The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
Consideration of All Bills Will
Cease Wednesday.
Official Sine Die Adjournment
Saturday Night.
NEARLY ESQ MEASURES ARE up
More Laws i'm 3 Days Than in
Last Eight Weeks.
Bills Dear to Heart of Admins
tratiOn i'm Balance.

Topeka will say goodbye to the 1917
legislature sometime after midnight
Wednesday, This is the ninth and
final week of the session. Considera
ton of all bills will cease with the
Wednesday session. While legislative
officers will remain in Topeka few
DAYS to sign bills and receive mes
sages from the governor just two days
of law-making will remain after TO-
days sessions.
senate are packing boxes of house and
senate calendars and journals and
printed bills and documents of more
or less questionable value. Ending
of debate and voting all bills We'd
nesday night, will doubtless take the
majority of members to their homes
on Thursday trains. few of the
members will remain in Topeka until
the week end But the session, sc far
as the spectator is concerned, will die
Wednesday night. Official sine die
a adjournment will probably come next
Saturday night, altho both houses may
at the last minute advance the date
to Tuesday, March 13. Such action,
tho, would not change the program to
stop consideration of bills Wednesday.
Wild Session Wednesday.
Visitors to the legislature will prob
day night. For years both houses have
staged their burlesque stunts during
the final hours preceding adjourn
ment. While a good many roll calls
will doubtless be taken, there will be
little serious business during the final
night session. Members Will spend
most of their time waiting for reports
from conference committees and such
bills do not seem to demand serious
attention will be permitted to die on
the calendars.
Both houses have agreed to cease
consideration of all bills at midnight
Wednesday, There is little chance at
| this time that either the house or sem
ate will back up on the agreement so
far as consideration of bills is con-
cerned. Should the work not be COM
pleted on time-and a legislature new
err exactly quits on time-the clocks in
the two legislative halls will be stop
| ped. Then the house members will
! probably invade the senate and the
| senate will charge back on the house
| until someone announces conference
report and order is restored long
enough to gather a roll call and con-
clude pending business
Nearly $50 Bills Up.
| Nearly $50 bills will be up for con-
sideration during the final days of the
session. 1t is proba BILE that more laws
will be enacted in the three days of
active session this week than IN the
eight weeks just passed That condi-
ton is due to the fact that the house
will this week consider only measures
which have passed the senate. At the
same time the senate will discuss only
bills MESA aged from the house. Every
bill passed this week is a new enact
ment for the session laws, unless the
i bill is amended and goes to confer
ence where it may or may not die
The two legislative bodies ceased
consideration of original bills Satur-
day night. All bills originating in the
house were considered before adjourn
ment late Saturday. Similar action
was taken in the senate. Such bills as
wereCnot reached were wiped from the
calendar by the revision committees.
This week the house will refuse to give
consideration to house bills and the
senate will refuse to give consideration
to senate measures.
Appropriation Measures.
A number of the appropriation bills
must be considered this week Sew
eral measures dear to the heart of the
state administration hang in the bal
ance A few welfare bills are also
scattered around the legislative halls
Lobbies for these bills will make their
final, desperate effort to secure pass
age of these bills. But they must
force action before midnight Wednes-
day.
SPLIT UP BELGIUM