The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30
Tentative Legislative Plan Out
lined in Topeka Today.
May Not Insist on COmpensa-
ton Bill, if 1t Delays.
FOR ANTI-SYNDICALISM LAW
Would Bar BOIshevists and Dis
IoyalistS From State.
Increase Maximum Leyies for
School Districts.
GOVERNOR ALIENS LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM

GOVERNOR ALIENS LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
Creation industrial court to settle wage dis
putes and prevent strikes and lockouts.
Passage of new compensation bill with in
creased schedules and allowances to en-
ployes. Enactment of new law will be
asked if possible of consideration during
Probable enactment of state free employ
ment bureau to arrange for distribution
of labor.
Repeal 40 year-old law prohibiting health
and accident features of life insurance
policies.
Increase maximum levies for school dis
trlcts to meet teacher salary problem.
Enactment anti-syndicalism law barring
!. w W, Bolsheviks and disloyalists
appropriation for Kansas National Guard
Governor Aliens tentative iegisla-
tive plan was outlined at the state
house today and shows seveRal
changes and notifications in the
original special session program. AS
indicated today the governor may not
insist on actual passage of a compen-
sation bill or free employment act if
delays are to be encountered in final
adjournment. The governor has not
decided the course which his message
will take as affecting proposed anti
profiteering legislation, amendments
~ highway laws ana OIner general
measures urged for consideration dur
ing the special session.
Hearings to be held in Topeka Sat
urday and Sunday by members of the
compensation commission will deter
mine the governors course regarding
a demand for passage of a new law
at the extraordinary session. If the
bill is not in form for introduction at
the opening of the session, or should
a long drawn out fight be threatened.
the measure may not be urged.
Want Early Adjournment.
1t is the governors plant bring
about an early adjournment of
the special session. For that reason
the proposed free employment bureau
for Kansas may be recommended, but
not too strongly insisted upon.
THE acid test should be applied to
A9ery bill before the special session
this winter" said Governor Allen. 'Tf
bill is not in itself of sufficient i'm
pOrtance to have warranted the call
ing of a special session, then that bill
should not be considered"
Under the plan outlined by the gov
ernor the entire special session will be
built around industrial Legislation.
Hundreds of letters have reached the
governors office concerning the spe-
cial session program. Many letters
urge the most drastic enactments.
Others-largely from local labor
unions in Kansas towns-protest
against what they term anti strike"
bill and similar enactments..
Repeal Insurance Bill.
One change in the governors legis-
lative program was made today when
he agreed to recommend repeal of a
40 year old law prohibiting life in
surance companies writing health and
accident risks. The law has been a
dead letter Recently. tho. Frank L.
Travis, state superintendent of insur-
ance, threatened to enforce the meas
ure. A delegation of insurance men
called on Governor Allen this morn
ing. Following the conference the
new provision was added to the ad
ministration program.
Governor Allen also has decided to
urge passage of a law extending the
maximum levy to be made by cities
and rural districts for school pur
poses. The maximum levy might be
increased fifty per cent under terms
of the proposed bill. The law will en-
able schools, to increase salaries for
teachers and retain their Instructors
Several hundred rural schools in Kan
sas closed this year because there was
not sufficient money to pay teaching
salaries.
Kansas legislators will be asked to
map out a program of sorrow for red
agitators and disturbers. The gov
ernor today announced he would in
corporate in his message a, request for
an anti-sYndicalism act. The law has
been asked by members of the Am eri-
can Legion. -
Stamp Out Bolshevisrn.
This law" said Governor Allen,
will put a quietus on the I. W. w.
and all forms of Bolshevism and is
strongly backed by American Legion
forces. 1 expect to make favorable
reference to this program in my mes,
sage"
No estimate has been made by Coy
ernor Allen as to the amount of state
funds which will be required to place
his industrial court act in operation
and to meet expenses until the regular
session of the legislature in 1921.
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