The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-13
Both Houses Are Far Apart in
Their Differences.
STILL CLAIM "PORK BARRE" /"
House Will Not Stand for
"MethOds" of Other Body.
This Is Eleventh Day for Leg
islators without Pay.
DEADLOCK SITUATION.


Senate's appropriation bills dead In
the house.
House bills for educational and
charitable institutions i'm hands OF
committees in both houses.
Two conferences have considered
appropriations in bulk and disagreed
on every proposal looking to final set
tlement, and both conference commit
tees have reported and been dis
charged.
The senate has adjourned until 4 p.
m. Monday, leaving unconsidered the
house resolution proposing that each
branch of the Legislature proceed to
the consideration of individual bills
for each institution, making such
amendments as seemed desirable, and
sending them one by one to new con-
ference.
The house this afternoon passed
the Wolf resolution from the senate
calling for a conference on resolutions
looking to a new plan for arbitrating
the present appropriation deadlock.
Three house conferees will be named
later in the day and hope is expressed
by leaders i'm both branches of the
legislature that there may be impor-
tant developments over Sunday.
Judge Francis G. Price of Clark
county and Senator Jouett Shouse of
Edwards will represent the senate in
the conference which is proposed 10
put an end to the present stage OF the
deadlock in which the two houses are
playing shuttIe-cock with each Others
resolutions. Senator Price will be
conference chairman.
From the administrsssfo "a side Of
boz y tl-ehonse and senate to-, ~, cane
propositions tending to settle 9ppro-
.priatlon differences on an administra-
ton basis.
Prompted by the hope that in the
ultimate adjustment the Emporia
normal may draw new building,
Wayman of Lyon, Progressive. Of
fered in the house a resolution which
will permit the making of mainte-
nance and repair appropriations and
the leaving of building items in pig
con holes. From Senator Lambertson.
Republican. came a resolution for
joint committee to confer with the
governor. Neither measure has n
chance in the senate, il is claimed.
Senate Action.
The senate this morning headed off
a movement to put the appropriation
deadlock into the hands of Governor
Capper by making him the fifth mem
Der of a conference to include two
members each from the house and
senate with authority to shape the
disputed budgets for final passage by
the legislature. The concurrent reso-
luton to deliver the key TO the dead
lock into the governors hands was
written and introduced by Senator w.
p. Lambertson of Brown county. 1t
was Immediately referred to the ways
and means committee by a roll call
vote of the senate.
For the first time in several days,
the senate took stock of it's lineup on
the budget in the roll call on the mo-
ton to put the Lambertson resolution
on ice, and with six senators absent,
the roll call showed the senate band
wagon running smoothly with full
load of passengers.
Those who voted for the reference
of the L.ambertson resolution to COM
mittee were: Carey, Carney, Davis
Gray, Kinds, Howe, Huffman, Klein,
Mahin, Malone, Mcmillan, Milton,
Nixon, Price of Clark, Shouse. Sutton,
Trott, Waggener, Williams, Wilson OF
Jefferson, and Wolf-21.
Noes: Bowman, Denton, King, Kin
KEEL Lambertson, Logan, NighWonger,
Paulen, Pauley, Simpson, Stavely.
Troutman, and Wilson of Washington
ID
Absentees: Jospeh, Meek, OverffeId,
Porter, Price of Greenwood, and Still
Iings-6.
Earlier in the morning the senate
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