The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
Give SHELL SHOCK
State Senate Plays Cruel Joke
on Getty, Wyandotte.
Kills His Individual Bill and
Then REEVES 1t.
PASS IS MEASURES TODAY
Upper House Wades Sleepily
Thru Third Reading.
Oil Inspector Granted Raise of
$500 a Year.

All work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy is IN old saying that the Kan
sas senate believes in keeping in mind.
This morning the senate was doing
nothing but grind, grind, grind. Bill
after bill on third reading was being
voted upon without argument or de-
bate and there was a strong indica-
ton that the reading clerk would be
interrupted by SHORES if something
were not done. And so the life
lovers got busy.
Senator Getty of Wyandotte had
bill coming UP that applied only to
Kansas City. kan, and that related
only to the manner in which the city
might handle it's sinking funds. The
gentleman from Wyandotte explained
very briefly the nature of his bill and
then settled comfortably in his seat to
listen to the roll CALL
The first few votes were recorded as
favoring the measure and then the
noes" began to be heard. Senator af-
ter senator voted mo- and Getty be-
gan to get uneasy. F'rantically he
rushed up to the desk to find how the
vote stood and gloomily went back to
his seat. There seemed to be no doubt
about his measure-a measure that
aHected no other senator-being
killed
Then when the vote was completed.
all of the senators who had voted
against the measure asked permission
10 change their votes and the meas
ure passed without dissenting vote.
after which Getty thanked his associ-
of a shell shock
Pass is Bills.
President Pro Tenn Price occupied
the chair during the entire morning
session and practically all of the bills
on third reading were passed. Fiji
teen in all were finally disposed of
most of them being of a local nature
Inc Schoch measure granting an in
crease to the marshal and deputy
marshal of the court of Topeka was
| passed and another measure permit
ting the levying of taxes in certain
counties to provide for the care of the
poor went thru without question.
The other bills passed were: Bill
242 by the ways and means commit
tee reimbursing counties for caring
Tor insane poor persons; bill 269, by
| the oil and gas committee, increasing
the salary of the state oil inspector tc
| $4,000 and providing for more salts
factory tests of gasoline and kerosene;
| bill -149, by Paulen,- fixing a bounty
on wolf and coyote scalps; bill So, by
Getty, appealing a statute affecting
4 Kansas City, Kan; bill A. by commit
tee On cities of the first class, pro-
viding for the investment of sinking
funds. also applying TO Kansas City
KAN; bill 90, by McClain, permitting
second class cities to return to third
/, class cities; house bill 1877, by White
providing cities of the second class
power to keep weeds cut on then
streets and to have snow and ice re-
moVd; bill PSI. by the claims and &C.
counts committee, appropriating mon
ey to pay state accounts; bill ISL, by
lNighswonger. requiring the destruc-
ton of weeds in first class cities; bill
PIP, by Sutton. making an appropri-
alton for the Pawnee Rock park; bill
25S, by Nixon, relating to the assess.
ment of cattle in the county in which
they are kept: bill 1927, by Smith
changing the name of the Winfield
Feeble minded home; house bill So, by
Beard, providing for paternal homes
in cities of the first class.
Senator F. G. Bergen, who has beer
i'll in a local hospitaI with influenZs
for more than a week. was back a
his desk today. apparently fully recov.
cred.