The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
FEE BILL is NEXT.
KnOtty Problem Now Before the
Kansas Senate.
Applies to County Officers All
Over State.
BASED ON POPULATION
Larger Counties Do Not Like the
Measure.
Blank Book Question Will Soon
Be Settled.
BASED ON POPULATION

The senate will tackle the knotty fee
and salary bill this afternoon and at
the present time there are some 80 in
dividual opinions as to how the pro-
posed law should rea1. When the
committee prepared the bill it added
as much red paint to the trimmings as
possible and from many angles the bill
has an attractive appearance. On the
other hand, there are some glaring OBJ
jections and these questionable points
must be smoothed out before the
measure gets through the committee
of the whole
Under the terms of the new bill, the
fees from all offices viii be paid into
the county at the time the service is
performed. The salary system is based
on population and is considered good
bill for the counties in the short
grass district, where the guarantee is
better than at present In the large
counties, however, the public servants
have not prepared reception for the
returning heroes who wrote the bill.
1t is in these counties where the fat
fees are trimmed by half and the men
who land a place at the Tublic crib OBJ
1ect to removal The bill does not
seem to fit these big counties and
when the measure is considered, there
will be noisy objection from the large
districts.
Tuesday afternoon the senate will
consider the house I. and r. and re-
call measures. If the senate has not
had a radical change of heart since
the investigations there will be very
little of the states valuable time con-
sumed in consideration oe these meas
ures
This will be a trying week on the
Kansas bookbinders. The Ganse bill
will come up on third reading this
week in the senate and the house may
take a chance on the bill before the
end of the week. OF the % votes in
the senate Saturday morning, the bill
needs but two converts from the alb
sent members to give il constitu-
tional majority. Representatives of a
half dozen large printing plants Will
spend the week in Topeka in an en-
deavor to defeat the bill. which pro
vides for the printing of all blank
books at the state printing plant.
1t was a bunch of black, ugly jok-
ers in the initiative and referendum
resolution that caused the defeat of
the administrations pet bill and drove
many of the rock ribbed insurgents
to the ranks of the standpats. 1t was
the standpats who loaded the bill with
amendments until it groaned under
the weight and forced many of the
Stubs forces to dodge the platform.
Senator L. S. Cambern, of Neosho
county, voted against the bill for dou-
BILE barrelled reasons. In the first place
Cambern and his followers are radi-
cally opposed to the reform theory of
the administration. However, Cam
bern was willing to give the Kansas
voters a shot at the amendment under
ordinary circumstances. He looked
the bill over, however, and determined
that objection No. was waterproof
and he voted against the bill bodily
Amendments to the resolution
stuck out like quilIS on a pOrclIDine"
declared Cambern, who discussed his
vote to few friends who were spend
ing an hour in the senate chamber,
land any man who even wanted to be
fair couldn't swallow such dose as
they loaded up for the general public