The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
BIG INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Topeka Boys Industrial School
Will Get $4,000.
CHIEF Clerk of the House Is
Given Gold Watch.

CHIEF Clerk of the House Is
Given Gold Watch.
After spending three hours in a
fight over $4,000 in appropriations
for state fairs, the house today spent
thirty minutes in reading. considering
and passing ten bills appropriating
$1,O36,33 for state institutions and
departments. All of the bills had pre-
viously passed the senate and appro-
priations will become effective as soon
as they are published
Almost every appropriation item
passed today shows an increase over
appropriations for the same institu-
ton by the legislature of two years
ago.. 1t was the 1915 legislature
which was deadlocked more than two
weeks concerning the alleged extrava-
gances of the senate. The appropria-
lions today exceed the amounts voted
for the institutions by the senate of
1915 and are far, far in excess of the
amounts approved by the governor
and the ECONOMY and efficiency"
, house Of the former session.
The state penitentiary received the
heaviest appropriation at the hands of
the house. A bulk roll call carried
the appropriation items exceeding
| million dollars. OF this amount the
penitentiary received $481 ESQ. The
Hutchinson reformatory ei i've
more than quarter of million dol
lars and the Topeka Industrial school
for boys. came in for an appropriation
of $4,000. The state school for girls
at Beloit, received $105,000.
List of Appropriations.
Here are the lump sum appropria-
ton items as approved by the house
in the bulk roll call:
Hutchinson state reformatory..S 25s. 10000
State penitentiary, lansing. 4S1 $4,000
Boys Industrial school, To- o, ~
Girls Ri" industrial school. Be ~
Plumb tDnn Memorial hail. Emporia. 2S,ss3.oo
Automobile repair school, state
reformatory, Hutchinson...... 100000
Plumb Memorial, Emporia. 5,423.10
Dairy barn, Hutchinson re-
Legislative committee expense. 1924 90
st ossT fiss asa game warden 1880 1880
Total ~. 81 ,os6. 1888 10
After Grain Department.
Johnson, of Norton county. made
his first real fight on the floor of the
house today and there is every indl-
cation he may win his point. The
Norton county member jumped all
over a plan to boost the state treasury
receipts by dumping $4,000 from the
state grain inspection department into
the general revenue fund. johnson is
engaged in the grain business at Nor
ton and knows something of condi-
tions. He opposed the plan to give
the grain fund to the state and sought
to strike out the enacting clause of
the bill.
1.-The oil men jumped onto the oil
inspection act because it was reve-
nue. producing measure said john
SON 1.-THE grain men of the state
have done the same thing with the
grain inspection department. But il
played in good faith. Now you are
asked to turn this money from the
grain department into the state.
tell you it isn't fair. Ninety per cent
of this $4,000 come from the grain
men of Kansas thru weighing and
| inspection fees. 1t is their money
| not the states money. If anyone is to
benefit, it should be the grain men
who should receive lower inspection
rates and the benefits of the depart
ment. Instead you ask them to pay
fees in excess of the operating ex-
| penses of the department and then
turn these fees into the state treasury.
Such a course is neither legal, fair nor
just
The fight on the bill was suspended
until the following day with every
prospect for a real battle should the
!
| funds provided by the Kansas grain
shippers and producers.
Gave Him a Watch.
House employees under Clarence NJ.
Miller chief clerk. have presented
him with a beautiful gold watch. For
NAL ceremonies were held in the office
of Justice Mason and David NJ Davis,
| record clerk, backed up the presenta-
| ton speech with original poem
Miller is the first chief clerk of the
i house to receive a watch from his as
sistants during recent legislative ses-
sions He has made an excellent rec
ord in the chief clerks office during
! the present session. Much of the cred
! it for the work of the office, tho,
has been due to the efficiency of the
assistants with whom Miller sur
rounded himself in organizing his Of
i flee force. The work of the chief
clerks department has been of a high
/ standard during the entire session and
the high regard in which Miller was