The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-14

rage.
After the ceremony of the oath had
been observed, the judge looked be-
nignantly upon the forty odd en-
ployees. men and women, gray-heads
and boys, standing before him, and
raising his voice, he spoke to them as
follows:
81 hope that you will all do your
duty by the house and be patient and
alert and cheerful through all the days
OF the session. You draw the same
pay that We members do-and we get
all the abuse. So 1 trust that you will
bear with the new members from the
country when they take it out on you.
ITO the stenographers I wish par
ticularly to say that you will be de-
pended upon to do the spelling for the
members and of course you will be ex
pected to construct many sentences
and make plain the meaning of doubt
full paragraphs. You will therefore
make history as you write it,
And so the new speaker rambled on.
He smiled when he INDUCED, in sar-
casm and the sting was gone; he spoke
gently when he chided and looked
grave when he INDUCED in humor. No
one took notes on the judges effort
so it is lost forever, but the employees
will remember him always as the best
ever and will surely do their best to
please him.
The official paper of the Hutchinson
reform school has the following edi-
torial in regard to the retirement Of
Richard J. Hopkins, a -regent on the
school board:
I'VE are sorry to record the resfg
nation of one of our board of managers.
Richard Hopkins, who at the call of
the people Of Kansas, goes to the sec
ond highest office in the state-that of
lieutenant governor.
/ Mr.. Hopkins has served nearly two
years as secretary of the board of man
ayers He has had the interest of the
institution at heart, and has studied
reformatory work and the needs of the
institution as but few men have done.
| Besides this he is a scholarly gentle
man and a lawyer making his counsel
| of ineStimable value to the state and
institution. May We say here that ev
cry member of the board of managers
every inmate; after that the material
condition of the institution. All of
these men are broadminded, bighearted,
| honest men, doing great work for the
state and unfortunate young men. The
other members of the board are: Presi-
| dent, Phillip Kelly of White Cloud, and
i treasurer, Thomas W. Morgan of the
| ottawa Herald. We wish Mr.. Hopkins
every success in his larger field"
O1inger. the house member from
! Shawnee, has introduced a bill that
provides for the creation of a state
fire marshal at salary of $4,000 per
year. The new official is to be under
the jurisdiction of the superintendent
of insurance and has the power to APP
point deputies to inspect buildings.
He must report the causes of all fires.
The fire marshal is to be appointed by
the governor.
Thirteen lobbyists have registered
in the secretary of states office as fol-
lows: Laura Gregg. Garnett; Flora A.
Lindsay, Topeka; G. A Hoffman, En-
terprise; Lillian Mitchner. Topeka;
Emma Sells Marshall, Topeka; Eliza
beth N. Barr, Topeka; Sena Hartzell
! Wallace, Kansas City, Kan; Lila Day
Monroe. Topeka; Sim Bramlette, Col
umbus labor legislation; c. NJ. Clark,
Peabody. claims against the state for
live stock killed; w. c. Carswell, To-
peka, telegraph legislation; A. P. Roe
Wichita, labor legislation; James Ska
han, Pittsburg labor legislation.
| The printed report that the senate
l would not this session stand for being
made the goat" by the house in the
matter of killing such freak legislation
i as the anti-Sunday baseball bill and
the equal suffrage measure is out OF
order. Last session the house killed its
own equal suffrage and anti-baseball
bills. Look up the records.