Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-02-07


tirely. His assistants are to receive
$4,000 a year apiece. Dawson told
the house that 1,4OO cases in two
years netted fees in the sum of
$4,000 to $4,000. Using this for the
basis of his argument Orr put Rid
Ole and his plea of cutting down ex-
penses and keeping salaries down to
rout. He showed a profit for the
state from the transaction.
Create a State Hotel Commission.
Miles H. MulrOy of Ellis county to-
day introduced bill in the House
creating a state hotel commission for
the supervision of all hotels and eat
ing houses and to take over the
work now under the direction of the
state board of health. Under the
terms of Mulroy's bill, the commits
sion would be self sustaining. In
fact it would probably return COM
potency to the state.
The Ellis county member would
provide for the rigid inspection of
all hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and apartment houses. This
inspection would cover every feature
of the hotel from the sanitary equip
ment in the kitchen to the inspec-
ton of nine foot sheets in the bed
rooms. Each hotel and restaurant
shall be classified and properly ad-
vertised and no rooming house shall
carry ten foot sign advertising the
fact that it is a hotel.
An annual license Of 81 will be
charged each hotel, restaurant, apart
ment or rooming house coming under
the supervision Of the commission.
Hotels with twenty bed rooms shall
pay an annual license of SO and an
additional license of 81 covering each
additional ten bed rooms. Orders
of the commission as to sanitation
and public safety shall be final and
binding and failure to comply with
orders shall subject the owner to a
fine of S. a day for each day he is
derelict in obeying orders, while re-
fusal to obey any order is sufficient
for the commission to close the
house.
The commissioner shall receive an
annual salary of $4,000 while his two
assistants shall be paid for actual
time spent in the work. These three
men shall compose the hotel commits
sion. 1t is claimed that the board of
health has agreed to concede their
hotel supervision to this commission
in event one is created by the pres
ent legislature.
Kansas business and commercial
colleges will hereafter be under the
supervision and authority Of the state
superintendent if bill introduced in
the house today by ]. VI. Gilman of
Leavenworth county becomes law.
The Gilman bill prohibits any bust
hess or commercial college to solicit
business in this state or sell schol-
arships or tuition to any Kansan un-
less the school has the official o. X.
of the state superintendent.
Gilman does not seek to legislate
out of business the shorthand, type
writing, bookkeeping and penman-
ship schools, but he believes that
some of the schools now doing bust
ness within the state are not giving
value received to their students. Yet
Gilman would not only place a ban
on the fake business colleges of the
state, but he would prevent foreign
business colleges entering the state
to induce students to buy courses or
scholarships unless that school has a
bill of good health from the state su-
perintendent's office.
Another educational bill introduced
in the house by the Leayenworth
county member provides for the crea-
ton of a standard school in the ru-
raj districts. When a county school