The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-29
Senator Pauley Has Fulfilled
Election Promises.
Wins Attack ON Barnes High
School Bill.
PRICE FAVORS new BOARD
Three State Schools Under One
Administration.
Senator KinkeI Is Against All
Minimum Rates.

When making his campaign for
seat in the state senate last fall the
voters of the Marshall county district
didn't know whether r. S. Pauley was
a Republican, a Democrat, a Socialist,
a Prohibitionist or a Bull Mooser. In
fact they didn't ask him. But they
did know one important composition of
Pauley's political Constructlon-they
knew that his platform was piled high
with anti-Barnes high school law
planks and they elected him to the
senate to test their stability.
After a morning and afternoon de-
bate accompanied by a variety OF ner-
vous prostrations and a multitude OF
misleading and dangerous looking
amendments, Senator Pauley at last
heard the melOdious voice of President
Ingalls, announcing the Sc to 1 vote on
the passage of his bill giving voters
in each county authority and power to
repeal the Barnes act as applied in
their districts.
1t makes no difference whether Pau
ley raises his voice in the senate again
this session, it matters little if he
packs his grip and hikes back to Beat
tie-he came to Topeka representing
his constituents and successfully push
ed through the senate bill Kidding
them of the Barnes law irOnS-and
they are waiting for him with the well
done, they faithful servant welcome.
On the other hand another shoulder
ing "cauSe unknown" blaze was famed
into a bright flame during the Barnes
discussion. In this case it was Paul
Klein, of Allen county. Senator Klein,
under peaceful and ordinary circum-
stances, sits at his desk, keeps sharp
weather eye on the senate journal and
the reading clerk, votes when the oc-
casion demands and figures philoso
phically on the ways of the laws. Tues
day, however, he exercised the entire
list of senate floor rules rights and
rallied to the support of the Barnes
high school act, claiming it was salts
factory to Allen county and that set
tied it, However, after IS senators had
voted for the Pauley bill on its final
Klein, the good fellow he is,
fell into line and gladdened the Mar
shall county representatives heart the
more by adding his miteful vote.
1t was a great day for Pauley He's
a Republican but he voted for w. H.
Thompson with glee. He went to the
editorial banquet and beamed over the
oyster soup. He scorned the street cars
and walked to his rooms on West
Tenth. avenue after the banquet-and
drifted into blissful slumber long after
the cars had ceased their grooming.
The Barnes high school act provides
for the taxing of country districts for
city high schools. 1t has been thorn
in, many parts of the Kansas anatomy
for many years. Senator Pauley main
tanned that the rural districts should
not pay taxes for these schools and he
his beliefs in the bill pre-
scented to the senate.
Under his measure, a petition sign
ed by 35 per cent of the legal voters
in the county can call an election in
which the Barnes act will be subject
to recall.
Senator waggener opposed the bill,
saying it was unconstitutional and was
not worth the paper on which it was
written. But his lone vote looked
mighty small beside the sc other votes
and he went down to defeat still main
tanning that he was right and placing
himself On record against the bill He
believed the people should wait and
see If the initiative and referendum
could hold water this year.
Nevertheless Pauley won the day
he made good on the platform and the
promises of his campaign this fall and
he is satisfied with the session this
year So are his constituents satisfied
they are all-all satisfied.
Senator Price, of Greenwood county,
has offered a bill similar to an act in
the house providing for an administra-
ton board to handle the affairs of the
university, the agricultural college and
the state normal school. 1t appears
that this measure will meet with sup
port in both houses.
Arthur r. KinkeI, senator from Nor
ris county, has introduced in the SEN
ate a bill prohibiting municipal utili-
ties from charging minimum rates on
water, gas, electricity and other pub
lie needs. He believes that Kansans
should pay for the water that comes
through the meter and no more. The
minimum isn't right, according to his
IDEAS. The bill will apply to corpora
tons and municipalities alike.