The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-18
Senate Admits Trouble With
House ON Appropriations.
Non-Concurs ON All Reductions
by Representatives.
Fight IN 4 CONFERENCE
Upper House viii Insist Of Its
Ways and Means Committee.
Senator ShOuse Outlines Policy
of Senate in Controversy.

The senate promptly non-concurreo
in all the reductions which the mousse
CT representatives had put on appro-
priation bills when six of them were
messaged back to the upper house
Wednesday afternoon. For the first
time the ruptured relations between
the ways and means committees OF the
two bodies were referred to on the
floor of the senate when, IN moSihs
fonr on-concurrence, Senator Joueee
Shouse, chairman of the senate's COM
.mittee, recited the facts surrounding
the failure of the finance committees
to IRON out their troubles behino com-
mittee room doors.
Precedents have been disregarded IN
the handling of this years appropria-
ton bills declared Shouse. Inc SEN
ate committee prepared the charitable
and educational institution D1iis' as
has always been the CUSTOM ana IN
formed the house ways ana means
committee of its action before report
ing them to the senate, the purpose
being to give the house committee an
opportunity to express its opinion OF
the bills drafted. 1t has always been
customary, he pointed out, for the two
committees to get together on sucn
appropriations before finally reporting
them At this session the ways and
means committee of the house has not
met the senate committee in CONFER
ence on any of the senate bills nor sub
nitted any of it's own bills to the SEN
ate committee.
The senate's refusal to concur in the
various reductions means that the six
bills will be referred to a conference
committee representative OF the two
bodies. In the senate this committee
will be named by the committee on
committees, controlled by the Demo-
cratic caucus If there are any fight
ing qualities left in the Democratic
upper house they will appear in this
conference where the real problem OF
the present legislature, whether
policy of severe retrenchment at
state institutions is to be enforced by
the present Republican administra-
ton, will be solved.
Fight on Orphans Home.
The first skirmish over apprOpria-
son of Grown, Republican, moved the
reconsideration of the inconvenience
vote on the house amendments on the
State Orphans home bill which the
house had reduced by $4,000 from
the senate's original. The house cut
out appropriations for manual
training building and for a laundry.
THE recommendation for the man
ual training building was given on
transformation laid before the senate
committee on ways and means
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matter was under discussion the COM
mittee was informed that there was
no manual training instruction in the
Atchison city schools of which chill
dren in the orphans home could avail
themselves. I have since made per-
sonal investigation and find that this
is not the case but that on the con-
trary Atchison has a well equipped
manual training high school,
Carney of Cloud, a member of the
committee, said: Few of the chill
dren in the home are of high school
age. As other members Of the COM
mittee understood the situation, there
is no manual training in the Atchison
schools for younger children"
Waggener of Atchison. particular
friend of the orphans home, inquired
of Lambertson: Just how long a
visit did you pay to the home? was
told you did not stay more than five
minutes-that you went in one door
and out the other"
II was there long enough to visit
every floor and to discover that where
the home has sheltered 233 children
with its present facilities, it now has
only 175."
Howe of Abilene: did you know
the board of health has condemned
dormitories and that the proposed ap-
preparation is to carry out that in
struction to give the children more
room for the sake of health condi-
tons ~
Lambertson's demand for a recon-
sideration was buried.
Not on Party Lines.
The division in the upper house
over the appropriation measures will
not been made on party lines. This has
been well evidenced in earlier discus
siOns of appropriation bills. Although
the Democratic ma tOrity has hung to-
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