The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-10
Hangs the Mortgage Registra-
ton Measure.
While House and Senate
Quarrel.
WAGGENER and ORR DISAGREE
Former Holds One Bill i'm
House; Latter One in Senate.
Anyway, That Is Allegation
Made on Floor of House.

| sage of a mortgage registration tag
| law at this session of the legislature
| The mortgage tax bill is now in con-
| ference and Senator Waggener, who is
| member of that committee, was quo
| ted on the floor as declaring that he
would never sign the conference re-
port until the house had adopted SEN
| ate bill $751;
Trouble which revealed the conditions
| surrounding the Waggener bill were
| brought to light in the house today
] when Representative Hines moved to
II take up senate bills $50 and 661, both
| the house The house refused TO
submit to a yelled senate threat and
while no action was taken concerning
the final passage of the Waggener bill,
many members went on record favor
ing the knocking out OF the enactlng
| clause of the Waggener bill.
In the row which ensued surround
ing the passage of the Waggener bill
and the settlement of the fight to Sc
cure a mortgage registration tax law
| the old Waggener-Orr fight was re-
/ yived. Orr declared that he would
I never submit to the demands of the
| senator from his own county and
\ dozen strong house members volunteer
| ed to stand with him in a fight to kill
| Waggener's bill. The Waggener meas
| ure, known as senate bill No. 6Sl' pro-
| vides that assignments of mortgages
| not recorded within 80 days shall con-
| stitute a legal defense against the hnaI
| payment of an obligation.
! Representatives Carnahan and Orr
| opened the fight. Carnahan told of an
| agreement of the conference commit
tee. when it was agreed that the SEN
ate conferees would submit to the
| adoption of the house bill, provided
that the house passed the Waggener
measure. Carnahan stated that orr
had agreed 10 this peace pact.
Orr concern
ing his own actions declared Orr, as
he arose from his seat to lead a f1ght
against immediate cons1deratlon OF
said taht he will never sign the con-
ference report until the house signs
senate bill 6S1. 1 refuse to be goaded
on the street by anyone and L move 10
strike out the enacting clause of the
BILL
dozen members.
T. Didn't you say that you would help
to report this bill?'' Carnahan asked
Orr.
81 did and would under any ordi-
nary circumstances" said Orr But
no one can pedd!+ legislation in
conference with me and 1 don't con-
slider that 1 am bound by any such
agreement"
II don't know of this agreement"
said Representative Hines, but on my
honor l want to say that Senator Wag-
gener never said to me taht he would
not sign the report if we did not pass
6S1. He has never put up anything
but a fair, square fight
"Have the house conferees signed
that report?" asked Robert Stone of
Shawnee.
1--WE have" said Orr
''How long has it been in the hands |
of the senate ?'' asked Stone.
''Three days." replied Orr. "They |
have never signed it and say they new
er will if the house doesn't pass No. |
6S1."
II insist that this argument doesn't |
go to the real ISSUE" shouted Hines. |
both want the gill and this Waggener
fight is being used as a subterfuge to |
defeat the real ISSUE"
But the house members refused to !
relent They stood firm to cut off the |
enacting clause of either or both of :
the Waggener bills if Hines insisted !
on his motion for an immediate con- |
sideration of the measures The bills
were not called up.
Now. if the senate stands pat on it's |
declaration not to sign the conference |
report unless the house passes the |
Waggener bill, there will be no mort
gage registration tax law at this SEES !
sion Both houses have passed a reg
istration tax BILL but because of the |
existing differences in the two meas
ures, the bills have been in conference
Tor week. Waggener and Orr are |
both members of this conference COM
mittee.
senate Act1On on the Bill.
The senate this afternoon refused to
adopt the report of the conferees on the
mortgage recording tax which has been
a serious contention between the two
bodies of the legislature for many
weeks. The house wanted to tax mort
cages one-fourth of one per cent per
annum and the senate favored a tax
of so cents on each 500. A maximum
of $500 for any one corporal ton was
agreed upon.
The conference report was fought by
Senators Joseph, Troutman, Wilson, of
Washington and Lambertson. 1t was
admitted on the floor by Senator Stave-
ly, one of the conferees, that the state
needed increased revenue to provide for
the appropriations of this session and
the taxing of mortgage was one good
profitable source.
The new conference committee will
meet at once with the house conferees
in an attempt to pass the measure be-
fore adjournment.
Row Renewed This Afternoon.
Following the row in the house this
concerning the passage of
the Waggener mortgage assignment s
bill and the charges concerning the
conferees on the mortgage registration /
tax BILL the conferees of the senate {
came to the terms of the house COM |
mittee and signed the report. In a
statement attached to the
report. however, Senators StaveIy and
Waggener declared that the house I
conferees had agreed to the passage
of the Waggener mortgage assign
ment bill in consideration of signing
he report. I
When this separate statement was
read to house members, it at once 7
opened the old sore and by a unani- {
mouse vote the house ordered that |
he Stavely-Waggener statement be
from the conference report
and returned to its authors. Motions ]
we're then made to non-concur in the ! {