The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22
Members of the Senate Work
on Appropriation Bills.
Budgets for Penal Institutions
Recommended for Passage.
WANT HAY INSPECTED NOW
SOiOnS Would Give Grain In
SpectOrs More Work to Do.
Bill to Make Railroads Estab-
lish "Hay Tracks,"

The senate has spent all of today
WORKING in committee of the whole
and almost entirely upon appropria-
ton bills Instead of adjourning We'd
nesday night, the body recessed IN
order to be able to work today a
legal holiday
The following appropriation bills
were recommended for passage with
very little debate and no amend
ments:
Girls Industrial Schools 81, 800 $ s., 500
Boys Industrial school 10000 6s.oOo
STATE Penitentiary. 2{0,GIO 2IO,64O
State Reformatory..... 129OOO $4,000
A bill appropriating d total of S22,-
y Tor the purpose of equipping the
Plumb Memorial building at EN-
poria.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
two-year period for the salary of the
State fish and game warden and re-
appropriat ting all up to $4,000 year
from the fees collected by the fish
and game department.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for
building and equipping a dairy barn
and $4,000 for the completion anu
equipping Of a cell house at the
Hutchinson state reformatory
A bill appropriating a total of
$3.50 for the improvement of the
John Brown Memorial park at Osa-
watcmie.
And a bill appropriating to eight
egislators-members OF the house
and senate ways and means commit
tees-S1.5S each representing the eX-
penses incident to trip made TO
Lawrence for the purpose of investi-
eating the needs of the state univer-
sity
a bill introduced in the senate to-
day by the committee on agriculture
puts the Inspection of hay and straw
under the jurisdiction of the state
grain inspection department and tacks
on a fee. Hay and straw appears to
have been passed by uninspected and
untaXed since the grain inspection law
was passed But this bill requires
that the railroads establish what shall
be known as hay tracks" and that
grain inspectors and their deputies
shall inspect each carload. certify it,
and collect a fee of fifty cents per
car. In case the car is loaded SO as
to require much work to get into it
to take samples the owner may be
taxed up to 500 to pay for the
| extra trouble. The bill provides that
the fee shall stand as a lien upon the
hay or straw until it is paid.
The senate committee on livestock
| brought in a bill today extending the
| field of operations of the state live
stock commission. 1t provides thai
| when any crops or livestock are dam
aged by the smoke or fumes from a
Sfneltef or any kindred plaIl the udlIl
| ages shall be adjusted by a board of
arbitration. And the board of arbi-
! tration is to be named by the live
stock commission.
! Senator Satterthwaite of Butler was
| one senator who knew from personal
| experiences who John Brown was
when the bill carue up today making
an appropriation for the John Brown
Memorial Park at OSaWatomie. Sena-
tor Coleman of johnson had offered
an amendment increasing the appro-
! priatiun carried in the bill Senator
/ Satterthwaite was not fighting the APP
preparation. but he suggested that the
road leading to the park be improved
by the county and not at the expense
| of the state.
II know who John Brown was he
said in the course of the debate. II
/ was a boy in the state where John
| Brown enacted the closing events of
| his life and know we came very near
| being lynched because We were aboli-
| tionists. l was shut out of school, not
by order but by public sentiment. We
J We're denied our mail for weeks L
| know what Brown did and 1 know
the wave that swept over the country,
wiping out slavery. following mis- acts.
L am in favor of this appropriation