The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-16

and no recourse. Sawyer doesn't like
that program and he will ask the leg
| islature to change it.
| There is often such a narrow mar
gin between justice and injustice .
said Sawyer, that I frankly admit
| don't want all the responsibility
| Sawyer's plan calls for investiga-
| lions to be made from the bank COM
| misSionerS office in the future, in
the past, but the evidence and final
body-probably the state charter
/ board.
One of the laws to be introduced
early in the session is an act to pro-
| vide for the use of county poor farms
/ for local experiment stations To be
sure, the experimental stations at
Hays and Manhattan are doing great
work. But there is such q wide diff
ference in soil conditions in the va
rious Kansas counties that many of
the experiments are impractical in
certain portions of the state.
Many members of the legislature
believe that with local experiment sta
lions, that greater interest in intensi-
fed farming would be manifest among
Kansas farmers and that the results
of the work would be far more sue
ceSSful than under the present Sys-
tenn. OF course there will be no eff
fort to abolish the Hays and Man
the establishment of a station in each
county in the state will add to the
interest in farm advancement in
Kansas.
J. S. Dean, the Topeka lawyer and
president of the Republican League, IS
not a candidate for the Republican posi- =
ton on the utilities commission under
Governor Hodges Recently it was ru-
mored that Dean might land the biparu-
san place on the commission.
Say for me- said Dean in a state
ment today, that 1 am not candidate.
never nave been and would not under aov
circumstances accept the appointment
In event L. l.. Dyche is removed as
fish and game warden, it is quite prob
able nat Del Travis of Pratt will be APP
Regular Republican. He served as
fish and game warden under the Hoch
administration and is familiar with every
detail of the work. In addition to thai
Travis has been extensively endorsed for
the place and it is considered that he
will be the logical appointee in event
there is change in the office.
Travis has been spending the week in
Topeka He is a member of the Sports
mems association and is interested in sew
eral radical changes in the present fish
and game laws. A bill calling for an
amendment to the present fish and game
Senator William NJ. Price of Greenwood
county.
This is no snap" said w. w. Gordon
to a friend last night as the Kansas City
legislator completed the flag end of his
duty as chairman of the house commit
tee tee On employees. II think if had 20
listen to another thousand applications
for positions that 1 would pack my grip
and go home"
Hundreds of applications for legislat1 re
appointments were filed with Gordon as
chairman of the house committee on en-
ployees. Applications for jobs are still
coming in but there are already several
nd
number will probably be increased before
the week ends.
Representative A A. Doerr. of Paw
nee county. would abolish the trading
stamp practice of Kansas stores in the
manner that it has been followed in
former years. The bill by Doerr pro-
vides for a bond filed with the secre-
tary of state to insure that all trading
stamps will be redeemed.
Under the old practice a trading
stamp concern would sell department.
store 900 worth Of stamps. Then
the store would give premiums when
coupons showing purchases to a given
amount were returned to the store.
Where a purchaser did not purchase
the required amount of goods, the
premiums were of no value.
Now Doerr wants trading stamp con-
Germs to post a bond with the secretary
of state as evidence of good faith. On
the other hand the store giving pre-
miums must file a cash bond with the
county clerk to insure the redemption
of all coupons. For failure to redeem
coupons, Doerr would prescribe a strict
penalty. Many merchants are said to
favor the new law, and are urging its
passage on the theory that it will re-
store the confidence of purchasers in
stores offering coupon prizes.
A resolution offered by Orr, of Atchi-
son, today provided for the payment
by the state of telephone and tele-
graph expenses of legislative members.
Robert Hendricks, of Rawlins county.
led a fight on the bill and urged that
as a substitute that each member be
allowed $50 for postage, telephone and
telegraph expense. He declared that
the telephone and telegraph expense of
the 1911 session averaged $42 for each
member Under the rules, the Orr reso-
luton went over for one day.
A FRENCH SOLOMON.