The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-13
NEW TAX ON DOGS
Senator Bender Has Plan to Re-
duce Number.
Would Force Owners to Pay 81
10 So Head.
MONEY TOSHEEP FUND
Reimburse Farmers Whose Ami.
mails Are Killed by Dogs.
Senator Porter Proposes a New
Quail Season.
MONEY TOSHEEP FUND

couraged the farmer in a once land
apie ambition to raise sheep for mar
ketable purposes
Under the terms of Bender's bill,
Whlch mas every indication of becom-
ing law, the state will derive about
$25O,0O0 annually from dog tax until
the dog population is materially re-
duced Bender's bill stiprlates that
the owner of male dog shall pay a
tax of 81 year for the privilege of
harborlng the cur and that the owner
OF a female animal shall pay annually
81 for the rights the law allows. This
money shall be paid into the county
treasury with the regular taxes; and
the dog census will be taken each
| spring when the assessor places a
value on a mans visible assets. When
herder proves to the county COM
missioners that a dog killed one of his
sheep he would be paid three-fourths
or the value of the animal from the
dog fund. This plan, urges Bender.
will soon decrease the worthless dog
list and place Kansas among the west
ern sheep raising states Wisconsin
has law similar to the proposed Ben
der measure
The gentleman from Crawford
county, Senator Porter, has a second
bill on the subject. of quail. He would
December lit is now November 15
to December 15-and continue until
January 1. 'This pIan," argued Por-
ter, will be of great advantage. In
the first place the birds will be larger
and wilder and can not be caught in
pot shots. The second feature is that
the farmer will have more idle time
in December and can do some of the
hunting, besides having more time in
which to chase undesirable visitors
from his farm
Francis Price, senator from Clark
county, offered a resolution to admit
James Kelley, a Kansas frontiersman,
ley are personal friends and 1t was
Kelley who enlisted in the Third
United States infantry and fought In
dams on the Kansas frontier. shot buff
falo and helped establish the town of
Dodge City. Later Kelley mingled
with Mike Sutton. and Chalk Beeson
in shaping the affairs of Dodge, but
his sportive days are over. AS he was
not volunteer, he could not be adj
mitted to the home. Consequently,
Price determined to offer the resolu-
ton to admit him.
Fred Robertson, senator from Raw
Inns county, will introduce a bill
changing the date of the annual meet
ing in country school districts from the
last Thursday in July to the second
Thursday in April to conform with the
date of the meetings in the towns and
smaller cities. According to Robert
sons contention, the towns have the
last few years employed all the good
teachers weeks before the annual
meeting in the country. The school
ma'amS were not to blame for the
delayed date of the meetings in the
rural districts and of course naturally
took the first good offer that came
their way. This state of affairs. it is
claimed. placed dozens of inferior
teachers in the country school rooms.
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school boards a better chance to make
suitable arrangements for their school
terms.
The new rules have brought about
unusual activity among the senate en-
ministration, will be compelled to per-
form real labor or separate their pay
| checks. According to the plans laid
down by the rules committee it is
+ necessary for employees to claim
| daily service and register their attend
ance.
Under the terms of a resolution
adopted in the senate, that body will
meet until further agreement at 10 a.
m. and p. m. An adjournment will
be taken this afternoon, allowing the
members until Monday morning to re-
turn home and explain how things
happen.
| When the senate adjourned yesterday
| afternoon 1t gave the members the first
| opportunity of the session to exercise
| their secretaries and stenographers
| These servants of the statute makers
prepared great bundles of letters and
pamphlets which have been turned
| loose in every district in the state to
| remind the genial constituency that
| the country is safe. prosperous and
| progressive Tonight another letter will
| be sent out by the men who prefer to
| spend Sunday in the hotel lobby rather
tlran at home with the beloved voter.
| When the committee appointments
were announced, Senator John d.
| Myers Jared badly Two years ago
Myers was on the judiciary committee,
one of the important places in the SEN
ate. He did some hard work for the
administration forces. but his efforts
did not profit him in the division of
honors this year. The committees that
distributed the patronage possibly for
got that Myers enjoyed the berth he
secured a season ago; and they placed
him at the top of the fish and game
committee, the principal distinction of
which is the title.
Senator Clad Hamilton spent Thurs
day afternoon in postgraduate
course of the inheritance tax law
When the amendment to the law is dis
cussed. and it is assured there Will be
ample amendments to discuss, Hamil-
ton will relieve himself of several pack
| ages of manuscript on the subject or a
tax on windfalls. The Shawnee county
member has a very profound notion
that the fellow who is fortunate enough
to step into the ownership of a fat
| estate. should not assume crouch
! when the state that made his ascend
ence possible, asks for a slight division
{ of the funds.
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