The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-29
SENATE NOTES
Items of Interest From Upper
House of Legislature.


of the committee on banks and bank
ing, has announced that the public
meeting to discuss the merits of the
proposed state reserve bank bill Will
be held either Tuesday or Wednesday
Of next week. A definite date will be
set just as soon as possible and ample
time will be given every banker in the
state to make plans to attend, Snyder
said.
Senator G. w. Kanavel has just re-
ceived word that his son, Maj. Allen
B. Kanavel, has returned from France.
Ma jor Kanavel is a practicing phySi-
clan of Chicago. He enlisted soon
after the outbreak of the war and was
assigned to the surgeon generals staff
After working in several cantonments
in the United States he was sent to
, France last October and has been at
the front ever since.
At the request of the Fraternal In
surance congress. a bill was intro
duced in the senate late Tuesday aft
ernoon by Coleman of johnson per-
hitting fraternal insurance societies
to erect, own and maintain homes and
hospitals under their charters. The
need of such law was discovered
when the Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity undertook to erect their new
home near Topeka. Upon investiga-
ton it was discovered that they could
not do so and in order to comply with
the law new corporation had to be
formed. The Coleman bill also per-
| mits two organiZa tons of this kind to
merge and to adopt any part of the
| constitution and bylaws of either.
Under the existing law this is impos-
Sible and whenever there is merger
or a consolidation it is necessary to
adopt the full constitution and by
| laws of one of the organizations and
| discard those of the other.
At a meeting of the judiciary COM
t'mittee of the senate late Tuesday aft
ernoon the Montee antitrust bill was
| given consideration by the members
of the committee and by Assistant At
| torney General Hawkes.. Several
strengthening features we're added by
! Hawkes. and it is expected that the bill
4! will be brought out for the senate's
consideration at an early date.
Another bill providing that the own
| ers of dogs pay sheep raisers for those
killed by dogs has been introduced by
| Satterthwaite of Butler. 1t provides a
tax of 81 on male and spayed female
dogs and 81 on unspayed females.
/ This tax, the bill specifics. shall go
into a fund to reimburse sheep swn-
erS.
| Mine operators will be given four
a bill presented by Senator Pomeroy is
| passed. The time for the installation
| of these shafts under the present law
expires on the last day of March and
| the Pomeroy bill provides for an adj
| ditional four-year period in which to
| complete to the work
If there is unnecessary delay IN
| erecting memorials to the soldiers and
sailors who saw service in the late war
it will not be the fault of the Kansas
senate. The Keene bill providing the
| voters of every county with power to
compel the county commissioners. to
| erect memorials, has been recon-
| mended for passage by the senate sit
ting as a committee of the whole, and
a bill by Senator Wilson permitting
! county commissioners to take action
| has been recommended also. In sup
| porting the Keene bill Senator Whit
! ney told his colleague that the women
| of his district are impatient to get tC
! work and that they want to have q
memorial under construction before
the legislature adjourns.