The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-20

House and Senate Complete
Organization by Ratifying
Caucus Nominations.
Members Holding Certificates of EIee-
ton Seated emporariIy-Keene
Chosen Speaker of House.

Chosen Speaker of House.
Topeka--The Kansas Legislature
journed to await the delivery of the
governors message the next morning.
w. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor
called the senate to order and the oath
of office was administered to the sena-
tors by r. A. Burch, associate justice
of the supreme court. In the house
J. T. Botkin, secretary of state, called
the members to order and w. A. Johns
ton, chief justice of the supreme court,
administered the oath.
The majority caucus nominations
for the elective places in both
branches were put through without de-
lay. The officers of the senate are:
President pro tenn, C. S. Huffman;
secretary, Emmett George; sergeant
alarms, E. B. Jones.
The officers of the house are:
Speaker, A NJ Keene; speaker pro
tenn, w. A. Layton; chief clerk, Clar-
ence Miller; sergeant-at-arms, A. E.
Hawkinson.
Each branch has one contest to be
settled. The members who were
given the certificates of election were
seated and will act suntil the cleo
ton committees and the members act
finally on the contests l. NJ Mahin,
Republican. is contesting the election
Of w. c. Whitney for senator from the
Fortieth District. R. E. Herndon, Re
publican, is contrasting the election of
Samuel Clasen for representative from
the Rosedale district, Wyandotte
County. The Republicans have more
than a two-thirds majority in the SEN
ate and majority of fourteen in the
house.
There are thirty-one Republican SEN
ators and nine Democratic. There are
seventy-seven Republicans, forty-six
Democrats and two Socialists in the
house
Every Senator a Chairman.
The senate committee on commit
tees has completed the work of assign
ing committee chairmanships in the
upper branch of the Kansas Legisla-
ture. Every senator has been given
a committee The committee is now
at work filling in the numbers of the
various committees. This work will
not be completed for several days
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Denied q Charter.
The state charter board has re,
fused to grant charter to the Royal
Fraternal Association of Kansas City,
Kan. This association was organized
70 4o1x 10 oil of ho
fraternal associations run by the for
eign element of Kansas City, Kan.
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Slow On License Fees.
More than 1000 hotels, restaurants
and boarding houses in Kansas have
failed to pay their annual license fee
to the hotel commissioner and notice
has been served on each one that it
will be closed on January Is if it is
not paid by that time.
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Labor Law No Help to Cops.
The Kansas supreme court has af
firmed decision of the Sedgwick
county district court that the city OF
wichita was not liable under the
Workingmen's Compensation Act for
the death of policeman in the per
Torrance Of his duties.
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Averts a Hanging in Kansas.
William White, sentenced to be
hanged in the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, January IA, will not be
put to death Ohio T. Woods, United
States marshal here, has received a
message from the federal parole board
in Washington that Whites sentence
had been committed to life imprison
ment.
College Presidents Meet.
State registration of teachers, ath
letics and music credits were some OF
the subjects discussed at the meeting
of the Kansas College Presidents As
sociation which brought representa-
tives of seventeen state and denomi
national schools to Topeka recently.
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To Show Work of Schools.
When the 1917 legislature asks what
the state schools are doing for Kansas
to warrant the big appropriations
awarded them every two years, the
board of administration will be pre-
pared to answer the question. Sew
eral charts are being prepared to show
the activities of the seven state
schools.
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Contests Wyandotte Seat
w. K. Herndon, Republican, has
filed his notice of a contest of the
election of Samuel Clasen, representa-,
tive from Wyandotte county The pa,
pers were filed with the secretary OF
state and will be laid before the house
when it convenes.
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Supreme Court Bars Lawyer.
John +. Hanson, a Mcpherson law.
yer, has been denied rehearing by
the supreme court which recently
barred him from practice before the
court.
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Schools Cost $42, ooo, 600.
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