The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-21

Irvine plant bill already under consid-
| Grafton in the lower house. 1t calls
| for the appropriation of $75,OOO for the
| erection and equipment OF a plant like
| the one at the state penitentlary.
The bill by James A. Troutman, sena-
| tor from Shawnee, to make the Office
of superintendent of insurance appoint
the ballot at primary and general cleo
tiOns, received the approval of the COM
mittee Of the whole Wednesday after
noon. An effort from the Democratic
! side of the senate headed by Howe of
| Dickinson and Carney of Cloud to in
crease the term of office from two to
four years precipitated some general
discussion and an OratOrical fight. on
the part of Senator Harry Mcmillan.
| but was defeated when the committee
reported the bill for it's passage.
! The bill for the benefit of blind stu
dents in Kansas colleges, carrying an
appropriation of $500 for each blind stu
dent engaged in regular college
course in any Kansas institution of
higher learning, was endorsed by the
senate committee of the whole We'd
nesday. The money provided is to be
paid for the employment OF readers and
will be turned over to the colleges GER
tifying the names of blind students to
the secretary of state. Similar laws ex-
| X,
states and the bill offered. here has
the endorsement of alumni of the
school for the blind at Kansas City.
The Democrats have a decided con-
troll of affairs among the pages in the
| senate. OF the seven only one is a Re-
publican, he being the page allotted to
| body. A roll call Of the pages shows
/ the following list: Arson Ingles, age
IA, page to the lieutenant governor.
Larned; Thomas J. Runer.. age Is,
Is. Topeka: Walter Curtis, age Is. To-
peka; Lawrence Morse, age IA. Kansas
City; Fred Hisey, age II; ConcOrdia;
Donald B. Barrett, age II, Yates Cen
ter.
sas are writing in to express their en-
dOrsement of the bill now in the
hands of senate committee under
! which all Kansas manufacturers
would be required to label their goods
with the name of the city and of the
state where manufactured. 1t IL a
Made in Kansas proposition which
naturally pleases the commercial in
/ terests who are endeavoring to build
up a manufacturing industry in the
wheat belt. The bill may not pass
but its introduction, 1t was offered by
Milton of Kansas City, will help to
concentrate attention on an idea
which is already employed by some
Kansas manufacturers voluntarily.
Hail insurance companies will be
required to put their insurance into
effect within "a hours after the mon
ey for a premium is accepted under
a bill introduced by Senator Sutton of
Barton. Explaining his measure SUIT
ton alleges that hail insurance COM
panies reserve the right to send a
policy to headquarters for approval
and exercise that right to avoid pay
ment of damages from storms which
may occur in the interval between the
time the money is accepted and the
approval given.
A bill in the senate which il dodg-
ing from stump to stump looking for
a good chance to run for safety when
it's enemies are not looking is the
"anti-frat" measure introduced by
J to put the property of college frater-
mites back on the tax rolls of the
state. abolishing an exemption now
extended. The bill was up for final
consideration Tuesday but lot of
college boys were lined up in the bal
cony keeping an eye on it and its
author requested that it be laid over
for subsequent consideration. We'd
nesday when. Bowman called 1t up it
was again laid over because one of
its principal opponents. Carey of
Hutchinson. was absent and had left
the request that 1t be held until his
return. The author of the bill con-
sented to postponement of It's consid-