The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-18
HOUSE imp ARTIAE-.
It's Committees Reported Both
State Fair Bills.
Hutchinson and Topeka On
Even Terms.
FIGHT EARLY next WEEK.
Cities Have Equal Strength in
House.
House Committees Kill MANY
Bills.
FIGHT EARLY next week.


tee today recommended that Topeka
and Hutchinson have an equal chance
in the state fair fight, when it reported
ooth bills for consideration in the COM
mlttee OF the whole. In the same re-
port the house committee killed the
Hendricks bill submitting the state fair
questions to the voters in the 1914 cleo
ton.
unable to agree on the propositions
submitted by the capitol city and the
town OF salt and sand, the house ways
ana means committee voted to leave
the controversy to the vote of the en-
tire house. Following their recon-
mendation favorable both to Topeka
and Hutchinson, the state fair fight
VIII probably be made a special order
Tor early next week.
1t was only after several sessions G
concerning the state fair measures. that
the house committee finally agreed on
report Some of the members fav-
ored the Hutchinson bill, some the bill
locating the state fair in Topeka. while
sun others wanted the matter submit
ted TO the voters. The committee prac-
t1cally ignored the offer of Topeka ex-
tending the state a bonus for the state
Ia1r name; and viewed the Topeka re-
quest on the same basis that they con-
sldered the Hutchinson offer of less
dpprODrlaI1On
from the state to help run the show.
That there will be a real red hot fight
over the fair bill in the house, there is
no doubt Both Topeka and Hutchin-
son nave staunch followers in the
mouse. The Reno couty delega-
ton in the legislature has worked
overtime to curry favor for
their town in the fair contest and their
efforts have not been without some de-
gree of success. On the other hand,
many members are inclined to view the
matter in a fair minded manner, re-
garding the location of Topeka in the
more densely populated section of the
state, the advantages of her generous
! offer and her logical right to the honor
! But at that the fight will be worth
watching
Continuing their campaign of car
mage on proposed legislation, the
house judiciary committee today
slaughtered another stack of prospec-
tive laws. A dozen bills of more than
the committee today with the recon-
| mendation that they be not passed.
Among some of the more important
measures which were killed were:
Keene's bill providing for indfct-
| ments in criminal cases.
Ashcroft's bill to summon jurors by
mail.
Carney's bill compelling court re-
their reports with the county clerk.
Mulroy's bill creating county
court in counties with less than 25, 900
population.
Mulroy's loose leaf statute BILL
Doerr's measure to provide for the
support of women whose husbands
are dead, or convicts or fnvalids; and
women who are the m others of child
rem under the age of IA years.
The bill by Stone of Shawnee to
compensate innocent persons who
have been convicted through miscar-
riage of justice.
Fifteen bills were passed today in
an omnibus in the house. All were
house bills of a local nature. These
bills passed in omnibus were: Nos. So,
147, 321, 27S, 800, 1OS, 1856, 1877, 4O1.
597, 323, 534, 469, 759, SIS.
Gilman of Leavenworth today of
fered a bill providing for a pension
for schoolma' ans who have spent 20
years in service in Kansas. A similar
bill was killed two years ago, but Gil
man believes that his measure may
be enacted into law at this session.
Under the terms of Gilman's bill a
schoolteacher who has spent 20 years
in the Kansas school rooms may ba
retired on pension of not to exceed
SIS a month. For each year which
has been taught in addition to 20
years, an additional pension of not to
Garden City today asked for a new
normal school, when Tyler of Finney
county offered a bill calling for the
location of a new state normal in his
home town. His bill calls for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 and has been
referred to the ways and means COM
mittee.
Gordon of Wyandotte is the author
of a bill presented today in the house
which provides taht drainage districts
may collect for sand taken from the
beds of navigable streams. Some
time ago State Auditor w. E. Davis
discovered that the state was losing
thousands of dollars annually by not
from the beds of the Kansas and Ar
kansas rivers. Now, Gordon would
enrich the drainage districts by virtue
of Davis suggestion, and would per-
NIT them to collect a royalty of one
cent a cubic yard on all sand taken
from the streams.
Representative SharpIess today in
troduced a bill providing that all
county and city publications be print
ed in the two papers with the largest
circulation either in the city or coun-
publication of these documents in the
two papers, provided taht they accept
so per cent of the legal rate as COM
pensation for the work.
TAYLOR Riddle of Marion county
would prevent the operation of book
makers and making of pools on races
and other contests of men and beasts
in Kansas. His bill defining such ac-
ton as a misdemeanor was offered
today in the house. It provides that
any persons convicted of such action,