The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

in committees ....... III
HOUSE RECORD.
Original bills introduced. ..... yOe
Senate bills passed. Observation-Disclosures. I43
Killed in committees. Observation-Disclosures. 4IG
Killed on floor. 20
Died on calendar or in committee. $50
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Senate bills killed floor. SO
Senate bills died on calendar or in
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IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED.
state manager bill.
City manager bill.
state highway commission act.
Marriage registration bill.
Repeal Massachusetts ballot law.
Anti-trading stamp act.
Repeal commission merchant act.
Marriage registration law.
State detention home for women.
State fair bills.
Child labor law.
Revision movie censorship act.
Peddler's license bill.
Abolition Weir school of mines.
Mill tax amendment.
Standardization act.
Graduated inheritance tax.
Compulsory mothers pensions.
Road and bridge bills.
Motor license act.
Limiting deposits state banks.
Working cOnvicts on highways.
Compulsory reports to utilities commits
sion.
Oil inspection bill.
Compulsory audit state institutions.
Extra pay for national guardsmen-
WOrkmen's compensation act.
Rebuild east wing state house
Fixing legal age of women.
IMPORTANT BILLS KILLED.
Executive budget system.
Constitutional convention.
Graduated tax provision
Three-fOurths jury verdict.
Repeal tax rebate law.
Repeal primary election law.
Nine-hOur law for women.
Home rule for cities.
Property rights for women.
Cooperative banking bill.
Salary increases for state officials.
Limiting practice attorney general.
Consolidation county offices.
Teachers pension bill.
Receivers by utilities commission.
Oil and gas production tax.
Consolidation departments agriculture.
live stock and animal hus-
Four-year terms for state and county Of
ficers.
Revision tax laws.
Compulsory eighth grade education.
Establishment county debtors courts
Appointment state and county superin-
tendents public instruction.
judicial reappOrtiOnment.
Removal limit to number of constitu-
tiOnaI amendments possible TOT SUBMISSION
in single election
VETOED BY GOVERNOR.
Compelling utilities commission to decide
cases in eleven months.
Use of convict labor on Hutchinson fair
grounds.
Repeal commission merchant license law.
When the Kansas legislators turned
in their keys Friday afternoon, they
had passed 337 new laws, while Gov.
Capper had used the pruning knife on
three perfectly good looking and reg
ularly adopted laws. The governor
can supply the knife until next Wednes-
dav night and it is probable several
of the measures started for the 1917
session laws will be removed by use
of the executive veto
The legislature has adopted fewer
measures than any law making body
assembled in Topeka in recent years.
Tt has also considered fewer measures
than the average legislature. Dur
ing the active session just closed, l.
500 house and senate bills found their
way to the hopper. This was rec
ord of more than 300 below the show
ing of two years ago, when the num-
her of house and senate bills Rugged
the 1000 mark.
Reviewed as a session, the 1917 leg
islature passed a score of important
bills from the 1929 offered. Prac-
tically AS per cent OF all bills intro
duced travelled no further than the
committee rooms. Final adjournment
found more than 200 bills in the com
mittees and on the calendars. These
measures died without rights of clergy
Few Administration Bills.
Looking at the session from the
standpoint of the state administration,
the work has not been a complete
success. A small per cent of the ad-
ministration bills went thru the leg
islature to final passage. Many of the
bills in which the governor expressed
the keenest interest. were killed in
committees or slaughtered in open
fight on the floor OF the house or
senate. At least half of the bills passed
as administration measures were
adopted after their teeth had been ex-
tracted and were sent to the governor
with little except an enacting clause
and a milo hammered, meaningless
statutory expression.
In the last two weeks of the ses-
sion. the legislature went its own
way and listened to no one When
someone waved the administration
flag, he aroused no enthusiasm and
the fact that the governor wanted
or did not want a certain measure
was a matter of small concern All
of the constitutional provisions pro-