The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-04
A Thousand Have Appeared Be-
fore Legislature.
MANY ARE HELD UP.
Not an Administration Bill Yet
Ready for Signature.
New School House Bill Has Been
Passed in House.

sion has passed and no administrator
measures have been sent to the gov
ernor to sign. About one thousand
hills have been INTRODUCED in both
houses and there will be couple Oh
hundred more at least. over nun
dred bills have been killed IN the
house and nearly that many have oleu
in the senate Preliminary ski III ~
ing only has been indulged in over tne
more important measures anu II -
still more or less guesswork IN PI tJI IT,
ing the fate of administrator Dlils-
nh big fight of the session VIII
come over the utilities bill. That much
is certain The bill will pass the house'
and it will have teeth, but the ao I'M ,il .
istration bill will be aHenueQ - -
more or less degree. The senate nc. iiely
not present the administration ullIllleS
bilI at all but use that one DS NaA9'
of Hutchinson instead, ,.. o,d
# is doubtful if the lnltlauVe an
referendum will pass at all; that IS, ~
any kind of practlcal l"l -
TIE recall bill has been recommend
cd for passage in the house ana Is SUI
to become a law in its Original auliliii
All the freak bills have been killed
so far as fast as they have come pe
fore either house. Many pehellcisA
bills have been passed or recoInIleliu EN-
for massage. Inc COlHu1lIeSO9 -
Ioeen working late at night Ior q "eeA
mast and many Of the important com
1ni+tees are in session day ana nlght.
Night sessions of the mouse win % SO =
neXt week and from then on II WIN pc
q staadv and heartbreaklng srlhu ~
- 6nish The big appropriation b1lIs
will come in next week, ana the con coils u u
tutionaI amendment resolutions VIII III pe
disDosed of at the same ulfne. 1iIen
the house will clear decks ana prepalt y1Saat
bii1 alone will take several days. The
comnensation bills before the mouse
viii also require several sessions to
make a choice.
Tho senste has about agreed upon
fees and salary bill that VIII do away
with fees for county officers ana re-
strict them all to a specified salary.
The bill will also likely pass the mousse
From the sentiments expressed by
members of the ways and means com
mittee of both houses they VIII De
tional institutions in the matter or
maintenance, but will give but little
for new buildings. The Kansas City,
Kansas, hospital appropriation will
have hard road to travel
The two important bills passed by
the house so far are the bulk sales
bill and the bill consolidating the penal
difference of opinion as to whether
these bills are beneficial, but none as
to their Importance.
Bv vote of So to Al the house
turned down slap at the administra-
ton when it defeated the bill of Davis
of Gray to trim the salary of Richard
J. Hopkins, lieutenant governor, from
500 a year to $500, and eliminating
the salary of Sc a day which the
lieutenant governor receives while the
legislature is in session. A score of
members changed their vote when,
as they stated, they learned that the
bill provided for reduction in the
salary of the Office and not an increase
as some of the members had given
them to understand. The vote occur
red early in the Afternoon and was fol-
lowed Immediately by a general bolt
to the committee rooms on the part
of many of the members. Some of
them left for the fair grounds and
others visited downtown business
places and were responsible for three
calls of the house, which sidetracked
the general legislation of the after
noon and kept half dozen assistant
sergeants at arms busy hunting alb
sent members.
The house Friday afternoon passed
the bill enabling school districts to in
crease their appropriations for new
school buildings and improvements
half mills to two and a quarter mills
on the petition signed by so per cent
of the qualified voters of any school
district. This petition must then be
approved by the state board Of school
commissioners. who shall direct the dis
trict board to proceed. There was con-
siderable opposition to the bill, which
after a lot of explanation was adopted
by a vote of 63 to Sc. It is feared thai
this bill. if it became a law, will swamr
cities of the frSt-claSS.
Three calls of the house were issuef
by Speaker Buckman Friday Afternoon
and the attempt of Watson of Allen t.
raise the third. aroused harsh word:
from Field. a Reno county Democrat
who vowed that the lola insurgen
would be heard from his actions
This did not feaze Watson in tn,
least and he proceeded with his mo
tion to raise the call. The two mem
bers closs-fired and explained until suf
f1cient votes were registered to decid,
the issue and both men walked to thei
seats
The trouble came when the Wilso,
bill fixing price at which grain seeC
grown at the state institutions unde
the control of the state should he soIC
to the farmers. Members from the ag
ricultural districts fought the measur
and the assistant bank examiner assist
ed them. With the vote "a to 81 in ia
vor of the bill. Watson demanded tina
the call Of the house be raised. He wa
voted down. A few minutes later h
tried again and this time Field raise
question as to the sincerity of tn
lola representative.
The Kyle jack rabbit bill was los
by vote of 60 to Sc, when call O
the house was raised.
The Kelley bill providing for tn
.1acffon Of all Judges clerks and ,,o-