The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
COME IN STREAM.
Flood of Baseball Petitions in
the Senate.
Twenty-Five Thousand Favor
the National Game.
LETTER FROM PASTOR.
Olathe Minister Asks Anti Base
ball Be Defeated.
Bill to Divorce the State Nor
mails in Senate.

bill prohibiting the playing of Sunday
baseball is making an impression in the
senate. If the heavy petition being sent
to members of the upper house are of
any weight on the minds of the mem
bers. the bill will not reach first base.
Every town of consequence is going on
record against the bill and the flood of
petitions will probably continue several
days.
The first opposition to the bill from
the Kansas pulpit came to Senator
Hodges from Olathe when Rev. Walter
Burr asked the defeat of the proposed
measure. Several other members expect
early statements from ministers in their
district. The Burr letter will probably
carry considerable weight when 1t is
considered in the committee room.
More than 20 petitions protesting
against the passage of the antiSunday
baseball bill, were presented in the SEN
ate this morning. These petitions bore
nearly 25,000 signatures and were sent
from every section of the state.
Wichita went on record in a manner
not to be misconstrued. The Peerless
Princess last night sent to Senator
Stewart a petition almost as large as
desk of the reading clerk this morn
ing and dropped the petition at the feet
of the clerk. This petition bore the
names of 10000 Wichita people who de-
sire Sunday exhibitions of the national
game. This document from Sedgwick
county was accompanied by a pro-
test against the bill signed by Al farm
er boys living near Benton. They de-
clared Sunday was the only day in the
week in which the ball team in their
district could play ball and prayed
| that the legislature defeat the BILL
Ptttsburg sent to Senator Porter a
| bill signed by 1900 people in the min
| ing district. Fort Scott. .Chanute, Kan
| sas City, Kan, and a dozen other Kan
| sas towns sent protests. The senate
| filed a petition for the defeat of the
bill.
| The following letter was received by
Senator Hodges, of Johnson county,
Congregational church in his home
/ town:
"In reply to yours asking me con-
corning my attitude toward Sunday
baseball and particularly for the bill
prohibiting Sunday baseball now pend
| ing in the Kansas legislature, 1 will
say that I am not personally opposed
| to Sunday baseball and therefore did
not join the movement to have the bill
| presented. I do not believe that the
| bill ought to pass, particularly because
| Sunday observance is peculiarly a
| church affair and not agreed upon by
| all churches. The passage Of such a
| bill seems to me to approach leg1Sla-
|
| ton of the denominational or sectarian
| beliefs.
walter BURR,
Congregational Church of Olathe,
Kansas"
vorably on the Ganse bill compelling
the publishing of campaign expenses
by all candidates. The Stewart bill
was also reported, but no recommen-
dation was made concerning its pas
| sage. Under the provisions of the
Stewart measure congressman may
be a candidate in the primary election
for both congress and the United
States senate and provides that should
| the candidate be nominated for the
ton to congress. This bill is practi-
| cally local at the present time in its
effect and will give Victor Murdoch,
Stewards fellow townsman, the privi-
| lege of running in 1912 for both his
seat in congress and for Charles Cur
tis in the United States senate. This
bill will strike all sorts of trouble when
it is placed on the calendar and
brought up for consideration.
Milton of Wyandotte county, offer
| ed a bill to change the law governing
the printing of election ballots. He
would have the work let to the printer
offering the lowest bid.
It is the theory of Myers of Jack
son, that all fees should be abolished
in county offices and he presented two
bills to place all county officials on
straight salaries. This bill will be par
ticularly effective in the offices of the
register of deeds, clerk of the district
court, sheriff and county surveyor.
The ways and means committee re-
ported favorably on the Milligan bill
establishing a state tuberculosis sani-
tarium and appropriating $50,000 for
a building, site and proper equipment
Senator Hodges bill for a recall in
cities of the second class was this
morning reported unfavorably by the
committee on cities of the second
class.
The bill prepared by officers of the
Provident Association and offered by
Senator Hamilton, was reported fol
passage. This act would allow the
county commissioners to levy a tax not
to exceed one mill for the support OF
organized charities and a like levy by
the city commissioners in cities of the
first class. A limit is placed not to ex.
ceed county appropriation of $4O(
a month and limiting city appropria
tions to 5000 month.
Senator Hodges would create funt
J for the maintenance of cemeteries IL
cities of the first, second and thirt
class. His bill, which was introduced
) this morning enables these cities ts
5 create fund. which when placed OF
5 interest at six per cent, will create
5 fund equal to two dollars for each 10
in the cemetery. Hodges would thel
have this fund used for the mainten
{ ance of the cemetery. The senate
: from Olathe argues that this fund will
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teries and would remove a burdel