The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-13

ing to do about IT. Ihere Will prOp-
ably be other meetings"
Besides the letters and kilograms
half a dozen people from the un1ver-
sity were at the state house milling
with the senator's 1t is possible tnal
when the university budget is brought
in, unless it is boosted in advance by
the committee, there will be an EFFORT
made to raise it on the floor
Hike Charity Appropriations.
After a fight for it had been made
the senate committee of the whole
raised the ante of the ways and means
| committee for hospitals doing charity
work. The ways and means commit
tee recommended in a committee Dill
that $4,000 be appropriated and that
1t be left to the board of control to
distribute among deserving tnstitu-
tons, not more than $500 to go to
any one institution.
Senator Getty of Wyandotte, made
the first attack. He declared that one
hospital in his city performed as much
charity work in one year as most OF
the hospitals in the state combined
and he declared it unfair that one in
stitution handling 500 or more charity
patients a year should receive no more
from the state than one handling a
dozen charity cases during the year.
Someone suggested that the board
OF control could look after that; that
it would know where the money would
do the most good and which institu-
lions are most deserving.
yes. retorted the senator from
| Wyandotte, but there are certain
counties in the state which have the
honor OF being the home of members
of the board of control. I notice that
in the county of one of the members
| the institutions get $500, that the in
| situations in the county of another
member get $500 and I presume that
in the course of events the third menu
Der got his, altho l have no record of
| 1t. l cast no reflection upon anyone.
But sometimes mems enthusiasm car
| rieS them away
After Getty, Schoch of Shawnee and
Nighswonger of Sedgwick had at
tempted to raise the total appropria-
ton from $4,000 to $4,000 a year,
| Senator Wilson, chairman of the ways
ard means committee. and Senator
| Carroll of Wabaunsee talked economy
| This senate answered Getty sis
star of the first magnitude in the mat
ter of economy Why, I have actually
known men in this body to go to the
ten-cent store and buy their supplies
| rather than go thru the red tape nee
essary to get a lead pencil from the
state"
The total appropriation was raised
to $4,000. with $500 limit to each
institution and the distribution is left
With the board of control.
Bills Disposed Of
The senate worked in committee of
! the whole all Monday afternoon and
tried to cut down the pages of bills
under general order. Seventeen bills
| were disposed of. as follows:
House bill No. sos by Moore, pro-
| hibiting persons drilling oil or gas
wells from allowing waste water to
flow into streams the water of which
is used for domestic purposes.
Senate bill No 1872, by Senator
a RI IT, i
in cities of the second class.
House bill No SO, by Sparks linn
iting employees in lead and zinc mines
to eight hours a day
! House bill No. 343, by Short, allows
cities of the third class in counties
under 1900 population to issue bonds
to fund floating Indebtedness.
Senate bill No. 266, by Senator
Rolla w. Coleman. enables state board
of administration, with consent OF
governor. to dispose and lease prop
erty when advantageous.
/ House bill No. 451, by Piper, mere
ly allows building and loan associa-
tions to call themselves savings and
loan associations or rural credit asso-
Citations.
II House bill No. 3. by McDougau
provides that members of Company E
Second battalion, Kansas State mill
tia, cavalry volunteers, who helped
repel Indian uprisings in 1863. may
be properly mustered out and honor
ably discharged, formula neglected
to date.
Senate bill No. 345. bv Senator
Baxter d. McClain, gives boards ot
education in cities of tba caoo,,d 49,.
authority TO attacb Iin1itad +arr;. 80.
| adjacent to City for school purposes
on rai1roads tee
Northern Rai11,o,S a1,,,,'ns1,, y
yav across M'tot;1,n pans a rIsht %
aro,,r[5e e.. eono ieioi iiia'oi
io"hu9 ioi s-VU-
senate plll NO. $40, by Senator
lanes Malone authorizes directors Of
eity libraries TO name deputies OF
pro-
senate OIL NO. $50, by Senator
James r Getty, makes civil servic.