The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
ONLY 8 "COT BY"
Senate Drops Axe on COnstitu-
tiOnaI amendments.
House Has Killed Two of Three
Favored by Senate.

Just three of the seven or eight
proposed constitutional amendments
got by the senate in Wednesday,
field day. Two of the three adopted
have been killed by the house.
One amendment adopted provides
for the submission to a vote a pro-
posed amendment permitting the leg
lslature TO levy permanent tax for
the support of the state educational
institutions. 1t IS the measure COM
monty known as the mill tax meas
ure, but it's friends do not SO desig-
nate it. The resolution, if adopted in
the form of a constitutional amend
ment, would not prevent legislatures
from appropriating more than the
amount levied to the different institu-
tons. but it would provide mimi
mum. The measure was introduced
by Senator Coleman of johnson, VINO
attended Baker university, not X. U.
1t was killed in the house.
Another proposed constitutional
amendment adopted by the senate
makes possible to submit as many as
six proposed constitutional amend
ments to a vote at any one general
election. That resolution was intro
duced by Senator Barr of B ,urbon.
1t was killed in the house.
The Satterthwaite resolution pro-
viding that only citizens OF the Uni
ted States" who have lived in the
state, the township or ward a given
length of time shall vote, was adopted
by the senate. 1t was explained by
it's author who stated that it would
keep from voting foreign citizens who
had merely declared their inten-
tons of becoming full-fledged citi-
zens. That resolution proposing to
amend the constitution has not yet
reached the house. 1t was acted upon
in the senate first. 1t is still alive.
The question as to which has the
4 tn I1a
maker or the bill killer-brought
forth a few short arm jabs Wednesday
afternoon.
Senator Terrell of Chautauqua.
chairman of the taxation committee,
has worked night and day on COM
niittee bills and the bills of other sem
ators getting them in shape for in
PRODUCTION, then as chairman of the
committee has made a stand for them
on the floor of the senate. One by
one they have gone down. The SEN
ate isn't interested in taxation mat
tiers and Terrell, as their defender,
has been swatted from one end of the
hall to the other. There have been
times when he appeared to take it to
heart.
The senate was working, not upon.
but at an inheritance tax bill brought
in by the taxation committee Right
in the midst of it Senator Getty who
had already managed to raise the
cuticle on Terrell several times, moved
that the enacting clause of the bill
be stricken out. Terrell defended the
measure as chairman of the commit
tee and while Senator Schoch of
Shawnee wasn't particularly intereste ed
in the bill he went to Ferrells defense.
He declared that he had more respect
for the bill maker than the bill killer,
and he looked at Getty when he said
it. The bill was killed. Half an hour
later another measure was in con-
sideration and Schoch made an argu-
ment.
ANY man who will make an argu-
ment like that is bill-killer in truth ~
said Senator Getty, and he looked at
SchoGh when he said it.
The proposed garnishment law in
troduced by Senator McClain of Allen
and killed once. revived by a vote for
reconsideration and voted upon again
Wednesday, was killed. 1t was cal
culated to cut down the costs in gar
nishment cases. In most little suits
of this character the costs amount
to more than the 10 per cent the
creditor may take from the debtors
wages. The McClain bill sought to
limit the costs to 10 per cent, also.
I'll be in the senate again two
years from now" said Senator Nc
Claim, land I'm going to make it my
business to repeal the whole o per cent
~ Ups L ho Oiu SdIHiSIlIIlSIlt law
was right. A mans wages ought to
be IN the same safe position as his
homestead"
Under call OF the senate a suffi-
cient number of votes was obtained
to pass the garage owner bill intro
duced by Kimball of Labette 1t pro-
Woes that garage owner may hold
lien against car upon which he
makes repairs or to which he fur
nishes supplies or storage. The bill is
full of holes and has kick to it but
Senator kimball accepted it and put
1t thru anyway. AS amended in COM
mittee of the whole it requires the
garage owner to employ licensed
workmen and it holds him financially
responsible for any damage done to
cars by workmen. Inasmuch as there
arc no licensed workmen in Kansas
the measure is imperative.