The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
TOO MUCH FOR HIM
Congressman ShOuse a Victim
of Legislature.
Former Senator Confined to His
Bed in Topeka.

i Congressman Jouett Shouse, who
has been leading a strenuous life for
i several weeks chairman of the sem
! ate ways and means committee in the
| big appropriation fight, collapsed
4 Sunday and is in bed at his Topeka
! residence in the A. 3. Quinton home
on Topeka avenue with a bad attack
| of grip. Shouse held on until the very
end of the Saturday night session,
| spending the last four hours of his
| service as a state senator in commit
tee room on a conference The COM
mittee brought in it's report at mid
| night and as soon as the report was
| finally adopted and messaged to the
| house, Shouse went home and to bed.
He will remain here until he is able
to travel before returning to his home
| in Kinsley.
1t is Congressman Shouse of the
! Seventh district now
Senator Jouett Shouse of Edwards
county presented his resignation as a
member of the legislature to Governor
! Capper at the close of the Saturday
night session, where, however, he
worked up to the closing minute
/ shaping the big executive and judicial
appropriation budget upon which he
had worked in conference with Price
/ of Clark all the evening while the rest
! of the senate played.
1t has been a strenuous session for
| Senator Shouse. Being congressman
will be like going on a vacation trip,
for he will not even need to go to
Washington before December unless
congress is specially convened.
| As chairman of the senate ways and
means committee, Senator Shouse has
piloted the upper house through the
mazes of an appropriation deadlock,
| the like of which has not been seen IN
a generation with the concrete results
| that Republican governor and house
| of Representatives have been Iorced TO
receive budgets allowing to state
schools buildings which they have
been denied while three successive
administrations have tried to make
good on tax reduction platforms
Led the Senate's Fights.
The senate ways and means COM
mittee stood upon program by when
the taxpayer who pays upon $1,OOO
valuation might be called upon to con-
tribute Is or 20 cents more this year
than last. 1t was Shouse's able pre-
sentation of that committees program
which built up an impregnable ma
jority in the senate in favor of the IN
creased appropriation. The senate
majority included 16 Democrats and
nine Republicans when the fInal tesI
came and it carried with it additional
support on individual features OF ap-
preparation measures.
When the necessity of a conference
between upper and lower house over
the educational and charitable bud
gets was recognized, Senator Shouse
again conducted the negotiations, CIV
ing way to Senator Francis Price OF
y.
publican side of the senate, in the
final conference committees where
Price acted as chairman and Shouse
as associate conferee. Shouse was IN
every conference but one. 1t meant
continuous grind of hard work in
committee room and on the floor.
There were no lame places and no
flights of oratory in his presentations
of appropriations recommended as
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee When the house of repre-
sentatives pounced upon the senate
budgets with yell of pork barrel.
the senate fell back upon series OF
recommendations from the board OF
administration and board OF controf
that had already been trimmed ABOUT
a million dollars by its ways and
means committee.
Shouse Saved Buildings.
Recognizing the necessity for a
compromise, the senate agreed to give
I'D half of it's increases but the carrier
conferences broke up because the
house of representatives mad sent
delegation instructed not TO give
cent Shouse whitfield the senate
appropriations for new buildings and
still held together his solid majority
despite the bitter disappointment OF
some of it's members. The mouse pat
tered itself to pieces upon the sond
front of the upper house which, in the
final conference, got the several state
institutions the buildings most neces-
Sary to take care or the people WIZ
are entitled to shelter there. 1t is not
a liberal program of building, at that
The state board of control Will con-
tinue to compel Kansas counties to
take care of epileptics at home be-
cause the present budget will not per-
nit starting work on a new building
at Parsons before 1917, and Governor
Capper still has the right to deny 1t
even then by his veto The state hos
pitfalls for insane at Topeka and Osa-
watonie will continue full to over
flowing because of the shortening OF
the building allowance at the new
asylun the state has begun building
at I.arned The school of mines at
Weir will continue in session despite
the houses desire to wipe it out of eX-
istence by cutting off its appropria-
tiOnS.
Senator Shouse attested to the bene-
fetal work the state board of educa- |
tional administration has done In the
20 months of it's existence in whip |
ping into a compact organization the
undertakings of the state in the de-
partment of higher education. His
defense of that board on the floor OF