The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
After so Days Will Serve State
as Would Heaven.
THAT is. WITHOUT PAY.
Will Work Week Over Time at
Least.
Accomplishments of Session
and Work Yet to Do.

torty-e1ght OF the % regular Worh-
ing days of the house are gone, but
the end of the session is not yet in
sight. A dozen bills in which the ad-
ministration feels keen interest are yet
to be enacted into law. On the cal
endar are 246 bills yet to receive at
tention.
and yet the work of the session has
been one of hard. earnest and consist
ent work has marked the enact
ment into law of more party promises
than the work of any Kansas legisla-
ture in 20 years. The constitutional
majority of the Democrats in poLn
houses has never been called to the
test that it h S not responded with the
best it had at its disposal. Day after
day Speaker Brown has yielded the
gavel to Miles Mulroy that the IRON
jawed leader from Kingman might take
the floor to remind the Democrats OF
their promises. And never once has
Brown waved the administration nag
and issued the call to arms that the
Democr. is did not follow.
Only because there were not enough
Democrats to put across concurrent
resolution is the L. and r. promise
untitled today. On final test Oh
strength Friday afternoon Brown LED
every Democrat except one to vote TOT
the conferees report that perhaps
meant the final decision on the '1nltla-
tive and referendum. For the Demo-
crat he lost, Brown gained minority
vote and the final roll call showed the
full strength of the ~ administration
members with the two Socialists ad-
ded That is only one story of the
session. but it tells of the work and
fight of the session.
Week of Real Work.
The week just closed has been the
final week of the session, so far as
pay for the members are concerned.
which the Tnarl1hprS
work after midnight next Tuesday,
their services are dOna ed to the state |
And in this week the house has pass |
ed 70 bills, has defeated six and the |
committees have slaughtered SO more. |
At adjournment Friday night, Cover |
nor Hodges had signed ~ bills and rs |
resolutions. There were the calen- |
dar in the house 246 bills. OF this |
number 210 were house bills and Sc |
senate bills.
For the session to date, the work of |
the house shows a total of exactly $50
bills introduced. A total of 215 house |
bills have been passed and in addition
to that the house has passed sc senate
bills. making a total of PSI bills passed |
at this session.
OF the $50 bills introduced, the COM
mittees have used the axe on exactly
342 of them or 127 more than the total |
number of house bills passed. A total
of 81 bills haVe been defeated the
floor of the house since the session
opened.
Big Bills This Week.
The week just closing has seen some
important legislation crowded through
the mill in the house Chief among the
neasu was the action OF the house
in concurring in the senate amendments
to the recall, which insures the submis-
sion of that constitutional amendment
to the people in 1914. Then too, the
house passed the recording mortgage
bill, the judicial reapportionment bill,
the sand bill, the bill to abolish the
office of county assessor passed the
irrigation bills, the Keene bill for
double election boards and the bill ex-
tending the right of the commission
form of government to cities of the
third class
There was only one serious shock to
the administration leaders in the ouse
That was on the refusal of the minority
members to support the confere ce re-
port on the initiative and referendum.
containing the provision that no meas
ure initiated in state wide election
should be subject to court review.
Big Measures Pending.
Among the bills pending in one or
both branches of the legislature in
which the administration feels especial
Bill to provide for state tax of 81 on
each marriage license, revenue to go
70 the board of health, making that
department self sustaining.
THE sand bill. recommended by Audi
for Davis which has passed the house
hut is vet to be considered in the SEN
ate.
Fire marshal BILL passed senate and
m calendar in the house.
Mortgage registration tax bill, pass
al nv both houses, but now in con-
Serence for agreement as to certain
provisions
Initiative and referendum. Both
houses have passed 1. and R. meas
ures but now blocked because house
ReDnbIicans refused to accept anything
but original house measure and reject
81 renort of conference committee.
Collateral inheritanc. tax law. Pass
GA in house. Now pending in the SEN
ate.
JudiciaI reapportionment. bill. Passed
in house Pending in the senate.
Law for bag factory. Passed house.
Pending in senate
Administration Measures Passed.
Among the really important admin
Istration measures which have passed |
10th houses and on which the Demo-
Gratis have actually made good are:
The recall
Massa chusetts ballot law.
Repeal old inheritance tax law.
educational administration board.
placing boys and girls industrial
schools under supervision educational
board.
books by the state.
Ratifcation amendment United States
constitution for election United Stat 5
senators by direct vote of the people.