The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-19
Wilson Wants State Charities
Literally Provided For.
OsawatOmie Hospital to Get
More Than Half Million.
$4,000 TO PRIVATE HOMES
New Censorship Measure Intro
duced by MOntee Today.
1t Provides Doing Away With
the Appeal Board.

Six Kansas charitable institutions
receive a total of $1.7O4.4e0 under bills
introduced in the senate today by VIII
son of Washington, chairman of the
ways and means committee. The to-
tai is for maintenance, repairs and
new buildings for 1917191S.
The big slice goes to the Osawa-
tonne state hospital, the bills for this
institution calling for 1874 1000. The
Parsons state hospital is due to re-
ceive s373,000. which includes new
building for male and female patients
and a new dairy barn.
The Winfield school for feeble
minded asks for a total of $234,50O,
and this includes a new dairy barn.
For a new institution the tubercular
sanitarium fares well with the senate
ways and means committee The bills
call for total appropriation of $261,-
100, which covers new pavilion for
patients, dairy barns and dairy herds
The bill for the Larned state hospital
calls for a total of s122,200. The
Orphans home at Atchison asks for
$10S,000, which covers hospital
building and equipment and an ice
and heating plant.
In addition to these appropriations
asked for other measures were intro
duced by Senator Wilson calling for a
total of $4,000 to be distributed
among private charitable institutions
selected to receive state aid because
of their public character.
New Censorship Bill.
Motion picture censorship as it now
is is scheduled for radical changes
under bill introduced in the senate
by Montee of Crawford. 1t takes the
censorship out of the hands of state
officers and places it under the di-
rectfon Of a board OF three members
to be appointed by the governor.
But the most radical feature of the
bill is that it provides for no appeal
board. The appeal must be to the dis
trict court. All relief from a decision
of the board must be sought there.
The bill provides not only for the
censorship of the films but of the post
ers and other advertising matter.
Members of the board are to be APP
pointed for three-year terms and
each is to draw a salary of s1.S00 a
year and actual expenses incident to
his work
The bill does not say anything about
the qualifications of the board MEM
bers except that they shall be electors
and that not more than two shall be
of the same political faith. They may
be preachers, lawyers, dentists, mer-
chants. blacksmiths or bankers.
penalty is provided for violations
of the rulings of the board. consisting
of a Jail sentence of from thirty DAYS
to one year and fine of from s25 TO
$500. The same bill was introduced
in the house today by Graves of Craw-
ford.
Senator Kimball of Labette intro
duced bill creating district in
southeastern Kansas and calling for
the establishment of a branch agricui-
tural experiment station at some point
within it. The district is to be com
posed of Bourbon, Allen. Neosho, La
bette, Montgomery, Wilson. Woodson.
Greenwood and Elk. An appropriation
of $1S,100 is made for 1917, and an
appropriation of $500 for 1918.
All mausoleums, crypts and cata-
combs constructed in Kansas herea H.
er of sufficient size to accommodate
twenty bodies will come under the jur-
isdiction of the state board of health
under the terms of a bill introduced in
the senate by Wilson of Washington.
1t provides that plans for such vaults
shall be submitted to the board before
construction is begun and that they
shall be available to inspection at all
times thereafter
A bill introduced in the senate by
Bergen, of Marshall, provides that
trust companies shall keep on hand 10
per cent of all deposits subject 10
check and per cent of time deposits.
1t also provides that the lal. shall not
apply to money left with the trust
company merely for safekeeping.
Garage owners and blacksmiths are
given first liens upon automobiles
upon which they make repairs undS-
the terms of a bill introduced in the
senate by Nighswonger of Sedgwick.
The automobile may be sold and the
proceeds applied upon the repair bill
the same as under a chattel mortgage.
In a resolution offered in the senate
.Montee, of Crawford, asks that tho
public utilities commission be instruct
ed to report to the senate giving pres
ent freight rates upon all the leading
commodities in Iowa, Nebraska Mis-
souri, Oklahoma and Texas. In 1915
the railroads asked for permission 20
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