The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-28
INTERSTATE PLAN
Scheme to Have a Hospital on
the Line.
Supported by Missouri and Kan
sas Appropriations.
INTEREST CARNEGIE.
This Is Part of the Plan Being
Considered.
Benefit Both State Universities,
1t Is Claimed.

An effort will be made sometime in
the present session of the Kansas
legislature to establish an interstate
medical hospital in Kansas City,
through the use of appropriations
from the Kansas and Missouri legis-
latures. This hospital, if established,
would be maintained and used by
medical students from the two schools.
The first discussion of the interstate
hospital came this week when MEM
bers of the board of regents of Kan
sas university, visited the legislature
relative to pending appropriations and
especially regarding the item calling
for 100000 to be set aside for the
Kansas City medical hospital. Sena-
tor w. M. Glenn of Greeley county,
originated the new idea and it was
endorsed by William Allen White of
Emporia, and other members of the
board.
'.I believe such plan would prove
a great benefit to the two universities"
said Glenn, "and joint appropriation
would establish a school somewhere
on the state line that would be a
model and equal to or in advance of
anything in the west. Mr.. White and
Mr. Gleed were both very favorable
to the plan and 1 believe some such a
policy can be worked out by the COM
mittee.'
G. S. Gleed, who attended the con-
ference, suggested that Andrew Car
negie, or some other philanthropist
might be interested in the plan for a
model medical hospital and that an
appropriation of large proportion
might be thus secured.
An effort will be made in few days
to define some definite policy and it is
proba BILE that the Kansas legislature
will start the campaign for an inter-
state hospital for the benefit of the
students of the two llniVArSifiaS
With a view of fixing salaries for all
county offices, joint session of the
| ways and means committee of the two
| houses will be held in a few days to
draft a bill which will be substituted
for the bunch of fee and salary bills
which have been introduced since the
| present session convened. In this bill
all fees of county officials will be elimi-
| mated and every county official will be
! placed on a straight salary basis.
| Much complaint has been aroused on
account of the present fees system
which govern many county offices. In
| some counties the fees are fat in
come, while in others they offer bare
| existence for the man who is un
| fortunate as to land the job. This trou-
| BILE is particularly noticeable in the Of
| fees of the clerk of the district court,
| sheriff and county surveyor. Since the
session opened. big bunch of bills
have been offered which would place the
officials in certain counties on
| straight salary basis with a provision
that the fees of the office did not reach
a certain amount.
The new law governing special meas
ures has worked a decided hardship on
| the official who wanted a special act of
| the legislature and each bill must be
made general. A few days ago Sena-
| tor Myers, of Jackson county, offered
bill which in a very general way fixed
the salary of all county officers. This
bill will probably be the text of the
new committee measure, which will be
introduced simultaneously in the two
| houses.
More than the usual interest has been
manifest this year in fee and salary
| legislation. Almost every member of
| the legislature has received a large
| bunch of letters from his constituents
who are holding public Office and anxi-
| Gus questions were asked, or varied Sug-
gestions were offered. The complaint
against the fees for public office, came
| largely from the recent grievance when
! county attorneys received fat slices
from the bank accounts Of jointists
against whom injunction proceedings
were enacted. Any amount of argument
was introduced to prove that these Of
fees were miniature gold mines for the
men who could furnish evidence
against men who traffic in liquor.
In the new bill will be incorporated
a clause which will not save the joint
ist the customary S100, but this money
| will be paid into the county treasury
| instead of the private bank account Of
the public prosecutor. In the offices of
! the sheriff, and the clerk of the court,
the official frequently leaves the office
| with a long list of claims against per-
sons who invariably forget to meet
| these accounts. 1t is argued that were
the official paid a straight salary and
the fees collectable by the county, that
there would be little opportunity to
| dodge payment and that both the coun-
ty and public official would benefit by
| the legislation.
John Denton, senator from Elk
| county, has prepared a new bill which
will compel townships in which a city
of the third class is a part of the
road district, to pay a portion of the
road fund to the city treasury. In
many instances the third class cities
have found little law whereby they
could obtain their share of the road
fund from the township This result
with no funds to carry on the work
in the cities, although the taxpayers
in these towns paid their share toward
Il the road fund.
Senator Cooks bill providing a PEN
atty of from $25 to $50 against town
ship treasurers who do not publish
their annual report will be reported
fayorabIy by the committee. For sew
eral years there has been law which
stated that the township treasurer
must publish an annual report, but
there was no penalty for not so doing
| AS consequence, many township
treasurers preferred to keep the
money in the treasury rather thar
spend it with the newspapers.
The committee on penal institutions
com posed of Senators Carey, Stillings
Bender, Milligan. Lower, Harris anG
Anderson, are spending the day In