The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-04
MARCH II REAL DAY.
Legislature Really Adjourns Then
Mere Form Till nth.

Final adjournment of the 1913 ses-
sion of the legislature will be held at
noon Friday. March IA. a resolution
to that effect was adopted in the
house late Monday night, following
similar action in the senate earlier in
the day Adjournment March IA,
means a so day legislative session and
that members must serve ten days
after their pay stops. The final pay
day of the session was today, when
each member drew his final $50 to
cover the salary of the last ten days.
Consideration of all bills will cease
next Tuesday-one week from today
and adjournment sine die will be at
noon Friday. That means that in the
next six working days. several hun
dred bills must be crowded through
the legislative mill in order that they
may become a law. The final conSld-
Grafton of original bills in each house
except appropriation bills-will stop
Thursday noon of this week. All or
which means that in either branch OF
the legislature there are about 200
bills which must have final considera-
ton or die when the clock registers
the noon hour next Thursday. From
THURSDAY noon until Tuesday noon
the senate will consider only house
bills and appropriation bills and the
house will consider only senate bills.
Three days from the date set for
final consideration of bills, will mark
the adjournment sine die of the legls-
lature In those three days the gov
ernor will sign or veto the bills en-
acted into law at this session. Prob
ably less than a dozen members of the
two houses will stay in Topeka after
next Tuesday. They will stay on the
Job to keep the session alive and will
receive messages from the governor
and look after the formality of ad-
journing the session at the end of ex-
actly 60 days.
Because Speaker Iron Jaw" Brown
ruled that a member of the house could
not object a bill out of a bulk roll cat
Davis of Edwards county made a hard
fight Monday TO incorporate in the house
Not only was the Davis objection ruled
out of order, but the practice of omnibus
legislation continued without granting the
customary objection privilege.
In former sessions objections to Dill
going to bulk roll call was sufficient to
require a separate call This rule was
of the session. Where there was not
unanimous consent where objection
omnibus So when the Edwards county
member raised an objection to several
bills headed toward the omnibus, he was
advised that he could register his vote
against these bills on final roll call. But
Davis wanted these particular bills dc
feated and knew that it was practically
Impossible uDGer the OMNIBUS pldii. iFcai
he asked to have his objections inco=-
porated in the house journal
The omnibus practice as it was follow
ed in the house this week. has occa
stoned more objection than any other
feature of the legislative session Very
few of the members were able TO Know
the measures which were enacted or de-
feated and the confusion was probably
greater than that of any session in re-
cent years
The house WAYS and means committee
will probably return the educational ap-
preparation bills to the senate committee
not later than Wednesday These meas
ures have been in conference for several
days and the two committees have
virtually agreed on all of the items IN
the budgets. Objections to building ap
proprfa tons raised by members of the
house committee. have since been
moved and the allowances to the state
schools will be practically as recon-
Btended by the senate committee