The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-25
PLATFORM PLANK,
The Recall Been Nailed Into
the Structure.
House Accepted the Senate
Amendments.

Another platform plank was nailed
down tight late Monday afternoon
when the house by vote of IS to "A
passed the recall containing the SEN
ate amendments. The senate recall
provided for the recall of the judiciary
house members.
Debate on the recall with the SEN
ate amendments was shut off early
when the previous question was NOV
ed, following the defense of the
amendment by Speaker Brown. Rob
ert Stone led the opposition for the
measure with its provision for the re-
call of the judiciary. But he was I'M
able to hold the Republicans in line
and the measure secured one more
than the constitutional two-thirds
vote. Carnahan, a Progressive Repub-
Iican, spoke in favor of the measure
with its senate amendments attached.
The bill as passed provides that a
recall of state officials may be had on
petitions signed by ten per cent of the
voters, while Is per cent shall be
necessary for district recall elections
and 25 per cent of the voters shall
sign petitions for the recall of NUM-
cipa1 or county officials before an
election shall be had. The judiciary.
from supreme judges down to JUS
tees of the peace, are included in the
list of public servants who may be
recalled under the measure now pass
ed by both branches of the Kansas
legislature. The measure will be
submitted to the voters in the 1914
election.
Members of the house who voted
against the recall on final passage
We're: Atkinson, Brewster, Burtis,
Cook, Crippen, Daley, Davis of Gray,
Drew, F'reeland, Gibson of Crawford,
Gilman, Helton, Holbrook, Laing,
terthwaite, Stone of Shawnee, Sutor,
Turner, Williams, Woodbury..
Keene of Bourbon was the only Re
publican lawyer who voted for the
recall with it's provision to recall the
judiciary.
That administration inheritance tax
bill was passed in the house late Mon
day afternoon by a vote of 80 to s..
This bill was introduced ten days ago
by Orr of AtchiSon as a strictly ad-
ministration measure, following the
action of the senate in wiping all in
heritance tax laws from the statute
books.
With the repeal of the old law. the
Democrats believed they had fulfilled
their party pledge. But they didn't
want to stop all revenue by wiping
all the inheritance tax laws from the
books. So Orr offered a measure, af-
fecting indirect heirs only. On final
passage Brewster, Drew, Perryman,
Riddle and Sutor We're the only
members To vote against the bill. Rid
die, a Democrat, explained his vote. He
said his party was pledged to repeal
of the old law, but said nothing about
writing new one. To be on the safe
side, he voted against the bill.
The house has passed a resolution
setting the date for final adjournment
at Wednesday night March s. If the
senate will not concur in the resolIl-
ton, the session will close the middle
of next week-just one day after the
90 day session. Under the provisions
of the bill, the house and senate are to
stop consideration of their own bills
at noon Thursday and to stop consid-
Grafton of all bills Saturday night, with
final adjournment sine die Wednes-
day at midnight.
Bill abolishing the offices of county
assessor and the board of review were
passed in the house Monday after
noon These measures, which were in
troduced from the Democratic side OF
the house, were strictly in keeping with
the Democratic promise to reduce the
number of jobs, and the Democrats
joined eheerfully in killing off the as
SCISSORS and abolishing the boards of
review.