The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-10
Legislature May Put Off Ad-
jOurnment to Then.
A POstponement From Tues
day Agreed To.
so SENATE CAN FINISH
Working Without Pay for Near
Iy q Week.
House Work Is Done and
Ready to Go Home.


The Kansas legislature may NOT
stop the consideration of bills before
Friday night. That this additional
time will be granted for the compile
ton of the work and consideration OF
bllIs now on the calendar, was vir-
tually agreed TO at conference Sun
day afternoon of members of the two
houses.
An extension of time for considera-
ton OF bills on the calendar will come
as a direct concession on the part of
the house members. They are in a
position to adjourn Tuesday noon
the hour set by the provisions of a
joint resolutfon-but the senate will in
that brief time be unable to consider
the house bills which are pending in
the upper house. So in order to dis
pose of the house bills in the senate,
the house members are confronted
with the proposition that they must
either consent to an extension of time
or lose some of their favorite legisla-
ton by an adjournment Tuesday noon.
Working without Pay.
Members of both branches of the
legislature have been working with
out pay since last Tuesday night. when
they drew their final pay check. To
continue the consideration of bills un-
til Friday night, means So day ses-
sion. 1t means the adjournment sine
die cannot be taken until Tuesday of
next week. March Is, as three days
lAloSb NC dllOWe0 dlleT COIlSlQGTaIlOn
of bills stops in order to enable the
governor to sign the new laws and to
message them back to the legislature.
OF course practically all of the mem
berS could go home Friday night or
Saturday of this week, even If the
time for final adjournment is extend
ed. But at the best, it probably means
that the mem bers must spend ten days
in Topeka for which time the state
pays them not one penny and in addf-
tion to donating their services, the
members must pay their own boards
bills.
Among house members there was a
strong opposition to the plan to ad-
vance the date for adjournment. Yet
there seems to be nothing else to do.
The senate cannot complete its work by
Tuesday noon. To go home at that
time, means that adjournment must be
taken with many important bills still
pending. 1t means that some of the
measures for which the house members
have fought and bled, must be heart
lessly permitted to die on the calendar
to insist on the provisions of the joint
resolution.
Means Life of Salary Bill.
The question of Tuesday noon ad-
journment, means the life or death of
the fee and salary bill, which has
passed the house. This measure is now
on the calendar in the senate, but
would probably not be considered by
the upper house men at this session IL
they are forced to stand by their agree
ment to quit work Tuesday. other i'm
portant bills are yet in the senate hop
per and after a lengthy conference, ad-
ministration members declared that IL
would be suicide to attempt to adjourn
before the latter part of the week.
AS for the house, an advance date
for adjournment means easy sailing. BY
hard work, it could clean up the senate
calendar and leave Topeka right on
schedule time; yet in order to get their
measures through the senate they are
virtually forced to extend the date for
final adjournment. This would afford
ample time to consider all senate bills
with only slight ceremonies, the
house has put to sleep for this session
at least the Carey bill creating an ef-
ficiency commission. The Carey plan,
which virtually meant that civil serv-
ice rule for all state employees would
be established, did not create enthu-
sasm among the house members. Per-
haps it was because of the late hour Of
the session that the workers in the
lower branch of the Legislature declined
to go into the merits of the Hutchin-
son salt packers pet theory. They
listened impatiently to the desultory
reading of the bill and on final roll call
extended the measure a scant rs votes.
The house has passed the senate bill
by Davis, of Bourbon permitting the
nership insurance companies. Even
some of the house insurance men voted
for the measure on final passage.
In his bill, Davis provided that farm
ers and business men, corporations and
individuals might organize benefit fire
insurance companies to insure against
losses by fire. This policy puts the
fire insurance premiums on an actual
cost basis and it is claimed that in
many cases, will mean a saving of from
40 to go per cent in premiums to the
insured. Bailey, of Brown, an insur-
ance man, fought for the passage OF
the bill, although he himself is engaged
in the insurance business. The bill has
the approval of the state insurance
commissioners office.
An appropriation of $4,000 for, a Kan
sas exhibit at the Panama-Pacific ex-
position IN San Francisco in 1915, has
been approved by the house. An addi-
tional appropriation of $4,000 for the
San Diego exposition, was cut from the
bill on motion of Speaker w. L. Brown
Big Damage Suit Against Bankers
St Louis. Mo, March 10.-A suit
for S14OO,OOO was filed in the United
states district court today against
Ben Edwards, president of the Ma
tionaI Bank of Commerce, and George
Lane Edwards. former director of the.
bank, for the alleged loss incurred by