The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-06
All, HAH, C0v''NOR!
SchOch Would Require Pub
fishers Seeking Office
Charge Themselves Same Rate
as Others for Publicity.
DOERR WANTS A WAR
COnfining HOstilities, $4,000
Worth, to SparrOws.
Chicken Stealing May Lead to
Penitentiary.
DOERR WANTS A WAR

A bill introduced in the senate by
Schoch, of Shawnee, limits candidates
to an expenditure for both nominate On
and election of 0 per cent of the first
years salary paid by the office sought.
The prohibition does not extend to
those offices paying less than $500 a
year. In such cases-the cases Of
candidates for representative and SEN
ator-the candidate is permitted to
spend $50 for campaign expenses
While the bill appears to be an in
nocent measure there may be a fea-
ture therein with kick to it, 1t pro-
vides that newspaper publishers who
run for office and use their own
newspapers and plants to boost their
| interests shall charge themselves for
advertising and printing at the same
rate that would be charged to out
siders.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is 2p-
| propriated in a bill introduced in the
senate today by Doerr, of Pawnee- for
the determination of the English SPAR
rows from Kansas.
| 1t creates the job of English spar
row eXterminator in each county IN
the state and authorizes him to pay Il
! bounty.
The bill places the job of eXter-
mination in the hands of the state fish
and game warden and makes 1t com
pulsory for him to enforce the pro-
visions of the measure. 1t requires him
| to appoint in each county a deputy
who shall spend his time in the work
of determination. The deputy is au-
thorized to pay a bounty of cents
upon every whole sparrow brought %
| him with an affidavit that it was kill
ed within the limits of that partlcu-
lar county. The bill also authorizes
the county to pay bounty OF Gems
per sparrow if the county commits
sioners are willing. The deputy war
den is permitted to draw an amount
equal to 5 per cent of the total boun-
ties paid.
Chicken stealing-by day or by
night-becomes grand larceny under
the terms of bill introduced in the
senate by Schoch of Shawnee, today.
! Chicken stealing is now a penlten-
tiary offense but the Schoch bill states
| that the offender shall serve term
of from three to five years in the
penitentiary upon conviction.
A bill introduced in the senate by
Anspaugh of Coffey, prohibits any
person from selling medicine from a
store, a wagon or otherwise unless he
be a registered pharmacist or working
under the direction of a registered
pharma cist. The bill permits physi-
clans to compound their own pre-
| Scriptions.
Several small appropriation bills
were introduced in the senate today
One by Huffman of Cherokee, pro.
vides a total of $4,000 for the State
Historical society for the next two
years, for salaries and maintenance.
One by the ways and means commit
tee appropriates a total of $12, 500 FOL
the construction of a cell block at the
Hutchinson state reformatory.
One by Kanavel of Harvey, appro
PIRATES $4,000 to be used in the proper
display of the relics and archives o.
the Kansas department G. A. r.
One by the ways and means com
mittee appropriates $4,000 a year fo
the next two years for the salary o
the state fish and game warden AM
provides that not more than S1S,OOt
of the money collected by that depart
ment shall be spent; all over tina
amount being turned into the stat
treasury.
A bill by the ways and means com
! mittee appropriates SAL 900 for the us
of the state board of administration
for the next two years.