The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
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signee and can judge his actions in dis
posing with the booze
Senator Mahin believes that through
this means the county officials will be
able to run down "boot-leggers'' and
others who sell their liquor and do a
retail business inside the state.
Interstate shipments are not pro-
hibited by this bill. The man who buys
beer and whisky conservatively and for
home use will not be affected-except
that he must suffer the embarrassment
of having his name registered with the
county clerk together with the amount
of liquor that he has shipped to his
home.
An interchangeab BILE insurance organ
ization, promoted among private in
dividualS with the consent of the state
superintendent of insurance and doing
away with the expense sent to foreign
corporations in paying high salaries
and expenses, is permitted in a bill
introduced in the senate this morning
by Senator Davis of Bourbon county.
Here is the plan:
If a man in one business wishes to
agree with a man in another business
to meet the losses of his firm by fire,
he can resort to the power of attorney,
draw up a contract suitable to the
they may enter an insurance compact.
If a number of business men make
this agreement the plan holds good,
In other words instead of spending
his money for fire insurance by TAX
ing out policies in large companies, a
man may make a contract with an
other in his same city or State-and
the two will bear the losses of each
other by fire under certain conditions
This Interchangeable insurance
nj n & SUCCESSFULLY
linois," explained Senator Davis this
afternoon. Il think that it will work
splendidly in Kansas. I have receiv-
ed considerable announcement in the
bill and I hope that it passes both
branches of the legislature"
The railroad and corporations COM
mittee has postponed its decision on
week Chairman Mcmillan announces
that he will make known the wish les
of the committee. The railroads of the
state are waiting anxiously the result
of this committee report. 1t is claim
ed that it would cost $2,000,000 year
to carry out the provisions of the bill.
RumorS today have it that the bill
will be reported out adversely and that
Kansas will not adopt full-crew reg
ulation this session of the legislature.
Senator Waggener of Atchison has
received a long letter from G. Polk
Cline, the sage of the Arkansas, in
respect to his support of the Massa-
tional reputation as a writer of queer
literature and his letter to the Atchi-
son senator this morning bears out his
reputation. He terms Waggener as
the sage of the Kansas senate"
A new plan allowing counties and
cities the right to vote bonds for the
aid of railroad building was offered
in the form of a bill by Francis Price,
senator from Clark county, this morn
ton in county when a petition is
signed by two-fifths of the resident
taxpayers. Counties would be allowed
to vote 100000 in bonds and an addi-
tional per cent of the assessed valua-
ton of the county. Municipal town
ships would be allowed $4,000 and 5
per cent of the valuation. Second and
third class cities $4,000 and per cent
of the valuation. The bonds are not
to exceed an amount of $4,000 a mile.
The committee on agriculture has
killed the Davis bill providing for a
state revolving fund to be applied to
the establishment of premiums for
small fairs in the state. The committee
decided that the state had all it could
handle in pouring oil on the Topeka
and Hutchinson waters.
With empty seats here and there
throughout the senate, the upper house
this morning pushed through TO final
passage twelve bills. It was the
largest bite in the bills on third read
ing column of the session. Among the
bills were four ways and means COM
mittee appropriation measures giving
authority for the payment of state
bonds, mileage of electors, conveyance
of prisoners to penitentiary and the
state paper publications. Senator Paul
ems bill allowing cities of the second
class to assess for public libraries stood
the final passage test, also, a number
of local bills by Howe, Shouse, Stave-
by Malone and Trott
without a doubt Kansas will have
a pure shoe law after April I, 1914. This
measure fathered by Simpson, of Nc
Pherson, was given a unanimous vote
this morning. The bill requires manu-
facturers of shoes to stamp on the out
side the substitutes that are used in