The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-21
FIRST SENATE BILL
Road Fund Measure Passed
That Body.
Republicans Debate Tariff Re-
vision Resolution.

|
| The first bill to be passed in the
! 1913 session of the Kansas senate was
recorded today when Senator Wag-
geners act dealing with state road
/ fund to be created by a state license
corporation tax was approved with
/ only a few minor amendments. Sena-
tor Howe of Dickinson county and
! Senator Stavely of Usage were respon-
Sible for the only amendments that
found their way into the Waggener
good roads legislation-and the Howe
amendment saved to the fire depart
mentS of the state the annual funds
| that they have been receiving from
| the state tax on fire insurance COM
| panies.
| The Waggener bill provides that
I half of the funds collected by the
state from license tax on corporations
| including life insurance companies will
| go to a good roads fund to be dis
| tributed among the townships for the
| improvement of the highways. The
| original bill provided for the entire
collection for this purpose-but Sena-
tor StaVely won an argument asking
that only half the amount be spent on
good roadside other half should go
into the state revenue fund.
1t is estimated that this bill will
throw into Kansas roads nearly $780,
600 annually. The money will be dis
tributed on the basis of a county with
a maximum population of $4,000. This
does not discriminate against the
smaller counties of the state in favor
of the larger.
Senators Waggener, Bowman, Howe,
Simpson, Wilson of Washington. Wolf,
Meek, Carey and Logan entered in the
argument on amendments.
The minority Republicans in the
senate won partial victory today
when they insisted that the vote on
the downward revision of the tariff
recommendation of the legislature ac
f1r,y fnIn to nGid ont
elect Wilson. The resolution offered
by Senator Malone of Rawlins pro-
vided that the legislature recommend
that Woodrow Wilson call a special
session of congress for the purpose of
removing or reducing the tariff on all
the necessities of life. The final vote
was % to 16-thes Republicans put
ting up a fight against the adoption.
Through a motion of Senator Price of
Clark county, the senate decided to
send the vote with the recommended
ton.
Senator Stavely stated that the re-
moving of the tariff would mean the
defeat of Wilson in the next campaign
as reciprocity defeated President Taft.
Senator, Price, of Ashland, asked if
the necessities of life included cattle
and wheat.
They are luxpries,'' cried out Sena-
tor Troutman Of Shawnee. M
Then Senator Carey, OF Reno, vol
unteered the suggestion:
Lets send this Recommendation by
local freight-it will give US good times
a little longer!"
A roll call was taken and the vote
was % to 16. A few Progressives voted
with the Democrats.
s. - ~
: The senate received word today that
the house concs1rred in the matter of
investigating the poultry industry in
Kansas for the purpose of encouraging
the activity. It is figured that the
business means $4,000, 900 to the state
annually and that the preventable loss
is II per cent or $4,000. 900. The board
of regents of the agricultural college
will lead the investigation and make
its recommendations to the legislature
two years hence.
Noah Bowman, the senator from An
derson county, who led the fight
against the Bale Waggener state reve-
nue. agent bill Monday afternoon has
not forgotten the bill despite its death.
Today he offered an act repeating a
section of the tax law in Kansas allow
ing bank officers and bank accounts
to be impregnab1e against the investi-
cations of tax assessors Senator Bow
man would open the doors and vaults
of the banks in Kansas allowing the
assessors to dig up material for the
ferretin& of hidden perSO11a1 favatiOn