The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-12

courts can manage by all decisions
| known to law.
Senator Troutman made an interest
ing and sincere talk before the senate
| Tuesday evening on the merits of his
proctor law. He brought out facts and
| figures which smothered all contempla-
tive opposition to the bill. He read
/ letters from judges of district courts
and resolutions from bar meetings sup
porting the BILL
Too much lobbying on the part of
| the insurance companies, resulting in
suspicion with the members of the sem
| ate, caused the downfall of the fire
marshal bill in the upper house. The
two senators taking leading fight
| against the measure providing for a
state fire chief expressed in their
| speeches regret that the lobbyists for
! the bill had been strong and powerful
\ A vote of IL for and 10 against killed
| the act in the home of its birth.
| This bill was conceived in the inter-
| ests of the insurance trust" said Sem
| ator Davis, who led the fight against
| the measure TT is not primarily to
profits of the already swollen profits.
1 can see no necessity or advantage in
the establishment of a new office to the
| expense of the state"
The vote on the bill was scattered
1t was not a party measure and bore no
relationship to the administration.
/ Furthermore many Democrats voted
| against it fearing that it would bring
| trouble to the party rule. The vote was
| a Surprise-it was predicted that with
few amendments the bill would re-
| ceive the approval of both branches of
, the legislature.
/ The duties of the proposed office
| were in connection with the fire haz-
ards and the abolition of incendiarism
| in Kansas. Deputy fire marshals were
/ re-
4 secute in case of suspicion that a per-
son had fired" his property.
! The vote: For the bill: Carey. Car
ney, Denton, Joseph, Klein. Lambertson,
Logan, Overfield, Paulen, Porter, Price.
of Greenwood; Shouse. Stavely, Sutton,
| Trott, Troutman, Wilson, of jefferson,
and Wilson, of Washington Against
| the bill: Bowman, Davis. Gray, Howe,
King, Kinkel, Mahin, Malone, Meek,
Milton, Nighswonger, Nixon, Pauley,
Waggener, Williams and Wolf. Not
voting: Kinds, Huffman and Nc
| MILAN.
The Davis bill giving the electors of
any township in which there is no in
corporated city the right to locate
| high school was recommended for pass
age subject to amendment and debate
by the senate committee of the whole
Tuesday night.
| The Klein white slave" bill provid-
ing punishment for immoral women
| has been referred back to the COM
mittee for reconsideration. Apparently
the future of the bill is sealed-no
| hopes for it's temperance from the
committee are entertained despite pc
titions bearing 5000 names from all
over the state.
Senator King, of Cowley county, has
| resigned as chairman of the investi-
cation committee appointed by the SEN
ate following the adoption of the Will
son, of Washington, resolution recon-
mending that the number of state en-
ployees be reduced from % to so per
cent. 81 am too busy to tackle that
proposition" was Kings excuse The
committee is still working on the VIII
son idea that the state is padded with
useless employment. o. n
Senator Carey is partially happy He
came to the senate this year 70 procure
for the people of Hutchinson two
things-first a state fair and second
a state park. The senate passed his
bill Tuesday afternoon providing for a
state park or forty acres of reforma-
tory land adjoining the city of Hutch
inson-and also adjoining an amuse-
ment park owned and operated by the
genial senator from Reno.
The park, according to the bill, is to
be set aside for the use and benefit
of the people of the state of Kansas
that is, all Kansans who happen to be
in Hutchinsons The superintendent of
the reformatory is given authority to
use his inmates to make improvements
in the park.
The senate has placed it's stamp of ap-
prevail on the recommendation by con-
stitutional amendment that only nat !
ural born American citizens and for |
eigners who have taken out their sec |
ond naturalization papers can be quail |
fled voters. This amendment under ,
the authorship of Senator Bowman, of |
Anderson county, excludes the votes of |
the foreigners who have taken out only |
their first or declaration of intention /
papers 1t allows the widows of for
eigners however, who have taken out |
woman's husband is living she must
become qualified in the same manner
that he does. Thousands of ignorant
alien voters will be disqualified by this
amendment In case it is
by the legislature and is
voted by the people at the general
election of representatives in 1914
Farms in Kansas visited by severe !
hail storms pounding the crops into
the ground and running them would be
exempted from taxation, according to
a bill introduced in the senate by Sem
ator Lambertson, of Brown county
Senator Lambertson's district was bad
ly mutilated last season and the SEN
ator would save the unfortunate farm
erS their taxes.
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