The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
Senator Joseph FavOrs Plans
for so to 100 Years.
Minority Efficiency and Econ
omy Report In.
DEFENDS PRESENT SYSTEM
Butler County Banker Believes
Old Boards Should Stay.
Joseph Distributes Copies Be.
fore Reporting to Capper.

Kansas should purchase lands and
properties for state institutions sur
ficient to meet demands for period
of fifty to one hundred years, accord
ing to minority efficiency and econ
omy committee report by Senator }.
D. Joseph of Butler county. The re-
port, which is to be sent to Governor
Capper, defends the present plan Tor
three members of all state boards snd
commissions. 1t also recommends to
the legislature the establishment of
central bank in which all state
funds should be deposited
Anxiety of the Butler county Demo-
crat to see his name and report In
print induced him to commit the faux
pas of distributing copies of the re-
port hours in advance of it's official
filing When the matter of Senator
Joseph'S diScourteSy to the governor
was mentioned Senator Joseph re-
marked that he didn't think the
governor would read the report. any
how
When the legislature appointed the
efficiency and economy committee,
Senator Joseph was named as the
minority member. He didn't work
satisfactorily with the Lamhertson-
Burton plan and elected to file his
own report. The report neither de-
tends the Democrat nor Republican
appropriation policies. And today
neither Democrat nor Republican
leaders in the state house displayed
unusual concern regarding the docu-
ment. Yet Senator Joseph was will
ing to admit that his work on the
commission was of so strenuous
character that he did not find time to
run for a second term as state SEN
ator and probably sacrificed another
four-year legislative term. AS a re-
ward it seems that Senator Joseph
must pay his own printing bills if the
report be published
What Joseph Wants.
In his report Senator Joseph rec
ommends the purchase of sufficient
lands for all state institutions for a
period of fifty to one hundred years.
| He urges consolidation of the state
| school for the blind with the Olathe
| deaf school. Adequate buildings at
| Kansas university, continuation of the
i Agricultural college school of journal
| ism, adoption of a state budget sys-
| tenn, establishment of an independent
| course of study in high schools, a re-
vision in taxation laws, creation of a
! labor bureau, abolition of the censor
appeal board, and establishment of a
central bank are other recommenda-
| tons. Senator Joseph praises the
work of the board of administration,
declares it would be a bad policy to
| change the personnel of the utilities
| commission and makes most faVora Bile
| comment on the excellent work of H
c. Bowman as a member of the board
of control.
| With painstaking detail, Senator
Joseph compiled complete course of
study for city and rural high schools
which he desires adopted. Joseph is n
banker.
! Recommendations are made that
the state pay for future alumni din
nerS at the State university, that
| changes be made in the bookkeeping
systems in offices of the state treas
urer and state auditor and that all
stenographers in. the employ of the
state be required to retain note books
at least one year. Adoption of d
thoro filing system in all state offices
is also urged.
The legislature is urged to establish
a central bank combining features OF
the federal reserve and land loan
banks In the bank Senator Joseph
would deposit all state funds, which
he declares would earn a much great
er return than the present per cent
daily balance system. Under the
Joseph plan one-third of the earnings
of the bank would go to the state
| treasury.
Senator Joseph expects to send
printed copies of his report to mem
berS of the legislature