The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
SENATE NOTES.

Senator Oscar Fagerberg'S peddler's
license bill was the goat of the Tues
day afternoon session of the upper
house and was reported for passage
only after it had suffered a general
onslaught and caused the Olsburg
hardware merchant no little unrest.
Time after time Fagerberg saw his
favorite document dragged in the dust,
but each time some member came to
his assistance and helped in the res
cue.
Cook urged that the section which
prescribed a monthly license of $25
and $50 for sewing machine. lightning
rod and hardware VenderS should be
stricken from the bill. For a few
minutes it looked that the Fagerberg
favorite was breathing its last, but it
Withstood the storm and the Potta-
watomie member breathed easier.
Then Hodges criticised the bill and
Fagerberg's friends in the stand pat
crowd poked fun at the theory. This
rolled the fighting blood in Fagerberg
and he pointed to the long and patient
suffering of his constituents, who be-
came aroused and sent him to Topeka
to build law that would cure the i'll.
Fagerberg not only proclaimed that
his brethren in Pottawatomie county
were entitled to consideration, but
that the Kansas merchants Individual
ly and collectively demanded protec-
ton and he pointed to the great bum
dies of petitions for the passage of the
proposed law.
Probably three new normal schools
will be created by the legislature this
year Already appropriations have
been asked for five additional normal
schools, but the committee will hold
the number to three. The general inn
preston is that the towns of Con-
cordia, Atchison and Garden City will
1ar I1A fr1rif
to divorce the Pittsburg training school
from the state normal will be disposed
of this week and there is every chance
that the Crawford county member will
win. When Senator Porter first came
to Topeka he went to work for Pitts
burg. His first effort was to land the
training school. Porter has watched
the school grow and prosper and care
full study gave him the impression that
the growth would be even more notice
able if the school was divorced from
the Emporia normal. His bill this year
will enable the Pittsburg institution to
go it alone; and the town in the heart
OF the Kansas mining district will re-
joice.
An adjournment was taken before
the discussion of the Avery real es-
tate mortgage tax bill was brought to
a close, but the attack which the bill
suffered on the floor of the senate was
sufficient evidence to insure a lively
time in the attempt to pass the meas
ure. Brewster, of Doniphan county.
has declared open war on the PROPOSE
ton and the member from Troy usual
ly collects sufficient recruits to insure
trouble for any bill he attacks.
Many of the reform members went
on record for the bill early in the dis
cussion, but Brewster led the opposi-
ton and furnished a barrel of trouble
for the advocates of the new plan in
the half hour the bill was under dis
cussion. He charged that the passage
of the bill would affect the loaning 0f
100000 in Doniphan county and
would work an unnecessary hardship
on the men who were already over
burdened with taxes and grief. The
lawyer from Troy complained bitterly
in behalf of thousands of men, whom
he declared, would be compelled to
seek loans elsewhere and would in
vest their money in other states.
This statement was refuted by Sena-
tor Quincy of Saline, who urged that