The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-31
SENATE NOTES
Items of Interest From Upper
.. House of Legislature.


Free kindergartens for all the cities
of Kansas will be possible if a bill
introduced by Schoch, of Shawnee,
meets with approval. The bill was
drawn at the request of the kinder
garten department of the Topeka
schools.
Senators Getty and Anspaugh en-
gagged in sharp clash when the SEN
ate was considering a bill fixing the
per diem of members of state boards.
The bill had been reported on by the
federal and state affairs committee
and Anspaugh was insisting that it be
referred to the committee on fees and
salaries. When Getty asked Anspaush
If he would prefer to send bill to
the banking committee the latter re-
piled: eff wanted it passed ! would
send it to the banking committee prob
ably: if l wanted 1t killed 1 would GER
tainly send it to the judiciary COM
mittee."
Private charitable institutions of
Kansas will receive state aid amount
ing to $4,000 a year for the years
of 1920 and 1921, if the bill recon-
mended by the ways and means com
nIittee is passed. 1t provides that the
state board of administration shall ap-
portion the money as it sees fit.
q Senator Snyder announces that
there will be meeting of the COM
mittee on banks and banking next
Wednesday night to consider the state
reserve bank bill. 1t is probable that
this will be the public meeting that
has been planned and that interested
bankers will be invited to attend, al
tho it is said that the bankers favor
ing the bill are not anxious to have a
general public meeting and are urg-
ing that it would be better for the
committee to hear the pro and con
( arguments one at time.
A member of the senate who is
friendly to the state reserve bank bill
has made the prediction that it will
| be reported out of the committee on
| banks and banking without recon-
| mendations and he asserts that such a
it gently. For the bill to have a
chance of passage he holds that it
will be necessary for the committee to
| recommend this and it is thought the
committee is too evenly divided to
make such . recommendation.
The rural mail carriers of the state
want the road overseers-or highway
| commissioners, as they are now called
Ito be compelled to open up all
bill providing that they be ordered to
do this has been introduced by Sena-
tor Malone upon request.
The senate, sitting as a committee
of the whole Thursday afternoon. went
| thru the general orders of the calendar
and recommended two bills for pas.
sage. A. M. Keene, former speaker OF
the house, held the chair. The bills
recommended for passage were botf
by the way and means committee. One
provided an appropriation for the
school district in which is located the
state penitentiary, and the other fund.-
to be used in taking prisoners to tn,
state penitentiary. A bill by Malone
changing the time of giving possession
of land under lease was slaughtered b.
having the enacting clause removed
A bill relating to conta gious disease
in second class cities was referred t.
it's original committee to remove {
feature that provided the city official
should bear the expense of caring fol
smallpox and other contagious diseas,
cases.
: A story and couplet creation arr
} going the rounds of the state house
The story is based on an alleged effor
of a certain party TO get a certain
member of the house of representa-
tives, whose first name is Charley. t
do a certain thing The couplet ere
: alton is based on the success of TIL
: alleged favor seeker. Here it IS:
go ask Henry" Charley said,
But knowing well how Hank was led.
We did not care that path to tread
Realizing well Just where it led
So We asked THE STAR.