The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04

ty. Then the members arose in their
might and killed the bill before
Beachey could get on his feet to de- j
fend it.
Orr of Atchison, is not yet through |
with the attorney generals office. At
ter working all term to get the for
mer attorney general investigated,
Orr would take temptation away from
the present official by abolishing all
fees in connection with the attorney
generals department The bill IS at
the head of local bills under general
orders and is sure to receive consid-
Grafton from the house.
The bill by Matson to provide for
cleaning and sprinkling streets and
alleys in cities of $4,000 and more to
charge the expense to the AUDITING
property, has been recommended
passage in the house and is now I'M
der third reading. 1t is more parti-
cularly a Wichita bill.
Stone of Shawnee has a bill on third
reading providing for the installment
of lighting system in the order of a
great white way in certain districts
of cities of the first class having 49,
900 or more inhabitants. The bill
authorizes payment of the expense by
| assessing special taxes against the
abutting property in much the same
| way that the paving tax is levied now
Kerr of Montgomery has a bill I'M
der special orders of interest to all
citizens of the state, as it provides
| that all additions taken into such
cities be plated in such manner that
the streets and alleys of these addi-
tionS shall conform to the streets and
alleys of the city of which they be-
come a part. A punishment IS pro-
vided for violations of the provisions
of this bill.
| Harry Bowman's pet bill providing
| for a claim adjuster for the board OF
control was given body. blow In the
| house Friday when it was sent back
| to the judiciary committee with in
structions to draw up a new bill. Then
| the house voted to nonconcur on TINS
action and the bill goes back on the
| calendar for another try. The propo-
sition to create this Office aroused
big protest in the house. Davis OF
Kiowa, who by the way, has been
moving to strike the enacting clause
out of bills with great regularity and
success this week, was the man who
| got in the deadly motion in the case
of this bill. Davis thought that coun-
ty attorneys could collect these claims
of the board of control against estates
| of insane persons for care at the state
hospitals.
The bill by Speaker Buchanan that
| Il
duties and dignity of the county cor
oner by giving him desk room at the
court house and requiring him TO
keep a record or docket OF all his of1-
cial acts. Also to file all papers in
relation to inQuests
What is a cross between bull pup
and a shutter? Between druggist
and a patent medicine man? These
we're the questions asked by the house
Friday afternoon when the bill by the
hygiene and health committee regu-
lating the practice of pharmacy was
under discussion. The bill was killed.
Ewing of Pawnee declared that ne
| had. during discussion of the bill. in
committee, acted as buffer between
the patent medicine man and the
| druggist until he had been worn to a
FRAGILE on the job. The bill provided
) for certain restrictions in regard to
) the retail of poisons and opiates that
it was alleged would put the patent
| medicine business on the shelf. The
house went on record, therefore, as
| opposed to the adjustment of pam
| aceas for all the ills of the human
flesh.
| Governor Stubs sent the following
message to the legislature in regard to
appropriations which he declares are
larger this session than they We're two
years ago:
ITO the Legislature:
the ways and means committee indi-
!, cate heavy increases in some of the de-
: partrents and institutions, which, II
/ finally agreed upon by the conference
t committees between the house and SEN
ate. will largely increase the appropri-
: ations of this legislature as compared
with the appropriations two years ago
"While 1 would not have the legisla-
! ture withhold from any institution OF
81 department of this state one single dol
a lar that is actually necessary to main
tain the state government and the state
+ institutions on a. perfectly decent ant
q efficient basis, / regard it as my duty
as governor to call the attention o.
+ members of this legislature to those in
: creaseS, and recommend that you glVt
this matter your most careful ane
, thoughtful consideration.
, 1.-The sole power to make appropria-
. tions and levy taxes is, under our state
! constitution, vested in the legislature
: Therefore, on the one hand, the entire
, responsibility for the proper ma1nten-
ance of the state institutions and tins
state government rests upon youl
shoulders and, on the other hand, you
are solely responsible for the aggregate
amount of the appropriations, and nc
state taxes can be levied for any pur-
pose whatever except to meet appropri-
| ations made by the legislature. If any
Imam or group of men, on the minority
| or majority side of the legislature, ia;
knowledge of any unnecessary or ex
Itravagant appropriation that has beei
recommended for any institution or de
partment of this state, it is his. duty a.
a citizen and as member of this leg
Itslature, to make known this fact at thu:
thine, and assist in every way possible
to make any reductions that can b'
made. without injuring or interfering
with efficient public service
ssI most earnestly urge every member
of this legislature to use his utmos
endeavor to keep the appropriations al
| this session as low as possible, always
providing for efficient, progressive, up
Ito-date service.
"Respectfully submitted,
| srvx7 CUTTERS