The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
In SENATE mill"
Another Attempt to Bring Out
Vote in Kansas.
Exempt Poll Tax From Voters
in This State.
LABOR BILL Is PASSED
No Complaint Heard From
Crowded Galleries.
Recording Fee of so Cents on
Mortgages.

The second bill in the senate to
bring out the total vote in Kansas has
been dropped in the hopper by Carney
of Cloud county. The act exempts
from poll tax all persons between the
age of 21 and so years if they do not
own property valued at more than
$500 and if they vote at all primary
and general elections
1t is the belief of the author of the
measure that persons without property
should not be called upon to pay taxes.
But to insist that they at least cling to
their citizenship rights he offers a bill
exempting them from paying poll tax
if they will vote at all elections.
I'VE are all tired of hearing the
complaints from the voters on tax and
bond matters-when these not only
have no taxes to pay but do not go TO
the polls on election day." explained
the author of the bill. IF man will
vote, then we will gladly listen to his
attacks on the way the country is
managed
The first bill to encourage and de-
mand voting was introduced last week
by Senator Davis of Bourbon county.
Davis would fine men and women who
failed to go to the polls and apply the
funds to the good roads treasury in
Kansas.
Senator Troutman of Shawnee coun-
ty is anxious for a uniform bill of lad
ing to be used by all railroads through
out the country. He has introduced a
bill regulating the form for the benefit
of the shippers. The bill has been
offered to the legislatures of most of
the state in the Union and has been
recommended strongly by national
bodies.
Bale Waggener, senator from Atch-
ison. has produced a bill board bill
in the senate that will receive the
hearty support of civic improvement
and municipalities all over the state.
In order to rid Kansas of the bill
board nuisance, Senator Waggener has
a measure prohibiting the construc-
ton of signs within fifty feet of any
residence in any city of the first and
second class in the state.
Once more an attempt to require
railroads to run daily passenger trains
in Kansas has been registered in the
form of a bill in the Kansas legisla-
ture. This time it is none other than
Senator Davis of Bourbon county-he
would fine a railroad 500 a day for
every train that was not operated on
all lines at least. once daily. Despite
the fact that many railroads in the
state operate branch line passen niger
trains at a loss and are forced to keep
the trains running by the public utili-
ties board. the bill seeks to take an
Otner Sllce out OIL the earnings on
lines in this state. One feature in the
bill, however, will give the railway
officers a chance-it is stated that the
regulation can be enforced by the
utilities board if it desires. This loop
hole provides a defense for the rail
road companies.
Kansas municipalities owning Gene
teries will be given a chance to levy
taxes for their improvement if a bill
introduced by Senator Overfield is en-
acted into law. A tax amounting to
one-fourth of mill is the provision
of the bill.
Cities of the second class in Kansas
under the present laws find it almost
impossible to build bridges. Senator
kinkel of Council Grove offers a bill
giving them power to levy taxes for
the construction of water spans in
case the amount and the details are
agreed upon by the city officials and
the county, commissioners