The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-09

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| and three quarter million dollars III
| APPROXIMATIONS, said the governor
They simply can't go before the peo'
pie with that kind of a record The
! people will not stand for it. They
must come to a more reasonable
schedule.
Il do not believe that a special SEES
sion will be necessary. l still believe
they will get together declared the
governor.
Have you any assurance the two
houses will get together?" was asked
The governor said he had not
Neither had he been assured, he said
that the house would change front and
ask for a further conference on ap-
preparations. He seemed willing that
the case stand as it is-trusting that
the senate will see the error of its way
and repent.
Recently the governor indicated
that if a special session were neceS-
sary, it would be called in May. Inc
tax levies will be made up in July. In
order to fix the levies, the state tax
advance the amount of money needed
to run the state under the legislative
appropriations. If a special session is
called. the house and senate may be
able to get together in a week. And
again, it may require a month or more.
Senate's Action.
Declaring that they believe avoid
ance of an extra session of the legisla-
ture to be the best way in which to
serve the interests and wishes OF the
people of the state and re1teratlng
their Willingness to make concessions
within the scope of the policy endors-
ed by the state senate toward educa-
tional institutions, the three members
representing that body who TO-DAY re-
ported their inability to agree IN the
Joint conference, entered into state
ment as to their present position TINS
noon.
Senators Jouett Shouse, Emerson
Carey and A. B. Carney, the senate
conferees signed the statement rela-
tive to the circumstances under Whlcn
they failed to meet the conferees OF
the house on any compromise. rms
disa greement, they say, followed the
refusal of the house members to agree
to a proposal for the inauguration of
work on needed buildings at various
institutions by a decreased appropri-
alton much smaller than the senate's
present budget, leaving future leglS-
latures to complete the buildings.
The refusal of the house committee
to concede the matter of policy, even
after the senate confereeS had agreed
to cut down the amount OF the aCtudI
appropriation totals was followed by
the breaking UP of the first confer
ence. ..
The following is the statement
given out by Senators Carey, carney
and Shouse the senate confereeS:
s.Tt was a source of regret and dis
to us that the confer
ence committees could not get loseth,
er on the appropriation items HAD
we been able to agree upon the edu-
cational budget it was the feeling OF
every member of the joint committee
that we would have gotten together on
the other points of difference me
maintenance provisions OF the TWO
houses for the state schools are not
wide apart: the principal difference is
in the matter of buildings
1.-The senate has recommended
schedule of buildings at the dlfferent
institutions which, after careful in
vestigation, it believes to represent the
absolute needs of those institutions
All the evidence secured. since sucn
has strengthened that
belief At the same time the senate
cOnferees entered the conference with
open minds and were not only willing
to be shown where they hao maze
mistakes, if they had made mistakes In
their recommendations, but We're also
willing to make liberal concessions in
getting together on report to which
both house could agree As flnal
solution of the difficulty the senate
offered to agree to a build
ing schedule which would not require
a large appropriation of money at this
time, simply starting buildings at the
different institutions and leaving them
for the next legislature to flnish.
THE total appropriations for such
buildings which would have come
within the next levy would not have
been very much larger than the appro.
priations contemplated by the proposal
of the house committee when it offer
ed to concede the buildings at the En-
poria Normal school in addition to the
building at the Fort Hays Normal
school.
The point was raised by some
members of the house committee that
it would be bad policy to make appro-
priations for a portion of the work on
these buildings. 1t is agreed that a
policy of completing the buildings as
rapidly as possible and making the
whole appropriation at once would be
preferable. At the same time the pol
lev contemplated in the senate promo
ton is the policy which has prevailed
IN the state of Kansas for number OF
years and a policy which has also pre-
vailed in many other states with refer
ence to the buildings at their great
educa tional institutions.
I'VE believe we represent the sem
timent of the ways and means COM
mittee of the senate and of the SEN
ate as a body when we say that we
still stand ready to do all in our power
to find a solution for the situation
that confronts us. Had the house
committee accepted the invitations eX-
tended for conferences from the be-
ginning of the session much of the
present difficulty could have been OBJ
waited, in our opinion, and agreed
bills would have been placed before
the two houses long ago which each
would have passed.
I'VE believe the people of Kansas
do not want an extra session of the
legislature, the expense Of which Will
to a great many thousands of
dollars. We shall lend our best eff
forts to avoiding such extra session.
We hope the same spirit may animate
those members of the house who have
been most closely associated with the
budget, and that COM
mittees may be appointed by the two
bodies that will be willing to confer,
to make reasonable concessions each
to the other and to reach an agree
ment that will be the solution of the