The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-22
House Threatens to Reject APP
preparation Bills in Senate.
East Side May Be Asked to
Withdraw Money Measures.
SENATE VIOLATES PROMISES?
House Claims Senate Agreed tC
Pass Up Charity Budget.
Educational and Penal InstItu-
tiOns Are Given Their Share.

The first war cloud of the present
legislative session appeared TO-DAY
when the house members threatened
to reject appropriation bills original
ing in the senate.
Members of the senate ways and
means committee may be asked by
house members to withdraw their APP
propriation bills for state charitable
institutions If the bills are not taken
from the calendar, it is propaole the
house will refuse to consider tnem-
Under an agreement, it is claimed that
the senate violated its promise by orig
mating appropriations for several nun
! dred thousand dollars.
When the house and senate ways
and means committees organized, the
work for the session was distributed
The house was to originate all appro-
priations for state charities. as we'll as
the executive and judicial approprla-
lions. The senate was to originate
the appropriation bills affecting state
educational institutions and penal IN
stitutions Now, it is claimed, the
senate has violated its contract All
of which may mean that the house will
retaliate by refusing to consider SEN
ate appropriations for state charities
Or-should the senate refuse to abide
by the working agreement-the house
may decide to originate all approprla-
| ton measures.
Fails to Keep Faith.
THE appropriation measures sub
mitted to the senate are not in keep
| ing with our agreement" declared
| Coolidge of Smith county, chairman oil
the house ways and means committee
Our agreement at the first joint ses-
| sion of the house and senate commit
| tees provided that the house Should
originate all appropriations for char
| ita BILE institutions, as well as the exec
utive and judicial appropriations. Pc
nal and educational bills were to come
| from the senate. The house has lived
| up to the word and spirit of the
| agreement. But the senate has failed
to keep faith by Introducing bills fol
state charities before they have beer
considered or approved by the house
committee.
81 don't know whether the record
will show the exact words of oul
agreement, but l think the individual
members understand the agreement
perfectly. The proper thing for the
| senate to do under the circumstance:
would be to withdraw these bills They
certainly can't expect the house t.
pass them IN the face of our agree
ment. If it is all right to violate the
agreement in one place, we might jus
as well wipe out the agreement en-
tirely. In that case each house woult
originate it's own appropriation meas
ures-and the Lord only knows wher
we would get home
| The senate bills which aroused the
! house members came from Senator
Walter e. Wilson of Washington coun
| ty, chairman of the senate ways anC
means committee. Tho bills were in
| trOduced by Senator Wilson and re
| ferred to tie committee of which h,
is chairman. Measures introduced il
, the house were originated by the way:
| and means committee and offered a;
committee bills
A break between the house and sen
ate concerning appropriations nigh
revive the appropriation deadlock o
two years ago. In which event tn,
bright prospects Of an early adjourn
ment would be shattered while tn,
legislature fought over allowances t.
state institutions