The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

| In his special message to the legis-
lature last week, in which he COM
mended the house for tits stand for
efficiency and economy" and against
trimmed S229,000 from the legislative
appropriations. Yet the men and
women who have studied the work of
the legislature on appropriation mat
ters have some strange stories to tell.
During the recent session an emery
ency appropriation of $4,000 for the
Norton tuberculosis sanitarium was
held up five weeks. This delay pre-
vented the opening of the institution
and it was estimated that 100 men and
women in Kansas died from the dread
white plague during the days the leg
islature Quibbled over the amount ac-
tuaMy necessary to start the institu-
ton on its way.
In less than 4S hours the house in
troduced, considered and passed APP
preparation measures amounting to
100000 with which to fight the foot
and mouth disease among cattle in
four Kansas counties. previous
emergency appropriation of $4,000
had been made.
The house in it's stand for econ
omy,' voted in the closing days of
the session to increase the salaries of
the supreme court and district Judges
in an amount that would proba bly,
total $4,000 a year. This same body
Orphans home bill calling for an APP
preparation for a manual training
school for the 200 children.
Still Stood for Economy.
Even after Senator Bale Waggener
had brought $50 wards of the institu-
ton to Topeka and offered a human
petition for the school, the politicians
of the house refused to yield. The
house persisted in it's stand for econ
omy" and even when a measure was
slipped through in the conference re-
port which made $4,000 available for
vetoed by Governor Capper.
The same house which had turned
a deaf ear on the plea of the orphans
and had given $4,000 to save the
grudgingly gave $4,000 a year to save
the lives of the children. This ap-
preparation was made for the child
hygiene bureau-one of the chief plat
and welfare measure that promises
the saving Of several hundred human
lives annually.
But the economical house did not
stop there.
1t distributed contingent funds for
the governors office, the attorney gen
era1 and other state offices. 1t piled
up not less than $4,000 year for
this purpose.
Yet that was not all.
Negro Lobby Worked 1t.
A negro lobby had appeared in the
legislative halls during the session. A
convention to celebrate the half CEN
fury of freedom for the colored race
is to be held in Chicago. The negroes
asked for an appropriation. The
economical house had refused to
give the new school, to provide an
adequate appropriation for the care of
inmates of the Topeka and Osawat-
omie hospitals. But the negro lobby
was insistent. 1t demanded state
recognition and assistance-and got it
so far as the house was concerned.
The record of the closing day of
the legislative session shows that the
house voted 66 to II to send eight
commissioners to the Chicago conven-
ton and to provide a state display. 1t
also voted to spend $4,000 of the
states money for the purpose
In the senate, where the pork bar
reF was coopered according to the
charges of the administration, the ne
gro convention appropriation and the
increased pay for district and supreme
court judges were lost.