The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02

vacancy the city attorney may cast the
deciding vote.
A b.lls,ysNi.on Of Gunner to. cbistrect
the state 4aw~and stfehgthen its pro-
visions for the condemnation of ground
for park purposes has passed the sem
ate committed Of the Whole. :
The senate Monday afternoon passed
the Troutman resolution which places
the seal of Kansas approval on the
HObson national prohibition measure
now in the hands of congress, instruct
ing the members of this states dele
cation at Washington that it is the
sense of the Kansas legislature that
prohibitory laws should be adopted by
the federal government and directing
them to support the Hobson bill.
Senator Bale waggener of Atchison
pointed out the fatal defect in the bill
introduced by Troutman of Shawnee by
request which provided for the pay
ment of the attorneys fees for the
plaintiff in suits for small amounts
which might be brought after the
plaintiff had demanded and been re-
fused settlement OUT of court. The
bill was one which opened wide posi-
bilities for the cultivation of litigation
against railroads and other corporation
which make practice of resisting all
unusual claims through their legal de-
partments.
The senate has approved the Shouse
bill for the construction of a 5000
heating tunnel on the grounds of the
state home for feeble minded at Win
field. The committee of the whole yes
terday' recommended it for final pae-
| sage.
| Correcting an error; in the drafting
of salary bill for clerks and treasur-
ers of Kansas counties which in 1913
Internationally cut down the salaries
in Shawnee county from $4,000 to
$4,000 the state senate yesterday pass
ed an amendment and an approprfa-
ton reinstating those, Eo salaries and
authorizing the county commissioners
! to reimburse the officers who have
been going $500 short of the salaries
they expected when elected.
Approval was given Monday by the
senate committee of the whole to
Joseph's bill for the revision of the
military exemption laws of the state,
putting them on the same basis with
the exemptions from military service
recognized by the federal government.
The present bill extends exemption to
those whose religious beliefs forbid
them participating in war.
Members of the legislature have
been invited to attend the night ses-
sion OF the Kansas State Farmers
union convention in 1 Representative
hall tonight. An invitation to the
delegates to the convention to accept
the privileges of the floor Of the sem
ate, was extended by vote of the up
per house yesterday and Senator
Harry Gray of Osborne has been
made committee Of one to escort the
visitors in.
Don't you fellows want anything to
eat" demanded Lieutenant Governor
Morgan at quarter past six O'Clock
Monday evening as the Senate COM
mittee of the whole completed its
report Of the work which had delayed
its afternoon session until we'll into
| the supper hour. The committee Of
the whole had reported after a sit
ting marked with spirited debate over
appropriation measures and the time
had passed unheeded. There was
| nothing left but to adjourn but for
| once the senators were not in haste to
do it. Morgan waited expectantly for
the motion to adjourn but 1t didn't
come even when he inquired II the
! Senator from SedgWick did not have q
4 motion to make Senator Nighswong-
err. however was lost in Retrospective
contemplation of q tilt he had had
I with the memb r from Reno earlier In
! the afternoon. and he absent-minded-