The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-17
Bill i'm Senate to Cut Down
Penal Directors.
One Commission to Handle
Work at Lansing.
APPOINTEES ARE APPROVED
Upper House FavOrs Admins
tration Officers.
Senator Howe Would Inyesti-
gate l.. L. Dyche's Accounts.

The wholesale adjustment of state
educational and other institution
boards and associations is the favorite
+ pastime of the Democratic senators in
the SSper house of the legislature.
Today Senator Bale Waggener of
Atchison forwarded a bill celebrating
the directors of the boys and girls re-
formatories, the board of penal insti-
tutions. and the directors of the peni-
Tertiary. In place of these controII-
ing bodies, the bill places the power
in the hands of what will be known
as the state Board of Corrections
to be composed of three memb ers and
to be situated at the offices of the pen
ftenuary.
This new board would handle all of
the authority and management held
by the separate directors of the inSti-
tutionS- The members of the first
board would be appointed for terms of
one. two and three years After the
first term, the time would be extended
to three years each.
Senator J. W. Howe of Dickinson
created ripple of unusual interest
in the senate this morning when he
introduced a resolution asking the
ways and means committee of the
body to investigate Immediately the
receipts and expenditures of the of
flee of the game and fish warden, L.
L. Dyche.
1t is taken by members in the SEN
ate to mean that the present admin
istration is thinking seriously OF cut
ting down the warden appropriation.
Also that the money spent in the last
two years by this department is in
excess of the needs of the work to the
state.
The ways and means committee will
be required to make public their find
ings before January 81 Tt is antici-
pated by the Democrats, that at this
administration viii be dug up and ex-
planned in detail by the economy
hungry supporters of new Democratic
policies.
The senate in executive session this
morning approved the following ap-
pointments of Governor Hodges:
Henderson Martin. of Marion, full
term public utilities commission.
". E. Brooks of Fort Scott, full
term member of the state board of
control.
Frank comfskeys Pittsburg. full
term appointmeHtsas STATE oil in
Charles NJ Sawyer of Norton, full
term as bank commissioner.
Next week the retail druggists or
ganization of the state will make a
strong fight before the senate in an
attempt to make standard prescriptions
known to the patients served by ply
sicians. and also to do away with the
prescriptions calling for habit-forming
drugs
Senator Malone of Rawlins, proposed
to the senate this morning that some
action be taken to Investigate and. if
possible, encourage the poultry industry
in Kansas.
Senator Troutman of Shawnee, in |
troduced in the senate this morning |
several bills covering the amendments
to the city commission form law sug-
gested and approved by the Kansas |
league These laws cover |
most of the changes that will improve
the effect Of the commission law in this /
state.
A law making it necessary that all
corpora tions in the state of Kansas pay
their employees at least twice monthly
will be in force if the bill presented in /
the senate this morning is approved by !
the legislature