The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24
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Ways and Means Committees
Down to Business.
Consider Appropriations Edu-
cational Institutions.
WILL KEEP THEM DOWN
The Joint Investigating Com
mitteeS
Reported They Will Also Get
Busy Next Week.

Next week the ways and means COM
mittees both of the house and senate
will meet in joint session to consider
the educational appropriation bills. In
vitations are now being sent to all
heads of the various educational insti-
tutions seeking appropriations at the
attend the meeting when the budgets of
the several schools are considered.
1t is probable that the attention of
the ways and means committee will be
occupied the greater portion of next
week with the matter affecting the
the 1e14-15 appropriations for Kansas
University, the State Agricultural col
lege, the State Normal and other
schools. J. N. Herr, chairman of the
house ways and means committee, has
stated that representatives of every
school seeking an appropriation would
be given an attentive hearing, but that
the committee would look for the items
that could be eliminated from the bud
gets without materially injuring the
schools
to keep the appropriations down as
much as possible. At the same time we
do not want to impair or injure the
schools. For that reason we want all
the information we can get and the
college heads will receive every atten-
ton and consideration when they come
to Topeka next week"
The exact date for taking up the edu-
cat1onal appropriations has not been
determined. Under the terms of a reso
luton adopted in both houses, the ap-
preparation bills must be reported by
the ways and means committee not
later than February Is. 1t will require
an entire week-possibly two weeks
to dispose of the educational budgets.
Then comes the appropriations to the
state departments and penal institu-
tions.
Will the joint investigation commit
tee begin it's work in the state house or
in the educational institutions? That
is a question which has caused con-
siderable discussion in the state house
this week With the educational an
preparations pending, it is rumored that
the committee may make preliminary
Investigation of the educational insti-
tutions to determine if possible whether
the corps of teachers in the several
schools can be materially reduced with
out injury to the schools This infor-
nation would then be turned over to
the ways and means committee to be
used in making its recommendations
for appropriations
Taylor Riddle, a member of the in
VeSugat1ng committee, declares that
the committee has never met and that
he does not know where the axe will
fall first. He believes the committee
will begin active work sometime within
the coming week.
While there are rumors that the in
vestfgation of state schools and colleges
may come first, there is an insistent
demand that tie committee begin work
by looking into the affairs of several
state departments. Under the provf-
sions of the resolution appointing a
the investigation may ex-
tend into the affairs of former admin
istration. So there are reports that the
fees and contingent funds of tine attor-
ney generals office under Fred S. Jack
son will first be scrutinized The bank
office and even the
governors office will receive some at |
tention if the full text of the resolu- |
ton is followed. But as a subsequent
resolution calls for a report February