The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

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law, the income tax law, the three
fourths jury verdict, the administra-
ton bill and a number of minor meas
ures are already in the hopper and
the legislature has more than 40 days
in which they can transact their buSl-
ness in Topeka before their pay checks
stop.
Three very important resolutions
went into the legislative hopper late
Friday afternoon. ALI of them have to
do with the fulfillment of Democratic
pledges and each of the resolutions
came from the administration side of
the house.
Reitzel, Of Washington county, Of
fered another resolution which is
clearly intended to make the cold chills
creep up the backs of friends of the
Stubs administration The things
which Reitzel intends to do are quite
clear. In the first place, he proposes
that the legislature appoint commit
tee of eight incentive from the house
and three from the senate-who shall
conduct a rigid examination of the
pay rolls and employment lists of the
various state institutions and report
their findings
The Washington county member
wants to know the exact number of
employees on the states pay roll, and
the exact service which each employee
renders in exchange for his or her pay
check And as the investigating sys-
tenn seems the only fair way to solve
the problem, Reitzel has introduced a
resolution to that effect.
Representative Carney has resolu-
ton which If passed and adopted as a
constitutional amendment will enable
the state to take a change of venue
in criminal cases. And that is another
plan which has for many months been
in the minds of the Democrats, al
though it is not found in the form of a
1912 pledge.
GRADER has a resolution instructing
the committee on fees and salaries to
draft and submit for consideration a
bill regulating the fees and salaries of
all public officials. AS the fee and
salary bill is a direct and absolute
party promise, 1T is probable that the
bill will be reported out for early con-
sideration.
Mike Frey, representative from Geary
county, would change the present law
prescribing the personnel of the state
board of health. Frey doesn't intend
to disturb the situation in the least,
but he thinks there are too many doc
tors on the board, considering the fact
that local merchants must guard
against horseflies. microbes and other
germs and insects.
of health, Frey would have but five Of
the members practicing physicians and
four of the members composed of mer-
chants or retailers Under the present
law, all of the nine memEers of the
board are doctors. If the Frey bill be-
comes a law, some of the men who
have found occasion to complain of the
rulings of the board of health, regu-
lating the use of the roller towel, the
short sheet, the horse fly plague and
the microbe epidemic, will find occa-
sion to urge their own candidacy for
a place on the board.
Joe Satterthwaite, a member of the
house from Butler county, will vote for
Walter Roscoe Stubs for United States
senator when the senatorial caucus is
held January "a. Satterthwaite, who is
editor of the Douglass Tribune, and
one of the best known country editors
in Kansas, declared before the election
that he would support the senatorial
candidate who received the largest
number of votes in Butler county
'sThey voted for Stubs and that's
my instruction said Satterthwaite, who
is listed among the Republicans whose
regularity is unquestioned. And Satter-
thwaite is not an especial admirer of
Stubs, either.
Robert Stone. of Shawnee county, has
introduced a bill to change the city
primary. If Stones bill becomes a
law each candidate for city COM
missioner in the spring election
must designate the particular office or
department to which he aspires to be