Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-02-13
ONE-BOARD BILL
PASSES HOUSE
TO PLACE 8 REGENTS IN CONTROL
OF STATE UNIVERSITY, NOR
MAJ. AND AeRl. COLLEGE.
THE VOTE WAS SO TO 80
Measure Was a Platform Pledge
Looked Upon by Democrats as
One of Most Important Matters
to Come Before the Pres
ent Legislature.

Topeka, Kan.-The Keene bill abol
ishing the board of regents of the
State University, the Agricultural col
lege and the State Normal school and
placing all three institutions under
one board of three members, was
passed by the house by vote Of 80
to 80. 1t came up for consideration
under special order. 1t was a Demo-
cratic platform pledge and was looked
upon upon as one of the more import
ant matters to come before the legis-
lature. The bill was signed by the
governor, published and Is now a law.
AS passed the bill abolishes the
boards of regents Of the three educa-
tional institutions, creates board Of
three members to be appointed by the
governor and places the three ;dlca-
tional institutions and the school for
the deaf at Olathe and the school for
the blind at Kansas City under the
jurisdiction of the new board. Each
member of the new board is to receive
$4,000 a year. Not more than one
member shall be an alumnus of any of
the institutions, and not more han one
shall be from any one congressional
district. The official title given to
the new board is The State Board OF
Administration Of Educational Institu-
tions."
Two members are to be appointed
for four years and one for two years.
They are required to give all their
time to the management of the insti-
tutions under their charge. They are
authorized to have offices in the state
house and to employ secretary al d
competent help. The appropriation
for the two years carried by the bill
is $4,000. The board is given COM
plete charge of the budgets for the in
situations and general charge of the
scope of work in the different institu-
tons.
The same bill was passed by the
house and senate two years ago after
Governor Stubs had urged it's pass
d6Cs buI MnllC llC lCSlDldNll6 was
working on it, Governor Stubs was
investigating in states where it had
been tried out and when the bill
reached him for his signature he had
concluded it was not good thing, and
he vetoed the bill.
Topeka, Kan.-By vote of so to
30 the house adopted the Riddle re-
call resolution by two votes more than
the necessary two-thirds.
AS adopted the recall resolution con-
tains most of the provisions to which
the Republicans objected. 1t provides
for the recall of judicial officers. 1t
provides that upon the filing of pc
t>tion containing the signatures of %
per cent of the voters of the cleo
toral division the recall election shall
be held Both of those provisions were
stubbornly fought by the minority.
They asked to have the judicial Of
fetal exempted and to have the per-
centage raised to 33 1-3.
There was a wild scene on the floor
of the house as Speaker Brown an
nounced that the resolution had car
ried by two more votes than the re-
quired two-thirds vote. Waste bas-
kets, papers and pamphlets were
hurled from the Democratic side of
the house into the ranks of the Repub-
lican opponents of the measure and
these missiles were promptly returned
by the Republicans to the south side
of the house.
For several minutes the cheering of
the Democrats continued with no eff
fort on the part of the chair to re-
store order. 1t was clearly the big
gest administration victory in the
house since the opening of the session.