The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-06

Quented Topeka during the session of
the legislature lobbying for increased
appropriations for these schools. and
Whereas, the work these people
were employed to do must certainly
have been neglected while they were
in Topeka, and
Whereas, it is ridiculous to think of
men spending their time lobbying
while drawing pay for teaching; and
Whereas the place to set the eX-
ample for the highest type of moral
character and truest devotion to the
public service is in our great schools,
where so many young men and women
of Kansas are being prepared for the
duties of citizenship at the expense of
the taxpayers;
Therefore Be It Resolved, by the
house of Representatives, the senate
concurring there; that the governor is
hereby respectfully requested to call
the attention to the respective board
of regents, or governing body of said
institutions to the fact that a great
deal of time has been wasted during
the past sixty days by men connected
with these institutions in a vain en-
deavor to instruct the peoples repre-
sentatives as to what the people want
ed to do with their own institutions;
Resolved Further, that the governor
direct the proper authorities to- de-
duet from the pay of each hired
man. above mentioned the amount
accrued during the time spent in lob
bying the legislature, unless the en-
ployee affected by such ruling is able
to show beyond doubt that he was
committees of the house or senate,
and spent no more time than neces-
sary attending to the call.
Resolved, Further, that we disap-
prove most heartily Of the example
set by these school lobbyists before our
Kansas boys and girls, and recon-
mend that the governor direct those
employing these men to order them to
discontinue their labors in the legisla-
ture and hike back to the work they
are paid by the people to do.
Today is the last day the house can
consider it's own bills, according to
the terms of the conference resolution
agreed to by that body. But this is a
joint resolution, and the senate has not
tended for another day. If that is the
case, the adjournment may be ad-
vanced from Thursday evening at 6
o'clock to Friday evening at o'clock.
The house leaders were up in the air
today over the adjournment PROPOSE
tion, not knowing whether or not this
would be the last day they could con-
slider their own bills.
There were $50 bills on the house
calendar at noon today on third read
and if the house held an all night ses-
sion with a curtain over the clock it
could not hope to dispose of all these
bills. If the senate fails to adopt the
join tresolution for each body to cease
consideration of its own bills tonight
and cease consideration of all busi-
ness Thursday night, then the date of
adjournment will be advanced ahead
at least one day and may be two days.
There was talk of this kind on the
floor of the house today
The house attempted to clean up it's
calendar this morning of bills rec
commended for passage in committee
some fifteen of them through on an
omnibus at noon. The grind this aft
ernoon was steady and unceasing on
third reading and passage of bills in
their order on the calendar. There is
always some member to be depended
upon to move the previous question
and thus shut off debate on bills after
the question has been discussed a few
minutes.
j. W. Gleed, member of the board of
regents of the State university, today
declared, commenting on the resolution
offered this morning in the house by
Davis of Bourbon, that no member of
the university faculty had come to To-
peka to lobby for appropriations except
upon request or the ways ana means
committee of one Of the houses of the
legislature. The Davis resolution re-
buking the teachers of the institution
for neglecting their work to lobby the
legislature passed the house this morn
ing. 1t urges that the pay for the time
so employed be cut out of the state
vouchers.
Dodge City in Ford county offers in
ducement for one of the three propOS-
ed institutions for western Kansas. For
a normal school they offer a four story
college building. with chapel, library,
gymnasium room. a dozen recitation
rooms; a building to accommodate 300
students In the ten acre improved
campus is a brick dormitory, of S5
rooms, with dining hall. One hundred
and sixty acres adjoining for campus
These buildings would give excellent
accommodations for the tuberculosis
sanitarium which is provided for in
the Milligan bill which has passed the
senate.
The insane asylum could be accom-
modated here with the least expendi-
ture and almost Immediately. This in
sane asylum must go west of the 98th
meridian, and Dodge City is in good
| territory-high and dry and healthful
These buildings were built by Soule
in the boom days in western Kansas,
and are known as Soule college, and
have been occupied only intermittently
since that time as a school. The build
| ings are valuable, are doing the COM
munity no good at present; but could
satisfy the states requirements for
any one of the aforesaid institutions
and at a minimum expenditure. 1t is
| the opinion of Representative Karl
Miller that they deserve serious consid-
Grafton before any one of these institu-
| tions is located.
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