The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-15
SENATE NOTES

The house bill by MeDougal grant
ing honorable discharges to the sur
viving men and officers of Company
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unteers, who protected the frontier
during Indian uprisings in 1869, was
passed by the senate today. The adj
jutant general is instructed to enter
such discharges upon the records of
his office and to issue certificates OF
honorable discharge 10 each of the
survivors. The men served under
Lieut.. c. Stinson and were in service
for 4 period of six months.
Upon the petition of three resident
landowners of any township the
township trustee is required to appoint
some one to exterminate pocket goph-
erS under the provisions of bill
passed by the senate today. The bill
was introduced by Senator Carroll of
Wabaunsee. The person doing the eX-
terminating is to receive 81 and the
expenses are to be borne by the town
ship.
Permanent right-of-way for
switch track at the Hutchinson state
reformatory is granted to the Hutch
inson & Northern Railway company in
bill passed by the senate today. 1t
was introduced by the committee on
| railroads
On two separate occasions, in print
ing its black-letter roll calls, a Kan
sas City paper has designated Senator
Terrell of Chautauqua, as Demo-
crat. There were rumOrS today of
Republican caucus Wednesday night.
Terrell was asked about it.
After being branded twice as a
Democrat L doubt whether 1 would
have been invited to a Republican eau
Gus if there had been one," he replied.
| Cooperative banking met it's death
at the hands of the senate committee
on banks and banking. The commit
tee reported back today recommend
ing that the bill by Whitney of Smith,
providing that any aggregation of cap
| ital might get together and organize a
| cooperative bank, be not passed. The
| bill was one of the Farmers Union
measures.
| The senate committee on banks and
| banking declined to assume any re-
| sponsibility in connection with the bill
creating The Bank of Kansas" 1t was
reported out today without recon-
mendation. The bill was introduced
by Bergen of Marshall, a banker, and
provided for the organization of an
| immense bank-a bankers bank 1t
will now go on the senate calendar to
be considered in the committee of the
| whole.
So far as the senate is concerned
you may go on sleeping on a mat
tress, the contents of which are a mys-
| terry. The bill introduced by Nighs-
wonger, of Sedgwick, requiring that all
mattresses be labeled showing their
| component parts, was killed by the
committee to which it was referred.
The committee held that it is I'M
| important what a mattress contains
so long as it induces eight hours Sleep
| The bill also provided for the labelling
| If comforts, but that also went by the
| board.
The senate frowned upon the pro-
posed increase in the salaries of the
! justices of the supreme court The BILL
| introduced by Carroll of Wabaunsee
/ gave each justice a salary of $4,000 a
year. The senate committee on fees
and salaries recommended today that
| the bill be not passed.
The bill introduced by Wilson of
Washington, permitting banks to act
as guardians and executors was kill
ed today by an adverse report turned