The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-23

lowed the members, but positively no
other expenses. Not only members of
| the board but all teachers and instruc-
| tors in the several colleges and uni
versities are prohibited from being en-
tertained at the expense of any pri-
| vate person while visiting the state
| institutions.
| Fred S. Jackson may be rescued from
the embarrassment and inconvenience
| of a long winded investigation of his
revenue from liquor prosecutions when
| the senate this week passes on the Orr
| resolution. which was adopted in the
| house. The resolution will be messaged
to the senate this afternoon and under
| the rules will lie over until Wednes-
| day for final consideration. Several Of
the generally considered obStreperous
| members have signified their intention
| of helping defeat the resolution and II
is probable that the minority members
! in the upper body will bolt the docu
ment, even though it originated in the
Democratic household.
The resolution was the subject of
considerable debate among the mem
berS who spent Sunday in Topeka and
| document prepared by the former
| mayor of Atchison. Several of the SEN
ators who returned home Friday night
| had not returned at noon today AMI
ter sentiments may change the dope
III the senate. 1t is generally known
that in the last Y hours the minority
senators have been doing considerable
advance investigating" of their own.
They have sent scouts into the gem
orally considered wet districts and have
in their possession a. package of reports
on liquor prosecutions as voluminous s
F. D. Coburn's annual statements of
Kansas crop conditions. The investiga-
ton would furnish information which
has caused much discussion and could
do no harm, say its advocates.
I'VE are not going into this matter
with both eyes shut said one mem
Der, 'even though this is a Democratic
| resolution. By that I do not mean
We will not support the resolution, but
I mean that we will know something
| of conditions before we support the Orr
document
| The insurgent members of the senate
will probably unite in favoring the con-
gressman-el from the Fourth dis
/ trict. Several OF the regulars have
made statements that they will oppose
| the resolution unless substantial rea-
| sons are offered for voting in favor Of
| an investigation. With these votes
practically insured in opposition of the
resolution, the attitude of the minority
members as opposed to the joint COM
mittee. practically gags the resolution
| in the senate.
| If it is seen by Jackson's friends that
| enough votes cannot be secured to open
| ly defeat the resolution in the senate,
an effort will probably be made to send
| the house message to a committee tor
| at least temporary burial. The state
| ment issued Saturday afternoon by the
| former attorney general in which he
| attacked the Trainer of the resolution,
| did not increase the standing OF Mr..
| Jackson in the good grace of many OF
the senators They were rather lncln-
! ed to criticise his action as hasty and
| uncalled for-especially if, as the state
| ment declared, there is nothing to in
| vestigate. Jackson has been frequenl
| visitor to the senate chamber the last
| week and Saturday afternoon spent a
| couple of hours among the members
| who had not returned to their homes,
but no reference was made to the res
| olution or the reply issued by the Tor
| nler attorney general.
A number of the members have re-
| ceived letters from their constituency
| concerning the resolution and its pro-
| babla effect. In most of these con1nun-
! ications, the writer's merely desired in
side information and did not offer sug-
| gestions as to the members attitude
when the final test is made.
There is a rather general impression
that Senator Hodges bill to establish
the Massachusetts, ballot law in KAN
sas is hopelessly buried in The cleo
tions committee room. The johnson
county Democrat. under the terms OF
: his BILL would abolish the roosters
donkeys. eagles and other designs and
emblems at the head of party tickets
and would run the list OF candidates
for each office in the same column I'M
der a single line head. His bill also calls
} for educational qualifications on the
part of the elector. For some reason
the bill has not created undue excite
ment even among the senate reformers
and there is slight hope for this change
in the law. Two years ago the bill
passed the house, but it found the GUS
tomary rough travelling when II
reached the senate.
: A new electric clock will greet the
: | absent senators this afternoon wher
, they return from their weekly visit te
: the rural districts. The clock was do
! mated by the Western Union Telegraph
; company by their own special request
Some of the members were inclined tt
question the offer of a new timepiece
!. but when they We're assured that there
! would be no expense to the state, with.
: drew their objections.
III The Bender bill prohibiting admis
| sion fees to any Sunday amusemen
seems doomed to a short life in thu
/ senate. The bill not only paralyze
: Sunday baseball. but strang1es tn,
' business of the amusement parks ant
r removes the main source of reyenu'
from the Chautauqua associations.