The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
Teachers Insurance Board Pro-
posed in House by Burdick.
Similar Bill introduced in Sem
ate by McClain.
Nine BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE
Farmers Demand Daylight Saw
ing Measure Be Abolished.
Yount Segregation Scheme,
Killed Monday, Is Revived.

Esta blishment of a state teachers
fund board and creation of
a state pension fund for retired teach
ers was proposed in the house today in
bill by Representative Burdick of
Atchison county Burdick's bill pro-
yides pension fund of SIC for each
year of service of a retired teacher.
No teacher shall participate, however.
until he or she has taught thirty years
and at least twenty-five years in this
state
Burdick provides for the creation of
4 state pension fund from contribu-
tions by teachers, money paid into GER
tain state funds, use of donations,
legacies, requests and interest from
money in the hands of the boards. as
well as dues and funds by active teach
ers who have elected to come under
the pension law. A direct appropria-
ton of s25, 900 is asked. All members
of the board would serve without pay
except actual and necessary expenses
A maximum of $3.50 a year is pro-
Vided for teachers who receive bene-
fits of the insurance fund. Any per-
son now teaching in this state may
fully participate under the fund 1t is
provided, tho, that they shall have
fully or partially completed the re-
quired teaching experience. notified
| the board of their desire to participate
within one year from the passage of
| the act, and have paid into the fund
/ within ten years a sum equal to the
sum of dues had he or she been
| paying during the term of teaching
| experience. Provision is made for the
/ care of disabled or inca pacitated teach
| ers unable to earn a. living in other
| work. Full benefits would be received
| in such cases. provided the teacher had
| been in service ten years.
A bill similar to the Burdicll bill
was introduced in the senate today by
| Senator McClain.
Dental Bill Is Passed.
BY a vote of 81 to IA, the house to-
day passed the dental inspection bill
| as applied to public schools of the
state. A hard fight was made on the
| bill when its was considered last
| week in the house committee of the
| whole On third reading this morn
| ing the house adopted the measure
when it was taken up in a bulk roll
| call.
| Pass Ninc Bills.
Nine bills-four house measures
| and five senate bills-were passed by
| the house today in bulk roll calls 7All
! of the senate bills were appropriation
measures. The house bills which
passed on third reading concerned
| dental inspection in public schools,
the Hegler bill regarding election of
| officers in first-class cities, the Hegler
! bill regarding municipal improvements
| and 1.-THE Hegler bill concerning the
cutting of weeds in first-class cities. -
Farmers Want Time Changed.
| House members today adopted a
| joint resolution by the committee on
agriculture memorializing congress to
repeal the present federal law regard
| ing the turning back of the clock. The
| demand for the change came from the
farmer members. They declared the
FaI -sz,.1
| up ahead of the roosters and to go to
| bed by lamp light The getting UP
affected their day. they declared, and
| the short end of the day didn't permit
| them to get to bed earlier. So con-
gress was asked to fix the law
total of 81 members voted for the res
| olution. while IL members voted in
the negative.
| 1t Is Back Again
Yount's bill for segregation in sec
ond class cities came back today
after having been killed the previous
day With change in the wording
| of the bill, but with the same purpose
the bill was sent to the house hopper
when bills were introduced this morn
ing.
i Hits Real Estate Agents.
Real estate agents who sell property
for more than the price listed by the
owner, would be subject to fine and
Jail sentence under the terms of a
house bill today by Hegler of Sedg-
wick county. The Hegier bill provides
that any agent who receives a greater
SUM for property than that asked by
the owner, may be fined in a sum not
exceeding $50 or may be sent to Jail
for term of not more than six
months. Hegler also presented a bill
providing that attorneys appointed by
the court to defend a person charged
with a felony may be paid in a sum
not to exceed $50 day for his services
as a defender.
Change Refunding Bond Law.
Tom Harley of Douglas county has
a bill in the house which changes en-
| tirely the existing system of refunding
bonds. Heretofore counties, townships
indebtedness with long term bonds.
When the bonds became due they were
again refunded.
"A The old system has been over
worked, Harley believes, and the in
! terest paid by the municipalities and
taxation districts amounts to more
than the original debt. Harley wants
the taxation districts to Immediately
arrange to retire bonds as soon as they
are issued. tits hard blow for the To-
cal administrations which seek to make
political records for keeping down tax
alton. But Harley believes his bill
would benefit the taxpayers At every
session of the legislature laws are
asked to enable cities to refund in
debtedness evidenced by warrants,
such warrants having been issued in
aid of local officials political record.
The bonded Indebtedness of Kansas
cities has increased from over 40 mill
lions in 1914 to 81 millions in 1915 and
ga millions in 1917