The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-14
That Is If Party Pledges Are
Not Redeemed.
THIS WEEK.
Hsuse Will Have All These
Measures Up.
Wednesday Is the Day Set for
Their Consideration.

a special session of the legislature next
spring If the party pledges are not re-
deemed. If the house passes these
measures the governor will be almost
sure to check them up to the senate
at special session.
This week is regarded as the vital
week of the 1911 session of the legisla-
ture. The house will consider the party
pledges this week and its sentiments
| expressed will indicate the future of
these pledges.
If the house passes the party pledges
then they will be checked squarely up
to the senate The attention of the
| PUBIC Will be focused on the senate
chamber as it was in the days of the
| fight for the primary law.
| The state fair bills will be disposed
of in the house tonight Hutchinson's
! victory in the senate has encouraged
that burg and she has a powerful lob
by at work. This lobby is cutting ice.
But Wichita and Topeka are stronger
in the house than they were in the
senate and trades cannot be made so
| easily in the larger body.
| Wednesday is the day when the
party pledges fall due and their re-
| demption must be considered. Wednes-
day will be busy and lively day on
the floor of the house. The utility bill
| reported back by the committee looks
a winner The standpat, insurgent
and Democratic members of the COM
mittee favor it to man. This sup
port from every faction in the house
! gives the bill a prestige and advanr-
age that should carry it through; Win
! tho I. and r. and the recall 1T is diff
| ferent. But they may go through.
Their passage is predicted by friends
| Of these measures in the house.
| The bill by Wheeler of Seward "to
regulate the practice of the system,
method or science of healing known
as osteopathy and creating board of
registration and examination for the
regulation of the same" was the sub
| ject of some unique debates in the
house Monday afternoon before it was
| finally recomm ended in committee of
the whole for passage. Orr of Atchi-
son and Davis of I<iowa championed
| the cause of the osteopatlls, while
Veatch of Washington and that old
timer, DR.. Goddard of Leavenworth, op-
posed the bill on the ground that the
present board was sufficient to pass on
the claims of all disciples oe the heal
| ing art. The controversy between DIR.
Goddard and the man from Kiowa was
la fright. Goddard wanted to use the
knife on the patient, while Davis held
| out for quinine and a good rundown.
Then Goddard switched to chlorOfofm
| and Davis met him there with a lee
ture on the benefits of thorough
knowledge of anatomy. The debate
was worth the price of admission. The
laying on of hands for curative pur-
poses was discussed as a miracle and
as a practical every day fact. The
healing properties of herbs and roots
were pointed out through the smoke
that curled up from under the medi-
cine mans kettle. Davis finally con-
cluded with the sage reflection, that
osteopathy does no harm If it does no
good, and that can not always be said
of the medicine and the knife
There was friction, however, in the
ranks of the winners. fer an osteo-
path doctor was quoted as declaring
that a certain osteopath school turned
out half baked'' doctors, whatever
they are.
| Jimmy Malone, gof Rawlins got his
| Herndon experiment station bill safely
| through the first house storm Monday
| and now has better than an even chance
| to get his measure through the legisa-
] ture. Many of the eastern members
swatted the Malone bill and the sup
| port from the west was divided against
! itself, as some of the other western
counties wanted such a station. But
| Malone handled his bill with skill and
understanding and saved it's enacting
| clause from destruction. In the debate
| over the measure Shuey of Decatur
| took occasion to pay his respects to
members from counties on the Missouri
| line that always opposed every appro-
| priation for the west. He declared that
! the west paid higher taxes on land in
| proportion to value than did the east
| and vet state appropriations were
| barred for all that section west of
| Hayes. He said there was an invisi-
BILE line drawn at that parallel of lati-
| tude. And whenever the measley little
old Hayes appropriation came up in
| the legislature a hard fight was made
against it. 1t was a case of let the
west do the work and the east have
an easy time, according to Shuey.
| The bill providing for til rigid in
| spection of stock and investme COM
panies has passed the house and now
rests in senate committee. 1t gives
| the state bank commissioner power to
make war on fake companies and
| agents dealing in blue sky and worth
| less stock and is calculated to save
Kansas investors hundreds of thou
sands of dollars every year Bank
Commissioners Dolley started on his
| own hook a year ago a departm emit of
| Information regarding worthless stock
propositions that has done a world of
good, but the legislature has chance
now to extend the scope and increase
the powers of this department to a
point where it will make the get-rich-
quick promoter a stranger in the state.
Mr. Dolley has just returned from
| Cleveland o., where he was called to
| tell the federal grand jury the result
of his Investigations while conducting
, the bureau of information in Kansas.
Mr. Dol1ey declares that the govern
ment has become interested in the
plan to drive these frauds out of BUSH
ness. Government inspectors appoint
ed to investigate the operations of the
takers in selling worthless stock have
! reported on a volume of operations
that has filed the government officials
with amazement. The Postoffice de-
partment will help by barring the adj
lvertising matter of these concerns
from the mails. The movement against
them has become widespread and it
started in Kansas over a year ago,
when Mr.. Dolley instituted his bureau
of information. It is to be hoped that
this state win carry through to prac-