The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-17
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provides that eventually they shall go
into the road funds of the different
counties. The bill fixes penalties upon
! both mechanics and garage employers
who fail to obey the lava fine of
from SO to 500, 80 days in jail and
the revocation of the certf- icate.
Looks Bad for Whitney.
The senate elections committee
which is digging into the facts in
volved in the senatorial contest of I.
H. Mahin of Smith county against SEN
ator w. c. Whitney of the same dis
trict, is reported to have found %
Mahin votes in the Smith county re-
count. favorable to Mahin.
Originally Whitney had lead of
eighteen votes in the whole district,
made up of Smith, Phillips and Norton
counties and the twenty-eight votes in
Smith county would give Mahin a lead
of ten votes. 1t is said also that four
or five scattering votes have also been
| found Tor Mahin, but the twenty-eight
| were found in Valley township.
| The original contest proceedings
called only for a recount of the votes
cast for senator in Smith county. 1t
] is said today that the attorneys for
! Whitney may now ask that the cleo
| lions committee open up the whole
| matter; that it call for all of the bal
lots cast in the three counties of the
district and recount them. 1t is pos
ST BILE that before the elections commit
| tee can do this it will be necessary to
have the approval of the whole senate.
| Whitney now occupies the seat con-
/ tested by Mahin. He received the GER
| tificate of election upon the majority
| of eighteen and was sworn in as a
| member of the senate. He is a DEM
| ocrat Mahin is a Republican and
was a candidate for his second term.
| Senator Schoch, of Shawnee, took a
| shot at the revered parole system in
| a bill introduced in the senate. 1t
prohibits the parole of persons sem
| fenced to Jail for violations of the
/ prohibitory law. The only thing for
which they may be released from Jail,
| under the terms Of his measure, is for
work on the streets of city or roads
| of a county. The bill provides for II
J Judgment of custer against the judge
who violates the terms of the proposed
| law and paroles jointiStS or bootleg
gers. In Shawnee county it has been
| the custom rather than the exception
to parole violators of the prohibitory
| left for booze houses to advertise their
sentences, fines included. There has
also been a great deal of complaint
because of the custom
| If bill introduced by Senator
| Schoch, of Shawnee, becomes a law,
! the few Kansas newspapers still pub
| fishing liquor advertising will be
separated from chat source of revenue.
The bill prohibits all Kansas news
papers from carrying liquor advertis-
| ing 1t also prohibits the distribution
| of circulars advertising wet goods. 1t
prohibits the posting of such adVer-
Using on bill boards. The only way
| left for booze houses to ADVERSE their
wares would be thru Uncle Sam s mail
and congress is said to be preparing
to close that revenue
| Senator Nighswonger, of Sedgwick
county, has introduced a bill providing
a penalty for the misbranding of mat
| tresses If it passes there will be no
doubt on the part of the sleeper as 10
what sort of mattress he is sleeping
upon If he has doubt all he Will
have to do will be to raise the sheet
and look at a tag which must be at
tached The tag will list all the COM
ponent parts of the mattress with the
| correct weight of each. The bill pro-
vides a Jail sentence of not more THAI
six months and a fine of from $25 to
$500 for violations of the act.
The three proposed constitutional
amendments by Barr of Bourbon, paw
ing the way for a constitutional con-
yention were reported back to the sen
ate without recommendation by the
committee on federal and state af-
! fairs, of which Senator Bergen of Mar
| shall is chairman. The committed
checks the responsibility up to the
whole senate.
The senate adopted the resolution
:. already adopted by the house, extend
ing an invitation to Charles F. Scott o
lola to deliver an address before {
Joint meeting of the two bodies dur
ing the present session. Mr.. Scot
has spent some time in Mexico inves
tigating conditions there and numer
Gus legislators want TO hear his i'm
pressions.
The question as to whether or no
the state printer and his proofreader
should be permitted to correct tn,
spelling and punctuation of senator
called forth more argument than an!
other matter that has been before th'
i upper house this session. 1t wa
Huffman of CRAWFORD who offered tn,
4 resolution, believing that it would pre-
vent such errors from passing thru
both houses and into the statute books
Half a dozen senators looked upon i
as a reflection upon their education
tOthers objected upon the ground tina
it was delegating legislative powers Il
people not members of the legislature
| Senator Satterthwaite of Butler of
| fered an amendment providing tina
the corrections should be made onlI
with the consent of the author of tn,
measure. That helped to some exten
but when it came to d vote there wa.
nothing doing and the senate tabled
the resolutions.
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