Walter Johnson, secretary of the
senate returned to his home and
newspaper at Lyons today. The sem
90 re a fGd
| day so that this work is completed
now. Johnson has about completed
the index and the history of the bills
and has the page numbers inserted in
the index.
johnson is working on plan which
he will present to the next senate that
will systematic the keeping of the
records in both branches and will take
less people and make better records
than the state has ever had. Johnson
does not expect to be candidate for
secretary at the next session but he
has learned a heap in this session
and he is going to finish his plans and
have them ready to give to the next
senate and house.
Plans are being worked out by the
regents of the state university to try
to complete the first wing of the new
memorial hospital at Rosedale. This
is a part of the university medical
school The legislature appropriated
$50, 900 to begin this hospital in 1909.
The plans were all made, but the re-
gents of the university decided that
Rosedale was not good place for the
hospital and they decided to change to
Kansas City, Kan.
But the regents failed to reckon
with the 1911 legislature and that
honorable body refused to make any
appropriations for the medical school
except for the regular maintenance
fund. No building appropriations were
made. But the appropriation made
two years ago is still available If it is
used before June 80.
The regents are planning to go
ahead with the work, let the contracts
and get the work started and then it
is expected that a. friendly suit will
be brought to see what can be done
with the appropriation, which will
lapse with the end of the fiscal year.
1t would be impossible to finish the
building by June 80 and pay for the
materials and labor so that all the
APPROPRIATION could be used. Some
lawyers hold that after q contract is
let this continues the appro OPERATIONS
over until the contract is fulfilled. Be
fore the end of the fiscal year it is
planned to have this suit decided so
that it could be known just what the
contractor could expect. If the court
should hold that the work could go
on and that the state should pay the
money, Ine nOSplLdl WOULD De com pref
ed at once Otherwise the foundations
would have to stand two years and
until the legislature made additional
appropriations.
The new board of managers for the
state penitentiary and the industrial
reformatory will not receive any salary
until the next legislature makes an ap-
preparation for them. 1t has just been
discovered that when the APPROPRIATION
discovered that when the appropriation
lions were made for the directors Of
each of the institutions but that no aT-
preparation was made for the new
board. The members cannot draw the
money appropriated to the old board.
Governor Stubs announced today
that when he named the board of three
to take charge of both institutions that
he would name men who were willing
and able to go without any pay until
the next legislature met and appro-
priated the deficiency.
Charles Harris. director of the state
free employment bureau. believes that
the law passed by the legislature re-
quiring all private employment agencies
to take out licenses and fixing the fees
that may be charged, will do much to
prevent poor workingmen being robbed
in an effort to get jobs. Some un-
scrupulous employment agents." said
Mr.. Harris. have been known to take
the last dollar a man had, send him
off on a bogus hunt for work where
there was no work to be found and
then refuse to return the money when
the man could not get a job
The law requires all employment
agents to take out licenses and gives
the director of tine free employment
bureau the authority to revoke the
license of any agent that he has cause
to believe is not acting in good faith
with the workingmen.