The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-01
Opponents of Sessions Corpora
tiOn Bill Use Heavy Guns.
COnverging Their Fire on the
Senate Committee.
ALL HARD AT WORK.
Big Committees Are All Holdins
Sessions.
Reed Advertising Bill Is Having
Its Inning.

Its Inning.
This is a busy day for the big COM
mittees in the senate. This afternoon
the elections committee is trying to
iron out the wrinkles in the Myers and
Reed bills limiting advertising ex-
penses of candidates. The judiciary
committee has lengthy session under
way and tonight a half dozen meetings
will be held.
One of the most important meetings
of the week will be that of the corpor-
alton committee in the office of the
secretary o. state. The big contention
before this committee is the Sessions
bill providing an annual tax of three
twentiethS of one per cent of the cap
ital stock of all profit earning corpora
tions doing business in the state. This
afternoon a score of representatives Of
healthy and energetic Kansas corpora
tiOnS are in Topeka and they propose
to tell the committee things about the
new bill that will not be pleasant to the
framer. On the other hand, John Daw-
son, attorney general, has taken an
active interest in the passage of the
measure. He has even promised that
| if the present bill is defeated, that one
will come out of the wilderness two
years nonC6 With I6eCn III IT, he
corporations which will be represented
at the meeting, represent millions of
dollars capital stock and the defeat OF
| the bill will save these concerns good
many thousands of dollars, which Mr.
| Sessions proposes to put in the state
| treasury.
| The ways and means committee has
| for consideration tonight, the Kansas
| university budget and several of the
members have whetted their knives for
this fat appropriation Senator Brady,
who is member of the ways ana
means committee, is also on the cor
| poration committee and unless he for
sakes the latter meeting, ne VIII De un-
able to aid his home town in securing
the appropriation. On the other hand,
Brady's town harbors several concerns
interested in the corporation Dill, ana
they, too, demand his attention
Prof. Dyche, who was to have ad-
| dressed the senate this afternoon on
fish and game legislation and the nee
essity of bill protecting skunks, has
been sidetracked until lO:s0 Frlaay
morning He will be given the pr1vi-
leges of the floor for thirty minute
discussion of the subjects close to his
heart.
Senator Milton has introduced
bill giving to the commissioners in the
various cities the power to regulate all
municipal affairs of local interest
without a special act of the legislature
At 1920, the senate adjourned to
meet at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Tomorrow the initiative and referen-
dunn and recall measures are up under
special order and are expected to
evoke some balmy oratory. Senator
Robertson has thirty minute speech
in his system in which he will try TO
prove the merits of the minority reso-
luton by comparative figures Other
members have an equal amount OF
ammunition on hand with which they
hope to convince the senate that the
state does not need these amendments
under any sane conditions. It will be
one of the real live talkfests of the
present session.
The senate resolution favoring the
| passage of the Sulloway bill and tax
| ing a slap at Norman Hapgood, fur-
| nished material for a As minute enter
tainment of the Kansas Day club and
| editorial association visitors who had
| not returned to their homes, IN the
senate today Bender, of Labette, Of
| fered a substitute resolution for the
| Travis document read Monday after
noon for the first time. Both resolu-
| tionS were adopted and Potter, or Mar
| ion, made one of the longest speeches
| of the session in favor of the reSolu-
| ton in which he told of the heroic eff
| forts and sacrifices of the old soldiers,
| but contended that the senate should
not take a slap at Norman Hapgood
and Golfers Weekly. which has abused
| the bill in a scandalous manner.
The Bender resolution was offered by
| the administration members to salve the
slap at Hapgood, who was this week
| a guest of the State Editorial associa-
| tion. Some of the insurgent members
weakened on the Bender document and
| when the roll was called the Travis
resolution was adopted with slight oppo-
sition.
] Travis offered his resolution while
Hapgood was in Topeka and before his
/ speech before the editorial association.
| The lola man wanted immediate con-
| sideration of the resolution, but could
not secure enough votes to crowd the
resolution through, although he declar-
| ed an emergency existed ana 1mmeol-
| ate action was necessary. This morn
/ ing Richard Hopkins president of the
senate, received from Congressman
! Calderhead a telegram urging immedi-
/ ate action in regard the Sulloway bill.
The Bender resolution was then pre-
| pared. Bender's resolution mildly in
| structs Senators Curtis and Bristow to
| vote for the Sulloway bill without
| amendment
! The Travis resolution is possessed of
I teeth and is not expected to bring joy
to the young editor of Golfers Weekly.
| The resolution reads:
| There is now pending before the SEN
ate of the United States a pension bill
known as the Sulloway bill, which was
passed by the house of representatives
| and which provides for liberal pensions
for all the men who gave their service
| to their country when the life of the
| nation was dangered, and the peo-
| ple of Kansas, proud of the achieve
| ments of the states pioneers who left
| their new homes to battle for the pre-
| seryation of the Union, grateful to the
125.000 veterans who came from the bat
| tlefields of the south to mould the
! character. establish the industries
| make the laws and father the sons and
/ daughters of the most progressive and
happiest commonwealth in the Union
and ever insistent that they and theii