The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-17
SENATE TO WAIT.
Will Sit Half a Day Only for
the Present.
Purpose to Allow Routine Ma
chine to Catch Up.
IMMIGRATION BUREAU
Bills Providing for One Are In
trOduced Today.
Committee Reports FayOrably on
XVI Amendment.
IMMIGRATION. BUREAU

The first result of the recent session
of Kansas real estate men was mani
fest this morning when Senator Ho-
strup of Riley county introduced a
bunch of bills providing for the estab-
lishment of a Kansas immigration bu-
reau, a state publicity department and
an annual $50 tax on each land agent
which revenue Hostrup claims Will
bear the expense of the heavy adver-
Using campaign and will result in
great good to the state generally.
Hostrup has had his bills in course
of construction for several days and
they bear the stamp of approval of the
men who shaped the policies of the
recent real estate mems convention in
Topeka. While it is true that a great
many real estate men are Wiling TO
pay an annual tax to the state. yet
there are hundreds of small agents in
almost every county who do not de-
sire to be molested in their quiet avo-
cation of trading Kansas dirt. It is
the paragraph in the Hostrup bill re-
lating to the annual license that VIII
stir up the hornets nest in real estate
circles No member of the senate has
been found who can take a pencil and
figure even the approximate income
from such a law. providing every deal
er stayed in the game and bought
chips There are not only hundreds OF
Kansas land men. but they are num-
bered by the thousands.
Almost every farmer in my coun-
ty," said one senator, ''sells little
| real estate and conducts small
agency in the quiet winter months. Ii
I voted to license them, it would be
| Impossible for me to stop at the regu-
| lar station when I returned home after
the session
Hostrup, however. is strongly in
favor of the measure and there will
be a lively division of sentiment when
the bill is considered on the floor.
|
Senator Stavely introduced a cor
poration bill governing all corporations
with the exception of banks. insurance
companies and railroads. He would
establish a board to which these cor
porations should make annual reports
showing in detail their receipts, ex-
penditures and net earnings and would
also require of them to pay the state
an annual amount equal to three
twentieths of 1 per cent of their cap
ital stock.
Senator Potter this morning intro
duced the Oregon primary election
bill in the senate providing for the
election of United States senator by
direct vote of the people. The bill
provides an oath for legislative can
didates which proclaims that the can
didate will accept the vote of the peo-
pie as final and binding and that he
will support the candidate for United
est number of votes in his district.
Another paragraph provides that the
candidate may declare the vote in his
district as only suggestive and that he
will use his own discretion in his vote
on a candidate for the United States
senate and not thereby observe the
vote in primary as final or binding.
The judiciary committee reported
favorably the concurrent resolution
recommending to congress the adop-
| ton of the sixteenth amendment to
the United State constitution regulat-
| ing a national law for the taxation OF
incomes The committee, it is
claimed, was divided in it's vote on the
| resolution but decided to report the
measure favorably and give the senate
as a body a chance to declare itself
The Cook bill, making the persist
| ent sale of intoxicating liquor, pun
| ishable by a penitentiary sentence, has
been introduced. The senator from
Mitchell county would provide pen
| itentiary sentence for violations OF tho
/ prohibitory law after the first convic
| ton, Cooks measure makes the sec
ond offense punishable by an inter
mediate sentence in the. penitentiar!
| of from two to five years.
The Kansas university appropria
ton bill was introduced in the senate
by ]. L. Brady. senator from Douglas
county The bill is in direct accord
with the budget published severa
weeks ago and was introduced withou
! ALTERATIONS. regardless of the agita
ton in both houses to cut down al
appropriations to the state institu
| tions.
A bill providing for the expenses
and mileage of members of the legis
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