The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

primary bill after it had received
enough votes to insure it's passage. An
initiative and referendum resolution
has passed the senate and will be
checked up to the house for another
chance to make good.
Both the house and senate have
passed mother pension bills. Each
mouse, however, passed separate meas
ures and onto the senate bill was hung
referendum Joker.
The workmen's compensation bill as
amended by the sub committee of la
Dor has passed the house 1t is now
on the senate calendar.
Labor Bureau Measures.
Labor bureau bills to place the nam
ing of state labor commissioner in the
hands of the labor organizations are
on the calendars of both the house and
senate. This bill may come up for
consideration next week.
A bill to abolish the state irrigation
board passed the house and was killed
in the senate. Both houses passed a
bill reducing the barber board to bub-
bleS and separating two members from
their jobs. The bill to repeal the
hotel inspector act passed the house,
but struck an open switch in the SEN
ate. bill to consolidate the board
of corrections with the board of con-
troll passed the house and was slaugh-
tered in the senate.
Both houses passed the bulk sales
bill and voted to repeal the pure shoe
law. A bill to simplify the present
form of county government is on both
the house and senate calendars. Bills
to take county officers out of politics
and to elect county superintendent
and state superintendent of public in
struction on non-partisan ballots met
defeat in the house. An effort on the
part of the house to repeal the nom
partisan judiciary act was defeated.
The judicial apportionment bill, an
administration measure, passed the
senate. The senate proposition to
separate eight judges from their jobs
was checked up to the house and
killed.
The Price of Clark civil service bill
has passed the senate. 1t is Low on
the house calendar under third read
ing.
improvements under state laws, have
passed the senate and are in the hands
of the house.
The revised public utilities act has
been killed in the senate and is on the
house calendar.
That is in brief summary of the
legislative work to date-the record
of "a days and nights of steady
grinding of the legislative mill in
charge of 165 select millers. With
the coming of spring and the harrow
ing thought that the state is setting
aside nothing to pay for meal tickets
and room rent, there is a growing de-
sire among the members to go home.
They want to start the spring blowing.
they want to their constituents
and talk over with their neighbors the
price of the 1915 wheat crop and the
war outlook in Europe. Maybe the
administration whip crackers may be
able to hold the law makers in To-
peka another two weeks. But it is
doubtful.
And Adjournment?
The senate has gone on record as
favoring final adjournment March 16
and a good many members on both
sides of the house favor the resolution.
To stay in Topeka another two weeks
means rather thorough cleaning up
Of the legislative calendars. Still a
legislative house cleaning is a matter
of lesser Importance to a member who
has been in Topeka almost two
months and wants first hand news
about the latest litter of pigs and the
crop of spring calves.
AS yet none of the big appropriation
bills are out of the way. With the
uncertainty of holding their members
in Topeka beyond the end of next
week, leaders are now talking real
concessions. That means. it is be-
lieved, that the two bodies will break
the deadlock early next week and
make reasonable appropriations for the
maintenance and advancement of the
state institutions and department
Then the house and senate will be
ready to adjourn. A half dozen adj
ration or party bills on the cal
endar, more or less, will then become
a matter of but slight concern.