The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
HOUSE NOTES.
Ways and Means Committee Refuses
Senate Appropriations.

After working on the senate COM
mittees educational appropriations for
nearly a week, the house ways and
means committee has failed to agree
items in the budgets and will ask for
a joint session of the two committees
to iron out the trouble. This confer
ence will probably be held Friday
night.
On the matter of new buildings, it
is claimed that the house ways and
means committee has voted to stand
pat and to make no recommendations
favorable to additional buildings at
any of the states educational institu-
lions. There will be no effort by the
house committee to trim the appro-
priationS for maintenance and repairs
at the state schools. But on new
buildings, the house committee de-
clineS to yield.
In the last few days the house ways
and means committee has had under
consideration the appropriations rec
commended by the senate committee
for the State Agricultural college and
for the Emporia State normal On
these appropriations they have used
the knife. 1t is claimed that they have
refused to o. X. any expenditures for
new buildings and will insist that none
be allowed at this session. In order
to adjust this difference, however, a
conference will be asked with the SEN
ate committee. If no agreement is
reached at this session, it is probable
that the house committee will file
separate recommendations although
members of the house committee de-
cline to discuss the possibility of such
action.
The house has not as yet considered
the appropriations for Kansas univer-
sity, but it is probable that they will
ask that building items in K US
budget be eliminated in consistency
with the treatment of other schools.
"a no he III
troduced in the senate by Price of
Greenwood and which provides that
alien voters must register with the
county clerk 80 days before the cleo
ton, thus providing an opportunity
to determine if such voters have Sc
cured proper citizenship papers to en-
able them to participate in the cleo
ton. Wilson of Crawford, Socialist,
bitterly opposed the passage of the
Price bill and made lengthy speech
in opposition to the measure.
Final vote on the passage of the
bill was, yeas, IS; nays, Is. This bill
has already passed the senate and re-
quires but the signature of the gov
ernor to become a law.
Among the bills passed in the house
today was the measure introduced by
Keene of Bourbon which provides for
a double set of election officials. This
bill was passed in bulk roll call COW
ering the matter in half dozen 9TH
er measures.
Keenes bill provides that two sets
of election judges shall serve in each !
voting precinct. They shall alternate
each hour in the counting of votes in
an adjoining room and behind closed |
doors. No information as to the prog
ress or results of the election shall /
be made public however, until after |
the closing of the polls The giving I
of information by any election official /
subjects that person to fine and i'm |
prisonRent. Keene's bill, it is be- |
1ieved. viii greatly facilitate the count |
ing of votes in Kansas and will aid i
materially in securing early returns /
from all portions of the state in any
election.