The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-10
MAY ADJOURN ON MARCH 10
Resolution Setting This Date Intro
duced in LegisIature--comni
tees to Revise the Calendars.

Topeka-A resolution providing for
the adjournment of the Legislature on
March 10 has been introduced. Fol
lowing this action the presiding Off
GERS were authorized TO appoint COM
mittees on the revision OF the calen-
dars.
This means that the important bills
will be pushed to the front and that
when adjournment comes If any bills
are left at the post it VIII be those
dealing with inconseqUentiaI prob
lens
The leaders in both branches be-
lieve they can finish all of the i'm
portant work easily within the time
fixed by the adjournment resolution
The big appropriation bills are before
the two branches. Some of them have
been passed already With the big
appropriations out of the way it viii
be an easy matter to wind up the
other important bills.
The house concurred in the state
manager bill to consolidate the three
big state boards educational. penal
and charitable. The bill now goes to
& i
creates one board of four members.
one OF whom shall be the governor.
and three other appointed by him. The
board will appoint business manager
to handle the financial affairs of the
various educational, penal and char
liable institutions
Parsons hospitaI for epileptics. S25I.-
600 for two years, not including SI9.-
500 for new tunnel: State Soldiers
Home at Dodge City. 1912. 900 for two
years; Mother Bickerdyke. at ELS
worth, s4T,S00, and the State Indus
trial Institute at Topeka, SCI. 500. not
including $4,000 for boys dormitory
and $500 for gymnasium
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Home Rule for Cities Killed.
The Kansas house has finally killed
the home rule amendment for the
cities Of the state Nearly every COM
mittee TO which the proposition was
submitted killed the resolution, but It
finally got out on the calendar. The
first move of the opponents Of home
rule was to strike from the bill the
municipal ownership provisions. When
this was done, thus destroying one Of
the most important provisions. the
resolving clause. was stricken out and
the bill was dead.
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State to Write Insurance?
A proposition for an investigation
into the feasibility Of Kansas going
into the fire insurance business was
submitted to the senate the other day
by Senator KimbaH Of Labette.
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lola in Mourning for GeneraI.-The
Stars and Stripes at halfmast. draped
in crepe, were displayed throughout
the business and residence sections at
Iola-the outward acknowledgment OF
the community's SORROW at the loss OF
her soldier-citizen, Mai Gen Freder-
lex Funston.
the employment Of any child under Il
years OF age in any workshop. factory,
packing house or other manufaetur-
ing establishment, theater or operat-
ing any machinery
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In Seven Weeks, 70 Laws.
Out of 1.6O1 bills introduced in the
become laws. according to a resume
of the session which closed the sew
enth week More than one-third OF
the bills that have been before the
legislators have been killed, the num-
Der being 665.
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For New Child Labor Act.
The house has passed through the
committee Of the whole, the child
labor bill drafted by Miss Lima Bre-
settle. secretary OF the industrial wei
fare commission. The bill prohibits I
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Santa Re Agent Promoted
E C Kitchfng, who has been gen
eral freight agent for the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad at Atchi- |
son, has been appointed as division !
freight agent OF the southern Kansas !
district, with his headquarters At |
Joplin