The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-04
CHORUS OF MONEY
House Omnibus Sang Out
$1,31S,779 in Appropriations.
Bulk Reading Was Only Vaude-
Vile Feature of Day.

With a dozen members reading a
dozen different bills at one and the
same time and members on the floor
and visitors in the galleries yelling
louder, louder" the house late Wed,
nesday evening considered" and
passed appropriations totalling ST.
1885. 1t was the first real, true
old fashioned omnibus of the house
session and no one objected to the
procedure which represented the ex-
penditure of one and a third million
dollars of the state funds.
After the more important appro-
priation bills had been separately con-
sidered, Speaker Stone announced
bulk roll call and a bulk reading of
bills. He called dozen owners of the
choice basso voices to the stand and
a clerk gave each of the members a
bill. Each bill carried an appropria-
ton for some state institution de-
partment. The total appropriations
in the bulk were $1,318, 779.85.
rs there any objection to this bulk
reading?" asked the speaker.
Brewer of Crawford, Socialist,
started to object, changed his mind
and said he would not waive his
rights on a future reading.
rs everyone ready?'' asked the
speaker.
dozen members with a dozen bills
said they were ready.
zone for the money, two for the
show, three to make ready and four
to CO." shouted the presiding officer.
And the reading members went
They sang and mumbled and shouted
the words on the pages of the type
written bills-each reading from a bill
with separate provisions
Louder" shouted the members.
Louder" shouted the visitors in the
of revelry in an otherwise uneventfuI
day. While the bills were being read
some of the members pounded on
their desks and the reading ended in
uproar in which the members
clerks and visitors participated.
THE speaker will call the roll" an
nounced Speaker Stone.
The roll was called and the house
which had fought cOurag eously for
efficiency during the 81 days of the
legislative session, placed its official
o. K on a million and a third dollars
appropriation in the bulk roll call
Appropriations approved by the
house during the afternoon session to-
tailed $4,031, 279.S5. Allowances for
state institutions and departments
during the afternoon were as follows:
Agricultural college. Manhattan 1906. 10000
Hays experiment station. 100000
Colby branch. ..--.-----.--. 100000
Dodge City. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Garden CITY --.------- 100000
state Normal, Emporia sso.oo o.00
Pittsburg Normal. ..-..... 197, 10000
Hays Normal, including new
building at S125000. 243, 90
School for Blind, Kansas City. 100000
School for Deaf. Olathe. 125.OO0.OO
Old Soldiers home POI ,000. 90
Mother Bickerdyke home. 37.75O.OO
Girls Industrial school. 9S. 10000
Repay illegal insurance collec-
lions. ........ 100000
Discharged insane PATIENTS. 2,35S. 90
Legislative Investigations. -. 400 s.
Under Smith Lever act. Al .265. 90
G. A r. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Compiling and publish census. 100000
Emergency, penftentiary pump
ing station ........... 12,500.OO
Bee inspection. --...--.--.- 100000
Conveying prisoners to peniten-
tiary. =. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Livestock sanitary commission p, 10000
State printing plant. ...-.... 211 10000
Total - q oe1 o-o *