The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
Only Few Administration
Measures on Calendar.
Upper House Passes ISL Bills
in As Days.
next WEEKS SCHEDULE.
Millions i'm Appropriations to
Be Considered.
List of More Important Acts to
Be Handled.

With only two or three administra-
ton measures to consider and with the
calendar well cleared of vital bills, the
senate is swinging down the home
stretch toward the completion of the
1913 session. The upper house has
passed ISL bills up to date. 1t has also
passed SO house bills making a total of
191 favorable actions for the forty-five
days of the session. The senate docket
shows a batch of 209 house bills that
must be disposed of before the final
adjournment Both branches of the
legislature have sent down to Cover
nor Hodges for his signature los meas
ures. so from the senate, 40 from house
and % resolutions.
The senate is confronted with two
important administration desires-the
non-partisan judiciary and the mort
gage recording tax. Other Democratic
favorites that will be considered this
session are the judicial appointments,
the Inheritance tax, the minimum wage
and hour, the Kaw river sand charge,
and grain inspection and the fees and
salaries revisions.
From the action taken the other day
by the senate it is not probable that
the legislature will adjourn until the
end of next week and possibly later
The date has not been set for the final
consideration of senate bills, nor has
the upper house named a time to cease
the disposition of messaged measures.
Appropriation bills amounting to mill
ions of dollars have not been submitted
10 the body as a whole. The next week
or ten days will bring long hours and
short rest to the forty members OF the
upper house.
In the last week the senate has
handled carefully a dozen important
bills of state wide interest: The
initiative and referendum, the abolition
of county assessors in counties under
So 900 population, the removal OF hlgh
school qualifications for teachers IN
public schools, the requirements to ne
mortgages, the creation OIL a state IRE
marshal. the state fair, the death of the
Waggener and Carney primary b1llS,
the county annual auditing measure
the burial of the semi-monthly pay day.
garnisheement measure-all nave peen
through the mill and have been settleo
for the present session.
Next week will witness the frantic
attempts of senators trying to push
forward on the calendar their 1aVorlte
bills of local nature. 1t VIII reveal
also the leniency of the senate toward
the mass of house measures and the
pets of members of the senate VINO
came to Topeka with but one purpose
in view. Already the senatorial states
men are tramping on each others toes
in their cIamor to push their bills to
the head of the calendar on third
reading. -
When the session finally adjourns,
scores of measures will be left on the
calendar to die a polite but unnatural
death.
Looking at random through the
pages of work for the remaining days
of the 1913, here are the more lmpor-
tant measures which have been intro
duced in the senate awaiting final ac-
ton:
inheritance tax law by Malone.
Wage to conVictS for support OIL
families by Kinke1
Pensions to widows with dependent
children by Davis.
Rock crushing machinery for coun-
ties by Davis.
Night schools in cities by Trout
man.
License for real estate and brokers
by Shouse.
Pilot for railway trains by Joseph.
Daily passenger service by Davis.
Good roads fund from sale of river
sand by Malone.
Blood and marriage official ap-
pointments by Waggener.
Manufacture of bags at penitentiary
by Milton.
state fraternal benefit association
by Davis.
State printing of blanks and records
by Stavely.
Bill posting restrictions by Stavely.
Grain weighing and inspection by
Sutton.
Railroad cattle protection sheds by
Meek.
Changing of Rosedale hospital by
Troutman.
Work of convicts on public roads by
Bowman.
Grain reports from threshers by
Mcmillan.
Prevention of accidents at railway
crossings by Wilson of Washington.
New bank guaranty law by Joseph.
Requiring city treasurers to pub
fish reports by Howe.
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