The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
Senate Leisurely and Not WOr.
rying About Adjournment.
Members Vote Down ResOlu-
ton for Night Sessions.
PASS z MEASURES Sd READING
Committee of Whole Urges All
Schools Fly the Flag.
Discuss Various ''Isms" and
Quote Passages From Bible.

If there is any hurry in the Kansas
legislature to get thru work and get
home it is all in the house of repre-
sentatives. The members of the SEN
ate apparently have more time than
the proverbial Carter had oats. And
they are not worrying about the time
piece merry-go-round, or the disap
pearing pages of the calendar.
Not only did the senate do practi-
cally nothing Tuesday, but just before
adjournment the members voted down
motion to begin night sessions. OF
couSe the senate may change it's pace
any minute and pass bills for few
hours at such a rate the calendar will
be temporarily cleaned. This is a
! habit of the 1919 senate. Since the
beginning of the session it has been
working systematically, grinding out
a lot of business one day and doing
practically nothing for the next week
Only two measures were passed on
third reading Tuesday One was
| substitute for house bill 80, by the
committee on assessments and taxa
| ton, which amends section 1896 of
the general statutes. The other was
the senate ways and means bill max
| ing appropriations for the state edu-
cational institutions.
Schools Must Fly Flag.
The upper house tried to do some
| thing sitting as a committee of the
| whole, but the only thing accomplished
was the recommendation that the Ber-
gen bill providing that all schools be
| required to display the United States
| flag be passed. Then to make it a
complete day the members sat under
a special order and considered the
Getty bill that would permit Kansas
| City, Kan, to mine coal. This bill
| took up most of the lost time. Ora
| tory flowed in front of almost every
desk and views on Socialism, Boil
| shevism, paternalism and many other
| "isms' were expressed. Getty at
tempted to quote scripture, Senator
Nighswonger did it-and produced a
Bible to prove he was quoting it cor
| rectly. Finally, after the bill had been
amended SO as to permit every city in
the state to mine coal, and amended to
restrict every city to the mining of coal
solely for the purpose of supplying
municipal plants, it was recommended
for passage.
thing with the bill that. would protect
quail for the next five years, but the
only result of this effort was the
bringing out of the maiden speech OF
Senator Anderson. Anderson talked
for the first time during the session
and urged that quail be left unpro-
teoted, asserting that laws will moi
keep hunters from killing them and
that they cannot be multiplied in g
statute book. Finally the measure was
dropped without anything having beer
done.
The real fireworks of the afternoon
session came when the ways an6
means bill making appropriations fol
the large educational institution.
came up. Senator Kimban discovered
in this bill clause that would pre-
vent the teachers and professors re
ceiving outside fees and remunera
, tons for work not part of theil
regular duties.
A bill cutting off the ''fee grab" hat
been introduced early in the session
: and had been sent to the judiciar.
: committee by the committee of tn,
whole and killed. The, ways ans
means bill carried all of its provisions
Kimball moved that these provision
be stricken out and half dozen sena
tors urged that this be done, but whe1
the motion came to a vote it lost L
to IL. Those who voted in favor o
the fee system being retained were
: Bergen, Drummer, Carroll, Coleman
, Delaney Terrell, Hart, Keene, Kim
, ball, Metcalf, Myers, Plumb, Price
r Satterthwaite, Smith, Sparks an,
t Whitney. Those who voted agains
the motion were: Anderson, Ans
+ paugh, Doerr, Getty. GuIick, Hilkey
: Laing. Malone, Milligan, Montee
Nighswonger, Nixon, Paulen, Pome
roy, Schoch, Sutton, Thompson an,
. Wilson.
I Upon final roll call the vote on tn
measure stood u to 16 and Kimbal
VINO had voted against the appropria
3 ton then changed his vote from mo
to yes for the purpose of later ask
ing a reconsideration of the measure