The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-16
ReappOrtiOnment Measure To
Be Drafted by Committee.
1t viii Be Brought Out Some
Time Next Week.
GOODBYE TO ALL NEAR-BEERS
Temperance Committee Recon-
mends Anti-BevO Bill.
Cold Water Is Thrown ON Pro-
posed Carrie Nation Statue.

Kansas legislators are to fight over
a judicial reapportionment bill before
adjournment of the present session.
After the house judicial apportion-
ment committee had killed the
Brooks bill, the house adopted ii mo-
ton calling on the judiciary commit
te> to originate and report : new
Judiciary bill.
During every legislative session in
years the lawmakers have tackled the
jCb of redistricting the state and re-
duc'ng the number of judges. Just
now the state has thirty-eight district
judges on the pay roll. Two yalrs ago
the senate, which Governor Capper
accused of pork barrel methods, orig
irated and passed a judicial reappor-
tiCnment bill only to send it - Il sad
fate in the house.
Brooks, of Chautauqua county, had
offered a bill in the present session for
reapportionment. The bill was to-
day reported unfavorably The Sedan
morgue to the house calendar. But he
lost. Then Martin of Reno came to the
rescue.
Measure Up Next Week.
The house adopted a motion that
the judiciary committee should orlgl-
nate a bill and the measure will APP
pear some time next week This aft
ernoon Martin, as chairman of the jul
dietary committee, summoned all dis
trict Judges to Attend a hearing of the
house committee next Wednesday
: The action was taken that the judges
might not be placed in the attitude OF
| lobbying for the passage or defeat OF
! pending legislation. Persons other
than judges will also be asked to APP
! pear before the committee.
AS soon as a bill is reported from
! the Judiciary committee, an effort viii
be made to advance it to a special or
| der.
Farewell to Bevo.
! The house temperance COMMITTEES
( today returned a favorable report Or
! the bill which would put Bevo, Temp
/ Brew and other near beers under the
| ban in this state. The bill is aimed
at everything that locks like beer
smells like beer, tastes like beer or il
any manner leads a person to think
of beer. A bill to place Jamaica gin
! ger under the ban in Kansas wa.
| killed by the committee which re-
| turned a favorable report on the near.
/ beer bill.
Kill Consolidation Bill.
Members of the house agricultural
committee forgot the governors pro-
gram for consolidation and abolition
| of useless boards and commissions
| when it killed the Evans bill. Under
the bill the legislature would have
abolished the office of dairy commits
sioner. livestock registry board, en-
tomological commission and horticul-
tural society.
No Carrie Nation Statue.
| Efforts of the state temperance
union to secure the erection of q
Carrie Nation memorial drinkins
fountain on the state house grounds
have failed. Ed McDougall, chairman
/ of the house committee on buildings
and grounds, returned a report I'M
favorable to the passage of the bill
| introduced early in the session Tenn
perance workers in Kansas were be-
hind the bill, which sought to provide
| for memorial drinking fountain to
the memory of the late joint smasher