The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-07
SENATE NOTES

ran the wagon over Senator Getty
again Tuesday night, when they pass
ed the grain inspection bill as amend
ed in the house.
Senator Hart, of Jewell, unaccus-
TONED to parliamentary tactics, but
having had eighteen years of expert
ence in the grain business and believ
ing in his side of the controversy, put
the bill over He did not attempt to
cope with the agile-tongued senator
from Wyandotte on the floor Nor did
any of his farmer friends attempt
that. Hart stated the position of the
farmer with reference to grain in
spection and was seconded in a few
words by other senators from the
'country.
Getty, on a motion to non-concur
in the house amendments to the sem
1 ate bill talked for an hour. He sat
down and the farmers talked a few
minutes more. Then the senate voted
and it was discovered that on that
particular bill Senator Getty had just
three votes-hiS own and two more.
Senators Wark, of Montgomery, and
Senator Hickey, Of Usage, voted with
him.
The new grain inspection bill leaves
the inspection in Kansas City, Mo.
transfers $50, 900 from the department
to the state treasury and allows the
department to raise or lower the in
spection fees in such manner as to pay
for all it's expenses and no more.
Senator Getty'S fight was to have
the inspection department moved from
Kansas City, Mo-, to Kansas City, Kan,
/ where it was in former years. He
| charged that the department was
maintained in Missouri because the
| Kansas City board of trade wanted 1t
there: that the board of trade wanted
the Kansas inspection departm ent
''cloSe to it,
All of the appropriation bills on the
senate calendar with the exception of
the state fair bills were passed Tues
day and Tuesday night. The proba-
bilities are that the state fair matter
will come up today.
The house passed one bill carrying
appropriations for both the Topeka
State fair and the Hutchinson State
fair. That bill was sent to the senate
and referred to the ways and means
committee. Topeka was anxious that
it be reported out just as it left the
house. But when the matter came out
of the committee Tuesday it was in the
form of two bills, one carrying an ap-
preparation for Topeka and one for
Hutchinson. Unless Senator Schoch
of Shawnee, substitutes the house bill
for the two senate bills the old fight
between Hutchinson and Topeka will
develop anew Hutchinson and Tope-
in the house. With the bill thru the
house safely it is rumored in the SEN
ate that Senator Thompson of Reno,
, no longer desires harmony.
Somewhere within 100 miles of the
| eastern border of Kansas an industrial
school for women will be established
during the next two years. Both the
house and senate have passed such a
bill, the house passing it on third
. | reading Tuesday night. The bill passed
is one introduced by Speaker Keene
| in ho hut iS in,
troduced in the senate by Senator
Huffman of Cherokee county. The bill
carries a $4,000 appropriation. The
location of the institution is lefc to
| the State Board of Administration
created by this legislature The prob
J abilities are that both Pittsburg and
Fort Scott will be candidates for the
institution.
The senate passed a resolution pro-
viding for an investigation of fire in
surance rates in Kansas 1t carried
an appropriation of $4,000. The
house passed a bill going to the same
end and carrying an appropriation OF
$4,000.
The senate, thinking its resolution
would be adopted by the house. killed
the house bill. And Tuesday night
the house, not noticing what had hap
l. pened to its bill in the senate killed
L the senate resolution.
Prospects of an investigation had
gone glimmering and the fire insur-
ance lobby was pleased. But Senator
Barr of Bourbon made a discovery
before it was too late to move a re-
I consideration and he made his mo-
ton. The motion to reconsider the
vote by which the house bill was killed
carried and it appears on the calendar
again today. The probabilities are
that it will pass the senate. Having
been passed by the house the senate
The Wilson child labor bill
strengthening the present statute or
that subject, was passed by the SEN
ate Tuesday night without comment
and without amendment. Another la
Dor bill passed Teusday night is one
providing for the protection of life iT
coal mines a bill similar to one intro
duced in the senate by Senator Mon
tee of Crawford. The one passed bears
the name of Graves of Crawford. Still
another bill by Graves, passed by the
senate. also a counterpart of a Montee
bill. creates a state mine examining
board.
Emmett George, the smiling and eff
ficient secretary of the senate, wa,
? called before the bar of that body
! Tuesday night after Senator Huffman
of Labette has preferred charge:
6 against him. Senator Huffman at
. tempted to put a sting to his word:
and to fool George into believing
There was really something wrong
!, But he couldn't get away with it. Hi!
l voice broke, a smile spread over hi:
. face and he acknowledged that hi.
L mission was one of kindness; that he
was acting for the employees of the
e senate in presenting George with E
token of the esteem in which thel
held him. The token consisted of {
gold chain to which is attached al
l elk's tooth and the emblem of the Ell
lodge. Efforts were made<to make
, the employees believe they had pull
ed boner;" that George is not al
j Elk but Moose, but they didn't ge
e anywhere.
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