Barton County democrat., 1915-01-29

we expect to see considerable cap
ital made out of the abolishing of
this board by the Republicans in
the next campaign, as having eff
fected the saving and the running
of the state. The facts are, how
ever, that the expense of keeping
up the barber board was not paid
by the tax payers of the state, but
by the BARRIERS. A bill has also
been introduced to abolish the
hotel inspector, another PROPOSE
lion over which much ado will
be made. The facts are that in the
recommendations to the 1913 Leg
iSlature by the health department,
which, up to that time, had been
doing the hotel inspection work,
this department was created and
it, like the barber board and other
departments, was not sustained by
the tax payers of the state, but by
the hotels of the state and the in
tention of the bill introduced is
not to eliminate the inspectors,
but to eliminate the department
and place is back on the Board of
Health, simply changing the name
an authority of the department,
but not leSSening the expense TO
either the state or the hotel peO-
pie.
The law was originally passed
as above stated in accordance
with the recommendations of DR..
Crumbine, Secretary of the Board
of Health, and at the urgent Soli-
citation of the travelling men.
Right here want to say that there
are a large number of hotels in
Kansas which need some one to
get after them with a red hot
poker frequently.
By reading some of the publica-
tionS in circulation in Kansas,
one would think that the Demo-
cratic Senate was spending con-
siderable money because it voted
an appropriation for postage
stamps, as well as for telephone
and telegraph service. Ii might
be well to call the attention of our
brethren to the fact that a num-
Der of years previous to the 1913
Legislature, which was done in
both branches, a postage stamp
appropriation as well as free tele-
phone and telegraph service had
been provided by the members
for themselves. When this queS-
ton came up in the 1913 Demo-
cratic session although the Sen
ate voted for this kind of a propo-
Sltion, the House stopped ii and
no free telephone or telegraph
service was extended to the men,
bers. Not so with the Republican
House of 1915, who have voted
themselves this service. These
are things that we might bear in
mind in the next campaign.
Numerous measures have been
introduced for the purpose of get
ting mortgages on the tax roll,
one of the most drastic along that
line being that of Senator Wag-
ner which provides that any
mortgage which has not been list
ed for taxation shall constitute
a valid defense to the foreclosure
of it. About a dozen forms of
Mothers Pension bills have ap-
peared and no doubt there will
be some legislation on this point.
Another old friend of former ses-
SlOnS to appear is on providing
for a uniform system of blanks.
As the law now is, every company
can purchase its blanks from
whOmever and wherever it pleas
eS, but if this old friends should
become a law, ii will practically
but out of business that class of
commercial printing and will
place the printing of the class of
work with the state printer. This
is a matter that has been up a
number of times and every time
was defeated.
The inheritance tax law has al
so bobbed up again but in a much
different form from the previous
law. The rates fixed in the bill
now pending, which was intro
duced by Senator Troutman,
range from one-half per cent for
the first twenty-five thousand up
to the exemption of ten thousand
in case of bequeSts to widows, to
a rate of fifteen per cent upon ev-
above five hundred thou
sand left to persons not related
by blood or marriage to the de-
ceased. The law provides an ex-