The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
SENATE CRINS ON
Upper House Now Standing
Guard on Appropriations.
Pill Swallowed by Representa-
tiveS Far Too Bitter.

Over in the east wing of the state
capitol building, around the drafty
little chamber with the gingerbread
decorations where the Kansas senate
meets, the close observer may detect
upon the brows of certain influential
senators an expression of solemn JOY
"a joy which is in no wise akin to
pain. The occasion of this dignifled
Jub1latiOn is situated in the west end
of the state house where the new APP
preparation bills are being passed
Having swallowed the unpleasant
dose prescribed for both branches OF
the legislature by the conference COM
nittee which made up the new edu-
cational and charitable budget, the
senate is now watching the mouse
take its medicine and is finding no
end of humOr in the spectacle because
the house is making faces ABOUT IT,
Being experienced in legislative ther-
apeutics the senate swallowed its Dit
ter dose at one gulp, smiled and pro-
ceeded to forget about it.
But the house has cheWed up the
capsule and has been showing signs
of wanting to spit it out. Not hiking
the trimming which their pet inStltu-
tions got in the conference commit
tee, there are evidences of 1nsurrec-
ton among disgruntled members OF
the house of representatives ana lne
iron jawed leaders of that body are
busy riding herd to keep their
flock from stampeding. Already the
house has gone back on the CONFER
ence committee report to the extent
of putting back into the appropriation
the item of $4,000 for the purchase
of the 500 acres on Stiger's island at
the state penitentiary, the herd riders
squirting wildly but IN vain 10 hedu
off the detection
Now unless the senate stands flrm
for the conference committee budget,
that valuable product OF deadlock
travail may be set at naught. And
&c, fol
senate with deeper sol1cltude than
are the efficiency and economy
leaders of the lower house on whose
drawn faces is stamped the fear that
unless the senate does stand firm, the
house will break away and give to
the several state educational char1ta-
BILE and penal institutions still bigger
appropriations than the conference
allowed.
So now it is the senate that is stand
ing for efficiency and economy" and
appropriations that will not over bur-
den the shoulders of the ''groaning
taxpayer 1t is the senate that is
standing guard over the door of the
treasury-the senate which has been
abused and accused for it's pOrk-bar-
Teling procliVitieS and charged with
being little better than a den of
thieves by those same house leaders
who are now praying that it stand
between them and the eXtravaganceS
of their own side of the legislature
And the senate is standing firm. Tt
has settled any doubts about that
firmness which may have fingered in
the public mind by adopting a reSOlu-
ton binding itself to stand hitched to
the conference compromise budget.
1t was from the administration corner
of the senate, from LambertSon of
Brown and TrOutman of Shawnee that
came the only objection to the adop-
ton of this policy. Lambertson and
Troutman weren't satisfied with the
compromise. They said it was too lib
eral. Senator Price of Clark, chair
man of the last conference commit
tee, asked the senate if it intended to
stand by that report. The senate vot-
ed to stand hitched.