The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
INTO SCRAP HEAP
Fifty Bills Go by Board in the
Senate.
Quincy Forces Building and Loan
Bill Through.
UNDER SINGLE BOARD.
Measure Uniting RefOrmatOry
and Prison Passes.
Consideration Of All Bills Will
End Thursday.
UNDER SINGLE BOARD.

Probably so bills died last night on
the senate calendar when the upper
| house members tired of the tedious eff
fort to wade through their own bills
and adjourned for the night. 1t was
the final date for the consideration of
senate bills. Several important meas
ures were left in the hopper, but the
solons refused to stay all night and
the bills died.
Shortly before O'Clock a janitor
draped the senate clock with bunting.
| The mill continued to grind. A half
hour later the members slipped quiet
| ly from the senate chamber in search
of something to eat. There was no re-
cess. According to the records of the
senate, that body was building modern
laws without intermission for food or
| rest. But it wasn't. Somehow the
members seemed to gather at 1880 by
mutual consent and Senator Porter,
president pro tenn, put the members
Through the PAGES.
| Throughout the day the members
| waded doggedly through the long list
of bills. There was much discomfort,
but little haggling. Each members
eyes were riveted on few bills which
| he was hoping the senate would pass
| before night 1t was the anxiety to
reach personal bills that cut short ar
gument and gave the reading clerks
the busiest day of the session.
|
beans and start trouble The Potter
bill providing for the selection OF
presidential electors at the primaries,
provoked the wrath of the standpats
and so per cent of the reform element
of the senate. Brewster and Price de-
voted 80 minutes to the bill. and for q
time they threatened to break up the
afternoon session. Potter came to the
defense of his bill. But he was alone.
BY q vote of 81 to 10 the senate killed
the enacting clause and the measure
was dead.
Senator Quincy had a busy day
| Monday and he succeeded in reor-
ganizing his forces and the upper
house passed his building and loan
| planned the marvels of his new meas
ure. He distributed printed slips,
which showed concluSively that the
bill was a good thing for the dear
| people. He outlined the benefits of
| the measure in speech on the floor
and told his fellow members of their
hasty action of Saturday. when they
decapitated the bill without proper
ceremonies. Then the members re-
considered. A half dozen changed
their minds and the bill rode through
with nearly 100 other measures
which passed in the days grind.
The bills providing for a license
| for the real estate agents and the es
Enlistment of an immigration bureau.
were given ten minutes consideration
| in the senate last night and did not
get beyond first base. The senate al
| lowed the license bill to ride through,
but when the one for an immigration
bureau bobbed up, the members were
waiting for it and promptly removed
| it's working parts.
Regardless of the high speed at
| which the senate was travelling Mon
| day night it found time to remove
| cute little joker from the Potter bill
relating to printing of ballots. Ac-
| cording to the terms of the bill a
newspaper publisher with job print
| ing plant must be given the work.
Senator Price adjusted his spectacles
| and held the little Jester up to public
gaze. Then the Clark county lawyer
stayed on the job until the provision
was made to allow all competent
printers a chance at the work In
| Shawnee county there was but one
| printing house that could qualify I'M
| der the terms OF this reform bill.
The senate passed the Myers bill re-
Iating to the publication of campaign
expenses of all candidates for office
| from township road overseer to United
States senate. The clerk read the first
| line of each of the 20 paragra phs.
Then the roll was called and the
measure was ready for the action of
the house.
| At the night session the senate run
| through an omnibus of some 20 bills.
President Hopkins was in the chair
and Senator Porter drove the bus.
While this particular job was in pro-
gress a half dozen members took a
nap others went for a walk and a
few who were late to dinner. hunted
the pie foundries-
| The senate passed the Potter bill re-
curing candidate for the legislatu
| to stipulate before the primaries
whether the voice of the people in the
primary election shall be binding on
his vote for United States senator, or
whether such an expression will be
accepted by him only as a suggestion.
Senator Emerson Carey's bill pro-
viding for an individual board for the
administration of the affairs of the
passed the senate Monday afternoon
without opposition. In the past each
institution has had a separate board.
! The new board will be known as the
penal institutions board and will be
composed of three members, each of
whom shall receive a salary of So a
day for actual services The mem
bers are to be appointed by the gov
| ernor and confirmed by the senate.
Under the old provision. each board
was composed of three members.
Members of the penitentiary board re-
ceived an annual salary of $1,000, and
members of the reformatory board
were paid $500 a year 1t is believed
that the new system will not only be
a saving of expense to the state, but
will result in more efficient service.
The conferees on the workmen's
compensation act met late Monday
night and agreed on the amendments
to the bill which were injected by the
Isenate. Tt is claimed that both sides
made concessions, but that the bill is
in excellent shape. The measure was
i reported in both houses this morning.