The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-22
Legislature Works That Long
and No Longer
If Resolution Passed by House
Is Adopted by Senate.
NO PAY AFTER THAT Time
Resolution Breaks a Precedent
ON Time of Session.
Legislatures Always Worked
so Days at Least.

| The Kansas legislature will work
just so days and quit If the senate
adopts a resolution which was this
morning passed unanimously by house
mem bers. J. w. Hamm of Allen
| county presented the resolution and
just two minutes after it was read it
| had been unanimously adopted with
out a single word of discussion or de-
bate.
Democratic members of the house
as well as Republican members voted
alike for the measure. Under the
provisions of the Kansas constitution
members of the legislature are paid
SO a day for not more than so days
actual service in making the laws of
the state. If they work longer than
so days, they do so at their own incon-
Venience and expense.
So realizing that hotel bills are high
and the pay small, Hamm offered his
resolution. No provision is included
in that resolution. 1t just says that
at the end of SO days the legislature
will adjourn, no matter how much
business remains to be transacted.
Such action has never been taken by
Kansas legislature and if the 1913
session lives up to the terms of the
resolution, 1t will establish a prece-
dent which members belive will ter
inmate in a constitutional enactment
providing more pay for the states
law makers.
The resolution has been MESA ged
to the house and may come up for
consideration late this afternoon or
Thursday morning.
A resolution by Wilson of Crawford,
Socialist member of the house, and
which calls on congress to enact
federal law providing an age pension,
was passed today by vote of 68 to
33. A resolution by Miller of Cher
n1 afo1i ict rrTI,s srH7
ed congress to enact a law for the
government ownership of coal mines,
was defeated by a yea and nay vote.
There is trouble ahead for the barber
colleges and the shave, haircut and
shampoo artists with college diplomas
If bill introduced in the house today
by Herr, of Barber county, becomes a
law. Herr would provide for the crea-
tionof a BARRIERS commission and COM
pei every barber in Kansas to pass an
examination and to have served a two
years apprenticeship before making
application for a permit to ply his trade
in this state.
Out in western Kansas have been
dumped the graduating classes of
half dozen barber schools. Armed with
a diploma and a real strop, razor and
pair of scissors, these ambitious young
men have worked on the bearded men
of the short grass district. Some of
their operations, Herr claims, have not
been a complete success and often Gus
toners have returned for secop& treat
ment only as matter of necessity So
the Medicine Lodge druggist would
compel every barber to pass a state eX-
animation and prove in advance that
he is perfectly qualified and competent
to operate on the bearded growth of
any self respecting private citizen.
If Herr's measure is adopted it will
provide that any applicant for a diplo-
ma must have served at least two years
as an apprentice either in some school
of good standing or in a barber shop.
The examining board will be composed
of three members, each high grade hair
cut and shave artists, who shall be paid
for the time actually spent In the in
terests of the state. This board may
issue a certificate to successful applf-
cantS for permission to practice. ANY
barber working without an officially
signed document would be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and would be
punished by payment of fine in an
amount not less than SIS and not more
than $50
James w. Orr, floor leader for the
a administration forces in the house, to-
day offered a new inheritance tax Dill
which he believes will relieve the sit
uation in this state and prove potn
lust and equitable. His bill exempts
all direct heirs, 1ncluolng Doln "luo"S
and orphans. :.
In his bill Orr provides that no di-
rect descendants to any estate shall
come under the provisions of the new
law Indirect heirs are allowed an
exemption covering the first $1,000 or
their inheritance and on sums above
that amount must pay an inheritance
tax to the state. All bequests to the
state, to charitable institutions or any
department of the federal government |
are exempted from taxation.
Herr of Barber county today offer |
ed a bill creating a state highways
the chairman of the COM |
mission to be the president of the |
state agricultural college. Five mem |
bers of the commission are called for, |
each of whom shall be paid a per
diem and actual expenses The bill |
also calls for the employment of an |
expert civil engineer who shall have |
of the construction of all |
public roads and highways within the !
borders of the state. A salary for the |
civil engineer is not provided in the I
original draft of the bill.
Ragle, of Montgomery county, to-
dav introduced a bill which provides |
that school boards or boards of edu-
cation in cities of the second class |
shall have the power to fix their own
rules and further provides that in their
they may make appropria-
ton for separate school buildings for
whites and blacks. 1t is probable that
measure will arouse the old
color line fight in the legislature when
il is presented for discussion. Many
members are hostile to any bill which
in any way tends to affect race feel