The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-03
Sine Die Adjournment Legisla-
ture Four Days Later.
Resolutions Designating Time
Prepared in Both Houses.
TO WORK ON APPROPRIATIONS
Attempt Will Also Be Made To
Pass Local Bills.
Row Over Social Disease Prob
lem Occupies Today's Session.

Kansas legislators will lay down
their tools and go home at midnight,
Saturday. March Is. Sine die ad-
journment will come Wednesday.
March 19.
That is the belief of practically all
legislative leaders today Resolutions
have been prepared by members of
both houses fixing the above dates for
ending the session. 1t is probable the
resolutions will be introduced late TINS
afternoon. House members expect TO
permit the senate to take first action
on the resolution. They will probably
concur as soon as the resolution is
messaged across the hall.
Legislators are willing to give an
extra ten days of their time to the
state. But they balk on extending the
time beyond that date. They want
to clean up the appropriations. the
fee and salary question, pass as many
local bills as possible and go home
There is today no disposition among
members of either house to remain in
active session beyond the end OF next
week. The resolution fixing the time
for adjournment will probably receive
action in both houses within the next
two days.
should the legislature cease consid-
Grafton of bills and resolutions next
week, practically all members would
leave at once for their homes Only
officers of the senate and house and
members of the Shawnee county dele
cation would remain during the three
days of the final session. This organ
fzation would convene the house and
senate twice each day and would re
ceive messages from the governor. All
bills would be signed or vetoed and all
legislative business would be wound
up Wednesday, March 10. concluding
a sixty-fou day session, including
Sundays and holidays.
FIGHT Social Disease Bill.
The house spent the entire morning
in fight over provisions of a bill
urged by the state board of health
providing for arbitrary examinations
for social diseases. After prolonged
and mighty bitter scrap the house re-
fused to strik9 out the vital sections
of the bill.
When noon recess came the house,
was starting on the fight which
meant the real test of strength mo-
t-or 10 strike out the enacting clause.
NJ Il of Reno proposed the motion.
u terms of the bill provision is
maae for examinations of persons in
prison or in quarantine.
Movies Hot Beds of Vice.
In support of his motion to strike
out the enacting clause. Martin de-
clared that the movie shows were the
hotbeds of vice and SIN in Kansas.
I'm spite of our state censorship 1
seldom go to a motion picture show
but that l see thrown on the screen
suggestions of vice and SIM" Martin
charged. They are the hot beds of
zee m Kansas today But my objec-
ton to this bill doesn't stop there. My
objection is that the victims of the
operation of this law would be the
op1e on the farms, the working
classes, the poorer element of our
population and not the rich and in
fluential"
Doctor Uhls Defends Bill.
Doctor Uhls of johnson county de-
Tended provisions of the bill under the
assertion that the law recommend
ed was written by trained men and
women who had carefully studied it's
provisions and knew the need of legis-
latve enactment
Il resent the slurs that have been
throw at the doctors and the medical
profession on this floor" said Dr.
Uhls, former head of the Osawatomie
state hospital and now member of the
house from johnson county. II defy
anV layman to say what is best under
provisions of this bill which was
drawn by men who are qualified and
able to judge from a scientific stand
point. This fight on the bill is made
by people who don't know about this
disease. / want to tell you that the
standards of morals as set by society
at this time are very low. Our girls
are allowed to go where they shouldn't
he allowed to go. They are not pro-
perly taught and instructed by their
mothers and the time has come when
not only this state, but the states of
the nation must assume a responsible
ity in this matter"
Might Buy Dillon Homo.
An offer for the sale of the Hiram m
p. Dillon home at Ninth and Harrison
streets as a governors mansion is be-
iEg considered by the legisla tive COM
mittee, which is investigating the man.
sion question. Under the offer made
to the committee the state would ex-
change the present property at Eighth
avenue and Buchanan street for the
Ninth and Harrison street home and
pay the Dillon estate $4,000 The
residence, which is considered the
finest in Topeka, overlooks the state
house grounds and the proposition is
row under consideration by the com
mittee.