The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22

vored a high-priced expert who should
serve as general manager, with the
board of directors
senator Kanavel held that the
board should be bigger than the gen
eral manager and should receive
salary sufficient to make the places OF
interest to men big enough to fill the
Jobs He proposed to make the gem
, eral manager a business manager act
ing under the directions of the poaru-
The thing was threshed out in the
governors office on several occasions
and it was generally supposed that an
agreement had been reached but not
so. The discussion had been on nos
more than ten minutes when 1t de-
veloped that Senator Carroll OF wa
baunsee, the floor manager and Sena-
tor kanaVel had UNDERSTANDINGS
Senator Kanavel was loaded with ali
the amendments he had prepared To
make the house bill conform with his
ideas and Senator Carroll stood pat
for the house bill.
While friends of the measure rose
up and swatted each other its enemies
ducked behind newspapers and laugh
cd in glee. Ultimately they discov-
cred that Senator Kanavers amend
ments covered the ground covered by
the Republican platform and they
turned in and aided him. He put all
Of his amendments into the BILL then
sat down and watched the prsces-
sion.
All previous combinations were
shattered in the making of this meas
ure There was no lineup, Gtho the
! indications are there would nave
been had not the Kanavel amend
ments gone into the bill senator
Getty of Wyandotte amended the OH
by recurring that the business m ma
/ ger be an actual resident of Kansas
| 1t is said that the plans were to go
into another state for an expert.
/ Price Helped Put 1t Over.
Senator Price, who led the fSht
against the constitutional convention
/ idea, helped put the state manager
bill over. Even the Democrats We're
not together. Senator Malone 81
RawIins made the motion to strike
ont the enacting clause in committee
of the whole and talked to that mo-
zion. vet Nighswonger of SedSwick
end Whitney of Jewell voted for tAe
bill. ..,,..
The roll call resulted as follows:
For-Barr Bergen, Carroll, Cole-
man. Delaney. Gulick, Hart, Huffman
Kanavei. Laing. McClain, Metcalf,
MiIligan. Montee. Myers: Nlshswon-
ger. Paulen Pomeroy, Schoch, Smlth'
Snyder, Thompson, Wark, whitney,
| Wilson'S. -,-
Against-Anspaugn Drummer. Crock
err. Doerr. Getty. Kimball, Malone
Nixon Plumb, Satterthwalte. SUIT
| toni. -
At one time during the depdte the
whole manager idea was In danger
Senator Schoch of Shawnee moved to
strike ont all of section 8, which is
that part of the bill providing for a
business manager and fixing ms
duties. Eleven senators voted for that
motion. although not the same eleVen
who voted against the bill on 1Inai
passag e The friends of the bill de-
cIared Schoch's motion struck at the
very heart" of the measure, and the
following senator's voted for it:
Crocker, Doerr, Getty. kimball, Ma
lone. Nixon Plumb, Satterthwaite,
Schoch and Sutton.
Having amended the house bill IN
many particulars it is not expected
that the house will concur, at once, IN
the senate changes. There will prob
ably be conference committees ano
extended conferences. Practically a
new bill may eventually come from
! the conferences.