The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-18
FOR THREE WEEKS.
Legislature Has That Long to
Work.
Ahead of Its Schedule Up to
This Time.
PAY STOPS MARCH 4.
Killing of Quail and Prairie
Chickens Stopped.
Conference Committees on
and r. Cannot Agree.

Now that the bills are all in the
hopper, it is quite in keeping for mem
oers of the legislature to discuss their
plans for final adjournment While no
resolution looking to final adjournment
has as yet been offered either in the
senate or house, it is probable that
within the next week the two bodies
Will be asked to agree on Saturday,
March s, as the date for final adjourn
ment-
That leaves nearly three weeks in
which the members can work Mucn
can be accomplished in three weeks
Scores of local measures can receive
attention in the remaining days and
such platform measures as are still
unredeemed, can receive some very
serious consideration before time for
the members to go home.
At the present time the legislature
is really ahead of its schedule on BUSH
ness transacted To be sure there have
been comparatively few bills passed.
But the measures which have been
written are in the majority of cases OF
much consequence. Perhaps more plat
form pledges have already been full
filed than at any previous session in
20 years. And with that record for
work and accomplishment before them,
the members are thinking of the day
when they shall go home.
Pay Stops March 4.
The real seSSion-the so days for
which the members are paid-ends
Tuesday night, March 4. Sometime ago
the house members planned to adjourn
strictly on time. They declared that
they would not work one day without
pay and that the state had no just
right to ask their services without
making recompense- That resolution
passed the house, but it was killed in
the senate
Now, it seems that the legislature
e.
work in time for an adjournment the
night of March 4, although by work
ing overtime, such a record might be
esta blished Members who have dis
cussed the date for final adjournment,
have urged the continuance of the ses-
sion throughout the week of March 2,
with final adjournment Saturday night,
March s
AS soon as the work of the commit
tees is practically completed, reso-
luton setting the date for final ad-
journment Will be offered With the
bills now pending in the committee
rooms and the uncertainty as to the
report which they are to receive. many
of the members hesitate to urge an
adjournment until they can secure a
line on their pet legislation.
chicken is prohibited under the terms
of fish and game bill which was
passed in the house late Monday after
noon by a vote of 4 to 10. No date
is set in the new bill concerning the
time when an open season Will be de-
cIared on quail and chicken; and the
question of raising the lid for Kansas
sportsmen is left TO future legisla-
lures.
1t was the ban on quail and prairie
chicken shooting that aroused the op-
position to the bill Along with quail
and prairie chicken, the shooting of
turtle doves is also prohibited. A day
shooting is limited to 20 snipe, plover,
wild ducks, six wild geese or brant-
The bill also provides the number
of fish which may be caught in any
one day 1t allows the catching of IS
bass or croppie. but declares that no
black bass or channel cat fish less
than ten inches in length shall be
taken And along with the provisions
for fishing. the law creates a. fisher
mans license. This license shall cost
81 year, the same as a hunters Ii
cense But the law further provides
land without the permission of the
owner. neither shall a person hunt on
any farm unless he is accom- panied by
the owner or his authorized agent of
the land. Those were the STUN bling
bIocks-together with the provision
eliminating the hunting of quail and
chicken-which aroused 10 members
to vote against the bill on final pass
age.
1t is further provided in the bill that
the fish and game wardens salary
shall remain at $4,000 a year. but per-
mits him to appoint eight state deputy
warders. who shall receive a salary of
$1,000 q year.
Members who voted against the bill