The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24


flee of county commissioners to six
years.
Senator Schoch of Shawnee, intro
duced a bill in the senate asking for
appropriation of $500 for the pay
ment of the share of the Kansas
negroes in the expenses of the Half
Century of Freedom celebration held
in Chicago the summer of 1915. Gov
ernor Capper named a commission to
collect evidence of negro progress in
Kansas and take it to Chicago. The
bill states that the expenses of the
commission amounted to $2,100 but
that $500 was raised by popular sub
scription, hence the state is asked to
supply only $500.
The Barr bill making an appropria-
ton for relief of the Kansas guards
men who went to the border in fed
eral service has been introduced in
the senate. 1t provides for the state
payment of the difference in pay al
lowed guardsmen in state and in fed
eral service. The state allows 81 day.
I The federal government allows so
cents a day. The men constituted
state troops but they were under fed
eral orders. They drew SO cents a day
for the time they were in serYise. The
present lbill seeks to appropriate the
other so cents per day to the guards
men. The bill carries a total appro-
prlattOn OF S112,SS1.S9.
Under the terms of a bill introduced
in the senate by Myers, of Marshall
county, commissioners of every county
in the state would be required to place
a white marker on the right hand side
Of the road on each side of every
bridge not protected by a railing. The
marker must be three feet in height.
Any bank in kansas-state bank k
owning real estate exclusive of its
bank building representing more than
so per cent of its capital would be re-
! quired to reduce its holdings to that
| percentage within a year, under the
terms of a bill introduced in the SEN
ate by Snyder, Of Leavenworth.
/ Myers, of Marshall, in bill intro
| duced in the senate, provides a SEIZED :
ule of fees for motor driven vehicles
and a. distribution of the proceeds His
bill provides that S4.25 of the annual
license paid by the owner of an auto
mobile be retained by the county
| treasurer and diverted to the county
road fund, the remaining Is cents 10
go to the state treasurer to be used in
/ the purchase of automobile tags. With
motorcycle licenses the county retains
$50 and SO cents goes to the state.
! The bill also provides that all of the
state fund left after the purchase of
tags. at the end of the fiscal year,
shall go into the general revenue
fund.
The senate devoted practically all of
/ the morning session to the final pas
sage of bills recommended for passage
f, in the committee of the whole Tues
day. The following bills were passed
House bill 10, making an emergency
appropriation of $4,000 for a def
cheney in the general maintenance
| fund at the State Home for Feeble
| Minded at Winfield.
House bill 241, making an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the purchase OF
coal for the state charitable institu-
| tons, an emergency appropriation.
| House bill 240, making an appro-
priation for salaries. maintenance and
repairs at the State tuberculosis san
| atcrium at Norton.
| Senate bill 8, fixing two years as the
time-limit for the contest of a will.
Senate bill Sc, making it possible for
| counties to aid county fairs and stock
shows without waiting three years fol
them to make good.
Senate bill 50, relating to paving in
cities of the second class.
| Senate bill 1875, permitting state
banks to deal in negotiable securities
of municipalities of other states thar
| Kansas
Senate bill 1913, authorizing the stats
bank commissioner to refuse certifi
Gates to private banks hereafter or.
ganized-
Senate bill 11s. requiring fire insur
4 ance companies to pay into the Fire
mans Relief Fund a part of the pre-
MUM on business written in territor,
contiguous to- cities having paid fir,
departments and under the protection
of the departments.