The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-10
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ct would have the banks assessed
pro rata in case a failure faced them.
With the fund they would keep in re-
serve in their own surplus they would
be able to contribute at once when the
bank commissioners Office called for it.
In this way we would have a good
sound sum to protect the 65 millions
in deposits in the state banks
Senator Joseph is working now on his
new guaranty bill. 1t will be present
ed to the senate some day this week.
Senator Joseph also has a bill al
lowing banks to keep only Is per cent
of their legal reserve on hand instead
of the old requirement of % per cent.
This will reduce the insurance and the
risk of the country banks. 1t will ap-
ply only to banks in towns of less than
LOCO inhabitants.
The stormy committee conference
recently in the senate when Senator
Howe of Dickinson county and f. D.
Coburn, secretary of agriculture,
staged a pretty battle of words has
brought denials, interviews and as
sertions from all administration leader
sources.
1t seems that Secretary Coburn has
construed the senate bill combining
the offices of state agricultural board,
horticultural board and academy of
management. The accusation made by
Senator Howe to the effect that Sec
rotary Coburn was holding up certain
state information for certain newspa-
perS and farm publications has arous-
ed the farmers and the Dickinson
morning with letters congratulating
him on the stand he took.
In defense of the governor and ex
planning the meaning of his CONSOLE
dation bill, Senator Howe gave out the
following statement:
1.-THE statement in a newspaper that
the bill to consolidate the agricultural
and horticultural boards was aimed at
Secretary Coburn is untrue. The bill
was introduced as a measure in line
with the Democratic policy consolidat-
ing as many boards as possible, and to
abolish a lot of useless offices and
thereby save money for the state. The
aim of the bill is to make the agricul-
tural department more efficient, and to
let every person have an equal oppor-
tunity to receive the information which
this board is supposed to have. Gov
ernor Hodges should not be implicated
except that he is DESTROYS of getting
rid of a number of useless offices and
saving money.
The committee did not turn down
the bill because they disapproved or
feared that it might affect Coburn, but
to get up a bill that would permit the
secretary to be chosen by board of
directors chosen from the delegates
actually selected by the several coun-
ties of the state
There has been considerable COM
plant that the present board has not
been as efficient as it should be, and
that the officer have been used to fur
Their the advantages of a few rather
than the agricultural interests of the
state The office is expensive and there
is no reason why it could not be run
on considerably less money. So far as
getting loud Secretary Coburn made
the first onthrust and insinuated
number of things he knew were not
true and instead of telling the commit
tee the work the board had done. he
spent his time abusing the author of
the bill and roasting anyone who
thought Coburn ever did anything
wrong
1t doesn't take Kansas long to hear
about legislative news. The Mcmillan
resolution late Friday afternoon call
ing for a state investigation of the
issuance of $100,000,000 in bonds by
the Union Pacific railroad, has
brought a return of scores of letters
tawa county senator. Persons from
counties all along the lines of the
Union Pacific have sent encourage
ment in the impending investigation.
A few years ago during the famous
odd Fellows litigation, the law firm
of Waggener & Orr of Atchison was
pitted against the firm of Troutman
& Stone of Topeka For months these
two firms fought each other in the
courts. Bale Waggener was the senior
of the Atchison partnership
james Troutman was the senior
member of the Topeka firm. Today
Bale Waggener and James Troutman