The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-04
Farmers Union VIII Set
Watch on Legislature.
Also on Members Before ana
After the Election.
STILL AFTER THE RAILROADS
Declares the p. u. &. cannot
Handle the Problem.
Wants the Mortgage Reg1stra-
ton Law Re-Enacted.

The Farmers Union is going to be
on its guard when the next legisla-
ture meets and will have Legislative
committee in the state house at 10
peka all during the next session.
Resolutions to this effect were ADOPT
ed this morning at the final session OF
the farmers at the auditorium The
state executive committee was auth-
orized to make provisions for neces-
sary expenses for a legislative COM
mittee before and during the session
of 1917.
The union went on record as en-
dorsing certain measures that failed
in the last legislature and urged that
they be presented at the next session
! for passage. Among these measures
! are the mortgage registration law
passed but killed by a supreme court,
a bill to provide for county schooi
funds and a bill authorizing the. organ
| ization of cooperative banks. An Ell
fort will be made to draft mortgage
registration bill that will be accepted
by the supreme court. Other sections
of the resolution drafted by the com
mittee on legislation and accepted by
| the union are:
VIII Watch Them.
! THAT we invite the cooperation or
other agricultural organizations and
of the state federation of labor, in our
Legislative work.
THAT all candidates for the legisla-
ture be put on record as to measures
in which the farmers are interested.
before election, and that they be
watched after. election.
THAT record of votes on all meas
ures in which farmers are interested
be compiled from the journals of the
two houses and printed in the official
organ"
Still After Railroads.
Another section of the resolution
asked for a ruling requiring that all
railways make up special trains
: whenever live stock shipments of thir-
ty cars or more, are billed out of one
county in one day. Further, that all
trains including cars of livestock must
be moved at an average of 5, or more.
miles per hour, and that the utilities
, commission lacks the power to deal
with this question and that the legis-
I lature be asked to pass the laws nee
! essary to carry these demands into
+ effect.
i NJ. McAuliffe was elected president
of the union just before the meeting
adjourned, to succeed himself for the
Ieighth time. E. E. Woodson. of Ne
imaha, was elected vice president to
succeed H. d. Collins, who becomes a
, mem Der of the executive COMMITTEES.
: E. B. Roadhouse, of Osborne. sue
ceeds himself as secretary. II. D.
Collins, of Neosho, succeeds J. c. Nc
! Kee, of Columbus, as a member oe
f the executive committee; C. A. Mon
same committee, and does o. NJ.
Lappert, of Rush county.
Delegates to the national conven-
ton at Richmond, Va, in November
| are: w. G. Swanson. of Marshal; II.
d. Collins, of Neosho. and w. c.
Lansdon. of Salina. A place for the
next annual meeting was not selected.
| Miss Wooster Talks.
Miss Lizzie f. Wooster. of Salina I;
DR.. Lydia f. DeVilbiss, of the state
board of health; DR.. w. A. Lewis.
. president of the Hays Normal and
George b. Ross, of Kansas City, Kan
spoke before the farmers union last
2 evening. Farm life, according to Miss
5 Wooster, gives the boy and girl "A
: broader idea of usefulness than can
l ever be attained by the city child.
Hogs VS.. Kids.
That Kansas spent $4,000 to fight
< the foot and mouth disease last wear
2 and only $4,000 for the care of babies,
= was a statement made by DIR. DeVfl
2 bliss
! There is nothing in this back to
| the farm movement" said DR. Lewis.
+, Where we should begin is with the
2 children on the farm, if we wish tn
have people in the country. Let us
teach subjects in the country schools
which will form within child. a lik
, ing for the farm, let the farmers child
, study more from books dealing with
; farm problems
: George B. Ross advocated federal
: supervision as a solution of grain in
: spection problems