The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
IN SENATE mill"
Chance for State Fire Marshal
After All.
Reconsideration of Vote May
Win the Fight.
FAVOR WILSON AUTO BILL
Revenue of 100000 Yearly for
Kansas Roads.
Ranks of Democrats Not Hold
ing Together.
FAVOR WILSON AUTO BILL

/ lire marshal still has a chance in the
I legislature. Senator Mcmillan, Of OF
/ tawa county has served notice on the
upper house that he wishes a reconsid-
GRAFTON of the vote on this measure. 1t
may mean that Kansas will have fire
marshal after all. The senate vote that
/ killed the bill was 10 to IL with three
members absent and with no party
harmony IN either the yes or mo-
column.
The original fault with the fire
marshal bill was the insistent lobbying
/ on the part of insurance men The
| legislators felt that there was a .'ioker''
| of some kind hid away in the bill and
/ they had neither the time nor the in
| clination to hunt for it. No member of
the senate had taken an active inter-
est IN the act and no arguments were
set forth for its passage
1t was just a bill prepared in a big
meeting of insurance men, fire Off
Gals, municipal electricians and per-
sons interested in the reduction of fire
hazards in the state. The bill found,
no father and no active support in the
senate.
Governor Hodges has stated that he
is in favor of a fire marshal bill He
has taken active interest in the
present bill, but he believes that the
legislature should make some move to
stamp out incendiarism and run down
fire hazards
The fire marshal bill. with a few
| thorns extracted here and there may
find friends in the senate and house.
The disorder1y house and inmate bill
from the house reached the senate in
due form Wednesday afternoon A
thirty-year-old female limit and the
abolition of the word persuade" con-
stituted the committee of the whole
amendments 1t is one of the most
radical and inclusive bills of the ses-
sion.
Undoubtedly Kansas will have a re-
| organized state board of health before
the 1913 session adjourns. The origi-
nal Price of Greenwood measure has
been amended by the author TO in
clude majority physician membership
clause and the senate partially approv-
ed the mendment in a committee of
the whole discussion Wednesday after
noon.
The state board of health now is
composed of nine physicians The or
iginal Price bill provided for a board
composed of one pharmacist one man.
| ufacturer, one wholesaler, one retail
er, one farmer and four physicians.
This measure stirred up nest of
trouble over the state and Senator
Price ar ended it to read six physi-
clans and three business men. The COM
mittee of the whole through the in
I
Troutman favored a board composed
of five doctors, one pharmacist and
three business men. A number of the
senators favored the original bill
The committee of the whole recon-
mended the bill for passage subject to
amendment and debate. Meanwhile
the author will rewrite several of the
sections.
A little tilt between Senators wag-
gener and Price and between Kinds
3
Senator Waggener wearied at the
! lengthy discussion of the measure took
the floor and suggested that the com
mittee drop it for the present and
consider something important. Price
jumped to his feet at this remark and
shaking his fist at the veteran from
Atchison he yelled:
Don't pay any attention to this
statement that we have wasted time
on this bill. This is the first bill l
have had anything to do with during
this session-and Waggener's bills have
been delaying our procedure here for
days at time That Internal automo-
bile bill of his this afternoon was the
worst time killer we have had during
the session.
Senator Kinds in an argument over
the professions of the pharmacist and
the newspaper man, said that the drug
gist was recognized in Kansas-that
he needed an education. All a news
to Senator Howe-Howe is owner of the
Dickinson County News.
A bill that will place 100000 annually
into the roads of Kansas and will provide
for a state license of motor cars, their
regulation and operation, has been rec
commended for passage by the senate
committee of the whole This measure.
introduced by Walter E. Wilson, senato..
from Washington county, gives to Kansas
the first statewide automobile law.
a yearly registration fee of 81 a year
for motorcycles and S5 year for motor
cars and trucks is provided for in the
Wilson bill. 1t is estimated that 20 CO..
cars, bringing revenue of $100OlD,
would be the result in Kansas. All of tins
money will be distributed to the county
treasurers of the state and will be spent
for the maintenance of good roads.
A state number to be displayed both On
the front and the back of the machines
at least four inches high, one-half inch
wide and followed by the letters KAN
This law repeals all municipal automo-
bile license. No person under 16 years of
mile an hour speed limit is sustained ior
CITY or village street travel Before cross
ing railroad track either in city or i'll
the country the machines must slow down
ing street intersections the speed must be
reduced to six miles an hour.
If the ranks of the Democrats in the
shape, a rough road viii greet the admin
iStration vehicles for the rest of the ses-
s on. With Senators Mcmillan and Car
ney biting chunks out of each other's
quarreling over which is the better pro-
fession-the druggist or newspaper man,
and with Senator Price splitting fire at