The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-12
NO MORE TIGHTS.
Bill to PrOhib.S Women Wear
ing Them introduced.
Representative Cones, OF Meade
County, the Author.
APPLIES TO WOMEN.
Must Wear Skirts Reaching
Four Inches Below Knee.
Measure to Unite State Boards
introduced.
APPLIES TO WOMEN.

The champion freak bill of the coun-
try was introduced in the house this
morning by George Cones, of Meade
county, which would prohibit the wear
ing of tights on the stage or in pub
lie by any female. 1t also prohlbltS
any female from appearing in public
with a skirt on that hangs iess thah
four inches below the patella or knee
cap. The penalty is fine of $10O or
imprisonment in Jail for a month or
two.
The chaste and modest Mr.. Cones
comes from one of the southwest coun-
ties of the state and is a new member.
He is young and bashful. While he
cannot prevent the shock to his sensi-
bilities at the Topeka theaters this
winter, yet he will be able, in the
event that his bill passes, to come here
two years hence and sit through the
ater performance as tame as any Sun
day school in the far western county
of Meade.
The pony ballet must go, and the
broilers, and the stately beauties who
exposed their statuesque forms in
tight. The man on the front row at
the musical comedy show will mourn
and refuse to be comforted. The thea
ter companies. that come to Kansas
will have to have two sets of costumes
for their chorus girls The tights and
spangles and butterfly costumes will
have to be laid aside in this state and
the Priscilla gown, the mother hubbard
and sackcloth and ashes substituted for
the same. But maybe not, maybe the
house will consign Mr.. Cones bill to
the scrap heap.
The anti-Sunday baseball agitation
appeared early on the scene of the leg
lature. There are now about fifteen
petitions in the house and senate ex-
claiming against the pastime.
Watson of Allen county has intro
duced a bill in the house making the
desertion of a child or children under
Is wears old unprovided for by the par
eat a felony punishable with term n
state prison. Mr.. Watson Indignantly
denies that this is an affinity" bill.
Representative 1a1ng would repeal
the inheritance tax law entirely in his
bill introduced in the house today.
An effort was made in the house
this morning to push one or the many
bills to repeal the inheritance tax into
committee of the whole for passage at
once but it failed on vote of the
proposition. There are also many bills
into amend the inheritance tax law
by raising the exemption. One of these
bills will probably become a law.
DeCamp of Lyon county has intro
duced a bill to protect game birds.
Among other things, he would prohibit
the killing of prairie chickens alto
gether for five years from the passage
of the bill and its enactment into law
Inere are many OIn6I DllIS III lLc
house for the protection of game birds.
Joe Mercer of Chase county intro
duced the administration bill for the
merger of the control of the state char
table, penal and reformatOry institu-
tions under one board to be known as
the board of control This bill is along
the lines advanced by Governor Stubs
in his message.
A report of a startling nature was
current in the house of representa-
tives this morning to the effect that
a legislative investigation would be de-
manded of the expenditure of all pub
lie monies by the administration dur
ing the past two years. 1t is reported
on reliable authority, no less than a
representative, who declared that a
resolution calling for this investigation
would be introduced early in the ses-
sion. possibly this week
The resolution will call for an in
vestigation of all expenditures in all
departments of state, for the expendi-
ture of monies for land. buildings, etc,
for an investigation that will be rigid
and searching and embrace all de-
partments of state in its scope.
No especial cause or place was
ascribed as the object of this resolu-
ton, but it will be introduced in the
house at an early date.
There were % bills introduced in the
house this morning, bringing the total
number introduced so far up to so.
These bills embrace every phase of
human life from the regulation of
game birds to the regulation of banks.
The resolution to amend the cOnsti-
tuition to provide for the initiative and
referendum has been introduced by
Cassin, Democrat, of Girard.
Mercer of Chase county today intro
duced the administration bill provid-
ing for the merging of the control of
all the charitable, reformatory and
penal institutions under one board to
be known as the board Of control. This
board is to be composed of three mem
bers and not one of these shall come
from a county where any state insti-
tuition is located. The members shall
receive a salary of $2,500 per year
each. The change in the control of
the state institutions shall take effect
July 1.
Governor Stubs sent his first spe-
cial message to the legislature today
It has to do with an appropriation for
the hog cholera serum plant at the
state Agricultural college. and is as
follows:
ITO the Legislature:
1.-The State Agricultural college has
been during the past two years manu-
featuring hog cholera serum on a very
limited scale on account of insufficient
funds to establish and maintain this
department
This serum is a safe and certain
preventive for cholera when used in
time. recommend that an Immediate
appropriation be made available at
once that will provide ample funds to
establish and maintain plant of suf-
ficient capacity to supply every de-
1nand necessary to stamp out this dis
ease from our state. T. has been es-
tirnated by persons who have given
careful attention to this subject that
there is an average loss in Kansas an
proximating one million dollars a year
resulting from this disease.
'I trust this matter will have your
careful and prompt attention
CIV. R STUBBS,