The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-30
Third Week of Session Finds 1t
Hard at Work.
Rumbles of an Approaching
Storm Over Appropriations.
MAY RESULT IN A DEADLOCK
Senate Has Passed Two I'm.
pOrtant Election Bills.
Medical Board and Reserve
Bank Debates Next Week.

Harder work in committees, longer
hours in sessions and fewer new bills
marked the third week Of work in the
upper house which closed the week
with total of 492 bills introduced. A
resolution is now pending to close the
introduction of bills on February 8.
which will leave the legislature about
20 days to wind up it's business
Rumbles of trouble over the states
big appropriations have been heard
this week and If there are to be disa
greements between the Republicans of
the house and the Democratic majority
of the senate they should begin to ap-
pear in the coming seven days. The
senate passed liberal appropriation
Tor the Orphans home at Atchison and
that bill is now in the hands of the
house. If a policy of retrenchment that
cuts out all new buildings, as has been
rumOred, is carried out by the lower
house there is prospect of a deadlock
between the two branches.
The senate put through an anti-peti-
ton bill providing that candidates may
get before the people in all primary
elections save for a non-partisan judi
ciary. by filing declaration of their
attentions and small fee. 1t also
passed the Bowman bill allowing pris-
oners to work on county roads and a
bill calling for nOn-partisan nominal
ing convention for candidates to the
supreme court. Other important mea-
sures advanced but not yet finally
passed include bill to allow Kansas
municipalities to manufacture ice and
an appropriation bill for the Panama
Pacific exposition sent over by the
house.
Exposition Trouble.
There is tie up in the exposition
appropriation due to a resolution by
Davis of Bourbon, demanding an ac-
years ago. The expense accounts of the
commission covering this money are in
the hands of the governor.
No progress was made this week in
the investigation Of the alleged insur-
ance lobby in Kansas beyond the ap-
pointment of the committee. Alb
sence from the city Of members of the
special committee have delayed work
on 1t until Monday.
The senate in the coming week will
probably reach the proposal by Sena-
tor Joseph to organize a state reserve
bank modelled on the federal reserve
bank. and will tackle he measure
urged by Kansas doctors of raising
the standards of requirements OF those
admitted to practice. A bill provid-
ing for the payment of public aid to
needy mothers. Incorporating provi-
sions OF half dozen separate bills
on that subject has been recommends
ed by the committee on judiciary.
Friends of the mothers pension are
hopeful OF getting a bill passed at this
session.
The program of cutting out SUPER
huous state boards and commissions
advocated by Governor Capper has
not yet been seriously tackled in the
senate although there are several bills
with that aim. Among these are bills
to abolish the hotel inspectors office
and the state barber board, to trans
Ter the duties Of the livestock sanitary
commissioner to the Agricultural col
lege and to abolish the Academy of
Science